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On the one hand, spending all your time worrying about getting girls is pretty retarded, it seems so shallow and unproductive. On the other hand, finding the right mate is probably the most important single thing in life, so not spending most of your energy on doing that is pretty retarded.
02-27-08 - 5
1. Drive around the US and camp and hike. Did it, but did it much faster than I dreamed. Got bored and came home.
2. Travel, to South America and South East Asia. Didn't do it. Couldn't find anyone to go with and didn't want to go alone.
3. Get back in shape, in particular work on my back/neck/posture/etc which was in serious trouble when Oddworld closed. Sort of did it, though wound up spending most of my time and energy on shoulder rehab which is still fucked. My back/neck was way better for a while when I was off the computer, but I've wound up spending a ton of time sitting at the computer again and those problems come right back.
4. Play team sports. Didn't do it.
5. Be more social / work on getting out of my shell. Made some serious effort at the beginning but failed and gave up. Regressed completely with Dan.
6. Make an indie game or some kind of other fun software project for profit. Didn't do it. Made a few little aborted attempts but never thought of a game that I actually wanted to make.
7. Get better at poker and try to beat the highest levels. Mmmm.. never really did this the way I wanted, partly because I was spending a lot of energy on Dan and for me anyway it's impossible to get to the highest levels and have a relationship at the same time. I did play and beat 2000 NL online, which is pretty good, so we'll call this "sort of done".
8. Try some other careers to see how I would like them - like being a chef, a farmer, a journalist. Didn't do it. I did cook more but that counts for nothing. I also wrote some articles to submit to editors to try to get a writing job, but never actually submitted any of them.
9. Have lots of sex with different girls. I never really had a partying / screwing around phase, since I was working on software pretty much full time all through college, in addition to lots of extracuricular physics work. This has never been anything that I really wanted to do, but what annoys me is that I always have the thought somewhere in the back of my head that I didn't do it, so I wanted to do it just so that thought would go away and stop taking up brain space. Didn't do it.
10. Learn to play guitar. Made a few half hearted attempts. Failed.
11. Learn to make music on the computer with some kind of tracker thingy. Spent a few hours on this a few times and was flummoxed by how unusable these apps are. I actually started this again in the last few days, but it' still a "Didn't Do" at the moment.
12. Figure out what's going to make me happy and how I should spend the rest of my life. Didn't do it.
13. Be a really great boyfriend for Dan and succeed in having a healthy open relationship. Didn't do it.
Addendum : I know potential employers are reading this garbage brain dump of mine at the moment so I should note the thing I actually did accomplish was writing a bunch of code. Some stuff I did :
Netflix Prize - a machine learning application on a huge dataset Guitar tuner - developed an unusually accurate and stable pitch detector Image doubler - in progress work on maximum likelihood super-resolution inference Sports bettor - solve sparse matrices and use machine learning to automate bets Limit poker bot - developed a Bayesian limit bot, as well as an anti-TTH perfect simulator Poker site helper app - developed for potential sale, learned win32 hooking Short stack poker bot - developed optimal game theory solution for simplified NLHE
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I wrote before about how the crucial thing is to hold the brakes and keep tension in the pedals so that you can transfer power through your legs to balance the bike. (search the archive for this). Some other little notes :
You don't want to come in too hot. Do most of your stopping before you try to go into a balance and get yourself really slow, then prep for the balance, then do it. Coming in hot to a full stop balance is a very advanced skill.
The balance is much easier if your two feet are level with each other. Once you're slowed down and getting ready to balance, get your feet in this ready position. There will be some slack in your freewheel when you come to a stop, so to compensate prepare your front foot slightly higher, then as you pull the brakes to go into the balance push forward with your front foot to take up the slack and get your feet into the level position.
It's important that your whole body is tensed but not stiff. You need to be supple, sprung, coiled with muscle but still loose. You are connected to the bike at your hands and your feet, so the energy is transfering through your entire chain, so you want elbows bent, knees bent, abs and back tight, shoulders slightly forward.
You obviously should be standing up to balance (standing and getting your body loose and flexed is part of the "ready position"), but you don't want to go too far forward. You don't want all your weight to go over the front wheel. For one thing you need weight in your legs because that's where your power is to control the balance, but also you need the front wheel to still be easy to maneuver. You may want to do some slight twitching of the front wheel, and that only works if your weight is centered back a bit.
Don't steer too much. You want to stay active and loose with the steerer, don't try to keep the front wheel perfectly straight, but at the same time, don't try to steer to balance. The balance is best acheived through lots of little movement, shifting your hips slightly, leaning your head, and steering ever so slightly. A good correction involves all these things, and not one big movement with any one of them.
Addendum : it helps a lot to look down when you balance. I like to focus on the spot where the front wheel touches the pavement.
02-27-08 - 2
Also, Karaoke is fucking disgusting unless you are a Japanese business man in a suit with your coworkers. The proper way to sing in a bar is for everyone to sing folk songs together in a regular bar.
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Addendum : Ah crap, it appears this rant was a case of Cryptomnesia , perhaps from Dmetri Martin, but probably the original source is even older.
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ps. no I was not on drugs when I wrote this. I wish I was.
02-22-08 - 2
No, head-hunters that does not mean you should send me all the shit jobs you're trying to staff. I'm still not looking for anything awful. Game company jobs in general don't appeal to me that much; the management is too shitty, I don't want to get involved in another badly run disaster where I have to work my butt of and don't make any money. I want to ideally work on interesting things where I can write fun code, either at a big safe corporation or a tiny tiny place with friends. I don't want a management job or anything with a lot of friction and non-technical headaches. I'd love to be able to just write interesting code and work with smart people.
I'm gonna be talking to Google and NVidia ; if you have any other good suggestions that fit the bill let me know.
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Of course the solution is both easy and obvious. In the common/standard case that the numbers are all very close to the average, a simple recursively dividing sum works perfectly :
template < typename _t > _t recursive_sum(const _t * begin,const _t * end) { int count = end - begin; switch(count) { case 0: return 0.0; case 1: return begin[0]; case 2: return begin[0] + begin[1]; case 3: return begin[0] + begin[1] + begin[2]; case 4: return (begin[0] + begin[1]) + (begin[2] + begin[3]); default: { const _t * mid = begin + (count/2); return recursive_sum(begin,mid) + recursive_sum(mid,end); } } }
ADDENDUM : Okay this is a pretty dumb way to do it. It actually works fine and is plenty fast but the better way is this Kahan Summation thing. BTW the PDF linked at the bottom of that page is an awesome awesome doc on floating point.
(UPDATED 3-04-08) : Here's a version that roughly matches the signature of std::acumulate ; the type inference from accum is a little bit of a subtle thing that can bite you in code if you're not careful. BTW I flipped the sign compared to Wikipedia cuz it just makes it really obvious what's happening IMO.
static inline T kahan_accumulate(Iter begin, Iter end, T accum) { T err = 0; for(;begin != end;++begin) { T compensated = *begin + err; T tmp = accum + compensated; err = accum - tmp; err += compensated; accum = tmp; } return accum; } template static inline typename std::iterator_traits ::value_type kahan_accumulate(Iter begin, Iter end) { return kahan_accumulate(begin, end, typename std::iterator_traits ::value_type()); }
There are a bunch of ACM papers on this stuff; if you're serious you should go there. For our rough graphics kind of use this Kahan thing is going to be fine. The "Cascading Accumulators" method seems to be the awesome way to go but it's a bit complex to implement. Apparently Kahan also has less error than the recursive way, though in practice they're both tiny.
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I also found this performance art group : Iron Guild which looks totally awesome, and some stuff one of them made : Iron Art
02-17-08 - 3
So I guess I should play soccer. I've been looking for some kind of fun team sport, and there are just tons of pickup soccer leagues, and that's a relatively low-injury sport aside from twisted ankles and such.
02-17-08 - 2
Coding is bad this way (and worse in a big complex code base or a really hard problem), but Poker is worse. One of the things that makes poker so bad for this is the lack of good feedback due to the high variance, which it makes it very tricky to get yourself back in the zone because you'll get both false positive feedback and false negative feedback. As you work back into the zone you may have multiple false plateaus where you think you've made it, only to realize later that you were wrong. It literally takes weeks to get back in the zone, which makes dipping in and out of play pretty impractical.
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Refocus Imaging and Helicon Soft are two different ways to do 3d-photography where you can set the focal plane (or arbitrary focus surface) after the fact.
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It's such an obvious and seemingly awesome thing to have there must be some reason why it's not a good idea or it would've already been done.
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This image doubling thing I'm thinking about is mostly called "Super Resolution" in the literature (all 2 papers). I hope that name doesn't stick. There is a rather seperate thing which is also called "Super Resolution", which is creating hi res images from crappy video sequences. It seems to be further along in development. Sina Farsiu has good papers on the video kind of super resolution. There's even a free research application called MDSP that does video super-resolution.
It's funny that this kind of video resolution enhancement was being done in the movies way before it was actually being done on computers in real life. I mean, it's no surprise that movies made up semi-sciency mumbojumbo for plot purposes, what's funny is they got it almost exactly right, and I'm sure most computer people at the time knew it was a totally reasonable thing to do, it just hadn't really been fully worked out yet. Unfortunately for all the replicant hunters out there, we still haven't perfected the zooming around the corner technology.
02-04-08 - 4
For my own reference in case I come back to it : there are a few issues with the whole fundamental frequency thing. I mainly modulate out octaves, so F - 2F - 4F harmonics aren't a problem, it gets really screwy when you switch from 2F to 3F , and actually even 5F can be the highest peak. If you get a spectrum where the 3F peak is biggest, but there are still solid 1F and 2F peaks, that's pretty easy to detect. Another case is sometimes the 1F peak is completely missing, but if there's a 2F peak you can still deal with that by looking at 2/3 or by seeing that the spacing between peaks is F. The really really evil case comes from time evolution. Sometimes you can strike a note and it starts up with strong peaks at 1F,2F, and 3F. Over time each of their amplitudes changes and you can get cases where the 1F and 2F peaks almost completely disappear and you're left with only a 3F peak. To handle that correctly you have to use temporal continuity and just assume that that sound is still acting like a 1F pitch (sometime the 1F and 2F peaks come back and the 3F peak dies out as time keeps evolving). The spacing between the peaks in the frequency domain is a pretty way to get the base pitch (you imagine an additional peak at zero frequency).
I hate relying too much on temporal continuity because it mean that short-time errors get persisted. It's much cooler if I can do everything without relying on the previous frame. You do get a tiny short-time error from fourier analysis of transients, but that's negligible. The real problem comes from real world short-time sounds. With tuning a guitar, when you first strike a string there are lots of funny sounds from your finger rubbing the string and perhaps the string slapping the body and all that stuff that only lasts a second or so. If you start building in too much continuity, you could pick up weird pitches in that mess and then try to persist them. Really once the clean note starts sounding you want all that junk to be forgotten.
02-04-08 - 3
Ideally I'd get the uncompressed so I don't have spurious JPEG artifacts in my images gunking things up, but it's hella hard to find a good uncompressed image data set.
Ideally I would like an image training set which statistically exactly mirrored the overall statistics of all digital images in existance (weighted by the probability of a user interacting with that image). That is, if 32% of the neighborhoods in all the images in the universe were "smooth" , then in my ideal training set 32% of neighborhoods would be smooth. The average entropy under various predictors would be the same, etc. Basically it would be an expectation-equivalent characteristic sample. Some poor graduate student needs to make that for all of us.
02-04-08 - 2
1. "Shortcut Keys" in Windows. I'm talking about the thing where from an app's right-click Properties dialog you can set a "Shortcut Key" and set a key combo. I use this a lot as a way to key-chord to apps. It works great except once in a while it stalls out like crazy. You hit the key combo and nothing happens, and in fact the whole taskbar becomes nonresponsive; all the other apps still respond fine, and the process monitor doesn't show any CPU spike. A minute later suddenly windows goes ahead and executes the shortcut key. Note that just switching to a macro program doesn't fix it, because the shortcut key thing is smart enough to switch you to an existing instance rather than start a new one.
2. Getting files from Perforce that don't exist. This is some problem with the VC-Perforce integration. As usual I can't get any help from either of them. This happens when you have a VC project which is under source control, but some file in the project does not exist either on your disk or in the depot. You start up VC and load the project, and VC goes into this mode "Getting files from source control" where it tries to get the file from the depot. If the file is in the depot it gets it fine, but if it's not in the depot, VC appears to hang. I've never let it sit long enough to get past this, but I've watched the disk activity while it's hung in this mode and it appears that VC is doing a recursive scan of the entire depot and touching every single file; I have no idea why it does this and I can't stop it. It's pretty fucking annoying. There is a workaround which is to open the vcproj and figure out what file is mising and make an empty file with that name or remove it from the project, but that's a pain and I'd like to just not have this stupid hang.
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In the future everyone will have a completely unique name so that they're easily searchable.
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The US official policy is that we want real democracy in Pakistan, but behind closed doors the CIA and State aren't so sure about that. An election could easily destabilize Pakistan if someone is elected that is disliked or moves too fast against the Islamic extremists, the military or the ISI. On the other hand if anyone comes to power that works too closely with any of those factions that could also be bad. Musharraf is doing a half decent job at the moment of keeping all the factions reasonably pacified.
Much like Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, pushing for elections too soon could be a disaster. First you need some level of stability and rule of law, protection against assasination, a fair election system, the confidence of the populace so that no big groups boycott the vote, etc.
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You've seen past data D. You know for a given model the chance that it would produce data D is P(D|M) , so the probability of M being right is P(M|D) = P(D|M)*P(M)/P(D)
Now you want to make some new prediction given your full model. Your full model is actually an ensemble of simple models all weighted by their likelihood. The probability of some new event X based on part observations D is thus P(X|D) = Sum on M { P(X|M) * P(M|D) }
P(X|D) = Sum on M { P(X|M) * P(D|M) * P(M) } / P(D)
Note that the P(M) term here is actually important and often left out by people like me who do this all heuristically. It's a normalizing term in your integration over all models, and it's pretty important to get right depending on how you formulate your model. Basically it serves to make the discretization of model space into cells of equal importance so that you aren't artificially over-weighting models that are multiple covers. You can also use P(M) to control what models are preferred; for example you might make smoother or simpler models morel likely. eg. if you're modeling with a sine function you might make lower frequency waves more likely, so you make P(M) like e^(- freq^2) or something. This makes your model less prone to overfit noisy data. This whole step is referred to as "estimating the priors" ; that is the a-priori probabilities of the parameters of the model.
A common shortcut is just to use the most likely model ; this is aka "maximum likelihood". This just means you pick the one model with the highest P(M|D) and use that one to make predictions. This is potentially giving away a lot of accuracy. People often do a lot of hard work and math to find the model that is maximum likelihood, but we should remember that's far less desirable
In simple situations you can often write down P(D|M) analytically, and then actually explicitly integrate over all possible models. It's common to use models with Gaussian probability spreads because they are normalizable and integrable (over the infinite domain), eg P(D|M) of the form e^(-(D-M)^2).
An alternative to Maximum Likelihood is to use just a few different models and estimate the probability of each one. Again this is sort of a strange discretization of the model space but works well in practice if the chosen models span the state space of reasonable models well. This is usually called weighting "Experts" , also called "Aggregating" ; in Machine Learning they do a sort of related thing and call it "Boosting". There are a lot of papers on exactly how to weight your experts, but in practice there's a lot of heuristics involved in that, because there are factors like how "local" you want your weighting to be (should all prior data weight equally, or should more recent data matter more?").
In all the weighting stuff you'll often see the "log loss". This is a good way of measuring modeling error, and it's just the compression loss. If you think of each of the models as generating a probability for data compression purposes, the log loss is the # of bits needed to compress the actual data using that model as opposed to the best model. You're trying to minimize the log loss, which is to say that you're trying to find the best compressor. Working with log loss (aka compression inefficiency) is nice because it's additive and you don't have to worry about normalization; eg. after each new data event you can update the log loss of each model by just adding on the error from the new data event.
As I said there are various weighting schemes depending on your application, but a general and sort of okay one to start with is the previous probability weight. That is, each model M is weighted by the probability that that model would've generated the previously seen data D, eg. P(D|M). If you're working with a loss value on each expert, this is the exponential loss, that is e^(-loss). Obviously divide by the sum of all weights to normalize. Roughly this means you can use simple weights like e to the minus (# of errors) or e to the minus (distance squared).
My favorite tutorial is : Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning from Radford Neal
If you like to come at it from a data compression viewpoint like me, the canonical reference is : Weighting Techniques in Data Compressiom , Paul Volf's thesis. This work really shook up the data compression world back in 2002, but you can also look at it from a general modeling point of view and I think it's an interesting analysis in general of weighting vs. selecting vs. "switching" models. Volf proved that weighting even just two models together can be a huge win. When chosing your two models you don't really want the best two; you want two good models that don't contain any inherent inefficiencies, but you want them to be as different as possible. That is you want your two models to sort of be a decent span of "model space", whereas the single best model might be in the middle of model space, you don't want that guy, you want two guys that average to the middle.
A Tutorial on Learning With Bayesian Networks by David Heckerman is more mathematical and thorough but still half way readable.
More modern research mainly focuses on not just weighting the experts, but learning the topology of experts. That is, optimizing the number of experts and what parts of the past data each relies on and what their models are, etc. A common approach is to use a "Simple Bayesian Estimator" as a building block (that's just a simple model that generates random numbers around some mean, like a Gaussian), and then figure out a topology for combining these simple bayes guys using product rule of probabilities and so on.
Here's sort of a cool example that game-tech graphics people should be able to relate to : Bayesian Piecewise Linear Regression Using Multivariate Linear Splines . The details are pretty complex, but basically they have a simple model of a bunch of data which is just a piecewise linear (planar) fit, which is just C0 (value continuous but not derivative continuous). They form an ensemble model in a different way using a monte carlo approach. Rather than trying to weight all possible models, they draw models randomly using the correct probability weighting of the models for the data set. Then you just average the results of the drawn models. The resulting ensemble prediction is much better than the best found linear model, and is roughly C1.
This last paper shows a general thing about these Bayesian ensembles - even when the individual models are really shitty, the ensemble can be very good. In the linear regression models, each of the linear splines is not even close to optimal, they don't search for the best possible planes, they're just randomly picked, but then they're combined and weighted and the results are very good. This was seen with AdaBoost for classification too. With boosting you can take super shitty classifiers like just a single plane classifier (everything on the front is class A, everything on back is class B), but if you average over an ensemble of these planes you can get great fits to all kinds of shapes of data.
I wrote about a way to do simple weighting back on 12-16-06 using very simple variance weighting.
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1. Get rid of the G.W.B. tax cuts. Politically it would be best to leave the tax cuts for everyone making $100k or less and phase them out above that. Restore the estate tax and dividend taxes. Our government desperately needs money to fix this country and putting back those taxes on the rich will hurt the economy the least. It's a damn shame those tax cuts ever passed.
2. Figure out a way to get out of Iraq and restore our military's morale and fighting capability. This is a mess so I won't go into big details.
3. Get more troops in Afghanistan. Hopefully get an administration with more leverage internationally that can get some more support from NATO. Then we have to do something about Pakistan which is a huge problem. Getting the Pakistani government to really go after the tribal areas is impossible, but it might be possible to get more of the Pakistani military on the border to try to reduce the amount of border crossings. Make it clear to the tribal leaders that they are not being invaded and they are free in their domains but they aren't to cross the border. That certainly won't work without a much bigger force on the Afghan side of the border.
4. Actually do something to improve education in the US. "No Child Left Behind" is such a retarded worthless law, it creates standards and holds schools to them, but A. the tests are horrible measures of learning and B. doesn't provide funding. We need a lot more federal money for schools. We need legal maximum class sizes, maybe 20 kids per class. We need to stop cramming together kids of different aptitudes; maybe require that the slower kids get even smaller class sizes. Offer more after school programs, particularly for the kids that don't have good home environments. Then we need to start thinking about doing something with the colleges. College prices are skyrocketing and at the same time the quality of education is going way down with lots of kids getting rubber stamp degrees.
5. Spend on infrastructure. This is just something we should be doing all the time that we cut at some point to save money in budgets. Infrastructure spending is great for the overall economy; no it's not a great way to get out of recession because it's not fast enough, but it provides lots of steady jobs, and the infrastructure that results makes many other businesses work better. We need roads, bridges, flood control, commuter trains, etc. etc.
6. Get a handle on health care. This is another huge mess so I don't want to get distracted by it. I will just point out how big of a problem it is. We already spend around 15% of our GDP on health care, which is far far more than any other country (many Western countries are around 5%). Furthermore, health care costs are still rising much faster than inflation. This is a huge drain on our economy that needs to get fixed. I think the basics of Hillary's plan are the right way to go, but reducing all the unnecessary expenditure and fraudulent profit taking is going to be politically very difficult in our pro-shyster culture.
7. Do something serious for the environment and energy independence. I don't want to oversell the importance of global warming, but it's high time we started doing something serious to reduce fossil fuel usage; if you like you can pretend that the reason is for strategic energy independence. It could also be very good the economy. There are lots of obvious steps that make sense. IMO the best thing would be huge taxes on water, electricity and gas, which would allow the market to figure out the best ways to reduce use and make it all financially driven. I'm sure that's a political non-starter, so instead you could start penalizing companies that are extremely inefficient with their energy use or waste disposal. Put a bunch of money into researching alternative energy. The amount of money needed for this is microscopic compared to the benefits. A few billion dollars is a HUGE amount to fund research, but is a drop in the bucket compared to our oil imports. A few cents of gas tax could easily fund alternative energy research. Tax subsidies for the shitty alternative energy solutions we currently have do nothing but give free money to businesses.
What are our current political parties actually about? They talk about this and that, but what have the parties consistently actually accomplished in office :
Republicans are :
tax cutters
deficit spenders
grow the defense/military budget immensely
anti-environmental controls, anti-parks
Democrats are :
It's hard to remember anything that the Democrats have really done in recent history. I mean if we list things done under Clinton it was mainly free trade, cutting welfare, etc. I don't know if we can really draw a distinction in terms of foreign policy, both parties tend to fuck around all over the globe in rather retarded ways that generally have negative long term consequences. Both Clinton and Bush allowed genocides to occur on their watch. I'm not really sure what the Democrats stand for other than being "not Republicans".
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text: September is always an exciting and busy time for fifth graders. Students have been very busy planning for the year by writing "smart" goals they are working towards achieving. Students are loving their first Science unit as they are studying crayfish….class pets are always the best! This year we are reaching for the moon, because even if we miss we will land among the stars!! Fifth grade is going to be a blast!

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Danielle Lew
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I like to think that I did not chose my profession, rather my profession chose me. As a Clinical Social Worker I use my professional training and personal experiences to help others to get over life's hurdles through a variety of techniques and skills.
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#423929 Feb 21, 2013
It say's WORD of Mouth not Opinion of Mouth. I other word they were staying and communicating the word in scripture.
#423930 Feb 21, 2013
Justics was correct in his/her statements.
The Anglican Communion exists in over 165 countries.
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/ (see, FM-the actual SOURCE for info on the Anglican Communion. That's how you cite things.)
RE: the Real Presence, his/her comments were also true. Belief varies as to details and use of "transubstantiation" to describe it, but a belief in the Real Presence is indeed a feature of Anglican Community theology.
Marathon, Canada
#423931 Feb 21, 2013
Hi Jethro, I am glad you are ok, but sorry for you troubles.
Peoples emotions make them do strange things. I hope she comes back. The dog no doubt will miss you also this is a sad situation.
Wish I could be there for you Jethro besides on this thread.
I pray this won't send you on a downward spiral. Please don't let it ok.
Marathon, Canada
#423932 Feb 21, 2013
Dan can I ask you what the longest Psalm in the Bible is, Do you know.
Marathon, Canada
#423933 Feb 21, 2013
Psalm 119, the longest psalm in the Bible, is entirely focused on the Word of God. For your Bible to truly come alive, you must appreciate the qualities that set it apart from all other books.
The Bible is a Timeless Book
The Bible is not the book of the month or the book of the year. It is the book of the ages, unchanging and timeless.
"For ever, O LORD, Thy Word is settled in heaven." Psalm 119:89
"Concerning Thy testimonies, I have known of old that Thou hast founded them forever." Psalm 119:152
"Thy Word is true from the beginning: and every one of Thy righteous judgments endureth for ever." Psalm 119:160
In the New Testament, 1 Peter 1:25 states, "But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever ..."
Forever! God says the Word - the Bible you hold in your hand or have on your shelf - is done, settled in heaven. So, if it's on the shelf, dust if off and get it into your heart.
Why? Other books may come and go. The Bible is here to stay. Thousands of years have passed since the Bible was written. Empires have risen and fallen. Civilizations have changed and changed again. Science has pushed back the frontiers of knowledge. Yet the Bible stands: timeless, ultimate, indestructible.
Emperors like Diocletian have decreed its extermination, atheists like Voltaire have railed against it, agnostics through the years have cynically sneered at it, and liberals strive to remove the miracles from the Bible. Materialists have simply ignored it. How is it that the Bible still stands after centuries of attempts to destroy it? Because the Bible is eternal, settled in heaven.
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#423934 Feb 21, 2013
The Bible is a Truthful Book
"Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Thy law is the truth...Thou art near, O LORD; and all Thy commandments are truth...Thy Word is true from the beginning ... " Psalm 119:142, 151, 160.
In the Gospel of John, Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" (John 18:38). Jesus had already answered that question in John 17:17 when, speaking to the Father, He said, "Thy Word is truth." In a world that has lost its appreciation for truth, you can say without apology that the Bible is truth.
Today there are many attacks on the truth of the Bible. There's the frontal attack of liberals who deny it is true. There's the attack from the rear by those who want to substitute their own experience over the Word of God, saying, "Well, I know what I feel or think." Sometimes they'll even argue, "I don't care what the Bible says. Let me tell you what I experienced." And there's an attack from the flank by people who don't necessarily deny the Bible but want to replace it or prop it up with psychology, philosophy, or other things - as if the Bible itself were not good enough.
But if you're looking for truth, you can find it in the Bible. Why? 2 Timothy 3:16 says, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God." That word inspiration is used only once in the Bible - here in this verse. What a magnificent word it is. In Greek it literally means "God-breathed." Jesus said in Matthew 4:4, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Every word comes from God. He did not simply breathe upon the writings of men such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark, and Paul, making their words His own. They held the pen of God. They were His instruments as He spoke, breathing the Scriptures out. Therefore, the Bible is true, because the God of truth cannot speak error.
#423935 Feb 21, 2013
Not off of the top of my head, no.
Why do you ask?
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#423936 Feb 21, 2013
We must know the Word to have spiritual power. Yet for many the Bible remains a closed, mysterious book. They just don't understand it. There is no cheap, lazy, or magical way to understand the Bible, but it's not impossible. In fact, it's joyful and thrilling.
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#423937 Feb 21, 2013
I guess I didn't have to wait for the response.
Yes, the Bible has endured, preserved by the Church and it has resisted protestant waterboarding of it and their attempts to remove the miracles from it (i.e. His Body and Blood in the Eucharist).
Marathon, Canada
#423938 Feb 21, 2013
It is Psalm 119; I hope you will take the time to read it Dan, It is truly beautiful and inspiring.
Most christians I know have memeorized their favorite parts of it.
I really believe you would enjoy it.
#423939 Feb 21, 2013
Kind of like Mathew Henry and Ellen White you reckon....lol........some would go as far to say Truth mixed with Lies.
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I was destroying my life,friends, and family! I reached the end of my rope! I was so tired of suffering which I brought on myself. I was in tromendious pain. I couldn't sleep, eat, and I had just lost several friends, young friends under 30 yrs. old! I went to my Mom for comfort and finally decided to hear her out! I told her either I left home or I would die! I knew death was a reality even more so with the way I was living. I was broken, hollow, and ready to give up! I allowed my mother to pray over me. I had exhausted all other answers and this was a desperate plea for help! I remember feeling better as she prayed it was very odd but comforting. I also remember getting on a plane to florida and crying my eyes out! I was so tired ans lost. An elderly couple saw the hurt and pain in my eyes and asked if I knew Jesus as my lord and savior. They said nothing of negative influence. They showed compassion, love, and I saw they had peace as did others before them! I had nothing to lose at that point. I didn't know why they were so confident or peaceful but I wanted what they had. I then arrived in florida and stayed with my Uncle where he continued to influence me toward Jesus and ultimately my salvation! I decided I would give inn instead of giving up! I sought God with every ounce of my being! I prayed day and night. Fasted and continued to search! Well, One day I decided to end my suffering and prayed that God would send me help. AT THAT moment a man rang the doorbell and asked again if I accepted Jesus as lord and savior. I for the first time invited him inn! I was tired of fighting, being angry, and dispite everything I'd believed in the past, I decided to give God a chance. Threw this ordeal there were numerious occations God revealed himself. It came threw others several different denominations of Gods people whether they knew it or not is beyond me. Finally, I was at church and something happened! I went up for prayer and I remember saying if this is not of you Lord I will not fake anything! I will not fall, laugh, or do anything unless you cause it! Well, I closed my eyes. I was very receptive and as this pastor prayed for me never touching me I seriously saw flashes of light while my eyes were closed. I couldn't believe it and in an instant I felt different. There was no longer any doubt I knew God was real and I had experienced something I thought impossible! I stepped out in faith, I later discovered, and God was there for whatever reason! I felt so Good, peaceful, but at the same time Sad disappointed in myself. I was so ashamed of myself for not believing in God and for all the things I had said in the past! I would say GOD isn't real, I don't believe in him bc I can't see him and lots of other nasty things. I now had gone from not believing in him to knowing he was there. I became a different person selfless, loving, dependent on God, helpful to others, as I wanted to share what I'd experienced with others. I knew I couldn't do anything it was up to God but I could plant the seeds of faith and believe God would water those seeds in due time! This is what happened to me and I knew God would do the same for others. I learned that to be like God I had to be loving most importantly. To my neighbors, friends, and even to those I disliked. I sought forgiveness from others but I was having a hard time forgiving myself as I do now! I can forgive others easily but as for myself not so easy! Anyway, I had become a knower not believer! I know God exsists and he loves us even if we don't know it! ANY QUESTIONS I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER! I CAN'T WRITE EVERYTHING BUT I KNOW GOD IS REAL HE LOVES US AND HIS SON DIED FOR US THAT WE MIGHT NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE! LOVE IS THE KEY!!!!!!
Marathon, Canada
#423941 Feb 21, 2013
Dan, The fact that you as a catholic, who claims rights to the Bible , and didn't know that Psalm 119 was the longest one in the Bible tells me how much of this God -Breathed Holy Scriptures your church has shared with you.
I was trying to share a beautiful experience with you, from the word of God.(AS ONE LOVER OF GOD TO ANOTHER) I really thought you would be interested.
I was not changing it or giving my interpretaion of it.
Have a great day.
Marathon, Canada
#423942 Feb 21, 2013
Not by a long shot Clay, it doesn't even come close.
#423943 Feb 21, 2013
All the best for better health Jethro!
If we can't trust our politicians and church leaders today to tell us the truth, how can anyone trust with certainty what was written 2,000 years ago that was driven by agenada by a few powerful people in the church who could have fooled everyone of that era.
Remember Jethro outside the bible writings, no one from the entire mediteranean recorded anything, or handed down any stories about a miracle worker Jesus and most of the characters from his story.
....something is wrong, when only one small select group of people claim God himself inspired them, and no one else heard or saw anything for 33 years that resembled the man these story tellers describe.
......something is wrong!
Marathon, Canada
#423944 Feb 21, 2013
Hi Ironman, I was very touch by your testemony. In fact it bought tears to my eyes.
Marathon, Canada
#423945 Feb 21, 2013
Welcome home, the Holy Spirit was leading you all the way. You were on Gods heart, long before He was on yours.
Nothing you have done in the past matters now because you are a new person in Christ Jesus.
God Bless, May He strengthen you in your personal walk with Him. He will never leave you alone.
Love in Christ.
Marathon, Canada
#423946 Feb 21, 2013
A Salvation Bought With Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Have you ever had one of those moments when one little bit of Scripture leaps from the pages and punches you in the mouth (in a good, wonderful way)? It happened to me this morning. I was reading the account of Jesus temptation in the wilderness, which Ive read, like, infinity times (hat tip to Napoleon Dynamite). And Ive made all the right applications of the passage to my life. Jesus was suceeding in overcoming temptation where Israel had failed. Jesus was overcoming and conquering Satan, living a sinless life in my place. Jesus was fighting against Satan with the word of God, which provides a model for us. And on and on.
But then this little sentence jumped out:
Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.(Matthew 4:11)
The angels were ministering to Jesus. Thats interesting, I thought. Why did Jesus need the angels to minister to him?
Because, you idiot, he just endured the full, intense, exhausting, carefully calculated, carefully planned, forcefully executed onslaught of Satan himself! He went head to head in an all-out battle against King of Darkness! He hadnt eaten for forty days, and was probably physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted. After Jesus won the battle against Satan, the angels ministered to him, strengthening him, comforting him, lifting him.
Sometimes I think of Jesus as walking through life without ever really struggling. I mean, come on, he was the Son of God. Surely that made things easier for him, right?
Wrong! What scripture makes clear is that Jesus experienced the utter fullness of our humanity, and was tempted in every deep, full, multi-faceted sense of the word. Just because Jesus didnt have a sinful nature doesnt mean that it was easy to resist sin. Remember, Adam and Eve didnt have a sinful nature either.
Jesus endured the constant, relentless onslaught of Satans choicest temptations. Jesus wrestled with Satan himself, not a middle level management demon. I dont think Satan himself needs to bother with me. He can simply send one of his demons to tempt me. But not so with with Jesus. The Prince of Darkness harnessed all his powers of temptation and deceit in an effort to derail our Savior. In Hebrews 5:7 it says:
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Jesus fought for our salvation with loud cries and tears. Cries of desperation, discouragement, exhaustion, and numbness. Tears of grief, betrayal, and heartache. He was sinless, but he was also a Man of Sorrows, intimately acquainted with grief, betrayed by friends, assaulted by enemies, sweating drops of blood in Gethsemane.
For thirty-three years Jesus was pressed, stretched, and assaulted on every side. The relief didnt come until he uttered the words,It is finished. Why did Jesus endure this? To win our salvation! To do what Adam, and Noah, and Israel, and David, and Solomon, and me, and you all failed to do. Jesus spent all of his might, strength, and emotion to conquer sin and Satan, and to make our forgiveness possible.
Im so grateful for Jesus, the King of Kings who desperately needed the angels to minister to him. Im grateful that we have a Savior who was tempted in every way, and who now ministers himself on our behalf. Thats the kind of Savior that I need.
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Thanks for your testimony. A lot of people on here have been through some tough times I think.
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Embarkation was straight forward and we were made to feel special by all the staff. The decor onboard is beautiful and stylish, everywhere clean and sparkling. Our balcony cabin was very comfortable, and the bathroom, although on the small side was more than adequate.
There were 2 hairdriers, and perfectly powerful enough. I had taken my own based on another review and not needed. The beds are quite hard, but I always take a cheap lilo from Argos when I go on holiday and place it under the mattress protector and find this more than comfortable.
The food is delectable - so much choice and beautifully presented. The wait staff are so willing and polite. All these features are were evident in our previous cruises but the whole atmosphere on Azamara and the lovely restaurants made this so special. Aqualina was amazing - Michelin standard and a breathtaking More setting overlooking the sea.
We didn't go on any excursions but used taxis and buses ourselves. If I can pass on any tips it would be to take an umbrella if visiting Ephasus in Turkey to shade the scorching sun. Also - if visiting Santorini, don't make the mistake of walking down the steps from the town to the port as we did. The stones are polished smooth and treacherous from the hooves of herds of donkeys hurtling up and down carrying tourists pushing walkers clinging to the walls. Much better to take the 4 euro cable car.
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Rainy Day Ukes are all handmade using local, plentiful and highly sustainable woods gathered from the small cutters around the South Sound, mostly within 30 miles of this Pierce County shop. Red alder, spruce, big leaf maple and madrona might fly in the face of Hawaiian ukulele traditionalists who are used to koa, but using that Pacific Island wood misses the point of uke making, designer and company President Michael Dresdner said. "You have to design around the material anyway," he said. "And as long as you do that, you can use anything. It makes sense to make a ukulele out of koa if you are in Hawaii, but here it doesn't make sense."
Hawaiians only started making their ukuleles out of koa because it was really the only hard wood available on the islands, after all. They went local, so Dresdner's ukes will go local as well. And if he knows anything, he knows wood. He has more than 40 years of experience in woodworking and is a nationally known expert in such matters. Most locals, however, may remember him as a founder of Tacoma Guitars from a decade ago. The firm's signature Papoose and its subsequent models gained favor with Bob Dylan, the Dixie Chicks, Vince Gill, Ben Harper, Nickelback and Bonnie Raitt, before it was bought out by Fender and eventually ended production in 2008.
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That side effort all started with a challenge earlier this year, when Dresdner's son, daughter and her boyfriend were looking for a project they could share during their volunteering at the American Cancer Society's summer camp on Vashon Island for children who have cancer. Dresdner designed a ukulele kit with a gaggle of Rogers High School shop students cutting and sanding the pieces from donated wood and parts courtesy of Ken Warmoth of Warmoth Guitars in Puyallup. By the time camp is done, 100 children with cancer will head home from their summer camp with a Camp Goodtimes ukulele they put together themselves. The first 50 have already been delivered, with the second half of them camp bound later this month.
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Monday Ukulele Ohana are held at the Asian Pacific Culture Center, formerly the South Park Community Center at 4851 South Tacoma Way, every Monday from 5:30-9 p.m. The group is free and open to the public to learn about ukulele playing and Pacific Island culture, hence a jam session always ends with a potluck fest. Uke 'an Jam, a free ukulele strum circle, is held every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Ted Brown Music, 6228 Tacoma Mall Boulevard. Washington Association of South Sound Ukulele Players meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Point Defiance Village, 6414 North Park Way. All are welcome to watch, join in and learn or just hang around and enjoy all things ukulele.


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In my judgment, the major thing that killed communism was its inefficiency. It was inefficient because the government institutionalized the existence of too many parasites who found a home in the bureaucracy. Parasites consume a sizable portion of an organism's resources, and when the demands of the parasites for the lifeblood of the organism become too great, the organism dies. And of course, the parasites die with it!
Our own form of government, and our form of economy are also infected with an excessive number of bureaucratic parasites. Nearly all governments at all levels appear to have the idea that one of their most important functions is the redistribution of wealth. This redistribution requires an enormous and expensive infrastructure. The process of separating the worker bees from their money is called taxation. This is carried out by one bureaucracy, the IRS, while legions of other agencies in Washington endeavor to dole this cash out in what is considered to be a politically correct manner.
In the "private sector" (if there is such a thing in this country), capitalism operates mostly through Wall Street and the stock markets. The stock market infrastructure in the U.S. can also be thought of as being just another enormous self-serving bureaucracy. It contributes absolutely nothing in terms of real productivity to American business, but it's analogous to the money-changers in the temple that Christ threw out.
Mutual funds are still another bureaucratic establishment. They delude us into thinking that they know more than we do, and they manage to suck some of our life's blood out in the process.
When online brokerages began eating away at the revenues of full-service brokerage houses, stock market volatility increased by an order of magnitude. The enhanced volatility, of course, resulted in many more sales commissions, as investors sold on the way down, and then bought again on the way up. So the Wall Street establishment found a way to make up for the lost sales revenues from their full service brokerage services.
This plunder of small investor portfolios now goes on to such an extent that, in my opinion, the small investor has completely lost confidence in the future of his investments. He is just plain giving up, and leaving the markets in droves. The small investor organism is dying, and one can only hope that at least some of the parasites will die with him.


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The Foundation's Local Initiative Funding Partners Program is a matching grants program designed to establish partnerships between the Foundation and local grantmakers in support of innovative, community-based projects that improve health and health care for underserved and vulnerable populations.In a neighborhood of crime, poverty and active gangs, pervasive violence traumatizes children and families. This grant provides support for Connecting with Care which demonstrates a new collaboration of the public schools, a child mental health agency and a hospital psychiatry department to integrate trauma therapy into school-based services. Up to 80 percent of the cost of additional counseling staff may be covered through third-party reimbursement for individual student therapy sessions. This model substantially increases the number of full-time clinicians who join the community to work with teachers, parents and local groups engaged in all aspects of children's lives. The project plans to expand to 10 schools that have the highest rates of violence and disciplinary incidents reflecting multiple stressors and untreated mental health problems. Funding partners include The Amelia Peabody Foundation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
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Aren't they cute? The editors at Bloomberg believe that with the election over and Barack Obama's stated objections to the Keystone XL pipeline resolved, we should see approval coming forthwith:
When Obama denied a permit for Keystone XL in January, it was because the builder,TransCanada Corp. (TRP), needed to revise the route to avoid Nebraska's Sandhills region overlying the Ogallala Aquifer. Rather than wait for this essential revision, Republicans in Congress forced the president to make a quick decision on TransCanada's entire application, in the hope his rejecting it would hurt him in the election.
Since then, the company has rerouted and, in May, submitted a new application with the U.S. State Department. (The State Department is involved because the pipeline would cross the U.S.-Canada border.) Environmental studies have been updated accordingly, on what was already one of the most-researched infrastructure projects in U.S. history. And now Obama has won re-election, removing any need to pretend the pipeline's surpassing value to U.S. energy security is undermined by its environmental risks. …
The bitumen is coming out of the ground one way or another. Obama should ensure it goes to the U.S. and not the Far East. The administration has long said it would make a decision by the first quarter of 2013. We see no reason it shouldn't do so before the end of the year.
Well, neither do I — except for Obama's hostility toward oil and other hydrocarbon-based forms of energy. If Obama was going to approve the pipeline, he'd have done so before the election, when it could have won him some blue-collar votes in the Midwest and the Rust Belt. Now, though, Obama will talk about an all-of-the-above energy policy, but he won't go out of his way to reduce roadblocks to oil and coal production.
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