WHEN assumption is allowed to become a substitute for truth and facts, the door is left open for every kind of misfortune and trouble. Consider, for example, the awful tragedy of the father who hurriedly backs out of his driveway, assuming his little boy to be elsewhere, but is not. Or, think of the nurse who mistakenly assumes a saline solution to be water in preparing an infant's formula. Good people can and do make fatal assumptions.
However, as I see it, the most popular and dangerous assumption concerns man's relationship with God. We see it the Jews of old who, in spite of their many sins, assumed themselves to be in God's favor. Their spirit is typified in the self-righteous Pharisee of Jesus' parable (Lk.18:9-14). We see the same thing in the Laodiceans (Rev.3), who presumptuously assumed themselves to have need of nothing while God saw them as being spiritually bankrupt.
Similar assumptions are prevalent in the religious world of our day. Many seem to "know" they are saved better than they know their Bible. Some put more trust in their "experiences" and feelings than in what God's word says. Even though the Bible says we are to be "ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you (1Pet.3:15), some seem offended when asked. God says, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov. 14:12). There can be an eternity of difference between what "seems" right and what is right! God and His word are dishonored by the man who has more confidence in his assumptions than in the Scriptures.
Not that men intend such dishonor, but assumptions are deceiving, especially when they are treated as truth. Take Saul of Tarsus for instance. He assumed he was serving God while persecuting Christians (Act.26:9). Many make a similar mistake today in assuming themselves to be following the Bible while teaching and practicing things that are contrary to it.
God's remedy for assumption and the prejudice it generates lies in His word. If we would follow its teachings, we must use it to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good" (1Thss.5:21). We would all do well to examine that to which we have committed our souls. Is it based on what we have assumed?…or what we can read and prove in the Bible? Jesus says His words will judge us in the last day (Jno.12:48). Not our assumptions, but His words! As He tells us, we would be wise to hear and do those words (Mt.7:24).
Bible Comments, 18, a publication by Joe Fitch originally intended for distribution among small congregations in Texas.


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Q: Can static member function without any argument access private attributes of a class? I have following (simplified) ServerHandler.h file
#include <WebServer.h>

class ServerHandler
{
    public:
    ServerHandler();
    void createServer();
    static void handlePage();

    private:
    WebServer server;
};

And ServerHandler.cpp file
#include "ServerHandler.h"

ServerHandler::ServerHandler() : server(80)
{}

void ServerHandler::createServer()
{
    // this code does not work
    server.on("/page", handlePage);

    // lambda functions are proper to use
    server.on("/hey", [this]() {
        server.send(200, "text/plain", "Hello");
    });

    server.begin();
}

void ServerHandler::handlePage ()
{
    server.send(200, "text/plain", "This is a page");
}

In WebServer.h server.on() is defined as:
typedef std::function<void(void)> THandlerFunction;
void on(const Uri &uri, THandlerFunction handler);

All I want is to write a free function/static method/member method etc for long server operations called as handlePage().
Problem is I cannot use a static function with argument like pageHandler(Server s&) because I cannot use this function in server.on("/page", pageHandler(s));
Additionally, I do not want to use lambda function as in the code becase my goal is to seperate long operations.
Briefly, how to deal with server.on("/page", ?); ?

A: As I learn it is possible to use member functions thank to @hcheung, I researched how to do it and found.
Requirement:
typedef std::function<void(void)> THandlerFunction;
void on(const Uri &uri, THandlerFunction handler);

To use non-static member function I need to use binding.
mServer.on("/control_servo", std::bind(&ServerHandler::handlePage, this));

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A *dirty* Democratic primary season may still happen!
By Moe Lane | Mar 30, 2015 9:00 PM ET
Call me an optimist? Sure. It's a fair cop. Still, here comes the war: "Minutes after [Martin] O'Malley's appearance on "This Week," former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, a top adviser to the Ready for Hillary PAC, said on the same program, "Martin O'Malley, he's a very nice guy, and I was thinking he might make a nice member of a President Clinton administration, so he better watch it."" Jennifer Granholm, for those of you who don't remember, was the person that liberals used to get wistful about: she's a naturalized citizen – and thus ineligible to become President. Well, to be honest about it Granholm would have been ineligible to become President anyway, given that she drove the state of Michigan into the ground so hard that it left an impact crater; but that is perhaps incidental to my point.
Moving along: streiff takes O'Malley seriously as both a challenger to Hillary, and as a candidate for President. I share his opinion on the first, but not the second; the pathway for a Democratic victory in 2016 is through the difficult trick of simultaneously embracing Clintonism and rejecting Obamaism while at the same time being publicly seen to embrace Obamaism and reject Clintonism. It's a devil of a problem, really. Democratic primary voters will be made up of bitter progressives who want to be told pretty lies about how they're not the ones who are fringe, really, and African-American voters who want proper deference shown to Barack Obama. That's enough of a combined voting bloc to get the nomination. Alas for the Democrats, swing voters have already had eight years of Barack Obama and progressives; and those voters are showing little sign of being interested in twelve.
Put another way: no, really, regular voters don't care about the same things that the Democratic base cares about. Martin O'Malley's record might endear him to base voters, but yelling about Glass-Steagall will not get him far in a general election. But since it will endear him to base voters… expect a war to break out. And the funny part about that is that the war won't be directed by Hillary Clinton herself. Hillary may not even realize what's happening until something spectacular goes down. Her staff will be the ones fueling this feud: there are a lot of people that have planned out their near future on the assumption that they'd be part of another Clinton administration. They will be prepared to strike out at anybody who dares threaten their plans.
Via @lachlan.
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Today I'm going to talk about cartoons. I won't be discussing a particular cartoon, but cartoons in general, and how they fit into TVCM canon. The great thing about quickies is I don't always have to be tied down to the chronology format and thus can cover broader subjects from time to time.
I love cartoons. I never grew out of them, and I feel based on the varying levels of content in cartoons, most adults who write cartoons never grew out of them either.
The current standard for cartoons has connected them in canon to three realities: the TVCU, the Looniverse, and the Bongo Universe/Anomaly. This depended mostly on the six degrees rules. Could the animated series or film be connected more easily to one reality or the other based on crossover evidence?
Certain cartoons have been already demonstrated to fit better in the TVCU due to its crossovers. I refer you to the current blogs on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Scooby-Doo, and Batman, for example.
Other cartoons ended up in the Looniverse or the Bongoverse. Most cartoons fit in the Looniverse. I had explained the Looniverse to be a pocket reality within the void between realities. The name came from the name used to describe the universe of the Looney Tunes characters in the Superman/Bugs Bunny crossover comic book. My theory was that the Looniverse was a reality completely inhabited by tulpas, whose very existence was due to the combined psychic energy of the people of the TVCU. Though existing in a pocket reality, the reality have many portals to the TVCU and other realities. See my Bugs Bunny blog for a very detailed explanation for how the laws of physics and time don't really matter in the Looniverse.
The last group of cartoons went through many alterations. Originally, I placed the more adult oriented, prime-time cartoons such as the Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park in the Bongo Universe. This reality got its name from the name assigned to the Simpsons' reality by Bongo Comics. The problem was that after I posted my original version of the Bongo Universe blog, I uncovered many crossovers that I considered valid connecting these cartoons to other cartoons in the Looniverse AND to shows and films in the TVCU!
And thus the Bongo Universe evolved into the Bongo Anomaly. The shows involved remained the same. But I ended up changing it so that the certain towns involved with those shows were in a weird state where they coexisted in all times and realities at once, due to the after effects of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and tied the primary families of these shows to Abbott and Costello, Oh and Zed of Year One, and the Flintstones, and a Cthulhu cult. Yeah, pretty complicated stuff.
The current version of the blog is called the Offspring of Zed, and can be found over on the right hand column under the list of most popular blogs. Despite its popularity, I'm completely unsatisfied. Though I'm currently writing the Horror Crossover Universe, I'm also currently planning out my second book, the Cartoon Crossover Multiverse. I'm planning on applying some of those concepts here.
Basically, one issue I've had with cartoon crossovers is that sometimes they seem to exist in the same reality and sometimes they are not. And I have to thank the show Once Upon a Time for inspiring my latest theory. All theories are based on actual on-screen evidence whenever possible, and this show provided a great concept. In Once Upon a Time, there are several realms where our fiction is reality, and several means to pass from one reality to the next. In each reality, laws of time, physics, and the nature of reality itself differs from one to the next.
So it occurred to me that maybe the various cartoons don't exist in the same reality, but in different realities. But as cartoon realities, the general laws of nature and science don't operate as we would define normal. So while the Looney Tunes exist in one reality, the Disney toons exist in another. But that doesn't mean they can't run into each other, especially in places like Toon Town, where the varying realities, including the Live Action Universe (the TVCU) seem to overlap.
This would include the cartoons previously assigned to the Bongo Universe/Anomaly. When I change things, they will no longer be connected to the TVCU, but redesignated to their own realities.
And if any of that made sense to you, I'm sorry. You have gone mad.
Check out the current best explanation for the Looniverse here.
And the Bongo Universe/Anomaly/Offspring of Zed here.
Earlier in the series, King Features had produced a film, The Man Who Hated Laughter, which featured a crossover of characters such as Blondie,Beetle Bailey, Flash Gordon, Hi and Lois, The Katzenjammer Kids, Mandrake The Magician, The Phantom, Popeye, Prince Valiant, and Snuffy Smith from the syndicate's various comic strips.
Another King Features example: The main characters of Defenders of the Earth (King's action/adventure heroes Flash Gordon, The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician) were all from previous series, making the entire series a Crossover.
Cartoon crossovers are not uncommon, and most of them - like comics or live-action TV shows - will often feature characters owned by the same company or network. One example is Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door. It features 5 crossovers - Ed, Edd n Eddy, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, a reference to The Powerpuff Girls and a quote from Scooby-Doo, which are all licensed Cartoon Network series.
The cast of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Generator Rex team up in Ben 10/Generator Rex: Heroes United.
Most of the last episodes of the Lilo & Stitch: The Series (a spinoff of the eponymous Lilo & Stitch) had crossovers with various other Disney cartoons, including The Proud Family, Kim Possible, Recess and American Dragon Jake Long, although one might count them as mere cameos, as each plotline took place exclusively in Lilo's hometown in Hawaii.
Not canon for the TVCU, but here is a fun similarly themed article on the Tooniverse by Jose Ricardo Bondoc.
Some cartoons are canon in Win Scott Eckert's Crossover Universe, following the same concept (which I've borrowed) to place some cartoons more appropriately in the "real world".
Over at Toby O'Brien's Inner Toob, the Toob World multiverse includes its own version of the Tooniverse which you can read about here.
Here are some of the more recent posts regarding cartoons in the TVCU discussion forum.
Just an FYI from the 2nd episode of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, this Alice has never heard of the Care Bears. The Knave knows of them, but likely based on his time living in Storybrooke, having seen the cartoon or the toy, rather than actually having encountered them.
Bonus. Here are three cartoon related entries from my upcoming book, the Horror Crossover Universe!
HCU Comments: This is a fun homage to the Universal monsters, even with putting up with Phyllis Diller as the Bride of Frankenstein. However, it's unlikely any of the monsters here can really be the original versions from the classic movies. Dr. Frankenstein here is Dr. Boris Frankenstein, and at least the storyline acknoledges the family legacy theory. The story also names him as the creator of this monster and bride. However, in the prequel, The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters, it is a Henry von Frankenstein who is shown to have created them. This is not the same Henry from the 1931 Universal film. Henry and Boris seem identical, and may be twins, or perhaps the same person (Henry Boris von Frankenstein). This helps explain the appearances of a Universal style monster (and sometimes bride) during the period of 1948 - 1998 when the actual Universal Monster is trapped in La Mirada. The werewolf is unnamed here, but in the prequel is named Ron Chanley , a tribute to the actor who played Lawrence Talbot, Lon Chaney. The Invisible Man here could be Geoffrey Radcliffe, though if so, he'd be a bit older (though sure doesn't look it.) In the prequel, he is shown to have settled down and has an invisible family. The Doctor Jekyll here is likely one of the many of the Jekyll family over the years to continue the research of the Hyde formula. This mummy isn't Imhotep or Kharis, but it might be Klaris. Or it may just be another mummy. The Gill Man is likely another of the same species, and not the same from Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Hunchback also can't possibly be the original be the same. And the giant ape referred to as "It" can't be the late King Kong, but is likely another of the same species. In the prequel, he is named Modzoola. Dracula is the only one who could be the same, if not for being so damn goofy. Let's call this a soul clone. The prequel shows that this Dracula has a son. All the monsters die at the end, but that's never stopped a good monster before from making a comeback.
The Story: A group of teenagers and their talking dog go around solving mysteries which always involves debunking a fake haunting.
HCU Comments: Yes, Scooby is in. And the series should be in. It's got the crossovers, and it's about kids going around debunking the supernatural. It is a horror series for kids. But we've got two issues. So let's talk about the talking dog in the room. Scooby is an intelligent talking dog, and yet, in all the travelling and meeting new people, nobody is freaked out by a talking dog. In this case, I can't offer any in-story references that support a theory. All I can offer is a hypothesis which you can accept or reject. If you reject, feel free to create your own or just ignore Scooby's existence in the HCU. My best theory is that Scooby is indeed a mutant dog, or else somehow transformed by magic, in some untold tale from before the series began. And perhaps he really only talks to the kids when no one else is around, or else maybe the kids are the ones enchanted, and are the only ones who can hear Scooby talk. But considering that the nature of the show is that magic isn't real, I'd say the mutation is more likely. The second issue is the one we have with comics. These kids don't age. They are eternally high school seniors, at least through this initial first series. But that doesn't work in a universe where most characters do age normally. Each Scooby-Doo series is looked at independently, and some are in and some aren't. In some later series, the kids are older, but not as old as they should be considering their setting remains contemporary. (As in the 1970s stories where they are teens is set in the 1970s while their 2000s stories where they are in their mid 20s are set in the 2000s.) I will address the issue again for each series entry and how I choose to resolve the issue. But for this series, I think it best to place the events as taking place in the summer before their senior year, and then weekends and school breaks throughout their senior year. (After all, they do a lot of travelling for high school students.) And that's the best I can do. If anyone comes up with something better, I applaud you and suggest you apply your solution to your shared crossover universe.
The Story: The gang pursue the alleged ghost of Mr. Hyde, a jewel thief and search for clues to the culprit, and clues point to the great-grandson of Dr. Jekyll.
HCU Comments: This episode places the original Jekyll and Hyde as real, and thus Scooby and gang end up pulled into the Horror Crossover Universe.


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Science and Technology Research, by Clive Cookson
Related to the lack of scientific innovation is the absence of a risk-taking entrepreneurial culture, which is reflected in turn in a shortage of venture capital to fund companies spun out of research laboratories or universities. Lam Kong-Peng, director of Singapore's Biomedical Research Council, talks of the need "to educate Asian investors, who tend to be more cautious than western investors".
"We are trying to create a new risk-taking culture of innovation and entrepreneurship," agrees Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, director of Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Venture capitalists in Asia "do not have the experience or the interest in getting involved in early-stage seed funding"…For many in Asia, indeed, innovation is not just helpful in breaking into foreign markets but essential in improving lives closer to home. There is recognition that the only way to overcome the continent's many problems, from poverty to pollution, is through science and technology.
Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, says that even space programmes – sometimes regarded as a sign of national vanity – justify themselves by improving quality of life through earth observation and communications satellites. "Our main aim is to bring the benefits of high technology to the people – and poor people in particular," he says.
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The past week or so I've been thinking about the time when I will go back home, flights, goodbyes etc – and with that, the niggling question of have I done enough here? Are there things I've left undone or waited too long to start and is it too late to begin now if I'm leaving in July?
It's not quite the same issue of wanting to see the fruit of my ministry, or judging my "success" by the fruit I perceive, but it's pretty close.
I've had to keep reminding myself that it's not about me. This is something I've come to understand more and more during the time I've been here in Ecuador. It's not about my talents or my weaknesses. It's not about me suffering enough or me enjoying myself too much. Because God can use all of those things for His glory. It's about Him.
Even before I left for the mission field – in fact, one of the reasons I left for the mission field – was wanting my life to be totally about Him. Wanting to serve, wanting to give of who I am. Wherever I am, I want to make sure that I give it my all each day, so that if I don't live to see another here on this earth, I can honestly say to Him that I didn't hold back anything from Him.
If I can bless today, why wait till tomorrow?


Sonus Umbra will be opening for Emerson, Lake and Palmer tribute band Fanfare – a special show dedicated to the late, GREAT Keith Emerson. The show will take place on Thursday, May 26 at the legendary Fitzgerald's Nightclub in Berwyn, Illinois (just outside of Chicago).
Sonus Umbra will be featured on CHECK IT OUT with DJ PeterProg at 7pm UK time (1pm Chicago time) on Friday, March 4th. We will be logging in and chatting with fellow listeners. Hope to catch you there!
The new Sonus Umbra record Beyond the Panopticon has been officially released! It will shortly be available in CD format or as a digital download from your favorite online music stores. Of course, you can always purchase it directly from the band through our web store.


SOURCE, an organization of women executives in Nashville's Music Industry, was invited by Leadership Music to attend their luncheon and "Off the Record" Conversation with Grand Ole Opry and SOURCE member Jeannie Seely at Sambuca Restaurant in the Gulch on January 28. Seely shared not only her sense of humor but also her historical timeline and stories of her extensive history working in the recording industry and for the Grand Ole Opry.
Cumulus has added John Shomby as Director of Programming for the Nash Network, overseeing programming for the Nashville network and syndication operations.
Shomby will be based in Nashville.
He previously worked at Max Media's WGH/Norfolk as Director of Programming & Operations. He joined Max Media in 2002. His career also includes stops in Dallas, Portland, New Orleans, Boston and more.
Former Hill Entertainment Group staffer Kathryn Woodard has rejoined the company in a senior management role, effective immediately. Woodard will report directly to Hill Entertainment Group CEO Greg Hill and oversee day-to-day management for Jana Kramer among other duties.
In addition to her initial tenure with Hill Entertainment Group from 2013-2014, Woodard's previous stops include McGhee Entertainment and Red Light Management.
Woodard can be contacted via email at kathryn@hillentgroup.com.
Bill Miller, founder of Nashville's Johnny Cash Museum, has acquired the Lawrence Records Building, located at 409 Broadway in Nashville.
The property is expected to reopen as a "food and beverage concept," according to the new owen.
Specific details surrounding the space will be released in the coming months.


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Q: Check relationships I have an array with the ID of the services, and there is an array with the Product.
They are related to each other as Many To Many.
For expamle:
Product
[1, 2, 3]

Service
[2, 3, 6]

Table

product_id
service_id

1
2

2
3

3
8

How can I check whether a product belongs to a service?

A: You've tagged it as Laravel, and mentioned "Many to Many", which case, presumably, there are Eloquent relationships in place.
That being the case, then if a Service has one or more Products, you can check if a specific Service has a specific Product using :
$service = Service::find(2);
$product = Product::find(8);
if($service->products->contains($product)) {
    echo "Service has that product";
} else {
    echo "Service does not have that product";
}

A: If you don't want to use Eloquent, you can use query builder
$exists = DB::table('service_product')
    ->whereServiceId($service_id)
    ->whereProductId($product_id)
    ->count() > 0;


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Słyszeliście o Morganach? () – amerykańska czarna komedia romantyczna z 2009 roku w reżyserii Marca Lawrence'a.

Obsada
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Fallout from Pandora Papers
Fallout from the Pandora Papers continues as the President of Ecuador is under investigation and European leaders are criticizing the U.S. for its lack of money laundering controls.
Investigation in Ecuador
Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso is under investigation in his country for tax fraud. Documents in the Pandora Papers linked Lasso to two private foundations that created South Dakota trusts. Opponents say that Lasso used the trusts to provide monthly payments to Lasso's wife, children and brother in the event of his death.
Ecuadoran law prohibits politicians from holding investments in "tax havens." South Dakota trusts are entirely private and often serve to insulate their beneficial owners from scrutiny. Lasso's political opponents assert that his establishment of the trusts violated Ecuadoran law.
However, the law governing tax havens like South Dakota may change with the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act. Through the Corporate Transparency Act, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - FinCEN - will be empowered to build a database of beneficial ownership records.
Pandora Papers Portray U.S. as Tax Haven
Few Americans may think of their country as a "tax haven" but foreign investors often see it that way.
Nevertheless, most European countries have anti-money laundering laws that require corporations to publish their beneficial ownership with regulators. Regulators use that information to pair tax returns with companies to prevent the non-reporting of illicit income.
In the U.S., in comparison, companies are owned anonymously. The public information available for nearly all corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies rarely disclose the beneficial owners of those entities.
This will change when FinCEN implements the Corporate Transparency Act.
The Act requires that, by December 31, 2021, FinCEN must implement rules to require immediately reporting of newly-formed corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. Companies formed prior to the deadline will have two years to file their first beneficial ownership report.
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