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29 March 2021 archive
TV Week announces Logies return
The TV Week Logie Awards, cancelled last year amidst the pandemic, will be back later this year. In a statement issued earlier today, Are Media (publisher of TV Week) has confirmed that the 62nd annual awards presentation will take place on 28 November 2021 at The Star Gold Coast. TV Week editor Amber Giles said: …
TV Week Logie Awards
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2021/03/tv-week-announces-logies-return.html
Classic TV Guides: Meet Prince Philip
In March 1971, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, toured Australia as part of the golden jubilee celebration for the Royal Australian Air Force. The half-hour special Meet Prince Philip, was telecast live from Adelaide with the Prince interviewed by reporters from each of the four networks. Seven and Nine followed up the interview with a …
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Q: sass with grunt is not working I have been trying to setup a grunt task to compile my sass files but nothing seems to be working.
My working structure is
  Gruntfile.js
  package.json
  assets
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  |  styles.scss
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  |--css

and this is my grunt file
'use strict';

module.exports = function (grunt) {

grunt.initConfig({
    sass: {
        dist: {
            options: {
                style: 'expanded'
            },
            files: [{
                expand: true,
                cwd: 'assets/sass',
                src: ['*.scss'],
                dest: '../css',
                ext: '.css'
            }]
        }
    }
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sass');

grunt.registerTask('default', ['sass']);
};

I have already verified that I have sass installed
when I run grunt sass, it says that everything when okay. But I have yet to see a compiled css file. The only way that I got this to work is by using the "destination" : "source" syntax.
EDIT: The exact problem I'm having is not that the files are generating in the wrong place, but that they aren't generating. Also, grunt is not showing any errors
Does anyone have a clue as to what is wrong with this?

A: This configuration works for me:
files: [{
    expand: true,
    cwd: 'assets/sass',
    src: ['**/*.scss'],
    dest: 'assets/css',
    ext: '.css'
}]

Perhaps the ../ is throwing it off; I don't believe the destination path is relative to the source path, it's relative to the Gruntfile.

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Tag Archives: Colombia
6.1 Major Earthquake Hits Colombia
Posted by elim19 in ARCHAEOLOGY, BIBLE PROPHECY, CHRISTIAN NEWS, DISTRESS OF PEOPLE AND NATIONS, EARTHQUAKES, NEWS FOR ARABS, NEWS FOR CATHOLICS, NEWS FOR JEWS, PROPHECY, SIGNS IN HEAVEN, SIGNS IN THE EARTH, UNCATEGORIZED
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A major 6.1 earthquake hit 7 km northwest of El Dovio, Colombia, on March 23, 2019, at 19:21:16 UTC, at a depth of 113.3 km, reported USGS.
Screen shot: USGS
1,086 major (6.0+) to super (8.0+) earthquakes hit various places worldwide over the last 2,207 days. Among these were 120 7.0+ and 13 8.0+ magnitude quakes. (Sources: EMSC-CSEM; Geoscience Australia; USGS; National Weather Service; Pacific Tsunami Warning Center [PTWC]; China Earthquake Networks Center; GEOFON; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO] of Columbia University; Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA))
Venezuelans Dying of Starvation
Posted by elim19 in BIBLE PROPHECY, BLASPHEMY, CENSORSHIP, CHRISTIAN NEWS, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, DEPOPULATION, DISTRESS OF PEOPLE AND NATIONS, ECONOMIC CRISIS, FAMINE, Liberal Luciferian Lunatics, NEWS FOR JEWS, PROPHECY, SIGNS IN THE EARTH, TARGETING, TRUE NEWS, UNCATEGORIZED
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According to a Gallup poll, more than half of Venezuelans between the ages of 15 and 29 want to leave the country.
Why? Because they are starving!
Cristian Diaga, soon to graduate from medical school in Venezuela, said,
"In Venezuela, it feels like we are all just dying slowly and there's no hope for a change. I don't care if I'm going to work as a doctor, or not. I just want to have food, medicines, security, a house, a car and be able to give a good life to my loved ones."
Instead of completing his internship in a top hospital, Diaga is taking a job in a fast-food restaurant in Argentina. He and his family will be able to eat!
More than half a million Venezuelans have fled to Colombia during the last six months of 2017.
The New York Times reported doctors in Venezuela are seeing hundreds of children die from malnutrition.
"Deaths from malnutrition have remained a closely guarded secret by the Venezuelan government, reported the New York Times."
I completed a report on September 4, 2014, Venezuelan Socialist Party Commits Blasphemy Using the Lord's Prayer (https://propheticnewsletter.yolasite.com/news/venezuelan-socialist-party-commits-blasphemy-using-the-lord-s-prayer-). At the PSUV Socialist Party Congress, Maria Estrella Uribe blasphemed God, as she recited the Lord's Prayer, replacing "Our Father" with "Chavez!"
"Our Chavez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and we delegates, hallowed be your name. May your legacy come to us so we can spread it to the people here and elsewhere. Give us your light to guide us every day. Lead us not into temptation of capitalism, deliver us from the evil of the oligarchy, like the crime of contraband,
because ours is the homeland, the peace and life forever and ever. Amen. Viva Chavez!"
Uribe recited this blasphemous prayer in front of an enlarged image of Chavez, and before the Venezuelan Socialist Congress, for which Congress gave applause!
They had no fear of God, replacing the name of our heavenly Father with the name of a dead man!
Is anyone surprised that they are now suffering such a humanitarian crisis and even starvation?
Well, Venezuela, in reference to your last stanza above,
Yours is not the homeland, you have no peace, and you are losing your lives now – and forever – unless you repent!
Hugo Chavez was a Socialist dictator, and everyone should know this always happens in a Socialist country; this always happens in a Communist country; this always happens in a Leninist country; the same goes for a Marxist dictatorship!
Do Americans understand why so many young people run after Obama, Hillary and Bernie Sanders? They are being taught a Socialist curriculum and a mountain of lies in public schools! Consider getting your children out of there, unless you want them to end up like the Venezuelans! Worse yet, committing abominations, not understanding who they are and confused about whether or not they are a girl, or a boy! (Please visit the Home Education page for more information.)
Look at the examples of America and Israel, two of the most blessed nations in the world. What is the common denominator? FREEDOM!
Folks, if you want your country to end up just like Venezuela, Germany during WWII, Russia in the 1930s, China during Mao Zedong's deadly dictatorship, then just vote for someone like Hillary, Bernie Sanders, or just about any Democratic Luciferian-Liberal-Progressive-Socialist-Marxist-Leninist-Communist running for office in 2020!
In other words, if you have a death wish, just vote for a Democrat! They will be happy to raise your taxes, take away your guns, ruin the economy and see you starve to death in the streets in the end; because they are Socialist globalists and they truly believe the world is about 97 percent overpopulated (they believe 97 percent of us should be dead, because the population exceeds 500,000,000 – by far).
Let me break this down a bit further; they want about six and a-half billion+, yes billion, of us dead! They have actually placed a monument in Georgia, called the Georgia Guidestones, displaying that fact (1st Tenet, Keep the population under 500,000,000).
Jesus said concerning the time of His return,
"Nation shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places" Matthew 24:7.
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" Psalms 9:17.
Stores are empty Inmates are starving
Starving pets abandoned Zoo animals are starving
Screen shots: YouTube.com
During the persecutions of Protestants by the Roman Catholics in the valleys of Piedmont, during the Seventeenth Century, Daniel Rambaut of Vilario, the father of a numerous family, was apprehended and, with several others, committed to prison in the jail of Paysana. Here he was visited by several priests, who did all they could to persuade him to renounce the Protestant religion and turn papist; but this he refused. The priests pretended to pity his large family and told him that he might yet save his life, if he would subscribe to the belief of the following articles:
The real presence in the host (Jesus literally exists in the bread and wine of sacrament).
Transubstantiation (wafer and wine of sacrament literally turn into the flesh and blood of Jesus).
Purgatory (middle ground between heaven and hell)
The Pope's infallibility (that he is literally God in the flesh).
That Masses said for the dead will release souls from purgatory.
That praying to the saints will procure the remission of sins.
Mr Rambaut told the priests that his religion, his understanding, nor his conscience would suffer him to subscribe to any of the articles, for the following reasons:
That to believe the real presence in the host is a shocking union of both blasphemy and idolatry.
That to fancy the words of consecration perform what the papists call transubstantiation, by converting the wafer and wine into the real and identical body and blood of Christ, which was crucified, and which afterward ascended into heaven, is too gross an absurdity for even a child to believe, who was come to the last glimmering of reason; and that nothing but the most blind superstition could make the Roman Catholics put a confidence in anything so completely ridiculous.
That the doctrine of purgatory was more inconsistent and absurd than a fairy tale.
That the pope's being infallible was an impossibility and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.
That saying Masses for the dead was ridiculous and only meant to keep up a belief in the fable of purgatory, as the fate of all is finally decided on the departure of the soul from the body.
That praying to saints for the remission of sins is misplacing adoration, as the saints themselves have occasion for an intercessor in Christ. Therefore, as God only can pardon our errors, we ought to pray to Him alone for pardon.
The priests were so highly offended at Mr Rambaut's answers to the articles to which they would have had him subscribe, that they determined to shake his resolution by the most cruel method imaginable: they ordered one joint of his finger to be cut off every day, until all his fingers were gone; they then proceeded in the same manner with his toes; afterward they alternately cut off a hand daily, and a foot, but finding that he bore his sufferings with the most admirable patience, increased both in fortitude and resignation, and maintained his faith with steadfast resolution and unshaken constancy, they stabbed him to the heart and then gave his body to be devoured by the dogs.
The Catholic Church has never issued an apology for the crimes committed during the Inquisition and the brutal torture and murders of Protestant Christians, who denounced papal authority, denied Purgatory, the selling of indulgences in sin, the worship of idols, and prayers to the saints and the Virgin Mary. Neither has any reparation been made to the heirs of the saints who suffered such vile persecutions from the Catholic Church. Protestants were brutally murdered by Catholics by way of burning them alive at the stake, flaying alive, hangings, cutting them to pieces, burying them alive, drowning, torturing them on the rack, whereby bones were broken and bodies ripped apart, beheading them, etc… The property and assets were seized of those heinously murdered by the Catholic Church from about the Twelfth Century through around the 1820s, not that long ago. The Vatican sits atop the blood of the saints. Revelation 18 describes her brutal end for heresies and having committed such abominable crimes.
Major Earthquakes Hit Colombia (6.0) and Solomon Islands (6.2)
Posted by elim19 in BIBLE PROPHECY, CHRISTIAN NEWS, EARTHQUAKES, PROPHECY, SIGNS IN THE EARTH, TRUE SCIENCE, UNCATEGORIZED
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6.0 AND GREATER EARTHQUAKES ARE REPORTED ON THIS SITE AND ALL EARTHQUAKE STATS PERTAIN ONLY TO 6.0 AND GREATER MAGNITUDE QUAKES.
Map: CSEM-EMSC
A major 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit 33 km ENE of Mutata, Colombia, on September 14, 2016, at 01:58:31 UTC, reported USGS.
A major 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Solomon Islands on September 14, 2016, at 07:25:03 UTC, reported Geoscience Australia.
670 major (6.0+) to super (8.0+) earthquakes hit various places worldwide over the last 1,303 days. Among these were 82 7.0+ and 6 8.0+ magnitude quakes. (Sources: CSEM-EMSC; Geoscience Australia; USGS; Pacific Tsunami Warning Center; China Earthquake Networks Center; GEOFON and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University).
Major to super magnitude earthquakes have increased to more than one every two days on average during the last 43 months. This is unprecedented and a fulfillment of last days Bible prophecy.
Jesus said these signs would appear before He returns, "Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places" Matthew 24:7.
Jesus also said, "Blessed are those servants whom the Master, when He comes, will find watching" Luke 12:37.
Hundreds of Bible prophecies have been fulfilled and those remaining will also come to pass. Please don't neglect your eternal soul. If you aren't saved, I invite you to visit the How Can I Be Saved page of this website. God bless you.
Great Earthquake Hits Indonesia (7.2); Major Earthquakes Hit Alaska (6.4), Panama-Colombia Border (6.1), Aleutian Islands (6.9), Tonga (6.0)
Posted by elim19 in EARTHQUAKES, PROPHECY, SIGNS IN THE EARTH
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A major 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Southern Alaska on July 29, 2015, at 02:35:58 UTC, at a depth of 100 km, reported Geoscience Australia (not finalized).
A major 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit the Panama-Colombia border region on July 29, 2015, at 00:10:24 UTC, at a depth of 10 km, reported Geoscience Australia (not finalized).
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of Ewa Beach, HI, issued a tsunami information statement on July 29, 2015 at 0016 UTC.
A great 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on July 27, 2015, at 21:41:21 UTC, at a depth of 47 km, reported Geoscience Australia.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami statement on July 27, 2015 at 2150 UTC.
A major 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, on July 27, 2015, at 04:49:45.2 UTC, at a depth of 20 km, reported CSEM-EMSC.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning statement on July 27, 2015 at 0455 UTC.
A major 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Tonga on July 26, 2015, at 22:42:17.2 UTC, at a depth of 30 km, reported CSEM-EMSC
468 major to great (6.0+) earthquakes hit various places over the last 888 days. Among these were 58 7.0+ and 5 8.0+ magnitude quakes. (Sources: CSEM-EMSC, Geoscience Australia, USGS, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, China Earthquake Networks Center).
Major to great magnitude earthquakes (6.0+) have increased to more than one quake every two days during the last 29 months on average. This is unprecedented and a fulfillment of last days Bible prophecy.
Watch for earthquakes to occur in various places like never before!
*Reliable sources have reported that not all earthquakes are included in available data. I have seen this first hand from one survey data provider to another. The spirit of antichrist has hindered the statistical data, but we can still see that the data we do have exceeds prior stats.
This year, 2015, the "Star of Bethlehem" appeared on June 30th, for the first time in about 2,000 years, since the birth of Jesus our Savior; and it is the Hebrew Shemitah year (occurring only once every seven years), as well as the Jubilee year (occurring only once every 49 years), as we also see the extremely rare occurrence of four "blood moons" (lunar eclipses, Joel 2:31, Acts 20:2) occurring simultaneously on four of Israel's feast days in 2014-15, with a solar eclipse…
Image credit: John Hagee Ministries
The Prophet Joel wrote about 2,500 years ago,
"The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come" Joel 2:31.
Was he not referring to the tetrad of lunar eclipses, with a solar eclipse among them, during this extremely rare and phenomenal event on Israel's feast days, also during this Shemitah and Jubilee year?
I believe he indeed made reference to this very rare event and I also believe that the return of the Lord is imminent!


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Vaccine Hesitancy Rooted in Systemic Racism Requires Systemic Solutions
by Chelsea Bean March 19, 2021 February 10, 2022
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of medical racism.
Vaccine hesitancy – the uncertainty surrounding the benefits of a vaccine leading to the refusal of receiving one – is present within every population group in Canada and the United States. In fact, only 48% of surveyed Canadians indicated they would be willing to get a vaccine for COVID-19 as soon as it was available to them, while 14% claimed that they would never choose to receive one. Although there is very little race-based data concerning vaccine uptake in Canada, African Americans have the highest rate of vaccine hesitancy of any racial group in the United States.
However, vaccine hesitancy must be understood as separate from the growing "anti-vax" movement on social media, which works to spread misinformation about the science and side-effects of vaccines. On the other hand, vaccine hesitancy is a valid reaction to centuries of systemic abuse by health care systems, which often performed unethical vaccine trials and other medical experiments on Black and Indigenous peoples without their consent. Unfortunately, these communities have also experienced some of the highest rates of COVID-19 per capita. For example, First Nations in Manitoba make up 71% of active cases and 51% of people in the intensive care unit, despite only constituting 10% of the province's population.
It is also important to note that Black and Indigenous peoples do not represent a monolith of opinion or experience, and that many people are very vocal about the importance of vaccines for keeping their communities safe and healthy. Yet these disproportional statistics shed light on the impacts of systemic racism within health care, and the ways these inequities have manifested in the face of the pandemic.
Colonial Histories
One of the most referenced examples of racist medical misconduct in the United States is the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" conducted by the Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972. Lasting for 40 years, the researchers injected syphilis into African American men without their informed consent. The participants were unaware that the researchers had no intent to cure them of syphilis, even though antibiotics such as penicillin became popular at the time for treating the illness. While the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has since denounced the study, this is just one example of an experiment that has sown seeds of medical distrust among African American communities, and alerted them to the issues of coerced consent within healthcare.
However, anti-racist scholars and activists argue that this study is just one instance of racist abuse within the country's "Medical Apartheid." In other words, the entire health-care system in the United States is based upon centuries of racism that has forced unconsenting African Americans into very dangerous medical studies for the sake of research. This history of racism persists in the modern day through documented instances of African Americans being given less pain medication than white people, and having their symptoms perceived as less serious. It is believed that an increase in vaccine hesitancy within these marginalized communities is in part due to the trauma they have faced at the hands of the medical establishment.
In Canada, a similar story unfolds when examining the role of colonial policies, which have ensured that some Indigenous peoples on reservations have limited access to proper medical treatment, among other systemic conditions that prevent their access to clean drinking water and safe housing. During the 1930s, the government tested new tuberculosis vaccines on poor and underhoused Aboriginal peoples. This was done despite Canada's documentation at the time proving that the root cause of disease spread in Aboriginal communities was their terrible living conditions on government-funded reserves. To this day, housing conditions and lack of clean drinking water on many reserves are pressing problems, and their tokenistic acknowledgement by Prime Minister Trudeau is highlighted by his recent failure at addressing these forefront issues by his self-imposed March 31, 2021 deadline.
Other instances of systemic racism in healthcare include the 29 racially segregated and poorly constructed "Indian Hospitals" operated by the Canadian government from 1945 to 1981. Not only were victims experimented on without their consent, including being forced to participate in vaccine trials, but the Indigenous patients also recall being physically and sexually assaulted by staff, starved, and restrained to their beds. In a more recent collective memory, the federal government sent shipments of body bags rather than antivirals to four Manitoba First Nations during the 2009 outbreak of H1N1, leaving communities with the impression that their lives were disposable. Further, at least hundreds of Indigenous women have been forcibly sterilized without their informed consent, with some instances dating to as recently as 2017.
Without a national inquiry into the historical and present-day manifestations of systemic racism within Canadian healthcare, in combination with the lack of specific race-based COVID-19 data, it is difficult to understand the full extent of vaccine hesitancy among Indigenous peoples. However, the stories that Indigenous folks and communities have shared about their experiences of abuse within medical care shed light on why distrust with the healthcare system may be a factor of vaccine hesitancy.
Addressing the Problems
In instances where race-based data shows that COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on racialized groups, it does not necessarily mean that the inequities will be adequately addressed. For example, while data reveals higher rates of infection and hospitalization due to COVID-19 within Black communities in Toronto, the province of Ontario has not implemented any specific strategies tackling the impacts of systemic racism to slow down the rate of virus transmission. For many Black communities, the existence of government data proving their particular vulnerabilities to COVID-19 is not a sufficient tool for building trust with public health agencies. Instead, actions that work to repair relationships with marginalized communities, from acknowledging the harms caused by the medical system on Black people to actively working on dismantling systemic racism, are essential to decrease rates of vaccine hesitancy.
Similarly, addressing the issue of vaccine hesitancy in Indigenous communities should be approached from a perspective that works to understand the negative impacts of systemic racism on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and their government medical systems. An example of such an approach could have Indigenous Elders and healthcare providers lead vaccine messaging that speaks to the specific experiences of Indigenous communities with the medical system whilst highlighting important principles surrounding family, community, and the land. Additionally, letting Indigenous healthcare providers run vaccine clinics within their own communities and training practitioners to work with anti-racist and trauma-informed perspectives are some of the short-term solutions to ethically deliver COVID-19 vaccines.
Efforts that work towards meaningful reconciliation and reducing vaccine hesitancy go hand-in-hand, and centuries of colonial Canadian governance have put in place the systemic racism and distrust that Indigenous communities experience in healthcare today. There exist short-term solutions that address the vaccine hesitancy of Black and Indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, truly undertaking the problems of systemic racism and distrust requires policy-makers to address socio-economic inequities faced by racialized populations that impact their health. Some of these include providing adequate housing and clean drinking water, increased access to jobs that pay a living wage, and stopping energy projects that contribute to environmental racism and poor health. Envisioning healthy futures for BIPOC communities beyond COVID-19 is a long-haul effort.
Tagged: colonialism, health, Social Justice, US & Canada
Chelsea Bean
Chelsea was born and raised on the unceded territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, known as Victoria, BC and currently lives in Berlin. She graduated in 2020 with a degree in Gender, Race, Sexuality... More by Chelsea Bean


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When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
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Worse than Nothing—How Ineffective Vaccines Enhance Disease
In the current debate over whether or not to legislate the removal of individual vaccine exemptions, the quality of the vaccines themselves gets little attention. According to the CDC, mumps outbreaks are on the rise despite the fact that 94.6% of children in the U.S. have had two doses of MMR vaccine. To combat the situation, the CDC is considering adding a third dose of MMR to the recommended vaccine schedule.
In 2010, California experienced the largest pertussis epidemic since 1958. According to the CDC, the U.S. has experienced increased pertussis disease despite high levels of vaccine coverage. Researchers studying the pertussis outbreaks determined vaccine effectiveness dropped to less than 9% by four years, and that the quality of immunization waned so rapidly that little protection remained 2-3 years after vaccination.
Influenza vaccination has had no beneficial effect on flu mortality. The CDC indicates vaccine effectiveness has oscillated between 10-60% from 2005-2017, while systematic reviews show little to no benefit of inactivated influenza vaccines on flu morbidity.
It's clear that some vaccines don't work as well as advertised. And yet, instead of first making a vaccine with better effectiveness, the solution is to use the force of law to make everyone get more shots of the failing vaccine.
Even when significant vaccine failure rates for vaccines are acknowledged, the legislative solution remains fully supported. Concerns over the need for more effective vaccines are dismissed by apologetics pointing out that the current vaccines are better than nothing. The assumption is implicit: low immunity is better than no immunity. So, until a better vaccine comes along, accept the current shot at whatever level of immunity it provides. But the notion that any amount of antibodies is preferable to no antibodies at all, is dangerously wrong. The same exact antibodies that prevent disease at higher concentrations, can enhance the disease at lower concentrations.
Instead of preventing infection, the antibodies permit a more invasive spread of the virus into different cell types, enhancing the disease and making it worse than if the child had never been vaccinated. This phenomenon is called antibody-dependent enhancement of disease, and it is a potential problem for vaccines that induce low levels of antibodies.
It's not just a theoretical concern. It has happened. Vaccine-induced disease enhancement occurred previously with a measles vaccine that produced low levels of immunity.
From Iankov et al. 2006:
An unexpectedly severe form of measles (atypical measles) was observed in immunized persons in the mid-1960s;
Three doses of measles vaccine induced a short-lasting humoral immune response, followed several months or years later by susceptibility to atypical measles;
Antibodies recognizing measles virus can increase the efficiency of virus entry into cells of the monocytic lineage;
Antibody-mediated enhancement of infection may also contribute to cytokine alteration and modulation of the innate immune mechanisms during measles;
The results point to an additional pathogenic mechanism that may be in play during measles virus infections and which may have particular relevance to the pathogenesis of the atypical measles that is seen after immunization.
The effect of vaccine-induced disease enhancement has been seen in clinical trials for a since abandoned HIV vaccine.
From Huisman et al. 2009:
Certain experimental vaccines have proved to be counterproductive: they rendered vaccinated subjects more susceptible to infection rather than protecting them;
For candidate HIV vaccines a number of phase III trials have been conducted in seronegative volunteers at high risk for HIV infection;
The outcome of these trials was far from encouraging, with very limited induction of HIV neutralizing antibodies, and no evidence for protection;
In one clinical trial, a significant trend towards increased HIV-1 infection was observed;
Antibody-dependent enhancement of infection remains a significant concern in the development of safe and effective vaccines;
There may well be a delicate balance between the induction of protective immunity on the one hand and the induction of enhanced susceptibility on the other.
The HPV vaccine exhibited the capacity to enhance HPV infections during clinical trials. Women who tested positive for vaccine HPV serotypes by PCR analysis, and were then administered the vaccine, were more likely to develop high-grade cervical lesions than the non-vaccinated control group. These observations have persisted beyond clinical trials, and antibody-dependent enhancement has been raised as a possible explanation.
From Manos 2009:
Vaccination of women with previous HPV 16 or 18 infection might actually increase their risk of high-grade cervical disease;
This observation is strikingly consistent with reports on the quadrivalent HPV vaccine;
Although each trial's finding was attributed to imbalances in the baseline characteristics of the vaccine and placebo groups, the biological phenomenon of antibody-dependent enhancement of disease should be considered;
Perhaps HPV testing should precede vaccination and be contraindicated for women and girls previously infected.
It's been known for decades that non-neutralizing influenza antibodies can augment the uptake of influenza A virus strains, but it wasn't until recently that the phenomenon of disease enhancement for influenza vaccination was observationally proven. In 2009, seasonal influenza vaccination increased the risk of pandemic influenza illness in those who received the vaccine. This result was confirmed in four observational studies. Antibody-dependent enhancement of disease has been proposed as the potentiating mechanism.
Vaccines sometimes do nothing ─ they cause no harm as they fail to protect the vaccine recipient from disease. Sometimes vaccines do worse than nothing ─ they cause more cases, and more severe cases of disease in those who opt to be vaccinated. Low levels of antibodies cannot be viewed as less of a good thing. Ineffective vaccines are a bad thing. They stimulate low level immune responses that sometimes potentiate the exact diseases they were intended to prevent.
Legislation that would force the use of an ineffective vaccine must be abandoned. But that's not enough. The ineffective product itself must be abandoned. According to the FDA, vaccine policy that mandates usage of an ineffective vaccine leads to disease outbreaks in older age groups that are more likely to suffer complications from disease.
Vaccine policy aimed at preventing outbreaks and eradicating disease can only succeed when there is high vaccine uptake of an effective vaccine. If one is missing, there is no point in having the other. New vaccines are required. The continued use of some of the current, poorly-performing vaccines, moots any perceived necessity to legislate forced uptake, because no amount of vaccine uptake will prevent disease outbreaks. Even with 100% compliance, outbreaks would still occur because the vaccines are not effective enough to provide population level immunity sufficient to prevent epidemics. Furthermore, outbreaks will continue to occur in older age groups where complications from disease are more common, and mothers will have little to no immunity to provide to their newborns during those early critical months of life.
Individuals should have the legal right to exempt themselves and their children from using the current products. For practical and ethical reasons, the conversation to mandate the use of vaccines shouldn't even be considered until more effective products are available.
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Q: SNES Mode 7 - What are Mode 1 through 6? We often hear about the SNES mode 7, where images can be distorted to make effects.
But since it's mode 7, it makes me think that there is a mode 1-2-3-4-5-6.
So what are they? What could be good examples of seeing modes 1 to 6 in action?

A: Basically, modes 0 through 6 are the different background modes. They determine how many background layers are available to use, what bit-depth the graphics are in and what extra features are available. In general, there's a trade off between higher bit depth graphics and colour, and higher resolutions. The various different modes mix and match various features, so you can pick one that you need. This video explains everything in depth:

Mode 0: 4 background layers (each limited to 2 bit per pixel graphics/32 colours), tile characters can be 8x8 or 16x16 pixels, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, colour maths, limited interlacing and pseudo-horizontal 512-dot mode.
Mode 1: 3 background layers (two 4 BPP/128 colours and one 2 BPP), 8x8 or 16x16 tiles, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, colour maths, limited interlacing and pseudo-horizontal 512-dot mode.
Mode 2: 2 background layers (two 4 BPP/128 colours), 8x8 or 16x16 tiles, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, colour maths, limited interlacing, pseudo-horizontal 512-dot mode and offset-change-per-column.
Mode 3: 2 background layers (one 8 BPP/256 colours, one 4 BPP), 8x8 or 16x16 tiles, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, colour maths, limited interlacing, pseudo-horizontal 512-dot mode and direct colour mode.
Mode 4: 2 background layers (one 8 BPP/256 colours, one 2 BPP), 8x8 or 16x16 tiles, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, colour maths, limited interlacing, pseudo-horizontal 512-dot mode, limited offset-change-per-column and direct colour mode.
Mode 5: 2 background layers (one 4 BPP, one 2 BPP), 16x8 or 16x16 tiles, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, interlacing and true horizontal 512 mode.
Mode 6: 1 background layer (4 BPP), 16x8 or 16x16 tiles, with features supported being: mosaic, windowing, interlacing, true horizontal 512 mode and offset-change-per-column.
I'd recommend watching the video, as it gives helpful graphics and examples from SNES games as well as explanations.


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10 reasons why we love the new Robot Wars
It's back! Sir Killalot and co shake off the rust
Sir Killalot and co shake off the rust and return to the arena… and we couldn't be happier. Here are a bunch of reasons why the new Robot Wars is awesome!
1. The House Robots return
Yes, the actual House Rockets - those dealers of dastardly destruction in the Robot Wars Arena - are back! Come on, it wouldn't be Robot Wars without them. The original four the debuted in the very first series - Matilda, Shunt, Dead Metal and the daddy, Sir Killalot - all return, with the other six thankfully left to rot on the scrapheap. It may have been 12 years since the seventh series ended, but these CPZ stalking bots are still the patrolling badasses of the show.
2. The arena is back - and now it's bulletproof!
As iconic as the robots, the logo and Jonathan Pearce's over-enthusiastic commentary, the Robot Wars arena is a character all unto itself. The new version has been built from scratch, taking the designs of the original and adding in a sprinkling of 2016 to the mix. The flooring is now made up of 6mm steel boards (instead the wooden one used in the old formats), with 15x15m surface area that's been enclosed in a 20x20m polycarbonate box. And yes, it's actually bulletproof!
3. Dara and Angela are a great fit
Okay, if you were a fan from the very beginning of Robots Wars, no one was ever going to be able to replace Craig Charles and Philippa Forrester (we don't count Jeremy Clarkson - yup, he really did present RW for a single series - or the short-lived Julia Reed), but that doesn't mean fresh blood is a bad thing. Dara O'Brien is a perfect fit for a show with his love of science and Angela Scanlon, while something of an unknown to UK audiences, is just as quirky and easy going as Forrester was back in the day.
4. Jonathan Pearce is back, too
Look, we have to have someone from the old days. While many of us were worried that irritating bloke who voices over The X-Factor would probably get the commentary gig, the Plymouth-born football commentator has made his triumphant return to the Robot Wars mic with the new series and we couldn't be more excited. No one else gets as excited at the sight of remotely controlled pneumatic axes smashing through steel plates than Pearce.
5. Classic robots and teams return
Sure, a new series means a whole generation of new teams entering the arena - and we'll get to them shortly - but one of the best things about the 2016 incarnation of Robot Wars is the return of some familiar, if slightly older, faces. With them come some of the most beloved competitor robots from the show's long history, including Razer, Terrorhurtz and Sabretooth. Seeing these old steel beasts roll back into the arena brings a rust-coloured tear to the eye.
6. It still feels '90s as hell
It shouldn't really - after all, it has been 16 years since the bloody decade ended, but there's just something emphatically '90s about the format of Robot Wars that feels so joyously kitsch. The backstage interviews set conducted while team's repair their bots, Jonathan Pearce going mental on the mic, flames licking from the pit in the arena, that flippin' logo. Let's be honest, it's a Fresh Prince episode and a Chumbawamba single away from being a full on '90s tribute.
7. Battery advancements mean more powerful bots
In the 12 years that Robot Wars has been off the air, robotics has been going through a hyperactive transcendence. Everything from advancements in artificial intelligence to drone maneuverability have helped further the field in its quest for robotic perfection. And even something as simple as the creation of smaller and more powerful batteries has enabled teams to construct new fighting robots that can move faster and use weapons with far more power.
8. It's like Top Gear… but better
New Top Gear wasn't so much a revival, more an attempt at a soft reboot but it messed with the classic formula. Robot Wars, much like TG, sports a brand new set of presenters, but the show wisely retains the magic recipe of the original format. Introduce the episode, show off the robots, fight, repeat. The new faces make it feel fresh and new, but underneath the new blood there's almost everything you loved about the original incarnation.
9. A new generation can obsess over robotics
This is one of, if not /the/ best thing about a new series of Robot Wars. It's been 12 long years since the show went off the air with the end of the seventh series, and since then robotics has been transformed. Drones are everywhere and are on the cusp of becoming the new pace of camera production and deliveries, so what better time to introduce a new generation to the ever fascinating field of robotics? Plus these ones have axes and butch-sounding names.
10. We don't have to see Craig Charles' jackets anymore
We /loved/ Craig Charles. Come on, the man's Lister from Red Dwarf, for Pete's sake. From his cheesy yet absolutely necessary poetry ("We don't like losers. We don't like draws. We're winners here, on Robot Wars.") to the way he'd hype up the audience before the cameras would start rolling on each episode, Charles was the heart of the old format. But let's be honest, those tassel biker jackets (and that weird two-finger kiss thing) won't be missed any time soon.
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CEATEC 2017 Day 3: T3 checks out the hot new tech from Sharp, Panasonic, NEC, Mitsubishi, and Fujitsu
8K TVs, robots, smart home gadgets, wearables, hearables, AI, and much, much more on the final day of CEATEC 2017
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CEATEC 2017 Day 1: AI robots, drones, and cloud computing are conquering Japan, while VR is still alive
T3's man in Japan Marco Zangirolami reports in from the world's leading CPS/IoT exhibition of advanced technology.
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T3 visits Heineken's Göss brewery and, yep you guessed it, we drink a dump truck load of beer
International Beer Day We also discover how the beer is made and how Heineken has made Göss the world's first carbon-neutral, large-scale brewery
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T3 takes a look at the future of flight with highlights from the annual aircraft industry event
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Q: "Detaching" a subsite from the template used to create it? I previously created a custom subsite template and used it to create a couple of subsites. Now I have a request to add to the template, but I am unable to deactivate the template so that I can update the solution.
If I try to deactivate the solution so that I can update the file an error stating I don't have permission to deactivate appears. I am able to deactivate/activate new templates that haven't been used yet, however.
Is there a way to edit the template/ detach the subsites created with it so they are no longer dependent on it?

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When you want to have an easy way of carrying out your services, you need to ensure that you have an easy way of carrying out your security checks on your documents the best way. In case you realize that your employees are in a mess, you need to know that there is something wrong and you need to fix things up to ensure that the office looks organized and avoid those cases of data breach. You would not like to find yourself at the law court trying to justify why you lost data or why a client data was used in other places. This article will take you through some of the procedure for protecting the sensitive information for a business. Here is an easy way that you can use to ensure that your company details are secure all the time.
You should not wait when you have problems at your workplace, but all your employees need to be trained in social engineering. It is now not the time to keep figuring out how some hackers could be seated somewhere under the basement trying to access your details because that does not happen. The work for these scams have become very easy now that the social engineering is available for them. The only thing that is required by scammers is usually to use the social engineering, and this is very easy. For instance, you do not need to start giving your company's information just because a certain person claims to be your new employee. Not all the HRs are informed about how they can describe some scammers while they do not have information on how to identify them. All your employees need to be well informed about how social engineering works so that they can prevent such instances from occurring.
By updating your software, you will have secured so many things for your company. Having that software that you never created is risking but the real thing here is about how secure it is. If your software is not yet secure, this is the reason you need to keep worrying about hackers. Also, all your workers should know how to catch scams.


Homeowners facing the threat of flood waters often have little time to prepare their property against flooding. If your home relies on a septic system for waste removal needs, flooding could compromise the performance of this septic system. Knowing how to restore your septic system following a flood will help you repair any damage and get your waste removal system functioning properly once again. Start by inspecting the drain field.
When you buy a commercial building, you may be interested in setting up proper customer parking and making sure that the stock rooms have the right shelves and carts to hold the products. For a commercial building, you will need to make sure that the electrical systems and plumbing systems are in working order. The plumbing in an office building will have workers and customers, depending on the office size. Getting a septic system inspection is one of the first things that you may need to do when looking at the health of your new building.
If you're thinking about installing a garbage disposal in your home, you'll want to understand how it will affect your septic system so you don't inadvertently cause problems. A garbage disposal is a very handy kitchen appliance, but everything that goes in it also goes into your septic tank. Here are a few things you might want to know about using a garbage disposal when you have a septic system.
Smelly Water in Your Yard? Now What?
If you have a septic tank and wake up to smelly water in your yard, you're rightfully concerned. An overflowing septic tank is never a good thing, but there are actually several issues that may be to blame for the overflow, and some are easier to fix than others. Here's a look! An Overfilled Tank The least worrisome possibility is that your tank is just overdue for a pumping. When too much solid waste builds up at the bottom of the tank, there's not a lot of room for water.
If you have a septic tank, you need to make sure that you take care of it. Otherwise, you are going to end up with a huge mess in your yard that will cost you a lot of money. There are several very easy ways that you can make sure that your septic tank stays as healthy as possible, such as: Be Careful What You Flush When you are flushing things down your toilet, you need to make sure that you are flushing things that will break down in the septic tank.
The heating oil tank in your yard is a necessary evil. Over the years, that tank can begin to look horrible and eventually need to be replaced. If the oil tank can make it a few more years, it's time to consider utilizing a bit of creativity to hide it. If it's unsafe to be used, it's time to replace it. Here, you will find a few ideas that can help you creatively hide your tank and tips for knowing when it's time to replace it.


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Community banks are ever monitoring and reviewing their commercial mortgage portfolios. These loans are typically their larger loans within the bank and as such get closer scrutiny from banking regulators. When local real estate markets run into trouble, the banks servicing commercial mortgages will be looking closely at each one for any signs of trouble. In addition, bank examiners will be looking closely at them as well.
So what are the signs that banks are looking for? How can you ensure that your commercial property associated commercial mortgage won't end up as a troubled loan on the bank's watch list? Well, sometimes there's not much you can do when adverse economic developments tank the economy and cash flows on your property decline. However, here are some things you can do.
First, before you even invest in new construction, take a close look at the local commercial market. Ask yourself, is the market overbuilt? That is one of the first signs of future trouble for your project. Timing is important—sounds too simple, but it gets overlooked when everything in the economy is moving strong and fast. Even bankers get caught up in the euphoria.
Second, be sure you have done your homework on the project. Is there a market for the property? Is the project the right fit for the location? Is it the highest and best use for the location? Not having a sound feasibility study or analysis can lead to substantial problems later on.
Third, keep any selling or leasing concessions to a minimum. If concessions are being made to sell units or get lease commitments for a new project, it could be a sign of trouble if those concessions cause the cash flows to come in below the projected cash flows.
Four, stick to your plan if you did your homework. Making significant changes during the project's construction can be very problematic. For example, if the project changes from a condominium to an apartment project.
Five, make sure you have adequate time to complete the project. Be realistic in scheduling enough time for each phase and make sure subcontractors are held to the schedule. In addition, be sure you have accurate cost estimates for each phase of the project. Construction delays or cost overruns can lead to renegotiated loan terms, something lenders look closely at as sign of trouble in the project.
Six, related to the previous step, make sure your construction draws are in line with your budget submitted to the lender. Periodic construction draws which exceed the amount needed to cover construction costs and related overhead expenses is a sign a project could be troubled.
Following these general steps will help your next project be a success. Lenders like to work with people who have sound plans for their project and are accurate with their cost estimates and market potential. Anything you can do to assure the lender that you have thought through and prepared sound plans will go a long way in obtaining financing for your new commercial property. We would enjoy discussing the financing for your next commercial real estate project. There is no cost or obligation until we find a committed lender will and able to finance your project.
How to get your construction loan approved.
Before the financial crisis of 2008, community banks loved to hand out commercial construction loans. It was their core lending product. However, when developers had no good way of paying these loans back, banks suffered and it has since become harder to secure a commercial construction loan. Don't get me wrong, banks love making these profitable loans because 1) they are short-term loans in which they can quickly get their funds back to lend out again, 2) credit unions are less able to make commercial loans due to restrictive regulations and 3) banks get points up-front on the entire loan amount—which typically acts as a line of credit, so the balance starts out small. But as I said earlier, if the economy turns south and the developer cannot arrange long term financing or otherwise pay off the construction loan, the bank is left with a loan that is not performing, or in other words, not being paid. Thus, the biggest source of strength the bank is looking for is a developer's equity in the project at a minimum of 20 percent! Banks call this having skin in the game.
Your cash down payment to purchase the land.
If you used a land loan to purchase the land, do not include any principle and interest paid on that loan, because in theory the bank analysis will only treat the land as a cash purchase.
All expenses paid-to-date into the project: architects fees, engineering fees, legal fees, etc. These should be included in the equity you are bringing to the table on the project.
Any increase in land value since you purchased it.
Any increase in the land value due to a zoning change.
Any increase in value due to assemblage—from buying adjacent properties and combining them into one.
Don't break ground until you have been approved!
Remember, within this list are very valid non-cash items that add equity to the project! Don't forget these because banks will first look for the 20 percent equity that you bring to the table before considering what you hope to do with the project.
Finally, remember that banks love to know that they are going to be paid back on time. The better that is communicated, the easier it is for them to approve the loan request. One advantage of working with a commercial broker to find the construction loan is that the bank also knows the commercial broker can find a more permanent commercial mortgage to take out the construction loan when the building is completed. In other words, you are more likely to be approved for your construction loan when you are working with a commercial broker because they will also find a permanent mortgage (and that makes the bank happy!). And when the bank's happy, you're happy and can spend more time to overseeing your construction project.


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Two Revolutionary War cannon and their ammunition carriages (limbers) were given to the Warren Artillery Company in 1842 along with funds to build Armory Hall for their loyal support of Governor King during an attempt to overthrow him in what came to be called the Dorr's Rebellion. One limber, named Pallas, is now on display in the west turret. It will be accompanied by the cannon named Tantae when restoration is completed as expected sometime in 2018.


This article can help you to better manage your time. Use the tips presented here to get control of your time better.
Use a timer when doing your advantage. This will show you how much time you are working. For instance, if a task requires one hour, set the timer for 15 minutes, go on a short break, and maintain this pattern for as long as you need for completing the task.
Do your best to allocate the hours in your time wisely. Consider how long each item will take and make a firm completion time. This makes things easier on you manage your time better and also improves your life. Use your extra free time to complete other tasks.
Plan your day ahead of time if you're struggling with time management.You can create a list of items to get done as the following work day ends. This will ease your mind a bit and take on the important tasks that are sure to follow you the next day.
Think about the way you time. Make sure you use it wisely. Only check your email or voicemail and emails when you've made time for them. Checking them when they come in takes away from the day will interfere with your time already allocated for other things.
By following the tips presented here, you will soon enjoy success, thanks to time management. By just moving things around in your schedule and making time for the things you need to make time for, you'll discover that your life is more organized. Putting this information to good use will help to improve your life.
More people should pay attention to time better. You might have noticed that with a detailed game plan, you get many more things done. Many people need to learn ways to manage their time. These tips can provide just the help you with that.
One great way to manage your time is by doing work a day in advance. Creating a list for tomorrow's tasks is a great way of ending your working day. You will be able to begin working right down to work when you know what is coming.
Keep the deadlines in mind at all times.If you prepare to get it done early, those approaching deadlines will not wreak havoc on your workload.
Plan out your day the evening before to help get your time organized. This is accomplished via a detailed plan of action or a to-do list for the day even begins. This will ease your mind a bit and make you more prepared.
Prioritize all the tasks in your day. Tasks that aren't necessarily important can take up most of your day. Prioritizing tasks can help you manage your time and energy on the things that are important. Make a list of tasks that you need to do and rank them by importance.
You have got to learn how to say no. Many people get overly stressed simply because they can't say no when asked to do something. Are there items you can get others to do for you? Ask your family members to assist in areas that are appropriate.
Close the door to your office to improve how efficiently you need to really buckle down and get work done. An open door signals others to speak to you can help with their issues and questions. Closing the door affords you privacy. People will understand that you want to be focused so you can do what you need a bit of peace and quiet.
Take a close look at the schedule you have. Is there anything on your schedule that you can be removed? Are there things you can get others to help free up some time on your schedule? Learning how to delegate your tasks is on the list of the most useful time management skills out there. This allows you to focus on something else.
You won't be able to do not expect to accomplish everything. It's virtually impossible to be able to do that. It's probable that the most productive parts of your day are often very brief in comparison to the overall amount of time you spend working. Try completing what you can and knowing that you might not get to everything.
Tackle the hardest tasks early.The time consumption and challenge of these tasks make them a priority for starting early in the day. This will relieve you of pressure as you when it is time to complete easier tasks. If you're able to get your stressful tasks done early, you can feel more refreshed as the day goes by.
Make a list of what you want to accomplish and put the day; then prioritize the list by how important tasks to accomplish. Work your way down the list from top to bottom finishing one task after you finish one.
Keep a diary if you want to manage your time more wisely. Write down even the things that take your time it is taking. Check your diary after several days to see what can be altered.
Think about the work required to complete your list. Do not sweat over perfection when doing unimportant tasks to perfection. You should only devote sufficient effort to each job scheduled to reach your immediate goals and proceed to the following step. Saving best efforts for the crucial jobs will give you use your time better.
Time management isn't necessarily the easiest skill to acquire, but it is by no means impossible. The best part is that if you start soon, you will understand how time management leads to success in life. Remember these tips and get better at time management.


Have you ever wondered if you should bother God with your needs since there are so many others worse off than you are? Here's how I learned to pray for my needs.
1. Nothing is too big or too small.
Sometimes we hesitate because our small daily challenges like getting to work on time seem trivial compared to people who are in life and death situations. Other times we forget to ask because we get so wrapped up providing everything for ourselves that we develop a false sense of self sufficiency.
2. It's natural and healthy for us to turn to God in our times of need.
Yet God created us so that we would naturally turn to Him in prayer when we need help. There's truth to the saying that there are no atheists in foxholes because nearly everyone of every background feels the impulse to pray when faced with serious problems beyond their control. Learning to regularly pray about our needs both big and small is a divine pathway into prayer that helps us form a daily reliance on God's providence and a deeper trust in Christ.
3. Jesus tells us to pray for our needs.
4. Praying for our needs brings supernatural peace.
5. Prayer is part of the divine spiritual cycle of provision which produces generosity, joy, thanksgiving and closer interconnections with fellow Christians.
"Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
6. Great spiritual growth can happen as we pray about our needs.
The Bible is the ultimate resource when it comes to helping us pray for our needs with confidence and hope. When praying Scripture we are interacting with the Living Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to open our thoughts to God's view of our needs and how He desires to fill them.
There are countless verses and personal accounts in the Bible that assure us that God will meet our needs. There are also scriptures which we might pray and meditate on covering our specific individual needs whether we are in need of healing, protection or guidance or need help in overcoming fear.
A number of years ago I set a personal goal of having a book published and I prayed for years for this to happen. I wrote 5 unpublished novels that kept getting rejected. Then one day I realized that when praying for the things we want, we need to be open to God's guidance as to whether what we're praying for is the right thing. I eventually had my first book published and it wasn't a novel, it was a nonfiction inspirational book on depending on God to thrive and grow during life's waiting periods. I discovered that when praying for needs, we shouldn't overlook the long list of virtues in step 6 above and we shouldn't have a rigid idea of exactly what God should give us to meet our needs.


Just a few moments have passed when we reported that a special edition of the upcoming iPhone 8 will come with an OLED panel, and now this latest concept is something out of a fairy tale.
Apple can definitely take some pointers as this iPhone 8 concept definitely illustrates what we've been wanting to see from an iPhone. The rimless display shows that the display melts to the sides of the phone, although we can still see the famous circular home button present at the lower center of the smartphone. From what we've heard, the upcoming smartphone was not going to feature a physical home button and instead, is going to be replaced with 3D Touch enabled button instead.
The button will most likely possess a haptic motor placed underneath, which will deliver a sensation of a tactile feedback. It also shows an 'all glass' housing, which is along the lines of what Apple is intending to do with its 10th anniversary of the iPhone.
It might not appear in the video given below, but Apple's iPhone 8 has also been rumored to feature a massive 5.8-inch display, showing that the company could move out of its comfort zone as far as the screen size is concerned. An ever larger iPhone will give Apple sufficient amounts of room to play around incorporating a large battery capacity, so we're really hoping that the tech giant takes advantage of the size, assuming the screen size ends up being true.
The iPhone 8 is also expected to come with wireless charging features and an iris scanner, and it's highly possible that Apple integrates Apple Pay with the advanced security feature. The wireless charging functionality will definitely be useful and hopefully, it will be able to provide juice to the handset at a much faster pace. Just like wireless vs. wired internet connections, wireless charging is yet to mature, and it's quite possible that it will never come close to the amount of current delivery that wired charging is able to achieve, but it's the convenience factor that's being taken into account here.
Regardless, we honestly want you to give an impartial opinion of the iPhone 8 concept. We want to know your thoughts.


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Q: Using a created tensorflow model for predicting I'm looking at source code from this Tensorflow article that talks about how to create a wide-and-deep learning model. https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.3/tutorials/wide_and_deep
Here is the link to the python source code: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/r1.3/tensorflow/examples/learn/wide_n_deep_tutorial.py
What the goal of it is, is to train a model that will predict if someone makes more or less than $50k a year given the data in the census information.
As instructed, I'm running this command to execute:
python wide_n_deep_tutorial.py --model_type=wide_n_deep

The result that I get is the following:
$ python wide_n_deep.py --model_type=wide_n_deep
Training data is downloaded to /tmp/tmp_pwqo2h8
Test data is downloaded to /tmp/tmph6jcimik
2018-01-03 05:34:12.236038: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:137] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 FMA
WARNING:tensorflow:enqueue_data was called with num_epochs and num_threads > 1. num_epochs is applied per thread, so this will produce more epochs than you probably intend. If you want to limit epochs, use one thread.
WARNING:tensorflow:enqueue_data was called with shuffle=False and num_threads > 1. This will create multiple threads, all reading the array/dataframe in order. If you want examples read in order, use one thread; if you want multiple threads, enable shuffling.
WARNING:tensorflow:Casting <dtype: 'float32'> labels to bool.
WARNING:tensorflow:Casting <dtype: 'float32'> labels to bool.
model directory = /tmp/tmp_ab6cfsf
accuracy: 0.808673
accuracy_baseline: 0.763774
auc: 0.841373
auc_precision_recall: 0.66043
average_loss: 0.418642
global_step: 2000
label/mean: 0.236226
loss: 41.8154
prediction/mean: 0.251593

In the various articles that I've seen online, it talks about loading in a .ckpt file. When I look in my model directory I see these files:
$ ls /tmp/tmp_ab6cfsf
checkpoint  eval  events.out.tfevents.1514957651.ml-1  graph.pbtxt  model.ckpt-1.data-00000-of-00001  model.ckpt-1.index  model.ckpt-1.meta  model.ckpt-2000.data-00000-of-00001  model.ckpt-2000.index  model.ckpt-2000.meta

I'm guessing the one that I would be using is model.ckpt-1.meta, is that correct?
But I'm also confused on how to use and feed this model data. I've looked at this article on Tensorflow's website: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.3/programmers_guide/saved_model
Which says "Note that Estimators automatically saves and restores variables (in the model_dir)." (not sure what that means in this context)
How can I generate information in the format of the census data, except the salary since that is what we are supposed to be predicting? It's not obvious to me how to use the two Tensorflow articles in order to be able to use the trained model in order to make predictions.

A: You can look at the official blog posts (part 1 and part 3) from the TensorFlow team that explains well how to use an estimator.
In particular they explain how to make predictions using a custom input. This uses the built-in predict method of Estimators:
estimator = tf.estimator.Estimator(model_fn, ...)

predict_input_fn = ...  # define this using tf.data

predict_results = estimator.predict(predict_input_fn)
for idx, prediction in enumerate(predict_results):
    print(idx)
    for key in prediction:
        print("...{}: {}".format(key, prediction[key]))

For your example, we can create a predict input function using an additional csv file. Let's suppose we have a csv file called "predict.csv" containing three examples (could be the first three lines of "test.csv" for instance without the labels). This would give:
predict.csv:

...skip this line...
  25, Private, 226802, 11th, 7, Never-married, Machine-op-inspct, Own-child, Black, Male, 0, 0, 40, United-States
  38, Private, 89814, HS-grad, 9, Married-civ-spouse, Farming-fishing, Husband, White, Male, 0, 0, 50, United-States
  28, Local-gov, 336951, Assoc-acdm, 12, Married-civ-spouse, Protective-serv, Husband, White, Male, 0, 0, 40, United-States

estimator = build_estimator(FLAGS.model_dir, FLAGS.model_type)

def predict_input_fn(data_file):
    """Input builder function."""
    df_data = pd.read_csv(
        tf.gfile.Open(data_file),
        names=CSV_COLUMNS[:-1],  # remove the last name "income_bracket" that corresponds to the label
        skipinitialspace=True,
        engine="python",
        skiprows=1)
    # remove NaN elements
    df_data = df_data.dropna(how="any", axis=0)
    return tf.estimator.inputs.pandas_input_fn(x=df_data, y=None, shuffle=False)

predict_file_name = "wide_n_deep/predict.csv"
predict_results = estimator.predict(input_fn=predict_input_fn(predict_file_name))
for idx, prediction in enumerate(predict_results):
    print(idx)
    for key in prediction:
        print("...{}: {}".format(key, prediction[key]))


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Dragon Boat Festival in China Back ->
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional holiday that commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan (Chu Yuan). The festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
What Do People Do?
The Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration where many eat rice dumplings (zongzi), drink realgar wine (xionghuangjiu), and race dragon boats. Other activities include hanging icons of Zhong Kui (a mythic guardian figure), hanging mugwort and calamus, taking long walks, writing spells and wearing perfumed medicine bags.
All of these activities and games such as making an egg stand at noon were regarded by the ancients as an effective way of preventing disease, evil, while promoting good health and well-being. People sometimes wear talismans to fend off evil spirits or they may hang the picture of Zhong Kui, a guardian against evil spirits, on the door of their homes.
In the Republic of China, the festival was also celebrated as "Poets' Day" in honor of Qu Yuan, who is known as China's first poet. Chinese citizens traditionally throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water and it is also customary to eat tzungtzu and rice dumplings.
The festival was long marked as a cultural holiday in China. However, it wasn't until 2008 that the Dragon Boat Festival was recognized as a traditional and statutory public holiday in the People's Republic of China.
Many believe that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in ancient China based on the suicide of the poet and statesman of the Chu kingdom, Qu Yuan in 278 BCE.
The festival commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan, who was a loyal minister of the King of Chu in the third century BCE. Qu Yuan's wisdom and intellectual ways antagonized other court officials, thus they accused him of false charges of conspiracy and was exiled by the king. During his exile, Qu Yuan composed many poems to express his anger and sorrow towards his sovereign and people.
Qu Yuan drowned himself by attaching a heavy stone to his chest and jumping into the Miluo River in 278 BCE at the age of 61. The people of Chu tried to save him believing that Qu Yuan was an honorable man; they searched desperately in their boats looking for Qu Yuan but were unable to save him. Every year the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated to commemorate this attempt at rescuing Qu Yuan.
The local people began the tradition of throwing sacrificial cooked rice into the river for Qu Yuan, while others believed that the rice would prevent the fishes in the river from eating Qu Yuan's body. At first, the locals decided to make zongzi in hopes that it would sink into the river and reach Qu Yuan's body. However, the tradition of wrapping the rice in bamboo leaves to make zongzi began the following year.
A dragon boat is a human-powered boat or paddle boat that is traditionally made of teak wood to various designs and sizes. They usually have brightly decorated designs that range anywhere from 40 to 100 feet in length, with the front end shaped like open-mouthed dragons, and the back end with a scaly tail. The boat can have up to 80 rowers to power the boat, depending on the length. A sacred ceremony is performed before any competition in order to "bring the boat to life" by painting the eyes. The first team to grab a flag at the end of the course wins the race.
The zong zi is a glutinous rice ball with a filling and wrapped in corn leaves. The fillings can be egg, beans, dates, fruits, sweet potato, walnuts, mushrooms, meat, or a combination of them. They are generally steamed.
It is said that if you can balance a raw egg on its end at exactly noon on Double Fifth Day, the rest of the year will be lucky.
The hanging of calamus and moxa on the front door, the pasting up pictures of Chung Kuei, drinking hsiung huang wine and holding fragrant sachets are said to possess qualities for preventing evil and bringing peace. Another custom practiced in Taiwan is "fetching noon water," in which people draw well water on the afternoon of the festival in the belief that it will cure all illnesses.


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HonFest is an annual festival held in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. HonFest takes its name from the word "hon", short for "honey", a term of endearment and greeting often used in "Baltimorese". The festival began in 1994 as a local celebration of the Baltimorese lifestyle and stereotype, and has become one of the most visited festivals in Baltimore. The summer festival originally started as a one-day event, but it became two days starting in 2007, and is held on a Saturday and Sunday. The festival holds a contest in which people dress up as a Baltimore "hon" in a 1960s-style beehive hairdo and sunglasses and other over-stylized clothes and makeup, such as, bright eye shadow, spandex pants, and leopard print clothing, and the winner is crowned "Miss Hon".

History

HonFest began in 1994, originally serving as a marketing tool for Cafe Hon. The festival started off as a one-day event, but since 2007 it has become a weekend-long event. Covering four city blocks of Hampden's 36th street, The Baltimore Sun claims that HonFest is Baltimore's most popular neighborhood festival, attracting numbers in the range of 50,000 attendees. As of 2012, three stages are available for entertainment including the main stage, the stage on Falls Road, and the Bacardi Lounge Umbrella Radio stage. The festival boasts the performances of local musical guest covering genres from blues, electronic, alternative rock, and folk. The participants of the event are encouraged to talk in Bawlmerese, the town's take on Hon dialect.

The 2020 HonFest, the 27th, went virtual.

Controversy
John Waters, whose films were a major influence, has sworn off the festival altogether. "To me, it's used up... It's condescending now. The people that celebrate it are not from it. I feel that in some weird way they're looking slightly down on it. I only celebrate something I can look up to." Some see the festival as perpetuating tired and outdated stereotypes. "...it's not just that people are mimicking or parodying the past; there's also an element of class ridicule involved (since the style, taste, and speech associated with working-class women are being fetishized and parodied by other, often wealthier, women). This brings up a number of questions: Is this just good-hearted fun? Is it truly honoring these women, or mocking them? Does it bring attention to Baltimore's working class residents, or simply treat them like they are historic relics?" The documentary "People Like Us" features a segment depicting Honfest and draws question to whether the middle class participants celebrate or mock the working class culture of old Baltimore.

See also
Culture of Baltimore

References

Festivals in Baltimore
Hampden, Baltimore
Recurring events established in 1994
Social class in the United States
Stereotypes of working-class women
Working-class culture in Baltimore

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