Spiritual guides are beings who, after moving on to the next life, take care of us and help us in our journey through the earthly world. They have reached a spiritual level superior to ours, but they remain in some way linked to us and guide us in our moral growth. To learn more, read on.
Usually the spiritual guide is related to religion, but it does not have to be connected with this. A spiritual guide is someone who knew how to improve in life and achieve well-being, which allows him to help others and give them advice. Usually they are deceased loved ones who accompanied us and loved us when they were alive, and continue to support us from the spiritual world.
We talk about concrete methods to be able to meet our spiritual guides. These exercises are based on meditation. It is essential to mentally create a meeting place where we feel comfortable and start a conversation. But this technique requires time and a lot of practice, so you can not expect an immediate response to our questions. With experience, guides and people from the underworld learn to communicate with each other in a more fluid way, and the messages will become clearer.
We are all on a spiritual path. Although many people do not know it. Moreover, the vast majority feels alone in this way. Walking through life feeling without a guide, confused about the direction they should take. However, there are guides that accompany us throughout our lives. And they are always around us, only that for one reason or another we have forgotten how to communicate with them.
Today I wanted to give you seven tips on how to connect with your spiritual guides.
Before that, I want to encourage you. You may not remember the time when you were learning to walk, but if you have paid attention to children when they are just beginning to take their first steps, you will have noticed that they fall and get up again. They fall and rise again.
It is a process in which they never stop trying. Your nature pushes you to crawl, then to get up, then to take some steps and finally to walk. It's a balance between your muscles, your brain, and your coordination that takes time. Still, nobody ever needs a manual with instructions to learn. It's natural, since you were born.
This is also the case when you are learning to contact your spiritual guides. Take time but keep trying.
1. Frustrating does not help and may delay the process.
Worrying, frustrating, angry because you feel you have no progress the only thing you could achieve is to delay the process. Just as learning to walk takes time, it also takes time to learn to listen to your guides. The best you can do is to be happy when you hear something, feel positive emotions and gratitude for what is happening. When you are attentive to your spiritual guides and they are manifest, it is cause for celebration. Do not wait until you hear the hype, sometimes (often) the messages can be as subtle as a song, a murmur in the wind, an inexplicable feeling. If you have not listened to your guides until now, it is only a sign that you must continue on the path.
I mentioned something about it above. Your spiritual guides are very intelligent and communicate in different ways. They know the best way to communicate the message better. If you are open to receive guidance, rest assured that you will receive it. It may not be the way you expect, but it will be in the way that best benefits you. In my case, I have often received guidance in finding a book that I did not even imagine reading. Many people feel something that they can not explain, or they have a dream that gives them a clue, or they hear some comment that helps them. Many times help comes in the form of a question you must ask yourself and not necessarily as an answer. What's behind this? Ask yourself a better question and you will receive a clearer answer. Answers appear in various ways; for example, if you are involved in a dispute with your wife then texting her when you go to sleep. This is useful to ease the atmosphere and find hidden answers related to conflicts between you two.
You have made good decisions, we have all made good decisions at some time, remember these moments because you may have been receiving some guidance at that time. It is very easy to discount the help and rationalize what is happening, but have you ever wondered if maybe you are not wanting to see another perspective?
4. Dare to follow what your guides dictate, even if you are not sure what it may mean.
Many times I have been in a bookstore and I only see a wall of books that are all the same to me. I have asked my guides, Of all these books, which one can I learn the most? Many times the cover of a book jumps out at my sight, or I choose a book at random and open a page that contains the answer to something I was working on. Sometimes my rational mind tells me something but my instincts and inner voice tell me another and I decide to follow my intuition. It has been hard for me to follow my intuition but it has never failed me when I do it. Some quotes helped me a lot and you might need them. My advice: If you train your spirituality with your wife, for example, then start with giving quotes for your wife.
Since sometimes you doubt (it's okay, we all do it), experiment with NOT following your guide to see what happens. The world is not going to end, you are doing an experiment. You are learning and remembering how to communicate with your spiritual guides and knowing what not to do is as valuable as knowing what to do.
People tend to worry about many things, we take ourselves very seriously and forget to have fun. Remember that it's a whole process, you're remembering and you're going to lose yourself and that's fine. If you consider everything as a practice, you will realize that it will soon be easier. Even if things do not turn out the way you expected, there will always be something to remember and learn. Ask yourself a better question, what are you remembering here? It takes time and that's perfectly fine.
If you were alone in this world, there would be no need to seek help. However, you are not alone and there are many people who can help you develop your skills. It has what your experience tells you, but do not feel afraid when your intuition points you to receive guidance from someone as a directory of psychics can show you someone able to share with. I want to be emphatic that this should be a process that you enjoy. If the voice in your head is giving you recrimination messages or judgments, if you are making yourself feel bad in some way, it is very likely that these messages are not from your guides. They could not be! It is possible to tune in to your guides, it is more always they are communicating with you, it is only a matter of you tuning in at the correct frequency.


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Mai più noi due è un brano musicale scritto e cantato dalla cantante italiana Dolcenera. Il brano è inserito nel suo secondo album in studio Un mondo perfetto, pubblicato nel 2005, ed è stato estratto come singolo radiofonico di lancio per questo lavoro.

La canzone
Il brano è stato presentato da Dolcenera per la prima volta nel corso della semifinale di Music Farm 2, durante la sfida con la cantautrice Mariella Nava avvenuta il 29 aprile 2005. Il brano è stato interpretato da Dolcenera anche durante la finalissima del 6 maggio 2005, che le ha consegnato la vittoria.

La canzone Mai più noi due è un lento guidato dal pianoforte suonato dalla cantautrice stessa. Il testo è autobiografico e racconta la fine di quella che, fino a quel momento, era stata la storia d'amore più importante per Dolcenera. Il testo è in bilico tra la forte nostalgia per le piccole cose che rappresentano l'amore ormai terminato, e la speranza di poter iniziare una nuova vita. In particolare, Dolcenera ha definito Mai più noi due una «canzone terapeutica», in grado di farla sentire meglio dopo averla cantata.

Altre versioni
Oltre alla versione tradizionale, all'interno dell'album Un mondo perfetto è presente anche una versione alternativa del brano, in cui la voce di Dolcenera è accompagnata solamente dal suo pianoforte.

Nel singolo Continua, pubblicato nell'autunno 2005, viene inclusa la versione integrale del brano, che fino a quel momento non era mai stata commercializzata.

Nell'edizione speciale di Un mondo perfetto è presente anche un'esibizione dal vivo avvenuta durante un concerto a Trento, in Piazza Duomo.

Tracce
Le tracce presenti nel promo CD sono 3:

Il videoclip
Per questa canzone è stato anche realizzato un videoclip per la regia di Gaetano Morbioli, avente come protagonista femminile la stessa Dolcenera. Nel video si racconta l'evoluzione di una storia d'amore attraverso i cambiamenti che avvengono in una casa: nelle prime scene si vede l'istante in cui la coppia si trasferisce nella nuova abitazione, mentre in quelle conclusive la casa torna ad essere vuota, dopo la separazione tra i due conviventi. Per simboleggiare la tenerezza dell'amore, Dolcenera viene mostrata mentre tiene in braccio un gattino bianco e nero.

Il video è incluso nel DVD presente nella riedizione di Un mondo perfetto, pubblicata nel novembre 2005.

Note

Videoclip diretti da Gaetano Morbioli

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Marvel's Avengers: War Table Stream Will Reveal Another Hero And Post-Launch Content
Another deep dive is coming.
Marvel's Avengers is due out on September 4, but developers Crystal Dynamics have got another War Table stream to sneak in before then.
The next event will be on September 1 (6 PM BST, 10 AM PT, 1 PM ET), and "will include numerous world-exclusive reveals, such as an in-depth look at the first post-launch story season for the Avengers Initiative, and the unveiling of an additional post-launch playable hero".
Marvel's Avengers War Table Stream
We'll be interested to see which character is shown. While Hawkeye has already been shown and Spider-Man has controversially been confirmed as PlayStation-exclusive, a recent leak seemed to reveal a wealth of new characters.
It'll be interesting to see whether the next announced character is one of those that leaked, which could point to the validity of the rest of the list. Here's hoping there are at least some surprises in store (we're still hoping for some kind of X-Men addition, as unlikely as it is).
The presentation will also show off more information on the progression system, and the more than 50 enemy types we'll be fighting throughout the campaign and post-game content.
It also sounds as though we'll be getting a glimpse of the endgame content (not to be confused with the 2019 movie), and Square Enix is promising that "minds will be blown and wishes granted as some of the game's extensive slate of additional heroes, villains, missions, regions, and gameplay modes are unveiled, all of which will be made available at no additional cost."
We recently spoke to Scot Amos of developer Crystal Dynamics, and discussed the game's next-gen versions, paid cosmetics, and why we'll be stepping into the shoes of Kamala Khan for the most part. You can check out the full interview here.
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Kelsa Walker
Kelsa Walker is entering her 5th season as Head Coach for BHS Volleyball Team. Coach Walker received her Bachelor's Degree from Delta State University and her Master's degree from MS Valley State. As a first year coach of the BHS Volleyball, the team had a terrific going 14-7 advancing to the playoffs for the first time. Under Walker's leadership, BHS Volleyball won the 6A State Championship in the 2017-2018 Season. Coach Walker is married to Stephen Walker and has four children, Keeley, Wesley, Dysart, and Graydon.
Malorie Aldridge
Malorie Aldridge is entering her 5th season as Middle School Head Volleyball Coach and Assistant High School Volleyball Coach. Coach Aldridge received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Kinesiology from Mississippi College. This will be her 11th year as a Brandon Bulldog.
"I have been blessed to be a part of phenomenal athletic programs that teach young ladies how to be successful not only on the court and in the classroom, but also how to succeed in life as well. The Lady Bulldog Volleyball program has been blessed with many awards over the seasons I have been a part of the team and we have had several girls continue on at the collegiate level."
— Malorie Aldridge
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Pavel Matvějevič Olchin (19. ledna 1830 Pejpija – 1. srpna 1915 Petrohrad) byl ruský popularizátor vědy a techniky, stenograf, redaktor a překladatel. Stenografická učebnice, kterou sestavil, se dočkala tří vydání.

Životopis
Narodil se 19. ledna 1830 ve vesnici Pejpija Jamburgskovo ujezda v Petrohradské gubernii. Jeho otec byl Žid Matvěj Dmitrievič Olšvang (německy Olschwang; 1806–1853), rodák z Mitau a poté co byl pokřtěn pravoslavným obřadem, přijal příjmení Olchin. Byl známým knihkupcem a vydavatelem v Petrohradě, ale zkrachoval. Jeho matka Anna Katarina, rozená Poll (1810–1853), se narodila v Narvě ve švédsko-německé rodině.

Od pěti let studoval němčinu jako svůj mateřský jazyk. V roce 1836 začal studovat na Petrišule, kde se na středním stupni pod vedením vědce a popularizátora vědy Osipa Senkovského (a později A. V. Starčevského) zabýval překlady a psaním článků pro časopis Knihovna na čtení (Библиотека для чтения). Ve stejné době na škole B. S. Jacobiho zvládl specializaci galvanoplastiky. V letech 1850–1851 studoval na Petrohradské akademii umění jako architekt, ale z rodinných důvodů výuku přerušil.

V letech 1853–1858 studoval Olchin na lékařské a chirurgické akademii, vytvořil si blízký vztah k profesorům jako byli například N. N. Zinin, V. L. Gruber nebo P. J. Němměrt. Jeho přítelem byl chemik a skladatel Alexandr Porfirjevič Borodin. Během studia si přivydělával překladem lékařské literatury. Byl členem Ruské technické společnosti.

V roce 1860 vydavatel M. O. Wolf pozval Olchina, aby působil jako redaktor v novém časopisu Vokrug světa (Okolo světa) (1861–1868) a jeho příloze Příroda a geografie (1862–1867). Během těchto let žil Olchin a jeho rodina v Norimberku, kde se zabýval překlady a sestavováním článků pro časopis. Zvládl a přizpůsobil německý těsnopis ruskému jazyku podle Gabelsbergerovy metody. V roce 1864 se zúčastnil soutěže o zavedení těsnopisu v Rusku. Po schválení ministerstvem školství organizoval v Petrohradě stenografické kurzy (vedl je v letech 1865–1877).

Vášeň pro chemii a technologii vedla Olchina k profesionální práci ve fotografii, k těmto tématům napsal 8 knih a brožur.

V 80. letech 19. století jej napadla myšlenka vydávat v zemi první časopis věnovaný fotografii. Časopis se jmenoval Фотографический вестник (Fotografický věstník) a pojednával o metodách fotografování, zpracování fotografických materiálů, o teorii a praxi ve fotografii a další.

Zemřel 1. srpna 1915 v Petrohradě, bylo mu 85 let.

Rodina
 Byl ženatý (od roku 1858) se Sofií Karlovnou, roz. Marcuse.
 Děti:
 Elena Pavlovna (1859–1936), provdaná za německého občana Eduarda Wiesenthala, žila v Berlíně a poté v Petrohradě.
 Konstantin Pavlovič (1862–1891), operní zpěvák, založil první divadelní operu v divadle v Saratově.
 Alexander Pavlovič (1864–1931), absolvent Vojenské lékařské akademie, pracoval jako lékař.

Zásluhy
 Řádný člen Společnosti pro přírodní vědy v Norimberku (186?)
 Člen Polytechnické společnosti v Petrohradě (1869, později – Ruská technická společnost), od roku 1906 – čestný člen.
 Řádný člen Ruské geografické společnosti (1901).
 Člen Společnosti Friedricha Fröbela (1871).

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 Fotografie v Rusku

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Ruští vědci
Ruští novináři
Ruští spisovatelé
Narození v roce 1830
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Úmrtí v roce 1915
Úmrtí 1. srpna
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For years, choreographer Erick Hawkins and composer Lucia Dlugoszewski explored each other's minds and serene yet breath-caught sensibilities. His dances conversed with her music. She might let a burst of motion fall into silence, or create a thunderstorm on the piano while a dancer delicately picked his way across the stage. Her compositions created a landscape for his poetic, but never romantic, visions of idealized nature.
On one of the Hawkins company's programs during its recent season at Playhouse 91, the 1961 Early Floating was followed by the 1988 Cantilever Two. For the first— lean and beautiful— the composer plays the "timbre piano," bowing its strings, altering their sound with objects. It's a delicious surprise when a wisp of a waltz floats from the keyboard and the dancers acknowledge it with their feet. In Cantilever Two, while the dancers leap like dolphins, Dlugoszewski plays the keyboard as if she were shaking down the universe.
In addition to showcasing dances by the late master and pieces sketched out at the time of his death and staged by Dlugoszewski, the season also marks Dlugoszewski's official debut as a choreographer, with two solos for the marvelous Pascal Benichou and a group work. The ensemble passages of her Radical Ardent were a bit smudgy at the first performance, and the musicians— bass trombonist David Taylor, "multiple percussionist" William Trigg, and the composer— looked slightly on edge. But the core of the dance, a series of male-female duets, is sound as a nut, and the music caresses them, deliciously undercutting sweetness with a slightly raucous or abrasive touch. In the small theater, your eye travels from the complicit bodies to a musician shaking a sheet of paper or tinkling little glass chimes.
The duets don't travel much; these people are more interested in exploring the terrain of each other's bodies and the spaces between them. Their eroticism is without violence or urgency. Lara Bujold hangs by her knees from Louis Kavouras's clasped arms, and while he swings her gently, she brushes the ground with her cheek. Although Beth Simon keeps diving onto Sean Russo for the sheer pleasure of it, the duets are notable for the partners' equality. Joy McEwen leaps onto Rod Rufo, but she also carries him. Every surface of the body seems to generate a mild charge. Rachel Margolis walks up Kavouras's prone body, pressing her feet into his calves, his thighs. Carrying Georgia Corner, Peter Kyle rakes his fingers down her leg as if he were combing it. Benichou places his hands on the floor, one by one, palms up, for Katherine Duke to step on. A composer makes a successful beginning as a choreographer. Amazing!
Among the dedicated performers, a few stand out: Bujold— warm, supple, and aware; Kyle with his bold reach through space; Benichou, intensely alive; and Kavouras, who performs Hawkins's solo in Early Floating with a fine blend of soft muscularity and sudden decision.
In the second half of the 19th century, science rubbed unwilling elbows with charlatanism. People frequented séances for both solace and thrills. Hypnotists staged public displays. It's this world that the husband-and-wife team of Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith evokes— often brilliantly— in Notes From a Seance.
period clothes, and Sean Murphy the lighting). A chandelier rises and descends at odd moments. Tadeusz Majewski plays— marvelously— music by Chopin, Beethoven, et al., his live notes erupting from a taped score by Scott Killian that includes high, distant voices and other spooky sounds.
candlelit orgies presided over by Mme. B., the performers— including Midori Satoh, Mathew Janczewski, and Wilson Mendieta— are spectacular.
timely and subtle anticult message even more compelling as theater. I regretted that, once the Victorian clothes were off, they never appeared again, and the connection between public image and behind-closed-doors fanaticism was lost.
gifted choreographers' Achilles' heel. Shapiro's new solo Shtick takes an agonized look at an unsuccessful borscht belt comedian. While he gestures, effusive yet doll stiff, we hear the overloud stutter of an electronically layered and fragmented voice (score by Scott Killian) apologizing endlessly in many different ways. You want to scream for someone to shut him up or turn down the volume. (Killian's score also includes, effectively, laughter, drumbeats to cue pratfalls, and Henny Youngman jokes.) Shapiro matches his dancing to the taped sounds. He's loud with his body; I wish he'd show us the private cringing, the still horror behind the brashness.
Memoryscan. But then, as a theme, "memory" is dandily permissive, able without apology to process fragments of personal and cultural history belonging to the choreographer and collaborating performers: Mary Spring, Margaret Hallisey, Kathryn Sanders, and Michael Portnoy. Live video (by Benton Bainbridge), prerecorded video (by Caspar Stracke), music (by Hwang), and lighting (by Carol Mullins) compound the hallucinatory fervor of images and words. Since these are memories, we don't have to bother wondering what it means when Portnoy lip-synchs Jerry Lewis on the loose in an executive suite (in the film Errand Boy), or becomes a cow for Hallisey to look at askance. We can enjoy the curiousness of Hallisey singing an Irish song in a high, windy voice, her face pressed to a pane of glass held by Spring and Sanders.
Screened images dance with live ones. When Spring sits and tilts her head or bends forward, the filmed autumn woodland behind her tips in sync with her altering perspective. Events combine weirdly. Sanders give what turns out to be a golf lesson while Hallisey wanders about punctuating it with little beeps. Portnoy delivers a whacked-out lecture on the avant-garde, referring to the "Pina Bausch Conservatory for Flower Arrangements," and vowing intensely, "I will not change the floor for the ceiling." Spring and Sanders as unruly kids (little outfits pinned to their fronts) act up at a family dinner; Dad (Portnoy) keels over, and Mom (Hallisey) returns pregnant and step-dances barefoot. A seemingly tender trio for the women becomes less so when you realize two are manipulating the third by her head.
Watching Memoryscan is like flipping through a family album of people's dreams. Not much binds them together, but what pictures!


An industrious hacker has taken an old MacBook laptop and transformed it into a Samsung DeX system powered by the Samsung Galaxy S8 hardware.
Watch the video below to learn more about the project which has been featured on the XDA website and created by member "kreal".
The idea behind Samsung DeX is that you can sit your Samsung Galaxy S8 on the proprietary dock, connect it to an HD display, pair a mouse and a keyboard and you should be able to work on a desktop or laptop-like environment. The problem with this system is that when you work mobile, it's really not practical to lug around the whole DeX system. Enter XDA member "kreal", who took the Samsung DeX system and ran with it. Look where he was able to go.
The result was a 2008 MacBook Pro stripped of its innards was able to run the Samsung DeX system – of course, after a heavy dose of DIY. What kreal did was that after he removed everything under the hood of the MacBook Pro – he stuffed two old laptop batteries inside, used an HDMI controller he got from eBay for the display, got some controllers that made the keyboard work over USB, and an old laptop fan to make sure the project doesn't burn up.


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Q: SMBus/IPMI/GenericSerialBus write requires Buffer of length 66, found length 32 today my nas debian 9 based started to write out this error in the startup phase, the same is reported in red by calling journalctl -xe:
ACPI Error: SMBus/IPMI/Generic write requires Buffer of length 66, found length 32 (20160831/exfield-427)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\SB.PMIO._PMM] (Node ffff8a71878aeaf0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20160831/psparse-543)
ACPI Exception: AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Evaluating _PMM (20160831/power_meter-338)

I have a double raid1 (sda/sdb and sdc/sdd) inside this nas, could it be that one of the disk is going to be defective ?
Should I be worried ? What could have caused this error and how can I fix it?
Could it be an error given by the fact that I pressed the power off sometimes instead of login and write manually shutdown -h now ?
Thanks

A: ACPI is the subsystem that uses information from the BIOS to control hardware, mostly for power management, temperature sensing, and related issues. SMBus is a simple two-wire communications protocol, used as side channel to access temperature sensors and other hardware.
So your BIOS contains sloppy ACPI data that specifies the wrong buffer size for a write action on that channel. _PMM seems to indicate that it is related to some chip that measures something power related. Which means it probably fails to initialize some chip that monitors voltage levels somewhere. Which is usually not a problem (unless you want to measure voltage levels, and shut down your computer if there's something odd, which is a feature you have to install and set up, and is usually only used on servers).
You can investigate that by looking at the ACPI data, but that requires a bit of expertise. Sloppy BIOS data is nothing unusual (unfortunately), vendors suck at setting up the BIOS properly, as they only test with the pre-installed Windows drivers which may work even with faulty data.

A: HP's \\SB._OSC method violates the ACPI spec. \\SB._OSC is documented as taking an 8-byte argument, while the HP firmware is attempting to interpret it as a 12-byte one. HP have ignored the spec for this method and implemented their own as part of the Processor Clocking Control specification.
We can't work around this without risking breaking spec-compliant machines. Nothing will actually be broken as a result of printing this error. This error indicates that kernel was not able to read ACPI power meter values through invocation of ACPI method.
Consider blacklisting acpi_power_meter kernel module.
modprobe -r acpi_power_meter
echo "blacklist acpi_power_meter" >> /etc/modprobe.d/hwmon.conf
echo "install acpi_power_meter /bin/false" >> /etc/modprobe.d/hwmon.conf

vi /etc/sensors3.conf

Go to the bottom of the file and add:
chip "power_meter-acpi-0"
ignore power1

Then reboot.

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3when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness! 3when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, 3When His lamp shone over my head, And by His light I walked through darkness; 3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 3when His lamp shone above my head, and I walked through darkness by His light!
6when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil. 6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! 6When my steps were bathed in butter, And the rock poured out for me streams of oil! 6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 6when my feet were bathed in cream and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
8the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet; 8the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood; 8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the old men arose and stood. 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 8the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.
9the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands; 9the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth; 9"The princes stopped talking And put their hands on their mouths; 9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 9City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.
10the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. 10the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. 10The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to their palate. 10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 10The noblemen's voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me, 11When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved, 11"For when the ear heard, it called me blessed, And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me, 11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 11When they heard me, they blessed me, and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.
12because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them. 12because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. 12Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, And the orphan who had no helper. 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 12For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
13The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow's heart sing. 13The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 13"The blessing of the one ready to perish came upon me, And I made the widow's heart sing for joy. 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow's heart rejoice.
14I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban. 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. 14"I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban. 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 14I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.
15I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. 15I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. 15"I was eyes to the blind And feet to the lame. 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 15I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger. 16I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. 16"I was a father to the needy, And I investigated the case which I did not know. 16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 16I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.
17I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth. 17I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth. 17"I broke the jaws of the wicked And snatched the prey from his teeth. 17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
18"I thought, 'I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand. 18Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand, 18"Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand. 18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 18So I thought: I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.
19My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches. 19my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches, 19'My root is spread out to the waters, And dew lies all night on my branch. 19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 19My roots will have access to water, and the dew will rest on my branches all night.
20My glory will not fade; the bow will be ever new in my hand.' 20my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.' 20My glory is ever new with me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.' 20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 20My strength will be refreshed within me, and my bow will be renewed in my hand.
21"People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel. 21"Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel. 21"To me they listened and waited, And kept silent for my counsel. 21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 21Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my advice.
22After I had spoken, they spoke no more; my words fell gently on their ears. 22After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them. 22"After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them. 22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 22After a word from me they did not speak again; my speech settled on them like dew.
23They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain. 23They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain. 23"They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouth as for the spring rain. 23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 23They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.
24When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them. 24I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down. 24"I smiled on them when they did not believe, And the light of my face they did not cast down. 24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 24If I smiled at them, they couldn't believe it; they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.
25I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners. 25I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. 25"I chose a way for them and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king among the troops, As one who comforted the mourners. 25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. 25I directed their course and presided as chief. I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts those who mourn.


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Q: On button Click call a js file and parse it I have a task were I need to call through ajax, a *.KML file and parse it to put the points on the open layer map. This is so far what I managed to do, there are no errors and it just refresh the page on button click. Could you please guide me through what I am doing wrong?

 $('#get-myData').click(function() {

   $.ajax({
     url: 'C:\..\kmlFile\2015-05-11_141102_imt2015.kml',
     dataType: 'html',
     success: function(data) {
       console.log(data);
       var Google = new google.maps.LatLng(37.42228990140251, -122.0822035425683);
       var mapOptions = {
         zoom: 18,
         center: Google
       }

       var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), mapOptions);
       var geoXml = new geoXML3.parser({
         map: map
       });

       geoXml.parseKmlString(date);

       ctaLayer.setMap(map);
       console.log(data);

     }
   });
 }); < /script>
<body>
<form runat="server">
  <input id="get-myData" type="submit" value="Click Me" />
</form>

</body>

As you might have noticed I am brining the file from a local folder.

A:
it just refresh the page on button click.

You can use preventDefault() to stop the page refresh.
 $('#get-myData').click(function(ev) {//ev is the event
   ev.preventDefault();//Prevent default action
   .....

Edit
You can also prevent the refresh by changing your button from type=submit to type button.
<input id="get-myData" type="button" value="Click Me" />
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^

One more solution is to return false like
 $('#get-myData').click(function() {

   $.ajax({
     url: 'C:\..\kmlFile\2015-05-11_141102_imt2015.kml',
     dataType: 'html',
     success: function(data) {
       console.log(data);
       var Google = new google.maps.LatLng(37.42228990140251, -122.0822035425683);
       var mapOptions = {
         zoom: 18,
         center: Google
       }

       var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), mapOptions);
       var geoXml = new geoXML3.parser({
         map: map
       });

       geoXml.parseKmlString(date);

       ctaLayer.setMap(map);
       console.log(data);

     }
   });
   return false; //HERE
 });

However, I feel preventDefault is better than return false as it better shows your intention.


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The gaming industry's latest challenge: DDoS protection
By Babur Khan
Like moths to a flame, hackers always go where the action is. As the COVID-19 pandemic drove work away from the office, businesses have faced one cyberattack after another on their remote work infrastructure. Meanwhile, a boom in virtual entertainment has brought a surge of players to the gaming industry -- and with them, a rise in DDoS attack activity.
Cybercrime rings are launching triple extortion campaigns combining DDoS attacks with ransomware, and data theft, while ordinary gamers can rent a botnet easily and affordably to cheat or disrupt competition with a DDoS attack of their own. The highly popular Titanfall 2 game has already been rendered virtually unplayable -- perhaps by as few as one or two individual players -- and seemingly abandoned by its publisher, which is now focusing on defending a newer title from similar attacks.
This escalating cyberattack activity poses an urgent challenge for the gaming industry: achieve the level of DDoS protection needed to keep its products playable -- or risk alienating the fans whose loyalty it depends on.
The DDoS Attack Menace
One of the most prevalent forms of cyberattack, a DDoS attack seeks to overload its victim's network or infrastructure with a high-volume flood of illicit traffic from multiple locations at once. Often, these attacks are launched using a botnet -- a network of computers and devices that have been infected by malware and recruited by cyber criminals. A single instruction can direct thousands of botnet members to target a given IP address, causing the victim's systems to crash or leading its ISP to suspend service under a "noisy neighbor" policy to protect resources needed for other customers.
Far from an ad hoc, homegrown exploit, the DDoS attack industry is sophisticated and thriving. Cybercrime rings rent out DDoS-for-hire services that allow anyone to launch a DDoS attack quickly and inexpensively. For a gamer, an attack lasting long enough to disrupt an opponent's session can cost less than a can of energy drink. At the high end, a botnet named "Simps" has recently been identified as part of the arsenal of the Keksec cybercrime organization. Infecting IoT devices in tandem with BASHLITE malware, Simps is already being used to launch DDoS attacks on gaming targets.
The Gaming Industry Comes under Fire
While DDoS attack activity is on the rise, it's a threat the gaming industry has faced for many years. As long ago as 2016, a teenager used a variant of the Mirai botnet to launch a DDoS attack against the Sony PlayStation platform, costing the company $2.7 million in revenue. Such exploits generally come in two forms: cheating or retaliation by individual gamers, or financially motivated schemes by professional cyber criminals. In either case, the impact of these attacks is all too easy to see. In the case of Titanfall 2, continuous DDoS attacks have made the game all but unplayable.
The ease of launching a DDoS attack makes it a highly appealing tactic for unscrupulous players. By targeting an individual opponent, the attacker can render their session slow or unplayable, gaining a significant competitive advantage. With professional esports teams vying for as much as $30 million or more in prize money in a single competition, there can be much more than bragging rights at stake. In fact, leading studios such as Respawn, Activision, and Ubisoft have banned gamers found to have used DDoS attacks to cheat, while Ubisoft filed suit against the operators of four DDoS-for-hire services that had been used to launch attacks on its Rainbow Six Siege multiplayer servers.
Beyond unscrupulous or disgruntled gamers, game publishers have also fallen into the crosshairs of the same cyberattack rings targeting industries from financial services to government and healthcare. In those industries, attackers gain leverage from the critical -- even life-and-death -- importance of keeping systems available for account holders, constituents, doctors, and patients. Uptime can be nearly as vital in the gaming industry, where customers are often intensely engaged and heavily invested in their favorite titles and systems. Combined with their high sensitivity to latency and availability issues, this makes online gaming platforms a prime target for extortionate schemes such as a ransom-related DDoS attack (RDOS).
Ensuring High-Quality Play with DDoS Protection
When every millisecond matters, reactive DDoS protection measures prove ineffective for gaming industry victims. When a DDoS attack is discovered, legacy solutions often respond by clamping down on traffic to protect the targeted system from being overloaded -- side-lining legitimate players alongside hackers. By the time the attack has been analyzed and neutralized, the damage to customer sessions and the game's reputation has already been done. In fact, hackers increasingly deploy multi-vector exploits that make it even harder for security teams to respond quickly and keep platforms available.
Rather than waiting for a cyberattack to happen, then responding, gaming platform operators must take a proactive approach to DDoS protection. This begins with Zero Trust -- a security model based on the idea that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside the network perimeter. Before allowing access to its systems, the operator should perform multiple checks for legitimate access rights; once inside, the player should continue to be checked to prevent authenticated players from going rogue. At the same time, continuous, real-time validation can't be allowed to compromise the gameplay experience.
Essential elements of DDoS defense for the gaming industry reflect best practices for web security across every vertical, including leveraging threat intelligence to block IP addresses known to host DDoS weapons; blocking unauthenticated access, unwanted, and unusual behavior; verifying time-sensitive watermarks on every packet; and deploying zero-day attack pattern recognition.
The gaming industry has thrived by providing deeply immersive, richly realized, and highly responsive experiences for players. By taking a proactive, zero trust-based approach to DDoS protection, gaming platform operators can keep cheaters and criminals from spoiling the fun for players and fans.
Babur Khan is Technical Marketing Engineer at A10 Networks


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Pemberton Fest Day Three Willed to Die...
Pemberton Fest Day Three Willed to Die Antwoord
July 18, 2016 by Kris McDermott
Photo by Ryan Johnson
Day three of Pemberton Fest started off like a short range shotgun blast to the chest — immediately upon entering the festival grounds Trill Sammy and Dice Soho got to putting down some heavy trap rap; injecting the day with youthful zeal. Pulling in modest crowd numbers comparatively, both the volume of attendees and time of day was quite reminiscent of the Earl Sweatshirt show to kick off one of the days during last year's Pemberton Fest; though that is about where the comparisons end between the rappers.
I have always maintained that live trap when done well can be a lot of fun, and Trill Sammy & Dice Soho brought that kind of trap to the day three menu. Genuine in their gratitude for those that were there for the show, the two jumped into the fracas crowd to ask them to personally record a crowd shout-out presumably for a future promo video. If the style of rap they exhibit doesn't appeal to you then chances are their charming personalities just might.
Immediately following the Trill Sammy & Dice Soho Mount Currie shenanigans was another entry from the Dreamville Records camp; Bas. This being the second time in as many years that The Fiendbassy has graced the Pemberton Festival as well as the second time this month the product of Queens has been in BC, the first time being three weeks ago when both he and Cozz put together audibly pristine performances at The Alexander Gastown. As a warm up or potentially as a lure, The Bass Camp stage was rumbling with the man who caused such a stir the night prior Bas' producer, J. Cole. In terms of critiquing the show Bas' part of the equation was solid, though after two festival shows and an intimate club show, not surprisingly the club fit him better than did the festival environment. What surprised me the most was not that the product of Queens by way of France agreed to perform at the festival, but that the people in his camp agreed to the show coming from the very stage named after the implicit purpose of bass; especially considering that they had experienced a similar occurrence on that stage last year. This entire festival has had the bass cranked to eleven, often clipping the subtle nuisances of the finer points of production. As a rule Bas' moody production lends itself better to a less bass heavy environment, but never more so on his latest release Too High To Riot.
After having had a last minute interview with Bill Kelliher of Mastodon, receive the Zuka kibosh (admittedly outside of the parameters that Zuka is comfortable with), and with the massive amount of electronic music at the festival, I was very prepared to get my metal on. For anyone who has ever seen Mastodon live they know that they are a getting consummately professional metal experience. Having been a fan since 2004's Leviathan I have seen the band on multiple occasions and have never once been disappointed. Again, the higher notes on the guitar were lost often in the propensity for the audio boards to be set to upset the neighbours with bass mode.
Easily the most charming moment of the Mastodon set came when two police officers who very clearly positioned themselves at the festival for the purpose of taking in the Mastodon show, were more than cordial about a 60 year old seasoned concert requesting to bump chests with the flak jackets adorned enforcement. Our hero then backed up to take a running start at one of the officers, upon getting to the officer both he and the cop jumped in the air, bumped chests with one another the likes of which sent our hero back about 30 feet, stumbling to stay up. He smiled and pushed the officer in joking fashion, but rather than take exception and proudly stand on his superior platform, the popo took it as it was intended and chose the metalhead route of cheering the 60 year old on and smacking his shoulder in good jest. At this time with the public's unrest regarding ill executed police work being thrust into the spotlight it's nice to see the good ol' Royal Canadian Mounted Police just be human beings and enjoy the moment.
During "The Czar" one of the better songs one is ever likely to hear the Mastodon crowd began to thin out, not due to disapproval of the band; but due to how spoiled we have all been at Pemberton Fest 2016 and Billy Idol getting set for his hour in the kush cloud filled light.
Billy Idol is the f*^cking man! That's it, nuff said. Having seen him perform for the first time when he was clearly sick and it still result in a terrific show, then to be followed up with an amazing and healthy performance at the Queen E Theatre and now the spectacle at Pemberton there is only one Rebel Yell that has crowds crying for 'more, more, more'. All I ask out of Billy when I see him is that he play "Eyes Without a Face", and thus far he has not let me down.
Whenever the timeless Idol comes through town I'll be there singing his party anthems and maybe rocking a few Billy Idol poses, though nowhere close to the caliber with which my man rocks them.
Because of how long Mastodon went regrettably there was no opportunity to see Tory Lanez, in fact there were multiple talents missed from day three including Cheech and Chong, Wiz Khalifa, and the majority of Girl Talk. A performance that nobody expected me to miss and complete with the Menace2Society shirt I had made, I was sure to catch the man loyal to the Raiders, N.W.A. co-founder, Friday star and rap legend Ice Cube. Starting the set with "Natural Born Killers", the Dr. Dre / Ice Cube track from the Murder Was The Case soundtrack only endeared himself to me even further. He played all the Cube jams, collaborative efforts and though he waited half the set to finally do it, some of that old-school N.W.A sweet stuff. Yes, including that one song about sexually fornicating the local law enforcement. All in all though he sweat a lot more now than in years back, Cube did well to prove that you can cast him in Are we There Yet, but the South Central L.A. product is still a long ways from being white washed.
The Killers after Cube was a hard left turn. They were The Killers, the same old pretentious Las Vegas crew that rarely plays shows, releases new albums or really does much of anything, sounded as they typically sound, almost good.
The fascinating outfit that is Die Antwoord hit it like it stole a package Saturday night. Basically the topic of every conversation after night three was the Die Antwoord performance. You could go into that show stone cold deaf and still walk out mesmerized by the creative and bizarre stage show the duo put on in collaboration with dancers and other performers. Truly something from another universe I highly recommend that if you've ever the opportunity to see Die Antwoord you follow through and do it. Don't worry about whether you know the music or not, which is creative in its own regard, just go see the mind bending art that is Die Antwoord.
YG ended the night with a cocky set and demeanour that is attempting to overcompensate for his pedestrian rapping. Having stated that he was the only one to make it out of the west coast without (Dr.) Dre (Psst- Vince Staples), only to 15 minutes later play a Dre beat, YG was really just more offensive than he was funny or compelling. Despite the set being at a great time of the evening it felt long and on several levels contrived.
Day 4 On the Docket:
Dizzy Wright (Mysteriously now not on the bill?)
Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious
Kris McDermott
Best Vancouver albums of 2016
Alessandro Cortini, Phil Western, Davachi & Smith at Fox Cabaret
Ariel Pink unleashes pop fantasy and Dedicated to Bobby Jameson in Vancouver
The Trews shake up the Commodore Ballroom
Big Wreck brings loving memories to the Commodore Ballroom


Two weeks after meeting the Archbishop of Canterbury, YMCA Norfolk volunteer Chris Forster has been named as BBC Radio Norfolk's Education Volunteer of the Year.
Chris, who has been volunteering with YMCA Norfolk youth clubs across the county for the past 18 months, was told he was a winner earlier this week by BBC presenter Nick Conrad who broadcast an interview with him and his youth engagement worker Charlie Wall on Tuesday.
Archbishop Justin Welby met Chris at the YMCA during his recent three-day visit to Norfolk and heard how the Christian charity had been able to give Chris a room when the relationship with his partner broke up after their young daughter was born, partly because of Chris's problem with anger.
Meanwhile, once living at the YMCA Central in Norwich, Chris started to volunteer with a YMCA youth club in Caister, helped by Charlie. As more youth clubs were opened up across Norfolk, Chris volunteered to work at several of them.
Charlie told Radio Norfolk: "Chris was keen to volunteer to get some qualifications so he could go on to support his own young children. He showed promise and dedication with his youth club volunteering so I invited him to do a youth work traineeship, level 2. He completed this successfully and YMCA saw his potential and wanted to invest in him, so we invited him to do a level 3 apprenticeship, which he is currently on.
Chris said: "I already get a really good feeling about what I do, to have it recognised with an award is incredible.
"I hope to continue working for the YMCA, complete my apprenticeship and maybe work in housing as without the YMCA housing team I would not be where I am today.
The Runner-up for the Radio Norfolk award is also a YMCA Norfolk volunteer – Yvonne Mack.


Chronicling the Independence era, this museum houses the portraits, recorded voices of the great leaders of India and rare documents in connection with the freedom struggle.
It also houses a library that archives a huge collection of books on the freedom movement. National Gallery of Portraits also screens a film on the freedom movement of India on every Sunday at 2 pm. The Gallery's prime collection is on Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.


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A Time of AIDS, which begins tonight on The Discovery Channel, is an example of the best that television can do. Unfortunately, few people will see it.
It's November sweeps and the major networks are offering up hot programming - Kurt Russell in the 1991 film Backdraft and a sequel to the well-received mini-series Lonesome Dove, called, appropriately, Return to Lonesome Dove.
But A Time of AIDS is history - a chronicle of the 12-year pandemic that has changed the world and may touch each of us in one way or another before a cure is found.
The first two hours, a special presentation of Discovery Journal, air from 9 to 11 tonight and the final two hours Monday night in the same time slot - opposite Monday Night Football.
Unlike the docudrama And the Band Played On last month by HBO, which used actors to tell the story of the first five years of the epidemic, this presentation is an oral history told by the people who lived it.
From the doctors in San Francisco who noticed the first strange illnesses in a few gay men in 1979, the filmmakers take us through the scientific and political quagmire that allowed the disease to spread virtually unchecked around the world because it was considered a gays-only problem.
Among those interviewed is Dr. Margaret Fischl at the University of Miami. Fischl was among the first to suggest that the baffling new ailment was not strictly a gay disease after she found cases among Haitian immigrants, both men and women.
And it was another Miami case, a real estate broker with hemophilia, that led researchers to the chilling discovery that the illness could be spread by infected blood.
But even with that knowledge, it was years before the nation's blood banks changed the way they did business and an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Americans were unknowingly given contaminated blood while being told it was perfectly safe.
There is Dr. Robert Gallo, the high-profile cancer researcher at the National Institutes of Health who claimed credit for discovering the virus responsible for AIDS, and there is Dr. Luc Montagnier, the researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where the virus was actually isolated a year earlier.
Gallo apologizes for the "misunderstanding" but says in an interview that the French discovery would have gone nowhere without his work and expertise.
The intense rivalry between the French and American researchers was not without its consequences.
After a test for the virus was developed by an American company to screen blood for the presence of the virus, the French put off using it for five months while trying to get their own test ready for use. As a result, more people became infected and died.
It was not until the announcement in 1985 that actor Rock Hudson had AIDS that mainstream America realized there was a major problem. A mounting fear combined with prejudice struck close to home when children with the virus tried to attend school. They and their families were ostracized.
But governments here and abroad still saw AIDS as a morally distasteful subject and refused to commit tax money to fight it.
Several of those interviewed blame the Reagan administration for ignoring the need for research - former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop among them.
"Some people have said it was a homophobic administration. This wasn't fear - this was hatred," Koop says.
But perhaps the most disturbing information comes in the final hour of the documentary, which brings us up to 1993 and coverage of the international AIDS conference held in Berlin this summer.
We learn that science is not much closer to having the answer to the AIDS puzzle than it was early in the epidemic.
There are some treatments that help a little, but even AZT is not as effective as was once thought. We are not close to having a vaccine to halt the spread, and a cure remains elusive.
The world's top scientists now admit they are not even sure that HIV all by itself causes AIDS. Luc Montagnier, who first discovered it, is among those having second thoughts. Montagnier thinks some unknown co-factor may be involved.
Finally, the program looks at the changing face of AIDS. Women and teen-agers are now the fastest-growing infected pop-u-la-tion.
Yet most people don't want to hear about it. They will watch something else.


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The Hyperjump Not Taken: Ranking the Best and Weirdest Alternate Timelines of Star Wars
By Kenneth Lowe | December 2, 2020 | 10:32am
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I don't think I've ever actually been able to feel the brains of an entire subculture all thinking the same thing at the same time before that moment when the credits rolled on Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. That thought was: Oh my god. I need to write fan fiction right now.
Star Wars is a phenomenon of modern fandom, one beloved of fans who pride themselves on knowing every scrap of information about it, no matter how silly. So it's inevitable that some of the most interesting stuff in the 40-plus years of storytelling are the what-if or never-was stories. Here, ranked according to how enjoyable, how consequential, and how interesting they are, are some the most important and thought-provoking alternate timelines in Star Wars history.
12. "The Star Wars" — A Reminder that Rough Drafts Can Be … Rough
George Lucas' original rough draft of the script for a movie that was to be entitled The Star Wars is a fascinating look at the earliest kernels of the multibillion-dollar, decades-long phenomenon we all know and love now. It's also bad and unpolished in ways you'd expect from a rough draft, but also in ways that are very interesting.
One popular accusation leveled at Lucas is that, by the time he set about making the Star Wars prequel trilogy, he'd become so independent that he could basically ignore the sort of good advice that had saved his earlier works from themselves. I hate to dogpile the man, but this seems to support that theory: The Star Wars is a story filled with trade disputes, political speechifying that doesn't really say anything of substance, and meetings of governing bodies quibbling over things. It somehow manages to incorporate those weird Jedi celibacy vibes while also having a young hero who chases women in ways that are gross.
It is also a repository of fascinating "what-ifs." Darth Vader is not a wheezing bionic murder-samurai but a sneering general. Han Solo is a weird alien. Luke Skywalker is not the young hero on a Campbellian journey, but occupies the wizened old master role of Obi-Wan in the story that made it to theaters. "Annikin Starkiller" instead occupies the hero's role. His father, Kane, is one of the last Jedi and a man who reveals that most of his physical body has been replaced by circuitry and prosthesis. There are so many ideas, themes and character names that are almost but not quite in a shape you recognize. It's worth checking out the whole beautiful disaster for yourself, just to contemplate what might have been.
11. Another Hope — The Fan Fiction that Touched Off a Copyright Controversy
It is simply not fair to restrict this to officially licensed Lucasfilm (or now, Disney) properties. Star Wars may be a corporate-owned intellectual property, but darn it, it belongs to all of us on some level. This viewpoint was not shared by George Lucas' lawyers in 2006 when they got a court to issue a cease-and-desist order to Lori Jareo, the author of Another Hope, which is a novel that reimagines the events of A New Hope.
Another Hope is fan fiction, and it isn't particularly interesting fan fiction: Summaries talk about things like the personal politics of Darth Vader's henchmen. As it hasn't been available for sale since April of 2006, we're unlikely to find a more detailed synopsis. (I can't find it in any of the usual places.) I list it here because it touched off an actual discussion about fan fiction: Author Lev Grossman actually pointed out that writers who toil away at such an endeavor without any guarantee of notoriety or pay are not without virtue.
For the most part, Jareo got raked over the coals, though. Prolific sci-fi author John Scalzi was particularly mean on his blog at the time. It does sound as if Jareo was simply ignorant of copyright law. If literally any person at all read and enjoyed her work, however, then it is a fact she's entertained more people writing fiction than I ever have, though.
10. Shadows of the Empire — Dash Rendar Makes an Impact and Calls It a Day
Shadows of the Empire was what you'd call a "midquel," set in between Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The Nintendo 64 game adapts the 1996 novel by Steve Perry, in which Luke and Leia lay the groundwork for rescuing Han Solo with the help of totally-not-a-Han-stand-in Dash Rendar. Dash's shoot-first attitude and rugged good looks made him the perfect protagonist for the N64 videogame, which remains fondly remembered by fans, even if it is harder than freeze-dried beskar.
In the game, as in the novel, Dash was just too good to survive the story, as fans would demand to know why such a badass gunslinger, hoverbike rider, and turret-gunner wasn't right there alongside Han in the following movie. So, Perry and Nintendo both killed him off during his valiant final battle against the forces of the evil crime syndicate leader Xizor. Fight hard enough on the game's highest difficulty setting, however, and players were rewarded with a cheeky surprise: Dash and his droid compatriot Leebo don't die, but enter some kind of warp just as they finish blowing the reactor of Xizor's space station. Most other characters would turn right around and pledge their undying loyalty to the Rebel Alliance after such a power move, but Dash is not about that life: He'd much rather chillax knowing he's gone down in history as a hero, without the dying horribly part. In this N64-only alt-history, Dash was presumably on some beach-planet somewhere watching the second Death Star blowing up, enjoying early retirement.
9. Rebel Assault — You Are the Galaxy's Hero
1993's Rebel Assault doesn't look like much today: A computer game made up of a number of rail shooter and obstacle course segments. It occupies an important place in Star Wars game history though, being as it was the very first game LucasArts—the Lucasfilm game imprint—ever released on CD-ROM. This was as exciting a time to be a PC gamer as there ever has been. Everybody else was listening to bloops and beeps on their Nintendo or Sega while a little trifle of a game like Rebel Assault had full voice and orchestral scores, and several (very heavily compressed) clips from the actual movies.
The goal of most Star Wars games is to make you feel like you're in the adventure. Rebel Assault did this by literally casting players as the hero "Rookie One" and then taking you on a mission that culminates in the destruction of the Death Star by your own hand. Presumably in this timeline, Luke is still whining about not being allowed to go to the Academy while you're off stealing his thunder.
8. Star Wars: Rebellion — The Expanded Universe Is Your Chess Set
1998's Star Wars: Rebellion was a grand strategy game that allowed you to become supreme field marshal of either the Empire or the Rebellion during the events of the original Star Wars trilogy. It was a pretty deep game, with players needing to balance diplomacy and military action to achieve their respective win conditions, which differed depending on which faction you picked.
What makes this a delicious alt-timeline affair, however, is the fact that each faction had hero characters, populated by the cast of the films and the deep bench of weirdos from the "Legends" line of tie-ins that was at the time considered canon. The mischief you could get up to with these players at your disposal was infinite in scope. It was entirely possible to park Luke or Leia on some safe planet somewhere and make some bit player like Crix Madine into the hero of the Rebellion. There were some strategies that actually benefited from this, since Luke would leave the team midway through the game to play out his hero's journey and could actually get captured. It gave you the same feeling of upending your toy box as a kid, except with computer graphics, voices and epic space battles.
7. The Force Unleashed — Luke Goes Evil, Leia Wields the Yellow Lightsaber
The actual Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games belong nowhere on this list, as they are terrible (though they did get Sam Witwer's foot in the door, enabling the guy to voice Darth Maul in the many Star Wars TV shows). The first game's Ultimate Sith Edition, however, provides us with one of the all-time great alternate timelines in Star Wars history.
In the main game, you play as "Starkiller," a secret apprentice to Darth Vader whose Force powers belong in Dragonball Z more so than anything associated with this property. After hurling Star Destroyers out of orbit and crumpling up AT-ATs like cardboard, the canon ending of the game has you die like a punk to Emperor Palpatine. In a series of unlockable bonus missions, however, Starkiller becomes a total creature of the Emperor, living on to interfere in the events of the original trilogy of films. This involves a lightsaber duel with Luke Skywalker on Hoth that ends in the untrained hero turning to the Dark Side, and then to a mission on Endor where you are tasked with stopping the events that ended Return of the Jedi.
Like all absurdly grim alt-histories, it relishes killing beloved characters: You kill Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine, murder Han and Chewie on Endor, and face off against Leia, discovering that the princess has trained to become a Jedi herself, complete with cool yellow lightsaber. Any alternate story where Leia comes into her own as a Jedi is a great one, it's just unfortunate she also totally dies in this one.
6. Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II — Kyle Katarn Usurps the Empire
Some gamers will claim Jedi Knight is one of, if not still the, best Star Wars game, and I don't in the least begrudge these folks their opinion. For 1997, it was an incredible game with sprawling, puzzle-based level design, cutting-edge-for-the-time 3D graphics, and movie cutscenes that featured a live cast blasting and lightsabering their way through a story that remixes classic Star Wars themes to great effect. Kyle Katarn—the blaster-toting merc who made his debut in the game Dark Forces by delivering the plans to the original Death Star to the rebels—returns in this sequel, discovering that he has Force powers and that his slain father was guarding an ancient Jedi secret that could enable the Dark Jedi Jerec to unlock unlimited power!!! The game is notable for giving players access to dark and light-side powers and tallying how players comport themselves, long before a lot of games had that kind of morality system.
Roast too many civilians with Force lightning, and the game determines you have fallen to the Dark Side of the Force. This results in a crazy heel-turn: Rather than attempt to rescue his longtime partner Jan, Kyle just kills her. The game didn't have too many other cutscenes after this point, but for those who go on to beat Jerec and win the game as a darksider, the ending spells out in no uncertain terms that Kyle goes fully megalomaniacal, becoming a new emperor. All that's left to do is brutally crush all dissent and brood over his lost humanity on his massive, lonely throne.
5. Darth Vader #13 — Anakin Skywalker Can't Let Go
George Lucas revealed in interviews that Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader was a long-in-the-works scene that he'd always had in his head. The fact that Vader dueled with Obi-Wan Kenobi on a lava planet and was left maimed but alive was so widely known, in fact, that I distinctly remember it being nerdy playground wisdom among kids I knew at least a good decade before it happened exactly as they said it would in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. (This is notable for being the only playground rumor, ever, that turned out to be true.)
So it is no surprise that turning that scene on its head has happened not once but at least twice in Star Wars storytelling over the years. The first, hilariously, was actually released before the damn movie, when the Episode III tie-in game released on videogame consoles more than a month before the movie on which it was based. This infuriated me at the time, since it seemed like I needed to dodge spoilers from yet another angle. Players could unlock the ability to play the final lightsaber duel as Anakin, and thus defeat Obi-Wan in the last bout. The game accordingly jumps the rails of Star Wars lore, with an unscarred Anakin accepting a new red lightsaber from Darth Sidious before just impaling him with it and declaring himself Emperor.
Would Padme have escaped Mustafar without Kenobi's help? Would Anakin have actually killed her, or forced her to raise their twin children in a life of totalitarian evil? It's a great fan fiction writer's prompt if nothing else.
The writers of the Darth Vader comic book also revisited the scene in 2015. In the story, Vader enters an extended flashback in which the story of his defeat on Mustafar is retold. Just as Obi-Wan points out that he has the high ground, we discover that Vader is wearing his armor and wielding his red lightsaber in the flashback. Using the full power of the Sith, he defeats Obi-Wan and leaves him a charred husk in the lava. I normally dislike anything that has to do with the prequels at all, but this is yet another instance of writers making hay out of them. This scene revisits an iconic part of the series lore in a way that paints Vader as driven by his insistence of childishly clinging to his resentments. It is grim and sad in equal measure, the perfect tone for any story about Vader.
4. Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates — Rey & Co. Receive Their Due
Colin Trevorrow has made some bad movies. There is no reason to believe that, had he been entrusted with Episode IX, it would've been good. And yet the broad strokes that have been revealed to us make one ache for what might have been.
To start with, I need to state that I did not like Episode IX, and that in general it left me ambivalent on the entire trilogy. Among the major differences: Rose figures prominently in Trevorrow's script, and Finn leads a stormtrooper rebellion on the streets of Coruscant. Kylo Ren broods on Mustafar, haunted by Luke's Force ghost and before engaging in a duel with a phantom Darth Vader. Both Rey and Ren's goal is to put an end to the Jedi and Sith, and their disagreement on how leads them to a final battle between the two. Leaked concept art seems to indicate Rey was going to rock a double-bladed blue lightsaber, just like damn near anybody who was paying attention to her propensity for staff fighting might have predicted. Most importantly, Rey was still going to be a nobody and Palpatine was going to be nowhere in evidence.
All told, a lot of this stuff sounds like a perfectly serviceable way to cap off this trilogy, with story beats and concepts whose absences fans have complained of unbidden—indeed, it's hard to imagine more frustration with the sequel trilogy, and all of it stemming from the fact people loved the characters and mostly hated how they were treated. Would this script have stuck the landing? Like all of these other strange what-ifs, we can never really know.
3. Star Wars: Rebels — Ahsoka Tano and Making the Main Timeline an Alt-Timeline
My top three alternate timelines represent three essential approaches to the question of why you make an alternate Star Wars timeline in the first place: To ret-con something, to continue the story of that "perfect" original trilogy, or to take the baseline idea that is Star Wars and totally reimagine it. The resurrection of Ahsoka Tano is an example of that first type of alternate timeline. It just also so happens to be the "canon" timeline we're now in.
I've said before that I hate the damn cartoons, but I can't deny the enthusiasm for Ahsoka's character that so many Star Wars fans have espoused over the years. A lot of the stories in the Star Wars cartoons are dopey or lame, but Ahsoka has, over the course of several seasons of television, gone on tons of exciting adventures. This unfortunately had to end with her death at the hands of her former master—Star Wars canon demanded it.
But you know what? Nuts to that. In the Season 4 episode "A World Between Worlds," Ezra, who has mastered the ancient Jedi power of Force Being-an-Annoying Little-Shit-Who-Happens-to-Be-Around-While-Cooler-Characters-Are-Doing-Cooler-Things, reaches back through time and snatches Ahsoka away from her fateful, losing battle with Darth Vader. It's ensured a future where the character can forge ahead, out from under the looming inevitability of a tragic demise, and be portrayed by Rosario freaking Dawson in The Mandalorian, proof that we are all at least not living in the absolute worst possible timeline.
2. The "Legends" Canon — All the Stuff You Wanted from the Sequel Trilogy
Go ahead and drag me for not giving this #1, folks. But just remember when you make something canon, you accept all the bad along with all of the good. In many ways, the so-called "Legends" canon—that is, the books, videogames, comics, and sundry other tie-ins that began with author Timothy Zahn's novel Heir to the Empire in 1991 before eventually being declared non-canon in the run-up prior to 2015's Episode VII: The Force Awakens—is the full promise of an alternate Star Wars story path after the original trilogy of films, taken all the way to its conclusion. In others it also is a doorway to total nonsense.
Zahn and an ever-expanding galaxy of other writers took the ideas laid out in the original Star Wars trilogy of films that ran from 1977-1983 and filled out a whole universe around them, often building on ideas that in the films were just (not very subtle) subtext. Launching with Zahn's trilogy set five years after the end of Return of the Jedi, the dozens of novels, comic books, and videogames were all miraculously consistent in their chronology. If you picked up The Crystal Star by Vonda McIntyre or The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, they would reference characters and events in Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy Trilogy or the books by Michael Stackpole starring Rogue Squadron. (Ask me how I know.)
This means that badass characters like Mara Jade and Corran Horn exist alongside hilarious bullshit like, for instance, Han buying a planet so he could woo Leia away from another potential suitor who is described as Space Fabio, from a part of space with starships so terrifying they could essentially have licked the Empire at any time. (Where the hell were they?)
This does not reach #1 because of nonsense like that, and because in a lot of ways, the tie-ins of the '90s were the spark that ignited the litigious nerdiness fire that rages all around us to this day. It was inevitable that Disney would render all of it non-canon when it acquired the Star Wars property—what sane moviegoer who wasn't steeped to the nostrils in this stuff would engage with it? What little kid wants to be told they don't enjoy the laser swordfights as much as an adult because they haven't read Death Troopers, the book about zombie stormtroopers?
1. Splinter of the Mind's Eye — Alan Dean Foster Charts a Whole New Path
Disney is apparently trying to declare Alan Dean Foster's royalties non-canon. since it acquired Star Wars in 2012, and the author claims the Mouse has ignored all his entreaties. Disney's argument, according to reports, is that they purchased the right to reprint Foster's work but are not bound by the responsibility to pay him for it. So it is with some bias that I argue Foster—who worked with George Lucas almost right from the beginning of the phenomenon—actually authored one of the most interesting alternate routes for Star Wars.
My enjoyment of Star Wars changed when I came to regard it not as some pristine world whose rules I and only I knew best, but as an imperfect work crafted by many people and informed by grand artistic influences. Like The Lord of the Rings and its larger universe, it is a living thing that has never really been complete. So it's fascinating to look at Foster's novel, written in between when that 1977 film called just Star Wars debuted and when The Empire Strikes Back entered theaters and really made Star Wars into the universe we know today.
One of the uncertainties heading into Empire was whether or not Harrison Ford would return for the sequels. Foster's contract allowed for his sequel novel, which was published not even a year after Star Wars first hit theaters, to be filmed, and therefore could have served as the basis for all Star Wars going forward. It was accordingly written without a lot of the core assumptions we take as holy writ: Luke and Leia are not siblings (and Foster hints at potential romance between them). Darth Vader is not Luke's father, but still a fearsome shock trooper of the Empire.
The story follows Luke and Leia on one mission gone awry, crash landing them on a mining planet with a secret Imperial base and a long-lost relic, the "Kaiburr crystal," the MacGuffin which brings the young rebels and Darth Vader into conflict. It's a gritty, down-to-Earth kind of story, and it's really fascinating to wonder how it would've looked had Lucasfilm committed to it. It would have grounded Star Wars as a whole in a much more pulp-adventure feel (assuming audiences responded to it as enthusiastically as they did for the original, that is). Which is to say that it is way braver than anything Disney's stewardship of the franchise has given us.
The Empire Strikes Back was ultimately a pretty daring sequel in its own right, but what a different thing Star Wars would be if it had gone this way. Let us hope we're living in the timeline where Disney will not be allowed to set a legal precedent that allows a publisher to buy the rights to an intellectual property without the responsibility of paying the people who made it what it is.
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Q: How do I apply an equal force on each collision regardless of velocity? - Swift, Scenekit I need to get my sphere to bounce the same distance and at the same velocity each time it collides with a box. As of right now, the ball will collide with the first box and a force is applied to make it reach the next box. Over time, the ball bounces a lesser distance towards the next box until it doesn't reach it anymore. How do I make it so that the ball will bounce on the first box towards the second box, and then once it hits the second box, travel the exact same distance it did from the first to the second? SceneKit, Swift

A: Two ways, I can think of:
Inflated, artificial resitution value:
You could mess about with the restitution (trial and error) until you find a value that sort of works, most of the time. This will need to be more than 1.0, but not much more. And it will be unreliable. Any interruptions in frame rate or other system lags will ruin it. Possible, but foible full.
or...
Artificially induce the right force amount:
Zero the balls's velocity (make it stationary) at one of the boxes, where it would be when it normally touches. Then find the exact amount of impulse to create a "bounce". Once you know that, when the ball collides with the other box, zero its velocity, and apply the opposite force. When it reaches the first box, zero velocity again, and apply that first found force... over and over again. Looks like bouncing, works perfectly every time, but is fake bouncing.
Warning:
Due to the unreliable nature of SpriteKit and SceneKit physics (not delta-d), you may even want to reposition your ball to its ideal point of start each time, too. Just in case some drift occurs.