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Demon Slayer Season 2: Release Date in India, Spoilers, Preview, Plot, Details, Watch Online
Nitin Kashyap
The Japanese manga series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba has become one of the finest and most popular anime series in the world within a year. Every fan loves to watch the first season and also, the first season is capturing the attention of millions of fans across the world. The first season was released in October 2020 and since then, they are expecting for the second season that will be released in the future.
We can't confirm the release date but rumors are spreading for the second season that the makers will release the second season in the upcoming days or months. As we can expect that the second season will release between October to December.
Well, we are sharing with you this because it has been confirmed that the second will release between October to December but the date has not been mentioned yet and it will be revealed before some days of its official release. Well, Little has been revealed many things about the upcoming Entertainment District arc's project. Tanjiro's adventure of Mugen Train is going to be more exclusive.
Now, the fans are desperate to know that at what time or the date the second season will release online. In 2019, the first season won the "Best Anime" award in the 2019 Newtype Anime Awards, and later, in the 2020 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the movie also won the "Anime Of The Year" award.
Demon Slayer Season 2: Release Date
Since the first season of Demon Slayer released, it has been broken countless box office records in Japan and also become the highest-grossing film of 2020. Later, the movie was seen by millions of watchers across the world and loved by many. Well, it's not a para to talk about the achievement but The Entertainment District Arc will release the second season in 2021 but the date has not been confirmed but multiple sources are suggesting October month for its premiere.
The Demon Slayer Matsuri Online-Anime 2nd Anniversary Festival, which took place this weekend confirmed that the second season will hit the screens this year. The new episode will premiere at 11:15 PM in Japan on Fuji TV every Sunday. It seems that the majority have been received globally so, everyone can watch the new episode on Sunday.
Well, many rumors and leaks are surfing on the Internet which is revealing that the second season will release in October 2021 but the official confirmation has not been announced yet. We will update you when it will be confirmed officially.
Demon Slayer Season 2: Plot Details
Now, the second season will continue from the "Mugen Train" which was seen in the first season. Well, the second season will continue the story that was seen between Chapters 70 to 99 of the manga series. In this new season, Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Tanjiro will go together on the mission to Yoshiwara where hundreds of Demons are spreading their news are coming from many places
. There are many more things to reveal but you should watch the second season first before reading the spoiler. So, let's wait for the second season and when the official release date will announce, we will tell you through our page.
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The Fast and Furious Green Eclipse Was Even Faker Than You Thought
Andrew P. Collins
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Screenshot: The Fast and The Furious
The Hollywood wackiness of Paul Walker's snot green Mitsubishi Eclipse from the first Fast And Furious movie goes much deeper than that goofy "Danger To Manifold" display. Did you know the car's exhaust note in the movie was actually a mix of a supercharged CRX and a turbo Integra?
The Fast And The Furious Technical Director Craig Lieberman recently caught up with John Lapid, the man who built and owned that Eclipse when the film was shot, and came back with a great interview full of unheard backstory on how this car came to be on screen.
Lieberman's been on a roll uploading behind-the-scenes footage and retrospectives like this lately, which I'm happy to share with you, because they're all pretty neat even if you only have passing interest in the movie series.
Watch (or just listen to) the interview for the full download, but I did think that fact about where the car's exhaust note was synthesized from was pretty interesting.
As for why the Lapid built his tuner show car out of a basic Eclipse RS instead of a GST or all-wheel drive GSX, the turbo 4G63-powered versions that actual tuners were all about, the answer's a little more obvious: the non-turbo was all he could afford.
Some classic movie car show-and-tell happening
Screenshot: Craig Lieberman (YouTube)
Lapid explains that the car was Mercedes silver when he loaned it to Universal Studios for film production. He gave the studio permission to paint it,"anything but green," he recalls.
That note obviously didn't get passed along, but the color the car ended up being I think totally worked for the movie. What didn't work, what car enthusiasts have been laughing at for almost 20 years now, were lines like the "MoTeC Systems exhaust" and of course, the inexplicable jettisoning of a floorboard that happens while Paul Walker is drag racing. (Just... why?)
Lieberman recounts watching those scenes and laughing, and telling the movie's director Rob Cohen there was "some stuff that needs to be done" to avoid ridicule from people who actually knew cars. Apparently the reply was "I hope not because we're done," and well, the rest is history.
At this point I think we can enjoy the movie without sweating details like that, and the main stuff, like which cars are featured in a movie about the early-aughts tuner scene, were spot-on.
But it's cool to see the original owners of these movie cars resurfacing and talking honestly about their experience in tuner culture and in the making of these movies. They might not be technically flawless, but they do capture a big chunk of what people liked about these wild-looking modified machines.
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Possibly Mr. Right with a huge hang-up
By Gallifrey
February 21, 2014 in Friendship and Friends
Hello everyone, this is my first post. I look forward to your insight and advice. I'm not very good when it comes to dating. I spent 5 years in an abusive relationship with a drug addict. I met him when I was 19 and he was 26. We immediately moved in together and my life went to hell. Just a little background. It is about 7 years since I left him, and I haven't dated anyone seriously since. I'm afraid that I'll end up in the same situation, as when we first started dating he was completely normal and said nothing about drugs and other poor activities. I know that not all men are that way, and I've finally met someone that I can really see myself with. I've known him for about 3 years, we met at work and became quick friends. I didn't look at him as someone I wanted to be in a relationship with at first, because I had a lot of work to do with myself before I was ready to let someone in. Well, it became obvious after knowing him for just a couple of months that he quite liked me in a romantic way, although he never said anything about it nor gave me any hints. He's a wonderful person and is always there when I need him. We spend time together every single week and sometimes on the weekends. So, three years down the road, I'm finally ready for a serious relationship. I finally opened my mouth and told him how I feel about him. He was quiet for awhile, then asked how long I've felt this way. I told him that it's been about 2 years, and that I didn't want to say anything because I was going through some mental issues and I didn't think it would have been fair to pull him into it. I know have my brain back in working order, which is why I reached out to him. He then went on to tell me that he has felt the same for a very long time, and wanted to say something last February, but couldn't work up the nerve. He said that he wished he would have said something sooner, and that I would have as well. But he met a woman online and they are kind of dating. I'm not jealous, I know these things happen. But the problem is, she sounds like a terrible person when he talks about her. When they met last summer she was living in a half way house due to her alcohol and pill addiction. I don't judge people, I know what it's like when things get hard and I believe that people can change. The thing of it is, when he lost his job of 10 years and was on unemployment looking for work, she had the gall to ask him to borrow her over $1000.00. He and I spoke last week, and he said she still hasn't paid him back...and also that she fell off the wagon and is using again. From what he says to me, she treats him like dirt and only wants him around at certain times. I was honest about my opinion on the situation and told him that he'd be better off cutting his losses and moving on. I have a lot of alcoholics in my family, and sometimes they just need to be alone to figure things out. After saying this, he continued to tell me that all of his other friends are saying the same thing. So, to end this very long post, should I give up hope on any romantic happenings and just be there as a friend? I will always be his friend, lest he do something extremely terrible to me which I can't imagine ever happening. What really gets me the most, is that he flat out said he has feelings for me as well and would like to try things out, but "for some reason he's hung up on her." It really pains me to see how much she uses him, granted I've never met her, nor do I care to, I only know what he says. And he tries to sugar coat everything by just saying she's having a hard time in life. I've been through mental breakdowns, deaths of close family members, heck, I even lost my home, but I've always managed to take care of myself some how, or reach out to my family to get me on the right path. I just don't understand why he is staying with her (and they're not even labeling themselves as being in a relationship) when he has someone who is honest, caring, fun, easy going, and with no addictions standing right in front of him. Ok, I will end this as it is super long. Any thoughts and or opinions are much appreciated. Oh, and let me add that I'm quite the introvert so it was really hard for me to lay my feelings out like that.
Also, I'd like to add that he is really the first guy that has peaked my attention for longer than a few minutes in the nearly 7 years I've been single. We have a lot in common, but also a lot not in common (which I think is important). We have a lot of the same values and ethics as well. Ok, that is all. Your input and thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
mhowe
Has he ever met her in person?
If the answer is no....then don't even worry about being his friend.
He needs to be needed.
If he won't give up on a cyber relationship... only because he gave her money for someone right in front of him....well, he isn't worth any more of your time.
Yes, he met her in person. He actually started working for the same company she works at and gives her rides to and from work nearly every day.
Tayla92
What a tricky situation.. How strange that he is so hung up on her, when she seems to just be using him.. Especially borrowing $1000, most likely to fuel her drug addiction, I'm sure she never even stopped using she probably just told him that but is still doing it on a regular basis.. How sad. He must be blinded by what's really going on here.. Not much you can do though, he needs to figure that out for himself, he'll realize soon enough I'm sure. In the mean time, just be his friend as usual.. Don't say anymore about your feelings for him or anything, let him be the one to come to you about it, obviously he does like you but he needs to make a decision whether it's you or her.
Just be positive, and go about things how you usually would, try not let it get you down.. I'm sure he will open his eyes and see your the one he wants to be with! Not wasting his time on this other girl..
Goodluck
Thank you! We have hung out a few times since I told him how I feel, and things aren't weird. He tries to talk about her a little less, but I told him he can talk about whatever he wants. What gets me the most is that he is going through the same thing that I went through. I thought that my boyfriend would change, because I believe in people. I don't mean that I thought I could change him, I just thought he would come to his senses and quit the drugs and lying. I spent five years with that. He didn't work, I held down 3 jobs just to try to pay the bills. In the end, we were evicted from our apartment and I had a huge amount of debt, because I was young and stupid and put all the bills in my name. I take responsibility for it, even though I know he took advantage of me. I also told the guy I'm interested in the entire story about me and my ex, because it was so similar to his situation. He was really taken aback that I would let that happen to me, I said the same to him. Last time he came over to my place he was complaining about it and I kind of cut him off and said "Look, I know she's in a bad place and that you are trying to help her, but don't be stupid like me. Don't be the door mat she's making you out to be. I won't say anything else aside from the fact that you should end things with her. Not for me, but for you". It's just so difficult when you see things like this happen to good people. He has even mentioned that his other friends told him they don't want to hear it anymore and that he should have left her months ago.
Oh, and one more thing. This made me think he was starting to come around to my side of things. My birthday is in December. I didn't get anything from him, but that's absolutely fine and didn't bother me. But a week after I told him how I felt, he came over to watch a movie and just so happened to have two birthday presents for me (this was actually last week). He said he bought them before my birthday but has forgotten them in his car this whole time. I find that bit hard to believe because we often use his car to go out to eat and what-not. I'm not trying to read into things by any means, but in the 3 years I've known him he's never given me a present. We always pay our separate checks at restaurants and ect. But this gave me a glimmer of hope. Sorry to be so wordy, but being rather introverted I don't talk about these things with people often. It's easier to do so online.
There is no glimmer of hope...he bought them later.
Cut him off....wish him well if you want...but this is dead ended.
That was a very good thing to say to him, straight to the point! Bet he really started thinking about things more clearly after you said that.. Let's hope. And of course, it's only in our instinct to trust and believe in people, and hope for the best for them. I always seem to get with guys that are damaged or have issues in some way or another, it's very strange but I have thought about all my relationships and it's so true, my mum says it's because I want to try and help them, but I never succeed and the relationship fails dramatically, like all of them have. I'm sure that's what happened with you and your boyfriend of 5 years, but at least you came to realization eventually! Same with him. I think it's really nice that he bought you birthday presents, shows he certainly cares for you. I hope things go the way you're hoping they do, please don't get your hopes up too much though.. If after the next month or two he still hasn't come to his decision, then I think it's best to leave it at that.. Maybe even distance yourself from him after that, because I'm sure it hurts you because you like him and you can't have him.. It's just a recipe for disaster. I've been involved with a guy for a couple of months now, but turns out he just wants to be friends and I'm finding it extremely hard to do that, I dunno how or if I can but I still talk to him.. It hurts a bit, I guess I'll get over him with time but I still don't think I want to be his 'friend' when I like him like this.. Ohhhh the drama with boys.
Well, to his defense, I've never bought him a birthday or Christmas present until this year either. While we hung out a lot, we weren't close friends until about the last year and a half. I have a difficult time letting people in, due to being burned in the past. Also, they were very thoughtful birthday presents, belated or not. Doctor Who related, which is my very favorite television show.
So what? Sorry.. not meaning to be harsh.
But he wants to keep you as a back up/ fall back.
Soo not worth your time.
He sounds like he has some real issues of his own to sort out. Why would he want to be with this woman unless he has some major problems of his own?
Either way, by being with her, he is saying he is not interested in a relationship with you.
So, you can either keep hanging out with him and feeling lousy about it, or cut things off and potentially open yourself up to finding someone who wants to be with you.
ParisPaulette
As much as you probably don't want to hear this I think you're trading one bad relationship for another one if you let things go any further. He may like you, he may want to want you, but by his own admission he's hung up on someone else and has no intentions of leaving her. So that means he is in love with her. He may not tell you that and he'll hold out a promise to you that maybe someday he'll wise up and leave her to be with you, but bluntly speaking that's because he wants you as a venting buddy/no cost therapist. It's not because he really loves you and wants to be with only you and will do whatever it takes to be there. It's because he's smart enough to manipulate you into giving him what he wants and needs rather than him caring enough about you as a friend to not burden you needlessly and hurt you after your confessing your feelings to him. A true friend would have been honest and said, "Look, I don't have the same feelings for you that I do for her and this isn't fair to you." And he'd have distanced himself from you knowing that being around you and talking about her would hurt. NOT now deciding you can play therapist and patch up his ego, so he can go home to his girlfriend.
Also if he's with someone else then he's not free and single no matter how you or he colors it. He's cheating on his girlfriend with you, emotionally and somewhere along the line if you let him probably physically too. Sorry, but I don't see a guy who's your friend or a potential love interest, I see an emotional vampire who wants your relationship to be a one-way street where you do all the giving and he does all the taking. And I think you're being played just as surely as if this guy were married since it's still a version of that tired old line, "My wife doesn't understand me/is so terrible/oh if only I could leave her...." that we're all very familiar with.
I think you've either just traded one addict for another--your ex being hooked on drugs, this guy being hooked on drama OR you're being set up by someone who wants you to be his side girl, but never his main one. And that's not what even a friend does let alone someone you could have a normal, healthy, emotionally satisfying and happy relationship with him. If it were me I'd dial the friendship wayyyyy back and focus on dating other men and finding someone who is sane and clean of all addictions. And yes, going into some form of therapy if you can't or don't know how to do that without some help. You need to learn to set boundaries and stop being so overgiving of people that you can and should be able to see are using you.
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Home Scores Bracket Rankings Standings Stats Women's Final Four History Video
Denise Maloof | NCAA.com | April 6, 2015
The UConn standard
Final Four: Huskies hot against Maryland
TAMPA, Fla. -- The monolith that is Connecticut women's basketball isn't built on one or two great recruiting classes, luck or even momentum.
To outsiders, the top-ranked Huskies, who meet No. 2 Notre Dame in the 2015 NCAA Division I national title game, proceed with treadmill-like precision -- and treadmill-like insertion of one high school All-American whiz after another, some might say. While all those factors are important, it's not that simple.
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Heading into Tuesday's showdown (a rematch of the 2014 title game), the Huskies and head coach Geno Auriemma face significant history, all staged by the program's previous 29 seasons under Auriemma.
That's not something sustained by luck or even momentum.
UConn is playing in its eighth consecutive Final Four and 16th overall. If the Huskies prevail, they'll win their third consecutive NCAA title and 10th under Auriemma. The latter means tying Auriemma with ULCA legend John Wooden, who owns an NCAA-record 10 basketball titles.
While he acknowledges the humility of such a thing -- all that -- Auriemma doesn't care quite yet.
"This isn't something that's going to last forever," he said during Monday's media sessions at Amalie Arena. "Not going to win every single championship game that we're in, if we're in some more. But up to this point, man, it is something that's really hard to explain. And I'm just incredibly grateful."
Auriemma's peers claim he does sustenance as well as anything. At this level, Xs and Os and their mastery are givens. Pairing strategy, experience and work ethic with talent has, as of this moment, rendered UConn the sport's standard, a position that's been self-sustaining since the late 1990s and early 2000s, when UConn reeled off three consecutive national titles (2002-2004).
"It's a blend of everything," said Maryland head coach Brenda Frese, whose No. 4-ranked Terrapins were pounded 81-58 by UConn in Sunday's second national semifinal. "Obviously Geno is the best of the best. He's a phenomenal coach. I think as you talk about our talent pool, you know, I liken it to Kentucky men except for the fact that UConn's able to get, every year, a top-10 player. They don't lose them to the pros.
"When you're able to build that kind of roster and add the coaching in with what you're doing, to insert that into your lineup every year, it's huge, when you're able to build a roster like that."
UConn's current starting five includes only one senior -- sharpshooter Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, a second-team All-American who leads the national in three-point shooting (49.4 percent).
Junior forward Breanna Stewart, UConn's leading scorer and the consensus National Player of the Year last season, is another first team All-American selection this season.
One guard, Moriah Jefferson, is a junior and a second-team All-American. The other guard, Kia Nurse, is a freshman who's a member of the Canadian Senior National Team.
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During Monday's media sessions, Auriemma recited his starters' blue-blood, high school credentials, citing the caliber of UConn's raw material.
"I don't think any of the coaches should apologize for getting the best players," he said. "I think that's part of the job description when you sign up to be a coach. A lot of coaches think it's noble and honorable to recruit bad players and make them better. I've been there. It sucks. You don't get to play in March when you have that kind of team."
None of UConn's five starters, nor their teammates who contribute off the bench, trot to center court and dump their accolades as part of a game plan. Instead, it starts in their head, according to their head coach, who stresses that his team play without fear of a loss.
"Once you get into March, you're not going to get a lot better physically," Auriemma said. "We're not going to get bigger, quicker, faster, stronger. If we sucked at guarding ball screens, we're not going to get a lot better at it. So it's more of that kind of mentality as opposed to anything else."
Defeating the Husky monolith has become the rallying call for other top Division I teams and their fan bases, but until someone vanquishes UConn on the Final Four stage -- and perhaps not until it has been done repeatedly -- expect the UConn bullseye to expand.
"I just know that in our sport, from 1995 to today, what we've done against our peers is as good if not better than anybody else has done in their sport against their peers," Auriemma said. "I don't care whether it's harder in that sport or this sport or that sport. I understand all that. Don't get me wrong. But given the rules that we play with, with all the people we compete against, I'm pretty proud we've done it the way we've done it for as long as we've done it."
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  object(stdClass) (2) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(1) "2"
    ["unit"]=>
    int(0)
  }
  [7]=>
  object(stdClass) (2) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(1) "3"
    ["unit"]=>
    int(0)
  }
  [8]=>
  object(stdClass) (2) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(1) "4"
    ["unit"]=>
    string(1) "0"
  }
  [9]=>
  object(stdClass) (2) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(1) "5"
    ["unit"]=>
    int(1)
  }
}

Which means both arrays are literally merged. But what I wanted is since both arrays has common property called id and same value for it, it should become like:
array(2) {
  [0]=>
    object(stdClass) (2) {
      ["id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["text"]=>
      string(5) "one"
      ["unit"]=>
      int(0)
    }
    [1]=>
    object(stdClass) (2) {
      ["id"]=>
      string(1) "2"
      ["text"]=>
      string(8) "two"
      ["unit"]=>
      int(2)
    }
  }

Note that array1 has id, text while array2 has id and unit.
I did refer here as tried the first answer which suggest to use array_map(), but for me I'm getting error saying argument 1 is not an array.
Combine two arrays into a single array based on a common column value
EDIT:
tried this (doesn't work):
$array1 = array_walk($array1, function(&$value) { $value = (array) $value; })
$array2 = array_walk($array2, function(&$value) { $value = (array) $value; })
function modifyArray($a, $b)
{
    if (!empty($a) && !empty($b)) {
        return array_merge($a, $b);
    } else if (!empty($a) && empty($b)) {
        return $a;
    }  else if (empty($a) && !empty($b)) {
        return $b;
    }
}

$new = array_map("modifyArray", $array1, $array2);
var_dump($new);

A: Merging objects is noticeably more tedious than arrays.  I'd be tempted to convert the array of objects to an array or arrays in my own project, but I won't for this solution.
Unlike arrays which can enjoy array_merge() or the union operator, objects need to be pushed in manually.
I am temporarily grouping data by using the id values as first level keys in the loop, then optionally sorting by those keys, then re-indexing the output to remove the temporary keys.
Code: (Demo):
$output = [];
foreach ($poorly_merged as $object) {
    if (!isset($output[$object->id])) {
        $output[$object->id] = $object;
    } else {
        foreach ($object as $property => $value) {
            $output[$object->id]->{$property} = $value;
        }
    }
}
ksort($output); // optionally order by ids
var_export(array_values($output));

Or:
$output = [];
foreach ($poorly_merged as $object) {
    if (!isset($output[$object->id])) {
        $output[$object->id] = (object)[];
    }
    foreach ($object as $property => $value) {
        $output[$object->id]->{$property} = $value;
    }
}
ksort($output); // optionally order by ids
var_export(array_values($output));

Better practice would be not to merge your twp input arrays to form the $poorly_merged array.  You could use iterate the second array of objects and add that data into the first -- this would be a more direct solution.

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I wish to voice my concern about this application, it is one of 3 that have been submitted for this development and there are bound to be more coming. These 3 would be almost 10% of the development already. I hope that the council is keeping a close eye on the number of applications for auxiliary units in this development so the total number does not end up exceeding both community expectations and the planning scheme in terms of density and separation of auxiliary units.
The initial advertised plans for "Bellbird Gardens" were nothing like what it has shaped up to be and these original plans have conveniently been removed from the internet, but there were no auxiliary units planned at all. The developers lied to the community about their plans in order to get their approval and now intend on doing whatever they can get away to make more money and ignore the concerns of existing residents.


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Grey's Anatomy Is Officially Renewed for Season 15
And the show is making history in the process.
By Amy Mackelden
Apr 21 2018, 5:47 pm EDT
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Season 14 of Grey's Anatomy is about to come to an end, and star Ellen Pompeo has already bid farewell to her co-stars, Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew. But some great news for fans of the show has just been announced—Grey's Anatomy is officially renewed for Season 15.
Two Major Cast Members Are Leaving 'Grey's'
Variety reports that the renewal of Grey's Anatomy is momentous, because it makes the series ABC's longest running primetime drama of all time. So, not only is Grey's Anatomy coming back for another year of great television, it's also making history in the process.
In a statement (via Variety), the president of ABC Entertainment said, "Grey's Anatomy has a special place in my heart and millions of viewers feel the same way. Thanks to fiercely loyal fans who have been on this journey since the beginning, and new generations of viewers who continue to discover the joy and drama of Grey Sloan Memorial, the show is as strong as ever."
A post shared by Ellen Pompeo (@ellenpompeo)
And as for the forthcoming Season 14 finale, Pompeo revealed that there would be a lot of tears, and surprises:
You know it was classic Greys....devastating with a side of absurdity 💔💔💔 https://t.co/KwEexPHSD1
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) April 6, 2018
I can do it in 2... not easy https://t.co/xWr77RvFHz
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) April 17, 2018
Back in January, Pompeo discussed her fight for equal pay on Grey's Anatomy, the show on which she plays lead character, Meredith Grey. In her incredible interview with The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that Pompeo had negotiated her way to being the highest paid actress on a primetime drama, something she fully deserved having headlined a successful series for more than a decade.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Pompeo's new pact will have her earning more than $20 million a year—$575,000 per episode, along with a seven-figure signing bonus and two full backend equity points on the series, estimated to bring in another $6 million to $7 million."
15 Things You Didn't Know About Grey's Anatomy
Amy Mackelden Weekend Editor Amy Mackelden is the Weekend Editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com, where she writes about entertainment, celebrity news, beauty, and fashion.
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Q: How to override DefaultFaceletFactory in JSF 2.2.8- I want to choose different facelet cache based on url like -
        if url starts with some pattern - Choose Nocache
        otherwise - Choose default cache - expiringConcurrentcache

I am trying to override the DefaultFaceletFactory but my class is not getting triggered.
I think I need to give some configuration in faces-config.xml or web.xml but I am not sure what I am missing. I am using JSF 2.2.8.
Does anyone know what's the configuration I am missing?
public class DynamicFaceletFactory extends DefaultFaceletFactory {

    @Override
    public Facelet getFacelet(FacesContext context, URL url) throws
                     IOException {
        if (url.getPath().contains("include://dynamicComponent/?uniqueId=")) {
            DefaultFaceletCache noCache = new DefaultFaceletCache(0); //noCache
            return noCache.getFacelet(url);
        } else {
            return super.getFacelet(context, url);
        }
    }
}


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DOJ Soccer Corruption Arrests. Why Not the Bankers?
On Wednesday in the early morning hours in Zurich, Switzerland, at a five star hotel, there were six phone calls made by the concierge to six rooms telling the occupants: "Sir," the concierge said in English, "I'm just calling you to say that we're going to need you to come to your door and open it for us or we're going to have to kick it in." How polite.
The hotel, which overlooks Lake Zurich, provided an unlikely setting for the apprehension of six global soccer executives who were arrested on corruption charges and now face extradition to the United States. The operation took less than two hours and was strikingly peaceful – no handcuffs, no guns drawn. It also involved an unusual use of a bedsheet.
Raids in the United States are typically led by armed SWAT team members wearing bulletproof vests and helmets, but the Swiss took a more subtle approach. Rather than storming into the executives' rooms and hauling them out in their pajamas, the officers waited for the men to come to the door and then gave them a chance to get dressed and pack their bags.
The officers appeared to lead the officials out one by one, through several exits, including a side door, the hotel's garage and, in one case, the main entrance.
Thus started the arrests of six global soccer executives on corruption charges. The indictments were brought by the US Justice Department stemming from an FBI and IRS investigation into the business practices of FIFA, the world governing body of the world's most popular sport. soccer.
The Justice Department, F.B.I. and I.R.S. described soccer's governing body in terms normally reserved for Mafia families and drug cartels, saying that top officials treated FIFA business decisions as chits to be traded for personal wealth. One soccer official took in more than $10 million in bribes, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said.
The schemes involving the fraud included the selection of South Africa as the host of the 2010 World Cup; the 2011 FIFA presidential elections; and several sports-marketing deals. [..]
The Department of Justice indictment names 14 people on charges including racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. In addition to senior soccer officials, the indictment also named sports-marketing executives from the United States and South America who are accused of paying more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for media deals associated with major soccer tournaments. [..]
The promise that the investigation would continue raised the specter of more arrests, but officials would not comment on whether they were investigating Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president and the man widely regarded as the most powerful person in sports. One federal law enforcement official said Mr. Blatter's fate would "depend on where the investigation goes from here." [..]
United States law gives the Justice Department wide authority to bring cases against foreign nationals living abroad, an authority that prosecutors have used repeatedly in international terrorism cases. Those cases can hinge on the slightest connection to the United States, like the use of an American bank or Internet service provider.
Switzerland's treaty with the United States is unusual in that it gives Swiss authorities the power to refuse extradition for tax crimes, but on matters of general criminal law, the Swiss have agreed to turn people over for prosecution in American courts.
What Esquire's Charlie Pierce said:
Here and overseas, the entire corporate universe is shot through with metastatic corruption and crime. It is an essential part of the business model almost everywhere, from Wall Street offices to the pitch at Wembley. FIFA's corruption is more than an endemic phenomenon. FIFA was simply one corrupt enterprise working with and through hundreds of other corrupt enterprises. There are governments, and there are communications empires, and there are all manner of companies advertising their wares — the "corporate partners" of a claque of brigands. If you did business with the crooks of FIFA, you're a crook, too. There's no way to avoid it. All of them are guilty. All of them are responsible. All of them are complicit in the corruption in the spotlight today, and in the death of anonymous workers in Qatar whose names they don't even know. The whole goddamn corporate universe is begging for a gigantice RICO indictment.
It seems the Justice Department is capable of investigating and obtaining indictments against officials of an organization whose business practices have been described as "byzantine and impenetrable," why can't the DOJ do the same for the bankers of JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Citibank, Bank of America, et al? It apparently is not that hard, Loretta.
Tags: Bank Fraud, corruption, Department of Justice, FIFA, Loretta Lynch, Politics, soccer, TMC Politics
A Question of Justice in Cleveland
In the wake of the acquittal, in a non-jury trial, of white Cleveland police officer of Michael Brelo in the murder of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, Cleveland once again has come under the scrutiny of the Department of Justice.
Federal officials will review the trial testimony and evidence, and a city panel is investigating Mr. Brelo's actions and police conduct in the episode. Five supervisors face misdemeanor charges for their oversight of the case.
There are also two ongoing investigations of police shootings in November. One is looking into the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was holding a replica gun when a white Cleveland police officer shot him. That shooting, captured on video, has also garnered national attention and resulted in protests.
In the other, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office is investigating the death of Tanisha Anderson. Ms. Anderson, a 37-year-old black woman whose family said she suffered from bipolar disorder, lost consciousness and died in police custody after being placed face down on the pavement. The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide
In an attempt to ease the tensions, the Cleveland Police Department reached a settlement with the Justice Department accepting tougher standards and oversight to insure that the rules are followed.
The agreement is part of a settlement with the Justice Department over what federal officials have called a pattern of unconstitutional policing and abuse in Cleveland. The department found in a review released late last year that police officers here used stun guns inappropriately, punched and kicked unarmed people, and shot at people who posed no threat. The episodes often went unreported and uninvestigated, investigators found.
The new rules in Cleveland prohibit officers from using force against people for talking back or as punishment for running away. Pistol whipping is prohibited, and so is firing warning shots, the agreement says. The city has agreed to allow an independent monitor to track its progress. If the city does not put into effect the changes specified in the settlement, a federal judge has the authority to demand them.
Cleveland also agreed to hire a civilian to lead its internal affairs unit and to appoint an inspector general to investigate police misconduct and analyze policies and trends. The federal authorities believe that those changes, along with an internal panel assigned to review use-of-force cases, will ensure that police keep accurate records and conduct genuine investigations. The city will also form a civilian advisory panel to review policies and advocate better community relations.
This is a good start but there is a lot more within these cities that needs to be done.
More prosecutions of the police who are abusing their powers would go a long way to ease the distrust in cities like Cleveland, Ferguson and New York City. It would would be better if those cities did it themselves rather than the Justice Department. Aside from Baltimore, however, it appears quite unlikely. It's in your court, AG Lynch.
Tags: Black Lives Matter, Cleveland, Law Enforcement, Police Brutality, Politics, TMC Politics
Changing Minds on Edward Snowden
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration Hodding Carter III has changed his mind about Edward Snowden whose leaks of NSA programs to the public has sparked the debate a the renewal of the Patriot Act. In an article in Salon, he explains his change of heart and offered an apology to The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald.
Glenn Greenwald, I'm sorry: Why I changed my mind on Edward Snowden
What follows is based on sixty years of experience in public life and journalism. It arises from deepening concern about the people's limited appreciation of the First Amendment and disgust with media waffling behind timidity's breastworks. It also arises from urgent unease about government overreach in the name of "homeland security," an overreach based on post-9/11 fear, political opportunism and an all but explicit assertion that a free people do not need to know and should not demand to know how they are being protected. There is no pretense here of carefully allocated balance, that briefly treasured convention of American journalism. Instead, this is an attempt to explain the evolution of today's media-government confrontations and to suggest answers to the hard questions that currently face the press when national security clashes with the Bill of Rights.
Unless informed consent is to be treated as a dangerous relic of more tranquil times, these questions should be answered on behalf of the American people as often as they arise. That means applying general principles to specific cases. Knowing the evolution of press freedom can be useful. Having an accurate picture of the chaotic realities of the murky present is crucial. Hard cases are inevitable; hard-and-fast rules are rarely available and too often inapplicable to current conditions. In the end, as always, it is up to each journalist and news organization to be willing to stand alone, to ask, and to answer individually:
"Whose side are you on?"
Mr. Carter and Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" to discuss the surveillance and the firght over the renewal of the Patriot Act.
Tags: Edward Snowden, fourth amendment, Glenn Greenwald, Hodding Carted III, Mass Surveillance, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, Politics, TMC Politics
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Hold Bankers Accountable for Their Crimes
Last week, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced that five major banks were pleading guilty to criminal charges for what she described as a "brazen display of collusion" to manipulate the currency markets. The banks – Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland Group – were hit with $5.6 billion in fines and penalties.
Sensibly, the banks were forced to plead guilty, not simply pay fines in settlements where they neither admitted nor denied the changes. But the charges still were brought against banks, not bankers. No banker was held accountable. The personal fortunes of the bankers who profited were not touched. Shareholders, not bankers, will pay the fines. The Justice Department would have us believe that criminal banks ran profitable criminal conspiracies without involving any bankers.
The unwillingness to hold bankers accountable for their frauds and crimes is a great and continuing failure of our justice system, one that poses a clear danger to this country in the years ahead.
Susan Soederberg: The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
Educational debt has become a ticking time bomb. With over $1 trillion in outstanding loan balances, the student loan industry has a lot in common with the sub-prime mortgage industry, which went into a devastating crisis in 2007-8. Both rely on a financial innovation called "asset-backed securitization" (see sidebar in original) to raise capital and to hedge risk-in other words, to raise money for loans and to reduce the likelihood that investors will lose their money. Student loans asset-backed securitization-or SLABS-means student loan agencies package student debts and sell them to investors who expect to get their money back, plus interest, as students pay back their loans. In theory, selling off nicely bundled packages of debt to investors allows these institutions to turn around more quickly and make new loans. For this reason, SLABS is touted as the main channel through which the lending industry moves funds from investors to students-and so is supposed to be of mutual benefit to students, lenders, and institutional investors such as hedge funds and pension funds.
Like the sub-prime housing industry, however, SLABS ultimately depends on the ability of borrowers to meet their debt obligations. Herein lies the rub. Since as far back as the recession of 2001, the majority of student debtors have not been able to get decent paying jobs upon leaving college.
Rafia Zacaria: The militarization of development aid
How war makes USAID a dirty word
On April 30, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Gayle Smith, a senior director of the National Security Council, as the new head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Critics saw her nomination as yet another example of the deepening of links between U.S. military interventions and development aid.
Most of the initial criticism focused on Smith's close relationships with various African despots and her belief that aid is the vehicle for obtaining foreign policy concessions. If confirmed, Smith will no doubt solidify the idea that development is subservient to American security interests. Over the last decade, USAID has emerged as Washington's key instrument within which it couches counterterrorism efforts and military interventions. Her national security background ensures that she will continue this legacy.
The American public should be concerned about this mixing of war strategy with development aid, not least because U.S. misadventures are funded by taxpayer dollars. The cover of aid hampers the public from critically evaluating the wars waged in its name. As those on the receiving end, the intertwining of military intervention and development assistance has meant a de-legitimization of the premises of development. Education and healthcare are universal rights that should not depend on U.S. national security interests.
Sarah Krasley: Climbing down from our mountain of e-waste
Smart electronics should be adaptable, collaborative, rentable and easier to repair
Nowadays, electronic devices are doing more than just sensing and displaying data. They also listen, speak, measure, illuminate and collaborate with other electronics, making up a class of products called the Internet of Things, connected devices or sometimes wearables.
Connected devices show huge potential for resource efficiency and better quality of life. A smart window-shade and air-conditioning system in communication with each other can heat and cool a building using less energy while increasing the comfort of its occupants. But this new frontier has a big consequence: The more everyday products contain electronics, the more e-waste will be produced.
E-waste refers to electronic devices that have reached the end of their useful lives. With more of our products becoming e-waste, we must rethink the life cycles of our smart electronics and the materials we use to build them.
Maira Sutton: The Senate Has Passed the TPP Fast Track Bill-We Now Take Our Fight to the House
The Senate passed a bill Friday night to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the Fast Track to approval. Its passage followed a series of stops and starts-an indication that this legislation was nearly too rife with controversy to pass. But after a series of deals and calls from corporate executives, senators ultimately swallowed their criticism and accepted the measure. If this bill ends up passing both chambers of Congress, that means the White House can rush the TPP through to congressional ratification, with lawmakers unable to fully debate or even amend agreements that have been negotiated entirely in secret. On the plus side, all of these delays in the Senate has led other TPP partners to delay any further negotiations on the trade agreement until Fast Track is approved by Congress.
So the fight now starts in the House, where proponents of secret trade deals still lack the votes to pass the bill. But the White House and other TPP proponents are fiercely determined to garner enough support among representatives to pass the bill, in order to give themselves almost unilateral power to enact extreme digital regulations in secret. We cannot let that happen.
Michelle Chen: Why the Philippines' Deadly Factory Fire Will Not Be the Last
The deaths of 72 workers at a sandals factory in the Philippines earlier this month is sadly not shocking news; risk of mass death is practically considered a regular cost of doing business in the regional factories. But the blaze coincides with two grim anniversaries for Global South labor: the death of more than 1,100 workers in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, and the subsequent launch of a landmark safety program for Bangladesh factories. Today, it all adds up to a tragically uneven record of reform in Asia's low-wage, high fashion manufacturing system. [..]
This crisis is playing out in export industries throughout the Asia Pacific region, despite growing public pressure in the West to promote more ethical production processes. The Bangladesh Accord-a voluntary safety program established by international brands and unions in the wake of Rana Plaza, recently issued its second-anniversary progress report, showing hundreds of factories have undergone inspection. But out of some 54,432 safety hazards identified, only 2,579 issues had been fully corrected. The grassroots advocacy that pushed through the Accord was seemingly eclipsed by countervailing market forces: global retail fashion sales are nearing $2 trillion annually.
The Philippines, where factory worker wages are typically more than double those of Bangladesh, supposedly represents a higher standard of "development." But the pressures of the market nevertheless led to the deaths of dozens of workers, trapped behind barred windows.
Tags: Open Thread, Politics, Punting the Pundits, TMC Politics
The Breakfast Club (Desperado)
Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public; U.N. Tribunal indicts Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; the British Navy sinks Nazi Germany's battleship Bismarck; Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
"If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics – and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy – but I look at politicians as, they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'"
Tags: Open Thread, That Group, The Breakfast Club
On this day in 1813, former President Thomas Jefferson writes former President John Adams to let him know that their mutual friend, Dr. Benjamin Rush, has died.
Rush's passing caused Jefferson to meditate upon the departure of the Revolutionary generation. He wrote, We too must go; and that ere long. I believe we are under half a dozen at present; I mean the signers of the Declaration.
A Rift
Despite their close friendship, Jefferson wrote that he and Adams were often separated by "different conclusions we had drawn from our political reading." The two maintained their friendship despite their political differences until 1801, the year that Jefferson became president. As Jefferson wrote Mrs. Adams: "I can say with truth that one act of Mr. Adams's life, and one only, ever gave me a moment's personal displeasure." By this, Jefferson was referring to last-minute political appointments made by Adams just before Jefferson succeeded him as president. Jefferson wrote that the appointments "were [selected] from among my most ardent political enemies" who could be counted on to work against his executive authority. Jefferson admitted to "brooding over it for some little time," and during this period, they ceased writing one another.
A Reconciliation
When Jefferson retired from the presidency in 1809, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration that Adams and Jefferson worked to create, took it upon himself to renew their suspended friendship. He had no success until 1811, when one of Jefferson's neighbors visited Adams in Massachusetts. The neighbor returned to Virginia with the report that he had heard Adams say, "I always loved Jefferson, and still love him." In response to these words, Jefferson wrote Dr. Rush: "This is enough for me. I only needed this knowledge to revive towards him all of the affections of the most cordial moments of our lives." He asked Rush to persuade Adams to renew their correspondence. A letter from Adams was forthcoming, and they continued to write until their deaths.
This reconciliation began a rich correspondence that touched on myriad topics, from reminiscences about their contributions to the young nation's history, to opinions on current political issues, to matters of philosophy and religion, to issues of aging. Their letters were also lighthearted and filled with affection. Jefferson wrote, "I have compared notes with Mr. Adams on the score of progeny, and find I am ahead of him, and think I am in a fair way to keep so. I have 10 1/2 grandchildren, and 2 3/4 great-grand-children; and these fractions will ere long become units."
A Lasting Legacy
After fifteen years of resumed friendship, on July 4, 1826, Jefferson and Adams died within hours of each other. Their deaths occurred — perhaps appropriately — on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Unaware that his friend had died hours earlier, Adams' last spoken words were "Jefferson still survives."
The Daily/Nightly Show (Crucial Delay)
Who knows what the topic is but on the panel are- Felonius Munk, Mike Yard, and Rashida Jones.
Godwin!
This week's guests-
Tuesday 5/26: Rand Paul
Wednesday 5/27: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Thursday 5/28: Matt Harvey
Rand Paul should be on just long enough to hit what Charlie Pierce calls the Sanity Limit. You listen to Rand for about 5 minutes and nod your head and say, 'that makes sense.'
And then he says something totally insane.
Rand is the epitome of a mixed bag of nuts, but he did something really valuable recently that many people dismissed at the time and still don't understand or give him credit for, and that is of course his 10 and a half hour mini-filibuster against the USA Free-dumb Act and straight up extension of the Patriot Act.
These people are down on him because his filibuster was short and didn't look at all like Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith (which is in some ways about Jimmy's psychological disintegration). What they don't realize is that it was exactly long enough to delay the business of the Senate so that when it did come up the choice was between the House proposal and nothing.
Fortunately we ended up with nothing since the House Bill is terrible and Obama (who has not sought a last gasp further 90 day authorization as far as we know) and the NSA have been forced to start shutting down the mass spying program.
So yay Rand! Credit where due. Now, about the market disciplining bigots.
Rebel Wilson's web exclusive extended interview and the real news below.
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'Conscience' as an aspect of 'Religion' Under the Religion Clauses of the United States' Constitution: The Current State of the Question
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Prof. William Wagner is professor of law and director of the Program of Studies in Jurisprudence at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, where he is also Faculty Editor of the Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture. He has a J.D. from Yale University Law School, and a Ph.D. in Moral Theology from The Catholic University of America. He has taught, published widely, and organised leading conferences in jurisprudence, law and religion, and constitutional law. He has most recently published on 'The Changing Meaning of Tolerance in American Constitutional Law' (2011). A member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Jurisprudenceand the American Journal of Comparative Law, he has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Public International and Comparative Law, Heidelberg, and Visiting Research Professor at the Faculty of Law and Center for Religion and Society, Bonn. Currently he is a visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
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"Green, lush and beautiful, tropical looking street."
W. Fairview Drive is located off of S. Bayshore Drive in the up town Miami Neighborhood of Coconut Grove. It connects to E. Fairview Drive to make a loop from S. Bayshore Drive. A water inlet flows through the street for access for boaters. Large pricey homes line this street with green, lush, tropical trees and plants. Conveniently located near all necessities including the highway and Mercy Hospital.
Travelling to West Fairview St?
"Private gated community that backs up to the ocean."
"Lush and tropical Florida neighborhood."
"Quiet,quaint and elite street in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood."
"Gorgeous Miami neighborhood with water access."
"Fair Isle Street is the gateway to Fair Isle"
"Lush tree lined residential neighborhood."
"All the way to the Seaside "
"Charming and quaint road with ocean access."


Good day to you all. "Thy will be done", well known words from the gospel of Matthew. And today I want to take another look at these words with you, because there is a lot more in this expression than you first realise.
Let's read the whole passage first. Matthew chapter 6, beginning at verse 9.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever, Amen.
The first verse begins with "Our Father".
So first of all let's remind ourselves that the word "our"in "our Father" refers to all believers of all times, including Jesus himself, and "Father" refers to God.
Jesus was the first to use this term "Father".
Who else in the Old Testament called God 'Father'? Can you think of anyone? No, there was no one. Nobody had the audacity to say this. Could they have? Of course, they could. It says so in Jeremiah chapter 3 verse 19: where God says "I thought you would call me Father". Isn't that wonderful? He wants us to call Him Father!
IsHe is our Father ? Yes, because we are born of Him.
God is spirit. And if God is spirit, and you are born of Him, then what does than make you? Then you are also spirit: you are a spiritual being. We move in the world of spirits, in heaven.
It's important for you to realise that. Because as you see me now you see only my physical body, and I am standing here in front of visible, physical people. The Bible calls that "in the flesh " as opposed to the "in the spirit".
The next verse is : Hallowed be thy name.
Hallowed is another word for holy, and God's name is hallowed when all the qualities and characteristics that have been wrongly attributed to God are removed. Sometimes people even attribute characteristics of Satan to God; illness and death for example. As if they were God's fault. And this makes it very difficult to get a true picture of God, to know what God is really like.
The question here, of course, is how? Well, the Christ begins as an embryo in the womb of the church of God. And as that grows, so God's kingdom will grow. And that's how God's kingdom will come. It is coming. It is already starting to be manifested. "The Christ in us" we call it. God can reveal His Kingdom on earth through us. Through our love, and patience, and mercy, and the many other aspects that God wants to reveal on this earth. THAT is what is meant by "Thy kingdom come".
Then next verse: Give us this day our daily bread.
This doesn't refer to your Sunday dinner! You daily bread referred to here, is your spiritual nutrition. Your spiritual food. That is the manna from heaven, and it is for you, but also for others. You can share your daily bread, the manna from heaven, your spiritual food.
Forgive us our debts, as wehave forgiven our debtors.
In other words: the more you learn to forgive, the more you can experience God's forgiveness.
And then we come to the second part of verse 10, and that's what I want to talk about today: Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
A lot of books have already been written about this verse, but I would still like to try and explain it just a little bit more.
How many of you remember having grammar lessons at school? Do you remember what the subjunctive is? You still use it when you say: thy kingdom come, thy will be done. The subjunctive can also be found in the expression: "May he rest in peace". And "God keep his soul". They are all rather out-dated expressions, but we still use them in this prayer. Why? Because the subjunctive form of a verb expresses a wish, or an incentive, a longing. And it is found a lot in the Hebrew language, so I thought it was worth giving some thought to.
As I just said, the subjunctive describes an incentive or a wish. And that is one of the main things I want to focus on today, an incentive, a wish, a desire, a longing. Whose? God's!
You know, I would even go as far as to call the Old Testament the book of desires, the book which shows the desires of God's heart.
And then we could call theNew Testament, the book of the fulfilment of God's desires. Because Jesus came to fulfil God's wishes, his plans. Wouldyou like to fulfil one of God's wishes?
God has so many profound desires, from even before the creation of the world. His most profound desire is fellowship with people, the human beings that He created.
I was going through a very difficult time in my life, and I wanted to know. And then the Spirit said three words: "You (in the singular), you (in the plural), and we." What do you think of that? You as a person, you as a group, and then WE! I could preach for ever about this.
God sees people first and foremost as individuals, a person. Then as a group, human beings, mankind. And then he says very humbly: We. Together. That's how your Father is, and that is the reason for our existence. And WE are the reason for His existence. His heart is always drawn to people. He loves them. He wants to have fellowship with them. That is His will, the desire of His heart.
But over the years people have given a different interpretation to thewill of God. In the original Greek, there is nothing compelling about the word "will". No coercion. No force. Because that's not how friends and loved ones treat each other.
Nowadays people give their own interpretation to the words "will of God", and I don't agree with that.
The word "will" is essentially an expression of well-being, of pleasure in something you are enjoying, something that brings joy.
In Revelations chapter 4 verse 11 it says: "by thy will they existed and were created". It could just as easily have been translated: For your great pleasure or enjoyment they were created.
That gives you a totally different idea of the meaning of the word will. Because whereas nowadays the will of God is always associated with force and coercion, originally the will of God was that He created everything for his own enjoyment. And now he is restoring it all for even more pleasure. The will of God implies joy and happiness.
But people have distorted the original meaning of the word. People who think they know exactly what the will of God is. They think they know exactly what He wants and what He doesn't.
Do you know people like this? If they haven't got a good argument to back their ideas, then they drag the will of God into the equation to put more weight on their opinions. Well, that won't help, and it's not right to manipulate people's opinions by saying 'it is the will of God'.
For example, if they think someone is suited to the mission field, then they should say "Personally I think you would make a good missionary". But they don't. They say that it is God's will: that it is God who wants them to go to work abroad as a missionary. This is then often doomed to failure, which is why many people return from the mission field disappointed and disillusioned, even though they were told that it was God's will. It makes it all so confusing.
Just remember if God wants you to do something He will tell you personally. And another thing. Do you know, Jesus never went to a foreign country. He said: Begin among the people round about you, that's often the most difficult place.
And so often, people who have no real grounds for what they say, use the will of God as a weapon. As leverage to get what they want.
Remember the expression: "Dieu le veut". "it is God's will". It spread all over Europe, and that's how the crusades started. It was shouted from every castle and church: it is the will of God that we wage war on the muslims. And it cost so many people their lives.
And what about all the acts of terror during the Inquisition. I even heard some Arabs say on television that the trauma of the crusades still plays a large role in the collective memory today.
So many wars waged in the name of God. That's not what HE wants.
So really it all comes down to the fact that most people have a distorted and incorrect idea of what God is like. Many Christians too. There is even talk of a fatalistic attitude to life, because if it is God's will, they say, then you just have to accept it. So you shout: "Praise the Lord", and "Thy will be done". And let it happen. Just imagine your earthly father was like that……….
Now, let's talk about these words, "be done". Thy will be done. There is something very interesting about this. We have seen that His will means his wish, his longing, his desires.
Now in the Greek the verb "to do" has the stem: GEN. This makes us think of words like, genes, genetic, generation etc., or begin by the beginning, like genesis, becoming, coming into being. In the genes there are hereditary factors. So what about God's GEN, the spiritual gen of God, his hereditary factors? Well, they are in God's seed. Another word for seed is word, and you can receive that word.
Actually a better word to describe that process is conceive, because in general the human spirit is seen as female, and God as male. You receive the gen of God, and then a process of development begins in you. You have received the seed of God, and that seed is germinating within you, God's character, his godliness, is beginning to grow in you.
In you, a physical human being. So what is born of the spirit, is spiritual, and that's YOU, a human being here on earth. So being a 'Child of God' means that you are a descendant of God. You are part of his family tree. You belong to the generations born of Him.
By the way, the word 'generations' in Genesis 2:4 where it says "these are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created" is a translation of a Hebrew word TOLEDOT and that really means 'birth' or 'conception'.
So that is not just dry history about generations passed, but the beginning of something new, something alive. If it weren't you wouldn't talk about birth and conception. Think of the tiny beginning in a womb. THAT is creation, bringing forth new life. And restoration, that is breathing new life into the old creation. Because God is not going to start something new on another planet. He is not giving up on His creation! No, He is searching for his people, and beginning a new process of restoration, to restore his creation.
And that began in that tiny seed in Mary. So God certainly has faith in us. He has enough faith to begin a total renovation of His creation.
Now in Genesis chapter 15 verse 6 there is a very old expression, which you can easily miss when reading the passage. It says: 'Abraham trusted God', and what follows can best be translated with the following words: and God said that in doing this, he met His expectations. By trusting God and believing in his words and promises Abraham met God's expectations. He did what God had hoped He would do. What did God think of that"? He says, I am so happy that you believe in me and trust me, because then you meet my expectations exactly. Not because of your spectacular faith, but because you trust me, because you have faith in what I tell you: that life will come forth out of you. And then there was the child of the promise: Isaac. Because Abraham believed and trusted God.
So it's wonderful that God has expectations and desires, isn't it? God stimulates desires in you. For example, compassion, and a desire to help. He makes something come alive within you. He kindles a spark of mercy. So that as you look at the misery in the world, tears spring to your eyes. You want to do something about it? But what? There is so much pain and suffering in the world these days. And God arouses the longing within you, and brings it to life. And then He says: together we can do something about it.
And to do this you don't necessarily have to be one of the doctors in a big organisation like MSF, Doctors without borders. And you don't necessarily have to be a missionary in a foreign country. All He asks of you is: "have you got the courage to believe that what I have created in you, the spark that I have kindled within you, that it is of God." That is God's plan. And it all happens through you. Who believes that?
You want so badly to fulfil God's desire, his plan. To do what pleases Him. Why? Because you are full of compassion. And God feels that too, and He says, let's do something about it. You are full of mercy. What do you think of that as a perspective for the future? The word merciful becomes flesh, in you. You manifest it in your life, in your personality, in what you do. That is what is meant by living according to His will, doing the will of God.
And now the rest of the sentence of the prayer. "Your will be done ON earth, just as it is IN heaven". You have to understand that properly, otherwise you won't know what He means by "on earth as it is in heaven". Your will be done ON earth, just as it is IN heaven. In other words, the way it is in heaven, is how it's going to be on earth. That's a really wonderful thought.
Spiritually,every person is in heaven. In the spiritual realms. Every one, is either with his spirit in the kingdom of light or in the kingdom of darkness. Each and every person. And every person who believes in God and Jesus, is brought from the darkness into the light. That is certain. But at the same time, physically, you are still here on earth. And that is good too, because it means that all the spiritual elements within you, can be manifested in you, in your life on earth. In heaven on earth. May I put it like this: the Christ lives in us on earth, and we live in Him in heaven, and so you have heaven and earth meet.
There is another wonderful expression in Revelations chapter twenty-one verse three: "God's tabernacle is with men". God lives in a tabernacle, and the believers on earth make up that tabernacle. And so He dwells among the people on earth. So those words "on earth as it is in heaven" could be explained as "Your desires are conceived in heaven. They are coming into being, in heaven, and then they will be born on earth. Because if something is conceived, then it will also be born, be revealed. So what happens? Your wishes are conceived first and foremost in heaven, in your spirit. They are inspired by God in you. Make sure it is God who inspires you. That these wishes really are God's will! And then they will be carried out on earth. God's will on earth. It runs parallel. It begins invisible, and becomes visible.
Do you know the expression: to bring a child into the world. Good. God is bringing His children into the world through mankind.
People who are just like Him. Wonderful. In the natural world a woman conceives and brings forth a child into the world. And in the same way God's spiritual children will be conceived in heaven and brought forth on earth. Born again. It is a great mystery that we should cherish.
Jesus says somewhere, "As I hear, so I speak". Jesus passes on what His father says. That's how original Jesus is. He doesn't need to be original, because His father is original. What He sees in heaven, He does on earth, and what He hears in the spiritual realms He tells us.
And what happens on earth then? Let me try to explain.
The visible is an image of the invisible. That's clear. Everyone knows that. That expression. But the visible is also the result of the invisible. Because first there was the invisible, and from that the visible came forth. Whatever happens in your spirit, manifests itself on earth. What you see happen is a sign, it is a shadow of a reality of a higher sphere. The reality of God. We call that a sign. And a sign is always a sign of something, of another reality, a deeper truth. If I make the sign of a cross, then everybody recognises it's special meaning, the deeper truth behind it.
So what did we learn first? Well, one of the first things we learn is to give someone spiritual bread. You feed someone's spirit, with that daily bread. When you have done that, then the signs follow, so that, for example you can feed hundreds of people, just like that. Did you know that?
The miracle of feeding the five thousand was possible because it was an illustration, a shadow of a greater truth, a greater reality, and that was feeding the five thousand with His word.
But the invisible came first, so let's learn about that first. If you have learned to open someone's eyes spiritually, so that he can see something of God, then as a sign you will one day give sight back to a blind person. The same goes for those who can't hear. If you are able to open someone's spiritual ears, then one day you will be able to make a deaf person able to hear again.
In many churches we started at the wrong end. If there was a sign, then it was proof that God was with them. But God works in exactly the opposite way.
And the best thing of all, is that if someone is spiritually dead, and there are many of those people around, then you can bring them spiritually back to life through this word.
That is the resurrection from the dead! You can resurrect these spiritually dead people with the gospel. Because these are words of eternal live. And if they eat those words then they will live for ever. And if you are able to do this, then at some time you will also raise people from the dead, physically, if you think that is important.
But that's not the point. The point is that these are signs of the unseen truth, a reality of God's will being done. Wonderful isn't it. To be able to show a person how God had meant them to be. That's the part I enjoy most. Seeing people start their new life in God's kingdom. A new born spiritual being, with a new name, a new identity. And then you can show them what God is really like. What His will really is.
Where was death conquered? Where? In Heaven. Thespiritual death has been conquered. The more you realise the enormity of this truth, the more you will understand that the earthy death is an image of this. Death is conquered in heaven, so in us too. Jesus did that. Because he knows what an impact death has on people.
Death, in the Hebrew language, means that you are cut off from life. Someone has cut through the bonds connecting God and humans. That was the spiritual death. Because when Adam and Eve ate from the tree they didn't fall down and die physically.
No, they had had fellowship with the wrong spirit, and so they came into contact with death. Where do the greatest miracles happen? The greatest miracles happen in heaven. That's where they happen. And a great miracle is that death has been conquered, so that mankind can be freed from the fear of death. It is a great miracle that you have become an eternal person instead of a temporary one. And if that's not a great miracle, I don't know what is!
You have received of God's spirit. The most precious thing there is. God is spirit, and you have received spirit from his spirit, from his being. That is the conception. You are no longer born in sin, but in pure innocence and from pure love.
Another miracle is that you have learned to walk spiritually. First holding someone's hand, and then on your own, independently. You have learned to look and see in the spiritual world. You see much more than what you see physically on earth. You hear the voice of the shepherd. All these characteristics and qualities develop.
Another great miracle is the future. That is now. The powers of the coming ages, that is what is spoken about. The age, the period of time, the era, whatever you like to call it, started when Jesus was born. Then God began a new era of restoration. That is the coming era, and you are right in the middle of it. You are living the future with him.
Other things may happen to you as well. Things that you didn't want to happen. Bad things. The point is: how do you react to them? Do you remain in Christ, just as He remains in you?
Another great miracle, and this is something I have experienced personally, is that I am who I am. I can be myself. Despite circumstances. Last week a sister in the church came up to me, and to my great surprise she said: "I am a happy and contented person". It brought tears to my eyes. Because she has had to go through so much, she and her husband. And there are still problems. And yet she stands there happy and contented. I think that's a miracle.
And you too willbecome what you were originally meant to be. You could say that will be your new name. The one that suits your being. One that describes your real nature and personality. Wear that new name proudly like a crown. It depicts the essence of your being.
And have the courage to follow Jesus' example. He, with his crown, his personality, as He really is - not as people have depicted him to be! - and you with yours. And when these two meet it is wonderful. Because He loves you. He loves YOU.
I think that is one of the most moving things that can happen. The greatest miracle of all, for me too. It always amazes me, and I wonder at it again and again. It gives me so much joy to know that someone sees me as a loved one. I never used to believe it could happen. How could someone love me? And that idea came from the completely wrong self image I had. A picture of myself that wasn't right at all. God sees me as His beloved child. You are also God's beloved. He loves you.
And if being a Christian is just a role you play, then you don't know your Father at all. And all I can say is: "Step off the stage, and step into the reality of Jesus Christ, who will restore you to who you really are, to who you were meant to be. And we have all this, and much more, through Jesus, the Lamb of God.
Lord, Thank you that if Your will be done in the unseen world, in the spiritual realms, then it will also happen on earth. Now, and in the future.


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Tubular herringbone (ndebele) is best done with a mandrel of sorts. People use straws or suitably sized dowel or paper tube to get started. I find that sometimes learning something like this stitch with different instructors is helpful. Instructors vary in their teaching technique and sometimes offers their own unique tips. So if it doesn't make sense with one instructor, try another. The first instructor, Megan Milligan, launches right into the weaving in her tutorial. Her video shows very clearly how the beads should sit.
Leslie Rogalski's tutorial shows some inspirational tubular herringbone designs at the beginning. She also points out you can mix up different bead sizes to make cool bracelets. She uses diagrams to explain the stitch. I didn't find this particularly useful but that might be different for you. It's harder to see how the beads sit in this video because of the type of seed beads. But her tutorial shows how you can change colors and different sized beads in bands.
Check out the first link for some awesome herringbone beaded jewelry tutorials!
As you well know I don't do this type of work.
Some will find it addicting!! I know I was. Beadwork was the first area of jewelry making I ventured into!