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<?php

namespace Longman\TelegramBot\Tests\Unit;

use DMS\PHPUnitExtensions\ArraySubset\ArraySubsetAsserts;
use Dummy\AdminCommands\DummyAdminCommand;
use Dummy\SystemCommands\DummySystemCommand;
use Dummy\UserCommands\DummyUserCommand;
use Longman\TelegramBot\Commands\UserCommands\StartCommand;
use Longman\TelegramBot\Entities\Update;
use Longman\TelegramBot\Exception\TelegramException;
use Longman\TelegramBot\Telegram;
use Longman\TelegramBot\TelegramLog;

/**
 * @link            https://github.com/php-telegram-bot/core
 * @author          Avtandil Kikabidze <akalongman@gmail.com>
 * @copyright       Avtandil Kikabidze <akalongman@gmail.com>
 * @license         http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php  The MIT License (MIT)
 * @package         TelegramTest
 */
class TelegramTest extends TestCase
{
    use ArraySubsetAsserts;

    /**
     * @var Telegram
     */
    private $telegram;

    /**
     * @var array A few dummy custom commands paths
     */
    private $custom_commands_paths = [
        '/tmp/php-telegram-bot-custom-commands-1',
        '/tmp/php-telegram-bot-custom-commands-2',
        '/tmp/php-telegram-bot-custom-commands-3',
    ];

    protected function setUp(): void
    {
        $this->telegram = new Telegram(self::$dummy_api_key, 'testbot');

        // Create a few dummy custom commands paths.
        foreach ($this->custom_commands_paths as $custom_path) {
            mkdir($custom_path);
        }
    }

    protected function tearDown(): void
    {
        // Clean up the custom commands paths.
        foreach ($this->custom_commands_paths as $custom_path) {
            rmdir($custom_path);
        }
    }

    public function testNewInstanceWithoutApiKeyParam(): void
    {
        $this->expectException(TelegramException::class);
        $this->expectExceptionMessage('API KEY not defined!');
        new Telegram('');
    }

    public function testNewInstanceWithInvalidApiKeyParam(): void
    {
        $this->expectException(TelegramException::class);
        $this->expectExceptionMessage('Invalid API KEY defined!');
        new Telegram('invalid-api-key-format');
    }

    public function testGetApiKey(): void
    {
        self::assertEquals(self::$dummy_api_key, $this->telegram->getApiKey());
    }

    public function testGetBotUsername(): void
    {
        self::assertEquals('testbot', $this->telegram->getBotUsername());
    }

    public function testEnableAdmins(): void
    {
        $tg = $this->telegram;

        self::assertEmpty($tg->getAdminList());

        // Single
        $tg->enableAdmin(1);
        self::assertCount(1, $tg->getAdminList());

        // Multiple
        $tg->enableAdmins([2, 3]);
        self::assertCount(3, $tg->getAdminList());

        // Already added
        $tg->enableAdmin(2);
        self::assertCount(3, $tg->getAdminList());
    }

    public function testAddCustomCommandsPaths(): void
    {
        $tg = $this->telegram;

        self::assertCount(1, $tg->getCommandsPaths());

        $tg->addCommandsPath($this->custom_commands_paths[0]);
        self::assertCount(2, $tg->getCommandsPaths());
        self::assertArraySubset(
            [$this->custom_commands_paths[0]],
            $tg->getCommandsPaths()
        );

        $tg->addCommandsPath('/invalid/path');
        self::assertCount(2, $tg->getCommandsPaths());

        $tg->addCommandsPaths([
            $this->custom_commands_paths[1],
            $this->custom_commands_paths[2],
        ]);
        self::assertCount(4, $tg->getCommandsPaths());
        self::assertArraySubset(
            array_reverse($this->custom_commands_paths),
            $tg->getCommandsPaths()
        );

        $tg->addCommandsPath($this->custom_commands_paths[0]);
        self::assertCount(4, $tg->getCommandsPaths());
    }

    public function testAddCustomCommandsClass(): void
    {
        $tg = $this->telegram;

        // Require dummy commands to test with
        require_once __DIR__ . '/Commands/CustomTestCommands/DummySystemCommand.php';
        require_once __DIR__ . '/Commands/CustomTestCommands/DummyAdminCommand.php';
        require_once __DIR__ . '/Commands/CustomTestCommands/DummyUserCommand.php';

        // Test for base arrays (System, Admin, User)
        self::assertCount(3, $tg->getCommandClasses());

        // Test for invalid command classes
        try {
            $tg->addCommandClass('');
        } catch (\InvalidArgumentException $ex) {
        }
        self::assertEmpty(array_filter($tg->getCommandClasses()));

        try {
            $tg->addCommandClass('not\exist\Class');
        } catch (\InvalidArgumentException $ex) {
        }
        self::assertEmpty(array_filter($tg->getCommandClasses()));

        // Add valid command classes
        $tg->addCommandClass(DummySystemCommand::class);
        $tg->addCommandClasses([
            DummyAdminCommand::class,
            DummyUserCommand::class,
        ]);

        $command_classes = $tg->getCommandClasses();
        self::assertSame(['dummy_system' => 'Dummy\SystemCommands\DummySystemCommand'], $command_classes['System']);
        self::assertSame(['dummy_admin' => 'Dummy\AdminCommands\DummyAdminCommand'], $command_classes['Admin']);
        self::assertSame(['dummy_user' => 'Dummy\UserCommands\DummyUserCommand'], $command_classes['User']);
    }

    public function testSettingDownloadUploadPaths(): void
    {
        self::assertEmpty($this->telegram->getDownloadPath());
        self::assertEmpty($this->telegram->getUploadPath());

        $this->telegram->setDownloadPath('/down/below');
        $this->telegram->setUploadPath('/up/above');

        self::assertSame('/down/below', $this->telegram->getDownloadPath());
        self::assertSame('/up/above', $this->telegram->getUploadPath());
    }

    public function testGetCommandsList(): void
    {
        $commands = $this->telegram->getCommandsList();
        self::assertIsArray($commands);
        self::assertNotCount(0, $commands);
    }

    public function testGetCommandClass(): void
    {
        $className = StartCommand::class;
        $commands  = $this->telegram->getCommandClasses();
        self::assertIsArray($commands);
        self::assertCount(3, $commands);

        $class = $this->telegram->getCommandClassName('user', 'notexist');
        self::assertNull($class);

        $this->telegram->addCommandClass($className);
        $class = $this->telegram->getCommandClassName('user', 'start');
        self::assertNotNull($class);

        self::assertSame($className, $class);
    }

    public function testUpdateFilter(): void
    {
        $rawUpdate = '{
            "update_id": 513400512,
            "message": {
                "message_id": 3,
                "from": {
                    "id": 313534466,
                    "first_name": "first",
                    "last_name": "last",
                    "username": "username"
                },
                "chat": {
                    "id": 313534466,
                    "first_name": "first",
                    "last_name": "last",
                    "username": "username",
                    "type": "private"
                },
                "date": 1499402829,
                "text": "hi"
            }
        }';

        $debug_log_file = '/tmp/php-telegram-bot-update-filter-debug.log';
        TelegramLog::initialize(
            new \Monolog\Logger('bot_log', [
                (new \Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler($debug_log_file, \Monolog\Logger::DEBUG))->setFormatter(new \Monolog\Formatter\LineFormatter(null, null, true)),
            ])
        );

        $update = new Update(json_decode($rawUpdate, true), $this->telegram->getBotUsername());
        $this->telegram->setUpdateFilter(function (Update $update, Telegram $telegram, &$reason) {
            if ($update->getMessage()->getChat()->getId() === 313534466) {
                $reason = 'Invalid user, update denied.';
                return false;
            }
            return true;
        });
        $response = $this->telegram->processUpdate($update);
        self::assertFalse($response->isOk());

        // Check that the reason is written to the debug log.
        $debug_log = file_get_contents($debug_log_file);
        self::assertStringContainsString('Invalid user, update denied.', $debug_log);
        file_exists($debug_log_file) && unlink($debug_log_file);
    }
}

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'We're unorthodox,' says architect Graham Harris, the congenial spokesman for premier design and architecture practice SHH (an acronym of the founders' surnames), which he co-founded in 1991 with close friends designer Neil Hogan and architect David Spence. 'Our combination of architects and interior designers gives us a bit more edge, and we keep things young at heart.'
In its 26th year, SHH now has over 50 employees, including architects, designers, and specialist CGI artists working together under one roof, which makes them trailblazers in a competitive industry. This wasn't always the case, Harris says, noting with remembered amusement how the early days saw the trio sitting around in his West London flat, the phone conspicuously silent. They quickly progressed to an office space full of desks, but no employees. 'Show me to my desk', they'd say to each other, laughing hopefully – a predicament anyone who's ever started a company would be able to empathise with. But it wasn't long before they'd landed graphic design projects for Harvey Nicholls and London Zoo and SHH took off.
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text:
namespace service_manager {

template <typename... BinderArgs>
void BindCallbackAdapter(
    const base::RepeatingCallback<void(mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle,
                                       BinderArgs...)>& callback,
    const std::string& interface_name,
    mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle handle,
    BinderArgs... args) {
  callback.Run(std::move(handle), args...);
}

template <typename... BinderArgs>
class InterfaceBinder {
 public:
  virtual ~InterfaceBinder() {}

  // Asks the InterfaceBinder to bind an implementation of the specified
  // interface to the request passed via |handle|. If the InterfaceBinder binds
  // an implementation it must take ownership of the request handle.
  virtual void BindInterface(const std::string& interface_name,
                             mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle handle,
                             BinderArgs... args) = 0;
};

template <typename Interface, typename... BinderArgs>
class CallbackBinder : public InterfaceBinder<BinderArgs...> {
 public:
  using BindCallback =
      base::RepeatingCallback<void(mojo::InterfaceRequest<Interface>,
                                   BinderArgs...)>;

  CallbackBinder(const BindCallback& callback,
                 const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner>& task_runner)
      : callback_(callback), task_runner_(task_runner) {}
  CallbackBinder(
      const base::RepeatingCallback<void(mojo::PendingReceiver<Interface>,
                                         BinderArgs...)>& callback,
      const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner>& task_runner)
      : CallbackBinder(base::BindRepeating(&RunBindReceiverCallback, callback),
                       task_runner) {}
  ~CallbackBinder() override = default;

 private:
  // InterfaceBinder:
  void BindInterface(const std::string& interface_name,
                     mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle handle,
                     BinderArgs... args) override {
    mojo::InterfaceRequest<Interface> request(std::move(handle));
    if (task_runner_) {
      task_runner_->PostTask(
          FROM_HERE, base::BindOnce(&CallbackBinder::RunCallback, callback_,
                                    std::move(request), args...));
    } else {
      RunCallback(callback_, std::move(request), args...);
    }
  }

  static void RunCallback(const BindCallback& callback,
                          mojo::InterfaceRequest<Interface> request,
                          BinderArgs... args) {
    callback.Run(std::move(request), args...);
  }

  static void RunBindReceiverCallback(
      const base::RepeatingCallback<void(mojo::PendingReceiver<Interface>,
                                         BinderArgs...)>& callback,
      mojo::InterfaceRequest<Interface> request,
      BinderArgs... args) {
    callback.Run(std::move(request), args...);
  }

  const BindCallback callback_;
  scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner> task_runner_;
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(CallbackBinder);
};

template <typename... BinderArgs>
class GenericCallbackBinder : public InterfaceBinder<BinderArgs...> {
 public:
  using BindCallback = base::RepeatingCallback<
      void(const std::string&, mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle, BinderArgs...)>;

  GenericCallbackBinder(
      const BindCallback& callback,
      const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner>& task_runner)
      : callback_(callback), task_runner_(task_runner) {}
  GenericCallbackBinder(
      const base::RepeatingCallback<void(mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle,
                                         BinderArgs...)>& callback,
      const scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner>& task_runner)
      : callback_(
            base::BindRepeating(&BindCallbackAdapter<BinderArgs...>, callback)),
        task_runner_(task_runner) {}
  ~GenericCallbackBinder() override {}

 private:
  // InterfaceBinder:
  void BindInterface(const std::string& interface_name,
                     mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle handle,
                     BinderArgs... args) override {
    if (task_runner_) {
      task_runner_->PostTask(
          FROM_HERE,
          base::BindOnce(&GenericCallbackBinder::RunCallback, callback_,
                         interface_name, std::move(handle), args...));
      return;
    }
    RunCallback(callback_, interface_name, std::move(handle), args...);
  }

  static void RunCallback(const BindCallback& callback,
                          const std::string& interface_name,
                          mojo::ScopedMessagePipeHandle handle,
                          BinderArgs... args) {
    callback.Run(interface_name, std::move(handle), args...);
  }

  const BindCallback callback_;
  scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner> task_runner_;
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(GenericCallbackBinder);
};

}  // namespace service_manager

#endif  // SERVICES_SERVICE_MANAGER_PUBLIC_CPP_INTERFACE_BINDER_H_


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Q: Pushforward of a $\sigma$-finite measure Let $\phi: X \rightarrow Y$ be a measurable function between measurable spaces. Let $\mu$ be a $\sigma$- finite measure on $X$. In general I have seen that the push forward measure $\phi_*\mu$ need not be $\sigma$- finite. What are assumptions we need to make $\phi_*\mu$ also $\sigma$- finite?
I saw a remark that if $\phi$ is injective and $\mu$ is non atomic then $\phi_*\mu$ is $\sigma$- finite. I couldn't prove it. Do we need any more assumption?

A: Suppose

$\phi: X \rightarrow Y$ is a measurable function between measurable spaces, and $\mu$ is a $\sigma$- finite measure on $X$.

First: even if we assume that that $\phi$ is injective  and $\mu$ is non-atomic, it may happen that $\phi_*\mu$ is not $\sigma$- finite.
Example: Let $X=(\Bbb R, \mathcal{B})$ where $\mathcal{B}$ is the Borel $\sigma$-algebra. Let $Y=(\Bbb R, \mathcal{A})$ where $\mathcal{A}=\{\emptyset, \Bbb R \}$. Let $\lambda$ be the Lesbegue measure defined on $\mathcal{B}$. Let $\phi: X \rightarrow Y$ be defined as $\phi(x)=x$.
Clearly:

*

*$\lambda$ on $X$ is a $\sigma$- finite measure

*$\phi$ is injective

*$\lambda$ on $X$ has no atoms.

However, $\phi_*\lambda$ is a measure such that $\phi_*\lambda(\emptyset)=0$ and $\phi_*\lambda(\Bbb R)=+\infty$. The measure  $\phi_*\lambda$ on $Y$ is not $\sigma$- finite, not even semi-finite.
Second: Suppose $\phi$ is injective  and, for all $A$ measurable set in $X$, $\phi(A)$ is measurable. Then $\phi_*\mu$ is $\sigma$- finite on $Y$.
Proof: Since $\mu$ is a $\sigma$- finite measure on $X$, there are $X_n$ measurable sets in $X$ such that $X = \bigcup_n X_n$ and $\mu(X_n)<+\infty$. So, $\phi(X) = \bigcup_n \phi(X_n)$. So
$$ Y = (Y \setminus \phi(X)) \cup \bigcup_n \phi(X_n) $$
and
$\phi_*\mu(Y \setminus \phi(X)) = \mu( \phi^{-1}(Y \setminus \phi(X)))= \mu(\emptyset)=0$
and, for all $n$, $\phi_*\mu(\phi(X_n))= \mu( \phi^{-1}(\phi(X_n))=\mu(X_n)< +\infty$
So, $\phi_*\mu$ is $\sigma$- finite on $Y$.

A: It's been a while since a worked with measure theory, but try like this (it's a bit naive).
Consider subsets $X_n$ of $X$ with finite measure and such that $X = \bigcup_n X_n$. Suppose $\phi$ to be injective and suppose $\phi(X_n)$ to be measurable. Then $Y_n = \phi(X_n) \cup (Y \setminus \phi(X) ) $ are measurable sets with finite measure whose union is $Y$.

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Working & Praying Together
The Very Rev. Gary Hall was installed as tenth dean of Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, October 27, 2012. The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, officiated and preached at "A Service of Renewal of Baptism & Shared Ministry." Bishop Budde was joined by clergy and lay leaders of the diocese, Cathedral Chapter members and staff, as well as friends and family of Hall in the intimate setting of the great choir. On Sunday, October 28, a "Festal Eucharist Service of Welcome" took place at which Hall presided and the Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, rector emeritus of All Saints Church, Pasadena, preached.
The weekend's two services offered what Hall called "a new way" of installing a dean of the Cathedral. Saturday evening's bilingual service in English and Spanish focused on the Cathedral's life as a community of the baptized living out the Gospel together within the Diocese of Washington; Sunday's service then moved "from the font to the table," with representatives from the entire Cathedral community formally welcoming the new dean among them.
In her sermon on Saturday evening, Budde described the stakes involved for the Cathedral and for the Episcopal Church. "We are in a time," she said, "when we all need more courage than we have—and that is true for us individually, as a nation, and as the people of God in the Episcopal Church. This is a humbling time and an exciting one," she added, "on our watch so much is changing, and we don't know what the future holds—because we are not in charge. God is in charge."
Figures formally commissioning Hall in this work included the ninth dean of the Cathedral, the Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Lloyd iii, now priest-in-charge of Boston's Trinity Church, Copley Square. Lloyd was on hand to present the new dean with the silver Dean's Cross, "a sign of authority in this Cathedral Church."
Sunday's Festal Eucharist service gathered Cathedral communities to celebrate what Hall described as "God's expansive invitation" to all people. Representatives of the Cathedral Chapter, the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation Board of Trustees, Cathedral staff, members of the congregation, and volunteers participated,as well as representatives of the three schools on the Close, the Cathedral Choral Society, All Hallows Guild, and the National Cathedral Association.
In his sermon, Regas called for a reaffirmation of our common humanity as a means for striving for peace. "Standing on sacred soil, I see this as one world with God's arms of mercy outstretched to every person across the planet embracing friend and foe," said Regas. "I hope and pray Gary Hall continues to be a peacemaker. … I trust that this Cathedral will courageously lead in that mission."
The week just prior to his installation, Cathedral Age interviewed Dean Hall to learn about his vision for the Cathedral, what his priorities will be.
Cathedral Age: What do you see as the Cathedral's role within the spiritual life of the nation?
I think the Cathedral has already had a significant role in the spiritual life of the nation in terms of being a gathering place for the nation when we celebrate or mourn, being a symbolic presence of a faith community in the nation's capital—on the highest point in the District, visible from all over the city—and as a place that hosts and convenes events and conversations. One of the challenges facing all mainline religious institutions, I feel, is that we need to be more movement oriented and less institutional. By that I mean that people younger than I am are interested in being involved in a faith community or an institution that actually has a mission and is living it out. So for me the Cathedral's role in the spiritual life of the nation involves continuing what we've already been doing and building upon it.
We're at a point right now of great ideological paralysis in our country. And it seems to me that one of the things the Cathedral uniquely can do, because of our history and because of our location, is to be a gathering place for people of a variety of religious and political perspectives to find ways to work together to advance the common good. That, to me, is the most important next step in being a spiritual home for the nation.
Cathedral Age: What drew you to feel called to serve as Cathedral dean?
When I read the material [for the dean search] I felt that the particular challenges facing the Cathedral right now really aligned with my skills, experience, and interests. I then chose to come here for two reasons. One is that we're going through a period in history right now in which all elite Episcopal Church institutions are having to rethink themselves and re-imagine their ministries and how they function. I've helped three other communities make that transition, and it seems to me that Washington National Cathedral is in that same place. As the most visible faith community in the denomination, it's vitally important that the Cathedral flourish in the twenty-first century: because how this place navigates that transition will be an important sign of how the whole denomination can manage that transition. And so I came here because I felt it was important work, and it was work that I really feel in this last part of my career I've been called to do.
Cathedral Age: Looking back over your 35 years of ordained ministry, what has most inspired you?
I've had some wonderful mentors. George Regas, who's preaching at my installation, spent 28 years at All Saints, Pasadena, and was a great peace and justice advocate against the Vietnam War, a real force in the Episcopal Church's move to ordain women, and did the first same-sex blessings at a large church in the United States in the 1990s. George has been a big inspiration in my life. Another long-time friend of mine is Harvey Guthrie, who was dean of the Episcopal Divinity School when I was a student there in the 1970s and led that school through a transition of facing into not only the liturgical renewal in the 1960s and 1970s but the ordination of women, becoming the first seminary not only to admit women students but to bring ordained Anglican women on the faculty. Fred Borsch, the former bishop of Los Angeles, was a great bishop and seminary dean who really is to me a model as a bishop, scholar, justice advocate, and pastor.
I'd say my most inspiring work had to do with my intersection with the gay and lesbian community in Pasadena in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. Coming to work at a church that had a large gay and lesbian population and an aids service center, I saw up-close not only gay and lesbian couples loving and supporting each other but participated in same-sex blessings. I also sat at the bedsides of people dying of aids. Seeing the way men and women in the gay and lesbian community supported them and cared for them—that was a transformational experience for me, my understanding of human sexuality, and my understanding for the need for the church to be strongly supportive of gay and lesbian people. I'd say that, of all the transformational experiences, that was probably one of the most powerful for me.
Cathedral Age: One month into your time in Washington, what have your initial impressions of the Cathedral been, and what do you most look forward to in the coming months?
One of my initial impressions is just how reverent visitors are when they come here. I try to walk through the Cathedral every day and say hello to the docents, and when I walk through the building I see people praying and looking around contemplatively at the space. One of the things I realize maybe more forcefully than I did before I came to work here is just how very sacred a space the Cathedral building itself is and what it means to people from a variety of religious traditions. There's something about beautiful Gothic architecture that is transcendent. The thing I've noticed the most is that people who come here—even though they may be wearing flip flops, shorts, and baseball caps—all stop to reflect, pray, and contemplate.
What I most look forward to is entering fully into the life of the Cathedral. It's an extremely wide-ranging place. The Cathedral has a national constituency and a local constituency, it's part of the Diocese of Washington, and it has an international constituency because of its peace and justice and interfaith work. What I look forward to is really learning the breadth and the complexity of what the Cathedral's ministry is and engaging in as much of that breadth and depth of it as I can.
Cathedral Age: What will be your priorities as the new dean?
The Episcopal Church as a denomination has not developed habits about sharply defining an identity, projecting that identity outward, and inviting people into it. I think the Cathedral—like the parishes and seminary I've served—has to go through an exercise of sharpening its definition of itself missionally. What are we here to do? We see ourselves as a spiritual home for the nation, and we've always seen ourselves as a gathering and convening place for the nation. We now need to sharpen that definition, considering what that means and how we live that out programmatically.
My first hope for the Cathedral is that we can be a place where people of varying faith traditions can come together, pray together, work together for the common good, and find a new way of being together in community that would expand our theological and ideological differences with each other. I'm a progressive person by nature—politically, theologically, ecclesiastically. But I realize that the role of the Cathedral is to be comprehensive in the best Anglican sense of that word. So I welcome the opportunity to work with people who think and believe rather differently from how I do but are willing to gather with me around the table—and work and pray for the Kingdom.
The second task is to rebuild and re-energize our National Cathedral Association and the groups of people we have all around the country who have supported the Cathedral and been advocates for us.
Cathedral Age: Which historic writers or contemporary spiritual leaders do you look to for guidance?
I think we all have different ways in which we relate to the Holy. For me in my early life, it was always pretty exclusively through literature. So I went to graduate school because I wanted to study the great seventeenth-century Anglican writers: George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, John Donne, Thomas Traherne, Sir Thomas Browne. From that I morphed into actually studying American transcendentalism: Thoreau and Emerson.
I also read a lot of contemporary poetry, and nature writing and environmental theology have always been a very big part of my spirituality. Then, as I've gotten older, visual art has become an important part of my piety and spirituality.
For the past 20 years I have been an associate of the Order of the Holy Cross: Benedictine spirituality has been very much the mode in which I feel most comfortable. Joan Chittister is someone I read a lot as well as Thomas Merton, in terms of prayer and spiritual life. And one of the things I like about the Cathedral is actually being in a place where I can participate in the Daily Office with other people. Coming to a place that is a worshiping community not only on Sundays but at least three times a day is really an important part of my own spiritual formation. In fact, one of my hopes for the Cathedral is to broaden our work with the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage. Making this a place for increasing prayer practices and making people aware of prayer practices is really important to me. I also see the Cathedral as a venue for religion and the arts. I think I'm like a lot of people who find beauty—whether literary, artistic, musical, or architectural—as a way in. I think the Cathedral is already doing a lot with music and art, but whatever I can do to enhance that is high on my list.


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Ear Worm: Plenty from their "classic" period, especially the singles from Breakfast In America.
Epic Riff: Usually on an electric piano. "Dreamer", "Bloody Well Right", "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", and "Cannonball".
"Cannonball" in particular, where it features a house piano riff. In 1985.
"Give A Little Bit" has one on acoustic 12-string guitar.
Funny Moments: Roger Hodgson unleashed a Mind Screw on a whole orchestra by inviting them to record a part for "Fool's Overture". When the conductor tapped the baton to silence the orchestra, Roger got all that he needed (just the soundscape of them preparing to tune) and sent them on their way.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Not so successful in their native UK as in North America, especially in Canada.
Growing the Beard: Crime of the Century, which was Supertramp's first critical and commercial success after their first two albums didn't do very well.
Sampled Up: Gym Class Heroes sampled "Breakfast in America" in "Cupid's Chokehold". The quality of the sampling (actually a newly recorded cover of the first few lines by Patrick Stump) is...debatable.
Same goes for Crazy Frog's "sampling" of "The Logical Song."
Sequel Displacement: They broke out with their third album, Crime of the Century (the first two were so unsuccessful that Davies and Hodgson fired everyone else and hired new members).
Signature Song: "Give A Little Bit", whose Pop Culture Osmosis has been so widespread that it has been used extensively for advertisements. Runners-up include "The Logical Song," "Dreamer," "Bloody Well Right," "Take the Long Way Home," or "Goodbye Stranger."
Tear Jerker: "The Logical Song". Growing Up Sucks, indeed.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Roger Hodgson hardly sounds it when singing, but he is most definitely a guy, folks.
Yoko Oh No: Roger Hodgson has cited Rick Davies' wife managing the band as one of the reasons for leaving and not participating in the reunions.
Their mid-1970's producer Ken Scott mentioned in his memoirs that by Crisis? What Crisis?, the bandmembers' girlfriends and wives were constantly at odds with each other; he describes that the way many people are led to believe (falsely) that The Beatles' group tensions were precipitated by Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney was actually the atmosphere Supertramp were in at the time.


That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Tourism and International Education (Senator Colbeck) to a question without notice asked by Senator Rice today relating to jobs in the shipping industry.
What a callous and cold-hearted response we got from Senator Colbeck. We have 38 workers on the MV Portland—and their families—who are facing a very bleak Christmas indeed. They are about to lose their jobs, and the response we got from Senator Colbeck was that it was very difficult and unfortunate. To be telling that to the children of those families, who are indeed looking at a very bleak Christmas—a Christmas of glum faces, a Christmas of pretty sad tidings rather than glad tidings—is not going to give them much cheer. To be telling those children that it is very difficult and unfortunate is the government's way of washing its hands and distancing itself from what is indeed an appalling outcome where we have 38 hardworking skilled seafarers who are being thrown on the scrap heap.
The minister tried to justify it by saying that it was a commercial decision of Alcoa's and one that was in the interests of efficiency. That is not going to be of much comfort to them, and we know that it was not Alcoa's decision. We know that the responsibility for this decision sits fairly and squarely in the hands of the government. It was the government who had to approve the temporary licence that was being issued to Alcoa.
The government could have said, 'No. This is not justifiable. No, there is no reason as to why there should be a temporary licence issued.' But no, they rolled over and said that in the interests of efficiency, reducing costs and ongoing viability, they would issue this temporary licence.
I want to translate for people what efficiency, ongoing viability and reducing costs really mean. I will translate Senator Colbeck's terms and what he really meant when he said 'efficient': he means tossing skilled Australian workers on the scrap heap; he means replacing them with foreign workers being paid less than $2 an hour. In fact the information we have been given is that the workers who are going to replace the workers on the MV Portland are going to be paid 66c per hour. That is what is meant by this government's efficiency.
This is an appalling outcome and an appalling situation that we are now in in Australia: an efficiency that will replace a skilled Australian worker being paid decent wage on decent conditions with foreign workers being exploited and paid at less than $2 an hour.
It is not just an attack on the workers on the MV Portland; as I said, it is a taste of things to come. The information in the government's own legislation that we rejected last week says that 93 per cent of jobs in the Australian coastal shipping industry are going to be lost. They are going to be replaced by foreign workers being paid less than $2 an hour. So we are going to lose far more jobs than just these 38 jobs that are at stake this week.
It is not just seafaring jobs; in fact it is an attack on all Australian workers. Because, if it is good enough for Alcoa to say, 'We don't want to pay our seafarers decent wages—we're going to replace them with workers being paid 60c an hour,' it is more efficient to be underpaying truck drivers. Are they fair game next? The workers on the MV Portland are part of the Australian transport industry and deserve as much as truck drivers and to be paid a fair wage. They deserve as much as freight-rail operators are paid. Is it going to be okay to pay them 66c an hour as well? Or are we going to be in a situation where those workers, particularly those freight-rail workers, are going to be out of work too?
It does not have to be this way. Tomorrow we are going to hear from US Rear Admiral Robert Reilly Jnr about how they do things in the US, where they protect their seafarers' jobs under the Jones Act. Last week we heard from the ambassador of Norway, who hold us how they protect workers there. They pay them high wages and they have a successful maritime industry.
I implore this government to reconsider and revoke the licence they have issued, and to stop playing Scrooge and give the 38 MV Portland workers, the Christmas they deserve.


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Q: Resistor 0.5 ohm alternate I need 0.5 ohm resistor in my circuit. Unfortunately, I am unable to find it in my nearby market. Can I use a piece of wire (with specific length) instead?

A: Probably the easiest solution would be parallel resistors. If you have 1 ohm resistors, two in parallel would give you 0.5 ohm; if you have 2 ohm resistors, four in parallel, and so forth.

A: Yes easily.  Your choice of wire diameter, length and material depend on your specific requirements.  You need to take the maximum current expected and the maximum allowable temperature rise you can tolerate.
A resistive wire makes things more compact but may be hard to connect to without compression terminals or a spot welder as many resistance wire materials do not solder well.
If you use crimp lugs on iron, steel, stainless steel, nichrome or Kanthal wire you should be able to screw down or solder onto the crimp lug.  This is a good technique if you do not make your wire get too hot.
If the stability of the resistance value is critical you shift your choices to materials with smaller temperature coefficients.  One metal alloy developed for this purpose is Constantan and it is very good compared to a resistance heating wire.
There are some constants and a basic resistance calculator online.

A: If you can figure out a way of soldering/mounting it, a piece of pencil lead from a mechanical pencil may do the job. Maybe 0.5mm or 0.3mm so that you don't have to use such a long length.


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Personality Testing: the Swiss Army Knife of Talent Utilization
By Tom Walsh
"Having the most talented people in each of our businesses is the most important thing. If we don't, we lose." —Jack Welch, former CEO of GE
"I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies."— Larry Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell
Many years ago when I first began the transition from psychotherapist and president/owner of a complex mental health, family counseling, and substance-abuse organization, I was piloting a particular personality-profile tool I thought might help future consulting clients. The profile was very short and simple, and I was very skeptical. However, the sales rep for the company suggested I try it and review my results with her over the telephone. I was shocked at the accuracy of the results. It pegged me pretty much dead on. It described me as a leader (a bit of a bull in a china shop sometimes), sometimes too focused on my objectives and tasks to pay enough attention to others, highly creative, aggressive, and strongly independent, to name a few of the characteristics.
I also asked a prior boss and good friend to take the assessment. When we compared our results, he said, "This is amazing. I never felt comfortable being the leader. You should have been the leader," confirming something we both intuitively felt but did not know how to articulate.
Even though the report was about 90 percent accurate for me and for my prior boss, I wanted to increase my sample size. I offered my entire company the chance to take the test and review their individual results with me. About 15 people did. I had worked with most of these people for many years and knew them well. They included executives, administrative assistants, and clinicians — and the results were astounding.
Paul, who was a superior clinician who simply could not produce enough clinical hours to be productive, came out as very laid back, complacent, and with low scores on drive and ambition. Everyone loved him, but he was very weak in time management, goal setting, and assertiveness, and was too patient to get things done.
Dan, our operations director, was organized, efficient, set clear goals, and was highly analytical and could make decisions. However, he was not very creative, lacked vision, and was exactly where he belonged, in the second position; but he would never be a good fit for the CEO position; he was simply too conservative.
Barbara, a member of our administrative team, was revealed to have much more potential than we were using. She was very detailed and analytical, great with people, excellent at setting and tracking goals. We changed her career path as a result of the testing and interviewing, and put her in charge of all our clinical charting, a painful and labor-intensive job which she loved and excelled at doing.
I was hooked, and over the years have helped numerous organizations implement personality profiles as part of their talent-management system. I have come to believe that any organization that does not properly use personality testing is making poor decisions in their hiring, developing, retaining, and engaging people. Even the most expert interviewers would benefit greatly from using them.
Over the next few columns, I am going to explain more reasons for using assessments. For right now, I will give you an overview.
1. ssessments reduce hiring mistakes. It has been my experience that most companies primarily use résumé reviews and unstructured interviews as the primary basis for their hiring decisions. This usually results in about a 50 percent success rate of hiring A or B players. Proper use of personality profiles increases the success rate to about 80 percent or 90 percent.
2. oaching. The results of the profiles provide managers great coaching material to guide the new employee to understanding and utilizing strengths and minimizing the impact of weaknesses.
3. Team building. Teams that are open and candid enough to share the results of their profiles with each other develop a tolerance and acceptance quickly. They learn to value diversity and to play to each other's strengths rather than their weaknesses.
4. Succession planning. It is fairly easy to spot the leaders using profiles and to avoid putting followers in leadership positions. It is also possible to create benchmarks for critical positions against which you can assess candidates.
5. evelopment. Profiles are an important part of targeting what areas are prime for development for future career paths.
It's pretty much like a Swiss Army Knife. Follow upcoming columns for more.
Thomas Walsh, Ph.D. is president of Grenell Consulting Group, a regional firm specializing in maximizing the performance of organizations and their key contributors. Email Walsh at tcwalshphd@grenell.com
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In the Old Testament, God appeared distant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. A cloud by day, pillar of fire by night in Moses' day. Many churches, pastors, preachers present God this way still. Suggesting you have to have a prophet to hear from God, a pastor to shepherd you, apostles to lead you to new ground and so forth.
It's as though you were deaf or God was talking to His best people and all the rest of us, well, get things second hand if at all!
BUT, when they asked Jesus how to pray, He said, "Pray this way," and He began a prayer with these astonishing words, "Our Father…." Sixteen times He used the expression our father or your father.
Such a breakthrough! The Old Testament had many names for God, Healer, Provider, our Righteousness, but Jesus gave us a new name, precious, intimate, passionate: "Abba! Father!" Father loves you. He delights in FAVORING Y O U. Because He loves you!
Many know God as well, "God." Many know Him also as "Lord;" but few know Him as FATHER. If you see Him as distant – or worse, as dead, you are likely to act like a little god – of your own little world, trying to control things and make things work our 'your' way. But God is NOT DEAD! Nor far away!
Remember Jesus has revealed Him: Heb 1:3 "He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature;" John 14:9 "He who has seen Me has seen the Father." And He went about doing GOOD, healing all those bound by the devil, Acts 10:38. A friend of sinners and outcasts, tax collectors.
Love is unconditional, at least God's love is. We do not need to do stuff, to get it right, to check off all the boxes before God will love us. He so loved the world that He gave His son. He loved us before we were born. If you are listening to preaching that says God's love comes with conditions; I suggest you — stop listening!
What does God —YOUR FATHER expect from you, want from you, desire from you, my friend? Simply to receive His love. To flourish in His grace. To spend your time exploring His extravagant, limitless love. And — COME ALIVE!
I have a question for you – in which Jesus are you believing? The reason I ask is that people may say they believe in Jesus, but have quite a different understanding of who Jesus is from you and I. To make today's point, let's boil all the Jesus' down to two categories.
There is Jesus 'the man,' who walked the earth 2,000 years ago. He was a great teacher. He pointed out the way we should live. He died upon a cross at Calvary.
In both views, Jesus died upon the Cross. In the latter, the Son of God died there for our sins. But now think about this: Jesus on the Cross cannot save anyone. (Pause) Thankfully our second view continues, hallelujah!
OUR Jesus, after being place IN the tomb, left that tomb, being RISEN from the dead. ALIVE forever! Seated at the right hand of the Father, with ALL authority. THIS JESUS SAVES FOREVER, and will save –> whoever dares to believe in Him!
Friend, don't settle at the Cross. Don't camp out at Calvary, marvelous as this is. Continue to the RESURRECTION! See yourself united with Him in His death. Crucified with Christ as Paul says in Gal 2:20. And see yourself united with Him in His resurrection, Ro 6:5. See yourself alive from the dead — with Jesus — seated with Him in the heavens, NOW. Today. Eph 2:1-7.
Friend, this is the TRUE reality. Catch hold of it and you will COME ALIVE as never before! The fullness of the blessings of God's grace come to those who believe in the RISEN JESUS!
Proclaim Jesus as LORD over your life, TODAY. As Lord over any and every issue, any and every sickness, distress, disappointment, depression, failure. EVERYTHING bows to Jesus. Proclaim it. Rejoice in this truth — and COME ALIVE!
Throughout Scripture there are blockbuster statements! They can become giant bedrocks in our faith. Try this one on. Gal 3:6. It declares, "Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, and it was counted to Him as RIGHTEOUSNESS." That's having God's approval – in everything – without having to do anything. Whoa!
In context, Paul is reminding the Galatians that they received the Spirit of God by FAITH – NOT by anything they did, not by praying, fasting, memorizing bible verses, sacrifices, observing feasts. He explains they started that way and God is providing them with His Spirit and performing miracles in their midst by hearing with faith, period.
Sadly, many people – many pastors and preachers even – believe a person gets saved by faith in Christ Jesus, and having been saved, then things change. Now it is up to us to walk the straight and narrow. Up to us to do good works, to sacrifice, pray, fast, maintain perfect church attendance and participation in order for the blessings, the favor, the miracles and presence of God to be rich, real, and full upon us. Sound familiar?
Paul points us back to Abraham, Father of the faith, as someone who had to believe, and only believe – just like us. It is in believing in God that Abraham, and us, are counted as righteous, FULLY approved. Having God's approval is beyond awesome – and if you are a believer in Jesus, YOU HAVE IT! Shrug off those doubts and condemning thoughts, my friend, that would get you looking at yourself instead of Jesus!
As Gal 3:11-14 tells us: a person can only be justified in God's eyes by having faith in Him, and not by keeping any kind of laws, even those laws spoken by God. That is mind-blowing! God sent His son. He kept the laws, than become a curse for us, that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham, adoption, the promise of the SPIRIT, would come to…us!
By grace, through faith, you have received the Holy Spirit! Learn to walk in Him, demonstrating that YOU – have COME ALIVE!
What a picture! And religious people are still doing the same thing today. Rejecting the Living God with His Living Waters, and making their own religious cisterns – full of stagnant water IF they could hold water at all, but they are broken! Are you dry? In a place without water – is church so dry and you feel trapped in a DIY religion where your "to-do" list is off the charts?
In Jn 7:37-38 it reads, "Now on the last day, the great day of the feast (of Tabernacles), Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being (that's YOUR innermost being my friend) will flow rivers of living water.'"" When you come to Jesus you get to drink from living waters, true refreshment, and you become a conduit for those rivers of living water.
So let me ask you again, is your religious life dry, drier, the driest ever? Come back to Jesus! Religion, religious thinking and practices may have turned you toward their cracked and empty cisterns of promises based upon works and performance, but just come back to JESUS!
Jesus is giving this Samaritan woman, an outcast, the same message He would later give to the crowds in Jerusalem at the Feast of Tabernacles. John 7. No one is left out. All are invited.
Dear friend, are you thirsty? Then you are qualified! Come afresh to Jesus and drink from the Living Waters of the Spirit – and COME ALIVE!
Hebrews 3:1 reads, "you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession." Consider Jesus! He's the one who brings life to the dead; who causes us to come alive!
He is the awesome Apostle, the messenger of this Good News of the New Covenant. He is our high priest, the one who enters God's Presence for us. He enters with our confession: this Good News that is the Gospel. He is the One who has made the perfect sacrifice and has sat down – making perfect purification of our sins.
Atonement for our sins has fully, totally, perfectly, completely, been accomplished, for all eternity, friends! That's why Jesus could sit down! Therefore, HOLD FAST your confidence in Jesus Christ – it's OK to boast in the Lord and to keep on boasting; no matter what the world may say.
Israel in their wanderings, Heb 3 & 4 tells us, carcassed in the desert (that's Heb 3:17). They rebelled, they refused to believe in God's provision and insisted upon their own way. And carcassed. Well, don't you carcass, my friend. Hold onto Jesus. Find rest in Him. Rest from your own efforts at improving yourself, of trying to be a better person, of trying harder, of climbing up to God. Efforts at self-improvement are not the answer. Believe, and find rest in His salvation.
More on Jesus, our Great High Priest! High Priests mediate, and Jesus is mediator of a better covenant, founded upon better promises! Check out Heb 8! The Old Covenant, instituted through Moses on Mt Sinai, had tons of requirements for us to fulfill. The New Covenant, instituted through the blood of Jesus, has one condition for us: believe upon Jesus and keep on believing. Even then, if we are faithless, 2 Tim 2:13 tells us He remains faithful, for that is who He is.
Some might say, "But it's up to you, to prove to God that you believe through good works and sacrifice, Bible reading, prayer, and such" No, God sent His son to save us. Believe it. Enter His rest. You don't have to 'prove' anything to anyone.
Jesus does tell us to love one another, and we can love one another, for that is the nature of God within us. Yes, love is of God, and those who love are born of God and know God. 1 Jn 4:7.
As one who has been born of God, 1 Jn 5:4, you are an overcomer in THIS world; rejoice, knowing you are someone who has COME ALIVE!
Did you know John the Baptist is recorded in each Gospel as saying there was One coming after him who would baptize in the Holy Spirit? 4 times! 4 times! Must be important, don't you think? Just listen….
In Acts 8:15-17, Peter and John were sent by the church leaders down to the new believers in Samaria, to pray for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for He had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. It says they laid their hands on them and the Samaritans received the Holy Spirit. A professional magician named Simon was so impressed that he offered them $$ to have the same authority; think about how impressive that must have been!
On Pentecost a few years earlier, only Jews and proselytes were baptized in the Holy Spirit. But now the Good News was being shared even with Samaritans.
So who were the Samaritans? Samaria was capitol of the Northern Kingdom, begun by Jeroboam following Solomon's death. 1 Ki 11-12. It was capital of the 10 tribes. Jeroboam made 2 golden calves for the people to include in their worship. Ahab built a temple to Baal there. Genuine worship became a memory. In 721BC Sargon of the Assyrians conquered them and carried off 27,290 inhabitants, replacing them with conquered foreigners – who brought along their gods. So Samaria was a mixed race of people, mongrels, with a heathen core. You might say they were very low on the Jewish totem pole, try: at the bottom. Racist? Yes indeed.
But these 'inferior people' as far as the Judaean Jews were concerned, were hearing the Gospel and believing it! And truly amazing: the leadership in Jerusalem, upon hearing this, actually SENT Peter and John down to them to get the Holy Spirit baptism! It was so important that the Jewish church leaders sent apostles to them, overcoming all the centuries of antagonism, to be sure they were filled with the HS. Today I invite you to grasp this truth: God does not care about your breeding or background: He wants you born again, part of His family, and filled with power from on high. So why delay – be filled today – and COME ALIVE!
John 3:16 is truly awesome! The Gospel in a verse. But did you know the verses that sandwich it are also awesome? Yes! In John 3 Jesus is speaking to the Pharisee, Nicodemus. Jesus admonishes him – if you stumble over my words, Jesus tells him, when I'm speaking earthly things, what will you do when I share with you heavenly truths? Then Jesus unloads blockbuster spiritual truths on Nicodemus!
In verses :14 & :15, Jesus says that Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness and in the same way, the Son of Man must be lifted up. In Moses' day, there was a time when serpents were biting and killing the grumbling, rebellious, hard-hearted Israelites. BUT – if a bitten Israelite would look to the serpent that Moses had placed upon a staff, he would not die, but be healed. Sin was the issue. Could the Israelite see his sin – in the form of that serpent – upon that pole? If he did, he got healed! Faith! And God's mercies!
It's the same with us today, my friend. If we can see Jesus bearing OUR sin upon Calvary's cross, then we too will be healed from our sin and enter eternal life! This truth is stated in :15 and repeated in :16 – it is super important!
More of the sandwich – in :17 Jesus tells Nicodemus that God sent His son to SAVE us, not to judge us, and if we believe in Jesus we are not judged.
Ominously, Jesus then goes on to say he who does NOT believe in Him has been judged already. Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. God is not their judge, but they have judged themselves, choosing the darkness and evil over the Light of the world.
God does not send people to Hell; they judge themselves. And send themselves to the destination created for the devil and his angelic followers. O my friend! Help others to see Jesus bearing their sin to Calvary – that they may not die – but COME ALIVE!
Hank had a blast being free to go up/down. Until he found all the rules about tower usage. Where was the fun then, eh?
Life's like that: live by the rules and there isn't much life to your life. On the other hand, walk/live by the Spirit of the Living God and there are oceans of life to enjoy. Personally! And don't worry about getting into the flesh and making a scene. When you are walking in the Spirit there's no room for the flesh to mess things up.
And remember, as you walk in the Spirit, you will COME ALIVE!
Recently we focused on Romans 6, citing 10 verses that ALL pointed to our OLD nature being dead, and the NEW man, our new nature, being alive to God – Hallelujah!
Unfortunately, sin doesn't like having you dead to it, and hammers so many of us, deceiving to get us believing that the old man is still alive! And Romans 7 seems to say it's true. Is it?
In Ro 7:4-6 Paul declares we were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ. We have been joined to Jesus – not 'going to be' but JOINED in UNION when we believed.
The sinful passions in us were aroused by the Law, but WE HAVE DIED to the Law to serve in newness of the Spirit. The Law was good, because it revealed, in fact inflamed, the sin that was within us. The Law said 'this is the way to life' – but was a fault finder; we were never good enough. In fact, Paul declares that the Law was a real killer – because of the sin that was within us.
Beginning with verse 14, Paul employs an ANALEPSIS – today we would say FLASHBACK – to a time when he was trying to obey the Law. Many commentators and preachers forget all about Romans 6 when they read 7, the truth that in Christ Jesus we ARE dead to sin, dead to the Law, and alive to God. They forget Paul just said we are IN UNION with Jesus–that means as righteous as He is righteous, and they make incorrect statements, like the Old Man Sin Nature is still there in us, fighting for top dog status.
Not true! Paul is simply explaining what it was like for him as old Paul the sinner, not as New Creation Paul. He found that even when he knew what "good" was, and even when he tried to do it, that he kept failing. There is no hope in the Law, friends. Trying your best to do what is right and good is never good enough!
You do NOT have old and new natures duking it out within you. You are not a wretched person but a righteous new creation. Now is the time to renew that old man mind of yours into new man righteous thinking — and COME ALIVE!
Do you see that holy rain? Well, read John's first chapter: we find the Word became flesh, lived among us and we saw His glory, full of GRACE and TRUTH.
Of His fullness we have all received, and GRACE upon GRACE. You may wonder what God is like—well, look at JESUS! JESUS is God revealed! And He is GRACE upon GRACE!
GRACE: when the free favors of God profusely abound. In the Jubilee Year of the Old Covenant, every 50 years Israel got to cease from their labors and enter God's rest. But we are living in the New Covenant, where God's GRACE is falling like rain continuously! Not in times, seasons, or portions like before, but continuously! It is a NEW DAY in the NEW Covenant.
God's GRACE falling like rain—continuously!
Believe this GRACE is for you, dear friend.
It is time for you to come out of the desert of your own efforts.
It is time for you to come out of the desert of judgement and condemnation.
Receive His GRACE—it's as easy as stepping out into the rain, and COME ALIVE!
Mary and I recently visited Medicine Park, OK. Population 400. Having a history dating back hundreds of years, the Plains Native Americans visiting to find refreshment in the waters of Medicine Creek which they believed had healing and life giving powers.
We've been sharing about the New Covenant and how much BETTER it is than the Old. Jesus shared with a Samaritan women at Jacob's well. He offered her Living Water that would quench one's thirst forever, and for those who partook it would become a well of water springing up to eternal life.
God never intended for you to live life apart from Him. Since Pentecost (Acts 2) the Holy Spirit has been 'poured forth' to indwell and empower us to live life to the full, in joy, the joy of Jesus. Friend, don't delay, receive the Holy Spirit today—and COME ALIVE!
Here is a stone: petros, or Peter to you and me. In Jn 1:42 when Andrew brings his brother Simon to Jesus, Jesus says to him, "…you shall be called Peter — a stone." Then in Matt 16:18 we find Jesus saying to him, "…you ARE Peter…," but remarkably Jesus never calls him by that name! Perhaps he had to grow into it.
Stones: Jesus calls Peter a small stone, Petros. Then He says upon this R O C K I will build my church — the word for rock is petra, a huge stone. At this time the Nabataeans were thriving in the city of Petra in Jordan, population over 20,000 people, carved from a single huge rock! What imagery for the church!
30 years later when Peter is writing his first letter, he refers to Jesus as a Living Stone, and those who believe as living stones being built up into a house for God. This moment was cast in stone for him!
Peter was given a revelation by the Father: he heard it. Then he spoke it. Could this be the spiritual rock Jesus was referring to: the Church triumphant, comprised of those who have received a revelation of Jesus Christ, who declare it and in so doing become part of the living stones of this Church that hell cannot overcome!
My wife states she grew up in a Christian home, did all the church and Sunday school stuff, was even a theology minor in college, but it was not until, as Paul says in Gal 1:16, that God was pleased to reveal the Son in her, that she truly saw Jesus for who He is. She spoke it out — and CAME ALIVE!
How about you, friend? May our God reveal Jesus to you today — make that confession: Jesus Christ, God's Son, your Savior, and Come Alive!
Last time at Hank's Place we asked, "How do we get close to God?" We found out there are no do's and don'ts, for God has made a New and Living Way through the BLOOD of JESUS. Heb 10:20.
Human nature enjoys the outward trappings of religion. Consider Israel who did not submit themselves to the Righteousness of God. Ro 10:3. They clung to the Law but Christ is the END of the LAW for righteousness to everyone who believes. Like you!
The presence of the Lord was in the Ark. Under the Law. After Joshua conquered Canaan, the Ark came to rest at Shiloh. Joshua 18:1. It remained there through the times of the Judges and days of Samuel the priest; then was captured by the Philistines; and returned 7 months later, passing through Beth-Shemesh to Kiriath-Jearim, where it stayed for 20 years. Interesting, the Elvis American Diner, with a 16 foot tall statue of Elvis outside, called 'the king,' now resides there. Does God have a sense of humor or what?!!
1 Sam 7:2 says the people lamented after God those 20 years. But not King Saul. You didn't find him at worship in Kiriath-Jearim. He was happy with OUTWARD RELIGION, with appearance, empty ritual — not the real deal, the actual presence of God. He never went and got the ark. But it was David – a man after God's own heart, who got the Ark shortly after becoming king.
David brought it to Jerusalem. He placed it under a tent, 2 Chron 1:4. Then Solomon placed it in his temple. The Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 587 BC and the ARK has been missing ever since.
But that didn't stop Herod from building a huge temple in Jerusalem. No ARK? No problem! We got religion where just doing the 'best we can' in worship and serving God should be enough, right? NO! Not for us, dear friend!
See the precious blood of Jesus making the New and Living Way directly into God's presence! Then enter His presence — worship like you were made to —and COME ALIVE!
How do we get close to God? What are the steps? What are the Do's and the Don'ts? Human nature if you think about, simply LOVES RULES. Lots of rules. Rules keep others out. Rules keep you and your friends IN, if your the one making the rules. Ha-Ha. Some people just like to keep rules; it gives them a sense of accomplishment. Others like to BREAK RULES – it gives THEM a sense of accomplishment. Go figure.
Back to approaching God. Under the Old Covenant there was the blood of bulls and goats Heb 10:4. Animal blood could not take away sin, but God allowed that it to cover sin. It was all the Old Covenant people had! Once a year, on the Day of Atonement the high priest would enter the holy of holies and sprinkle that blood, hopeful it would be accepted and the nation's sins would be covered for another year. He was the only one who could enter God's presence. Talk about exclusive!
Thankfully, oh hallelujah, Heb 10:9-10 says He, GOD, "takes AWAY the first covenant to establish the second." By His will (not our efforts) we have been sanctified — through the offering of the body of Jesus, once, for all. Then Jesus sat down – IT IS FINISHED. By one offering He has perfected (made complete) those who ARE sanctified. That's Heb 10:14, and that's you and me, dear believer.
Now, as Heb 10:19-20 state, "We have confidence to enter the holy places (ESV plural) BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. His blood is the NEW and LIVING WAY. So, by the sacrifice of Jesus, the way is open for us to be instantly in God's most holy presence. Without becoming a cinder, toast or charcoal!
Most Christians still think the 'old way.' They believe that God will not show up until they 'get it right.' What is "it?" Is it worship? 3 fast songs and then 3 slow songs? Is it prayer through the night? Fasting? Soaking? Sending out the praisers first like Jehoshaphat?
NO! It is not through the perfection of our performance. Not us at all. His love. His grace. His BLOOD at Calvary. Consider this New and Living Way, my friend. Don't delay, come as you are. Enter God's presence —and COME ALIVE!
Where we are receiving and becoming ROOTED and GROUNDED in the amazing love of Christ. Dear friend, may YOU become rooted and grounded in God's love.
Everywhere I go it seems Christians, precious saints, who are unconditionally accepted in the Beloved, are struggling with conditional acceptance; they are rooted and grounded in performance based religion rather than the UNCONDITIONAL love of God. And why not? The entire world, and all other religions, base a person's approval, acceptance, honor, blessings, upon their performance.
In Christianity it's often disguised as 'obedience' – if you obey God you will be rewarded. But you never know if you have fully obeyed, or if you could have done more, given more and so on – you live under a cloud of uncertainty – are you approved, accepted? You feel God has a bit of a disapproving frown, when He considers you.
There's nothing wrong with obedience – but FIRST: receive the LOVE OF GOD which is UNCONDITIONAL – and walk in it. Obedience to the Holy Spirit will follow.
Remember Col 1:27— the mystery hidden for long ages but now revealed, "how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Obedience? Did they obey? Obey what? Jesus Christ came to live in Gentiles, that means anyone, who believed in Him. That's all they did: believed in Him. They did not obey the rules. They did not know the rules. They did not have the RULE BOOK. They were excluded from such knowledge by those who had the rule book; the Jews.
Yet, when they believed on Jesus Christ, Jesus, the Anointed One, the Savior of the World, came to live in them. Unholy vessels? Not any longer! The Holy One had sanctified them, transformed them in an instant of time! Hallelujah!
Friend, Christianity is not about obeying the rules – that was Old Covenant at Mt Sinai through Moses. At Calvary it was replaced by the New Covenant. Who says so? God says so – read Hebrews!
Yes, dear friend, open up your heart, be afraid no longer. Receive His love, His favor, and His blessings that are contained in being accepted in the Beloved —and COME ALIVE!
We are so excited how Paul in Eph 3:17 prayed that the Ephesians become ROOTED and GROUNDED in love, that amazing love of Christ. We ALL have this inherent need: to comprehend, to experience, the love of GOD, and to become rooted and grounded in it.
"Acceptance" here in the Greek means "to make graceful, charming, lovely, agreeable, to surround with favor and to honor with blessings." Oh My God – He is so wonderful! You believed, and it is His good pleasure, His grace, to make you grace-full, charming and lovely. Agreeable in every way, surrounded with His FAVOR and honoring you with His blessings! That's the REAL Gospel.
You might want to rewind this video and hear that again! It's true! ALL OF IT! Dear friend, I pray you become rooted and grounded in the love of God and come to really grasp it. After more than 20 years of performance based Christianity, I began to discover that God's love, God's acceptance, is based on Jesus and Calvary, not me. I began to receive His love — and you know what? I had enough love to give some away! I couldn't begin to give it all away! My dear wife began telling me she felt loved and was experiencing love through me like never before. And you know what? I wasn't even thinking about it, about purposing to love her – Mary was experiencing the love of God through me – and it was just spilling out from me effortlessly.
Cool, very cool, and all God's doing. Friend, begin receiving the love of God today – and DO NOT STOP receiving! It's past the time to let go of performance based religion. Let go of rejection, and unworthiness, too. We HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED in the Beloved, in Jesus. STOP focusing on your performance; receive His love and become that graceful, charming, lovely, agreeable, surrounded with favor and honored with blessings person Jesus has made you.
Yes, let go of the lies, receive His love, and COME ALIVE!
Last time I pointed out in Eph 3:16-21 that Paul prayed the Ephesians would become ROOTED and GROUNDED in love; able to understand and to know the amazing love of Christ. My friend, we ALL have this inherent need: to KNOW, to UNDERSTAND, the love of GOD, to become rooted and grounded in it. I recommend you pray this for yourself – and everyone you know!
When I first stepped out of the pew of the little church in Oakmont PA in 1976, I was immediately FLOODED with the LOVE OF GOD – the unconditional love of GOD! My years of struggle (and failure) to measure up to other people's standards, even my own, was swept away by this OCEAN of God's love! I knew He loved me! I knew I was accepted in the beloved! I cried tears of joy for hours.
While I had experienced the love of God, I was certainly not rooted and grounded in it. I did not understand it at all! Well meaning but misdirected church people pointed me back to CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE! I experienced the love of God they said, because I was obedient to walk down that aisle declaring Jesus my Savior. And IF I continued to do everything God wanted me to do I would continue to experience His love.
Friend, they meant well, but they were off base! They missed the glory of Calvary! So the next 20 or so years of my Christian life I spent still rooted and grounded, not in the love of God, but in conditional acceptance, in performance – I believed if I did right in God's sight, if I performed well, He would bless me; if not, I would miss His best. THIS WAS A TERRIBLE WAY TO LIVE – and it's the way MOST Christians are living today – perhaps even yourself!
I was also rooted in rejection and unworthiness. Since I wasn't measuring up to God's standards, I lived a life of Christian rejection and hung my head down as an unworthy son of God. Dear friend, there are NO UNWORTHY SONS OF GOD! There is hope for all of us, for God's love is unconditional!
More next time; for we want everyone — to COME ALIVE!
Where we LOVE the GOOD NEWS! The word today is RENEW "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is." Ro 12:2. You ARE a Christian, complete in Him already. Col 2:10. You look and act more and more like who you really are, as you renew your mind: replacing the world's thought patterns with heavenly, faith in God thinking, which leads to speaking and doing that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
"You have received Christ Jesus the Lord, He's already dwelling within you, so walk in Him." Col 2:6.
Some people struggle with the truth. They say, "I guess God is far away, and doesn't care for me." They are not seeing Calvary! So they focus upon their performance, doing the best they can. Friend, can you see that's an affront to God and His mercies?
So how can we help such people to walk in Him? How can we help people put off the old man and put on the new man? How can we help people grow in Jesus and say NO to the thoughts from the dark side, when they think God does not care and their focus is — themselves?
They need to know the love of God! So, LOVE THEM. And let God do the impossible – How? By praying for them as Paul did in Eph 3:16-21 that the Holy Spirit would strengthen their inner man, that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith; that they become rooted and grounded in love, and able to understand and to know the amazing love of Christ — which surpasses knowledge.
Friend, we are asking God to help someone — COME ALIVE!
Dear friend, anybody, everybody, who came or was brought to Jesus was getting healed. That's GOOD NEWS, right? No one is ill in the Kingdom of Jesus, then – or now – or ever! Understand?! Good!
Heb 1:3 says Jesus is the exact representation of the nature of God – all He said, all He did: exactly what God is like. He is God and He has revealed Him. So how many people did Jesus hurt? Break their legs? Put sickness on? Refuse to cast out demons? Give leprosy? Leave them in their distress?
True, there are Old Testament verses that would appear to say otherwise. But God appeared dimly in the Old Testament, and prophets saw only in part and their understanding was affected by the Old Covenant Law. NOW, it is Jesus who is the revelation of God to us.
Job said in 1:21, "The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away." Later on he admitted he didn't know what he was talking about. Hannah in 1 Sam 2:6 states, "The Lord kills and makes alive." He has absolute power it's true, BUT Jesus, our Jesus, came that we might have LIFE and that life abundantly. Jn 10:10. Not mostly life but kill a few people here and there.
Yes friend, God IS Good, and the news about Him is all GOOD. So be encouraged, believe in Jesus, the God who is GOOD, and COME ALIVE!


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El rugby playa es un deporte principalmente basado en las variedades del rugby a 13 o el rugby a 15. No tiene una regulación centralizada como el fútbol playa, pero si existen varias ligas en Europa, siendo especialmente popular en Italia.

Desde 2009 y en el marco de los Juegos Suramericanos de Playa organizados por la ODESUR se desarrollan competiciones de esta modalidad, tanto masculinas como femeninas y en los Juegos Bolivarianos de Playa de la ODEBO desde 2012.

Véase también
 Rugby playa en los Juegos Suramericanos de Playa

Referencias

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T&K Machine, Inc., in Paris, Texas, manufactures over 500 precision-machined components and assemblies on eight platforms and supplies parts to aerospace companies such as Boeing, Vought Aircraft, Goodrich and others. But the company had a backlog at their deburring operation that supports all machined parts within the organization. One part in particular, the Spear - a part for a Boeing airplane fuselage - was experiencing long lead times due to the backlog in the deburring area.
That's when a team led by Roger Caldwell of TEEX Knowledge Engineering stepped in. They met with T&K employees and used "value stream mapping," a lean manufacturing technique that analyzes the flow of materials required to bring a product to a consumer, which identified a needed improvement in the buffing and deburring process.
After the TEEX training, employees at all levels in the company developed and implemented process improvements that decreased the cycle time for parts by 2 to 3 days, according to Corey Campbell, Vice President of Operations with T&K Machine. The reduced set-up time, consumable cutbacks and operator prep time resulted in a total savings of $111,200 per year.
"Lean manufacturing activities have led to a 15 percent increase in throughput for the downdraft table area and eliminated the backlog in the deburr area," Campbell said. "We've been able to move two employees from the downdraft table to the assembly line to improve production even further." Through continuous improvement, the company has even brought two additional products off the machining process and is running them across the downdraft table without any backlog.
T&K Machine is one of 17 Texas aerospace industry suppliers included in a $1.1 million training grant from the Texas Workforce Commission. This grant qualified the company for training on AS9100 quality standards and lean manufacturing techniques. With the assistance of lean manufacturing experts from the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center and TEEX, the company has made significant process improvements.


Time to move up from 790 to 1000 ???
. It doesn't seem like I've lost any weight this week.
My current weight is 12 stone 3 (bmi=23.8) I'd like to end up 11 to 11 & half stone (bmi = 22ish), basically just lose the remaining excess fat around my tummy.
I am worried about the temptation that the extra food may put me under and the effects of coming out of ketosis and feeling genuine hunger. However the plan looks so tempting and can't wait to eat fruit again. I think my main issue with food is that once I start eating I don't want to stop!
So folks, what do you advise - one more week on 790, or move up to 1000?
Do you know I'm in the same place as you and have been stalling moving up programmes because of little cheats but today I came to the conclusion like you that my problem may be my body saying it's had enough and I'm wondering if I am doing more harm by stalling. Today I have got my head focused and decided that I am going to work through the programmes no stalling and that my focus now if to get this over and eating healthily will the whole family ASAP and to be capable of making sensible choices and strong decisions over Christmas. I now feel as positive about ending the diet as I felt about SSing in the start.
I have 14lb more ish to lose and feel that if I don't lose all I want to by the end of the diet if I need to lose more it will go when healthy eating afterwards.
I don't know why it has taken me so long to get positive about getting to the end. I guess it's just been a really positive experience for me that I didn't want it to end yet.
My advice for what it's worth would be to move up the programme sounds like you have done 790 pretty well after all and you need to be going onwards towards goal.
Ahhh hi guys - exactly in same place. Been on 790 for 2 weeks now and still have 11lbs to go and no idea whether to go up to 1000 this week or give it another week. Am going away next weekend and will be going to a meal where I stated weeks ago I will drink wine for the first time since 03/08 and eat whatever the hell I want, carbs and all, for the first time (my small "cheats" have been v, v restrained so far). So maybe the blow will be less if I'm on 1000? I'm quite happy on 790 however but don't like the expense. Starting a new job next week and don't think I'll be able to eat through nerves!!! It's very confusing at this stage isn't it? I don't personally think it is explained very well in the booklet when to change to the next programme.
You should not be doing 790 with a BMI of less than 26 have a chat with your CDC. You should be on the 1000 calorie programme now.
If someone has lost a lot of weight with me I move them to AAM at BMI 27 then 790 for a week or maybe 2, then 1000 part a followed by 1000 part b normally a week at each stage, then 1200 for one or two weeks then 1500 then onto maintenance.
If someone comes to me with a BMI of 27 I allow 1 week SS, then AAM and follow through as above.
It is part of COMA recommendations that VLCD's should not be used if BMI is 25 so in order to move through the steps you need to introduce food prior to reaching 25 as 790 is still a VLCD otherwise you will not get a smooth transition.
Bit waffly but thats about it.
Thanks for that Linda. Makes sense.
When to move from SS to 790?


The Pain of Kidney Stones from a Personal Experience!
Current: The Pain of Kidney Stones from a Personal Experience!
They are small, hard crystals made of dissolved minerals found in the urine. They form inside the kidneys and can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball.
Kidney stones form when the urine contains more crystalforming substances – such as calcium, oxalate and uric acid – than the fluid can dilute. At the same time, your urine may be lacking in the substances that prevent crystals from sticking together, creating an ideal environment for stones to form.
About 90% of urinary stones are mixed stones with the commonest minerals being calcium and oxalate.
The bad news is that over the past 10 years, the prevalence of stones has increased worldwide and the incidence of stones is now seen in younger people due to dietary changes.
If kidney stones are small enough, they pass through the urinary tract and out of the body. It can be quite painful to pass them out but they usually don't cause permanent damage when they are this small.
But if they become too large, about 2-3mm in size, they can block the passage of urine and cause acute pain during urination. As for me, it took three days and six intense 25-minute colic episodes! My female patients tell me that this is similar to labour pain! Thankfully now we have oral medications to help pass out small stones faster and with less pain.
The stone rubbing against the inner lining of the urinary tract can cause damage and bleeding, and the injured site can become the site for recurrent infection.
Kidney stones can sometimes cause kidney damage and failure as a result.
Genetic risk factor You are more likely to get them if someone in your family has them, or if you have already had kidney stones. It is crucial to perform some tests to ascertain the cause of the urinary stone so as to adjust the diet and/or oral therapy to minimise stone formation.
Dehydration Insufficient hydration can make urine concentrated, increasing the likelihood of stones forming. This also applies to those who live in warm climates and sweat a lot.
Sodium Too much increases the amount of calcium that the kidneys must filter and significantly increases the risk of kidney stones.
Obesity A high body mass index (BMI) is linked to an increased risk of kidney stones.
Digestive diseases Gastric bypass surgery and Inflammatory Bowel Disease can cause changes in the digestive process that affect absorption of calcium and water, increasing the levels of stoneforming substances in the urine.
If stones are suspected, you need to get tested using means such as blood tests, which can reveal the concentration of calcium or uric acid in your blood; urine tests, which can reveal if there are excessive stone-forming minerals or too few stone-preventing substances; X-rays or non-contrast rapid Computerised Tomography (CT), which can show kidney stones, how hard they are, and their effects on the urinary tract.
Depending on size and composition, stones can be removed through a spectrum of approaches, ranging from drinking lots of water to flush them out, to shockwaves to break up stones, laser technology to remove stones, and percutaneous renal surgery to remove very large stones.
Don't suffer like I did before seeing a urologist to manage this common problem.


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Q: Prove $A$ is closed Let $A: C[0,1] \rightarrow C[0,1], Af(x) = f(x)/x$ with domain $D(A) = ${$f \in C[0,1]: \exists \lim_{x \rightarrow 0^+} f(x)/x$}.
Prove that $A$ is closed.
I know that A linear operator $T:X \rightarrow Y$ is closed provided whenever {$x_n$} $\rightarrow x_0$ and $T(x_n) \rightarrow y_0$ then $T(x_0) = y_0$, but I'm not really sure how to proceed.  I see a theorem that says a linear operator between Banach spaces is continuous iff its closed, but I'm not really sure how to apply that here or if I even should

A: Suppose $f_n \to f$, $A f_n \to g$, we want to show that $Af = g$.
The idea is note that if we let $\gamma(x) = x g(x)$, then $A \gamma = g$ and all we need to do is to show that $f_n \to \gamma$.
Since $Af_n \to g$, for any $\epsilon>0$ then there is some $N$ such that  $|{f_n(x)\over x} - {g(x)}| \le \epsilon$ for all $x \neq 0$ and $n \ge N$.
Hence $|f_n(x)-xg(x)| \le \epsilon|x| \le \epsilon$. In particular, $\|f_n-\gamma\| \to 0$, where $\gamma(x) = x g(x)$.
Hence $f= \gamma$ and so $A$ is closed.