I'm participating in a new meme this week over at The Gypsy Mama. The goal is to write for 5 minutes. No more, no less. And, my favorite part, no editing allowed (I honestly wonder how many people really don't go back and edit, but anyway...) This is my first time to do this and I didn't realize there would be a prompt, so looks like I'm not doing this exactly right the first time around. Grace?
Last night, I let myself dream a little bit. I imagined speaking to a group of women and teaching them how to use art in order to hear God speak through Scripture. I watched myself on the stage. I was smiling. My heart was so full of joy. This is my calling, I thought. All other fears and what-ifs faded into the background and I was just so...there. I think every so often I must, as a practice, shirk off the fear for a few moments and just allow myself to see ME as God sees me. I see my imperfections. I see my failures. I see my weaknesses. But, He, He sees me as whole. He sees me as His. He sees me as somebody who can do anything with the power of Christ, who strengthens me. Surely, I should spend more time looking at myself through His eyes.
I guess it goes to show you that God even hears those random sentences like, Oh, Dear God, please help me get through this day.
Always trying to climb up or over or out.
Which way are You leading me?
So that I might see how You were there all along.
You have assured me that Your hand is secure.
You have assured me that I am never alone.
God has made it clear to me that I am to raise my funds for the She Speaks conference. This is one of the most humbling experiences that I have ever had to walk through. It is terrifying for me, but if I'm not willing to move outside of my comfort zone, if I am not willing to risk failure, if I am not willing to give it everything I have to do what I feel that He has called me to do, I will never have the confidence or the tools to live and grow into the ministry of s(He) Listens.
As much as it pains me to do this, I am posting my sponsorship letter here. You've walked this entire journey with me, friends, and for that I am eternally grateful.
Last October, I attended the Woman of Joy Conference in San Antonio. The last speaker was Priscilla Shirer and she was speaking from her book, One in A Million. It is essentially a book about allowing the Holy Spirit to radically shift one's spiritual life, fertilizing the soul, and cultivating intimacy with the Father. It's about a process of surrendering to God so that one can live into the fullness and abundance of what He has promised us. After her talk, she asked everyone to close their eyes and then to stand if we felt like now was the time to make the commitment to be one in a million – to live a life that is completely sold out to God, to abandon our comfort zones, and to step out in faith towards the life He has called us to live.
And now, in a place that is completely outside of my comfort zone, I stand before you, asking you to prayerfully consider supporting me in my call of ministry as a speaker.
I believe that God has a specific plan for this new ministry. I've named it "s(He) Listens." I know that God is the One that knows the heart cries of the people who will be sitting before me in the audience. He is the One that knows the words that have the power to open their hearts, transform their lives, to deliver hope, peace, and joy. My job is to ask Him for the heart cries, ask Him for the wisdom, and then open my mouth to speak His heart. Two parts listening to one part speaking, thus the emphasis on the listening in the name.
One of the first steps I feel God calling me toward as I build this ministry is to attend the She Speaks conference, put on by Proverbs 31 Ministries, in Concord, NC, in July of this year. I would be taking the speakers' track, which can be summarized like this: Whether speaking in a large arena or leading Bible studies in church, participants will be equipped with the tools needed to effectively share the Word of God, create a bio sheet, market her ministry, and give successful presentations.
* You can pray for me and this ministry, especially for wisdom, protection, and guidance.
* You can assist me with the cost of the conference itself ($595 cost which includes meals, hotel, conference fees). These donations can be made directly to Proverbs 31 ministries and are tax - deductible. My conference has to be paid in full by June 1 (but the $595 rate is only good if I've paid by 4/15). See below for information on how to donate toward these costs.
Thank you for reading this and for everything that you have done for me throughout my life. I would not be the person I am today without you. My prayer for you is that God would pour out His amazing blessings upon you and your family, that you would feel His presence, know the depth of His love, and be covered with His grace.
Please be sure to designate the scholarship in my name in order to credit my scholarship fund. You will be receipted for your tax-deductible donation.
So obey the commands of the Lord your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with fountains and streams that gush out into the valleys and hills. It is a land of wheat and barley; of grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates; of olive oil and honey.
If you ask me where in this picture I would place myself, I would say that I am on that bit of narrow path you see up toward the top, where there are still brambles that line the road. And even though there is still a very real possibility that I could become ensnared, and conceivably entrapped in the wilderness for a while longer, I can now see. "What can you see?" you ask.
I see a glimpse of the Promised Land, my friend.
And as excited as I am about the fruity goodness that awaits me there, right now, I am more excited about exiting this wandering business. I've learned through the winding roads of my wilderness, and in this place I've had to endure the process of healing scars. When the briars seemed to be taller than I, when all light seemed to be choked out, when I had such little energy to cut away anything more, in the depths of darkness, though, I found grace. Perhaps one could say, I am a bit thankful for the wilderness, for teaching me about this grace phenomenon, which still confounds me a bit (a lot, actually), but I feel that I have a taste, a small grasp. I am learning.
As I re-read this post, over and over, I realize that at this time, it cannot be fully complete. My thoughts are still a bit jumbled because I am still so thick in the process. There are not formulated sentences that explain it all, but rather, just feelings, perhaps visual illustrations that can attempt to express what I cannot with words.
But in the promised land that I see, there is a Hand that guides me. It is gentle. It is kind. It is overwhelmingly good. There is hope. There is light. There is freedom from anger. There is freedom from despair, from grief, from the "I-will-never-measure-ups." There is confession and redemption. There is letting go and pouring out. There is a relinquishing of unhealthy fear and a deep reverence for my God.
Linking up with Michelle for Hear it on Sunday, Use it on Monday. Come see what others are learning.
Studio JRU for Sneak Peak Fridays.
This week, the balcony was my studio. There I was, with my sketchbook and pencils, creating in my spray-painted red adirondack chair, with the wind chimes singing and birds nesting in the trees in front of me. It amazes me what God can teach me when I take time to rest and let the wind blow through my hair.
Be like a tree and let Me blow through you.
As the leaves rustle, let My Wind tousle your hair.
Stand tall, but allow Me to bend you.
Clothe yourself, but let my sun warm you.
And release the weariness of your soul.
Linking up today with Studio JRU, Home Sanctuary, and Caffeinated Randomness.
If only for a few moments.
Pictures of my children and their friends serving over Spring break at a local trailer park.
My godson planting with a girl who lives at the park.
Cleaning a tire for the new tire swing going into the community park.
My baby planting veggies with her newfound friend.
Linking up with Dayle for Simple Pleasures today.
Without me even being aware.
Also, linking with Tiffini for Word Women Wednesday (sorry for all the clicking today!).
I wish I had a magic curtain so that this unveiling would be more dramatic. Alas, I am not that tech savvy, so I'm just going to have to do a simple TA-DA reveal. But first, I have to thank the wonderful Critty Joy (Christy) for doing this for me. I cannot say enough about how fantastic she is or how beautiful her work is, but know that she is a true blessing from Him and she is walking out in the talents that God has bestowed upon her. I am honored to know her and so overjoyed that she designed the logo for s(He) Listens. I'm going to show you both forms. Are you ready? Here they are -- TA-DA!
Lately, there have been all these ideas, and therefore questions, floating around in my heart about s(He) Listens, about the logistics of speaking and writing, about even going to the She Speaks conference. After God had my friend Jenny (a looong time friend & SDG sister) pass some information along to me, I decided I was going to write down in my journal all the questions I wanted God to answer. I wanted hard-core details. I wanted to know whether timelines were strict or negotiable. I wanted step-by-steps plans and concrete yes-or-no answers. Black and white. No gray allowed. I don't know how to do gray, you see. Gray to me is more wilderness. I'm ready to be out of the wilderness.
But through some more words and a vision from Jenny, it seems like there is a reason for the grayness. To be completely honest, if God gave me a plan with all these specific details and deadlines, guess what would be my focus? It pains my heart to say it, but I know me (and obviously, God does, too) and I would become all about the details and the deadlines. I would walk in what is comfortable and structured. I would grasp ahold of what I know instead of the faith and trust that He has taken such care to build in my heart. And if I begin to look at this from this vantage point, my heart begins to cry desperately for His Hand to lead me, even if I cannot see through this fog. I know that while details may get changed and deadlines may be missed, His Hand will never falter. His Hand will never lead me astray. His Hand will always be full of life and grace and truth. His Hand can hold so much more than the grandest dream or the most thoughtfully laid out plan.
One more quick thing here. I would appreciate prayers for discernment as to whether God is calling me to She Speaks this year. And, if I should raise funds for this. I HATE asking people for money. Honestly, it's embarrassing to me. I have all kinds of negative thoughts about whether I "deserve" it, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I'm not sure I'm in the place to delve more deeply into that, but I just would treasure your prayers. And, of course, if God gives you a word for me, please let me know either in the comments or by email.
So, there you go. That's me, right now.
I hope you have a wonderful time visiting and chatting with your other sisters today. May His blessings pour forth in your lives and to the lives of those you touch this day and every day.
"What did you decide to do?"
"I decided to give up chocolate," she whispered back.
"That means no Oreos for dessert, you know," I said.
"I know, Mom," she said. "It'll be fine."
And it was fine. All through church. All through the drive home. All until we sat down to make the grocery list.
My younger daughter said, "Mom, don't forget to buy ice cream sandwiches!" To which Abby's head snapped up and a look of dread crossed over her face.
"But ice cream sandwiches have chocolate on them. And if you buy them, I'll see Hannah eating them. And then I'll want them."
Insert tears, a red face, and intense voice tone.
"But Hannah didn't give up chocolate. You did. She can still have it and you'll have to resist the temptation."
"But that's too much. That's too hard. I won't be able to do it," she lamented.
"Maybe you can convince Hannah to give up chocolate, too," I offered, but highly doubtful that my sweets-loving younger child would ever, ever consider letting go of that which makes her supremely happy.
A minute later, Abby announced, "Mom, you don't have to buy ice cream sandwiches. Hannah is giving up chocolate, too. We want popsicles instead!"
I've been thinking all week about this show of support between these sisters. There was nothing in it for Hannah to do this for Abby. It was a gift of pure love, motivated only by the desire to help her sister avoid a pitfall into temptation. It was a reminder to me of the importance of actively supporting those around me. Sometimes this might just mean giving up something that I don't necessarily need to give up. Sometimes it might mean forgoing my right to do something so that I don't cause someone else to stumble. Sometimes it might mean walking right next to someone, shouldering the burden, because alone, it would be too heavy for just one to carry.
Linking up with Michelle at Graceful for Hear it on Sunday, Use it on Monday. Come see what others are learning!
Lately, I am completely astounded at the fact that my heart can be so broken, but I can still have so much hope.
Lately, I feel like a failure often in my parenting, but then, I see the clouds part, the sun shine in, and I have moments of pure joy with my girls.
Lately, I have be grateful for Soli Deo Gloria and I am honored by the way God shows up – every single week – in these women's posts and their comments to each other.
Lately, God has asked me to put my pride on the line. He asked me to take the risk at failing publically. And it was really hard, but now, I think I'm over it. Well, at least for a little while.
Lately, I've been intrigued by the concept of a mind and body at rest. I took yoga for the first time on Tuesday and I could feel God begin to teach me what it really means to have a clear mind. It is possible! Amazing.
Lately, God has been asking me to walk through some places in my heart that He wants to heal (see broken heart above). As I grieve in those places, I feel Him grieving with me – a tangible representation of Him holding my hand as we walk through this wilderness.
What has been stirring in your life, as of late?
Linking up with Critty Joy for this wonderful monthly meme.
I think I mentioned this before, but I've been reading The Five Love Languages of Children. I am currently reading the chapter called "Discipline and the Love Languages" and after I finished reading it, I looked at God (well, I looked up) and said, "Do you think You could have brought this to my attention a wee bit sooner? Life sure might have been a tad bit easier."
I honestly feel a bit daft for not recognizing that I should be doing things differently than I currently am, especially with my background in childhood development and education. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly all that training goes out the window when it comes to my own kids. With my own kids, I just want them to BEHAVE, you know? (I'm quite realistic, yes?) Anyway, here is the question I have been asking when my children misbehave: "What can I do to correct her behavior?" Apparently, this is the WRONG question. What I should have been asking is this: "What does this child need?"
The whole premise behind this is that children misbehave a majority of the time because his/her love tank is not full. Even though we as parents know that we love the child and even though we may express that love, there is a chance that how we express it and how they receive it don't fully match up. The authors state that if the parents ask "What can I do to correct her behavior?" we usually resort to the answer of "punishment." However, "when we resort to punishment first, later we cannot easily consider the real needs of the child" (124). Basically, what I think the authors are saying is that if we can discern how our children receive love (physical touch, acts of service, words of affirmation, receiving gifts, or quality time) and then actively seek to love them in those ways, we will see a decline in their misbehavior simply because they feel loved and are not acting out of desperation, trying to get our attention. They go onto say that a child who feels genuinely loved will also respond better to discipline because they are already secure that the parent acts out of love.
I, myself, am really still in the place of trying to process all this. And I recognize that it is going to take me a bit to unlearn some of my old behaviors. What I am actively trying to do is to consider what is prompting my children's misbehavior and what I may be lacking in giving to them. I have seen fruit borne out of this whole love language thing, mostly with my oldest daughter (she's 6). She is a big time physical touch girl. When she starts getting angry or impatient, I have started to gently put my hands on her shoulders and pull her closer to me before I start speaking to her. Many times she will just crumple into me and her heart becomes much softer. The defenses go down and I honestly feel that she is in a better place to receive my words. While she may not like the words that are coming out of my mouth (words of discipline and training), she is able to receive them better because she feels my love in the physical touch before I even begin talking.
I would love to know y'alls thoughts about all this. I'm always wanting to learn how to better love and teach my children!
Linking up with Erin today at Mama's Heart!
The other night I was sobbing uncontrollably, overcome with grief, shattered by some new revelations (or rather just finally facing some that I had stuffed down deep) and I cried out to God.
I need hope. I need to know that this will have an end. That I will have release from THIS.
I simply asked Him for a verse and I heard "Psalm 118:5" whispered in my ear. And, so, I picked up my Bible that rested on the wooden night stand next to me, wondering if I really heard that voice, pleading that there would be encouragement nestled in that verse, craving that my desperation would be known.
Reading this verse did not immediately solve my problems, but the hope that He would rescue me, that He would at some point set me free, provided enough deliverance for the moment. I could rest in hope, assured that He heard my cries in that very moment, without condemnation, without harsh words, without pull yourself together, girl. A simple promise that is to come.
The waves were rough that day.
I had little Hannah standing next to me in the calf-deep water. Grannie was sitting in front of me, in water that was just a hair shallower. We chatted. We laughed. And we didn't notice the wave behind us. All of the sudden we were smacked with a large, unexpected wave that lifted Hannah off her feet and nearly knocked my 88-pound grandmother under the water. Hannah had already been holding my hand, but since her feet no longer found footing on the ocean floor, the rip tide was carrying her north. I tightened my grip on her and lunged for my grandmother to help her keep her head above water. I had two people who did not have enough strength to battle the wave and undertow on their own, clinging to me. My arms were outstretched, one pulled north and one pulled south. My heels dug into the sand beneath me and I held on as tight as I could, desperate to save them both. The wave passed and everyone righted themselves, hearts beating quickly, relief settling in.
During my quiet time this morning, God replayed this event in my mind. As I looked back at my physical being in that moment, I saw my arms extended in a straight line, each hand 180 degrees away from the other. I saw a cross behind me. And in some sort of weird image that only God can make in order to show His point, I saw myself super-imposed on that cross. I was a sacrifice trying desperately to save two souls, unworried about myself, sure of my footing, but scared for my daughter and my grandmother.
No, I'm not saying I'm Jesus. Not even close. What I think God was asking me was if I was willing to sacrifice my life for those who have not chosen Him. Would I choose to endure waves of pain so that someone else might find life eternal? Then, would I not only live through the pain, but would I be able to eventually choose joy, despite the circumstances?
Can I really lay all that I have down at Your throne? Can I trust You with all that I have and allow You to use me to the fullest extent possible to win souls for You?
Can I let You use my children? Can I let You have my husband? Can I give You free rein over our financial stability? Can I give You my health? My house? My jobs? Will I offer up everything, knowing that I might lose it all, to bring You more glory? Will I willingly seek and find the joy and the presence of Your Hand, no matter what this life may bring?
At the Woman of Joy conference that I attended last weekend, the recurring theme was finding joy in the midst of the most tragic suffering. Steven Curtis Chapman spoke about losing his five year-old daughter. Carol Kent spoke about her son being sentenced to life in prison for committing first-degree murder. Becky Tirabassi spoke about being a teenage alcoholic and her husband's battle with cancer. All these trials. All this suffering. And yet, here they were, allowing God to use these things to win souls for Christ. They weren't martyrs. They were the embodiment of joy because they were living out their purpose. In the midst of it all, at some point, they trusted that God was with them and would lead them, in the end, to victory.
Will I be willing to take the risk to actively surrender my life so that God can use it to the fullest extent possible? Will I die to myself, to my dreams and do whatever heart work it takes to finish the race strong and in His name? Will it be for His glory alone and not for a drop of mine? Will I risk feeling as though I am being torn in two in order to be a part of the most amazing victory in the end?
I don't know if this act of surrender will end in the type of pain these people experienced. I don't believe that God caused these horrible things to happen, but I do think He allowed them to happen so that these amazing people would testify to the power and divine surprises that He gives us in this world. The truth is that there will always be suffering on this earth as we now know it. There will always be pain. It is what we do with that suffering and pain that has the possibility to reveal God's powerful and amazing love, grace, and mercy.
Would you risk it all for Him?
LORD, You are faithful to fill me.
YOUR living water is continually offered.
through every inch of my being.
blemishes allow You to leak out of me.
I'm linking up with Michelle at Graceful for Hear it on Sunday, Use it on Monday. Come see how others are applying God's teachings.
I'm linking up with Jennifer at Studio JRU. Come see what others are doing in their studios.
I used to have dreams of being center stage. I wanted to be adored. I wanted to be loved. I wanted to be the best.
I wanted all of these things because I didn't know then what I know now.
He is the one that gives me my worth. He is the one who has anointed my life. He is the One who has called me by name to simply be His. It took me a long time to realize that He was battling for me. He kept trying to woo me away from this boyfriend called PRIDE. You know this type of boyfriend (or, maybe you don't because you are way smarter than I used to be). This boyfriend is one you love because you think you can't do any better. This is the boyfriend that feeds you lies that are so disguised that you can't identify them as such right away. This is the boyfriend that promises the world and then leaves you standing there empty-handed. Every time.
Looks like you lost a follower on your blog, Jen. You must have said too much/too little/the wrong thing.
Do you really think God could call you to be a speaker? You know He knows that I'm still a problem for you. Do you really think He could trust you with something like this?
Do you really think you should enter into this contest? Isn't that a bit prideful, even attempting to enter into something where you are strutting your stuff and competing against some of your friends?
Despite hearing these words, I believe that God can bring redemption to everything. All things that the Enemy means for harm, God can use for good. It's the same way with my pride. Knowing that it is a slithering snake that attempts to wrap itself around my heart and squeeze out all the Truth that I have stored in there, I have found some ways to battle against him. I cloak myself with the armor of God, specifically with David's Psalm 51. In this Psalm, David confesses his adultery with Bathsheba to God. There have been times when I have cheated on Him, too, lusting after the things of this world, instead of keeping me eyes focused only on Him. Praying this Psalm keeps me focused on His goodness, keeps me humble, keeps me tethered only to Him.
God has done a mighty work in me and I've been chronicling this journey on Tuesdays with my Soli Deo Gloria girls. I know that He has called me to speak, but I also know there is more refining that needs to happen in this heart of mine. There is more to learn. There are places in my heart that have yet to be uncovered. There are still broken pieces that need to be put back together. There are roads that I am still afraid to travel.
This is why I would be honored to go to the She Speaks Conference July 22-24 in Concord, NC on scholarship. This conference is put on by Proverbs 31 Ministries and offers tracks for writers, speakers, and women's ministry leaders. If you would like more information about this conference or would like to enter into the scholarship contest, please on the links above or the button below.
If you are interested in reading the story of my call and how I have been processing what He has been telling me, you can click on the s(He) Listens link found under "Pages" in the right-hand corner of my blog. Actually, I'll make it really easy for you. Just click here.


Ummmm....This looks so good, especially right now, I need to go find something for lunch. I've seen somebody make this, but have never tried myself. It looks delicious!
Oh yay! What fun. :D I totally like the making part of cooking better than the eating part sometimes. That said, this sounds delicious!
Great job! I have had this in the back of my mind...that I need to try making my own also!
I tried to comment last night but the hotel was having server issues and I kept getting disconnect!
This has been on my list to try for a long time. Yours turned out great!
We made some not too long ago! Yours look great!! I am craving them now. I am glad we have some in the freezer!
Yum, I love gnocchi. I'm glad you're first attempt worked out so well!
Nice looking gnocchi! Happy new year!
It looks like you've been making gnocchi for years! :) Happy new year!
Your gnocchi look great! You should try ricotta gnocchi some time. It's not any hard and it taste great.
I have never made gnocchi before but I have always wanted too! You have inspired me, I might have this for dinner tonight, off to the store! Thanks for sharing, the gnocchi looks great!
Those look great even if they weren't as flavorful as you wanted. I bet if you had some parmesan or romano cheese that would be nice to add to the dough. Thanks for the post, I think I might have to give these a try!
Gosh i love gnocchi and I fixed it for my boyfriend "Big Bear" (he weighs 437 pounds -- lol) when I lived in Florida.
But due to a legal problem we had to hurriedly leave and move to Atlanta. As soon as my food coupons start arriving I will go buy some more stuff and try out your method.
This is in my to-do list! I really have to try making this one day!
Gnocchi's a little tricky, but not as hard as people make out. Yours looks great.
Yea! Great job! Your gnocchi looks wonderful...especially for your first time! Yes...the gnocchi is a bit bland but most people add sauce or saute them in an olive oil sauce with fresh herbs so that adds the flavor. Thanks for trying out my recipe and visiting my site!


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Bayou Book Thief (A Vintage Cookbook Mystery) cozy mystery
Ellen Byron
A fantastic new cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Ellen Byron.
Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor husband perishes doing a stupid internet stunt. The Big Easy is where she was born and adopted by the NICU nurse who cared for her after Ricki's teen mother disappeared from the hospital.
Ricki's dream comes true when she joins the quirky staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, the spectacular former Garden District home of late bon vivant Genevieve "Vee" Charbonnet, the city's legendary restauranteur. Ricki is excited about turning her avocation – collecting vintage cookbooks – into a vocation by launching the museum's gift shop, Miss Vee's Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware. Then she discovers that a box of donated vintage cookbooks contains the body of a cantankerous Bon Vee employee who was fired after being exposed as a book thief.
The skills Ricky has developed ferreting out hidden vintage treasures come in handy for investigations. But both her business and Bon Vee could wind up as deadstock when Ricki's past as curator of a billionaire's first edition collection comes back to haunt her.
Will Miss Vee's Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware be a success … or a recipe for disaster?
USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron is a television writer, playwright, and freelance journalist. Her TV credits include Wings, Still Standing, and Just Shoot Me, and her written work has appeared in Glamour, Redbook, and Seventeen, among others. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, their daughter, and the family's very spoiled rescue dog. A native New Yorker, Ellen still misses her hometown and still drives like a New York Cabbie. This is her first book in the new Vintage Cookbook mystery series. You'll also enjoy her Cajun Country Mysteries (with an Agatha Award and three Lefty Awards to its credit!) and her Catering Hall Mysteries under the pseudonym Maria DiRico. And check out her website at www.ellenbyron.com.

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Q: How to suppress check-style warning in Kotlin In java there is the possibility to do this
//CHECKSTYLE:OFF
this will turn off the check style warnings in sonar.
Also, you can be more specific and use
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
in front of some line.
I know that it is better if the warning is fixed instead of suppressed.
Bot how to suppressed in Kotlin?
I found some blogs that suggest using
@Suppress("some type")
but the sonar still reports the issue.
Any suggestions?

A: It is poorly documented but @Suppress(...) should work. I've annotated classes with the @Suppress("kotlin:S117") and stopped getting warnings.
The Sonar team are more interested in you marking these as resolved in their UI, and that may be a legitimate method for you too.

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The Trauma Of War And What Comes After: A Fighter Pilot On Finding Purpose And Inner Peace
By Jerry Yellin on	 February 1, 2015 Personal Stories
December 7, 1941. The radio blared, "Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese!" I was in the store beneath my apartment in Newark, NJ. Like many who were listening, I wondered where Pearl Harbor was and what had prompted such a malicious act. I knew then that I would join the military on my 18th birthday, February 15, 1942, become a fighter pilot, and fly against my enemy.
I entered service in August 1942 and graduated from flying school in August of 1943, with ten hours of flying time in a P-40.
Next, I joined the 78th Fighter Squadron in Hawaii for further training. We flew P-40s, P-47s, and then P-51s. The last week of December 1944, we flew our planes to Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, and watched as they were loaded onto an aircraft carrier. We spent sixteen days at sea before arriving in Guam in January 1945.
"These many benefits—inner peace, contentment, and freedom from anger and blame—seem to come to all who learn TM."On March 7, we flew to the Island of Iwo Jima, eight square miles of land where ninety thousand soldiers were fighting: sixty-seven thousand Americans against twenty-three thousand Japanese defenders. The smell of death, the sound of warfare, and the sights remain with me to this day. We strafed for the Marines for thirty days until the island was secure.
On April 7, 1945, along with fifteen other members of the 78th, I flew the first long-range, eight-hour escort mission of B-29s over mainland Japan. I watched from above as bombers dropped firebombs on Tokyo. Little fires became big fires, and square miles of the city burned. Not once did I think there were people on the ground. They were Japanese, my enemy, not people!
I flew a total of nineteen missions over Japan, on either escort or strafing missions on airfields, sea shipping bases, trains, and military installations. I flew with sixteen young men who did not come home. While flying the very last combat mission over Japan on August 14, 1945, the day the war ended, my wingman Phil Schlamberg was killed. He was the last man killed in combat in WWII.
Then I came home and had to face reality. Almost every night in my dreams I saw the faces of my squadron mates who had been killed. I couldn't hold a job, nor did I have any desire to live. I thought about suicide a lot.
I met my wife, Helene, on Good Friday in 1949. We were married on October 22. I could not hold a job, and we moved more than a dozen times. I stopped working altogether and made a living gambling on the golf course. I had a wonderful wife and was the father of four wonderful sons, but I couldn't enjoy them. I was unhappy with life itself until the summer of 1975.
In June of that year, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi appeared on the Merv Griffith show. Helene saw the program and decided that she wanted to learn Transcendental Meditation. She started in July, and I learned in August. This was 30 years after I had been at war.
My life took on meaning and purpose within the first month of doing TM twice a day, every day. I stopped seeing my dead comrades every night in my dreams, and my sleep deepened. I became an expert in real estate financing and consulted with major West Coast banks. More importantly, I went to Japan on business in 1983 and for the first time, saw Japan and her people as human beings rather than the faceless enemy.
Our youngest son, Robert, graduated from college in 1984 and took a job teaching English in Japan for one year. Now it's 2014 and Robert has not returned yet. He married the daughter of a Japanese fighter pilot in 1988, and they have two sons and a daughter.
I can say without a doubt that if I had not been doing TM, the Japanese, my enemy, would never have become a part of my life. My anger for my enemy turned into love for my family because of the benefits I received from TM.
These many benefits—inner peace, contentment, and freedom from anger and blame—seem to come to all who learn TM. I know it made me a better husband, a better father, and a better person, without me ever thinking about those traits and characteristics. Without trying. It happened as a natural result of my mind diving deep within and my body dissolving deep-rooted stresses.
As a recovered PTSD veteran, I feel that Transcendental Meditation should be offered to all veterans. To reach this goal, I helped found Operation Warrior Wellness with the David Lynch Foundation in 2010 and TM For Veterans in 2014.
Today, at age 90, I continue to promote TM for the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. When I speak to these veterans, I speak from my own experience. I tell them that this meditation not only has brought me peace and contentment, it literally saved my life.
Jerry Yellin


Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at http://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/881, first published Mar 31, 2003.
: Open access to the peer-reviewed primary research literature would greatly facilitate knowledge transfer between the creators and the users of the results of research and scholarship. Criteria are needed to assess the impact of recent initiatives, such as the Budapest Open Access Initiative. For example, how many open-access research journals exist within a given field, and what is the reputation of each one? And, how many openly-accessible institutional e-print archives have been created and how many are actually are being used by researchers and scholars? A simple approach to an assessment of the open-access portion of the medical literature is described, and some preliminary results are summarized. These preliminary results point to the need for incentives to foster the implementation of initiatives such as the Budapest Open Access Initiative. An example of an incentive model is proposed, where an agency or foundation that provides peer-reviewed grants-in-aid to researchers establishes an e-print archive. Only current grantees of the agency would be eligible to post reports about the results of research projects or programs that have been supported by the agency. Some advantages and implications of this particular model are outlined. It is suggested that incentive models of this kind are needed to increase the likelihood that open access to the primary medical research literature will soon reach a "tipping point" and move quickly toward wide acceptance.
One crucial way to provide online access to novel, valuable, and quality-assessed research reports is to foster open access to the peer-reviewed primary research literature. Examples of recent initiatives in this area are the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)  and the Free Online Scholarship movement .
To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, the BOAI has recommended 2 complementary strategies . The first is self-archiving, by researchers and scholars, of their refereed journal articles. The second is the fostering of open-access journals. Peter Suber, the editor of the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter , has argued that various objections (eg, that open access to scientific journal literature requires the sacrifice of peer review, revenue, copyright protection, or other strengths of traditional journals) are based on misunderstandings .
What criteria could be used to evaluate the success of the BOAI?
Several criteria that could be used to evaluate the success of the BOAI have been summarized . For example, one indicator, oriented toward the first of its strategies (self-archiving), is the number of universities (or analogous organizations, such as research institutes or networks) that have created institutional e-print archives and have adopted policies that encourage faculty to use them. A comprehensive list of various kinds of e-print archives has been assembled by the Virtual Technical Reports Center of the University of Maryland Libraries .
Another indicator, oriented toward the second BOAI strategy (more open-access journals), is the number of journals in each research field that are committed to open access, coupled with measures of the reputation or impact of each journal. A list of open-access medical journals is available from the Free Medical Journals website (JMIR is included in this list) .
One simple approach to an assessment of the open-access portion of a substantial component of the peer-reviewed research literature can be obtained using PubMed , the popular open-access service of the National Library of Medicine in the United States. To test this approach, I carried out (in mid-January of 2003) a small feasibility study, beginning with the PubMed record  of Peter Suber's article . PubMed provides a link to Related Articles. I sorted the 126 articles that PubMed identified as related to Suber's article by publication date (Suber's article appeared as number 47 on the sorted list). I then tried to access the full text of each article, either directly, via the click here to read link provided by PubMed, or via the online electronic journals service of the University of Toronto.
The results for the first 20 articles on the sorted list yielded only 1 article that was openly accessible. In contrast, the University of Toronto Libraries permitted online access (but only for members of the university) to the full text of 10 (50%) of the articles. The remaining articles either were not available in electronic form or had been published in journals to which the University of Toronto Libraries did not have a subscription (such as Lakartidningen, in Swedish). An advantage of this particular list of 20 articles is that all were in different journals, ranging from very well-known ones (such as JAMA) to ones much less well-known, at least to English-speaking readers (such as Lakartidningen). A more-extensive use of this same approach would permit the open-access portion of the research literature covered by PubMed to be estimated, and tracked across time.
No matter which measures of the success of the entire Free Online Scholarship movement are used, it can be anticipated that more and more scholars and researchers will expect to have open access to the articles they wish to read for their own research. And, they will expect to have the option to provide open access to their own research reports.
Moreover, taxpayers are increasingly likely to demand open access to the reports of publicly-funded research. In particular, medical patients and their families, policy-makers, and those with a role in knowledge transfer, can be expected to seek open access to those parts of the primary peer-reviewed research literature that are most clearly relevant to their own needs.
The small feasibility study outlined above also provides a vivid illustration of a major reason why authors of research reports may have less interest in open access than readers of research reports (even though authors and readers are often the same people). Authors associated with universities usually have much more convenient access to the online versions of peer-reviewed research reports than do those who are not associated with universities. So, a strategy to foster open access via author-based self-archiving of peer-reviewed research reports needs to advocate policies that encourage authors to undertake self-archiving. Incentives are likely to be needed. The remainder of this commentary will be focused on one novel model, which will be outlined here as one example of an incentive model.
Various ways to use the Internet to facilitate scholarly communication, including communication via research articles, have been outlined by Kling et al . The models preferred by these authors are ones designed to serve as an adjunct to journals and other forms of scholarly communications already in place. The example of an incentive model proposed here is based on this perspective . The model is one where the sponsoring organization is an agency or foundation that provides peer-reviewed grants-in-aid to researchers, but has no interest in launching a new journal. Instead, it would establish an e-print archive, into which only current grantees of the agency would be eligible to post (or submit for posting) reports about the results of research projects or programs that were supported by the agency.
There are several advantages to this model, in comparison with more conventional preprint archives. These include an additional "quality filtering" system that would be involved, in that the research projects or programs would be ones that had recently been peer reviewed by the agency. Only successful applicants would be permitted to post relevant research reports at the e-print archive. These research reports, probably still in the form of preprints, would usually be publicly accessible. The authors/grantees would retain copyright, and, because open access would be based on the copyright holder's consent, there would be no violation of existing copyright law . But, open access to each of the research reports posted at the archive probably should be voluntary, not mandatory. This would permit the opting-out of those authors who may have valid reasons to prefer not to be required to provide open access to any particular research report.
A model in which the funding agency requires that reports about the research it has supported must be openly accessible  could be regarded as a mandatory incentive model. The somewhat less restrictive voluntary incentive model proposed here is designed to foster the concept of open access by "picking the low-hanging fruit," that is, by fostering open access to the research reports of those researchers who are willing to contribute to the agency's e-print archive on a voluntary basis.
In this particular example of a voluntary incentive model, authors/grantees would also be encouraged to submit their posted preprints to an appropriate journal. The most appropriate journals would be ones of satisfactory reputation, which permit authors to retain copyright, and (preferably) provide open access to published articles.
Recipients of research grants from an agency or foundation would probably feel some obligation to post research reports at the agency's e-print archive, and to permit open access to them, if only to provide tangible evidence that their research has been productive. Free online access seems likely to become increasingly popular as evidence continues to accumulate that it can significantly increase the impact of research articles .
Also attractive is the prospect that well-designed open-access e-print archives will provide new opportunities for developing methods for evaluating citation rates  and for searches of the free, full-text research literature . These methods can be expected to yield novel approaches to assessments of the impact of individual research reports and to explorations of linkages among related research reports.
From the agency's perspective, opportunities to assess, over the longer term, the outcomes of research projects the agency has funded should have considerable appeal. But, to avoid becoming (in effect) a journal publisher, the agency might be well-advised to permit grantees to post research reports at its e-print archive only temporarily. For example, perhaps the lifetime of any particular preprint in the archive should end at either 5 years or when it has been published in an appropriate journal (whichever comes first). Ideally, the agency would also maintain a publicly-accessible database of the research projects and programs that it has funded. It would include, in this database, links to the abstract (and, if possible, to the openly-accessible full text) of any published reports that emanated from these individual projects or programs. And, whether or not the agency decides to become the equivalent of a journal publisher, it should establish e-print archives that are not only openly accessible, but also interoperable  (interoperability allows searches across free, full-text research-literature e-print archives; the results can be ranked according to many criteria, eg, by citation impact ).
Incentive models of various kinds may become examples of a "little thing that can make a big difference," of the kind described in Malcolm Gladwell's book, "The Tipping Point" . A "tipping point" is "that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire." Open access to the peer-reviewed primary biomedical and health research literature has not yet reached a tipping point. Perhaps, via an appropriate mix of strategies of the kind outlined above, it soon will.
Gladwell M. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Back Bay Books; Jan 7, 2002.
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Rush Cycle is set to open across from the Rowdies Stadium at 115 1st St. S. in Downtown St. Pete.
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You can track your workouts and your past stats on their app while also scheduling your next cycle.
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«Tipi-tii» —; en español: «Pío, pío»— es una canción compuesta por Kari Tuomisaari y Jaakko Salo, e interpretada en finés por Marion Rung. Se lanzó como sencillo en 1962 mediante Philips. Fue elegida para representar a Finlandia en el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión de 1962 tras ganar la final nacional finesa en 1962.

Festival de Eurovisión

Final nacional
Esta canción participó en la final nacional para elegir al representante finlandés del Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión de 1962, celebrada el 15 de febrero de ese año en los estudios Yle. Fue presentado por Aarno Walli. Diez jurados regionales se encargaron de la votación. Finalmente, la canción «Tipi-tii» se declaró ganadora con 234 puntos.

Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 1962
Esta canción fue la representación finlandesa en el Festival de Eurovisión 1962. La orquesta fue dirigida por George de Godzinsky.

La canción fue interpretada 1ª en la noche del 18 de marzo de 1962 por Marion Rung, seguida por Bélgica con Fud Leclerc interpretando «Ton nom». Al final de las votaciones, la canción había recibido 4 puntos, quedando en 7º puesto junto a Suecia de un total de 16.

Marion Rung volvería a representar a Finlandia en 1973 con la canción «Tom Tom Tom», la primera canción del país en no haber sido interpretada completamente en finés.

Fue sucedida como representación finlandesa en el Festival de 1963 por Laila Halme con «Muistojeni laulu».

Historial de lanzamiento

Véase también
 Finlandia en el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Letra de «Tipi-tii» en finés y español
 Letra e información sobre la canción
 Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 1962, Finlandia

Canciones en finés
Canciones de 1962
Sencillos de 1962
Canciones de Eurovisión 1962
Canciones de Eurovisión de Finlandia

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Justin Bieber's New 'Purpose' Tour Collection Is Even Better Than The Last — PHOTOS
By Kali Borovic
If you've got Bieber Fever, I've got some great news for you. Justin Bieber created more tour merch, and it's even better than his previous collections. You can once again deck yourself out in head-to-toe clothing with the singers face and name plastered in unusual places. Although only eight of the Purpose The Stadium Tour collection designs have been shown so far, the first look proves that this collection is sure to be another bestseller.
It's been a big year for celebrity-made apparel. Heck, it's been a big year for Bieber tour merch alone. On top of his clothing lines at PacSun, H&M, and his own website, the singer has created another collection for the last leg of his tour. Named Purpose The Stadium Tour, the line includes eight pieces of graphic tees, shorts, and sweatpants so far. The designs are completely different from all of his other collections and will be available to purchase on the Purpose Tour website on May 31.
The collection focuses on a dirt bike theme. There are shirts with the singer riding a bike, "team Bieber" slogans printed on others, and even motocross styled shorts and sweatpants. Who knows, maybe after the tour is done, he'll become a racer. Regardless of his future plans, these clothing items are trendy and a great way to support the singer.
The line might still gives off major street-style vibes, but that's about the only thing that's the same as the previous collections. If there's a place for Bieber's name to be splattered, it's there. I'm talking arm decals, double-sided designs, and even on the front of shorts.
Like Bieber's other collections, you'll be able to buy the pieces even if you're not at the concert. The items, along with the full collection that launches on June 3, will range from $40 to $100 per item. The singer is also having three pop-up shops starting June 2 at Storm Copenhagen, Storm Aarhus + ANSH46 Rotterdam in Europe, where the full collections will be sold.
With four clothing collections launched during his tour, this could just be a world record for tour merch. The brand didn't say what time the merch will be released, but you can sign up on the Purpose Tour website to be the first to know. Because something tells me that this collection will sell fast.


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As Comcast enforces data caps nationwide, will AT&T, Verizon, Charter and other internet providers follow?
Special to USA TODAY
If you're a Comcast customer, the internet may soon feel less wide open.
Tuesday, the nation's largest internet provider announced that, starting Jan. 1, it would extend its 1.2 terabyte data cap to previously exempt service areas – meaning once you hit that limit, you'll have to pay more to use more.
After a three-month grace period, residential subscribers in 14 states from West Virginia to Maine, plus the District of Columbia, will face surcharges of up to $100 for exceeding that limit.
"We're aligning our Northeast markets with the data plan that the rest of the country has had for several years, and 95 percent of our customers are not impacted by it even with the increased usage during the pandemic," spokesman Joel Shadle said in an email. "The small percentage of customers who reach 1.2TB in a month will be notified multiple times as they approach the threshold, and will have unlimited data options at reduced prices if they choose."
That 95% figure leaves almost 1.4 million of Philadelphia-based Comcast's 27.84 million residential broadband customers on the hook, after one courtesy month a year, for overage fees of $10 per each 50 gigabytes of additional data, up to a monthly cap of $100.
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Subscribers can get unlimited data by paying a $30 monthly surcharge or, if they already pay $14 monthly to rent Comcast's modem – they shouldn't – by adding its $11 xFi Complete service bundle. Comcast's $299.99 2 Gbps Gigabit Pro service also includes unlimited data.
How do I know if I'm near the limit?
Comcast users who regularly approach 1.2 TB don't get much help from Comcast, as its apps don't track usage by device, app or site. Note that if you use Comcast's streaming apps instead of renting its TV boxes, their data consumption won't count against the cap.
The less obvious option is to switch to a Comcast business account, since those don't include data caps. Comcast's site quotes $79.99/month for 100 Mbps downloads over a 24-month term – almost the same as its no-contract rate for 100 Mbps residential broadband. Shadle said you don't need a separate tax ID number or a business registered with your state to get business service.
Industry experts consistently reject the notion that wired connections require a cap to function well.
"No," summed up Roger Entner, founder and lead analyst at Recon Analytics. He said cable operators such as Comcast have to spend meaningful money to reach more houses but not to transport more data from an individual house.
He scoffed at Comcast's argument that fairness requires charging more for heavier use. "They should give people a discount when they're not using a lot," he said. "But they're not doing that!"
What AT&T, Verizon and others do
Comcast's two biggest competitors offer uncapped service. AT&T ditched data caps on its 100 Mbps, 300 Mbps and 1 Gbps fiber services in October with no harm to its network, spokesman Jim Kimberly said in an email. Verizon's Fios fiber connections don't feature a cap, nor do its newer, scarcer 5G and 4G wireless residential broadband services.
Most other cable operators have resumed enforcing the data caps they suspended at the start of the pandemic. The second-biggest among them, Charter, is barred from implementing any through 2023 as a condition of its purchases of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in 2016.
The Stamford, Connecticut, company petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to be relieved of those merger conditions next year, but Charter spokesman Bret Picciolo said data overages won't touch users of its Spectrum service. "All our home broadband products are unlimited and we intend to stay unlimited," he said in an email.
This leaves Comcast alone in subjecting more people to data caps – and doing so as the pandemic escalates. It's not a good look, Entner said: "I ask myself at times, why are they going out of their way to piss people off?"
Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington. To submit a tech question, email Rob at rob@robpegoraro.com. Follow him on Twitter at @robpegoraro.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States pronounced on Friday it will temporarily concede 8 importers to keep shopping Iranian oil when it re-imposes sanctions on Monday to try to force Iran to quell a nuclear, barb and informal activities.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced a decision, did not name a eight, that he referred to as "jurisdictions," a tenure that competence embody importers such as Taiwan that a United States does not courtesy as a country.
Having deserted a 2015 Iran chief deal, U.S. President Donald Trump is perplexing to ravage Iran's oil-dependent economy and force Tehran to stifle not usually a chief ambitions and a ballistic barb module though a support for belligerent proxies in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and other tools of a Middle East.
China, India, South Korea, Turkey, Italy, a United Arab Emirates and Japan have been tip importers of Iran's oil, while Taiwan spasmodic buys cargoes of Iranian wanton though is not a critical buyer.
Turkey has been told it will temporarily be authorised to keep shopping Iranian oil, a appetite apportion told reporters, as has Iraq, as prolonged as it does not compensate Iran in U.S. dollars, 3 Iraqi officials said.
India and South Korea were also on a list, pronounced a source informed with a matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. Under U.S. law, exceptions can be postulated for adult to 180 days.
Oil prices fell on Friday for a weekly detriment of over 6 percent, as investors disturbed about wanton oversupply after a U.S. waivers.
Brent wanton futures LCOc1 fell 6 cents to settle during $72.83 a barrel, while U.S. wanton CLc1 declined 55 cents to finish a event during $63.14 per barrel, a 0.86 percent loss.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also pronounced Washington had told a Brussels-based SWIFT financial messaging use it was approaching to undo all Iranian financial institutions that a United States skeleton to blacklist as of Monday. He declined to name a targeted institutions.
Trump set in suit a resumption of sanctions on May 8, when he announced U.S. withdrawal from a 2015 understanding between Iran and universe powers underneath that Tehran had concluded to diminish a chief module in lapse for service from sanctions.
"This partial of a debate is directed during depriving a regime of a revenues it uses to widespread genocide and drop around a world, Pompeo said.
Two would stop imports and a other 6 would severely revoke them, Pompeo said.
Iran pronounced it was not uneasy over a re-imposition of U.S. sanctions, that aim not usually a critical oil and gas zone though also shipping, ship-building and banking industries.
"America will not be means to lift out any magnitude opposite a good and dauntless republic … We have a believe and a capability to conduct a country's mercantile affairs," Iran's Foreign Ministry orator Bahram Qasemi told state TV.
However, typical Iranians fear an even some-more unpleasant fist on vital costs, from businesses struggling to buy tender materials to a ill and aged incompetent to means life-saving medicines.
"I can't even buy rice to feed my children or compensate my rent," pronounced facile propagandize clergyman Pejman Sarafnejad, 43, a father of 3 in Tehran.
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Cyclassics Hamburg 2022 var den 25:e upplagan av det tyska cykelloppet Cyclassics Hamburg. Tävlingen avgjordes den 21 augusti 2022 med både start och målgång i Hamburg. Loppet var en del av UCI World Tour 2022 och vanns av österrikiska Marco Haller från cykelstallet Bora–Hansgrohe.

Deltagande lag

Resultat

Referenser
Cyclassics Hamburg 2022 på ProCyclingStats

Noter

2022
UCI World Tour 2022
2022 i Tyskland


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module Solve.Velocity
        (velocitySteps)
where
import Stage.Diffusion
import Stage.Advection
import Stage.Sources
import Stage.Project
import Model
import Config

-- The pass that sets boundary conditions is buggy and
-- currently disabled.
-- import Stage.Boundary
velocitySteps
        :: Config
        -> Int
        -> VelocityField
        -> Maybe (SourceDensity (Float, Float))
        -> IO VelocityField

velocitySteps config _step vf vs
 = {-# SCC "Solve.velocitySteps" #-}
   do
        vf1     <- addSources   (configDelta config) (configVelocity config)
                                vs vf

        let diffSolver = DiffStable (configIters config)
        vf2     <- diffusion    diffSolver (configDelta config) (configVisc config)
                                vf1
--      vf3     <- setBoundary vf2

        vf4     <- project      (configIters config) vf2
--      vf5     <- setBoundary vf4

        vf6     <- advection    (configDelta config) vf4 vf4
--      vf7     <- setBoundary vf6

        vf8     <- project      (configIters config) vf6
--      vf'     <- setBoundary vf8

        return  vf8

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