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James is pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel, & Walk In The Word radio broadcast, and his radio slogan is: "Igniting passion in the people of God through the proclamation of Truth." He does not teach the observance of Passover, but stated that it is useless "religion" on his radio program, broadcasted across the planet. This is a letter intended to correct that false teaching.
I enjoy listening to several radio programs, especially the ones where Yahuah's Word is taught. Recently, I heard you begin teaching on the letter to the Hebrews, and some of your comments ignited passion in me to defend the Word we are constantly being told not to walk in. To be sure, I have HUGE differences in my walk than every one of the Christian teachers I listen to, but when I heard you state that the author of the letter to the Hebrews taught the believing Yisharal (Israel)ites at Rome they needed to leave behind observing "old" things like "Passover" and all that "religious" stuff, I had to write you this open letter. We all make mistakes, but when a teacher is openly misleading the people of Yahusha, someone must stand for Truth and correct the error. (Yahusha is Yisharal (Israel)'s Mashiak, the Maker of all things seen and unseen, and holds the universe together by His will. He is the Redeemer, Savior, Mighty Alahim, El Shaddai, and Husband of Yisharal (Israel) - His "will" is Torah, and He demands obedience - Torah is not a suggestion).
Rev 12:17 "And2532 the3588 dragon1404 was wroth3710 with1909 the3588 woman,1135 and2532 went565 to make4160 war4171 with3326 the3588 remnant3062 of her848 seed,4690 which keep5083 the3588 Commandments1785 of (Alahim),2316 and2532 have2192 the3588 testimony3141 of (Yahusha)2424 (Mashiak)5547"
These first-fruits are "obeying" the Commandments as well as holding to the words and belief in Yahusha. Obeying Torah means they are in the Covenant. If a person will not obey the Covenant, they are not in a covenant relationship with Yahusha. Satan is a believer, but will not OBEY. To get straight to the point, the observance of Passover was still being promoted by the elders of the Natsarim long after Yahusha ascended, contrary to what you stated on the air as millions of deceived people listened. Yahusha Himself enjoined us to remember Him through the symbols of matsah and wine whenever we observe Pesach, central to the theme of the Renewed Covenant with Yisharal (Israel), in this observance of His death each year in the spring. What Christians do on Sun-day mornings is derived from the Catholic Church, not the Passover Seder Yahusha observed with His disciples. Shaul (Paul) instructed us to keep the feast, so your statement is a departure from the clear admonition of this apostle.
Defenders of the KJV claim that Herod was observing "EASTER", the Pagan festival of impregnation; but the word was not EASTER, but Pascha, used 28 other times, and rendered as "Passover" in every case. It wasn't Herod that wrote the word, but brother Luke, and Luke did not write EASTER; he wrote PESACH (subsequently transliterated as PASCHA in the Greek texts).
Brother Luke wrote this book we call "ACTS" about 31 years after Yahusha ascended into the heavens.
Please do not ignore this letter, but answer from Scripture. Surely Scripture would not argue with itself, but men bend and twist it to suit their beliefs. Imagine for a moment, the two of us pleading with one another to come over to the other's thinking, and then project forward to the day we both stand before Yahusha in His esteemed radiance. One of us would be an elder in error, and the other correct. I don't wish to "win" for myself, but rather I only wish that Yahuah's Word be taught in its entirety, without excuse. There is nothing to fear in observing Passover, which Yahusha Himself told us to do in remembrance of Him, whenever we do it.
The time we observe Yahusha's death is once each year, at Pesach (Passover).
Question 1: At Acts 2, the 120 Natsarim were gathered for which commanded festival of Yahuah?
Question 3: At 1Cor 5:8, Paul told us to observe what feast?
Thanks for your email dated Oct 10.
It is obvious both from your email, and from the "open letter" for which you provided a link, that this issue of Passover observance is important to you. Frankly, it is not a hot button issue for us. The Jerusalem Council made it clear that Gentile followers of Christ are not to be burdened with the rituals from the Old Covenant (Acts 15:19-20). While circumcision was the primary focus there, the decision had broader implications for the rest of the law, including the observances of the feasts. That is why Paul later wrote: "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ" (Col 2:16-17)**(see comments following).
Elsewhere, Paul rebuked Peter for trying to make Gentiles act like Jews (Gal 2:14). He later added that all of those who rely on the works of the law are under a curse (3:10). He asked, "how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain" (Gal 4:9-11). ** (see comments below).
While it is true that Paul kept the Passover, along with other early believers, it must be noted that they were Jews. The Gentiles were not obligated to keep those customs. There is no New Testament command for Gentiles to keep the Jewish feasts (you have misread 1 Cor 5:7-8, which is figurative; the context deals with sexual immorality).
Lew, I am concerned for you, lest you violate what Paul said to Timothy: "Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions" (1 Tim 1:6-7).
I know that this is a big issue for you, and you might want to engage us in a debate. But from our standpoint, the matter is closed. May the Lord bless you richly and lead you into truth as you continue to study his Word.
P.S. By the way, the supposed connection between the origins of Easter and Ishtar worship have been debunked by biblical scholars, although the myth continues to be perpetuated.
Thank you David. The feasts of Yahuah are the redemption plan for Yisharal (Israel), and Gentiles need to engraft into the Covenant with Yisharal (Israel) (Mediated by Yahusha). In Messiah, there is no distinction between a native-born Yisharal (Israel)ite and a foreigner, yet false teachings maintain this wall of division. Accepting Yahusha without accepting the Covenant has been the primary problem with the religion of Christianity, taught by the "church fathers" of Christianity. Amazingly, the text which you use at 1 Tim. 1:6-7 is speaking of the goal of the Torah, and the "swerving" away from the Torah produces "teachers of Torah without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions." If we have anything to be confident in, it should be the Torah of Yahuah, which guides us, and is a lamp for our feet and a light to our path. Yahusha is the "living Torah". The future holds shocking adjustments for those who rail against the Torah, as we see the "nations" who do not observe the festival of Sukkoth will receive no rain (Zech. 14). Someone who is not in the Covenant would naturally be listening to other voices, and searching the Scriptures with "an eye of darkness", looking for any way to interpret them in order to NOT obey the Covenant. Having an "eye of light", we pant with our love for obeying Commandments! Saying "I know Him", yet not obeying the Commandments, is evidence that a person is a liar. The Truth has fallen in the streets, and the Truth is the Word (Torah) of Yahuah. Now you have been told, and it is up to Yahusha whether or not He will call you to His Covenant. It is better to trust in Yahuah than to trust in man.
Normally we see the word but in the last phrase. However, these "shadows" are intended to be for the body of Mashiak, not ignored as Christianity has done. If something is a "shadow", don't you imagine when the substance casting that shadow is made evident, that the wise man would pay heed to the shadow?
The word commonly translated as but instead of for is the Greek word "de", #1161, and can mean a variety of things in English.
It is a primary particle that can mean: but, and, or, also, yet, however, then, so, or FOR.
(In the last phrase, the word is does not exist in any of the received Greek texts; it is in italics in the KJV because is was added, and not in the Greek Received Text).
These festivals are shadows of things to come, and certainly are for the body of (Mashiak).
The body of Mashiak is Yisharal (Israel).
Acts 15:19: "Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to Alahim, but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him, being read in the congregations every Sabbath."
But his delight is in the Torah of Yahuah, And he meditates in His Torah day and night.
For he shall be as a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That yields its fruit in its season, And whose leaf does not wither, And whatever he does prospers.
The wrong are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind blows away.
Therefore the wrong shall not rise in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For Yahuah knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wrong comes to naught."
as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless, but grow in the favor and knowledge our our Master and Savior Yahusha Messiah. To Him be the esteem both now and to a day that abides. Amein." To Kepha (Peter), the "Scriptures" were the TaNaKh. These men did not consider their own writings to be equal to the Torah, Prophets, and Writings, although we do today. Their letters either help EXPLAIN the Torah, or are used to corrupt the understanding of them by false teachers. Would the enemy of our lives (ha shatan) want you to obey the Torah, or disobey it? Am I your enemy because I tell you the truth? The Word can become a stumbling block to those not given understanding, just as the same sun that melts wax will harden clay. Do not harden your heart against Yahuah's Torah, allow Him to melt your heart with a love for His teachings, so that you may obey Him.
The "special days" you spoke of above from Galatians 4:9-11 are the former habits kept by those at Galatia; they were formerly Pagans, who had converted to worship Yahuah. Shaul saw that some of them were being weak and were back-sliding into their old customs. Surely Shaul would not teach against the Sabbath, the "sign" of the Eternal Covenant!
For the "lawless", there are so many Scriptures not to like, aren't there? I cannot imagine abandoning the true faith to walk in the ways of the Pagans. Christmas, Sun-day, and Easter are all formerly Pagan observances, and not commanded in Scripture. Passover is how we remember our Messiah's death. A walk without a Passover is a walk of doom. Remember, I didn't bless the Sabbath day (7th day), Yahuah did. At Lev. 23 (and Dt. 16), Yahuah declares "These are MY SABBATHS". The weekly Sabbath and the festivals are not anyone's but His, and we have fellowship with Him through these Sabbaths. The Sabbath does not belong to the "Yahudim", but all men who enter the Covenant - they then become "Yisharal (Israel)" because they entered into a Covenant with the Maker of heaven and earth. It's safer to obey Yahuah and reject the traditions of men, no matter how much persecution may result. The reward for obeying Yahuah only goes to those who actually obey Him. Abraham kept the charges of Yahuah, and so became the father of the faithful. Abraham didn't ignore Sabbath, but he ignored things like Sun-day, Christmas and Easter. For what it's worth, the word "EASTER" comes from Ishtar; and the word "SUN-day" comes from the Pagan's "day of the sun". If every scholar in the world wants to "debunk" that fact, I'm still sticking to the real Sabbath day. That's what being "steadfast" means. All Yisharal (Israel) will be saved. What of those not in the Covenant with Yahuah? It is His Covenant of LOVE -- why reject it?


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Moriarty The Patriot 2nd Season Episode 17 Review
Posted on May 19, 2021 August 4, 2021 by Karandi
The final line and yet I feel like we've waited too long already for him to do anything.
Moriarty the Patriot's return remains a disappointing affair with little excitement to follow up the brief entertainment of episode 16. Instead of getting into the Moriarty plan we instead get to watch other characters set up their plans for the future and move their pieces. The end result is one that gives us a launch pad for future events but there's only so much set up one can sit through before you realise it is all set-up and we aren't actually getting anywhere.
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Admittedly, the intrigue in the yard is interesting enough with corruption and hidden ledgers all in the mix. However, none of the characters there have been developed enough for me to truly care personally so the reshuffling of power in that building, while fundamentally important to future plans, could have been played off screen and still would have resulted in much the same outcome.
Person with only one personality – angry and enttitled.
There's so little to actually discuss I'm instead going to narrow in on Bond's scene where he gets a cool gun that makes people go to sleep and an autocar. While it is far and a way from the cool gadgets a modern James Bond would brandish, it was a nice diversion in an otherwise fairly sleep-filled episode. Unfortunately, while he does use the sleeping gas once, the car merely is a talking point and then forgotten and realistically both could have been removed from the story with little to no difference identified.
Basically this story is just full of bloat at this point. While the basic premise was fine and the central character, when he's actually in the story, is charismatic and interesting, the longer they stretch things out and the more characters that get introduced, the less interesting the story becomes. Wrap it up and move it forward because this one doesn't have any more staying power.
Images from: Moriarty the Patriot 2nd Season. Dir. K. Nomura. Production I.G. 2021.
Posted in Spring 2021Tagged 2nd Season, anime, episode, historical, K Nomura, Moriarty, Moriarty the Patriot, mystery, psychological, review, Sherlock2 Comments
You wanted Jack the Ripper?
After finding the last few episodes of Moriarty the Patriot to be a rather tepid affair, it was nice to see episode 16 just let the characters loose. With the scene already set and the Yard and the locals ready to go to war we wasted precious little time on re-establishing the Jack the Ripper Plot before Moriarty and his merry band launched into their offensive to de-escalate the potential revolt and take down the one using Jack's name and killing prostitutes. That isn't to say their plan was particularly good. It was showy and it was fun to watch unfold but realistically it just shouldn't have worked.
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Basically their plan came down to give everybody else a Jack the Ripper to chase around town which would also cause the real group behind Jack the Ripper to gather. Then the would take out the real Jack the Ripper. I mean it isn't as if half-a-dozen things couldn't have gone wrong with that including the real culprits being smart enough not to gather at the commotion or even either the commoners or the yard still firing on the other sparking the revolution rather than chasing the old guy around for an hour.
Moriarty the Patriot denies reality – this plan will work.
Insane, illogical, unlikely to succeed and yet still pretty fun to watch.
However rather than continuing to take shots at the plan itself, there were some things this episode did very well. An no, that wasn't show discerning supporting cast members given all the background characters continue to have about as much subtlety as a brick to the face.
Whether it is the commoners seeing a member of the Yard and contorting their faces to scowl in an exaggerated fashion or the idiotic way that the actual culprits dismiss the death of the weak as meaningless the writing of the larger cast remains incredibly flat. Though given Moriarty himself wasn't particularly brilliant this episode I guess it stands to reason everyone else needed to be even stupider in order for his plan to play out.
Like, seriously. We get it, they don't like each other.
But wait, I was getting to the positives. Such as the chase sequence itself. Now the old guy was newly introduced so we didn't have a lot of a connection with him and yet he's probably the best character we've met in a while. Admittedly, his stamina and agility are near to supernatural in this particular sequence but it was good that we got to know him a bit and that even he was feeling true exhaustion as he got close to the one-hour mark Moriarty and demanded from him. Still trying to figure out how you leap over multiple people while wearing an armoured cloak but let's not dwell on the details because it just looked super cool.
It was also kind of cool seeing the rest of Moriarty's extras supporting the old guy from the roof-tops by giving directions or taking out the weapons of snipers. Again, the combined efforts to take down the Gatling Gun leave me with an eye-brow raised at how ridiculous that was, but again we could forgive it just for being a really great moment. I do question their fitness given that old guy was running all over town and they always seemed to be keeping up with him while going over roof-tops, which one imagines would require significant athletic stamina. Just don't think about that part.
There's never a Gatling Gun when you need one.
However, the confrontation between Louis and William Moriarty and the gang responsible for the Jack the Ripper incidents was my favourite moment. While we had been told these two were trained, we've never seen either really in action before as Moriarty has usually stayed out of the direct action. Here however we see the two back to back and they have definitely got some moves.
I won't be arguing.
With yet another player introduced into the story who is now aware of Moriarty's identity there's a chance this season of Moriarty the Patriot may actually pick up a bit going forward. I know that I enjoyed this episode a lot more than any so far since the story's return.
Posted in Spring 2021Tagged 2nd Season, anime, episode, historical, K Nomura, Moriarty, Moriarty the Patriot, mystery, psychological, review, SherlockLeave a comment
Posted on May 6, 2021 August 7, 2021 by Karandi
Some rivalry within the team could have been interesting – and yet this resolves about five minutes later.
You know, I was seriously looking forward to the continuation of Moriarty the Patriot and yet this follow up (second season/continuation of season 1) has so far been pretty dull. Moriarty isn't anywhere near as interesting as he was and we're getting very little of his presence at all. He even just full on goes to sleep for part of this episode leaving the support cast to do their thing only it isn't all that interesting or believable as they take out a whole bunch of bank robbers and then convince all the potential witnesses that the security cop guy actually did it.
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Likewise Irene's new character, Bond, is actually pretty dull compared to how she first entered the story. Possibly it is because she's no longer playing off of Sherlock and trying to outwit him all the time, instead she's playing safe and trying to work with a team, but it means that instead of being a source of entertainment she's now just another in the ever expanding Moriarty crew.
Though if they'd kept her and Moran at odds we could have had some fun moments.
That the entire bank scenario may have just been another ploy by Moriarty to get his team to work together doesn't make it any more interesting a situation to have spent half the episode on and realistically we learn little about the team in the process. There's not even a hint that the group might at any point fail or struggle so there is no tension whatsoever in the scenario and there's no one that they are really trying to outwit so it all just feels empty.
Now that Moriarty is done on side quests that feel like filler…
We then move on to the rest of the episode as we're introduced to the Moriarty brothers old teacher who apparently earned the nickname 'Jack the Ripper' once upon a time. Turns out he isn't really enjoying a serial killer using his name and so they are now going to stop the killings that the yard apparently haven't sorted out. Of all the reasons to get involved in such a big case, this one seems pretty petty and Moriarty adding onto the end that they can't stand by while the weak are getting preyed on seems really too late. It's an after-thought or a justification for the actions they intended to carry out regardless.
Let me stand here and pose for the transition into the second half.
It is probably clear by now that I didn't really enjoy this episode. I am curious as to what Moriarty The Patriot's take on Jack the Ripper will be, but my expectations of this series are definitely lowering as it continues. The drive that Moriarty and his team seemed to have early in season 1 feels very much dissipated now and part of that is because of the shifting focus to other characters but part of it is because they don't seem to be doing very much. All and all, I'm hoping this picks up again but otherwise it is watchable but not a lot else at this point.
Posted on April 20, 2021 August 9, 2021 by Karandi
Sherlock looks like he's had one too many frozen cokes.
I really enjoyed this conclusion to Irene's arc. We get some of Sherlock and Watson, a bit of Irene, a bit of the Moriarty brothers, a dose of Mycroft, and none of the characters seem to over-stay their welcome or seem superfluous. The arc concludes nicely wrapping up loose ends and opening up the next phase of the story and really it does what it needs to do.
None of that meant that when we got to the end of the episode that I didn't want to smack my head into the desk in front of me as I sat, and realised exactly what the character was about to say and desperately wanted them not to say it, and then they said it anyway… It was one of those moments where you can see a terrible punchline coming but you are powerless to gag the person who is about to say it.
Moriarty the Patriot definitely got me emotional, just not in a good way.
So unnecessary and such a lame 'twist' or development. At the end of what has been a very solid arc. I could go on but I'd rather not give specific details of the conclusion of a three episode arc so we'll just leave my complaint about that line right there, though there will be a small spoiler in the final image for the post so if you haven't watched the episode I'd suggest do that first.
You're right Sherlock, I could have exited the episode before they said it.
Anyway, the episode picks up with Irene leaving Sherlock and Watson for her appointment with The Lord of Crime and Sherlock having a bit of a mental hissy-fit because he can't figure out a way to keep Irene alive and not make the deal. Ultimately, Sherlock accept the assurance of the sealed letter perfectly fits his character, but at the same time tells us a lot about his character. If the 'great' detective would just open the envelope he'd know who the Lord of Crime was, however because he gave his word, and more, because he can't stand someone giving him the answer to a riddle, the Lord of Crime knows his identity will remain safe.
So, Sherlock will allow more people to be murdered because he doesn't like someone spoiling a good mystery? Admittedly, it isn't as though Sherlock has ever been set up as a bastion of good. He's just looking for a good mental challenge and we always kind of knew that. Equally, we know that he's not above bending or even breaking the law if it is required.
Loved the colouring in this scene.
If I actually had a complaint about this arc, outside of the very final lines of it, I would probably have to turn that complaint to the Moriarty brothers. Previously, they've been a joy on screen. Sure they talk a bit too much, but they usually are interesting to listen to as they interact and there's a certain amount of playful malice in some of their comments. I kind of felt that this episode, a lot of their personality was removed in favour of… well, straight-out exposition.
Sure it was great finally getting a nice detailed explanation of what their intentions are going forward, or at least what they want a certain someone to think their intentions are, but honestly it was one of those tedious moments where the villain seemed to connect all the dots for the audience and it just went on too long and in the process kind of made them less interesting. I am curious to see if they were being truthful or if this is just another ploy but either way it made their main scene this week somewhat less than thrilling to watch and for the first time in this series Sherlock's scenes held my interest far more than Moriarty's.
The gang's all here.
The undeniable positive about this episode is it opens up a lot of paths for this story to take from here forward and I am absolutely curious about where it will go and how it will build from this point forward. So many possibilities and realistically I very much want to see the Moriarty's push forward with their plans and I will be curious as to how Sherlock will respond.
Posted in Spring 2021Tagged 2nd Season, anime, episode, historical, K Nomura, Moriarty, Moriarty the Patriot, mystery, psychological, review, Sherlock1 Comment
Posted on April 13, 2021 August 10, 2021 by Karandi
Albert's idea of fun may not be the same as those around him.
Irene continues to be in hot-water in this episode of Moriarty the Patriot. However, the episode focuses more on Albert Moriarty as he makes contact with Irene rather than on Irene herself. It is a definite change in tone from the more amusing return episode we had last week where a lot of the screen time was eaten with shenanigans between Irene and Sherlock. Here, Albert is coldly business like as he plays the next move in the long game he and his brothers have been working toward. The only question left is whether Sherlock will manage to throw a spanner in the works before they achieve their goal.
The masquerade ball as a meeting place was a little bit much but served its purpose. However, in the tradition of Moriarty the Patriot, the writers used this setting as a chance to once again portray the aristocratic class as inhuman. Whether it was the over-the-top rancour expressed by the victim of the week or the callous disregard the others had when he died later in the piece, I can't help but feel I'd be more impressed by the Moriarty clan if those they were seeking to bring down felt more like people and not so much like caricatures.
Moriarty continues to struggle with characterisation of the classes.
Probably that ugly tie is the culprit.
The younger two Moriarty brothers had very little to do in this episode but Albert most definitely carried it. His negotiations with Irene were well delivered and the matter-of-fact way he cut off her other potential escape routes before throwing her the life-line he wanted her to take all worked pretty perfectly. Perhaps a little too perfectly given Irene had previously been shown to be fairly adept at getting herself out of trouble but maybe it was just a sign she really was at the end of her rope.
Judicious or disastrous? One has to wonder.
Sherlock and Watson's screen time is minimal in this episode, only claiming the scene after Irene return from the party, and honestly the episode is better for it. In the single scene, Sherlock manages a brilliant piece of manipulation (who blows up a room just to trick someone), finally getting the upper-hand over Irene, and it works beautifully with the rest of the episode, without becoming a Sherlock show.
It would be great if the rest of the series manages to find that balance between Moriarty and his brothers and Sherlock's investigations because when it veers too much into Sherlock's story it makes it too easy to unfavourably compare Moriarty the Patriot to so many other Sherlock stories. When focused on Moriarty, it really feels like its own thing.
However, the story of Irene and the stolen papers still isn't resolved at the end of this episode meaning that this mystery is running into a third episode (making it the longest individual story so far in the series). It makes me really curious as to whether this season is going to return to a more episodic approach or if we are now going to bring everything together in this show-down between the Lord of Crime and the great Consulting Detective. Time will tell, but I do know I'm very interested in where this is all going so glad I'm sticking with Moriarty the Patriot.
Posted on April 1, 2021 August 12, 2021 by Karandi
Regardless of the Sherlock version, I always find Mycroft and obnoxious character.
I'm not actually sure if this is a season 2 for Moriarty the Patriot or just a continuation of the first season with a bit of a gap in the middle, but we are picking up where we left off and AnimeLab declares this episode 12 so who am I to argue.
That said, I was really looking forward to returning to Moriarty and this episode focuses more or less entirely on Sherlock and Watson. To say I was a little less than thrilled would be an understatement even if the episode was more or less a decent re-entry into the Moriarty narrative.
Now the question is, will Moriarty appear for more than two minutes in the next episode?
While it might seem like I started this off critically, most of the rest of this post is going to be a pretty positive impressions post for this returning series. Watson and Holmes have some decent chemistry at the beginning of this episode and Mycroft's appearance and cryptic (to the point of being practically useless) warning to Sherlock at least sets a solid scene to work from. Throw in the visual gag/shock of Sherlock being shot (by a paint-gun) and this opening is actually pretty entertaining – if only I wasn't waiting for a different character to take centre stage.
As the episode continues, we get a somewhat overly complicated scenario which seems like it will put Sherlock and Moriarty on opposite sides once again. There's the woman who disguises herself as a foreign king in order to hire Sherlock to steal a photo before returning to her house to wait for Sherlock to appear and then burns her own house down in order to move in with Sherlock and all so that… You know what, it is a slightly ridiculously convoluted plot and that's just her plays.
Here she is, miss perfectly innocent.
Meanwhile, Mycroft is selecting the older Moriarty to retrieve papers from a woman and he's of course dragging his brothers into the scenario and really it is one of those situations that just wouldn't occur outside of a mystery plot and probably won't resolve in a way that makes it feel worthwhile but at least watching the set-up and opening moves has been fun.
Basically, if you liked season one, here is more of the same with more Sherlock and less Moriarty. If season one didn't sell you on Moriarty the Patriot, there's little in this episode that will change your mind. For me, I'm hoping for more Moriarty going forward and I'm curious as to where this current situation will go before it comes to some kind of resolution.
Why Writing Smart Anime Characters Isn't Easy
Posted on March 30, 2021 August 12, 2021 by Karandi
There's smart anime characters, and then there are geniuses who surpass all others, but it isn't always easy getting these characters right.
Genius characters in fiction aren't new. They've appeared in detective stories, fantasies, psychological dramas and so on for a long time and while we remember the Sherlock's and Moriarty's who seem to have gotten the balance just right, many characters and their 'genius' are largely overlooked and quickly forgotten by those who encounter them.
Which seems odd given even a mediocre action based character can remain pretty entertaining just so long as he hits things hard enough (and the audience cares about why he's doing it). So why are smart characters harder to write and have work well for the audience?
Random aside, earlier this week I ran a poll on Twitter to find out who my followers thought the best smart anime character was. Despite Lelouche getting an early lead, Light came back in the end and stole victory by the skin of his teeth. Though I will point out that there were a lot of comments for Senku and then Yang Wen-Li.
Who is your favourite 'smart' anime character?
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There's genius and then there's evil genius.
The reason I most recently started thinking about this issue again is my recent viewing of Moriarty the Patriot (Yuukoku no Moriarty) where I found Moriarty was a really well written character who I quite enjoyed but the anime as a whole suffered because of the efforts made to make him appear so much smarter than everybody else. The characters Moriarty interacted with and manipulated were at times blindingly stupid or at the very least incredibly naïve.
One particular character, having already murdered someone, just accepted Moriarty's advice about next steps without actually thinking anything through himself. And while you might argue that the character in question was distraught by the events that had unfolded, a more appropriate reaction might have been actually just stabbing Moriarty (which would have upset his overall plan enormously).
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Likewise, other characters follow along with plans seemingly without ever considering their own actions and while I'm willing to accept that given the era a general lack of educational standards there's almost nobody in the anime even acting with what one would consider an average amount of thought; and all so that Moriarty could really rise above and shine with his incredible intellect that seemingly predicted all manner of events, circumstances, and human psychology.
First rule of being a support character when there is a genius protagonist – don't think.
Part of this probably comes about because, let's be honest, most of the authors are not super-criminal geniuses themselves. While they have the advantage of pre-planning and controlling all the narrative variables, ultimately the ploys and plans delivered by these genius characters were concocted by someone who was probably just hoping not to trip over their own logic and tangle their narrative in a knot.
What I found particularly interesting about Moriarty the Patriot is that ultimately it uses the same device as Death Note to ensure that there is some balance in the cast (though realistically Moriarty was always going to given the literary inspiration). That is, both anime introduce a character foil to ultimately oppose them in order to provide some sense of conflict into the story, and both anime end up having a genuine friendship, or at least respect, forming between the two characters despite their oppositional moral stances.
Yep, he's a genius.
Of course, Death Note had the same issue of the vast majority of the cast (particularly all the policemen and people investigating who were not L) were pretty much unable to add 2 and 2 together consistently (though some in Death Note did at least get the occasional moment of intelligent dialogue just to ensure we didn't write them all off as incompetent).
However, outside of the detrimental effect smart anime characters frequently have on the intelligence levels of their supporting cast, other issues emerge. Code Geass fans will know how incredible Lelouche's ability to plan and outwit his opponent is. Why we even start off the series with a chess game won from a more or less unwinnable position within moments just to show-off how smart he is.
Of course, Lelouche is one of those characters who very quickly goes from being a driven and smart character to being a super-human who seems to have pre-cognitive abilities because a lot of what he pulls along the way in his story is just so far-fetched it defies actual belief. It's a lot of fun, but you can't for a moment take him seriously as an actual person because ultimately he's a step ahead because he is and he conveniently always seems to get the information he needs at just the right moment.
Alright, genius and drama queen.
Okay, in fairness, things do go wrong for Lelouche at various points in the story, usually because despite being a genius he is a teenager and sometimes doesn't quite think before he speaks or plan things quite all the way through and his opposition has some god-level intel at times as well so really let's just throw Code Geass entirely into the realm of fantasy and call it a day.
With difficulty balancing out a cast to make your smart character seem smarter without crossing into the realms on unbelievable some writers actually go the other way (and this is where we get a whole lot of forgettable supposedly genius characters). When I reviewed Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist I kind of pointed out one of the things that really didn't work for me about the anime; the main character being 'brilliant'.
My main point was that the audience is told again and again, by William, teachers, other students, the anime synopsis, that William is brilliant and yet I couldn't point to one decision or action William takes in the entire anime that actually seemed to demonstrate it.
Of course, some anime try to get around these problems and largely succeed by simply making their super-smart character really, really quirky. I'm kind of feeling Ed from Cowboy Bebop but there's a lot of these characters who the writer seems to have balanced their abundance of brilliance in one department by making them more or less non-functioning humans in others.
Professor Stein in Soul Eater with his obsession with dissection would be another example of a character whose overall intelligence and competence is balanced out by a fairly debilitating character quirk. However, on that note I actually thought of an anime that went with the quirky genius model and kind of pulled it off.
Yep, Steins;Gate.
Probably the only reason Steins;Gate works is the majority of the core cast are brilliant in their own way, and those that aren't genius' all have a particular personality trait or skill set that is necessary to make the plot continue to churn along. That, and Okabe is a fairly erratic character who keeps getting pulled up short by Kurisu. Kurisu meanwhile constantly needs to be pushed out of her comfort zone by Okabe in order for things to progress.
Still, it seems that a lot of writers do have a difficult time balancing their cast when building it around a genius. Or worse, they diminish their genius character in order to make the cast dynamics work but then the core personality trait they seemed to be aiming for is more or less abandoned.
Despite the difficulties, when it is done well, these smart anime characters (or any work of fiction really) definitely leave an impression. What that means is we will probably continue to see writers play around with this particular archetype with varying degrees of success.
Before finishing I did just want to share a link to my list of top 5 smart anime characters. Realistically, Moriarty from Moriarty the Patriot deserves a spot but I just haven't figured out where on the list he should go. But I would love to know who your favourite smart anime characters are so be sure to give them a shout out in the comments.
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Moriarty the Patriot. Dir. K Nomura. Production I.G. 2020.
Death Note. Dir. T. Araki. Madhouse. 2006.
Code Geass. G. Taniguchi. Sunrise. 2006.
Steins Gate. Dir. H. Hamasaki. White Fox. 2011.
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Turkey has adopted a new counterterrorism strategy that will from now on only send professional soldiers to hot conflict zones in rural areas in the eastern regions of Turkey to fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist organization, instead of conscripts with minimal training.
The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) frequently comes under harsh criticism for deploying conscripts in the fight against terrorist groups, including the terrorist PKK. Whether or not the TSK should establish a professional army to launch a new strategy in the fight against terrorism has become a matter of hot debate in recent years. However, the TSK has taken a major step in this regard and has switched to a new strategy against the PKK terrorists, primarily in the southeastern and eastern parts of the Turkey.
According to a report by the Hürriyet daily, short-term conscripts doing their compulsory military service for five-and-a-half months and long-term conscripts attending military service for 15 months will no longer fight actively against PKK terrorists in operations that are conducted in rural areas in eastern and southeastern Turkey. Instead of these temporary unskilled soldiers, professional private soldiers, specialist sergeants, sergeants and commissioned officers who undergo special training will be sent to hot conflict zones in the fight with the PKK.
The conscripts will serve at military bases in the region but will not be actively involved in operations conducted in rural areas against PKK terrorists. By using professional personnel in anti-terrorism military operations, the TSK plans to reduce the chances of casualties.
Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz told Hürriyet that the ministry and the TSK have been conducting meticulous efforts in the new strategy. The minister said the TSK has already been refraining from sending unskilled soldiers to hot conflict areas for some time. Yılmaz expressed certainty that progress would be made in counter-terrorism efforts of the Turkish military in the near future. The minister added that all military personnel, commanders included, are determined to bring an end to terrorism, a goal which could be accomplished in the near future with the implementation of the new strategy, according to Yılmaz.


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No less formidable a figure than Dr William Fraser Tolmie once wrote to his local newspaper urging (as I understand him) that Indian reservations be Christian missions. To establish his credentials in that argument, he gave some mighty juicy details about Chinuk Wawa's history.
tat dialect of Shahaplani [Shahaptani] or Nezperies [Nez Perces].
gow, but latterly a professor in Dublin.
had been at Vancouver and up the coast.
graphical Society of the day.
CLOVERDALE, V.D., Jan. 17th, 1884.
There's no question that WF Tolmie knew Chinook Jargon and had some unusual skill with several indigenous languages. The sheer accomplishment of collecting 17 vocabularies from different languages, showing how each expressed the same list of concepts, is impressive.
Tolmie's documentation of the Jargon can be hard to track down, though. I'm not going to go into much more depth today than to observe that the "Cheenook" vocabulary that he provided to Scouler was actually Lower Chehalis Salish! 🙂 If you want to see what he wrote down of Chinuk Wawa, take a look in "The Journals of William Fraser Tolmie, Physician and Fur Trader", lightly edited by Howard Mitchell (Vancouver, 1963).
Today's letter to the editor shows that this pious man was the original source of (written) information on the Jargon for the early missionaries of several denominations. As we have so often seen, here again one speaker of a pidgin language privately coached several others, and must have influenced how they spoke it.
This is really interesting as one of the two developmental strands in Chinuk Wawa's history, and it goes to show you why "word lists" of it were endlessly recopied and reprinted by non-Natives. Strand #2 of course was people — predominantly Natives as well as the illiterate majority of European newcomers — learning the Jargon by immersion in real life.


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Bonobos!
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Six breach reports in the UK: the floodgates are open
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In Dissent's weekly roundup of breaches, there were six breaches reported for the UK, versus nine in the US. It seems that the duty of care approach is really taking off.
Newly reported incidents in the U.K. and Ireland:
In Ireland, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has lost the personal details of 6,000 people. The unencrypted data were on two discs that went missing after being sent to the agency's headquarters in Swansea. This was the second incident involving the DVLA in a month.
The Leeds Building Society has warned its staff of 1,000 to be vigilant after admitting to losing their personal details including bank and salary details when the company's human resources department was moved during a refurbishment of its head office.
In the UK: government officials mistakenly sent confidential personal details consisting of names, dates of birth and criminal histories of dozens of inmates set to be released; the data were sent to a private business. The personal details also reveal the addresses the prisoners will move to after leaving jail.
Hundreds of people have had personal pension details sent to the wrong addresses after an error by a Herts County Council contractor, Serco. Serco sent 1,400 statements for staff, former staff and councillors to the wrong destinations because of an "administrative error". The statements included the person's name, date of birth, national insurance number, and pensionable pay. So far, only 400 of the statements have been returned to the county council leaving 1,000 still missing.
A laptop with the names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of 950 diabetes patients of NHS patients was stolen from the St Julian's GP surgery. Data on the stolen laptop also include a link to a picture of patients' retinas — already they have a problem with the security of biometric data before they have implemented any ID system, it seems — Dissent.
Sefton Primary Care Trust has accidentally sent about 1800 of its staff's records to four organisations it is refusing to name. Staff details including dates of birth, national insurance numbers, pensions and salary details. The four companies were bidding for work with the trust. The Trust is reportedly not revealing the names of the four companies because of "commercial confidentiality". They seem to take "commercial confidentiality" more seriously than employee confidentiality — Dissent.
In related news, BoingBoing covered a petition for mandatory disclosure in the UK. It's for British citizens and residents only. If you're in the UK, or a citizen, in an overseas territory or Crown dependency, you may and should sign.
Transparency lessons from the NFL
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I think the NFL's handling of spying by the New England Patriots is poor. Of course, I expect retrograde, authoritarian, clumsy behavior from the NFL, and I haven't been disappointed in the few decades I've been paying attention.
The New York Times covered this issue (the spying, not the decades). In their December 16 article, they quoted crisis management experts. Thinking about some of the big information exposure incidents we've seen, consider how applicable these observations might be.
The strategy is profoundly bad, I don't know why they would destroy [taped evidence]. That's astounding. There's no criminality here, but it sure doesn't pass the smell test.
Al Tortorella, managing director of crisis management, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
They're rolling the dice that the whole thing is just going to go away. And here's the thing — a lot of this could be avoided.
Greg Wilson, crisis counselor and senior vice president, Levick Strategic Communications
Wilson sees a crisis that requires managing, a "clear-cut case of all the parties needing to rip off the Band-Aid as soon as possible." The goal of managing any crisis, he said, is to acknowledge the black eye and compress the time it lasts.
Wilson says the American public generally wants to hear what he calls the Big Three of crisis management: I am sorry. I take responsibility. And I will fix it.
NYT, 12/16/2007
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My eyes feel better now.
Calla Lily macro 3, by Edwin Bartlett.
Hassling the Hoff
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I'm way to lazy to take the time in Photoshop to make this look good, so just use your imagination and pretend I put Beaker's head on this.
Y'all should just be grateful that I didn't use this animated gif instead….
The Words of our (Founding) Fathers
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There's an article in the Washington Post, "In the Course of Human Events, Still Unpublished." It's about how the papers of the founding fathers of the United States are still not available except in physical form, and the scholarly practice that keeps them there.
Many of the founding fathers' letters have been transcribed and made available over the years, and the original documents can increasingly be found online. But it is the painstaking annotation of these thousands of documents — their detailed explanation — that takes so long. Scholars check and double-check each reference and then try to explain each one and put it in context. A page of the massive annotated tomes can contain a snippet of a document and then a long footnote of explanation.
It seems to me that, while useful, footnotes and explanations inevitably reflect the time in which they're written. The writings of those brilliant men usually speak for themselves. There's certainly context and explanation that adds to it, but for heaven's sake, get the originals out there. They're far more important than the footnotes.
Deloitte & Touche, Ponemon Study on Breaches
According to Dark Reading, "Study: Breaches of Personal Data Now Prevalent in Enterprises:"
According to a study released yesterday by the Ponemon Institute and Deloitte & Touche, 85 percent of the security or privacy executive surveyed — some 800 individuals — claimed at least one reportable security incident in the past 12 months.
Sixty-three percent said they have experienced between six and 20 breaches affecting personally identifiable information (PII) in the past year.
Most of the reporting is on that 85% number. I think the second number is far more interesting — 63% have experiences more than 5 breaches–that shocks me. I'm way behind on Ponemon Institute research, and I hope to say more shortly.
[Update: see the comments for some excellent analysis.]
Clark Kent Ervin on TSA Security
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Normally, it's not news when someone takes aim at TSA policies like this:
If you are someone who suspects that what is billed as "aviation security" is often more show than substance, you are not alone. In fact, you are part of what Nixon aides used to call the "silent majority." The security bureaucracy seems to think that as long as it is seen as doing something, and so long as another terror attack does not occur, the public will at least feel secure enough not to insist that it do whatever needs to be done actually to make us secure.
It's a bit more unusual when that someone is the former inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security. Go read what Ervin has to say in "Screening Dreams."
Ask.com is not asking "Will Privacy Sell"
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There's a bunch of press around Ask.com's marketing of their new privacy service. I applaud them for thinking about this, and for drawing attention to the issue of search privacy. The New York Times had a story, "Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy" and now Slashdot jumps in with "Will Privacy Sell?" This is the wrong question to ask, and is going to lead to bad thinking for a long time, because what Ask.com is selling is not privacy, and it's not a complete product. I'll explain what it is, why it's not privacy, and why it's not going to sell.
The idea is that if you use AskEraser, Ask will not log what you're doing. Sounds good, right? No AOL embarrassing disclosures! What could possibly go wrong?
the information typed by users of AskEraser into Ask.com will not disappear completely. Ask.com relies on Google to deliver many of the ads that appear next to its search results. Under an agreement between the two companies, Ask.com will continue to pass query information on to Google. Mr. Leeds acknowledged that AskEraser cannot promise complete anonymity, but said it would greatly increase privacy protections for users who want them, as Google is contractually constrained in what it can do with that information.
So the user doesn't really get privacy. They get privacy with regards to Ask.com, but not with respect to Google. That's not compelling. So I agree with Larry Ponemon, this isn't going to be competitive advantage, but he's wrong when he says "Privacy only becomes important to the average consumer when something blows up." Privacy is important to people, and they pay for it on a very regular basis, under two conditions:
First, they understand the threat.
Second, they understand the product being sold, and how it will protect them.
If you meet both of those conditions, and have an otherwise good product, you're golden. Ask fails on both. Curtains, mailboxes, and single family detached houses are all sold on the basis of privacy. People understand others looking in their windows, and they understand curtains protect them. People don't deeply get search engine record retention, and if they do, those who dig into AskEraser discover that Google can still keep its records.
So, what Ask.com is doing is offering a half-baked product. So if the question is "will half-baked products sell," then I think we all know they won't.
It's too bad that this is going to be seen as a nail in privacy's coffin. Nice move, Slashdot.
(This post draws heavily on my talk at the 2nd
Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security, where I presented
on Paying for Privacy: Consumers and
Infrastructures (or PDF or PPT) in
which I look at consumer's willingness to pay for privacy.)
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So when's the Chicago gig, gents?
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'Good Times Bad Times'
'Ramble On'
'Black Dog'
'In My Time Of Dying' (full version)
'For Your Life'
'Trampled Under Foot'
'Nobody's Fault But Mine'
'No Quarter'
'Since I've Been Loving You'
'Dazed And Confused'
'Stairway To Heaven'
'The Song Remains The Same'
'Misty Mountain Hop'
'Kashmir'
'Whole Lotta Love'
'Rock And Roll'
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Apparently, it was a righteous show…
Updated: Links to video added.


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When Virginia became one of the last two states to ratify the Constitution, in 1789, it was populated mostly by enslaved black people. Those captives were already being counted as three-fifths of a human being in America's eyes, but white people in Virginia and in other slave states lived in fear of insurrection. So it is reasonable to surmise, as law professor Carl Bogus did last year in a New York Times op-ed, that the "well-regulated militia" language in the Second Amendment inserted by James Madison — who at the time was a candidate for Virginia governor — has its roots not merely in some benign effort to help these new Americans maintain the right to bear arms they had as colonists, but to help guard themselves against black people whom they considered their property.
Whether Madison intended this result or not, the Second Amendment became in part about institutionalizing the physical protection of white people. "Would we think differently about the amendment if we realized that its genesis was, at least in part, a concern with preserving a form of governmental tyranny?" Bogus asked.
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Whenever a mass shooting occurs in the name of white supremacy in this country, it can feel like a jarring blow to the American reality. White nationalist violence is a worldwide scourge, with more than 175 people killed over the past eight years. But we should understand such violence here as more of a consequence of our system operating as designed than as an aberration from the norm.
Often, in the aftermath, we learn that the shooter saw his crime as a matter of self-preservation, that product of a mindset that sees a world getting increasingly browner and blacker and views such diversity as a physical encroachment. So he acts violently, because the goals of white supremacy cannot be achieved without it. They couldn't even accomplish that peacefully in 1789.
With his nationalist rhetoric and policies, President Trump has become part of this continuum, giving license to millions to express their white grievance in new ways and refusing to condemn or prosecute their violence in any meaningful way. That includes his remarks Monday morning, which contained condemnation of white supremacy that was empty not merely because of his past, but because it lacked any scintilla of planning. The insincerity ran so deep that Trump even proposed a historically racist solution, the death penalty, as a remedy for hate crimes. (But as the Central Park Five can attest, calling for capital punishment is pretty much Trump's default.)
His administration has also taken meaningful steps to discourage the prosecution of white extremists, the top domestic terror threat inside the United States. A former FBI supervisor told The Washington Post that "there's some reluctance among agents to bring forth an investigation that targets what the president perceives as his base." This has happened while he has undergirded his campaign and presidency with racial stereotypes and hatred, saying nothing after whipping up his rally mobs, providing a safe space to say things like "Send them back!" and "Shoot them!" The Trump administration and the Republican Party surely have blood on their doorstep today.
Two of the terrorists, one who killed three at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California the weekend prior and another who murdered 20 at an El Paso mall and Walmart on Saturday, had the same explicitly racist philosophies underlying their actions that Trump and Republicans have been willing to cater to in order to win votes. Though the motivations of the Dayton, Ohio, shooter who killed nine people early Sunday morning are unknown, he was reportedly suspended during high school for keeping both a "hit list" and a "rape list," both with the obvious implications; considering the president is an accused sexual predator, how can the administration speak authoritatively?
Yet we still stick to the routine. The press often grants a dignity to the white mass shooter that the victim of color could only pray for, and they preserve their precious objectivity by going soft on a president known for his racism.
Seemingly before the last drop of blood hits the ground, Republicans have unleashed the red herrings. They blame video games, usually followed by the lack of prayer in schools or homosexuality. But racism and misogyny are not mental illnesses, as the president and his party's instant psychiatrists would have us believe. They are ideologies. And they have been with us in America for as long as there have been white people settled on the land that is now America.
Democrats also have their role. Desperate to keep people believing government can work, they try appealing to Republicans with urgent pleas for action meant to make themselves look busy and to perhaps succeed — but only on the off chance the GOP has replaced the NRA with a conscience. Some Democrats talk, astonishingly, as if they hope Trump will actually sign "common-sense gun reforms." And in recent years, the rote rejection of the politicians' "thoughts and prayers" has been added to our muscle memory, as has the NRA's gaslighting and legislative inertia. Second verse, same as the first.
All of this needs to stop, to be honest. It's all so futile, and it doesn't save any lives. The nation's rote nature in moments like these can be attributed to perpetual shock, understandable as the rate of mass shootings accelerates to a terrifying pace. However, the Parkland survivors showed the nation that breaking the mold of reaction to mass shootings is possible, and they were actually inside the damned thing. Why we spend so much time debating about legislation that we know a white-nationalist president who sucks at the teat of the gun lobby will not sign is beyond me.
Yes, Trump said on Monday that he wants "strong background checks," but he said pretty much the same thing after Parkland and soon reversed himself. Plus, this time, Trump has already stated that he wants to tie the checks to immigration reforms. Given his track record, there is no reason to expect that this president would sign anything having to do with immigration that didn't explicitly disadvantage immigrants of color, specifically those who are Muslim and those coming from south of the United States border.
To paraphrase Elizabeth Warren from last week's debate, why talk about what we can't do? More to the point, why talk about things that this isn't about? If a guy drives about nine hours from Dallas to El Paso to murder 20 people, and then we lay blame for that on immigration, we buy into his framing. No, the root causes of these actions are almost always threefold: easy access to guns, adherence to white-supremacist ideology, and a history of misogyny and associated violence. We already see all three threads running through the Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton shootings, to varying degrees — and that is before much investigation has taken place.
American culture, not our laws, bears a particular responsibility. Murder being illegal didn't stop any of these men from committing it. Neither is easy access to guns a unique problem just for those who are misogynist or people who are attracted to the white-supremacist ideology. That shouldn't imply that mass shootings are a permanent fact of American life; neither do I presume the permanence of gun violence in cities like Chicago, which saw seven killed and 46 wounded just last weekend. But it is important to understand precisely where we are and how we got here.
The gun issue has been tied, since the nation's inception, to white people's problems with race. So when we see a white supremacist take arms against Americans or foreign nationals because they aren't white, we have to treat it as a systemic problem rather than a shocking and surprising aberration. Domestic assault and sexism have been a consistent predictor of who is likely to become a mass murderer. Yet the issue is all but ignored at moments like these in favor of stigmatizing the mentally ill. Plus, thanks to our rape culture, too many men go unprosecuted before they go on to kill.
We have these consistent, systemic issues that result in the deaths of thousands, yet we see our most powerful do little to nothing because they are so invested in the charades of grief, riding out their political performances until the Americans who didn't just have a hole ripped into their lives inevitably move on.
It is a relief to see some diversions from the norm this time around. Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke, a presidential candidate and El Paso native, returned home and was one of the few who defecated on the entire tired routine. Having already noted the rise in hate crimes every year since Trump has been in office, a reporter asked what Trump can do "to make this any better."
O'Rourke snapped back, "What do you think? You know the shit he's been saying. He's been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don't know, like, members of the press, what the fuck?" In his frustration and anger, O'Rourke helped tear a hole in the notion that the reaction to these shootings should follow the same script. Something needs to change, and it isn't the kinds of bills lawmakers file, or even how soon they get back to Washington.
I would suggest repealing and replacing the Second Amendment, born in and for slavery and desperately in need of an update. But that won't happen. Neither will a lot of what the Democrats suggest. This president won't do anything. The Republicans won't do anything. I don't say that to be pessimistic. The laws would help. I just don't think they'll happen anytime soon. So let's stop pretending as though it's possible, particularly with this president and this Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.
We do need a president who will prosecute domestic terrorists properly, so there is the business of that. But the primary fix to this problem must be cultural, and it will take longer than any legislation. That is not to say that Democrats shouldn't try to pass bills for the time being to signify to voters where they stand. But they should stop even hinting that Trump will work with them, and get their constituents focused on solutions that will arise from more difficult — and less politically rewarding — sources than anything that a campaigning politician can sell to voters in a convenient, commercial-ready soundbite.
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Q: $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ has order $4$? How so?
$\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ has order $4$, the neutral element is $(0_2,0_2)$ and the other elements have order $2$.
  Therefore, $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ is not cyclic,so it is the Klein group.

The elements of $\mathbb{Z_2}$ are $\{0_2,1_2\}$ and the order of $1_2$ is 2.
If we take the direct product $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ then we have a generator of the Group product $\langle 1_2,1_2\rangle$.
Question:
How can the author state $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ has order $4$? Is $\langle 1_2,1_2\rangle$ not a generator of order 2 of $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$?

A: The order of a group is the number of elements in it. $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ has four elements: $(0,0), (0,1), (1,0), (1,1)$.
But as you have seen, each element has order $\le 2$. (This, in particular, proves that $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ is not isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_4$.)

A: The elements of $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$ are
(0,0), (0,1), (1,0), (1,1)
There are 4 of them, thus the order of the group is 4.

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USS Turner (ii) (DD 648)
Destroyer of the Bristol class
Navy The US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Bristol
Pennant DD 648
Built by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered 10 Feb 1941
Launched 28 Feb 1943
Commissioned 16 Apr 1943
Lost 3 Jan 1944
After returning from her third convoy duty, the Turner was anchored off Sandy Hook, New Jersey waiting to go to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs. the next morning, a series of unknown explosions rocked her ammunition storage areas, turning the ship into an inferno. Another explosion ripped the bottom out of the Turner and she sank by the stern taking with her 165 of the crew however 167 survived and were rescued by the USS Inch/Swasey and USCG boats. The commanding officer was amongst those lost and many of the survivors were wounded after being taken to the hospital at Sandy Hook, many of them were saved by blood plasma being flown in from New York by helicoper !
Commands listed for USS Turner (ii) (DD 648)
1 Lt.Cdr. Henry Sollett Wygant, Jr., USN 15 Apr 1943 3 Jan 1944 (+)
Notable events involving Turner (ii) include:
USS Turner picks up 2 survivors from the Canadian sailing vessel Angelus that was shelled and sunk on 19 May 1943 north of Bermuda in position 38°40'N, 64°00'W by German U-boat U-161
Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.
Blood on the Sea
Parkin, Robert Sinclair
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Friedman, Norman
United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
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Q: Ruby on rails - migrate a db from SQLite to PostgresQL with taps I am migrating a database from sqlite3 to PostgresQL with taps. I am trying to start the taps server on the sqlite database as follow
$ taps server sqlite://db/development.sqlite3 user password

However I got the following message thus I believe it didn't work well. Would you understand this kind of message as follow?
/Users/computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/sequel-3.20.0/lib/sequel/database/schema_generator.rb:19: warning: constant ::Fixnum is deprecated
/Users/computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/sequel-3.20.0/lib/sequel/database/schema_generator.rb:19: warning: constant ::Bignum is deprecated
/Users/computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/sinatra-1.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:298:in `<module:Templates>': uninitialized constant Tilt::CompileSite (NameError)
Did you mean?  Complex
from /Users/computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/sinatra-1.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:297:in `<module:Sinatra>'
from /Users/computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/sinatra-1.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:21:in `<top (required)>'
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A: You'll have to force a lower version of tilt, I'd try tilt 0.8, since that was the most recent version of tilt when sinatra 1.0 was released.  Note that taps is a dead project, you should probably consider migrating to something else. You could try:
sequel -C sqlite://db/development.sqlite3 postgres://user:password@host/database


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Home » News » Local » Columban missionaries' 100-year-old magazine a lifelong inspiration for donor of 60 years
Columban missionaries' 100-year-old magazine a lifelong inspiration for donor of 60 years
By Mark Bowling
Long-serving reader: Gilbert Alison, former MP and avid reader of The Far East.
AT 87, Gilbert Alison likes nothing better than the comfort of his favourite leather chair, a morning coffee and the latest edition of The Far East.
The former Queensland Member of Parliament is an avid reader of The Far East, the magazine of the St Columbans Mission Society that celebrates 100 years of publication this year.
Mr Alison has been a Columban donor for 60 years, started when he bought his first, iconic Columban Art Calendar.
"I never fail to get inspired by what they do – these missionary men and women – and what they give up to go elsewhere," Mr Alison, who lives at Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast, said.
"How do they do it – upheaval, moving to another country, learning another language to live amongst the people?
"And they don't write much about their personal discomfort."
Mr Alison's fascination for the travels and challenges of Columban priests and lay missionaries has helped lay a foundation in his own life, including his political career.
Raised in a strong Protestant family in Maryborough, Queensland, he converted after meeting a Catholic nurse named Florence at the local general hospital.
Florence became Gilbert's wife, they raised a family of five boys and two girls, and now have six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Early in their marriage, and as a newly-converted Catholic, Mr Alison recalls buying his first Columban calendar.
"It was the first inkling I had of an organisation called the Columbans. Their calendars were very beautiful – full of reproductions of religious art," he said.
Mr Alison has been a donor ever since, contributing to the Columbans' annual fundraising efforts, and subscribing to The Far East for the past decade.
As a chartered accountant, Mr Alison spent most of his early married years "in the one spot, Maryborough".
The "humdrum" routine of daily life there contrasted with the precarious, travelling life of Columban missionaries.
He dabbled in local politics and became the city's deputy mayor.
Then in 1971, as a city alderman, he successfully ran for state parliament, unseating Maryborough's Labor member.
He sat as a Liberal MP for six years, was defeated, and was later re-elected as a National MP for another six-year term.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen was his party leader and premier, and Mr Alison served for several months as Minister for Main Roads and Racing before his retirement.
He remembers Mr Bjelke-Petersen as a shrewd and unbending premier.
"He used to have a saying in parliament: 'If you give me trouble, I'll give you two'," Mr Alison said.
"I liked him. I had no evidence of corruption from him.
"And that's how I take people, as I find them."
During those years in politics he managed to undertake a number of overseas study trips – for instance, visiting Iraq and Beirut – experiences that he believes opened his eyes and made him a better MP.
"I got to see what the rest of the world was doing. It made me think," he said.
"My wife and I have travelled through parts of Europe and Asia. We've been blessed that way."
As his travel experiences grew, Mr Alison said it helped him appreciate the missionary work of the Columbans, and their faith in difficult situations.
Five years ago he suffered his own family loss and his own faith was tested when his second son Bradley died of cerebral malaria while working in Papua New Guinea.
Missionary in action: A young Columban Father Warren Kinne rode a Honda motorbike through his rural parish in the Philippines.
"You can call on God to help you, and I believe he is around you all the time," Mr Alison said.
"And we need help. We may not get the help we want or how we want it, but He's still there."
Over the years reading The Far East, Mr Alison has enjoyed the down-to-earth storytelling of Columbans like the late Fr Noel Connolly – a fellow Queenslander from Gympie – with narratives that delved into the mysteries of the spirit.
"He always seemed to have an empathy for the ordinary man. That's how he wrote," Mr Alison said.
And he recalls the stories that have touched him – inspiring tales of Columbans establishing faith communities within the local church of countries where there is a gulf between rich and poor, dealing with inter-faith relations and seeking justice and dignity for those denied their rights.
"I do a fair bit of reading and I'm still interested in politics and I'm interested in how humans can muck a country up, no trouble at all," Mr Alison said.
"Take Venezuela for instance: Oil-rich, but who mucks it up – the people in charge? It's really sad when you see it and there's really no need for it.
"The Columban missionaries approach from a different angle – they are religious men and women living with people in the poor areas – that always amazes me – and in The Far East you are getting their viewpoint with an emphasis on the people they attend to."
As a former politician, Mr Alison said the magazine's stories had given him valuable insights into how Australian society should be headed.
"We've become very soft people in my view," he said.
"There is need for greater consideration of our fellow man and woman in our community.
"I can't understand why we have tens of thousands of people sleeping rough at the moment and we can spend billions of dollars on fancy infrastructure.
"Can't we work out how to help get those people who need it into accommodation instead of having to sleep rough?
"We need the same missionary zeal (as the Columbans) to get amongst the people who are vulnerable and need help, and need somebody to speak up for them."
The Far East was first published in October 1920.
It is available at https://www.columban.org.au/media-and-publications/the-far-east-magazine/
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