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by Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 23, 2020
Absurd Malaysian Law Requires $11,700 Film License To Upload Videos To YouTube, Social Media
Wherever you go in this world, there are some idiotic laws on the books. For example, in Georgia, it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket if it is Sunday (seriously, look it up). Not to be outdone, there is a truly baffling law in Malaysia that, if strictly enforced, would require anyone who uploads video to the web (including social media sites) to obtain an expensive license. This applies to both professional outlets and just regular citizens, the both of which are supposed to pay 50,000 MYR (~$11,725 in US currency) for a film license, even if just uploading a video to TikTok or Facebook. Whether the law would actually be enforced on individuals is not clear, but strictly... Read more...
News, Videos
by Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 17, 2020
TikTok Mods Censored Users They Considered Ugly, Poor Or Old In A Twisted Effort To Expand Platform
TikTok has taken the social media scene by storm with short-form videos from everyday users and celebrities alike. It's mostly lighthearted and fun, but there is also an ugly side to social media, and I'm not talking about the aesthetic appeal of users who participate. That is what TikTok is doing, quite literally, in a directive to its moderators to censor content by people who are "chubby" or "ugly," among other traits, according to The Intercept. In documents viewed by the site, TikTok's higher ups outlined rules for moderators in regards to which types of people should have their content suppressed. Those with an "abnormal body shape" or who have an "obvious beer belly" fell into the censored... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Mon, Feb 18, 2019
Researchers Find YouTube Is Heavily Influencing Evidence-Challenged Flat Earthers
Could YouTube partly be responsible for the increase in "flat earthers"? Researchers have discovered that many flat earthers were persuaded by YouTube videos. Many of these videos had been recommended or promoted by YouTube's algorithm. A "flat earther" is a person who believes that the earth is a flat plane or disc instead of a sphere. Many ancient civilizations including the Greeks, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians held this belief and incorporated the theory into their cosmology. Although modern scientists have concluded that the earth is a sphere, the flat earth theory never truly disappeared. The theory has recently gained popularity thanks to social media. Dr.... Read more...
News, Social And Internet
by Paul Lilly - Fri, Jun 08, 2018
Facebook Blows It Again By Exposing 14 Million Private User's Posts Via A Settings Bug
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified before Congress, one of the common criticisms by multiple elected officials is that the social network has a history of screwing up in various ways, and then later apologizing and promising to do better. That's also what happened with the Cambridge Analytica scandal that prompted the testimony. Now just weeks later, Facebook is apologizing once again, this time for a bug that changed the default settings for millions of users, causing them to publicly share posts that they may have thought were private. "We recently found a bug that automatically suggested posting publicly when some people were creating their Facebook posts. We'd like... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Mon, Apr 23, 2018
Facebook Says You Are Not The Product And Ads Are Here To Stay
Many people are angry that details about their likes and dislikes are used to focus ads at them to sell things on Facebook. People are even angrier that such data is at times abused by advertisers and other companies for their own gain, which was the case in the Facebook Cambridge Analytica debacle. To address these concerns, Facebook has posted a new Hard Questions series that is penned by Rob Goldman, VP of Ads. In this post, Goldman talks about what it took for Facebook to build such a massive network and keep it free. He says that advertising is what allows Facebook to remain free. Goldman also notes that supporting the site with advertising requires a "steadfast commitment to privacy" which... Read more...
by Shane McGlaun - Wed, Mar 28, 2018
Facebook User Outrage Leads To Delay Of Connected Speaker Launch
Facebook is in the midst the most ferocious user backlash it has ever faced after its data privacy policies (or lack there of) have come to light. Much of the user outrage focuses on Cambridge Analytica's capturing and use of data on a huge number of Facebook users. Facebook is also facing ire over allegedly harvesting Android call and SMS data for years, something Facebook denies. Because of all this negative reaction from users, people familiar with the matter claim that the social media giant has decided to skip the launch of any new home products at its developer conference in May. The new hardware products were to include connected speakers with digital-assistant and video chat capabilities.... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 09, 2017
Former Facebook President Sean Parker Blasts Social Media For Exploiting Human Psychology
Maybe you already knew this, or at least had a hunch, but Facebook and other social networks are intentionally designed to trigger an emotional response to keep users coming back, according to Sean Parker, who amassed a fortune helping launch the world's largest social playground with Mark Zuckerberg. Now a philanthropist, Parker is at a point of reflection in his life, and he is not necessarily proud of what he helped create at Facebook. In an interview with Axios, Parker waxed candid on social networks and the psychological element that is at play. The way he describes it, the design behind Facebook is almost like brain hacking, in that the goal is to get into users' heads and give them a rush... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Mon, Mar 06, 2017
Psychologists Claim Social Networking Sites Cause Higher Levels Of Loneliness
Many argue that we are now connected more than ever. Human beings can have conversations with one another in an instant regardless of location or time zone thanks to social media. American psychologists recently determined, however, that social media sites have only intensified experiences of social isolation. Psychologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine examined the use of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tumblr. The team questioned 2,000 adults between the ages of nineteen and thirty-two. The study concluded that adults who spend more than two hours a day on social media were more than twice as likely to have feelings of loneliness. Dr. Brian Primack... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 16, 2016
Reddit Has A Fake News Problem Too With Front Page Hits Easily Bought And Paid For
People have been holding Facebook's feet to the fire over what is perceived as a fake news problem, which is a pretty big deal when you consider the number of eyeballs the world's largest social playground attracts on a daily basis. However, Facebook is not alone in this regard. It is being reported that Reddit, "the front page of the Internet," can be manipulated with fake news with the collective effort of just a few people and less than $200. Reddit is the 24th most popular website in the world and ranks 7th in the United States. It uses a system of upvotes and downvotes to regulate content and fend off erosion from the inside—posts that are deemed newsworthy, authentic, or otherwise worth... Read more...
by Brittany Goetting - Tue, Nov 22, 2016
Who's Responsible For Spreading Fake News And How To Deal With It In The Internet Age
The spread of misinformation and fake news via the internet is running rampant. As both a news writer and teaching assistant/college professor, I am in the unique position of not only battling misinformation online, but also in a university classroom. A Stanford University study recently discovered that many preteens and teenagers are unable to detect fake news, despite having tools at their disposal to to determine the validity of content. These future voters and leaders were unable to tell whether or not the articles they read were legitimate, accurate, or unbiased. Social media does not appear to be helping the issue. Facebook, as well as many other sites, have been accused of interfering... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 12, 2016
Facebook Bug Temporarily Kills Users Placing Memorials At The Top Of Their Profile
The grim reaper made a surprise visit to Facebook heading into the weekend and collected a bunch of souls, including that of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of the world's largest social network turned graveyard due to a glitch. Many users logged into Facebook only to find that the site was reporting them as deceased, turning their once lively profile into an online memorial. Creepy, right? Rest assured, Zuckerberg and many others are still alive and kicking despite their bugged out profiles suggesting the contrary. I'm guessing Zuckerberg isn't dead either... pic.twitter.com/9M9uaVsvjR — Peter Stringer (@peterstringer) November 11, 2016 "Remembering Mark Zuckerberg," the whiz kid's profile... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 11, 2016
Instagram Stories Empowers Creators With Mentions, URL Links, And Boomerang Videos
Posting so-called stories to social media is one of the hottest trends right now, though it also means there exists some overlap. That's especially true with Instagram stories and Snapchat stories, two very similar things, though the former is introducing some nifty new tricks that will help it stand apart from the latter. One of those tricks is the use of links.Instagram is testing the ability to add links at the bottom of stories. Verified account holders can access the feature and add clickable URLs to their stories, which appear viewers can access by clicking on "See More" at the bottom or by swiping up. It's a clever and cleaner looking alternative to posting the actual link, some of which... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 08, 2016
Facebook Encroaches On LinkedIn Turf With Job Openings Feature
Scoot your booty, LinkedIn, and make room for Facebook. The latter is encroaching on the former's territory by testing a new feature that allows administrators of business Pages to post job listings in search of new hires. Admins can also receive applications from potential job candidates, giving business even more incentive to concentrate their social media efforts on the largest social playground on the planet."Based on behavior we've seen on Facebook, where many small businesses post about their job openings on their Page, we're running a test for Page admins to create job posts and receive applications from candidates," a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch after it noticed... Read more...
Facebook Q3 Earnings Skyrocket On Strong Mobile Ad Revenue, But Warns Of 2017 Slowdown
Mark Zuckerberg is a big picture person. Being that way should not conflict with how investors buy and sell stock, though it often does in an era where knee jerk reactions in the stock market are commonplace. Case in point, Facebook tore it up in the third quarter, bringing in $7.01 billion in revenue, up a massive 56 percent from the $4.5 billion it collected in the same quarter a year ago. And it more than doubled its profit for the quarter, coming out ahead $2.38 billion after paying the bills, up 166 percent from $896 million year-over-year. So why is Facebook's share price down more than 5 percent this morning? Today's investors are fickle, that's why, especially in the technology sector.... Read more...
White House Outlines Twitter, Facebook POTUS Handoff For Incoming Trump Or Clinton Presidency
How do you pass on a social media account to another user? The White House recently released its plan to preserve President Obama's social media contributions, while still giving their hand-me-down social media accounts to the next president of the United States. First, the president's Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and YouTube accounts will all be passed along to the 45th president on January 20th, 2017. These accounts will retain their number of followers, but will otherwise start off as a blank slate. President Obama's White House content will be preserved and made available through the National Archive and Record Administration (NARA). He will remain active on social media through... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Sat, Oct 22, 2016
Facebook Employees Rail Against Donald Trump's Posts As Hate Speech That Violates The Site's TOS
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused the election of being rigged with the participation of a biased media, and if the largest social network in the world started deleting his posts, he'd have more ammunition to fire off those claims. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to let that happen, though his underlings continue to put pressure on the site's co-founder to do exactly that, claiming that some of Trump's posts on banning Muslims run afoul of the site's rules on hate speech. Citing unnamed sources with familiarity on the subject, The Wall Street Journal says the topic of whether or not to delete some of Trump's post is a heated one. It's a point of contention among... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 19, 2016
Facebook Allows You To Publicly Endorse Clinton Or Trump, Immediately Lose Friends
In case bumper stickers, yard signs, and witty (or sometimes offensive) t-shirts aren't getting your point across, you can now let the world know who you're planning to vote for in the upcoming U.S. presidential election by endorsing a candidate on Facebook. And if you're lucky (or unlucky?), your candidate of choice might even feature your endorsement on his or her Facebook page. This is a new feature that Facebook is rolling out. To endorse a candidate for political office, head over to that person's Facebook page, select the Endorsement tab, and choose Endorse. You can attach a message to your post and then decide whether to make your endorsement public, in which case the candidate may choose... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 10, 2016
NFL Threatens Hefty Fines For Teams And Players Posting Game GIFs On Social Networks
You can expect to see more canned content and less of the interesting stuff from the professional football teams you follow on social media. That's because the NFL, or No Fun League National Football League, has issued new rules to teams that prevent them from posting certain content such as animated GIFs, lest they be hit with a fine of up to $100,000. Image Source: Flickr (Josh Hallett) All 32 NFL teams received a pair of memos outlining the new policies. Starting on Wednesday, teams will no longer be allowed to record video inside the stadium during the game and post it to Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media account. They're also barred from streaming live video within the stadium,... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Sat, Sep 10, 2016
Facebook's AI-Backed Trending News Feed Propagates 9/11 Hoax Stories
It looks as though Facebook still has some work to do with its Trending topics feature that's supposed to promote popular and relevant news stories from around the web. That's how it works in theory, anyway. In practice, Facebook's algorithm has struggled to discern between real and fake news articles, a point that was underscored when it recently directed users to a hoax tabloid article surrounding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Conspiracy theories abound on the events of 9/11. This particular piece by The Daily Star feeds into the most popular among them, claiming there exists video evidence that "proves bombs were planted in Twin Towers" and that engineers and a "growing community... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 12, 2016
Twitter Raises GIF File Size Limit To Generous 15MB
Fans of animated GIFs (pronounced with a soft "G," according to Steve Wilhite, inventor of the Graphics Interchange Format) have reason to rejoice. Twitter has silently bumped up the file size limit for posting GIFs to 15MB on the web, which is triple the amount of the original 5MB limit. Expect to see more animated GIFs as a result of the change. Posting GIFs on Twitter is already a popular thing to do. According to Twitter, its users shared over 100 million GIFs in 2015, which prompted the microblogging site to add a GIF search function in early 2016. "Whenever you're composing a Tweet or Direct Message, you can search and browse the GIF library. So if you're looking for the perfect cat yawn... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 15, 2016
Facebook Launches Suicide Prevention Tools For All Users Worldwide
As much as we sometimes complain about our Facebook feeds being cluttered with political drivel, annoying rants, and all sorts of nonsense, that's more a reflection of our friends and family than the social media service itself. As a company, Facebook has taken the idea that with great power comes great responsibility to heart, whether it's attempting to connect all corners of the planet to the Internet or, as announced on Tuesday, updating its resources to help people with suicidal thoughts. Facebook developed a set of tools in collaboration with mental health organizations to help people who might be injuring themselves on purpose or thinking about suicide. The tools were initially launched... Read more...
Report: People Are Steadily Unplugging From Social Media Apps Like Facebook, Twitter
You wouldn't know it by the way people with smartphones tend to ignore their physical surroundings in favor of whatever is on their digital screens, but use of social media apps is down. That's according to market research firm SimilarWeb, which compared data on Android apps over a yearlong period. What the study found was that in almost all countries, Android users are spending less time on all four major social media apps, including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. In some territories, the drop was significant. That was the case for Twitter usage in France, which dropped from an average of 19.8 minutes per day in the first quarter of 2015 to 13.12 minutes in the first quarter of... Read more...


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How Chris Pine Created His Own 'Jack Ryan'
By David Weiner 3:30 PM PST, January 10, 2014
Chris Pine has some pretty big shoes to fill in taking on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. While it's clearly not the first time he's faced such an obstacle (we all know that he was able to pull off his own, unique Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek movies), Pine reveals that his take on the CIA analyst character is a bit of an amalgamation of previous takes on the character.
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Jack Ryan has been portrayed by three actors in the past -- Alec Baldwin in 1984's The Hunt for Red October, Harrison Ford in 1987's Patriot Games and 1989's Clear and Present Danger and Ben Affleck in 1991's The Sum of All Fears -- and Pine says, "I always thought about kind of marrying ... this kind of quiet intelligence that I thought that Harrison brought, [and] this kind of fierce confidence that Alec had, and somewhere in the middle is that relatable guy that could be your history professor, could be your best friend."
The Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit storyline finds the Moscow-based Ryan -- an injured Marine recruited to work as a high-level analyst -- discovering a terrorist plot to collapse America's economy, which puts his love (played by Keira Knightley) directly in jeopardy. Kenneth Branagh plays the film's villain and also directs. The origin story from screenwriter David Koepp will be the first Jack Ryan film not based on a previous Tom Clancy book. Kevin Costner, Colm Feore, Gemma Chan, Karen David and David Paymer also star.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit hits theaters January 17.

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I know, this is my 14th blog in 2018 about one of my favorite passions, Candlewood Lake.
To make boating fun for everyone on Candlewood, there are a just a couple of suggestions I'd like to pass along to boaters out for a good time on this 2018 Labor Day Weekend.
1. Cool It With the Wake: I was recently called on this one myself from a waterfront homeowner who lives in Bogus Hill. I think he was half in the bag but he had a good point. During a major holiday weekend, Candlewood Lake tends to get mighty crowded during the day. Lake waters tend to get choppy and there's an excellent chance my gin and tonic might get spilled if you go flying by my pontoon going 40mph showing off your 250 hp Yamaha 25" shaft 4 stroke outboard! On a busy lake day, slow the f**k down already!
2. I Really Don't Enjoy Your Music Selection: "Hey youngblood! I know I'm a geezer, but not everyone on the lake enjoys your dance party tunes featuring Cardi B, Drake, Calvin Harris, and Nicki Jam played at max volume! How would you like it if I cruised on by cranking 'Moonshadow' by Cat Stevens followed up by 'Baby I'm a Want You' by Bread?" Enough said!
3. Booze On The Boat: This summer the Candlewood Lake Patrol has been cracking down on the consumption of alcohol especially the individuals piloting the watercraft. Mindy and I actually witnessed the Lake Patrol remove three young men from a boat and then transported them back to the docks at New Fairfield Town Park.
If you have any questions about Candlewood Lake, feel free to contact, 'The Candlewood Lake Authority.' Have a fun but safe Labor Day Weekend!


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Products>Fortress Press Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series (19 vols.)
Fortress Press Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series (19 vols.)
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The message of the Gospel concerns not only the message of salvation, but also the promise of comfort and hope. The 19-volume Fortress Press Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series offers both introductions and discipline-specific resources for anyone involved in any aspect of pastoral ministry. The authors address a range of pastoral care issues typically faced by clergy, counselors, and caregivers, such as medical emergencies, ministry to the elderly, pastoral care of the sick and the dying, suicide prevention, dealing with domestic violence, and dozens of other vitally important issues. These books also contain insights and practical advice on pastoral care for adolescents, men, women, and other groups which face particular issues and pose unique sets of challenges. This volume also contains volumes on pastoral ministry in cross-cultural contexts.
Even the most skilled pastors and counselors can be apprehensive about pastoral care ministries, yet the need remains as urgent as ever. With the Logos edition of these important books from Fortress Press, you can search by topic and author for even more focused study—giving you quick access to the tools and resources to address pressing pastoral concerns. The practical advice in these volumes will benefit pastors, lay leaders, and anyone involved in caregiving ministries.
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Wisdom and advice from experienced pastors and caregivers
Specific resources on caregiving for the sick and the dying, suicide prevention, domestic violence, medical emergencies, and ministry to the elderly
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Reflections at the intersection of theology and psychology
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Pastoral Care and Counseling with Latino/as
Author: R. Esteban Montilla
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The Latino population is a pastorally challenging polyculture. This diversity requires spiritual caregivers to approach every Hispanic individual with humbleness. "Cada persona es un mundo," "every person is a world," says Montilla.
To equip professionals in ministry for their ministry with and for Latino/as, Montilla centers his presentation on families and rituals at the heart and soul of the Hispanic community as the key to caregiving. In that context he unfolds a variegated picture of the particular cultural guideposts for Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. today, especially their symbols and rituals, attitudes toward health and healing, abiding faith, and contemporary quest for creative agency and dignity. He closes by exploring pastoral strategies with issues of discrimination and racism, and contemporary issues in providing pastoral counseling with Latinas and Latinos.
I applaud the groundbreaking work by Esteban Montilla and Ferney Medina, especially for its effort to bring the Latino world into dialogue with the mostly Anglo clinical pastoral tradition. This is a serious and helpful work that deserves our attention.
—Raymond Lawrence, Ph.D., General Secretary, College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy; Director of Pastoral Services, New York Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Health Center
A comprehensive guidebook. . . Montilla and Medina discuss appropriate clinical helping skills and cultural competence by recognizing the importance of spirituality in Latinos' lives and how the family structure and daily life are influenced by this connection to a high power. They have created an informative and pragmatic text on an under-recognized paradigm for helping and healing—the integration of spirituality into the counseling relationship.
—Patricia Arredondo, Ed.D., President, American Counseling Association, Past-President, National Latina/Latino Psychological Association
R. Esteban Montilla is Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
A Primer in Pastoral Care
Author: Jeanne Stevenson Moessner
Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers.
Stevenson-Moessner sees pastoral care as the interconnection and interplay of the love of God, the love of neighbor, and the love of self. Her brief book engenders confidence and caring from the outset, and assuages the fear and anxiety that naturally occur when one accompanies people in life-changing pain and travail. Through biblical parables—especially the Good Samaritan and the Good Shepherd—and stories from her own experience, Stevenson-Moessner imparts genuine wisdom and meaningful support to those who courageously dare to offer caregiving ministry in whatever situation or through whatever method or paradigm.
Beginning caregivers, be they ordained or lay, will find the encouragement they need along with good, practical guidance — often couched in wonderful illustrative stories — about how to effectively bear Christ into the pain and sorrow of the people to whom they are privileged to minister.
—The Rev. Dr. Henry F. French, Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care at Southern Methodist University and Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. She is editor of two pioneering books in pastoral care, Through the Eyes of Women: Insights for Pastoral Care; Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care; and author of In Her Own Time: Women and Developmental Issues in Pastoral Care and A Primer on Pastoral Care.
Short-Term Spiritual Guidance
Author: Duane R. Bidwell
This book represents a significant departure from most contemporary writing about spiritual direction. While most writers focus on long-term relationships of guidance, specifically envisioning long listening sessions, Bidwell changes focus. Spiritual direction, he insists, typically requires intervention in a specific crisis or situation or question, is not formal, lasts fewer than five sessions, and must be actively and intentionally focused on the person's growth. Bidwell's work shows what spiritual directors can learn from the short-term therapy model, especially about enabling people briefly but effectively to ''learn to listen on their own and with others for God's presence.'' Focusing on how God is already active in the directee's life allows the participants to identify God's action and respond in ways that collaborate with that identified movement of the Spirit.
In Short-Term Spiritual Guidance, Duane Bidwell. . . offers several specific interventions that the reader can use when caring for the spiritual life. He not only makes the point that, historically, most spirit care is brief but also goes on to suggest how brief spiritual direction can be done. He provides a way that ministers and concerned laypersons can offer spiritual direction that honors the person, recognizes the context of how the care is offered 'on the run,' and stays true to the historical ways spiritual direction has been offered. I think you will find his specific suggestions for how to go about care, and the specific interventions involved, very beneficial.
—Howard W. Stone
Duane R. Bidwell is Director of the Pastoral Care and Training Center, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, and pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Bridgeport, Texas.
Pastoral Care Emergencies
Author: David K. Switzer
In this volume, David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers which covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies typically faced by clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers. The chapters deal with issues such as situational crises, hospital emergencies, ministry to the dying, bereavement, suicide, divorce, domestic violence, substance abuse, and psychiatric emergencies. The question of when and how to refer is discussed in the final chapter. This book is highly practical in approach, but still extremely sensitive to the theological issues at hand in ministering to those experiencing great emotional, mental, and physical distress.
David K. Switzer is Emeritus Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Pastoral Visitation
Author: Nancy J. Gorsuch
Clergy, students of pastoral care, and lay visitation volunteers will find Nancy Gorsuch an effective guide in developing an intentional, proactive program of pastoral visitation in the local church. To increase the pastoral visitor's positive experiences of effectiveness, the author presents basic how-to information in a straightforward manner characterized by vivid illustrations and case studies. The book provides a theological basis for pastoral visitation and goes on to explore the types and purposes of visitation, preparation and resources, training and basic helping skills, assessment and follow-up, and methods of sustaining pastoral visitation as a means of building a caring community of faith.
Nancy Gorsuch is Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.
The Pastor as Moral Guide
Author: Rebekah L. Miles
Adultery, divorce, racism, teen pregnancy, white-collar crime, living wills—these are among the many complex moral issues that Christians face and for which they often seek guidance from their pastors. This book is designed to assist pastors in developing their skills in providing moral guidance to their parishioners in a culture characterized by both ethical confusion and increasingly complex moral choices. Rebekah Miles, a gifted thinker and writer, guides the reader through the landscape of the moral life and offers a simple but profound map of the moral terrain along with practical tools to enable pastoral caregivers to serve more effectively as moral guides.
Rebekah L. Miles is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of United Methodist Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago and she is the author of several articles in Christian theology and practical theology.
Premarital Guidance
Author: Charles W. Taylor
Deeply rooted in the traditions of the church, Charles Taylor brings both the resources of faith and the skills of contemporary psychology to bear in the crucial arena of premarital guidance. Taylor also provides helpful guidelines for churches in establishing congregational policies for both premarital counseling and the design of the wedding service itself. An ideal resource for clergy, premarital counselors, and congregational wedding committees, Premarital Guidance provides the theological and practical knowledge and skills necessary for guiding those seeking marriage in the church.
In Premarital Guidance, Charles Taylor does not rehash well-worn phrases about marriage. He combines systems theory, cognitive therapy, sociological data, and the traditions of the church with pastoral theology and pastoral care from a new and fresh perspective . . . an eminently practical book.
—Howard W. Stone, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
Charles W. Taylor is Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California.
Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families
This book, written by a pastoral theologian with years of experience in counseling gay and lesbian individuals and their families, assists both pastoral caregivers and congregations in examining and enhancing their pastoral care of homosexuals and their families. This book provides factual information, theological and biblical insight, and practical counseling skills to help congregations become caring communities for gays and lesbians.
In the church and even outside of it, few subjects stir controversy—and tempers—more quickly than the church's response to homosexuality. In Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families, David Switzer recognized the sensitivity of the homosexuality issue in the church. . . . [The book] will challenge readers to examine their ministry to gays and lesbians in the congregations and enhance their ministry to them.
Pastoral Care of Older Adults
Author: Harold G. Koenig
More than half of mainline Protestants are over the age of sixty. Older adults have special needs to which many pastors are not adequately prepared to minister. Pastoral Care of Older Adults addresses such problems, many of which were identified in an extensive survey of clergy. The book provides practical guidance for parish pastors, and other counselors, to deal with such issues as Alzheimer's disease, the chronically ill, relocation, health crises, grief, depression, anxiety, gender differences, poverty, and the issues faced by the children of older adults.
Harold G. Koenig, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, and Director of Psychiatric Services at Duke University Geriatric Evaluation.
Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths
Authors: Jack Cockburn and Frank Thomas
This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have so they can address issues that come up in life. The authors show that most people have within themselves the strengths and resources to confront the issues positively that trouble their lives. The counseling method elicits resiliency, assets, and successful experiences from the client's past to foster positive change in the present. Case studies are included, drawn especially from marriage and family counseling.
Thomas and Cockburn have given counseling pastors and pastoral psychotherapists a valuable research-based systems-oriented, growth-enabling model that will help them think outside the boxes of traditional insight-oriented, pathology-based approaches to pastoral counseling and ministry. Their model focuses on short-term methods of activating people's strengths and potential resources for changing their perception of problems and taking charge of their lives.
—Howard Clinebell, Emeritus Professor, Claremont School of Theology
The work that Thomas and Cockburn are suggesting in this book is cutting edge. What they are writing about, ministers will be talking about five to ten years from now. This manuscript is very creative. I am very much in favor of the Thomas/Cockburn proposal.
Jack Cockburn is a licensed professional counselor in the psychology department at PRIDE, Dallas Texas. He is the author of several research articles in the area of family therapy.
Frank Thomas is Associate Professor, Family Therapy Program, Texas Woman's University and a clinical supervisor at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has written extensively in brief and family therapy.
When Faith Is Tested: Pastoral Responses to Suffering and Tragic Death
Authors: Jeffry R. Zurheide and Howard W. Stone
When a religious caregiver visits a person who is suffering and dying or who is grieving a tragic death, questions arise concerning faith in God's goodness and power. This book deals with the pastor's preparation to deal with personal and cosmic issues of suffering and justice. Zurheide includes suggestions for conducting conversations with the dying.
Belief in the poser of God is not diluted as a means to 'explain' why these things happen, but rather affirms the power of God as manifest in the very vulnerability of God.
—Donald Capps
Jeffry R. Zurheide is Pastor of Wilton Baptist Church in Wilton, Connecticut. A former hospital chaplain, he holds the D.Min. in pastoral care and counseling from Brite Divinity School and is a member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
Howard W. Stone is a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, a pastoral counselor, the author or editor of many books in the Fortress Press Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling series, and a professor emeritus at Texas Christian University. Two previous editions of Crisis Counseling have sold 45,000 copies in the United States and have been published in six other countries.
Grief, Transition, and Loss: A Pastor's Practical Guide
Author: Wayne E. Oates
In this book written for counselors and pastors, Wayne Oates shares ideas from a lifetime of ministry on how to help people who have suffered loss—not only to death, but also to such life situations as separation, divorce, and job loss.
Pastors are privileged to offer ministry in the context of bereavement grief, but in this book Oates takes us into life situations where the significance of grief, separation, and loss often go unnoticed—such as divorce and employment situations. These are particular grief experiences, and Oates opens the readers' eyes to expanded opportunities for caregiving. Attentive to the life cycle, Oates insightfully reminds us of separation and loss issues from birth to death. As always, Oates discovers nuggets of biblical wisdom and spiritual insight that ground pastoral care in the Christian tradition and connect caregiving with the faith of the parishioner.
—Andrew D. Lester, Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas
This is one of those rare resources that is comprehensive and profound while remaining simple and concise in its presentation. Oates directs his work to anticipate, and thus be more responsive to, the losses that occur daily in the life of a congregation. I would recommend this book for introductory courses in pastoral care and as a refresher for those who have been in ministry for many years.
—William V. Arnold, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
Wayne E. Oates is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Author of numerous publications, he was for many years Professor of Psychology of Religion at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life
Author: Ronald W. Richardson
In this volume, Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve their quality of life together and function more effectively in achieving mission goals. This book offers:
A theory about human behavior that will aid understanding of how things can get out of control in the human community of the church.
A practical set of leadership ideas and behaviors.
Guidelines for how to behave in the midst of upsetting and conflict circumstances
Personal steps that leaders in the church can take to become more positive forces for healing and cooperation.
Every congregation that has struggled to maintain a balance between individuality and togetherness, closeness and distance, unity and difference, and every leader who has determined to stay out of the emotional muddles of congregational life will find help in this book.
—Herbert Anderson
Ron Richardson has given us an interesting and informative book about creating a healthy church. This is an important book for pastors and congregations. He has framed the book in a way that lends itself to discussion, and through questions at the end of the chapters, guides those reading or discussing the material to in-depth examination.
—James C. Wurtzen, Director, The Blanto-Peale Graduate Institute
Ronald W. Richardson is former Clinical Director of the North Shore Counseling Center, pastoral counselor, author of many books on family systems theory and is currently a retired pastor living in West Vancouver, BC, Canada. Richardson attended UCLA where he received his BA in English Literature in 1962. He then went on to Princeton Theological Seminary and received his MD in Biblical Studies in 1966. Later, he finished his studies at Colgate/Rochester Divinity School receiving his Doctorate in 1976. Richardson is author of Family Ties That Bind: A Self-Help Guide to Change through Family of Origin Therapy, Birth Order and You: How Your Sex and Position in the Family Affect Your Personality and Relationships, and Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life.
Cross-Cultural Counseling
Author: Aart M. van Beek
For the busy pastor, this volume outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to this type of helping process. Issues such as identity, sense of belonging, worldview, identification, family counseling, and use of biblical resources are discussed and illustrated with a wide variety of vivid cases.
Aart van Beek, a pastoral counselor, consultant, educator, and theologian with rich experience in the southwestern United States and in Southeast Asia has authored a practical guide for caregivers. His book offers hands-on ways to attend, empathize, assess, understand, intervene, and to integrate these insights and skills into one's own worldview, theory, and theology. An ambitious task for so few pages, but his goal is achieved.
—David W. Augsburger, Fuller Theological Seminary
Aart M. van Beek, a Presbyterian minister, teaches pastoral care and counseling at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, in Jakarta, Indonesia. He and his wife are also the representatives for Church World Service in Indonesia.
Counseling Adolescent Girls
Author: Patricia H. Davis
This book is an introduction to the worlds, lives, and struggles of diverse kinds and communities of girls that ministers and youth leaders are likely to encounter in the church. Issues such as spirituality, family relationships, sexuality, and school are explored from a cultural and contextual perspective. Problems typically associated with girls are explained, such as eating disorders, depression, and violence against girls. Pastoral care approaches to these issues and problems are provided. These helpful suggestions take seriously girls' spirituality and social context.
A remarkably insightful and informative book on the life experience and pastoral needs of young women. Inviting, illuminating and liberating, it fills a significant gap in the literature in pastoral care and counseling.
—Christie Cozad Neuger
This is a powerfully confident and inspiringly hopeful book. Davis writes out of her unflagging, personally tested conviction that parents, pastors, youth leaders, teachers, and other concerned adults can—and do—make a real difference in adolescent girls' lives.
—Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary
This straightforward book, which brings together a wealth of current literature on the subject of adolescence, will be received with gratitude by anyone who wants to develop more positive relationships with adolescent girls.
—Carroll Saussy, Wesley Theological Seminary
Patricia H. Davis is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Woman Battering
Author: Carol J. Adams
This book was written as a practical response to many ministers who approached the author after they did not know what to say to a woman suffering violence from her abusive husband. The focus and audience is the Christian community, and the particular issues that are raised in a Christian context. Although a pastor in a congregational setting is used in most examples, the recommendations can be helpful to hospital and college chaplains, deacons, and youth chaplains as well as pastoral counselors.
Finally a comprehensive resource for pastoral care in response to the trauma of woman-battering. Theologically grounded and practically applied, Woman Battering is the perfect combination to equip pastors and pastoral men. Every Christian minister needs this book in order to understand women-battering in the context of our religious and social culture.
—Marie M. Fortune, Executive Director
Carol J. Adams, a nationally recognized author, has been involved in responding to the needs of abused women since the mid-seventies, after graduation from Yale Divinity School. In addition to establishing hotlines for battered women, she has served or chaired various national domestic violence projects and committees, taught in seminaries, and served as a consultant to churches on sexual violence.
Counseling Men
Author: Philip L Culbertson
Counseling Men opens the way for men to discuss and discover their fears and losses in conversation with clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers.
Counseling Men aims to help concerned men achieve a clearer identity in the whirlwind of change that is occurring in family and relationship structures. Philip Culbertson addresses the radical disparity between the stereotypes of how men are portrayed in our society and how they actually live their lives, between the media's macho, superhero, all-controlling, fantastic lovers and the fearful cogs in the wheel of today's impersonal business world, mortgaged to the hilt and worried about career and the responsibilities of providing for his family. . . Throughout, I found myself agreeing and demurring, but always being engaged by Culbertson's formulations. His ideas will provoke and comfort, sensitize and humanize those who take seriously the changing world in which men find themselves. An important resource for those seeking to minister to men.
—Harold W. Stone
Philip Culbertson teaches Pastoral Care and Counseling at St Johns Theological College; Counseling Psychology at Auckland University; Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology; and has a private practice in psychotherapy. He holds a Bachelors degree in Music from Washington University, a Masters degree in Divinity from General Theology Seminary in New York City, and a Ph.D. in Education from New York University. He has done additional graduate studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, The Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches in Bossey Switzerland, and at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Culbertson belongs to the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. He is the author of New Adam: The Future of Masculine Spirituality and coeditor, with Arthur Shippee, of The Pastor: Readings from the Patristic Period.
Crisis Counseling: Revised Edition
Author: Howard W. Stone
Ministers—both clergy and lay—are often the first recourse for people in crisis, and people expect them to navigate through emergency, tragedy, disaster, loss. Often these persons are paralyzed and they expect help to get in motion again.
Crisis Counseling is written for persons who seek to provide such assistance, whether as ministers or hotline volunteers or pastoral counselors. Here, Howard W. Stone unites the historic skills of pastoral care and counseling with the recent methods of crisis intervention from the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. The insights of marriage and family systems also have been incorporated into this book, even though crisis intervention arose out of individual psychotherapeutic theory and practice.
This thoroughly revised book includes new material on suicide, working with the family of Alzheimer patients, crisis counseling by telephone, intervention in volatile or hazardous situations, and the minister's personal safety.
Howard W. Stone is a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, a pastoral counselor, the author or editor of many books in the Fortress Press Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling series, and a professor emeritus at Texas Christian University.
Integrative Family Therapy
Author: David C. Olsen
Pastoral counselors, therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment, which works better in some situations than in others.
Integrative Family Therapy introduces the major schools of family therapy, proposes a tested model that integrates the various approaches, and illustrates how this model functions both for assessing and treating family problems.
Seven central concepts are discerned as a way of understanding the various family therapies as a group. Then the major family therapy theories are discussed, including cognitive, family life cycle-developmental, interactional-communication, multigenerational, object relations, problem solving and structural family. After examine their deep structures, an integrated model of six discrete moments is presented and illustrated.
David C. Olsen is Executive Director of the Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region. He is a clinical member and approved supervisor in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and has supervised the training of family therapist for several years.


Defeat in the latest Pre season run out.
Kendal Town lost to Bamber Bridge in their latest pre-season friendly game at the ST and B Accountants Stadium on Saturday.
Kendal, who went into the game in the back an impressive 1-0 win over Blackburn Rovers Under 23's, were without both Charlie Bowman and Gavin Clarke, while Stuart Dixon made his debut in goal after signing for the club on Thursday.
Bamber Bridge, who were promoted into the Evo Stik Premier Division at the end of last season, fielded three former Kendal Town players as Danny Forbes, Matt Dudley and Paul Dawson all made their return.
The visitors made a confident start and created their first real opening 15 minutes into the first half when Brad Carsley fired his shot wide of the post, while Ryan White's goal bound effort was blocked by the Kendal defence.
Bamber Bridge opened the scoring after 27 minutes when James Boyd drilled the ball into the net from the edge of the penalty area.
Kendal's best opportunities fell to Brad Carroll whose goal bound effort was cleared over from close range, while the talisman later headed over from a deep cross into the box.
Bamber Bridge made it 2-0 on the stroke of half time after the referee awarded a penalty kick before Adam Dodd stepped up and drilled the ball into the bottom corner.
Kendal pulled a goal back at the start of the second half after Carroll volleyed the ball into the net from 10 yards.
However the goal sparked the visitors into action who made it 3-1 two minutes later after White headed the ball into the net from a Carsley cross.
Kendal nearly pulled a goal back when Mark Buchan's shot was punched clear by Bamber Bridge shot stopper Danny Roccha.
Bamber Bridge created many opportunities through Huyga Tanner, Dawson and Matt Lawler and made it 4-1 after a cross into the box was smashed into the net by Jordan Darr before Dodd scored the visitors fifth goal of the afternoon.
Matt Clarke hit the post for Kendal deep into injury time however the visitors were comfortable winners as Kendal host Marine on Saturday in the final friendly.


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More jury and televoting results have been revealed, as the Belgian and Irish broadcasters revealed their jury votes. Both countries took part in the first semifinal this year, with only Ireland proceeding to the final.
The Belgian jury consisted of Tom Dice (ESC 2010), Micha Marah (ESC 1979), Kris Wauters (ESC 1991), Jeroen Swinnen and Miguel Wiels (songwriters – producers).


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import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.media.MediaScannerConnection;
import android.media.ThumbnailUtils;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.util.Log;

import com.chute.sdk.v2.model.AssetModel;
import com.getchute.android.photopickerplus.dao.MediaDAO;
import com.getchute.android.photopickerplus.models.enums.MediaType;
import com.getchute.android.photopickerplus.ui.activity.ServicesActivity;
import com.getchute.android.photopickerplus.util.AppUtil;
import com.getchute.android.photopickerplus.util.intent.IntentUtil;

import java.io.File;

public class MediaScannerWrapper implements
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  private static final String TAG = MediaScannerWrapper.class.getSimpleName();
  private MediaScannerConnection mConnection;
  private String mPath;
  private MediaType mMimeType;
  private Intent intent;
  private Context context;

  public MediaScannerWrapper(Context context, String filePath, MediaType mediaType, Intent intent) {
    this.context = context;
    mPath = filePath;
    mMimeType = mediaType;
    mConnection = new MediaScannerConnection(context.getApplicationContext(), this);
    this.intent = intent;
  }

  public void scan() {
    mConnection.connect();
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  public void onMediaScannerConnected() {
    mConnection.scanFile(mPath, mMimeType.name().toLowerCase());
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  public void onScanCompleted(String path, Uri uri) {
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    Uri uriFromFile = Uri.fromFile(file);

    String imagePath = "";
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      imagePath = uriFromFile.toString();
    }
    final AssetModel model = new AssetModel();
    if (uri != null) {
      model.setId(uri.toString());
    }
    if (mMimeType == MediaType.VIDEO) {
      Bitmap thumbnail = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(file.getAbsolutePath(),
        MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND);
      model.setThumbnail(thumbnail != null ? (AppUtil.getImagePath(context.getApplicationContext(), thumbnail)) : null);
      model.setVideoUrl(imagePath);
    } else {
      model.setThumbnail(imagePath);
    }
    model.setUrl(imagePath);
    model.setType(mMimeType.name().toLowerCase());

    IntentUtil.deliverDataToInitialActivity((ServicesActivity) context,
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}

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Assists Innovation office employees with travel arrangements for official travel, including making travel and lodging reservations, obtaining visas and country clearance, submitting travel vouchers, and other related processes\.
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The genius of our institutions, the needs of our people in their home life, and the attention which is demanded for the settlement and development of the resources of our vast territory dictate the scrupulous avoidance of any departure from that foreign policy commended by the history, uhe traditions, and the prosperity of our Republic. It is the policy of independence, favored by our position and defended by our known love of justice and by our power. It is the policy of peace suitable to our interests. It is the policy of neutrality, rejecting any share in foreign broils and ambitions upon other continents and repelling their intrusion here. It is the policy of Monroe and of Washington and Jefferson--"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliance with none."


Retracing the Easy Rider movie route with actresses Katee Sackhoff (24, Battlestar Gallactia) and Tricia Helfer (17th Precinct,Dark Blue, Battlestar Gallactia) we rode motorcycles from L.A to Louisiana to the Voodoo Music festival.
Retracing the Easy Rider movie route with actresses Katee Sackhoff (24, Battlestar Gallactia) and Tricia Helfer (17th Precinct,Dark Blue, Battlestar Gallactia) we rode motorcycles from L.A to Louisiana to the Voodoo Music festival. The ladies met on set and found a common bond motorcycling and formed www.actingoutlaws.org and their 2500-mile motorcycle trek on BMW 1200 GS from Los Angeles to New Orleans was in Support the Gulf Restoration Network http://healthygulf.org/ , the only environmental advocacy group exclusively focused on the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
Along the way, we stopped at the Joshua Tree Inn. It's where Gram Parson (The Byrds music group) died in 1973. Room 8 is supposedly haunted and touted as "Home of Gram Parsons' Spirit." It was a really bizarre true story made into a movie called Grand Theft Parsons starring Johnny Knoxville that's well worth the watch. The site of Parsons' desert cremation was marked by a small concrete slab, which has since been removed by the National Park Service and relocated to the Joshua Tree Inn.
Koz Mraz is a moto/photo journalist for Quick Throttle magazine and contributor for Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly. His column, Myth, Magick and Motorcycles chronicles his adventures traveling around the country visiting sacred sites and capturing his activities in the world of the haunted in everyday life with extraordinary people. Koz lives in Los Angeles and is one half of the dynamic, award-winning production team known as Studio Voodoo. The intoxicating mix of music and technology that is Studio Voodoo is as much about the symbiotic partnership of founders Koz Mraz and Ted Price as it is about the myriad elements that make up Voodoo's visionary sonic and sensory cocktail. Studio Voodoo is proud to be part of the film score for the new movie Discover the Gift. The film will be released in June, the message is supreme and uplifting. It's a compelling , well shot and directed movie…and the sound track rocks, of course.


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Q: Make [glossary] a synonym of [terminology] This was already discussed on What should we do with [glossary]?. There is only one answer which is proposing this, it has +15 / -0.

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*glossary has 8 questions, no tag excerpt no tag wiki

*terminology has 60 questions, tag excerpt and tag wiki

While we already have Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms, here on Stack Exchange Meta  questions about glossaries are scarce and aren't very well received, 3 discussions questions have relative low scores

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*How do SE sites handle domain-specific jargon? (score 8)

*Can a tags list constitute a glossary? (score 3)

*Should we have a "glossary" of tag related terms coined by the community that are commonly used across SE sites? (score 1)

The other questions having glossary rather than discussing a glossary are about Stack Exchange terms.

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Mezmái  es un posiólok del raión de Apsheronsk del krai de Krasnodar, en Rusia. Está situado en las vertientes septentrionales del Cáucaso Occidental,en el curso superior del río Kurdzhips (cerca de la desembocadura en él del Mezmái), afluente del Bélaya, que lo es del Kubán, 34 km al sureste de Apsheronsk y 120 km al sureste de Krasnodar, la capital del krai. Tenía 774 habitantes en 2010

Es cabeza del municipio Mezmáiskoye, al que pertenece asimismo Temnoléskaya.

Historia

Fue fundado con el nombre de Kurdzhípskoye por leñadores. Su nombre actual, en adigué, significa "bosque de manzanos". Con el declive del bosque, la localidad empezó el suyo propio. No obstante, las opciones turísticas han reimpulsado el desarrollo de la localidad.

Cultura y lugares de interés

Es sede del laboratorio astrofísico de la Universidad Estatal del Kubán.

Debido a su emplazamiento en las vertientes septentrionales del monte Oshten. En las cercanías de la población, se hallan numerosos monumentos naturales (cuevas, cañones (Guamskoye y cascadas, entre otros). Al noroeste de la localidad hay una necrópolis de tiempos romanos.

Economía y transporte

Es un centro turístico de montaña.

Es terminal de una línea de ferrocarril de vía estrecha a Apsheronsk.

Referencias

Enlaces externos y referencias

 Este artículo contiene datos geográficos extraídos de Google Earth y el mapa de Rusia de Yandex.ru, accesible desde este enlace.
 Este artículo es en parte una traducción de su correspondiente en la edición en ruso de Wikipedia, Мезмай.
 Centro de información de Mezmái .
 Datos sobre Mezmái y fotografías .
 Sobre la localidad.
 Mapa topográfico en maps.vlasenko.net .

Localidades del raión de Apsheronsk del krai de Krasnodar

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Q: Ajax Calls Return 401 When .NET Core Site Is Deployed I have a strange situation that I can't duplicate consistently. I have a MVC website developed in .NET Core 3.0 and authorizes users with .NET Core Identity. When I run the site in a development environment locally everything works just fine (the classic "works on my machine!"). When I deploy it to my staging web server is when I begin to see the issue. Users can log in successfully, be authenticated, and redirected to the home page. Note: all controllers, except the one handling authentication, are decorated with the [Authorize] attribute and the [AutoValidateAntiforgeryToken] attribute. The home page loads just fine. However, there are a couple of ajax calls that run when the page is loaded that callback to the Home controller to load some conditional data and check to see if some Session level variables have been set yet. These ajax calls return a 401 Unauthorized. The problem is I can't get this behavior to repeat consistently. I actually had another user log in concurrently (same application, same server) and it worked just fine for them. I opened the developer console in Chrome and traced what I think is the problem down to one common (or uncommon) factor. The calls (such as loading the home page, or the ajax calls that were successful for the other user) that work have the ".AspNetCore.Antiforgery", ".AspNetCore.Identity.Application", and the ".AspNetCore.Session" cookies set in the request headers. The calls that do not work (my ajax calls) only have the ".AspNetCore.Session" cookie set. Another thing to note is that this behavior happens for every ajax call on the site. All calls made to the controller actions by navigation or form posting work fine.
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What is strange to me is that another user can log in, and even i can log in occasionally after a new publish, and have those ajax calls working just fine with cookies set properly.
Here is some of the code to be a little more specific. Not sure if it's something I have set up wrong with Identity or Session configuration.
Startup.cs
public class Startup
{
    public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        Configuration = configuration;
    }

    public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
    public IWebHostEnvironment Env { get; set; }

    // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {

        services.AddIdentity<User, UserRole>(options =>
        {
            options.User.RequireUniqueEmail = true;
        }).AddEntityFrameworkStores<QCAuthorizationContext>()
            .AddDefaultTokenProviders(); ;

        services.AddDbContext<QCAuthorizationContext>(cfg =>
        {
            cfg.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("Authorization"));
        });

        services.AddSingleton<IConfiguration>(Configuration);
        services.AddControllersWithViews();
        services.AddDistributedMemoryCache();

        services.AddSession(options =>
        {
            // Set a short timeout for easy testing.
            options.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.FromHours(4);
            options.Cookie.HttpOnly = true;
            // Make the session cookie essential
            options.Cookie.IsEssential = true;
        });

        services.Configure<IdentityOptions>(options =>
        {
            options.Password.RequireDigit = true;
            options.Password.RequireLowercase = true;
            options.Password.RequireNonAlphanumeric = true;
            options.Password.RequireUppercase = true;
            options.Password.RequiredLength = 6;
            options.Password.RequiredUniqueChars = 1;

            // Lockout settings
            options.Lockout.DefaultLockoutTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30);
            options.Lockout.MaxFailedAccessAttempts = 10;
            options.Lockout.AllowedForNewUsers = true;
        });

        services.ConfigureApplicationCookie(options =>
        {
            //cookie settings
            options.ExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromHours(4);
            options.SlidingExpiration = true;
            options.LoginPath = new Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.PathString("/Account/Login");
        });
        services.AddHttpContextAccessor();
        //services.TryAddSingleton<IActionContextAccessor, ActionContextAccessor>();
        IMvcBuilder builder = services.AddRazorPages();
    }

    // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env, IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {

        if (env.IsDevelopment())
        {
            app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
        }
        else
        {
            app.UseExceptionHandler("/Error");
            app.UseHsts();
        }

        app.UseStaticFiles();
        app.UseCookiePolicy();
        app.UseRouting();
        app.UseAuthentication();
        app.UseAuthorization();
        app.UseSession();

        app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
        {
            endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                name: "default",
                pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
            endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                name: "auth4",
                pattern: "{controller=Account}/{action=Authenticate}/{id?}");
        });
    }
}

Login Controller Action
[HttpPost]
    public async Task<IActionResult> Login(LoginViewModel iViewModel)
    {
        ViewBag.Message = "";
        try
        {
            var result = await signInManager.PasswordSignInAsync(iViewModel.Email, iViewModel.Password, false, false);

            if (result.Succeeded)
            {
                var user = await userManager.FindByNameAsync(iViewModel.Email);
                if (!user.FirstTimeSetupComplete)
                {
                    return RedirectToAction("FirstLogin");
                }
                return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
            }
            else
            {
                ViewBag.Message = "Login Failed.";
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            ViewBag.Message = "Login Failed.";
        }
        return View(new LoginViewModel() { Email = iViewModel.Email });
    }

Home Controller
public class HomeController : BaseController
{
    private readonly ILogger<HomeController> _logger;

    public HomeController(IConfiguration configuration, ILogger<HomeController> logger, UserManager<User> iUserManager) : base(configuration, iUserManager)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }

    public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
    {
        HomeViewModel vm = HomeService.GetHomeViewModel();

        vm.CurrentProject = HttpContext.Session.GetString("CurrentProject");
        vm.CurrentInstallation = HttpContext.Session.GetString("CurrentInstallation");

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(vm.CurrentProject) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(vm.CurrentInstallation))
        {
            vm.ProjectAndInstallationSet = true;
        }

        return View(vm);
    }

    public IActionResult CheckSessionVariablesSet()
    {
        var currentProject = HttpContext.Session.GetString("CurrentProject");
        var currentInstallation = HttpContext.Session.GetString("CurrentInstallation");
        return Json(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(currentProject) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(currentInstallation));
    }

    public IActionResult CheckSidebar()
    {
        try
        {
            var sidebarHidden = bool.Parse(HttpContext.Session.GetString("SidebarHidden"));
            return Json(new { Success = sidebarHidden });
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            return Json(new { Success = false });
        }
    }
}

Base Controller
[AutoValidateAntiforgeryToken]
[Authorize]
public class BaseController : Controller
{
    protected IConfiguration configurationManager;
    protected SQLDBContext context;
    protected UserManager<User> userManager;

    public BaseController(IConfiguration configuration, UserManager<User> iUserManager)
    {
        userManager = iUserManager;
        configurationManager = configuration;
    }

    public BaseController(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        configurationManager = configuration;
    }

    protected void EnsureDBConnection(string iProject)
    {

        switch (iProject)
        {
            case "A":
                DbContextOptionsBuilder<SQLDBContext> AOptionsBuilder = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<SQLDBContext>();
                AOptionsBuilder.UseLazyLoadingProxies().UseSqlServer(configurationManager.GetConnectionString("A"));
                context = new SQLDBContext(AOptionsBuilder.Options);
                break;
            case "B":
                DbContextOptionsBuilder<SQLDBContext> BOptionsBuilder = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<SQLDBContext>();
                BOptionsBuilder.UseLazyLoadingProxies().UseSqlServer(configurationManager.GetConnectionString("B"));
                context = new SQLDBContext(BOptionsBuilder.Options);
                break;
            case "C":
                DbContextOptionsBuilder<SQLDBContext> COptionsBuilder = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<SQLDBContext>();
                COptionsBuilder.UseLazyLoadingProxies().UseSqlServer(configurationManager.GetConnectionString("C"));
                context = new SQLDBContext(COptionsBuilder.Options);
                break;
        }
    }
}

_Layout.cshtml Javascript (runs aforementioned ajax calls when the pages are loaded)
<script type="text/javascript">
    var afvToken;

    $(function () {

        afvToken = $("input[name='__RequestVerificationToken']").val();

        $.ajax({
            url: VirtualDirectory + '/Home/CheckSidebar',
            headers:
            {
                "RequestVerificationToken": afvToken
            },
            complete: function (data) {
                console.log(data);
                if (data.responseJSON.success) {
                    toggleSidebar();
                }
            }
        });

        $.ajax({
            url: VirtualDirectory + '/Home/CheckSessionVariablesSet',
            headers:
            {
                "RequestVerificationToken": afvToken
            },
            complete: function (data) {
                console.log(data);
                if (data.responseJSON) {
                    $('#sideBarContent').attr('style', '');
                }
                else {
                    $('#sideBarContent').attr('style', 'display:none;');
                }
            }
        });

        $.ajax({
            url: VirtualDirectory + '/Account/UserRoles',
            headers:
            {
                "RequestVerificationToken": afvToken
            },
            complete: function (data) {
                if (data.responseJSON) {
                    var levels = data.responseJSON;
                    if (levels.includes('Admin')) {
                        $('.adminSection').attr('style', '');
                    }
                    else {
                        $('.adminSection').attr('style', 'display:none;');
                    }
                }
            }
        });
    });
</script>

EDIT:
What I've found is the "Cookie" header with ".AspNetCore.Antiforgery", ".AspNetCore.Identity.Application", and the ".AspNetCore.Session" attributes is always set correctly in the ajax requests when running locally. When deployed it only sets the cookie with the session attribute. I found a setting I have in my Startup.cs that sets the cookie to HttpOnly: options.Cookie.HttpOnly = true;  Could this be causing my issue? Would setting it to false work? If that is unsafe, what are some work-arounds/alternate methods to my approach. I still need to implement the basic principal of user authentication AND be able to trigger ajax requests.
ANOTHER EDIT:
Today after I deployed the site again, I ran the site concurrently in Firefox and Chrome. Firefox sent the correct cookie after authenticating and is running fine. However, Chrome is still displaying the 401 behavior.

A: It seems to me that your problem could be because of different behavior of cookies in http vs https scenarios!
Secured cookies that set in https mode can't be retrieved when posted back to http.
See this for more info.
I also saw this part in your Startup which increases the chance of my guess:
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
    app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
}
else
{
    app.UseExceptionHandler("/Error");
    app.UseHsts();
}

In your development environment everything works well on http. But in deployment environment https comes in and if some requests go to http and some go to https, some cookies don't return and you can face this issue.

A: As you found out, this is ajax call difference in various browsers. Server side programming works fine and can't have casual response unless it faces different requests which come from a browser (here google chome). I believe that using an assertion in ajax call should solve the problem like employing withcredentials : true. Let me know if problem persists or not.

A: This looks like a session management issue,use of services.AddDistributedMemoryCache() sometimes brings about session problems especially in a shared hosting environment. Could you try caching to a db.
e.g.
services.AddDistributedSqlServerCache(options =>
        {
            options.ConnectionString = connectionString;
            options.SchemaName = "dbo";
            options.TableName = "DistributedCache";
        });

Make sure you handle GDPR issues, which affect session cookie from .Net core > 2.0. These came about to help developers conform to GDPR regulations.
e.g. In your app, as one of the available options, you could make the session cookie essential, to enable it to be written to even before the user accepts cookie terms i.e.
services.AddSession(options =>
{
    options.Cookie.IsEssential = true; // make the session cookie Essential
});


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I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength… all things except kill a rattlesnake.
However, if I'm honest, I probably could have killed that snake if I had really needed to. Or if I would have stopped long enough to pray about it and look to God for strength.
Friday morning, I went out back to sit at my picnic table to read my Bible. It was a little colder than I normally would have liked for reading outside, but we had gotten a notice that our power would be out for a few hours, so they could do some work on the lines. Thus, I decided to head out anyways.
I set my Bible on the picnic table and turned around to go back in the house for my cup of coffee. And that's when I saw it… A baby rattlesnake.
It was curled up on the bricks right outside my back door, and I had walked right past it. Worse yet, it was blocking my way back into the house. Thus, I did what any sane person would do… I jumped onto the picnic table.
I can do all things through Christ… well… almost.
So, there I was, standing on my picnic table, staring at this snake, recalling the rattlesnake presentation I had watched last year around this time: Baby snakes are the most dangerous. What I couldn't recall was if rattlesnakes had more than one baby, or if they traveled in packs. I was pretty sure they did, and lots of eggs meant lots of babies.
To stay on that table until my husband got home from work or the snake slithered away, or to summon the courage to get off the table.
As I didn't really want the snake to get away, and I had to pick our kids up from school before my husband got home, neither of those were viable options. Which meant I had to get down. But I couldn't go through the back door, so I had to go all the way around the house.
I made my way, quickly but carefully, carrying my Bible. I was sure God was the only reason the snake hadn't bit me on the way out the door, and I wasn't about to abandon my Bible on the picnic table. Who knew when it would be safe to return?
Once inside, I got my phone, opened the back door so I could see the snake through the glass door, and snapped a photo. Maybe it wasn't a rattlesnake. Maybe it just looked like one. I thought.
I sent the photo to my husband with a dramatic, but short, explanation of what had occurred.
So, I did what anyone in today's day and age would do: I posted the photo on Facebook asking for conformation that it was a rattlesnake and asking for volunteers to come kill it.
I called my husband to see if he got my text. He hadn't.
He would check and get back to me.
In the meantime, one of my best friends called to let me know they saw the photo on Facebook. Yes, it was a rattlesnake and I needed to kill it. I laughed, that was not happening.
Before I called our pastor, my husband called back and also confirmed it was a Diamondback Rattlesnake and I either needed to kill it or get help, we couldn't let it get away. He said one of our neighbors had caught/killed two this year and could probably help. So, before bothering our pastor, I walked down to my neighbor's home to see if he could help.
He wasn't, so calling the pastor it was.
I sent him a text and he said he would be right over.
I went out front with my Bible to wait. If I couldn't read in the backyard, and it was too dark in the house, I might as well read out front. Of course, I was too on edge to actually read anything. Every noise made me jump.
Was That Snake My Biggest Problem?
Thankfully my pastor arrived quickly and killed the snake. He also checked the backyard to make sure there weren't anymore, and that there was no sign of a den. The fence along the back of our yard leads down to a river, so we decided he must have come up from there. Crisis averted.
But once my pastor left, and I had finished my Bible reading, I was still unsettled. That's when Philippians 4:13 popped into my head. That rattlesnake had crippled me with fear, and I didn't look to Jesus for strength. The thought to pray for wisdom or strength hadn't even occurred to me.
One little snake had completely devastated my time with Jesus that morning. Even when I sat down with my Bible, I didn't get very much out of it.
I had joked with my friends on Facebook about my lack of bravery, but afterwards I wondered if it was really a laughing matter. Yes, rattlesnakes are dangerous, and I still believe calling for help was the right thing to do. But I shouldn't have allowed it to shake me to my core.
When I was standing on that picnic table holding my Bible and thinking that God had gotten me past it once safely, I should have looked to Him for a solution.
I'm not saying this to beat myself up, but this experience was a window to my soul. I never imagined God would use a baby rattlesnake to draw me closer to Him, but that's just what He did.
While my quiet time was ruined, once I calmed down and started thinking rationally, I was driven to repentance. I remembered how fear used to point me to Jesus, and wondered what had happened. And then I remembered the gospel.
Jesus came to Earth to live a perfect life and die a perfect death, because He knew we couldn't. He knew we would stumble. But because of Him we are forgiven. We don't have to live ashamed. And even when forget that I forget that I can do all things through Christ, He is with me. That's just part of the beauty of the gospel.
God has promised to never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength, but when we forget that, God is still with us. And I, for one, am ever so thankful for that.
Have you ever let fear cripple you? I am not good with any reptiles, insects, or rodents, but snakes are the worst. But I am hoping that from this point forward I will remember to slow down and pray.
What are you afraid of? Is there something that helps you overcome your fears? I'd love to hear from you in the comments below!
Oh, Heather! What a story. I normally love snakes and reptiles but having had a really close call with a diamondback myself, even for me there are exceptions… I find the area where I most often get stunned into temporary blindness to the fact that I can count on God is fears for my children. Something will happen and I will begin to entertain ideas about how this event or circumstance will manifest itself in their futures in negative ways. Whether it is health concerns, character traits I see creeping in that I think could cause them problems, whatever it is, I find my thoughts going crazy with worry and "what ifs." The only thing that helps is turning those fears into prayers – repenting of the sin of worry, then praising God for being all-powerful, and finally lifting up my concerns for my kids to him in prayer. I think I'm getting better at recognizing the out of control thoughts sooner, but it is still a huge struggle for me!
I love that it's never too late to turn our worries and fears over to Jesus!
If only Eve had the same reaction when she saw the serpent… Genesis 3.
Bahahaha – that's awesome. If only.
Oh my! I really really don't like snakes. I would have been freaking out very much! I'm sad to say that I also probably wouldn't have used the time on the picnic table to pray.
Hindsight is 20/20. I honestly don't know what I will do if it ever happens again, but I'm thankful God brought it to my attention.
I would not have been able to kill it either. Just the thought of it sends me practically into a seizure, lol.
The week that ended almost threw me into confusion,when I Iearned that a village in our local government has been attacked by Fulani herdsmen ,and people killed. I became afraid lest crises may erupt the city, but God gave me Psalms 91 and I was encouraged.
It is easy for us to be afraid when we are confronted with danger,but as children of God,the Holy Spirit always come to our aid.
Thank God for delivering you.
Yes! I love that God never abandons us, even when we take our eyes off Him (even if just for a moment).
I would have done the same thing as you! I am terrified of anything like bugs, snakes, and spiders. Thanks for the reminder about fighting fear though…. and I love Angie Smith's What Women Fear book… it was legit life changing for me.
Me too, Jessica! That is such an amazing book.
Beautiful story and love the way you have connected it with a spiritual aspect.
I would have reacted the same way to a rattlesnake! They are terrifying. It's funny how a small encounter with a reptile can be representative of all of our issues with fear. Thank you for turning your experience into a reminder to lay our fears down.
Being caught off guard is truly illuminating, isn't it, Emily?


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