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\section*{Methods}

\subsection*{QENS Data Acquisition and Reduction}

Acquisition of QENS data analyzed here has been reported previously \cite{Cicerone:2014dk, Cicerone:2017eo}. In summary, the QENS data was acquired with the Disk Chopper Spectrometer (DCS) installed at the NG4 guide at the NIST Center for Neutron Research \cite{Copley:2003es}. The neutron wavelength was set at 4  \AA, corresponding to a momentum transfer (q) range of 0.2 \AA$^{-1}$ to 2.8 \AA$^{-1}$, and data were binned at steps of 0.1  \AA$^{-1}$. The instrumental resolution was 0.19 meV and the maximum energy transfer was 4.5 meV. Data at each temperature was obtained within (3 to 6) h.

Experiments were performed on cooling from the high temperature to avoid potential artifacts from crystal nucleation. We ensured that there was no sign of crystallization even on reheating when crystal nuclei would have grown if they had been seeded at low temperatures. The absence of crystallization was confirmed by noting an absence of Bragg peaks in plots of scattered intensity vs q.

The data were corrected for i) background from an empty can ii) dark count background with no neutron flux and iii) detector efficiencies by measuring a vanadium standard. All the data files were reduced using the DAVE software available at \underline{www.ncnr.nist.gov/DAVE}. Instrument resolution was estimated as a Gaussian from sample scattering at 30 K.

QENS data were analyzed in the frequency domain and in the time domain after transformation. $S(q,\omega)$ was directly transformed to the time domain $F(q,t)$ using DAVE software. Noise is propagated in the Fourier transform operation, and additional errors can arise through truncation and course sampling intervals. These factors are taken into account and standard uncertainties are calculated by the DAVE software. Errors arising were less than 0.1\% of $F(q,t)$ values. The real part of the Fourier transformed data was used to calculate $F(q,t)$, and no filtering options were used as they were not found necessary.

\subsection*{Modeling QENS Data}

In this work, we use an explicitly heterogeneous dynamics model to describe the QENS data. We account for distinct types of motion expected in amorphous systems: over-damped vibration (IS motion), hops (IB transitions), and homogeneous diffusion. Based on ultrafast optical experiments performed by us \cite{Bender:2020dl}, and on work by Vispa et al.,\cite{Vispa.2015} we use Lorenzians to represent each of the three types of motion considered here. Vispa et al.,\cite{Vispa.2015} found that a triple Lorentzian function provided significantly better fits for $S(q,E)$ of a molecular liquid than common models of similar complexity containing functional forms such as KWW and Gaussian, and much better fits than 2-component models. Likewise, we find that a three-Lorenzian model fits scattering data well for each of the liquids analyzed here. Consistent with this, we observe three exponential relaxation processes for PC in time-domain optical Kerr effect data covering similar time and lengthscales to those considered here. Accordingly, we use the following model for $S(q,E)$:
\begin{align}
	S(q,E)=&(1-\tilde{\Phi}(E))L_D\otimes[(1-a_v)\,\delta(E)+a_v L_v]\nonumber\\
	&+\tilde{\Phi}(E) L_D\otimes[(1-a_v)\,\delta(E)+a_v L_v]
	\otimes[(1-a_h)\,\delta(E)+a_h L_{h}]\label{FullSQE}
\end{align}
where $L_i=\Gamma_i\pi^{-1}(E^2+\Gamma_i^2)^{-1}$, $\otimes$ is the convolution operator, and the convolutions are over frequency (energy). $\Gamma_D=D_Tq^2$ where $D_T$ is the diffusion coefficient, and $a_v$ and $a_h$ are respectively, q-dependent scattering amplitudes from vibration (IS motion) and hopping (IB crossing). Anticipating that these two will be localized modes with Gaussian distributions of displacements,\cite{Rahman:1962ed} we assume the functional form:
\begin{equation}
	a_i(q)=c_i\{1-exp[-(\pi\sigma_i q)^2]\}\label{LocMod}
\end{equation}
where the $\sigma_i$ represents the characteristic lengthscales of motion for mode $i$.

The two terms in Eq (2) account for two dynamically different classes of molecules. We assume that all molecules undergo both diffusion and over-damped vibrations at all times. Accordingly, both terms in Eq. (2) include diffusive and vibrational motion. We also assume that, up to a given time, only some fraction ($\Phi$) of molecules have participated in collective hopping motion ($h$) associated with IB transitions. These are accounted for in the second term of Eq. (2).

Data are first fitted in the frequency domain to obtain q-dependent characteristic frequencies $\Gamma$ for each mode of motion. Data are then transformed to the time domain $F(q,t)$ and fitted to the time-domain representation of Eq. (2) to obtain $\Phi (t)$:

\begin{equation}
	F(q,t)=e^{-t/\tau_D}[1+a_v(e^{-t/\tau_v}-1)]\\
	\times [(1-\Phi(t))+\Phi(t)(1+a_h(e^{-t/\tau_h}-1))] \label{eq:F2GFull}
\end{equation}
where $\tau_i=\hbar/\Gamma_i$. In the regime $t\Gamma_D \ll\hbar \ll t\Gamma_h\leq t\Gamma_v$, we can ignore terms involving $\tau_v$ and $\tau_h$, and Eq. (\ref{eq:F2GFull}) reduces essentially to
\begin{equation}
F(q)=(1-\Phi(t))e^{-(q\,\pi\,\sigma_{v})^2}+\Phi(t) e^{-(q\,\pi\,\sigma_{h})^2}
\label{eqn:F2GShort}
\end{equation}

We have used to Eq. (\ref{eq:F2GFull}) fit QENS when long-time response is of interest \cite{Cicerone:2017eo}, and  Eq. (\ref{eq:F2GFull}) when only short time ($\approx 1\,ps$) is of interest \cite{Cicerone:2014dk}. In either case, $\Phi(t)$ represents the fraction of molecules that have hopped (undergone an IB crossing) up to time t. Bearing in mind that hops constitute significantly larger excursions than vibrations, it is clear that until a molecule executes a hop, the q-dependence of its scattering signature will be characteristic of only small lengthscale motion. Once a hop occurs, that signature will change to a larger lengthscale for all subsequent times.

The QENS data, as obtained in the frequency domain, is a convolution of the molecular scattering function and instrument resolution
\begin{equation}
	S_{expt}(q,E)=S_{molecular}(q,E)\otimes R(q,E)
\end{equation}
where $R(q,E)$ is instrumental resolution. The model was convolved with the instrument response function when fitting in the frequency domain. The frequency-domain convolution operation is simple multiplication in the time domain:
\begin{equation}
	F_{expt}(q,t)=F_{molecular}(q,t)\times R(q,t)
\end{equation}
where $R(q,t)$ is the Fourier transform of $R(Q,E)$. Thus, the molecular response was directly deconvolved from the overall signal as $F_{molecular}= F_{expt}/R$.

$S(q,E)$ obtained at 4 K (or its Fourier transform) was used as the resolution function $R(q,E)$. Scattering from samples at 4 K was compared with standard vanadium and found to contain no broadening from, e.g. methyl group rotation, etc., so these data sets were deemed acceptable for normalizing $F(q,t)$. The fact that coherent scattering is only about 5\% of the total scattering in these samples ameliorates the complications arising from coherent scattering when base temperature data is used as a resolution for higher temperatures.

\begin{figure}[h!]
	\begin{center}
		\includegraphics[width=9 cm]{SQWwFit.pdf}
		\caption{Fits to $S(q=0.8$\AA$^{-1},E)$ of PC, measured at T=300 K, using Eq. (2). The solid black line is the QENS data, $S(q,E)$. The solid blue line is the fit. The dashed lines are the fit components from three Lorenzians with $\Gamma_D=0.05$ meV,  $\Gamma_{IB}=0.55$ meV, and $\Gamma_{IS}=2.9$ meV. Fit residuals, normalized to uncertainty in the data points, are shown in the upper part of the figure.}\label{fig:SQWwFit}
	\end{center}
\end{figure}

In both frequency-domain and time-domain fitting, we used an iterative simulated annealing algorithm implemented in PyMC (\underline{pymc.io}), a Bayesian analysis framework, to find optimized fit parameters. In the frequency domain, we found values for $\Gamma_i$ at each average q value. Figure 5 shows the fit of Eq. (2) to quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) from PC at 300 K and q= 0.8 \AA$^{-1}$. The model is convolved with the instrument resolution. The upper trace shows fit residuals (H-D), normalized by the standard deviation (sd) at each data point. These normalized residuals are randomly distributed between -1 and 1 for all data reported, as in Fig. \ref{fig:SQWwFit}.

\begin{figure}[h!]\label{fig:FqtFits}
	\begin{center}
		\includegraphics[width=15 cm]{TD_fits.pdf}
		\caption{$F(q,t)$ from PC at 300 K and fits to Eq. (4). (A)Fits to $F(q,t)$ calculated at times ranging from 0.6 ps to 6 ps in increments of 0.6 ps. Solid lines are fits to Eq. (4). The uncertainties in the data are approximately the size of the symbols. (B) Time  dependence of  $\Phi$, derived  from  fits  of  Eq. (4) to F(q,t)  for temperatures indicated. Dashed lines are exponential decays. (C-D) Time dependence of  $\tilde{\sigma}_{IS}$ and $\tilde{\sigma}_{IB}$ derived from fits of Eqs. (3) and (4) to F(q,t) data in the range (250–380) K for PC. The solid lines are guides to the eye. Error bars indicate uncertainties in parameters at one standard deviation.}
	\end{center}
\end{figure}

We used Eq. (\ref{eq:F2GFull}) to fit the time domain data shown in Fig.\ref{fig:FqtFits}, finding optimized parameters for $\Phi(t)$ and from Eq. (\ref{FullSQE}), $c_i$ and $\sigma_i$. Figure 6A shows fits of Eq. (\ref{eq:F2GFull}) to $F(q,t)$ from PC at 300 K at a series of times from 600 fs to 6 ps. Figure \ref{fig:FqtFits}(B-D) shows the time dependence of $\Phi$, $\sigma_{IS}$, and $\sigma_{IB}$ respectively.

$\Phi$, $\sigma_{IS}$, and $\sigma_{IB}$ each show time dependence consistent with their assignments. $\sigma_{IS}$ reaches an asymptote consistent with a localized process. $\sigma_{IB}$ behaves non-monotonically as expected if hop events have a non-zero probability of reversal. $\Phi$ increases monotonically from $\approx 0$ to 1.

\subsection*{Characteristic Temperatures}

\begin{table}[hbt!]
	\caption {Characteristic Temperatures}

	\begin{tabular}{l|l|l|l|l}

		\hline\\
		\textbf{Molecule}                               & $T_A$ {[}K{]} & $T_B$ {[}K{]}  & $T_A$? {[}K{]} & $T_B$? {[}K{]}\\
		\hline
		\hline
		propylene carbonate                    & 291$^a$ & 209$^a$ & &        \\
		& 294 \cite{Stickel:1995du}        & 200 \cite{Stickel:1995du}        & &\\
		&           & 187  \cite{Domschke:2011jf,Schonhals:1993ei,Du:1994kx}      & &\\
		&            & 182 \cite{Wuttke.2000}& &           \\
		&             & 196 \cite{Borjesson:1990} & &\\
		&             & 210$^b$ & &\\
		\hline

		average      & 292$\pm$2&   195$\pm$10    &            &            \\
		\hline
		\hline

		propylene glycol                       & 321  \cite{Elmatad:2009ec}      &  & &280 \cite{Stickel:Thesis} \\
		& 292 \cite{Schonhals:1993ei}           &  & &239 \cite{Lunkenheimer:2012iz}\\
		&            & & &251\cite{Schonhals:1993ei}\\
		&            & & &248$^b$\\
		\hline
		average                                & 305$\pm$20          &            & &255$\pm$18\\
		\hline
		\hline

		glycerol &  & 310 \cite{Rossler:1994}&338 \cite{Elmatad:2009ec}&\\
		&& 288\cite{Adichtchev:2003} &330\cite{Rzoska:2019} &\\
		&& 285\cite{Stickel:Thesis}     & 288\cite{Schonhals:1993ei}* &\\
		&&295\cite{Rzoska:2019}&&\\
		&&283\cite{Schroter:2000fq}&&\\
		\hline
		average      & &294$\pm$13 &    334$\pm$6  &            \\
		\hline
		\hline

		ortho terphenyl                        & 455 \cite{Hansen:1997ic}       & 290\cite{Hansen:1997ic,Rossler:1994,Steffen:1994,Stickel:Thesis}&341\cite{Elmatad:2009ec}  &      \\
		&  & 285 \cite{Gottke:2001jv}        &357\cite{Elmatad:2009ec}  &\\
		& & 293 \cite{Petry:1991}           &340 \cite{Elmatad:2009ec} &\\
		&&291\cite{Garcia:2012}&&\\
		&&279$^b$&&\\
		\hline
		average      & &288$\pm$5      &346$\pm$10 &            \\
		\hline
		\hline
		sorbitol  & & 340\cite{Rzoska:2019}& &\\
		&            &351$^b$ & &\\

		\hline
		average      &&345$\pm$8&&\\
		\hline
		\hline
		Kob-Andersen  & 0.84 $^c$& 0.435\cite{Kob.1995bv}& &\\
		&            & & &\\

		\hline
		average      &0.84$\pm$.09&0.435&&\\
		\hline
		\hline
		\label{tab:charT}
	\end{tabular}
	\\
	\footnotesize{$a$ $T_A$ and $T_B$ obtained from data of Leukenheimer et al. \cite{Lunkenheimer:2012iz} as plotted in Fig. 1.\\ $b$ $T_B$ values estimated as the temperature where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ relaxation processes merge.\\ * This temperature was designated at $T_A$ in ref \cite{Schonhals:1993ei} but corresponds to $T_B$ as determined by other authors, so it is not included in the average for $T_A$.\\$c$as determined from Fig.\ref{fig:KAtau} }\\
\end{table}

Table \ref{tab:charT} displays characteristic temperatures $T_A$ and $T_B$ obtained from literature sources. Where $T_B$ values have been determined, it is generally found to be statistically indistinguishable from the mode-coupling critical temperature $T_c$, although the two are found by distinct methods. Here we take them to be functionally interchangeable and include $T_c$ values in the average and standard deviation we find for $T_B$. For sorbitol, where little corroborating data for $T_A$ and $T_B$ values can be found, but high quality $\tau_{\beta, JG}$ data is available well above $T_g$ \cite{Fujima:2002fr}, we estimated $T_B$ as the temperature where $\tau_{\alpha}$ and $\tau_{\beta, JG}$ bifurcate. A similar analysis was carried out for PC and OTP, and these  values are marked with a superscript $b$ in Table \ref{tab:charT}. In cases marked with a superscript $a$, characteristic temperatures were determined from derivative analysis of published relaxation data for PC \cite{Ngai:2001di} as shown in Figure 1 of the main text.

In several cases, the temperature at which $P_0=0.24$ appears to have been misidentified as $T_A$ or $T_B$. These are labeled as ``$T_A$?'' or ``$T_B$?''.

\subsection*{Coordination Number}

\begin{table}[hbt!]
	\caption {Coordination Numbers}
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l}
\hline\\
\textbf{Molecule}& T [K] & z\\	\hline	\hline
		propylene carbonate$^a$   & 200&12.46\\\hline
		   & 220&12.36\\\hline
		   & 240&12.44\\\hline
		   & 260&12.35\\\hline
		 & 280&12.46\\\hline
		 & 300&12.43\\\hline
		 & \textbf{Value Used} &12.4\\\hline

		propylene glycol \cite{Ferreira.2017} &298 &13\\ \hline
		 & \textbf{Value Used} &13\\\hline
		glycerol\cite{Cicerone:2015wn} &300&13.09\\\hline
		&350&13.59\\ \hline
		&400&12.98\\\hline
		&450&13.17\\\hline
		 & \textbf{Value Used} &13.3\\\hline

		ortho terphenyl (LW)$^a$& 275 &10.86\\ \hline
		& 300 &10.75\\ \hline
		& 400 &10.5\\ \hline
		&  500&10.21\\ \hline
		ortho terphenyl (atomistic)\cite{Hung:2019fm}& 267 &13.3\\ \hline
		 & \textbf{Value Used} &11.5\\\hline

		sorbitol$^a$  & 373&12.9 \\ \hline
		 & \textbf{Value Used} &12.9\\\hline
		Kob-Andersen$^a$  & 1.0&11.25 \\ \hline
		 & \textbf{Value Used} &11.25\\\hline

		\hline
		\label{tab:zs}
	\end{tabular}
	\\
\footnotesize{$a$ This work.}
\end{table}

Coordination numbers (z) used to construct Figure 4 in the main text are given in Table \ref{tab:zs} and were calculated from simulated center-of-mass radial distribution functions ($g(r)$),

\begin{equation}
	z(r_{min})=4\pi\rho \int_{0}^{r_{min}}g(r)r^2dr
\end{equation}
where $\rho$ is the average density, and $r_{min}$ is the first minimum in $g(r)$.

For glycerol, simulations were performed as described in ref. \cite{Cicerone:2015wn}, and $g(r)$ was calculated at 50 K intervals between 300 K and 450 K as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:grgly}.

\begin{figure}[!h]\label{fig:grgly}
	\includegraphics[width=15 cm]{gr_Glyc.pdf}
	\caption{\footnotesize{Radial distribution functions for glycerol calculated from trajectories obtained as described in \cite{Cicerone:2015wn}.}}
\end{figure}

PC and sorbitol simulation consisted of 400 and 200 molecules, respectively, initially constructed using Packmol \cite{Martinez2003PackingDocking}. NPT simulations at 1 bar were performed at each temperature using a Monte Carlo Barostat and were run for 10 ns, and subsequent NVT simulations were run for 100 ns.
All simulations were run using a 1 fs timestep using the GPU-accelerated OpenMM software.\cite{Eastman2017OpenMMDynamicsb}. The \textit{ab initio}, polarizable SAPT-FF force field was used for propylene carbonate, while the CHARMM36 force field was used for sorbitol \cite{McDaniel2013Physically-motivatedTheory, Huang2013CHARMM36Data}. The procedure for constructing the force field for propylene carbonate will be described elsewhere \cite{Isomorphs}. A dual-Langevin thermostat was used for treating the Drude oscillator degrees of freedom for the propylene carbonate simulations, with a 1 ps$^{-1}$ friction coefficient \cite{Lamoureux2003ModelingAlgorithm}. A standard Langevin thermostat was used for sorbitol, also with a 1 ps$^{-1}$ friction coefficient. The particle-mesh Ewald method (PME) was used for modeling electrostatics in all simulations, and a 1.4 nm cutoff is used for handling van der Waals (VDWs) interactions \cite{Essmann1995AMethod}.

OTP was simulated using the Lewis-Wahnstr{\"o}m (LW) 3-site model.\cite{Lewis1994Molecular-dynamicsiorthoi-terphenyl}, and MD simulations of 200 OTP molecules were run using the GROMACS software package \cite{Abraham2015Gromacs:Supercomputers}.
The LINCS algorithm was used to keep bonds and angles constrained \cite{Hess2007P-LINCSSimulation}.
NPT simulations were run at 1 bar for 5 ns using the Parrinello-Rahman barostat \cite{Parrinello1998PolymorphicMethod}, and subsequent NVT simulations were then performed for 5 ns using a Nos{\'e}-Hoover thermostat with a time constant of 1 ps.\cite{Hoover1985CanonicalDistributions}
These LW OTP simulations yielded center-of-mass z values of  16.3, 15.6, and 15.2 at 300 K, 400 K, and 500 K, respectively, in agreement with LW model calculations from Boue et al. \cite{Boue:2011}.

Using z in the range (15 to 16) results in $P_0$, $P_1$, and $P_2$, values far from 0.24. Rather, we find agreement between the behavior of OTP and the other molecules if we use a z value for OTP phenyl rings rather than molecular centers of mass, and this is what we have reported in Table \ref{tab:zs}. We use a phenyl ring z value of 11.5, which is intermediate between values obtained in LW OTP and atomistic OTP simulations performed by Hung et al. \cite{Hung:2019fm}.

Figure \ref{fig:OTPz15} shows environment populations $P_0$, $P_1$, and $P_2$ calculated for OTP, using the molecular center of mass coordination number, z=15.5. Here, the characteristic temperatures do not fall at iso-population points as they do for the other liquids or when we use phenyl ring coordination numbers, as in Figure 4D of the main text. This suggests that it matters not whether an OTP molecule in the first shell is involved in an excitation but whether a phenyl group in the first shell is. We can understand this if we assume that excitations are sub-molecular, involving only a small number of atoms. For example, if two OTP molecules are positioned so that their central rings are adjacent, an excitation involving a few atoms in the central ring of molecule 1 is likely to impact the dynamic environment of the central ring  of molecule 2, whereas an excitation on a distal ring of molecule 1 would be unlikely to do so. This sub-molecular hypothesis is consistent with what is known of these phenomena from LJ simulations and with comparisons of H-atom and COM intermediate scattering functions. In LJ simulations, only a few particles will be involved in an excitation at a time. In the presence of any intramolecular flexibility, LJ particles are more representative of atoms than of entire molecules. Also, analysis of H-atom and center-of-mass intermediate scattering functions in glycerol \cite{Cicerone:2015wn} show that COM motion qualifying as hops is relatively rare compared to hop prevalence found from incoherent H-atom motion.
\begin{figure}[!h]
		\includegraphics[width=15 cm]{z15OTP.pdf}
	\caption{\footnotesize{Estimated populations of environments with 0, 1, and $\geq 2$ excitations in the first shell as a function of temperature for OTP, using the molecular center of mass coordination number, z = 15.5.}\label{fig:OTPz15}}
\end{figure}

\subsection*{Kob Andersen LJ Simulation and Identification of Hops}

Kob-Andersen (KA) binary LJ simulations were performed with 10,000 particles at the standard choice of 80\%/20\% A/B particles and reduced density $\rho=1.2$. In the KA mixture, the A/B particles interact with LJ pair potentials given by $\sigma_{BB}/\sigma_{AA}$=0.88, $\sigma_{AB}/\sigma_{AA}$=0.8, $\epsilon_{BB}/\epsilon_{AA}$=0.5, and $\epsilon_{AB}/\epsilon_{AA}$=1.5. KA simulations were run with the OpenMM software, utilizing a Langevin thermostat and pairwise interactions cutoff at $r_{cutoff} \approx 3 \sigma_{AA}$. Different temperature simulations were performed over the range T=0.4-1.2 in reduced temperature units. The high-temperature simulations were equilibrated and run for between 100,000-500,000 reduced time units, while the lowest-temperature simulation was run for up to 2,000,000,000 reduced time units. Relaxation times were determined from $F_s(q,t)$ of A particles and are shown in Figure \ref{fig:KAtau}. Above $T_A=0.84\pm.0.9$, we find an Arrhenius fit but a quadratic temperature dependence for $T<T_A$.

\begin{figure}[!h]
		\includegraphics[width=15 cm]{SI_KA_TA.pdf}
	\caption{\footnotesize{Relaxation times for A particles in the KA system, determined through $F_s(q,t)$ The black dashed line is a linear fit and the blue dashed line is quadratic in ($1/T-1/T_A$) with $T_A=0.84\pm0.09$.}\label{fig:KAtau}}
\end{figure}

Hops were identified in the LJ simulation by first characterizing the motion of each particle over 2.52 ps time windows based on the displacement of the particle at each timestep from the average position of the particle over the previous 2.52 ps, according to:

\begin{equation}
	x =\mid r(t) - r_{avg}(t-2.52:t)\mid ^{2}
\end{equation}

Here, $r$ represents the Frobenius norm of the particle's position at a given time or time window, and $x$ is the short timescale distance criterion analyzed. The resulting $x$ values for each particle at each time point are arranged in increasing order. $\Phi_{0}$, determined from analysis of $F_s(q,t)$ of A particles, is used to set the fraction of particles that will be considered as having hopped and thus determines the minimum distance $x$ considered a hop, $x_{min}$.

Particles having executed an excursion $x\geq x_{min}$ are labeled as being  involved in an excitation. Particles are identified as belonging to $P_0$, $P_1$, and $P_2$ environments at each time point by examining the labels of the particles in its first solvation shell, defined by the interaction radius, $R_{AA}$ = 4.275\AA. Each particle starts with a label of 1 if involved in an excitation or 0 otherwise. The environment experienced by the center particle is determined by the sum of the excitation labels of its neighbor particles and its own label. If there are no excitations in its first shell, the environment label is the same as the excitation label (0 or 1). If, however, the sum of excitation labels over the first shell is greater than or equal to 2, the particle's environment is identified as $P_2$.

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Ahead of Wanderers' final away game of the 2017/18 campaign, Phil Parkinson gave us his thoughts ahead of a trip to the Pirelli Stadium to take on Burton Albion in what could be a telling weekend at the bottom end of the Sky Bet Championship table.
We go into this one after the bonus of Barnsley being beaten by Nottingham Forest on Tuesday, however I said to the lads in a meeting on Monday that we've got to go into this game against Burton looking to send them down, so that's them and Sunderland out of the equation.
Then, if it does go to the last game of the season, there's only one place left in the relegation zone that we'll all be competing to try and avoid.
The boost of Barnsley being beaten on Tuesday has lifted the lads, it is naturally going to. For us, it is all about when it matters most, can we produce one of our best performances of the season.
Without doubt, we can't be taking Burton lightly. They beat us here and they've had a good run of late. Looking at their recent home games, Middlesbrough went there and didn't really look up for the game and it took a last minute equaliser for them to get back into it.
Derby went there and felt they could just turn up and play and that would be enough to beat Burton and then they got beat. Prior to that, Hull went there and were really up for the game, focused on what they had to do and ended up being comfortable winners.
If we go down to Burton, with the closeness of the surroundings and the tightness of the pitch and not be prepared to battle for every single ball, then we'll come unstuck.
We know clearly what we've got to do. We've had a good chat with the lads this week about the recent run of games and getting our performance levels back to what they were at Reading away, Sheffield Wednesday away and the Aston Villa game – the last one before the international break.
I've spoken to the players individually about what they need to do to get back to those standards, and if they do that, then we've got a good chance.
The squad are feeling good coming into this one, but we've got a couple of injury problems at the moment. Filipe Morais has got a slight problem with his calf and Antonee Robinson with his shoulder. We'll assess both of those closer to kick-off, and we'll pick a team which we feel is the best one to start this game.
We kind of had a similar situation last year; obviously we were fighting at the top end of the table, but it was really tight. There was a lot of tension around the club in that period, so it is a similar type of feeling.
We've just got to remain very focused and determined so that the hard-work that has gone into this season is worthwhile and we can get into the summer as a Championship club.
The away support, in particularly recently has been great. Stay with us because it will be a tough game and we know that.
It'll be a real battle and it might not be pretty at times, because there's a lot at stake, but just stay right with the team and do your bit to stay behind the lads. If you do that, then I'm confident we're going to play very well.


In what has been said thus far three considerations have emerged which, if true, are of prime importance both to the Church and to our world. The first of these is that the basic source of weakness in the Church is its failure to communicate its gospel intelligibly and vitally. The second is that the Church through its gospel has something to say to the modern man which could alleviate his frustrations and fears, his insecurity and loneliness, and lift both individual and corporate life out of its present morass to firm foundations. The third is that while all the churches have points of strength and weakness, the type of church life which makes most of the search for truth and the Christian moral imperative, instead of showing marked superiority in its fruits as it ought, has often lagged behind or at least has failed to outdo its rivals in generating power for personal religious living.
Our next problem must be to ask what changes are needed if these deficiencies are to be remedied. To know what we ought to do is, of course, not to guarantee that we shall do it. Granting the best of purposes, no human skill or wisdom is perfect. But the more clearly both the ends and means are envisioned, the more likely we are to approximate the choice of right means for achieving Christian ends.
The communication of the gospel is the main function of the minister. It is not the job of the minister alone. One of the most constructive emphases of the Amsterdam Conference was that it is the whole Church -- not professional evangelists or even ministers only, but laymen as well -- that is called to witness to the gospel and transmit it to others. For this reason we shall devote the chapter after this one to the problems and opportunities of laymen. Our chief concern here, however, must be the minister's witness.
Our primary emphasis will be on the minister's interpretation of the gospel, for which obviously preaching is the central channel. But it ought to be clear that the sermon, though the primary channel, is not the only one, and unless the sermon is supplemented by discussion groups, forums, directed reading, and pastoral counseling in the intimate and personal vicissitudes of life, the sermon is apt for the most part to fall on unresponsive ears. In the Protestant tradition we have attached, not an undue importance to the sermon, but an undue premium on its efficacy. There is nothing in the life of the Church that is more important than vital preaching; there is no preaching that is likely to be vital if it alone is trusted.
Furthermore, there are three main lines along which we ought to advance at once in our interpretation and communication of the gospel, and to neglect any of them is to weaken the other two. Our preaching and all that goes with it ought at the same time to be more doctrinal, more biblical, and more functional. To be more doctrinal means the imparting to the people of a broader, deeper, more carefully thought out, and perhaps a more Christian system of Christian belief. To be more biblical means the greater use of the Bible in sermons as well as in religious education, and instruction as to how to understand the Bible both in its historical setting and as the Word of God speaking to the human spirit in every age. To be more functional means the discovery of the relevance of the gospel to every human situation, to judge, challenge, broaden, vivify, and transform life through the power of God in Christ.
For a generation or more there has not been a great deal of doctrinal preaching in America. Our sermons, in so far as they are not made up of religious clichés and pretty stories, are mainly attempts to apply the gospel to moral problems. It has been assumed both that people would not be interested in theology and that it would not do them much good to have it anyway. Both these assumptions I believe to be thoroughly false. Moralistic preaching -- if it is really the preaching of Christian morality -- has a function in holding Christian standards before the hearers' minds, and it cannot be dispensed with; but it seldom answers basic questions or imparts personal conviction for living. Only a true theology which is geared in with the gospel's answer to life's basic questions can do this.
What are these questions? Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to "whatever gods there be," why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones. An abstract discussion of creation, providence, the problem of evil or personal immortality, an abstract presentation of various theories of the atonement or arguments for the existence of God, may leave the hearer unmoved and largely unenlightened. Especially is this true if all the various theories are laid out with objective detachment and the hearer in smorgasbord fashion is expected to choose according to his taste. But, fortunately, a presentation of the abiding convictions of Christian faith does not need to be abstract, and it can be affirmative without being dogmatic.
The term Christian faith, as we noted at the outset, has two essential meanings, not identical but not to be dissociated. The attempt to dissociate them is perilous and responsible for much vacuous preaching. Christian faith means a way of life -- a commitment of spirit in which God and man meet for the overcoming of obstacles and the living of victorious Christian life. The Christian faith means also the body of Christian truth --the content of Christian theology, what a Christian may believe. In trying to preach along one of these lines without the other we have too often missed both and fallen between them. The resulting substitute is at best conventional pious words and moral platitudes, at worst a string of interesting illustrations to make the sermon snappy.
Take, for example, the matter of prayer -- a subject in which every Christian who has anything more than a casual concern about religion is interested. Sermons are frequently preached upon it, and ought to be. To be well preached they ought not merely to be exhortations to pray -- which most of the hearers have heard many times -- nor should they consist mainly of stories of remarkable answers to prayer in which apparently God was persuaded to manage affairs according to the petitioner's request. To be well preached a sermon on prayer must answer some of the hearer's questions and give him assurance that through prayer he can find power in God for any situation, including his own deepest need. Among these questions, whether voiced or not, is a desire to know what prayer really is if it is more than wishful thinking, how it relates to God and to God's world, whether God is concerned with each of us, what difference prayer makes, why it so often seems unanswered. None of these questions can be answered outside of a theological framework of Christian belief in a personal God who has made us for fellowship with himself and for obedience to his will, who cares for us as individuals, and within the channels of his orderly world gives heed to our petitions. To try to answer such questions without reference to the wider context of the Christian gospel is either to speak empty phrases or to hold out expectations that may end in shattered faith and shattered lives.
Right now I just can't take sympathy or moral platitudes such as "God knows best" and that it was his will. Such is not so, and with David's death goes my entire faith in prayer. Almost every hour, certainly every day, I've prayed earnestly that God would send him back to me. He seems to have laughed in my face and belied such promises as "Ask what ye will believing" and "If ye have the faith of a grain of mustard seed." What a sucker I was to believe all that! . . . I'm bitter and full of hatred because they murdered the one person who was dearer to me than my own life . . . . I shall not mention it again, so let's consider it closed.
Doctrinal preaching, if it had been the right doctrine, would have saved her from this, and she would have had the Christian gospel to sustain her in her grief.
Or consider a closely related question of which this same letter is an illustration -- the problem of unmerited suffering. Of course no minister ought to claim that he has the complete answer to this ancient and most persistent perplexity of the human spirit. "Why did God let this happen? Why did he do this to me?" will probably continue to be asked as long as men live and believe in God. Yet we could go much farther than we generally have in giving true answers and eradicating false ones.
Two things are imperative if a minister is to bring the Christian gospel to bear on the problem of human pain. The first and more important is to mediate to the sufferer the abundant and unfailing resources of God for mastering his pain -- a sense of the divine nearness, an assurance of divine concern, confidence that in the midst of it all there is a good to be found which, with the help of God, can lead to richer and deeper living. "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him," the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament puts it, which is a great improvement over the King James rendering of "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." There is no assurance that to love God will ever pay dividends in freedom from pain; there is every assurance in the Christian gospel that God will find a way to work for good in the worst situations with those who love him and stay their lives upon him. Whatever else we preach, this note must not be absent.
Yet it is not enough to thwart inquiries and gloss over preventable pain by saying simply, "God knows best," or "His will be done." Nobody but God himself knows how much harm has been done by the assumption that whatever is, is the will of God and therefore right! Let a person kill himself or kill someone else by careless -- not to say drunken -- driving, and a kind of residual Calvinism will prompt some to say that "his time had come" and "God willed it so." Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war-torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way. Fortunately life is more than logic, and modern predestinarians like their Calvinistic forebears are seldom consistent if the issue is one in which human responsibility is clearly evident. However, most of the cases of undeserved suffering come mixed, with individual human choices, social forces, and physical factors all combined -- as in war, poverty, premature or violent death, disease, mental breakdowns, and the like. In such instances it is equally a mistake to say that God willed it and that God has nothing to do with it.
What we have to do in our preaching and pastoral counseling is to combine a Christian doctrine of providence with an understanding of the way in which God works consistently in his world through a natural sequence of events. Either one of these concepts would be easier to hold without the other. A doctrine of providence presupposes not only that God is personal in his own nature, but that he cares personally for each individual, that prayer makes a difference, that "in everything God works for good with those who love him." A concept of natural cause-and-effect relations accords with all the presuppositions of science but seems to have an impersonality about it which is not easily fitted into a conception of God's personal care and guiding providence. As a consequence we have often wavered between one and the other, and the people have been left either with unwarranted expectations of divine intervention in their behalf or with a remote and essentially deistic God to whom -- or perhaps more accurately, to which -- it has seemed futile to turn in time of need.
Though providence and causality may seem strange bedfellows, we must get them together; and if both are true, they must belong together in God's world. The key to the situation lies in putting together what we know of God as Creator and Redeemer, and finding a view of God's relation to the world which will do justice both to the insights of biblical faith and to the facts of human experience. It is possible to make this synthesis, though it is not possible to amalgamate biblical literalism and proof-texting with mechanical impersonality.
In recent years numerous attempts have been made to solve the ancient problem of evil by way of a Given within the nature of God, the assertion of "the demonic" in the world (its metaphysical status being somewhat cloudy), or a forthright reinstatement of the existence of a personal devil. None of these approaches solves as many problems as it raises. The familiar liberal view of a self-limited God whose ends are altogether good and whose means are orderly still seems to me the best solution, and one which not only can be but ought to be made clear to our laymen.
The approach to a coherent synthesis of divine providence with divine causality runs somewhat as follows. God the Creator in his wisdom and goodness has chosen to make a world of human freedom, of natural order, and of intricately interwoven physical and social relationships. All told, this is an exceedingly good world. From our freedom comes our human responsibility, which makes us persons instead of things and opens the door to all the highest achievements of the human spirit. From the natural order of the world comes its dependability, without which there would be no science, no ordered control of physical forces or events, none of the security which comes from knowing that the physical world is at least in large measure calculable. From our relations to one another come the possibilities of love, fellowship, and mutual service. These are our greatest boons, which we would not surrender if we could; and the ancient biblical judgment on creation, "And God saw that it was good," is profoundly right.
But this is not the whole story. These same blessings have in them the possibilities of evil, and must have if God is to be true to his chosen ways of working -- chosen because with all their risk for him and for us they are still the best ways. Human freedom makes goodness possible, but also sin and error. Orderly and dependable forces in God's world make possible man's security and mastery over nature -- but never wholly, for accident and disease come in their wake and wait to be conquered. Our social interrelatedness that puts us in families and communities of many sorts brings with it suffering to the innocent from the sins and misdeeds of the guilty. This is the common lot of our humanity.
Is God responsible for the painful and tragic events of life? Here we need to distinguish, more sharply than we often do, between causality and purpose. To ask regarding any circumstance, "Why did this happen?" may mean either "What conditions brought it about?" or "What good end is it intended to serve?" The why in one instance refers to cause, in the other to purpose; and an answer to one of these questions will not do for the other. Many events occur, caused by the conditions of God's world, which we must believe are not directly willed or purposed by God. Since he who loves most suffers most, God must be far more brokenhearted than we when young lives are snuffed out prematurely, high possibilities crushed through accident or illness or the guilt and carelessness of others. A simple explanation to our laymen at this point alone can help greatly in the meeting of this problem.
Yet, faced by the painful facts of life, our confidence in the goodness of creation would turn sterile if we were not able to trust the goodness of God the Savior and Redeemer. This is why any theoretical attempt at an explanation of the problem of suffering must go deeper than philosophy can take us. It is as we come to know the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that we know he understands, he cares, he fashions his world with no mechanical impersonality but with loving concern for his children's good. In his inclusive love he makes his sun to shine on the evil and the good, and sends his rain on the just and the unjust. His way of conquering evil is for the innocent and the fortunate to bear the burdens of the weak, and in the Cross of Christ he has gone before us in the way. He works with his children to banish pain where it can be removed, and where it cannot "in everything God works for good with those who love him."
This brief statement is of course but a suggestion of the way we must approach this eternal problem. Yet approach it we must, in sermons, discussion groups, church-school classes, and every other available channel of instruction. In the face of grief or bitter, devastating pain people are in no frame of mind to think reasonably or to be instructed. All that is appropriate then is reassurance and a sense of the love and nearness of God. Yet if the instruction is not given beforehand, the reassurance is built not on rock but sand, and is more than likely to be washed away by the waters of affliction which engulf the soul.
A third area in which we need very much more of theological preaching is the deeper and more serious aspect of the problem of evil, namely, sin. Theoretically the problem here is less acute, for once the reality of human freedom of choice is granted, moral responsibility follows as a correlate, and with it the possibility of the misuse of our moral freedom. Practically, however, the problem is intensified both by the pervasiveness of sin and by the fact that relatively few people think of it as other than the infraction of conventional moral standards. Not recognizing themselves as transgressing such standards they do not regard themselves as sinners, or, at least, as very great sinners. In the Ladies Home Journal poll above referred to almost three quarters of the respondents failed to connect religion with their adult ethical judgments. When allowed to give their own definition of "a good person," 18 per cent thought they were completely successful; 28 per cent, three quarters; 32 per cent, halfway; and "only 7 per cent admitted they had scaled less than half the pinnacle of virtue." Challenged to say what they thought about loving their neighbors, well over three quarters of those interviewed said they thought they obeyed the law of love regarding their business competitors and those of other races and religions. Only 25 per cent claimed to love the enemies of their country and members of dangerous political parties, though in view of prevalent behavior even this seems a startling proportion! With due regard for the fact that no poll can give a true picture of inner attitudes and no individual can judge himself with full objectivity, it is apparent that the great majority of the American public think of themselves, not as perfect, but as pretty good; and that the deeper meaning of sin as transgression of the law of God and lovelessness in the subtler aspects of human relations has hardly crossed their minds.
For this fading out of the sense of sin and consequently of the need of repentance and divine forgiveness, many factors are responsible. It is part of the general secularization of the times, in which naturalistic interpretations of the social sciences, ethical determinism, Freudian and behavioristic psychology, the reaction from puritanism, the increasing complexity and impersonality of modern life, have all had a part. Sin bothers us less than it did our fathers, not because we sin less, but because we have become wary of guilt complexes and scornful of old fogy scruples. The less we know our neighbors, the less we are restrained by the fear they will talk about us; and the more our neighbors sin, the less binding seem former inhibitions and restraints. Furthermore, the more we sin collectively in the vast impersonalities of modern warfare and industrialism, the more we get used to it, and the more inevitable seem the forces that thrust us in that direction. It is hard to feel sinful about something that seems inevitable, and to an unprecedented degree our age both is unconscious of sin and feels helpless before it.
However, it will not do for religious leaders to lay the fading of a sense of sin entirely to the influence of the secular community. At several crucial points in our preaching and teaching we have gone astray, and our inability to preach now an effective and vital doctrine of sin and salvation is fundamentally the result of our own mistakes. In the more conservative churches sin has been generally conceived as a state of inherited Adamic guilt, not very sharply defined or related to the moral life, but nevertheless with some moral content in the individual's personal relations. There is censure for the more overt sins of the flesh and transgression of conventional moral codes, and sinners are called to repentance for unchastity, drinking, lying, stealing, swearing, cheating one another, and neglecting duties owed to God through the Church. In both the Roman Catholic and the fundamentalist Protestant traditions there is an impulse toward contrition for what is recognized as sin and a channel of escape, but relatively little attention is given either to the more subtle sins of the spirit or to major social evils in which as sinners we all participate.
In the liberal tradition we have done a better job at pointing out the range of sin in the horizontal dimension and have aroused something of a conscience over such matters as mass exploitation, child labor, race discrimination, preventable disease, and indiscriminate killing in war, which our Christian fathers less often thought of as sin. But in broadening the scope of sin we have flattened it out. Sin as the individual's personal evil will in rebellion against God is far less talked about than it once was. In the prevailingly liberal churches for years now few books have been written, few sermons have been preached, few church-school classes have been taught in which sin as sin against God has been the central theme. Theologians in recent years have reinstated the reality and seriousness of sin, but as far as I have been able to observe this mood has not yet to any great extent reached the churches.
As a consequence a generation has arisen in which sin is an almost meaningless word. This same generation therefore can hardly be expected to think much about repentance, forgiveness, or the grace of God. When members of it hear Reinhold Niebuhr or some other prophet talk about sin and the judgment of God, it all sounds so strange that while they are fascinated they are baffled by it. The whole matter is apt to be dismissed as something too pessimistic, and too hard to understand, to be worth much thought when there are so many other things to think about.
A fourth area of human experience we must look at, for it bulks large both in human experience and in the minister's functions. This is the fact of death. Not only is death the one absolutely inescapable event of life, but the victory over sin and death has always been at the center of Christian faith. It is therefore perhaps natural that people who have lost all other connection with the Church still desire for their loved ones a funeral at which a minister officiates.
Except at funerals death is little talked about in our time, and sermons are seldom preached on it from one Easter to the next. I have now been attending church and college chapels for a long time; and outside of funeral, memorial, and Easter services I doubt that I have heard three sermons on the Christian understanding of death in the past thirty years. Yet people keep on dying; funerals continue to be held; and if nothing is said about death except at the funeral, what is said there is not apt to be very meaningful or more than superficially comforting.
The reasons for such sermonic silence are varied, ranging probably from a fear of being thought morbid through a fear of sounding other-worldly to a fear of not knowing what to say on so moot a subject. All of these apprehensions, though with some foundation, can be greatly overdone. One ought not to talk about death, or any other subject, all the time -- but not to talk about it at all because people prefer to think of something pleasant is to fail to give them Christian victory over what all must face sooner or later. To talk about eternity and fail to stress the Christian responsibilities and opportunities of this life is to be off-center --but so is the reverse. To claim to know more than we do about the future life is presumption, but the Christian faith gives us all we really need to know. What we do know we ought not to hesitate to proclaim whenever the occasion is appropriate.
What, then, can we know? Our basic faith is that the God who has made us for this life has made us for another, and that for time and eternity all that matters most is safe in his keeping. The God who has made us persons and who "setteth the solitary in families" here will keep us as individual persons in bonds of fellowship beyond the grave. With earthly chains removed, life can be richer, fairer, finer. If we believe this, death, whether it comes early or late, need not daunt us and separation from our loved ones means no final cleavage. When people had this faith, death held fewer terrors and the present life fewer frustrations.
This is not to say that any minister should assay to give proof of immortality. In the nature of the case the evidence needed for reasoned proof on empirical grounds is not accessible, and we had better frankly admit that our faith in immortality is a faith, coherent with what we know of God and his ways with men, and not a conclusion from scientific evidence. Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation with eternity in their span -- in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will more perfectly.
The persuasiveness of faith in immortality will no doubt always seem greater to those who stand within the Christian heritage than to those who view it critically from without. To those to whom the resurrection of Jesus and the goodness and power of a living God mean nothing, it is likely to seem mere wishful thinking. Argument will persuade no one who is convinced to the contrary. Yet to those many who would like to believe if they could, ministers have an obligation to speak the abiding convictions of Christian faith with clarity and integrity. It is better to be silent than to announce to others as truth what one personally disbelieves. But to be silent through indifference or through aversion to dealing with an unpleasant problem is to be recreant to our calling. If we do not ourselves know what we believe, the first thing to do is to go to our New Testaments and read them until the vistas and overtones of eternity have captured our earth-bound minds.
What has been said in this chapter about the need of leading the people to a clearer understanding of prayer, suffering, sin, and death is but a pointer along the way. There is not a human problem -- there is no human situation, whether joyous or tragic -- that does not call for interpretation by the central convictions of Christian faith. Unless ministers give the people such an interpretation, they are not likely to get it for themselves. And unless they get it somewhere, the Christian faith cannot make much difference. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear" is a familiar word; the correlate is, "He that hath aught to speak, let him speak it."


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Q: How to access a controller method from a jbuilder template I call a method on controller A that renders a jbuilder template (a file called signed_in.json.jbuilder). Inside the template I want to call a method, friendsCount, that is in controller B. I'm getting an error when I try to access the controller B method inside the template. The error is:
NameError - undefined local variable or method `friendsCount' for #<#<Class:0x007f90a09994f8>:0x007f90a0998788>:
  app/views/api/sessions/signed_in.json.jbuilder

I thought that adding helper_method: friendsCount to controller B should solve exactly the type of issue I want to solve: making a controller method available in views.
Actually, when I try to access a method from my ApplicationsController in my jbuilder template (controller C below), I have no issue.
Here is my code:
CONTROLLER A:
class Api::SessionsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @user = User.find_by_credentials(session_params[:username], session_params[:password])
    if @user.nil?
      render json: ["couldn't find user"], status: 404
    else
      sign_in!(@user)
      render :signed_in
    end
  end

  private
  def session_params
    params.require(:session).permit(:username, :password)
  end
end

JBUILDER TEMPLATE: signed_in.json.jbuilder
json.friendsSorted sortFriends
json.friends friendsCount

CONTROLLER B
class Api::FeedsourcesController < ApplicationController
  helper_method :friendsCount

  def friendsCount
    friendsCountHash = {}
    # ... populate friendsCountHash

    render json: friendsCountHash
  end

CONTROLLER C
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  helper_method :sortFriends

  def sortFriends
    #...
    return sortedFriendsArray
  end
end

I do not want to have the friendsCount method in the helpers folder because I also need to be able to have a direct controller route to this method for other purposes.

A: You need to have helper methods in the calling controller or its superclass.
In your case it's SessionsController and ApplicationController.
FeedsourcesController is not superclass for SessionsController, so view renderer do not know about any methods in it.

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We live in an increasingly violent world and events are propelling us towards another world war, and thanks to 24/7 television news coverage, it is happening before our very eyes. As we watch, we're amazed to see how blind this ever-increasing violence is and we're likewise amazed to see that even our best efforts to contain it are failing.
In the course of our research, we've discovered a major causality of this increase in violence. We've also discovered that it also serves as a reliable harbinger of the impending Planet X / Nibiru flyby. If that statement stumps you, then consider this.
The human body, like the surface of the Earth, is approximately 70% water. When scientists analyze the devastating effects of the last hurricane season, global ice melt and other oceanic harbingers, they come to the same conclusion. The overall health and nature of our oceans is changing for the worse. With this in mind, is it not presumptuous of us to think that we (70% water) humans are any less susceptible. Wars are like hurricanes. Something causes them and in this case, this something is an inbound object several times the size of Earth.
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Instead of joy over the prospects of a beginning year, this New Year rang in with the rallying cries for regime change across the Middle East and North Africa.
The long-standing governments of countries in this region began to crash down in a heart-stopping explosion of riots of people clamoring to bring down the established governments of their respective countries.
A UK-based, PTB disinformation wolf pack with the operational name of Yowcrooks is using American-based Internet companies, such as Wordpress.com and Blogger.com, to target innocent Americans for hate crimes. The fatwa-for-profit business models of these companies allow them to strike at will, and with impunity, from anonymous offshore operational centers.
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New Equal Rights Trust – Transparency International study on the links between discrimination and corruption
London, 6 July 2021
Transparency International, illustrations courtesy of Andrea Fonseca
Corruption and discrimination each pose major obstacles to an equal and inclusive world. Until now, they have largely been examined in isolation from one another.
Today, the Equal Rights Trust and Transparency International launch a new study: Defying Exclusion: Stories and Insights on the Links between Discrimination and Corruption. This ground-breaking report is the first global study to investigate the relationship between discrimination and corruption.
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Through a year-long research project undertaken in collaboration with grassroots activists and international experts, we found compelling evidence that discrimination enables and fuels corruption, creating a vicious cycle that deepens inequality in four distinct ways:
Discrimination can result in greater exposure to corruption. In Russia and Nigeria, for example, laws, policies and practices which discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation create a permissive environment for the entrapment and extortion of LGBTQI+ people.
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At the governmental level, states must adopt, implement and enforce comprehensive anti-corruption and anti-discrimination legal frameworks. Second, they must take targeted measures to address the specific phenomena of discriminatory corruption:
Develop inclusive, safe and confidential reporting mechanisms that are sensitive to the specific needs of groups and individuals at risk of discrimination
Collect and monitor disaggregated data on the participation of marginalised groups
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Conduct training and build the capacity of public bodies to understand and tackle discriminatory corruption
While states are the ultimate duty-bearer under international law, civil society, regional and international organisations can and should contribute to understanding and tackling the problems arising from discriminatory corruption. We urge civil society to come together to pool resources, identify common problems and solutions, and enable collaborative research and advocacy on this underexplored phenomenon.
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Q: Dynamic due date with ACF Pro for Elementor Pro I have a function to add a dynamic due date to the Countdown Timer widget from Elementor (Pro). With ACF Pro I created a options page with a date and time picker to change the date, but it doesn't work and I cannot see why. I also tried other codes from this page, but they also don't work. I get a timer with 0 days, hours, minutes and seconds or with the date entered via the Elementor edit page.
Here's the code:
add_action( 'elementor/frontend/widget/before_render', function(\Elementor\Element_Base $element){
    if ("countdown"  != $element->get_name()) return;

    $countdown_date = get_post_meta(get_the_id(), "my-date-field",true);

    $element->set_settings("due_date",date("Y-m-d H:i",strtotime($countdown_date))) ;

});

Thanks for any help.

A: Please make sure that you named the Field Name is "my-date-field" and the Field Type is "Date Time Picker"(look at below image for more detail).

If this is not fix your issue then:
Do you get any error message on WP Dashboard or Debug console?
Update:
After take a look on your backend and make some debug, i found that you set your custom field is in option page, while this piece of code use to get the value of the custom field base on the post's ID.
To get this value, you will need a different code like this:
add_action( 'elementor/frontend/widget/before_render', function(\Elementor\Element_Base $element){
if ("countdown"  != $element->get_name()) return;
$countdown_date = get_field('my-date-field', 'option', false);
$element->set_settings("due_date",date("Y-m-d H:i",strtotime($countdown_date)));
});

Also, please make sure that you set the correct return format to "y-m-d H:i:s" for the code working as below image:


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Headlines proclaim today that Donald Trump presented an Afghanistan "strategy" on Monday night in his first televised address as US President.
There might be some political tactics here — Stop Talking About Charlottesville — and Trump's repeated declaration, "We are killing terrorists." But the limited troop increase (3,900 though Trump did not give the number) and the general threat to Pakistan to distance itself from the Taliban does not constitute a strategy, at least in the sense of dealing with the political, economic, and social issues affecting the legitimacy of the Afghan Government and the conflict with the Taliban.
I discussed these points with London's Monocle 24 and with BBC Berkshire on Tuesday.
We won't learn about US foreign policy from Trump, because Trump was reading a scripted statement. What he was announcing was very much the ideas of those around him. If you want to look at American foreign policy, you look at the Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, you look at the National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster.


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Tag Archives: Romain Gary
White Dog (1982)
4-Word Review: Dog attacks black people.
Late one night while driving home aspiring actress Julie (Kristy McNichol) hits a stray dog, which she takes immediately to an emergency vet. They find that his injuries were minimal and she's allowed to take him home until his owner can be found. She soon starts to bond with the White Shepherd dog, who at one point saves her from a would-be rapist. She also becomes aware that he attacks black people when he goes after one of her African American friends unprovoked. She takes him to an elderly dog trainer named Carruthers (Burl Ives) who advised that the dog should be put to sleep, but another trainer named Keyes (Paul Winfield), who is black, wants to rehabilitate the animal, but finds this undertaking far more challenging than he initially expected.
The story is based on a real-life incident of novelist Romain Gary and his actress wife Jean Seberg, who during the early 60's took in a stray dog that had previously been an Alabama Police dog, who they later learned, was trained to attack black people. Gary wrote about this experience in a short story that was published in Life Magazine in 1970 and this was eventually turned into a novel. The novel though incorporated many things that had not occurred in real-life, nor in the movie, including having the dog trainer being an angry black Muslim who gets the dog to start attacking white people including Gary himself.
The story rights were purchased by Paramount in 1975 with Roman Polanski set to direct, but when he was forced to flee the country due to statutory rape chargers the projects was put on hold. Then after the success of Jaws producers decided to turn it into a 'jaws with paws' storyline with the racism angle taken out, but when director Samuel Fuller was signed on he returned the plot to its original theme, which caused controversy when the NAACP, without ever having seen the film, accused it of being 'racist', which frightened Paramount executives enough that they gave the movie a very limited engagement with no promotion, which led to it recouping only $46, 509 out of its original $7 million budget. Despite eventually getting released on VHS and shown sporadically on cable outlets such as Lifetime, it languished in obscurity until finally getting a DVD/Blu-ray issue in 2008 where it's now seen in a totally different light.
For me the biggest problem is the hackneyed drama starting with the dopey way the dog gets hit by a car and yet miraculously healed enough to go home that very same night and never showing any lingering injuries. The potential rape scene is too manufactured as well as it has the rapist magically appearing in the apartment without showing how he broke-in and later having one of the cops state that he had just arrested the same guy earlier that year for another rape attempt, so if that's the case then why wasn't he still in jail? It also has the dog sleeping as the bad guy sneaks in, but I've found dogs have a keen sense of awareness and would've heard the guy trying to bust in and growling or barking long before he actually made it into the apartment. Having Kristy go on a late night jog with the dog and then being chased by a masked assailant, which the dog would scare away, would've been a better way to have done it.
I also didn't like the part where Kristy meets the dog's owner and he openly admits to training him to attack black people, which to me didn't seem believable. I liked the idea of having the owner being this seemingly kindly old man, played by Parley Baer best known for voicing the Keebler Elf, that you'd never expect as being someone who'd train an animal to do such a thing. However, freely admitting this to a stranger is like a murderer admitting to their crime. Most won't fess up because they know it would get them into a lot of trouble if they did. Movies should also not be obligated to explain everything and like in real-life should leave a few things open-ended. When Kristy accuses him of this he could reveal a funny look on his face, giving the viewer insight that he most likely was guilty, but then have him verbally deny it like most people would.
While I could've done without the slow motion and booming music I did find the dog's retraining sessions with Keys to be the film's best moments and Winfield's strong presence is excellent. However, trying to use a dog as a metaphor to racism doesn't really work, nor hold-up to logic. Winfield explains that the dog was most likely beaten by a black person hired by a white man to get the dog to become the way he does, but I don't think this could be achieved as the dog would just hate that one individual and not connect it to the man's skin color unless he was abused by a whole group of black people. We're also told that the dog does not hate black people he just fears them, but if that's the case then why does he go out of his way to attack and kill them. Animals will only go on the attack if they feel threatened, but if the perceived threat keeps their distance then the dog shouldn't feel the need to be aggressive making the blood splattering attacks that the dog does come off as quite over-the-top.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Studio: Paramount
Available: DVD/Blu-ray (Criterion Collection)
Posted in 80's Movies, Drama, Movies Based on Novels, Movies Based on Short Stories, Thrillers/Suspense
Tagged Entertainment, Kristy McNichol, Movies, Parley Baer, Paul Winfield, Review, Romain Gary, Samuel Fuller
What the Peeper Saw (1972)
Man on a Swing (1974)


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Photonerding is hard work. Over the past few years I have figured things out slowly. Shot by shot. I remain stuck, though, on what to do with drain lighting. Successfully turning a pitch black tube into a good 2D image is not something I've improved greatly in since I began shooting.
With this in mind, I dedicated a few weeks to focussing my efforts on this shortfall. Although I had fun during that time, I can't say I was overly happy with the resulting images.
Except the nekked one. Nekked ones are always good.
Typically, we use torches to light photographs underground. They give good control to you in deciding how you want to light your shot. They also come in lots of colours, temperatures, brightnesses and so on. Putting them together nicely, however, is something I'm still working on.
Although not dappled with during this period of alleged self-improvement, I think a lot could be gained from using candles, glowlights, fire and other lighting sources. Maybe stay tuned for that.


Abigail Whyte tells us why we are definitely missing a treat if we overlook the wonders of Wem in Shropshire.
This Saxon market town was almost flattened in a battle during the War of the Roses in the Civil War, but survived to tell the tale. It proudly boasts ownership of the sweet pea, after Henry Eckford – a local nursery worker – introduced the pretty plant to the UK in 1882.
Park Hall Farm where you can milk cows, groom horses and feed the lambs. You can even try some quad biking! But remember, you can't visit Wem without swinging by Hawkstone Park and Follies in nearby Weston-under-Redcastle. This fantasia of grottos, secret tunnels and strange monuments will satisfy anyone's taste for something a bit different.
The Tilley Raven is happily situated in the black-and-white hamlet of Tilley on the outskirts of Wem, and is the hub of many of the locals and visitors. With its bustling, friendly atmosphere, stunning interior and array of local ales, this pub takes some beating. Their steak, port and Stilton pie is the talk of the town.
Just five miles from Wem is Newton Meadows; a cluster of award-winning holiday cottages set deep in the Shropshire countryside. Each cottage has acres of gardens to get lost in, and a natural fishing pond that's stocked to the gills with carp and roach.
The ghost of Wem has become something of a modern myth – in 1995, a picture was taken of the burning town hall, and in its doorway you can clearly see a little girl peering from the flames. Spooky!


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