Very strange things have happened to me all of my life. This is one of the stranger things, but by no means the strangest.
Okay, it was about 2011, I was living in Portland Oregon. Near where I lived there was a 7-11, on NE 122nd and about Sandy Blvd., in the "Algay Plaza" (yes, that's the name). The neighborhood used to be called "Algay" but now they just call it "Park Rose". I used to go to that 7-11 a lot. It was next to a Japanese restaurant, and a Chevron gas station. Behind the 7-11 was an alley, and if you go down a hill there is a K-Mart. Anyway, there used to be flat hill there, with a steep dirt climb, you could go up on top where some bushes and trees were. The homeless used to camp out there on the flat top of the hill, because nobody would bug them, because the climb up to the top from the alley was steep, but only about 15 feet, but steep. Nobody on any wheelchair would even attempt it. It would be impossible. It was a hard climb, even for a healthy person who would walk. Since then, they leveled that hill to the alley level, and built something on it. So, the hill is no longer there, but the K-Mart is still there and so is the 7-11 and Chevron station.
The alley going the other way, came out to a parking lot that had the Japanese restaurant and a few other businesses, like a chiropractor's office, etc.
I had a near-death experience when I was 11, flew out of my body, looked down of my white-flabby pasty self in death. It wasn't pretty. But, I said, "No, I'm not really to go yet" so I went back into my white-pasty flabby body. Since that time, I've had a lot of very, very bazaar experiences. Ghosts. Demons. Glitch in the Matrix. Prophetic dreams. Voices talking out of me not my own, etc.
So, I came out of the 7-11 one day, and I see a man, naked except for short trunks, sitting in a wheelchair, in the middle of the alley, next to the hill, kitty-corner of the back of the 7-11. IMMEDIATELY, I said to myself: "He's not real. He's here to test you". I knew that, as sure as I knew my name. Don't ask me how. So, I go back inside, and I buy two waters, a hot dog, put stuff on it, and some nacho chips, and I come out and get in my car, and I drive 25 feet to where the guy in the wheelchair is. Already, by then, I KNEW that I was going to drive down the hill towards the K-Mart, and I KNEW he was going to disappear when I looked at him in my rear-view mirror. Now, YOU are gonna say: "Hallucination". Whatever. I'm telling you what I saw, and what I was thinking at the time.
So, I put the car in park, turn it off, get out, say "It's a hot day, would you like some water, and I got you a hot dog and some other stuff, would you like it?" He looked at me, with sky-blue eyes, HUGE eyes, almost freakishly huge. His bone structure was of an old man. And he was missing half his arm and half his leg, on opposing sides. His hair had no grey, and was "perfectly" aligned and the color was perfectly uniform: like he just stepped out of an expensive salon. He was obviously a white man, but his skin was bronzed. IT was Summer, and it was a hot Summer (95 degrees at least that day). But all of his skin, the part exposed to the Sun, and the part not exposed, was an absolute "equal" match of a light bronze, like he'd just got a perfect "spry on" tan. His skin was perfect. Light bronze, not dark bronze. His hair was brown. Every hair in perfect place, but NOT wet. Not gelled. Long, but not very long. Not short. His skin did not have one freckle or mole on it. Perfect skin.
Now, he was missing half and arm, and half a leg. He was in a wheelchair. His wheel chair was old fashioned, and had no motor. No joy stick. It was a regular old wheelchair. He had only one arm. He had no shoes on. No sandals. I looked. I checked, he had no scars on his "half" arm and his "half-leg". No lines. No scars. It was like he was "born" like that. No motor on the wheelchair. He spoke with the voice of an old man, and his "bone" structure was like that of an old man. But no grey hairs. No hairs on his face of any color. He was not Asian, not American Indian. Obvious Caucasian. No hairs on his face. I had him the two bottles of water, the hot dog (in its little heat packet), and the chips, and he puts them resting on his leg (the full leg) and one of the arms of the wheelchair, thanking me. The thought in my head is: "If you show mercy, mercy will be shown to you". Very, very, VERY clear thought. Not like a "normal" thought in my head.
At this point, I'm half-way to panic, because I KNOW this guy is not real. So, without saying goodbye, I get back into my car, and I decide to drive down to the K-Mart parking lot. I already know, he's gonna disappear in my rear-view. I KNOW that like I know the Sun will rise tomorrow. More so. I I start up, and wave, and he waves back, and I start to drive down the little hill to the K-Mart Parking lot, and I'm looking at him in my mirror, and only "glances" ahead for a second, and then look back, and he's still there, and I glance forward for half a second, and I look back and GONE! He is GONE. I slam on my brakes, shove it into "R" (Reverse) and HAUL a** back up to where his wheelchair was just two second ago. He is GONE. Nowhere. Naturally, I look all over the place. Go inside the 7-11. Go inside the Chevron, go to the parking lot. The only place I don't check, is the hill-top because there is NO WAY UNDER HEAVEN he could have gotten up that hillside even if he had all day to try it. The hillside was extremely steep, like at a 45 degree angle. I once tried to climb it, but gave up. He VANISHED.
That Summer my father died, and I was his caregiver. He was a gambler, and saved nothing. I was soon living in my car, because I could find employment (employers assumed I was a druggie or had been in prison--whereas I was taking care of my father--I've never taken any illegal drug and never been arrested). I become homeless, can't find a job. Trying to sleep in my car. My car finally goes out, and I sell it for $300 junk, get a seedy motel room for a few nights. Both parents are dead. My friends abandon me. I'm done. I try to hang myself with my belt, but, no go, doesn't even affect my breathing, although my belt is TIGHTER than tight around my neck. I tighten it. No go. My breathing is fine. I "screw up" even death. The Grim Reaper must be laughing at me. But, somebody "shows mercy" upon me, and I get out of it. And they pay for a truck driving/live in dorm school, and I become a truck driver, and I'm saved. "If you show mercy, mercy shall be shown unto you". Yes, this really happened. Yes, he really vanished. Yes, I KNEW he was going to do that the first micro-second I saw him when I was walking out of the 7-11 that hot Portland Summer day. Yes, this is a true story. No, this was not the strangest thing that has ever happened to me, by far. Thank you.


Our "typical" activities depend upon the interests and passions of our campers and counselors so change from week-to-week, but we always encourage fun, enthusiasm, friendship and respect. Campers have more choice and free time then at many camps, and staff always support them in making great friends and developing creativity and leadership.
Morning meeting: Each person is free to use the silence for contemplation and worship, to immerse their senses in nature or take time with their own thoughts. We might feel led to share a message, a few words about our thoughts or even a song! After silent meeting the facilitator opens up space for anyone to share concerns, questions, affirmations, and any announcements.
Plork (play+work) projects, counselors lead various small group projects such as painting a cabin, gardening, helping the cooks, gathering firewood etc. Everyone has a good time and gets to contribute to the community, our environment, and help take care of camp!
Creative Fun We make our own fun each session, campers and staff collaborate to plan and lead activities like skit nights, nature art, singing and songwriting, jewelry making, frisbee, tie-dye, poetry workshops, low rope challenges, Secret Friends, campfires, and zany all-camp games like predator/prey, zombie town, and hot chocolate river.
Nature and Stewardship-We try to minimize our environmental footprint at camp, and maximize time outdoors through quiet worship outside listening to birdsong, hiking in the Southern Rocky Mountains, sleeping under the stars in lush meadows, picking greens for dinner at a nearby organic farm, moving rocks and digging trails for better erosion control, feeding the wormbox, and watching a thunderstorm roll in deciding when to seek shelter.
Small Groups: Every day we spend time with our "small group" to share or discuss around a chosen topic. The Counselors in Training plan queries or activities each day and lead their group. During small group time, everyone is invited to share from their own experience without the fear of judgment (or gossip!) and the topics can be as silly or profound–or both– as the group decides. Small groups are also your chore group at camp, so you'll have a rotating chore together every day.
Mountain Friends Camp is an accepting and caring community, we welcome campers from all races, religions, national origins, genders, and sexual orientations. Quakers look for that of God in everyone, and value each individual for their unique gifts and potential.


The deepest location is in the western Pacific, just south of Guam and is known as the Mariana Trench. The deepest spot within the trench is at the southern end – Challenger Deep is just under 11,000m deep. This compares to an average ocean depth of about 4,000m.
The trench is caused by the Pacific plate (to the east) slowly moving beneath (subducted) the Mariana Plate to the west.
It seems only 4 descents have been made to the bottom of the trench – 2 unmanned and 2 manned! More people have walked on the moon than visited the deepest part of the ocean!
I still find it amazing – and little sad – that the deepest parts of the Earth's oceans are less explored than the Moon and Mars. The environment down there is foreboding to say the least though!


Re-opening per discussion on python-dev.
* Extend Jelle's patch to incorporate lazy support for "_source" and "verbose" so that the API is unchanged from the user's point of view.
* Make sure the current test suite still passes and that the current docs remain valid.
* Get better measurements of benefits so we know what is actually being achieved.
* Test to see if there are new positive benefits for PyPy and Jython as well.


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RPG Games Like Skyrim
Check our list of recommendations for open world role playing games like Skyrim which provide similar gameplay. Set 200 years after Oblivion, Skyrim is the 5th installment in Elder Scrolls series where the player takes the role of the last living DragonBorn who must increase his strength and abilities so that he can defeat Alduin, a Dragon before he can destroy the world. Don't forget to mention if we miss any games as we keep on updating this list.
Games Similar to Skyrim
Oblivion is the fourth installment in The Elder Scrolls action fantasy video game series. Oblivion's main story revolves around the player character's efforts to thwart a fanatical cult known as the "Mythic Dawn" that plans to open the gates to a realm called "Oblivion".
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a single-player action adventure role-playing game. The game starts with the resurrection of the dead player through 'The Well of Souls' by a gnome known as Fomorous Hugues. The player must now try to bring order or create chaos to the kingdom.
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. It is the third major installment in the Fallout series. The player character is an inhabitant of Vault 101, a survival shelter designed to protect up to 1,000 humans from the nuclear fallout. The game has an attribute and combat system typical of an action strategy game.
Dragon Age II is a fantasy simulator video game developed by BioWare, and published by Electronic Arts. The player assumes the role of Hawke, a human mage, warrior, or rogue who arrives in the city of Kirkwall as a lowly refugee but becomes its legendary champion over a turbulent decade of political and social conflict.
Dark Souls is an open world action role-playing video game. The game takes place in the kingdom of Lordran, where the player character is an undead chosen to make pilgrimage. Dark Souls has a minimalistic plot and much of it is interpreted by the player on their journey.
More games like Skyrim:
Dragons Dogma,
Fable III,
Darksiders 2,
Witcher 2,
Gothic 3,
Risen 1 & 2,
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North,
Fallout: New Vegas,
Dark Souls II,
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines,
Neverwinter Nights,
Ravensword: Shadowlands,
Divinity II,
Far Cry 3,
Two Worlds II,
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic,
Red Dead Redemption,......if you can think of more, then don't forget to mention it in comments.

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We are sincerely sorry to inform you that the shipment of ReSpeakers is delayed again, to the middle of February 2017. During our last round of Quality Test in December 2016, we found some of the LED components on the PCBs have been subjected to damp. Consequently, in order to ensure the quality of the product, all theReSpeaker Cores and ReSpeaker Mic Arrays were sent back to rework. Now the ReSpeakers are available and going to be shipped, our Spring Festival is coming, the whole nation will be on vacation. The holiday of Seeed will last from January 21st to February 5th.
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Q: Listview Clearing/resetting/finish not working I've got an Android application with 2 activities
First (main) activity: Dropdown with available XML files
Second (list) acitvity: Show results in a ListView / Listadapter
The application works fine, but when I use the Back button on the second activity it finishes the application and clears the ArrayList (tested with System.out) and choose another XML view, the old XML results are shown.
So basically it looks like the listview still apears in my memory, how do I clear/reset this??
        XMLParse parser = new XMLParse();
    String xml = parser.getXmlFromUrl(URL); // getting XML
    Document doc = parser.getDomElement(xml); // getting DOM element
            //SOME CODE//

    // Adding menuItems to ListView
    adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, menuItems,
            R.layout.list_item,
            new String[] { bestemming, vertrek, spoor, vertraging }, new int[] {
                    R.id.bestemming, R.id.vertrek, R.id.spoor, R.id.vertraging });
    setListAdapter(adapter);

    final Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.back);
    button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
            menuItems.clear();
            finish();
        }
    });

A: Have you tried it with ArrayAdapter?
adapter = new ArrayAdapter ...
...
menuItems.clear();
adapter.clear();
...

or
listView.setAdapter(null);

A: You have to notify adapter that you have changed ArrayList and it will redraw this. Sometimes it redraws without notification but sometimes it shows old data.
In your main activity try to use something like that:
@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();

    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

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Q: Looking for patterns in a string how to? I'm trying to find all instances of the substring EnemyType('XXXX') where XXXX is an arbitrary string and the instasnce of EnemyType('XXXX') can appear multiple times.
Right now I'm using a consortium of index of/substring functions in C# but would like to know if there's a cleaner way of doing it?

A: Use regex. Example:
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

var inputString = "   EnemyType('1234')abcdeEnemyType('5678')xyz";
var regex = new Regex(@"EnemyType\('\d{4}'\)");

var matches = regex.Matches(inputString);

foreach (Match i in matches)
{
    Console.WriteLine(i.Value);
}

It will print:
EnemyType('1234')
EnemyType('5678')

The pattern to match is @"EnemyType\('\d{4}'\)", where \d{4} means 4 numeric characters (0-9). The parentheses are escaped with backslash.
Edit: Since you only want the string inside quotes, not the whole string, you can use named groups instead.
var inputString = "   EnemyType('1234')abcdeEnemyType('5678')xyz";
var regex = new Regex(@"EnemyType\('(?<id>[^']+)'\)");

var matches = regex.Matches(inputString);

foreach (Match i in matches)
{
    Console.WriteLine(i.Groups["id"].Value);
}

Now it prints:
1234
5678

Regex is a really nice tool for parsing strings. If you often parse strings, regex can make life so much easier.


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Harold LaBonte and Elizabeth Larson
Authorities pursue stolen pickup through downtown Lakeport
A pickup allegedly stolen out of Napa County was abandoned on Martin Street after a high speed pursuit Tuesday night. Photo by Harold LaBonte.
THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED REGARDING OWNERSHIP OF THE PICKUP.
LAKEPORT – Officials were searching for a subject who led the California Highway Patrol, Lakeport Police and sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase through downtown Lakeport Tuesday night.
The chase reached speeds of as high as 120 miles per hour, according to a CHP officer at the scene.
It ended on Martin Street when a woman and at least one other person – possibly another female – ditched a stolen pickup truck they were driving.
At about 9:30 p.m. the CHP was in pursuit of the woman on Highway 29 heading northbound toward Upper Lake. The pickup was speeding, which the CHP reported was the reason for trying to pull it over initially.
The woman reportedly was driving a late model white Dodge Ram pickup that had a First Choice Abbey Carpet sign on it, but did not belong to that company. CHP reported the vehicle was stolen out of Napa, and had license plates stolen out of Vallejo.
The pursuing CHP officer at one point reported objects were being thrown from the vehicle, and that the driver appeared to be preparing to veer into oncoming traffic on the highway. The officer put a request out to other law enforcement in the area to attempt to find the items thrown on the highway.
The pickup then got off of the highway and onto Park Way, and headed back into Lakeport along Lakeshore Boulevard. A call was put out for spike strips to be put out on Lakeshore at Rainbow, but the pursuit moved through the area too quickly.
The high-speed pursuit continued through downtown Lakeport and along Main Street, with Lakeport Police and Lake County Sheriff's deputies joining CHP in the attempt to stop the vehicle.
The chase ended on Martin Street near the car wash, where the pickup was abandoned and the pickup's occupants escaped on foot, officials reported.
The pickup was left with both front doors open, and had nearly hit a tree at the corner of Martin and Forbes, but was undamaged.
Officials were examining at least three women's handbags found in the pickup.
CHP was joined by Lakeport Police and Lake County Sheriff's deputies, who continued looking for the suspects late into the night.
Middletown Middle School students plan summer trip to Japan
From right to left, Rose Lynch, MegAnn Brierly, Krystina Riccio, Jennifer Harte, Cheyanne Horvath, Rachel Sutton, Jamie Ridgeay, Karen Castellanos, Raphael Roy-Labelle, Jacob Gill, Maddie Kucer and Nika Gibbs at the Hidden Valley Lake Country Club for a fundraising dinner and silent auction on Saturday, May 17. Photo by Terre Logsdon.
HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE – The first stamp in their new US passports may be from Japan, but for many of these Middletown Middle School students, this will be the first of many worldwide adventures.
Twelve Middletown Middle School students will leave in August as part of an ongoing exchange program with their sister city, Naka-cho – which means "Middletown" – and fly to Japan for eight days to gain a better understanding of a very different culture.
"The benefits of this program are numerous," said former Middletown Middle School Principal JoAnn Rodriguez. "This trip will open up their horizons … and whet their appetites for learning about other cultures."
Rodriguez, now retired, received written correspondence from Naka-cho asking for a cultural exchange. After several years of writing back and forth, in 1994, the first delegation from Middletown Middle School was sent to Japan.
The next year, students and parents from Naka-cho came to Middletown – and they have alternated every year since.
"It gives the students a desire to learn and appreciate other cultures," Rodriguez said, who explained that some students host a family from Japan one year – then stay with that same family the following year when they go.
In May, the Japan Club at Middletown Middle School hosted a dinner and silent auction at the Hidden Valley Lake Country Club to raise money for the trip.
Dan Morgan, Middletown Middle School current principal, explained that each of the students go through a very rigorous screening process in order to participate in the program. In the process they must demonstrate citizenship, and show they are maintaining a high grade point average and receiving recommendations from their teachers.
"This is an amazing group of kids and parents," said Morgan. "They're all working very hard to make this happen."
If you would like to assist the students in the Japan Club, please contact Kris Davis at 987-4160.
Ross A. Christensen
Posted On Saturday, 07 June 2008 22:41
Foodie Freak: What is that sauce on your spaghetti?
I've been trying to create a unique spaghetti sauce for my Italian wife. During the process I wondered, "What is the difference between all these spaghetti sauces that you see on the grocery store shelves, and what does it mean?"
Marinara started out being the most confusing sauce. There are so many versions, all with different lists of ingredients, which made it hard for me to figure out what made marinara, well, marinara.
After a bit of studying I found that, literally translated, a marinara is a tomato-based sauce that contains seafood, sometimes clams but more typically anchovies. The "Mari" in Marinara means marine, but its history can be traced to a light sauce created by fisherman that could be made on board a boat quickly, since the availability of wood at sea was scarce and fires on a ship were hazardous so the fisherman would want them burning long.
Characteristically, in addition to the anchovies, a marinara also contains tomatoes, onions, garlic, olive oil and spices. It's only in America that we have distorted marinara into a nondescript, one-size-fits-all spaghetti sauce.
Ragu essentially means "Italian meat sauce," so almost all spaghetti sauces in America are ragus. Tucco is the Tuscan name for a ragu, and Sugo, loosely translated to "sauce" or "juice", is typically called a "light" tomato sauce with onions, garlic, and basil.
The problem with finding the true name of Italian sauces is that every Italian immigrant family called sauces something different, depending on the region they came from or just their own family influences.
It's like asking an American, "What are the ingredients in barbecue?" Texans will start with "Beef with a tomato-based sauce," while North Carolinians will begin with, "Pork and a vinegar-based sauce."
Kansas City residents will just confuse the issue more. So many recipes may say "Ragu ala Bolognese," but "Sugo ala Bolognese" or "Salsa ala Bolognese" would still be correct.
A Bolognese sauce originates from the landlocked Bologne (pronounced bo-LOHN) region of Italy which is not far from Parma (where the cheese Parmesan comes from). Their recipes favor beef or veal as the meat in their ragu, with the inclusion of tomatoes and wine. So a meat sauce from this area would be called "Ragu ala bolognese" (Rah-GOO AH-la bo-lohn-AYHS).
Naples is a seaside city of Italy, and they are credited for being the first Italians to actually eat and cook with tomatoes. Originally in Europe, tomatoes were grown only for ornamental value and as a curiosity, since they are related to the deadly nightshade plant and they were considered poisonous. A famine in the seventeenth century was enough to push people over the edge and attempt to eat the deadly tomato. That was the birth of the tomato into Italian cuisine.
The people of Naples tend to prefer pear-shaped tomato varieties because they are sweeter and less acidic. "Neapolitan gravy" is a basic tomato sauce from Naples that they use as a base to build on. They tend to favor pork in their ragus. On the other hand, brains, chicken, duck, duck liver, kidneys, sweetbreads (culinary code for "thyroid glands"), and rabbit can all found in various sauces throughout Italy.
Pasta ala Puttanesca is a dish with an intense tomato sauce that allegedly originated with the prostitutes of Naples. The name translates to "Harlots' pasta" or "Pasta in the style of whores." Wow! Who thought a food column could turn so blue? Many stories claim the origin of the sauce but the two most believable go like this ...
Brothels were called "closed houses" because by law the shutters were required to stay closed at all times to keep from offending the neighbors but the strong smell of the sauce was the lure for customers to enter their establishment. Now I may not be Italian but luring a potential customer with tomato sauce and feeding him pasta doesn't sound like a brothel priority so the story that I find more believable is ...
At the end of the evening as the restaurants were shutting down, local streetwalkers would go begging for any leftovers before the restaurant was locked up for the night. The restaurant owners would throw any remaining tomato sauce, olives, capers, anchovies and hot peppers (the five classic ingredients that signify it as a puttanesca sauce) into a pot, pour it over some pasta and serve it to the unfortunate girls before going home. That story sounds a little more plausible to me. (My wife just told me that she, understanding Italian men better than I do, thinks the first version is more likely. "The way to a man's heart, or wallet, is through his stomach." OK, we agree to disagree.)
Arrabbiata sauce is traditionally served over penne pasta but spaghetti is sometimes also used "All'arrabbiata" translates to "angry style" since it is a very piquant and spicy sauce. The unique thing about Arrabbiata is that it is classically NOT served with meat in it.
Vodka sauce is also reserved for penne pasta and short cut pastas. A number of stories have it being created in 1970s Bologne, but some say it was invented by Frank Sinatra. What we do know is that it first appeared publicly during the 1980s and is considered part of nuova cucina, or Italian "New cuisine."
It usually contains vodka, tomatoes, heavy cream, onions, garlic, prosciutto or ham, olives and parmesan cheese. Some early recipes contained rice, caviar, sour cream and strawberries. The meat preferred with this sauce is most frequently salmon.
Why make a sauce with vodka? Many ingredients, including tomatoes, contain flavor compounds that can only be released in the presence of alcohol. Vodka, being a "flavorless and colorless" alcohol, won't clash with cream like wine in a sauce would.
Finally, sauce "All'Amatriciana," or "Lovers sauce," originates in the town of Amatrice, an agricultural area near Rome. The people from the area are so well renowned as good cooks that the Vatican prefers their cooks to come from Amatrice. With a name like Lovers Sauce, everybody wants to claim the recipe for their own, which makes the ingredients list difficult to nail down.
The known origins are that the sauce was adapted from a recipe made by shepherds, was first called La Gricia, and is always based on pork. The common components are tomatoes, guanciale (salt cured pork cheek, but pancetta is a frequent substitute), and chili peppers. Cooks in Rome include onions, but cooks in Amatrice don't. Amatrice serves it on bucatini (spaghetti with a hole down the middle), while Rome uses rigatoni.
Now this brings me back to the sauce I am trying to create for my wife. How do I classify it? It doesn't include anchovies so technically it's not a marinara; no pork so it's not "All Amatriciana"; no capers or olives, so it's not a Puttanesca; no vodka, but a hint of sour and spicy so maybe its an Arrabbiata ... That would make sense, she's frequently angry at me! But it has meat in it so ... aw crud, this is going to take a while... Well anyway, here is the sauce recipe I created for my wife.
Salsa Arriabbiata della moglie (angry wife sauce)
Since my wife loves lavender, I wanted to create a sauce for her based around Herbs de Provence (an herb mixture that includes lavender). Sure, using fresh tomatoes and herbs is great, but for this sauce I wanted something that could be created in no time with items straight from the pantry. It can be made with your favorite ground meat (beef, pork, Italian sausage, or turkey), or the meat can be left out for a hearty vegan sauce.
1 28 oz. can of whole tomatoes
1 6 oz. can of tomato paste
1 large onion diced
1 teaspoon Herbs de Provence
½ cup white wine
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Dash nutmeg
Blend everything except onions in a blender until smooth. Pour mixture into a saucepan and bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Meanwhile, sauté the onions in oil until browned. Stir caramelized onions into sauce and leave on the heat for at least half an hour until sauce reduces and thickens slightly. Add browned, cooked meat at this point if desired and serve over pasta of your choice.
Ross A. Christensen is an award-winning gardener and gourmet cook. He is the author of "Sushi A to Z, The Ultimate Guide" and is currently working on a new book. He has been a public speaker for many years and enjoys being involved in the community.
Pine Fire smoke clouds local skies
The Pine Fire near Cloverdale was clearly visible in Lake County Tuesday. Photo by G. Morgan.
LAKE COUNTY – Smoky skies in parts of Lake County Tuesday resulted from a wildland fire burning in Sonoma County.
Smoke from the Pine Fire, burning along Geysers Road east of Cloverdale, was being carried over the mountains and into Lake County Tuesday by strong winds, according to Cal Fire officials.
Those same winds, Cal Fire reported, had whipped the fire out of control after it started Tuesday morning, shortly after 10 a.m.
Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit was fighting the fire, which had reached 700 acres by Tuesday night, and was reported to be 50-percent contained.
The Pine Fire was one of five active fires Cal Fire was working to contain around the state on Tuesday.
Bill legalizes home winemakers festivals
LAKE COUNTY – A bill signed Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger officially makes home winemaking competitions legal.
With the governor's signature, SB 607, an urgency measure introduced in May by North Coast Sen. Patricia Wiggins, goes into immediate effect.
Thanks to SB 607, individuals may now manufacture up to 200 gallons per household per calendar year for personal or family use without the need for a license or permit.
Wiggins introduced the bill after a state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control official said a provision in the state's business and professions code made it illegal for home winemakers to share their products with others – even at county fairs or at similar events that been held for decades, according to a statement from her office.
"Even though the provision banning home winemaker competitions had not been widely enforced in practice, the growing legions of home winemakers did not deserve to have an arcane section of state law hanging over them," Wiggins, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on California's Wine Industry, said in a written statement.
The bill's signing resolves the issue in time for the peak season of county fairs, Wiggins said, and in advance of what she called the "big daddy of home winemaker competitions," the California State Fair.
Lake County is home to its own home winemakers festival, which will return for his sixth year this June 28 in downtown Kelseyville. The annual event is a benefit for Clear Lake Performing Arts.
Organizers had indicated they were continuing forward with plans for this year's festival, hoping Wiggins' bill would be in force before the event, which in fact came true.
Connel Murray of CLPA said the home winemakers festival is his group's largest annual fundraiser, attracting participants and visitors from all over Northern California.
The Lake County Fair, he said, also has a home winemaking competition, with no public tasting component, as the CLPA event does.
The event has grown each year, he said. Last year's event netted about $7,000, and they're hoping that this year's will break the $10,000 mark.
Proceeds go to such CLPA efforts as supporting its symphony orchestra.
Before Wiggins' bill adjusted the law to make the festivals legal, state law had defined a "winegrower" as "any person who has the facilities and equipment for the conversion of fruit into wine and is engaged in the production of wine, except for those persons who produce less than 200 gallons of wine per year for their personal consumption." SB 607 expands the definition of a winegrower by removing that exception, her office reported.
The law also had allowed homemade beer to be entered into competitions without the need for a licesen or permit, according to Wiggins' office.
Stephen Chambers, executive director of the Western Fairs Association, said in a written statement that more than 50 fairs host home winemaker competitions.
"We realize that amateur wine competitions are a small piece of the puzzle, but they are, nonetheless, a piece that completes the picture for many fairs throughout the state," Chambers said.
EcoArts opens with Sunday reception
MIDDLETOWN – The sixth-annual EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk, a five-month exhibit of sculptures "in dialog with nature," will hold an opening reception for the 2008 installation on Sunday, June 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk, is a five-month exhibit of sculptures at the 107-acre Middletown Trailside Nature Preserve County Park, 21435 Dry Creek Cutoff/Hwy 175, in Middletown.
Works of art by local, Bay Area, and national artists, who have given their time and material to create a public art installation, will be on display from June through October.
The park is open from dawn to dusk every day and admission is free. EcoArts of Lake County also offers free docent-guided tours of the art installation to schools and youth organizations by reservation.
EcoArts of Lake County is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting visual art, visual art education, and ecologic stewardship to the public and visitors of Lake County.
Karen Turcotte, executive director of EcoArts of Lake County said that since the program's inception in 2003, the exhibit has developed a reputation among curators, sculptors and art lovers throughout Lake County and the Bay Area as an impressive cultural event.
Nationally renowned fiber artist Sheila O'Hara is participating in the program this year. According to Turcotte, O'Hara and her students have created a work that is both beautiful and poignant. Lake County educational groups and schools participating this year include Middletown High School, Coyote Valley Elementary, and Redwood Children's Services.
The central trail at Middletown Trailside Nature Preserve County Park has been designated for EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk. This trail is approximately 3/8th mile long and meanders to a picnic area with large oaks shading half a dozen tables. Temperatures can be quite warm in the summer, so visitors are advised to dress accordingly and pack water as no water is available at the preserve. Tall, comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
For visitor information, contact the Lake County Visitor Information Center at (800) 525-3743 or www.lakecounty.com.
Local man arrested for Mendocino County burglaries
LAKEPORT – A local man was arrested over the weekend on charges that he was responsible for several Mendocino County burglaries.
Elliott Thomas Brackett, 52, a transient from Upper Lake, was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly was found in possession of stolen property.
A report from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said the agency has been investigating a series of burglaries occurring at the Carousel Industrial Park storage sheds on N. State Street in Ukiah.
On June 6, Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies received information that Brackett had sold to a Ukiah music store some stolen property related to those burglaries, according to a report from Lt. Kurt Smallcomb.
Deputy Tom Davis reopened some unsolved cases and coordinated with Lake County law enforcement agencies in locating Brackett, Smallcomb reported.
Early on Saturday, Lakeport Police and Lake County Sheriff's deputies found Brackett in a tent on 11th Street, according to Smallcomb.
Davis responded to the location and a subsequent search of the tent found that Brackett allegedly was in possession of stolen property that is believed to be connected to the Carousel Industrial Park burglaries, the report stated.
Mendocino deputies arrested Brackett for two counts of possession stolen property and two counts of burglary, and is being held on $15,000 bail, according to booking records.
Lakeport Police Chief Kevin Burke said his department has had a few contacts with Brackett, including an arrest for possession of marijuana and another for having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle.
Last July Mendocino County deputies arrested Brackett and another man on suspicion of trying to sell methamphetamine in the parking lot at Hopland Sho-Kah-Wa Casino, as Lake County News has reported.
Lake County Skies: That little old winemaker in the June skies
Lake County Skies on June 15, 2008 at 9 p.m.
LAKE COUNTY – June is the month when the relatively sedate stars of spring slowly give way to the brilliance of the summer skies. But we still have several weeks to wait before summer is upon us. In the meantime, we can enjoy what's left of spring including the celestial show.
Directly overhead is a constellation named Bootes – someone tried to write a song about this constellation and wanted to name it "Shake Your Bootes," until she learned that wasn't the correct pronunciation. Bootes is pronounced "Boo-aw-tis."
In Greek and Roman mythology, Bootes is associated with agriculture, and is most commonly referred to as a herdsman. But there is a lesser known, but somewhat amusing story that has him cast as a grape grower and winemaker.
Bacchus, the god of wine and parties, introduced Bootes to the art of winemaking. So impressed was Bootes with the taste of wine that he invited his friends over for a taste of his new discovery.
Unfortunately, his friends drank far too much, and woke up the following morning with terrible hangovers. They were so sick they thought Bootes had tried to poison them!
Bootes courtesy of starryskies.com.
Bootes is shaped like a kite, with the bright star Arcturus at its base. Arcturus is the third brightest star in the sky, and compared to our sun, it is huge!
Arcturus courtesy of Wikipedia.
Accompanying our celestial winemaker to the east is the strongman Hercules. Hercules is a faint constellation that requires clear, dark skies to see – and we have an abundance of skies like that in Lake County!
In Greek and Roman mythology, Hercules was the son of Zeus, king of all the gods. Hercules was born with tremendous strength. He managed to get himself into some serious trouble, and to exonerate himself, had to perform 12 labors.
One of these labors was to subdue Hydra, a nine-headed, dog-like monster that had breath that could kill (no dog-breath jokes, please!).
Hercules subduing Hydra by Antonio Del Pollaiolo.
Hercules has one of the most beautiful objects in the night sky – an object that can only be seen through a telescope. This object is a cluster of stars called "The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules." It is also labeled "M13" in the Messier catalog of deep sky objects. This is a cluster of several hundred thousand stars. Through a telescope, it looks like a miniature Christmas ornament.
M13 courtesy of Michael Richmann.
For more information about astronomy and local astronomy-related events, visit the Taylor Observatory website at www.taylorobservatory.org.
John Zimmerman has been an amateur astronomer for 50 years. He is a member of the Taylor Observatory staff, where, among his many duties, he helps create planetarium shows.
School, community deals with tragedy of teen's death
LOWER LAKE – A day after a stabbing claimed the life of one of its students and resulted in the arrest of another, Carlé High School's students and staff gathered to show support for the girls' families and each other, and begin the long healing process. {sidebar id=85}
Heather Valdez, 17, died Thursday afternoon after she was stabbed near her home in the area of Austin Drive near Mullen Avenue in Clearlake.
A short time later, Clearlake Police arrested 18-year-old Gabrielle Rachel Varney, who is being held in the Lake County Jail on a murder charge.
Both girls were juniors, completing their first year at Carlé High School in Lower Lake, a model continuation school which Principal Bill MacDougall called "a place of absolute peace."
But that peace was shattered by Valdez's death Thursday.
"There's apparently been some type of feud between them for a couple of months," said Lt. Mike Hermann of the Clearlake Police Department said of Valdez and Varney.
Both of the teens lived in the area where the incident is alleged to have taken place, said Hermann.
Hermann said Valdez and Varney got into an altercation. Varney allegedly had a knife on her and she pulled it out during the fight. She allegedly admitted to police that she stabbed Valdez.
People in the area saw bits and pieces of the incident, said Hermann. He said no one so far has claimed to have seen Valdez being stabbed, but they saw the fight and then saw her bleeding.
More students were interviewed Friday, and Hermann estimated the investigation shouldn't take long to complete.
Konocti Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Louise Nan said a four-member district grief crisis response team was deployed on Friday morning to work with students.
"We're working through the day," said Nan, who added that it will be "quite a process" ahead for students and staff.
MacDougall, who next month will succeed Nan as the district's superintendent, said, "This is a tragedy not only for Carlé, our school district and our community, but it's absolutely devastated two families."
Valdez and Varney had been friends, he said. "They were girlfriends, so there was that young girl tension that came on and off, but there was nothing that was way out of the ordinary that we could see."
He added, "If there was anything physical, I never saw it."
Students, however, have been bringing up incidents that they say took place between the girls as they open up to teachers and peers, he said.
MacDougall said many of his 10 staffers were on their way home when they got the news Thursday afternoon. The stabbing, according to police, took place just after 2 p.m.
All of the teachers came back to the school, where they assembled in MacDougall's office. He said at 6 p.m. he put out an automated call to notify students and their families of the tragedy. The staff remained together until about 7 p.m.
He said the first focus was to stop the rumors and get out the truth to students; the next step was to facilitate healing.
The school's annual field day had been planned for Friday, but that was canceled, MacDougall said.
Instead, when students arrived for school, they filled the school's central quad area with rose petals from the school rose bushes, and the 80 students, 10 staffers and the school's custodian came together – as a family – in a big circle, instinctively holding hands, to begin the healing process, MacDougall.
They shared stories of Valdez, who was a talented artist, said MacDougall.
Varney also is a good artist, and a member of the school's cadre of designers, said MacDougall.
They then shared a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi – which includes the words, "Make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon ..."
The school then moved into the rest of its day, said MacDougall, with the school psychologist taking some of the teens to the county park, and other students doing "the usual Carlé thing" – playing music and moving about their activities, but the air was much more somber.
MacDougall had to go to district negotiations, and when he came back after lunch, he could see the students had begun the process of healing and working through their understanding of what happened. But they still must move through the long grieving process.
The tragedy comes less than a week before Carlé High's graduation is scheduled to take place. MacDougall said commencement ceremonies will be held as scheduled beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 11.
As a community, the imperative is to bring happiness into the lives of its children, he explained.
The sense from the Carlé community, he added, is that "we have to make sure this never happens again."
Water truck rolls over on Highway 175
COBB – An overturned water truck resulted in no injuries and a minor traffic slowdown on Monday morning.
The Epidendio water truck was reported overturned on Highway 175 heading westbound toward Cobb at about 8:30 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol and an eyewitness, Cobb resident Roger Kinney.
CHP Officer Adam Garcia said the truck had a flat tire. The driver pulled over, getting too close to the ditch, and the truck tipped over.
There was no injuries, said Garcia.
Kinney said as he passed through the area at around 10:15 a.m., traffic control was in effect, with about 10-minute delays, and the truck was being uprighted.
Thompson says he'll support Obama
On Saturday, as Sen. Hillary Clinton announced she would concede in the race for the Democratic Party's nomination for president and endorse Sen. Barack Obama, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson reported he would give Obama his support.
In January, Thompson told Lake County News he was endorsing Clinton's historic presidential bid, citing her strength on issues important to the First Congressional District, such as agriculture and the environment.
However, he had said at the time that he felt either Clinton or Obama would make "a great president."
A statement issued from Thompson's Washington, D.C. office Saturday afternoon said the congressman was giving his support to the presumptive Democratic nominee.
"Sen. Obama's nomination is an historic achievement for our country," Thompson said in the written statement. "As I said from the beginning, this process would be finished long before the convention. I will do everything in my power to help make him our nation's next president."
Thompson called Obama "an electrifying candidate who ran a flawless campaign."
"He has struck a vibrant chord with the American people and motivated millions of new voters to make their voices heard," Thompson said. "From improving access to health care to protecting our environment to rebuilding our economy to ending the war in Iraq, I strongly support Senator Obama's vision for America and believe it is directly aligned with the needs of our Congressional District."
Thompson has had occasion to work with Obama; the two of them partnered to present legislation in both the House and Senate last year to bring home US troops from Iraq and institute an international diplomatic strategy for peace, as Lake County News reported last year.
"I look forward to working on many more important initiatives once he's elected president of the United States," Thompson said.
Thompson praised Clinton, who he called "a powerful leader who also energizes and inspires voters."
He added, "I know she'll continue her tireless efforts and help us elect Sen. Obama, change the direction of our nation, end the war, and restore our standing around the world."
Thompson is one of more than 60 superdelegates representing California, about half of which had declared their support for Clinton this spring.
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D-Day commemoration marks invasion's 64th anniversary
Bob Bartley of Lakeport cuts a dramatic silhouette at the Friday ceremony. Photo by Elizabeth Larson.
LAKEPORT – Cutting an imposing figure in his World War II-era Army uniform, Lakeport resident Bob Bartley was more than 5,000 miles and 64 years away from the beaches at Normandy, but looking at him gave a sense of what it might have been like on that frightening morning decades ago.
Bartley was at the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association's memorial mast in Library Park on Friday morning to pay respect to the soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion.
Beginning on June 6, 1944, the invasion saw an estimated 160,000 Allied soldiers fight to gain a foothold in a Europe overwhelmed by Hitler's forces.
Bartley's green wool uniform included an ammunition belt and haversack which was many pounds short of the supply-laden, 90-pound packs US soldiers carried on their backs as they scrambled onto Omaha Beach.
The military's amphibious vehicles landed too far out in some cases, so men jumping into the sea found themselves up to their necks – or over their heads – with the packs on their backs and bullets whizzing by.
Many men drowned struggling under their packs. Accounts by survivors recount soldiers having to swim through corpses to get to land.
Bartley was a poignant figure in the short morning ceremony, meant to honor that day and what would turn out to be a masterstroke in the war – against overwhelming odds, mercurial weather and two months after hundreds of men died in Exercise Tiger, a practice run for the invasion carried out off the south coast of England near Slapton Sands.
"We're not here to celebrate it, we're here to commemorate it," Ronnie Bogner, the master of ceremonies, explained of the D-Day anniversary event, held each year overlooking Clear Lake.
Pastor Mike Suski of Lakeport Christian Center led a prayer to bless the gathering. A native of Poland, the day had special meaning for Suski, who told the crowd that he was born in "Old Europe."
During the ceremony, Bogner said that US casualties were highest among the US troops who landed at Normandy, because of Omaha and Utah beaches' treacherous conditions.
The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Vietnam Veterans of America were on hand, and the colors of the US military branches were on display, as was the POW/MIA flag. On the memorial mast flew the "First Jack" (often called the "snake flag," said Bogner, for its portrait of a snake and the words, "Don't tread on me"), the US flag and the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association flag.
Special guests seated in the audience's front row included Jim Harris of Lucerne, who was at Pearl Harbor and then D-Day three years later, aboard the destroyer USS McCook (DD 496), which helped destroy German positions used for firing on the soldiers landing on the beach. He was joined by fellow Pearl Harbor Survivor Walt Urmann, who served aboard the USS Blue; and Alice Darrow, widow of Dean Darrow, who was at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS West Virginia.
The real deal: Jim Harris of Lucerne was at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and D-Day in 1944. Photo by Ginny Craven.
California Highway Patrol Commander Dane Hayward once again attended the ceremony, bringing with him several CHP officers, and Lakeport Police Chief Kevin Burke attended in full uniform.
Newly re-elected District 5 Supervisor Rob Brown was the guest speaker. Brown said he was born 16 years after the invasion, but was fortunate to be raised in Lake County, where veterans are valued.
He said he hopes future generations will learn to value their veterans.
Brown pointed to differences in the media coverage of World War II and the current war in Iraq. He quoted a World War II-era headline that asked, "Why doesn't Hitler quit?" Brown contrasted that with sentiment in today's media, which he said asks instead why the US doesn't quit.
"It's dependent on us to continue to support our troops," Brown said.
He recognized efforts like Operation Tango Mike, founded by Ginny Craven – who was in attendance – for working to keep up soldiers' morale.
A bugler from the United Veterans Council's Military Funeral Honors Team played "Taps" as the US flag was lowered to half-staff for the remainder of the day in remembrance of the invasion.
Bob Bartley sported an authentic World War II-era military uniform. Photo by Ginny Craven.


Unsolicited comment about the Flight Replicas Bf-109K from Greg "Barfly" Bartos, former USAF pilot / present-day career airline pilot / flight sim enthusiast; T-37, T-38 C-5 and 737 pilot in the real world: "The K is an impressive machine - I was able to keep up with then out climb the Mustangs and Thunderbolts up to 31,000ft; keep up with the Mustang at low altitude and dominate the P-47 low. A 47 actually dove on me from high altitude and rapidly closed, but the distance was too great. The K really performed in a comparative sense exactly like it should, in the areas in should, and was weak where it should be - namely endurance and poor high speed maneuvering - perfect! It will really impress people with it's performance and accurate character."


Buster Williams' Something More Quartet performs at a Jazz Bakery show.
After several itinerant years, Los Angeles' venerable performance space Jazz Bakery is hoping to put down some musical roots in a new Culver City building designed by Frank Gehry.
The 1950s produced cool jazz, sleek furniture lines and abstract art. Clubs reeked with pot and tobacco smoke, while hipsters drinking cheap red wine snapped their fingers to jazz in appreciation of Beat poetry amid intellectual banter to the strains of Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker's horns as a backdrop. While Bill Evans, Art Blakey and Dave Brubeck held down the East Coast with bebop, Los Angeles was swinging with a softer sound at the Lighthouse, Shelly's Manne Hole and, in the 1960s, Donte's.
Even when jazz was wiped off the radar with the advent of rock 'n' roll and jukeboxes, musicians kept on grooving — often with lousy jobs backing burlesque strippers on the Sunset Strip, just to keep food on the table or, for some like saxophonists Art Pepper and Gerry Mulligan, to put junk in their veins.
So where is California jazz at now?
In SoCal, since losing its permanent home in 2009, the Jazz Bakery, founded in 1992 by vocalist Ruth Price, has focused on creating a permanent home for jazz while cooking up movable feasts featuring stellar musicians from around the globe. Cats who have dropped in to perform include John Clayton, Max Roach, Alan Broadbent, Roger Kellaway, Charles Lloyd and Billy Childs. Marian McPartland was a regular; Diane Reeves still appears. Concert venues include Moss Auditorium (Price's favorite), RedCat (inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex), Colburn School and Zipper Hall, great acoustic spaces that don't serve booze.
The first line-ups were booked for weekend-only performances.
When the bakery building's owner died, his son didn't share his father's passion for the arts and decided to install a furniture store in the space instead. Suddenly, the Jazz Bakery was homeless.
For the past few years, Price has booked acts to play in varying venues, from the Westside to downtown L.A., while she waits for donors to cough up enough dough to build a permanent home for the Jazz Bakery in Culver City.
The peripatetic club is raising money to build a permanent state-of-the-art venue designed by Frank Gehry.
Why a jazz hall rather than a club?
If patrons don't talk, they listen — and that's critical. "I wanted respect for everybody," she stresses.
Fundraising efforts for the new facility continue so the Jazz Bakery can join Jazz at Lincoln Center and SFJazz as modern venues for presenting and preserving jazz and attracting younger audiences.
A model of Gehry's design was displayed at the architect's retrospective at LACMA in 2015. A $20 million capital campaign began in 2010 when the Annenberg Foundation donated $2 million in seed money, followed by a donation from Culver City of a $1.2 million lot next to the Kirk Douglas Theater. Other donations have come in, but more funding is needed to break ground and bring the project to the finish line.
Leslie A. Westbrook is a third-generation Californian, breastfed on jazz (thanks to her jazz pianist father Forrest Westbrook), and a community activist in Carpinteria.
• Panama 66: No-cover-charge weekly jazz on Wednesdays by talented youth from the Young Lions Conservatory, performed outdoors next to a magnificent sculpture garden in historic Balboa Park, and indoor shows by top-notch San Diego musicians. 1450 El Prado, San Diego; (619) 696-1966.
• The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library: Never mind that libraries are "shush/be quiet" sanctums. This art gallery/library has been hosting jazz recitals in an intimate, acoustically perfect setting for more than 25 years. 1008 Wall St., La Jolla; (858) 454-5872.


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Q: How can i submit an app-update for iOS 9 before the official release of iOS 9? I have trouble understanding the official/wanted way to do this.
In 10 days Apple will most likely release iOS 9. I have installed XCode 7 Beta and made our app iOS 9 ready. The review process of the app store will take a week or so, so i would like to submit our iOS 9 ready version in the next days, so that when users update their devices to iOS 9 (on 9th sept) they can immediately update the app to iOS 9.
I never had the time to update an app before the release of the new version, so this is all new and confusing to me.
What is the proper way to do this ?
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I am NOT using any new features, i removed/reworked stuff that was deprecated. We mainly want to release a version that is iOS 9 compliant before/with the release of iOS 9.

A: EDIT: Apple's email has arrived. You can now submit your iOS 9 builds through Xcode 7 GM !

In a few days, Apple will send an email to all registered iOS developers to announce that you can upload your iOS 9 app.
You have to wait for this email to submit your app.
Once you get it, just submit your app from Xcode 7 as you would do with Xcode 6.

A: Apple would be releasing the GM(Golden Master) build of iOS 9, to the developers, before the wider public release. GM builds are typically released on the new iPhone launch day itself, while the public release is scheduled with the new iPhone availability to the public.
For iOS 8, GM build was released on 9th September 2014 and the public release was on 17th September 2014.
Hence you'd get at-least a week's time to build and submit your app with GM build of iOS9, before it is released to the public.

A: If you don't intend to use any iOS 9 specific functions you can use XCODE 7 and a device running iO9 beta to test your app and remove any bug you find. Then open the project in XCODE 6.4 and submit. I have done this with several apps over the last weeks.


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Be sure to head over to the blog for even more inspiration today..
I chose to work with Crown Die and the Queen for the Day stamp set, this is an exclusive set to MFT and through now until the end of July there will be a discount of 12%, the sale of the 12% will be donated the the Kind Campaign, so a really great cause to jump onto, plus it is so fun playing with these together..
I die cut the crown out of Sparkle Gold card stock and added some clear sequins along the base to give it even more shine..
Next, on the card base itself, I added some Ripe Raspberry ink through the Sun Ray Stencil, adding my crown over the stencil..
I stamped and embossed a sentiment onto Black Licorice card stock, adding more Gold Sparkle card stock to the base of this, adding foam tape to the back then onto the card under the crown..
I really look forward to seeing what you all create this month..
Have a fabulous shopping day!
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A Conversation with Candice Marie Benbow About Her New Book, 'Red Lip Theology'
by Archuleta Chisolm
Archuleta Chisolm
Archuleta is an author, poet, blogger, and host of the…
Candice Marie Benbow situates her work at the intersections of beauty, faith, feminism, and culture, giving voice to Black women's shared experiences of healing and journeying toward wholeness. A theologian and educator, she never minces words. This is why we love her.
In her first book, Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough, Benbow is funny and deeply personal. She's so real that as I read, I felt exposed. The essays speak to loss, forgiveness, heartache, and sexuality. It's a love letter to Black women that I could not put down.
BGN had the pleasure of speaking with Benbow via telephone to discuss the importance of her book, feminism as it relates to Black women, and what it means to be fully loved by God.
First, congratulations on Red Lip Theology. Recently, you posted on Instagram that you prayed Black women would "really get" this book, and that you wrote it for us. Why was this book so important for you to put out in the world?
One of the things I was always frustrated about was that there were a lot of faith conversations taking place, but Black women were not at the forefront of those conversations. Then, there are some conversations that Black women are at the forefront of, but it's a specific kind of Black woman. She may be much more conservative and traditional in her theology. There are sisters who love God, who are deeply faithful but have a different articulation of faith. We deserve equal opportunity to have conversations that are grounded holistically. I wanted to be a part of that movement. I wanted to be a part of what it means for Black women to think differently about faith. I wanted to be a part of what it looks like for us to be talking.
My prayer was that Black women would get it because I wrote it with the abiding love that I have for sisters to be at the center of their own faith conversations — to be hallowed in that and honor what it means to trust the voice of yourself, when you're making faith decisions and don't always have to lean on and hear from men. You can trust the knowing you have within yourself to question things, to honor things, to walk away from things, and you don't need men to tell you how to move in that regard.
In the introduction of the book, you say, "No matter what condition I find myself in at any given moment, I know I am fully loved by God." Why do Black women often feel when they have "messed up" or get off track that God will not love them anymore?
There's so much shame that takes place when we make mistakes. There's this idea that "I should know better." The truth is we all make mistakes. There were times that I made a decision that I thought was best at the time. Then were times when I knew I was being a mess. I knew I was being trifling, and I did it anyway. Too often we let the shame move us into some really morbid and morose thoughts about ourselves. That shame and guilt paralyzes us momentarily, and we're not able to see the beauty of being able to make a different decision or the beauty of what it might mean to regroup.
Too often we borrow from society the expectation that we're supposed to be perfect and that we're supposed to do no wrong. When we don't live up to that in our minds, we can be really brutal on ourselves. It's just not loving, and it doesn't give us the space to grow in care.
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When we talk about feminism, many Black women avoid the conversation and hesitate calling themselves a feminist because they believe it's only for white women. What are your thoughts about this?
When it comes to Black Christian women who are cisgender/heterosexual, we're trying to denounce feminism because we think that's going to push us a little bit closer in the line of getting a husband. We think it somehow suggests we are worthy of the things we want — a husband, a family. I believe we were created with intention; if God created me to be a woman and I am living out this life, then why would I be okay with things that oppress me? That is fundamentally antithetical to the life God wants for me, the same way that men, especially Christian men, should not want to live in a world where power is hoarded by them.
I had a random conversation with someone that said that the first wave of feminism is the only important one. How? Because it's the only one that allowed us to get bank accounts, homes, and jobs, and that was enough. Other waves destroyed Black womanhood. But there are women in 2022 having to fight because their employers are finding creative ways to fire them after they had a child. But you're telling me the best thing that's happened to us is that we can go to the bank and open a checking account?
It becomes clear that part of their resistance to feminism is so that they can appeal to men. I desire family, marriage, and partnership just like everybody else. But not at the expense of my own personhood. Not at the expense of who I am as a woman. There are little girls in my family, there are little girls that will come behind me, and maybe I will have my own one day. I want them to know that nothing is impossible for them simply because they were born a female. It has to be that real and that understood.
As a Black woman writer, do you sometimes struggle with knowing your true work? How do you home in on what that is?
Absolutely. As far as figuring out what grounds my work and my writing, I will say that for the last seven to eight years, it's been very clear to me that my work is rooted in the flourishing of Black people, Black women specifically. What I write always comes from that place. What helps us thrive and flourish? What's in the way of us thriving and flourishing? Those are always my big questions, and that's where my work is rooted. Ultimately, I've gotten very comfortable with my voice and understanding that is the work that I'm called to.
What I learned very quickly was to find an angle so that in every story I could bring those intentions to it. Once I took the time to get settled into the fact that I am writer, I didn't shy away from that. I was able to move even more quickly into what that looks like for me to honor and live into the call and the work.
Red Lip Theology is available January 18, 2022.
Archuleta is an author, poet, blogger, and host of the FearlessINK podcast. Archuleta's work centers Black women, mental health and wellness, and inspiring people to live their fullest potential.
Archuleta Chisolm January 14, 2022


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A shield is a large piece of "armour" that is carried (or strapped to the arm) and used to ward off blows or missiles. Shields in the 1st century AD are usually made of wood, covered with fabric or leather, with a stronger covering to protect the area where it is held.
They are sometimes braced with extra pieces to the rear and may have additional edging to protect against splitting. (see pictures elsewhere on this website). A shield is primarily used with a single-handed weapon, such as a sword or spear.
In battle especially, blows can be received from anyone that can reach you. There is no "honour" in the middle of a battle where combatants dutifully fight the person opposite and then wait for the next person should they be victorious. It is a confused, chaotic shouting and pushing match where any opportunity is taken to mete out death to anyone on the opposite side. Many bodies that show injuries from battle, often have multiple injuries to the head, shoulders and back which is perhaps evidence that as they staggered from the first blow, others took the chance to strike at the unprotected body even as it fell (possibly even already dead).
Where body armour is limited in both coverage and availability then shields would usually predominate as the primary form of personal protection. A shield allows the user to not only actively ward off blows but acts as a static barrier, which must be breached or knocked aside to reach the warrior behind it.
From experience, it is possible to use a shield actively against two opponents effectively but not any more than that. Hence in battle, a shield is used passively as a barrier.
Where groups of men are quite closely packed and a shield cannot be moved around easily and also where there are many opponents that are within reach, then shields tend to be large. This means that they can cover more of your body without any active participation on your part. Smaller shields are less effective in a packed group for the opposite reason, i.e. they can't be moved and they cover less of your body.
A small shield is usually linked to a more looser and faster style of combat.
Why use a spear ?
In the first century missile weapons, such as bows and slings, are not in such common use as in some later periods of history. The Romans certainly used archers but these were usually limited to specialised cohorts, although every soldier was taught the use of missile weapons as part of their training.
The Britons do have stashes of stones at some hillfort sites, which may indicate that slings were used at least in a defensive capability. Archery seems to have been more a hunting weapon than a massed weapon of warfare.
However, very many spears are found and in some cases in excess of the number of probable occupants. These are unlikely to be a sort of armoury for your general population but merely confirmation that warriors carried multiple spears into battle and are disposable. Contemporary art certainly shows multiple spears being carried.
The reason for carrying multiple spears is that they can be thrown at the opposition both before and during battle. It is relatively easy to throw a light spear some 40 yards standing, in armour, with a shield and with a little balancing of the weapon and some practice to exceed this.
The main use of the spear in hand-to-hand combat is the same in this period as for the hundreds of years beforehand and a thousand years afterwards. It is used single handed in conjunction with a shield and a very effective combination they make. It is ideally suited to delivering the fastest method of killing and injuring, the thrust, at a distance from to its user. The only problem, as you will read below, is that spears are susceptible to becoming stuck in a shield.
How effective is a shield?
This does depend on what it is made from. Obviously a bronze covered shield is going to be far more effective than the more common wooden variety. Even the wooden varieties tend to vary in thickness; so the trade off is between durability (how punishment will it take) and speed/stamina (how long you can carry and use it effectively).
A thrown spear carries an awful lot of momentum and will easily pierce and possible exit an unarmoured warrior. A thrown spear, and arrows, will also penetrate a shield but not more than a few inches, so provided the shield is carried away from the body then it will provide protection. Even a Roman pilum will only penetrate a little further. However a shield with a spear or two sticking into it is a heavy and cumbersome thing and the warrior is faced with the choice of dropping it (and likely to face a short life) or taking the time to stop and remove the spears. A thrust spear actually may have less force than the thrown variety, although it does depend on the person using it and the circumstances, but in all cases battle wise warriors will always avoid thrusting their spear into a shield (as explained below). So in this respect the sheld does not actually need its intrinsic protection value just it's presence.
Shields are also highly effective against sling stones.
If we were to consider your average roman infantry auxilia cohort (of around 500 men) the soldiers, if the mainz carving is to be believed, each carry at least three spears. This means that they could roughly put around 1,500 spears into an enemy before the lines would close. The legionary's (and there could be 5 thousand of them to a legion) carry at least one, or perhaps two, of the heavier pila in addition to the other auxillia cohorts. This equates to a horrendous number of thrown spears that could be delivered.
Would you realistically choose to fight without a shield under such a threat ??
The Gauls and Britons are noted for their charge and maybe it's possible that they do this, as the later Scottish Highlanders did, to close the range as fast as possible and limit the damage from their enemies superiority in ranged firepower.
Of course, in later periods the fighting man has been known to charge into withering volleys of bullets but in these instances there is no protection possible.
In our period, the shield is an available method of increasing your chances of survival by an order of magnitude. Even the Germans, who are regarded as a poor society, use the shield.
In his book on the Celtic sword, Radomir Pleiner carries out tests of swords against shields and finds that a sword may well split the edge of an unprotected shield but is seriously damaged by one with a metal edge. A sword would be of limited effectiveness against the face of the shield or the boss; proving the Vicus's combat maxim of fighting the man behind the shield and not shield itself.
Shields can be used as a weapon but they you need to be very close to your enemy; the usual attack being a simple barge with your shoulder being behind the shield. Trying to get your metal boss into your enemies face is more problematical as usually the shield will need to be raised to manage it and this effectively blocks your vision completely (a very bad thing) and also exposes the whole lower part of your body (an even worse thing).
Forget the garbage about legionary's putting their shield bosses into an enemies face, although ramming it into the body of someone unprotected by shield is a painful possibility.
A far more useful application of the shield is its rim, which is very painful when used against arms, legs, hands and chin.
In addition, wooden shields have the useful ability to sometimes grip weapons that are thrust into them. This is especially true of spears, where a strong thrust may well cause it to be come lodged requiring an effort to remove it; of course the shield user is not going to let this happen easily and he can move the shield and thus the person holding it into a handy position for a strike or even twist it out of the hand. Again this proves our belief that no warrior would willingly hammer an opposing shield (especially if the spear is his only weapon!).
Swords may also become lodged in the edges of shields with much the same results.
A smaller shield is actually a useful item in a single combat as it allows the user more effective use of his weapon. Larger shields need to be moved out to allow some attacks. Shields are never used, as counterbalance to a strike like you see is so many films and movies.


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from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from collections import Mapping
from contextlib import contextmanager
import pandas as pd

from . import formatting
from .utils import Frozen
from .merge import (
    merge_coords, expand_and_merge_variables, merge_coords_for_inplace_math)
from .pycompat import OrderedDict

class AbstractCoordinates(Mapping, formatting.ReprMixin):
    def __getitem__(self, key):
        raise NotImplementedError

    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
        self.update({key: value})

    @property
    def indexes(self):
        return self._data.indexes

    @property
    def variables(self):
        raise NotImplementedError

    def _update_coords(self, coords):
        raise NotImplementedError

    def __iter__(self):
        # needs to be in the same order as the dataset variables
        for k in self.variables:
            if k in self._names:
                yield k

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self._names)

    def __contains__(self, key):
        return key in self._names

    def __unicode__(self):
        return formatting.coords_repr(self)

    @property
    def dims(self):
        return self._data.dims

    def to_index(self, ordered_dims=None):
        """Convert all index coordinates into a :py:class:`pandas.Index`.

        Parameters
        ----------
        ordered_dims : sequence, optional
            Possibly reordered version of this object's dimensions indicating
            the order in which dimensions should appear on the result.

        Returns
        -------
        pandas.Index
            Index subclass corresponding to the outer-product of all dimension
            coordinates. This will be a MultiIndex if this object is has more
            than more dimension.
        """
        if ordered_dims is None:
            ordered_dims = self.dims
        elif set(ordered_dims) != set(self.dims):
            raise ValueError('ordered_dims must match dims, but does not: '
                             '{} vs {}'.format(ordered_dims, self.dims))

        if len(ordered_dims) == 0:
            raise ValueError('no valid index for a 0-dimensional object')
        elif len(ordered_dims) == 1:
            (dim,) = ordered_dims
            return self._data.get_index(dim)
        else:
            indexes = [self._data.get_index(k) for k in ordered_dims]
            names = list(ordered_dims)
            return pd.MultiIndex.from_product(indexes, names=names)

    def update(self, other):
        other_vars = getattr(other, 'variables', other)
        coords = merge_coords([self.variables, other_vars],
                              priority_arg=1, indexes=self.indexes)
        self._update_coords(coords)

    def _merge_raw(self, other):
        """For use with binary arithmetic."""
        if other is None:
            variables = OrderedDict(self.variables)
        else:
            # don't align because we already called xarray.align
            variables = expand_and_merge_variables(
                [self.variables, other.variables])
        return variables

    @contextmanager
    def _merge_inplace(self, other):
        """For use with in-place binary arithmetic."""
        if other is None:
            yield
        else:
            # don't include indexes in priority_vars, because we didn't align
            # first
            priority_vars = OrderedDict(
                (k, v) for k, v in self.variables.items() if k not in self.dims)
            variables = merge_coords_for_inplace_math(
                [self.variables, other.variables], priority_vars=priority_vars)
            yield
            self._update_coords(variables)

    def merge(self, other):
        """Merge two sets of coordinates to create a new Dataset

        The method implements the logic used for joining coordinates in the
        result of a binary operation performed on xarray objects:

        - If two index coordinates conflict (are not equal), an exception is
          raised. You must align your data before passing it to this method.
        - If an index coordinate and a non-index coordinate conflict, the non-
          index coordinate is dropped.
        - If two non-index coordinates conflict, both are dropped.

        Parameters
        ----------
        other : DatasetCoordinates or DataArrayCoordinates
            The coordinates from another dataset or data array.

        Returns
        -------
        merged : Dataset
            A new Dataset with merged coordinates.
        """
        from .dataset import Dataset

        if other is None:
            return self.to_dataset()
        else:
            other_vars = getattr(other, 'variables', other)
            coords = expand_and_merge_variables([self.variables, other_vars])
            return Dataset._from_vars_and_coord_names(coords, set(coords))

class DatasetCoordinates(AbstractCoordinates):
    """Dictionary like container for Dataset coordinates.

    Essentially an immutable OrderedDict with keys given by the array's
    dimensions and the values given by the corresponding xarray.Coordinate
    objects.
    """
    def __init__(self, dataset):
        self._data = dataset

    @property
    def _names(self):
        return self._data._coord_names

    @property
    def variables(self):
        return Frozen(OrderedDict((k, v)
                                  for k, v in self._data.variables.items()
                                  if k in self._names))

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        if key in self._data.data_vars:
            raise KeyError(key)
        return self._data[key]

    def to_dataset(self):
        """Convert these coordinates into a new Dataset
        """
        return self._data._copy_listed(self._names)

    def _update_coords(self, coords):
        from .dataset import calculate_dimensions

        variables = self._data._variables.copy()
        variables.update(coords)

        # check for inconsistent state *before* modifying anything in-place
        dims = calculate_dimensions(variables)
        new_coord_names = set(coords)
        for dim, size in dims.items():
            if dim in variables:
                new_coord_names.add(dim)

        self._data._variables = variables
        self._data._coord_names.update(new_coord_names)
        self._data._dims = dict(dims)

    def __delitem__(self, key):
        if key in self:
            del self._data[key]
        else:
            raise KeyError(key)

    def _ipython_key_completions_(self):
        """Provide method for the key-autocompletions in IPython. """
        return [key for key in self._data._ipython_key_completions_()
                if key not in self._data.data_vars]

class DataArrayCoordinates(AbstractCoordinates):
    """Dictionary like container for DataArray coordinates.

    Essentially an OrderedDict with keys given by the array's
    dimensions and the values given by corresponding DataArray objects.
    """
    def __init__(self, dataarray):
        self._data = dataarray

    @property
    def _names(self):
        return set(self._data._coords)

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return self._data._getitem_coord(key)

    def _update_coords(self, coords):
        from .dataset import calculate_dimensions

        dims = calculate_dimensions(coords)
        if not set(dims) <= set(self.dims):
            raise ValueError('cannot add coordinates with new dimensions to '
                             'a DataArray')
        self._data._coords = coords

    @property
    def variables(self):
        return Frozen(self._data._coords)

    def _to_dataset(self, shallow_copy=True):
        from .dataset import Dataset
        coords = OrderedDict((k, v.copy(deep=False) if shallow_copy else v)
                             for k, v in self._data._coords.items())
        return Dataset._from_vars_and_coord_names(coords, set(coords))

    def to_dataset(self):
        return self._to_dataset()

    def __delitem__(self, key):
        del self._data._coords[key]

    def _ipython_key_completions_(self):
        """Provide method for the key-autocompletions in IPython. """
        return self._data._ipython_key_completions_()

class LevelCoordinatesSource(object):
    """Iterator for MultiIndex level coordinates.

    Used for attribute style lookup with AttrAccessMixin. Not returned directly
    by any public methods.
    """
    def __init__(self, data_object):
        self._data = data_object

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        # not necessary -- everything here can already be found in coords.
        raise KeyError

    def __iter__(self):
        return iter(self._data._level_coords)

class Indexes(Mapping, formatting.ReprMixin):
    """Ordered Mapping[str, pandas.Index] for xarray objects.
    """
    def __init__(self, variables, sizes):
        """Not for public consumption.

        Arguments
        ---------
        variables : OrderedDict[Any, Variable]
            Reference to OrderedDict holding variable objects. Should be the
            same dictionary used by the source object.
        sizes : OrderedDict[Any, int]
            Map from dimension names to sizes.
        """
        self._variables = variables
        self._sizes = sizes

    def __iter__(self):
        for key in self._sizes:
            if key in self._variables:
                yield key

    def __len__(self):
        return sum(key in self._variables for key in self._sizes)

    def __contains__(self, key):
        return key in self._sizes and key in self._variables

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        if key not in self._sizes:
            raise KeyError(key)
        return self._variables[key].to_index()

    def __unicode__(self):
        return formatting.indexes_repr(self)

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Gottberg ist ein Wohnplatz im Ortsteil Geestgottberg der Hansestadt Seehausen (Altmark) im Landkreis Stendal in Sachsen-Anhalt.

Geografie
Die frühere Gutssiedlung liegt etwas südlich des Reihendorfes Geestgottberg, 5½ Kilometer südlich von Wittenberge zwischen den Flüssen Elbe und Aland im äußersten Norden der Altmark.

Nachbarorte sind Braves Land, Märsche und Wittenberge im Norden, Eickhof und Hohe Geest im Osten.

Geschichte
1246 wurde ein Bolde de Gotberge in Wittenberge als Zeuge genannt. Gottberg wurde 1305 als Dorf Gotberg erstmals erwähnt. Gottberg könnte nach einer Familie gleichen Namens benannt sein oder umgekehrt.

1608 gab es einen Hof zum Gottberg im Beritt Seehausen. 1745 war es ein adliger Rittersitz. 1801 lebten im adligen Gut Gottberg 6 Büdner und ein Fischer. Das Gut gehörte zu Geestgottberg. 1820 wird es als südlich mit dem Dorf Geestgottberg zusammenhängend beschrieben. Später wird es Rittergut bezeichnet. Das Gut war jedoch nie ein eigenständiger Gutsbezirk.

Bei der Bodenreform 1945 war das Rittergut Gottberg enteignet worden.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Quelle:

Religion
Die evangelischen Christen aus Gottberg gehörten zu Kirchengemeinde Eickerhöfe, die früher zur Pfarrei Wahrenberg gehörte. Sie werden heute vom Kirchengemeindeverband Beuster-Aland im Pfarrbereich Beuster des Kirchenkreises Stendal im Propstsprengel Stendal-Magdeburg der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland betreut.

Literatur

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Ersterwähnung 1305
Ort im Landkreis Stendal
Geographie (Seehausen (Altmark))

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As we come to the end of the year, there is a lot of talk about New Year's Resolutions, diets, weight loss, etc. I have good news for you. I know the answer to all of your questions about diet and exercise. Are you ready? Here it is. . . All of the above.
Is obesity caused by high fructose corn syrup? Yes.
Is obesity caused by sedentary lifestyles? Sure.
Is it caused by artificial light? Yup.
Is it caused by antibiotics? Why not?
Is it caused by smartphones? Of course it is.
Is it caused by refined grains? Probably.
Is it caused by vaccines? No.
Is it caused by desk jobs? Definitely.
Is it caused by stress? Absolutely.
Is it caused by being rich? It always has been.
Is it caused by television? Totally.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. So, why is this good news? Because now we can stop with the magic bullets and fix the problem. Cutting out any one of those things will do nothing. Here's what you need to do: First, keep in mind that I am not a doctor, nutritionist, chemist, biologist, or any other kind of expert. Then, sleep when you're tired and don't sleep when you're not tired. Eat when you're hungry and don't eat when you're not hungry. Eat as wide a variety of foods as your pallet will tolerate. Be active. Go outside. That should about cover it. Happy New Year.


Confidence is the most essential element for this website designed for the World Outreach Church. Being a global entity, it is important for the website to be able to make its visitors feel comfortable every time they visit. Each of them has to feel welcome wherever in the world they may be located, and expect only the best possible treatment as they come.
As Pastors Bank and Sharon traveled around the world fulfilling the call of God upon their lives, they realized that there was a desperate need to restore families back to God. As they took the gospel from nation to nation, it became increasingly apparent that one of the main reasons the church is in such turmoil is because families are severely challenged and marriages are troubled with seemingly overwhelming and insurmountable challenges. God began to steer their hearts toward teaching, healing and reinstating families back to Him. When the family is whole the church and indeed the nation will be whole.


text:
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var CONNECTION_STRING = "mongodb://localhost";
mongoose.connect(CONNECTION_STRING);
var User;
var db = mongoose.connection;
db.on("error", console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'));
db.once('open', initialize);

function initialize(){

	var UserSchema = mongoose.Schema({
		name: String,
		email: String,
		address: {
			address: String,
			city: String,
			state: String,
			zip_code: String,
			mobile_number: String
		},
		biography: String,
		password: String,
		payment: {
			service: String,
			serial: String
		}
	});

	User = mongoose.model("User", UserSchema, "Users");

}

function findOneUser(email, callback){
	var output;
	User.findOne({"email" : email}, callback);
}

function findUsers(field, value, callback){
	var output;
	User.find({field: value}, callback);
	return output;
}

function removeUser(email, callback){
	User.findOne({"email": email}).remove(callback);
}

function insertUser(newObject, callback){
	User.create([newObject], callback);
}

function updateUser(email, field, update, callback){
	User.update({"email" : email}, {field : update}, {safe: true}, callback);
}


Latest post Thu, Mar 7 2019 8:26 AM by Leo. 1 replies.
I've tried to give my tracks different colors for better visual. Now I encounter the problem (which I'm sure is just a setting which I got set wrong) that if I go to "track color" in the fast menu and by holding the ALT Key and clicking on default access the custom color window... after I've selected my custom color the clips on the tracks turn grey.
no one has this problem?