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Content Control is a transformative plugin, allowing you to fine-tune every aspect of your WordPress website's content. Decide who gets to see what, where, and when – be it pages, posts, widgets, or individual block visibility using our handy shortcode. Your content, your rules, executed perfectly!
Content Control is intuitive and powerful, designed for all users—whether logged in, holding specific roles, or even guests. Need top-tier content restriction or a dependable access manager for your site? Look no further. We've expanded our controls to include Gutenberg and Full Site Editor, giving you unmatched command.
Key Features
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- Full control over your site's content, restrict user access with ease!.
- Set up a seamless paywall for your content, providing teasers for users and prompting them to purchase access.
- Per block controls for Gutenberg and Full Site Editor, including user roles, device type, and more.
- Responsive block controls with customizable breakpoints.
- Control block visibility by user status, roles, device type & more.
- Restrict access to pages, posts, widgets, and individual blocks based on user status, roles, device type & more.
- Offer membership tools for crafting membership access and members-only content.
- Provide responsive block designs that adapt to varying device sizes.
- Lockdown content selectively for improved user experiences.
- Implement role-based redirections to guide users effectively.
- Unlock the power of subscription content and monetization strategies.
- Safeguard specific categories, tags, custom post types, and custom taxonomies.
- Manage access to media attachment pages for logged in/out users or specific user roles.
- Display a custom message to users who do not have permission to view the content.
- Display specific content on a page or post to logged in users only, specific user roles, or logged out users.
- Redirect users without access permission to a login page, website homepage, or a custom URL.
- Highlight subscriber-only content for premium users.
- Use the
shortcode to protect content inline and cater to subscriber preferences. - Control widget visibility by selecting the user type that can view each widget.
- Conditionally show coming soon or maintenance mode pages based on various rules.
- Restrict access to your site's REST API endpoints.
Pro Features
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- Content Teasers for Paywalls, giving your users a sneak peek, leaving them wanting more.
- Optimize your WooCommerce & Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) experiences with advanced rules.
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- Dive deeper with advanced block rules and a boolean editor.
- Customize login, registration & recovery page urls. Custom login urls give a more personalized user experience.
Upgrade to Content Control Pro
Note: Content Control handles media access via content on media attachment pages but won't restrict direct server-level access to media files.
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- Install Content Control either via the WordPress.org plugin repository or by uploading the files to your server.
- Activate Content Control.
If you need help getting started with Content Control please see FAQs which explains how to use the plugin.
Where can I get support?
If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the Content Control Plugin Forum.
Where can I report bugs or contribute to the project?
Bugs can be reported either in our support forum or we are happy to accept PRs on the Content Control GitHub repo.
Contributors & Developers
"Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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= v2.4.0 – Performance Matters – 06/21/2024
- Improvement: Optimized the order we determine if we can skip checking restrictions for any givem content type. Thanks to PolyLang team for the suggestion.
- Improvement: Better coverage for taxonomy query detection & filtering.
- Improvement: Added inertnal function caches to drastically reduce overhead of checking restrictions. This may result in a significant performance increase for large sites or sites with many restrictions.
- Improvement: Only generate list of page template types for rules when in the admin, saving potential DB query.
- Tweak: Explicitly bail on rule checks for unknown Rest API endpoints as we don't currently fully support them. Filter below added to allow modifying this behavior.
- Tweak: Remove upsell message when pro version is active.
- Fix: Bug with restricting logged in users from content when the user had post_edit permissions for the post.
- Developer: Added new internal globals variable handler instead of using
global $vars
directly. Set of helper functions available to get/set/push/pop global variables. - Developer: Made controllers more efficient by conditionally loading them only when needed.
- Developer: Added new filter
to allow 3rd party plugins to modify the REST API intent used in rule checks specifically for unknown intents. - Developer: Added new filter
to allow 3rd party plugins to exclude/include custom REST API endpoints from restriction checks. - Developer: Added new filter
allowing early return for known ignorable queries. - Developer: Added second paramter to the
filter pass the$rest_route
v2.3.0 – 05/23/2024
- Improvement: Added more full coverage of all query types for for restriction handling. This helps catch more custom/3rd party AJAX search queries that were not being filtered.
- Improvement: Added better handling for excluding queries and admin views from restrictions.
- Improvement: Added filters for easier compatibility fixes with 3rd party plugins.
- Improvement: Added support/fixes for BetterDocs custom AJAX searching.
- Improvement: Added support/fixes for Blocksy theme custom AJAX searching.
- Fix: Bug where $post->ID was used without checking if $post was set.
- Developer: Added new filter
to allow 3rd party plugins to modify the REST API intent used in rule checks.
v2.2.8 – 05/07/2024
- Fix: Issue causing some non-admin AJAX requests to the REST API from being run through protection checks.
- Fix: Error when using page template rules & global $post is not set properly.
v2.2.7 – 03/20/2024
- Improvement: Fix plugin preview blueprint file location.
v2.2.6 – 03/20/2024
- Improvement: Add plugin preview blueprint support.
v2.2.5 – 03/20/2024
- Improvement: Logic for protection being disabled was improved to be more efficient.
- Fix: Bug with The Events Calendar showing blank screen when using Redirect restriction.
- Fix: Bug where redirect based restrictions failed on The Events Calendar pages.
- Fix: Typo in order of widget REST API check conditionals.
v2.2.4 – 03/20/2024
- Fix: Enforced strict versioning in autoload build tool that recently auto updated causing the autoloader to suddenly leak unprefixed classes. This was causing random issues in combination with incompatible autoloading by other plugins.
v2.2.3 – 03/19/2024
- Fix: Recurssion error with taxonomy queries due to calling setup_post during get_terms query. WooCommerce then setup global $product, which called another taxonomy query, and so on.
- Fix: Bug when modified WP_Term_Query->terms arrays of ints were passed instead of epxected term objects.
v2.2.2 – 03/19/2024
- Fix: Bug with new taxonomy query filter. For now this is limited to the REST API only.
v2.2.1 – 03/18/2024
- Fix: Bug where the plugin had errors on taxonomy pages or queries.
- Fix: Error when Term query taxonomy arg was not an array.
v2.2.0 – 03/17/2024
- Feature: Add support for restricing content in the REST API.
- Feature: Add support for terms in WP term queries.
- Fix: Nav Menu Link user rule not working properly.
- Fix: Prevent «Required Upgrade» notices on new installs.
- Tweak: Only show «Required Upgrade» notices to admins with plugin management permissions.
- Dev:: Added new field type
for choosing users with search.
v2.1.0 – 12/08/2023
NOTE: Plugin now requires PHP 7.4+ & WP 6.2+. The plugin likely still works on older versions, but now only officialy support these versions and up.
- Improvement: Preloaded plugin settings on admin pages to decrease delay before settings are available to JS. This should help settings not showing up in the editor when first loading the page.
- Tweak: Changed
filter to include the $controls found in the block. - Tweak: Various style improvements to admin pages for consistency.
- Fix: Typo in fetching of taxonomy labels for rule generation. This could have led to rule search results not being shown with proper labels (or empty labels).
- Fix: Block scanner running for all users, not just admins, triggered AJAX events that were denied every time author entered block editor.
- Fix: Styling issues with WP 6.4 checkbox changes.
- Fix: Bug when filtering restrictions in the list view and no results remained, causing the filters to not work properly witoout a page refresh.
- Developer: Core plugin class now is extendible to allow addons to get full access to plugin internals.
- Developer: Added useFields api which will be used in future versions of the plugin to allow 3rd party plugins to add their own fields to the restriction editor.
- Developer: Added multiple new components for field organization and layout:
. - Developer: Added new
hook in JavaScript to allow addons to register their own data stores for use in the editor & settings pages. - Developer: Added new
PHP filter to allow addons to bypass user requirements for more specific restrictions.
v2.0.12 – 10/26/2023
- Fix: Prevent extra 301 redirect due to missing trailing slash on some URLs.
- Fix: Issue with Custom Message replacement not always working on pages built with Elementor.
v2.0.11 – 10/04/2023
- Improvement: Query Monitor integration to show which restrictions are active on a page.
- Shows global settings that may be affecting the page.
- Shows which restrictions are active on the page.
- Shows which posts are being filtered out of queries and by which restriction.
- Tweak: Ensure upgrade stream doesn't send headers if they were already sent.
- Tweak: Make second arg on get_the_excerpt filter optional to prevent errors with some plugins.
- Fix: Bug when using
filter that caused rules to not compare properly.
v2.0.10 – 10/01/2023
- Improvement: If no v1 global restrictions existed, skip the migration step entirely.
- Improvement: Default to late init of post query filtering until after plugins_loaded should be finished. This should prevent help prevent random errors due to restrictions being checked before plugins have had a chance to register their post types, and thus restrictions won't properly match those post type rules.
- Improvement: Add check to prevent restriction checks for WP CLI requests.
- Improvement: Add notice to indicate is when waiting for post/page search results in the restriction editor fields.
- Tweak: Fix issue in build that caused autoloader to not fully use optimized classmap, should result in improved performance.
- Fix: Ensure
is available before callingis_rest()
. This should prevent errors when using the plugin with WP CLI and when plugins makeWP_Query
calls duringplugins_loaded
. - Fix: Don't attempt to initialize side query filtering until after_theme_setup hook. This should prevent errors when plugins make
calls duringplugins_loaded
, and allow further delaying initialization if needed from themesfunctions.php
file. - Fix: Backward compatibility issue with WP versions <6.2 that made settings page not render.
- Fix: Bug where Block Controls didn't work on WooCommerce pages. This was filtering
but not returning a value. Now we run our check after theirs to ensure that bug has no effect on our plugin. Report
v2.0.9 – 09/24/2023
- Improvement: Better handling of restriction titles & content. Admins with priv can insert any content into the restriction messages.
Improvement: Added new filter
to allow delaying query filtering for compatibility with plugins that make custom queries beforetemplate_redirect
action.add_filter( 'content_control/query_filter_init_hook', function () {
return 'init'; // Try setup_theme, after_theme_setup, init or wp_loaded
} ); -
Tweak: Ensure our restriction checks work within a nested post loop.
- Tweak: Change how restriction title & descriptions were sent/received over Rest API.
- Fix: Bug that caused some shortcodes to not render properly.
- Fix: Bug where override message wasn't used.
- Fix: Bug where Elementor Post loop would render incorrectly when using ACF fields in the loop template.
v2.0.8 – 09/22/2023
- Tweak: Ignore many Elementor queries from being restricted.
- Fix: Error when required upgrade was marked as complete.
- Fix: Bug that caused secondary queries to be handled like main queries.
v2.0.7 – 09/21/2023
- Tweak: Only log each unique plugin debug notice once to prevent filling log files quickly.
- Tweak: Replace usage of
which is more performant. - Fix: Error in upgrades when no data is found to migrate.
- Fix: Error when function is called early & global $wp_query is not yet available.
- Fix: Conditional check that could always return false.
- Developer: Implemented PHP Static Analysis to catch more bugs before they happen. Currently clean on lvl 6.
v2.0.6 – 09/19/2023
- Improvement: Added data backup step to upgrade process that stores json export in the media library.
- Improvement: Better error handling in the data upgrade process.
- Fix: Fix bug in data upgrade process that caused it to never finish.
- Fix: Possible error when no restriction match found in some custom` queries.
v2.0.5 – 09/18/2023
- Fix: Fix errors on some sites with custom conditions due to registering all rules too early.
v2.0.4 – 09/18/2023
- Fix: Error when WP Query vars include anonymous function closures.
v2.0.3 – 09/18/2023
- Fix: Log errors instead of throwing exceptions to prevent uncaught exceptions turning into fatal errors.
v2.0.2 – 09/18/2023
- Fix: Fatal error from error logger on systems without write access.
v2.0.1 – 09/17/2023
- Fix: Fatal error from unregistered or unknown rule types from 3rd party plugins/themes or custom code. Now they are logged in plugin settings page.
v2.0.0 – 09/17/2023
- Feature: Restrict individual blocks in the Gutenberg editor.
- Feature: Restrict individual blocks in the Full Site Editor.
- Feature: Use a custom page template for restricted content.
- Feature: Restrict blocks by device type with customizable breakpoints.
- Feature: Restrict blocks by user status & role.
- Feature: Global restrictions now offer more control over how restricted content is handled.
- Choose to redirect or replace content with a custom page.
- Filter or hide posts in archives or custom loops.
- Secondary controls for posts if found in an archive.
- Improvement: Match or exclude specific roles.
- Improvement: Updated interface with intuitive and responsive controls.
- Improvement: Boolean editor improvements.
- Improvement: Control who can modify plugin settings.
- Improvement: Upgraded tooling & Code quality improvements.
v1.1.10 – 12/28/2022
- Security: Fix unescaped output for CSS classname in the [contentcontrol] shortcode allowing users with the ability to edit posts to inject code into the page.
v1.1.9 – 09/30/2021
- Fix: Error when using Gutenberg Preview.
v1.1.8 – 07/17/2021
- Fix: Error when Elementor instance preview proptery was null.
v1.1.7 – 07/17/2021
- Fix: Prevent warning if widget settings don't exist in options table.
- Fix: Arbitrary limit of 10 on current items listed in Restriction Editor due to WP query default args.
- Fix: Prevent restrictions from activating when using the Elementor page builder.
v1.1.6 – 03/21/2021
- Fix: Nonce validation was preventing 3rd party plugin from saving widget settings when it failed. Thanks @jacobmischka
- Fix: Prevent corrupted options from preventing saving of settings.
v1.1.5 – 02/22/2021
- Fix: Issue where roles with
would not save when checked.
v1.1.4 – 03/24/2020
- Improvement: Added gettext handling for several strings that were not translatable.
- Tweak: Process shortcodes in default denial message contents.
- Tweak: Various improvements in form reliability & user experience.
- Fix: Issues with ajax search fields not retaining their values after save.
- Fix: Issue where only would show 10 pages.
- Fix: PHP 7.4 compatibility fixes.
v1.1.3 – 12/03/2019
- Fix: Custom post type conditions were not always registered.
v1.1.2 – 11/10/2019
- Tweak: Remove erroneous console.log messages in admin.
- Fix: Fatal error when empty shortcode used.
v1.1.1 – 10/15/2019
- Fix: Bugs where variables were not always the expected type.
- Improvement: Added default denial message to shortcode.
- Improvement: Render nested shortcodes in the [content_control] shortcode.
- Fix: Bug where multiple roles checked together in restriction editor.
- Fix: Minor notice on activation.
- Fix: Call to undefined function.
- Fix: Non static method called statically
- Fix: Bug when using invalid variable type.
- Initial Release


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MOBILE, Ala. — Officers who mistakenly entered a home trying to arrest an Alabama man who was already in jail shot a woman who was inside, news outlets reported.
Ann Rylee, 19, was wounded during the raid on Thursday, television news outlets quoted family members as saying. They said she was hospitalized and was expected to survive.
Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran told WALA-TV that officers shot Rylee after she pointed a shotgun at them. He said a "miscommunication" led to officers being at the home in the first place.
Mobile County sheriff's deputies joined federal officers at a home in the Wilmer community looking for Nicholas McLeod, who used to live there. Jail records show he was actually arrested a day earlier on charges including possession of drug paraphernalia and evidence tampering.
A nephew, Christopher McLeod, told news outlets he was outside the house emptying the trash with a friend before work when multiple officers armed with rifles and wearing body armor pulled up in vehicles and demanded that they put up their hands.
"They were looking for someone who used to live at that house years ago. He was my uncle," McLeod said.
McLeod said he told them Rylee, his fiancée, was inside the house asleep in a recliner in the living room, where they kept a shotgun for protection. Two federal marshals who had approached the home started yelling "gun" and fired multiple times, he said.
"They had us face down in the dirt outside the whole time this was going on," McLeod said.
McLeod said Rylee was shot multiple times and underwent surgery.
"I just hope she's OK. That's my No. 1," McLeod said. "It's just so unfortunate because none of this needed to happen, it had nothing to do with us. We're just victims of an unfortunate situation."
The sheriff said it wasn't clear why officers didn't know that the person they were looking for already was in jail.
"We do know that there is a miscommunication in this situation. We don't know the exact cause. We have narrowed it down to one of two things," he said.
Officers shot the woman after she refused orders to drop the shotgun, he said.
"If she would not have pointed a gun at the agents they would have determined all that on the scene and would have bid her a 'good day and thank you very much,'" Cochran said.


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I support Barack Obama for president, because his positions on mental health care and the pharmaceutical industry make the most sense for the American people.
Positions on Mental Health Care
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) sent questionnaires to the candidates about their views on mental health issues. You can view the responses of both Obama and McCain on the NAMI website.
What is most striking immediately is that only Obama bothered to answer the questionnaire, providing specific responses to each of 24 questions crucial to mental health care in America.
McCain, on the other hand, issued a four paragraph generic position statement with few specifics. His mental health plan revolves around controlling costs and calling on Americans to take more "personal responsibility." For example, he states:
"I have stressed the central role of personal responsibility in leading to lower health care costs. Personal fitness and better lifestyles, especially reduction in addictions of all types – food, narcotics, or cigarettes – can yield dramatic improvements in the cost of chronic illness and high cost medical care. We can do a better job of treating addictions, but we also have an obligation to do a better job of teaching our children the benefits of good lifestyles and the perils of addictive activities."
Who can argue against personal responsibility? Unfortunately, treating mental illness is a wee bit more complicated than telling patients to "just say no."
Obama has tangibly demonstrated support of mental health treatment by:
--Strongly supporting mental health parity legislation. While both Obama and McCain voted for the federal Mental Health Parity Act, only Obama co-sponsored the legislation. In addition, he actively supported mental health parity in Illinois as a state senator.
--Calling for mental health screening of veterans to treat PTSD and prevent suicide, two growing problems among vets. Ironically for a war hero, McCain has voted repeatedly against increased funding for veteran's outpatient services, and specifically voted against a provision that would have allocated $500 million for VA mental health services.
Positions on the Pharmaceutical Industry
While McCain has the reputation of being "tough" on drug companies (see this pharma marketing network forum), in reality, Obama supports proposals that would more substantially bring the costs of drugs down.
Both candidates support allowing re-importation of medications from Canada, and both support eliminating loopholes in generic drug law that allow companies to pay generic manufacturers to delay the release of cheaper drugs by 6 months.
But only Obama wants to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices with companies, which was the crucial element missing from Medicate Part D. McCain has taken no position on this issue.
To summarize, Barack Obama has demonstrated greater leadership on measures ensuring that psychiatric patients receive the care they deserve, and will fight to decrease the inflated costs of prescription medications.


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Josh (Cheese) Bush from Twolofbees.com let me know that has made an interview with rotektor (Tim Jung) who has recently been appointed GNU/Linux Games Lead for Desura , it comes with 3 parts – so here is the first part (the others will be published on his website in the next few weeks).
Parts Two and Three are now published !
"Hi there
I recently did an interview with Protektor (Tim Jung), who has recently been appointed Linux Games Lead for Desura and is overseeing title acquisition for the upcoming Desura Linux client.
In the first part, we talk about development of the Linux client and what it's like to scout for native/Open Source games. Parts two and three (which focus on the Desura/Fee Software communities, and what the impacts on Linux as a gaming platform might be) should be up within a week or so.
With Desura's Linux client just around the corner, this is a pretty exciting glimpse into the near future. If you want to do a news post about the interview, feel free"
So here is the first part of the interview
Over the past few weeks, I've been corresponding with Protektor (Tim Jung), who has recently been appointed Linux Games Lead for Desura and is overseeing title acquisition for the upcoming Desura Linux client.
In this three part interview, Protektor shares his thoughts on Linux title scouting, community interaction and how Desura's Linux client might impact on Linux as a desktop platform.
How long have you been a member of the Desura community?
I became a member of Desura in April of 2011, when the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle came out. The Desura community is great and I have enjoyed being a member.
How did you come about landing the role of "Linux Games Lead", and can you sum up what that entails?
I started emailing Desura to encourage them to do the Linux version of the client. I sent them a huge list of Linux games that have the potential to sell if deals can be worked out with the developers. Desura was already working on the Linux client, and the founder, Scott Reismanis asked me to be the Linux Games Lead. It is my job to assist developers in the packaging of their Linux games for the Desura platform, or if the developer chooses, I can simply do it for them. My second responsibility is to recruit Linux game developers to offer their games for sale through Desura.
Can you give a rundown on a typical exchange you might have with a game developer when trying to convince them to release a game on Desura for Linux?
Needless to say I am going to point out the benefits of offering their games on Desura. Those benefits include providing one stop shopping for both Windows and Linux platforms, and eventually Mac as well. Developers can focus on developing and use Desura to interact more closely with their customers. We manage the sales for a very reasonable cost to the developer. When downloaded from Desura, games are set to auto install, and updates will also be auto installed for games purchased from Desura.
Are there any Linux native titles that will be on Desura that you can mention at the moment?
We have a number of developers under contract. The catalog currently includes:
* Alien Arena
* Evolution RTS
* M.A.R.S. – a ridiculous shooter
* PlaneShift
* Red Eclipse
* Smokin' Guns
* TripleA
* UFO: Alien Invasion
* Vertigo
* Warsow
* World of Padman
* Xonotic
* Zero Ballistics
* A.Typical RPG
* Air Forte
* Amnesia: The Dark Descent
* And Yet It Moves
* Atom Zombie Smasher
* Braid
* Cogs
* Conquest: Divide and Conquer
* Crayon Physics Deluxe
* Family Farm
* Hacker Evolution: Duality
* Hacker Evolution: Untold
* Incognito Episode 1
* Incognito Episode 2
* Incognito Episode 3
* King Arthur's Gold
* Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot
* Machinarium
* Osmos
* Penumbra: Overture
* Project Zomboid
* Puzzle Moppet
* Survivors of Ragnarok
* Revenge of the Titans
* Samorost 2
* Shadowgrounds
* Shadowgrounds Survivor
* Sickbrick
* Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
* Trine
* World of Goo
Can you describe (if it's appropriate) the milestones leading up to the release of the Linux client. Are there lessons learned from the Windows launch that have been helpful in avoiding pitfalls in development of the Linux client?
Keith (Platima) here, I thought I'd respond to this one as it's more about the development process itself than the games. I personally wasn't around for the Windows development as I only joined the team this year, but as far as porting an existing application to a new platform goes I'd always recommend to design and document the program with cross-platform in mind from day one. Luckily a fair bit of this was already in place with Desura which made things a little easier. It's of course always best to support cross-platform from the start. Not doing so is like trying to eat your steak with a spoon when there's a perfectly good knife there for you to use, and just as difficult too.
When looking at prospective titles, what sort of things are taken into account? Are there any special considerations taken for Linux titles?
Well first and foremost we want the game to be able to run bug-free on as many platforms as possible. So for Linux that will mean the game runs on newer distros (hopefully in 32bit and 64bit mode). Beyond that we consider all games using the same criteria that is currently being used for Windows games. Does it fit the Desura community, ease of game play, popularity, quality of graphics etc. Of course we will be looking at demand for the game as well.
Do you think that there is a demand for older Linux native games that are now harder to find (eg: anything published by Loki games)?
There probably is a demand for the older games, but in the case of Loki acquiring the necessary source code/rights could take an extended period of time to research who actually owns the code, and then the rights for distribution. The short answer is I don't see Loki games being a part of our catalogue in the near future.
Will you be looking at Free/Open Source games as potential titles to be delivered via Desura? Will the selection/approval process differ from the process for proprietary/closed source titles?
In terms of Open Source or free games we will be using the same criteria, however instead of considering purchase demand, it will be a question of the Desura community wanting to download and play the game. The more likely that is the more likely a release, as we only have time to do a few releases a day at the moment so we have to be selective.
There are many good games in many genres available on Linux. We hope we will be able showcase some of the lesser known but still very good games available on the Linux platform. We want our users to know that there is thriving market of games for the Linux Desktop just as there is for Windows or Mac.
If you could choose one game to magically (we all know it doesn't work like that!) support Linux tomorrow, what would it be and why?
Personally the one game title currently I would love to see magically appear for Linux would be "Deus Ex: Human Revolution". I have been a fan of the series, and the cyberpunk genre in general, for years. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but the reviews for it have been good and it looks great. I would love to see it happen, but somehow I doubt that Edios and Square/Enix are sitting in their offices thinking if they should port it to Linux or not.
If we just wanted to talk most popular games that were more likely, it would end up being The Sims series, Guild Wars and then the Battlefield series. I assume those would be big sellers for Desura if they were available, given the numbers they have sold for Windows/Mac. Personally, I love Guild Wars and the Battlefield series and I used to play both of them with some regularity.
For the big publishers it is always a numbers game. If it costs them X to port the game to Linux knowing it will earn them Y, we just need to make Y a much bigger number than X and it'll happen. It's a challenge and one we don't expect to solve overnight, but with the Linux gaming communities support we aim to make it happen one game at a time.
Meklu: How is packaging of the Desura Linux client likely to be handled? *
Initially we are only distributing the self-installer as a single binary compressed in a tar.gz, however we are looking at doing a MojoSetup style installer and distributing .deb packages as things settle down a bit. This will hopefully lead to us being able to get Desura into the Ubuntu Software Center, and other repositories.
Meklu: Are you able to give a rough estimate of how long it will take to add mod support? Where does this fit within the Linux client roadmap? *
Mod support isn't something that we're looking at right now, but of course it is a feature on our minds. I couldn't begin to estimate how long it will take, as there are a lot of factors that would have to be taken into account, and more research will need to be done. We have initially launched without mod support as the complexities in Linux far outweigh those in Windows.
That's it for part one. In part two, we'll look at matters relating to the Desura and Free Software communities. Keep an eye out for it within the next couple of days.
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Indigestion is perhaps the most common ailment affecting people today. A multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry has emerged to provide over-the-counter remedies to sufferers. Why do so many people suffer from indigestion and why don't traditional remedies for indigestion correct the problem rather than merely provide temporary relief from its symptoms? The reason is that digestion is a very complex process.
It is very difficult to know exactly which step in the digestive process is at fault. The symptoms of indigestion and other digestive problems such as heartburn, gas, bloating, nausea, and cramps are vague and there are no lab tests to define the exact problem.
Indigestion has many causes. One of the most common causes is a deficiency in stomach acid (HCl). This inability to produce adequate stomach acid is common in people over 50 years of age who are free of gastric disease. Some studies even report as high as 25-35% of the elderly have this condition.
The lack of acid (HCl) secretion in the stomach was found in 14-20% of patients in the hospital for conditions other than gastric disease or pernicious anemia. This condition is diagnosed when the pH of the gastric contents fails to drop below 6.5 following maximal stimulation. The "resting pH" of the stomach, when empty, is normally 5.0 to 6.0.
HCl is critical for proper protein digestion in the stomach because it adjusts the pH of the stomach to allow protein digestion to occur. HCl changes pepsinogen to the active proteolytic enzyme, pepsin, and maintains the highly acidic pH needed for pepsin's activity. Stomach acid activates this enzyme, it does not destroy it.
The secretion of HCl and pepsinogen are governed by separate mechanisms. This is the reason that the pepsinogen concentration in the gastric juices of those who are lacking stomach acid is very close to normal in many cases.
Physiologists have confirmed that HCl is produced from one cell and pepsinogen is produced from another. This means that the body may be producing enough pepsinogen but it is still unable to properly digest protein because of an insufficient amount of HCl.
So, what can be done to improve digestion and relieve the symptoms that result when the body cannot produce adequate amounts of stomach acid? The answer is enzymes. Protein digestion can be improved with food enzymes that "predigest" food in the stomach. Plant enzymes are capable of digesting food before your own digestive process begins. In other words, plant enzymes can enhance the digestion of food and the delivery of nutrients to the blood even when the patient has a compromised digestive system.


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We set about writing this article about AI content writers with some trepidation. Scroll down to see our List of AI Content Writers.
Is it to fundamentalists to argue that leaving the writing to a machine, no matter how brilliant, is a foolish idea? That it will surely result in not only fraudulent but also dangerous information, given that no machine can distinguish between right and evil, let alone more balanced ethical issues.
Feeding the online world could infect future minds by cluttering it with wrong and out-of-date content.
Then we all calmed down. Yes, we made a decision. Only a Luddite would disagree that, when applied effectively, AI writers should improve writing. It should be capable of transforming boring informative content into exciting, information-packed, and authoritative writing.
Never Forget "A" is for Artificial when Using AI Content
There are compelling reasons to regard AI content writers as only a tool. AI content writer apps' ability to assist authors in producing intriguing and helpful work is advancing by leaps and bounds. Even if we merely look back a year, it has increased significantly.
However, keep in mind that the word "artificial" in the name Artificial Intelligence is there for a purpose.
The video below illustrates how one software uses artificial intelligence in conjunction with YouTube video embedding to make amazing posts on trending topics:
Thorough Proofreading and Fact-checking
- The best of these apps, with extensive editing and fact-checking, may, at the very least, inspire young bright writers to begin their blogging careers by lowering the entrance fee for new bloggers.
The fact is that an increasing number of people are forced to choose between needing either:
could hire non-expert writers to create rich speciality content for their website from scratch, or hire fewer people to verify, revise, and update AI-generated written content,
They have chosen the AI option. (To try this yourself, see our list of AI Content Writers below.)
AI does, at the very least, have the ability to analyse highly-niched data in order to bring forth knowledge that would never have been known to the layperson through research. Obscure niche topics can grow into highly successful sites over time, and AI can undoubtedly help with SEO when new enterprises want to access those burgeoning industries. AI Content Writers Explained
AI content writers are a form of machine intelligence created writer who employs algorithms to create material and can frequently produce high-quality content faster than you could. While these authors are more efficient than humans, the quality of their text varies. Therefore are far from perfect, and they require human modification.
By hiring an AI content writer, you will be able to focus on developing the most value material for your website while avoiding the issues that come with hiring a terrible writer or a trash freelancer. Furthermore, for all apps on our List of AI Content Writers, you can be confident that the content you receive will be free of copyright concerns. However, double-checking if it is correct is a good policy. You can always use Copyscape to check for plagiarism.
List of AI Content Writers
Choosing the ideal AI content writer is influenced by a number of factors, including the size of your team. Check out the list of AI Content Writers below:
MarketMuse is an innovative AI content producer for small-to-medium-sized enterprises that assists you every step of the way. There is a free trial option as well as premium plans, but all of the paid ones are incredibly pricey. It may be suitable for individuals with deep pockets, however, the free version is severely limited in terms of the queries that can be performed.
According to MarketMuse's promotional materials, it is the best AI content writer and will be able to produce several pieces of content swiftly. The cost of an AI content writer is determined by the amount of content searching work you want the writer to complete as well as the sophistication of their methods for determining the correct content requirements required to bring in top Google rankings. Free resources will always necessitate extensive modifications.
Jasper's (formerly Jarvis)
Jarvis is an artificial intelligence writing assistant with over fifty copywriting templates. The software can generate content for blogs, social media accounts, advertisements, and email campaigns. Jarvis' AI engine generates unique text by using OpenAI and GPT-3 technology. You may also track your progress and see how far your wordsmith has come. Jarvis is appropriate for both beginner bloggers and professional agencies. It has a lot to offer with its diverse set of features and low pricing.
You may use Jasper's artificial intelligence (AI) to generate digital content ranging from articles and blog posts to social media posts and sales pages. It is, in my opinion, one of the most effective content marketing strategies for the year 2022!
You may write full-length blogs in minutes rather than hours or days using jasper. AI. The quantity of previous posts, articles, and instructions on your website is determined by your business and content strategy. In truth, most bloggers spend hundreds of hours of writing time because most internet users are unaware of their existence. Why aren't there more visitors, leads, and money as a result of the content? The reason for this is that others write content that is simply better optimised for search engines, and it is their stuff that is seen rather than yours.
If this is the case, as it is for the majority of excellent content writers, you can regain lost traffic and money by re-optimizing previously published work. Using the Jasper-connected optimization software "Surfer." The two collaborate to create articles that are both excellent writing and will be found on search engines.
For example, Zyro generates many variants of a paragraph, which you may mix to create a more thorough piece. Furthermore, free AI content writers are ideal for writing short-form content when you are at a loss for words. According to Zyro, its free AI paragraph writing tool allows anyone to easily develop a stunning website or open an online business with no work. However, it is not designed to produce long pieces, and we believe you will struggle to write more than a few paragraphs using it.
Aside from the AI writers on our List of AI Content Writers, there are other AI technologies that can assist you in creating great content. Writesonic, for example, is a competing AI writing tool. Natural language processing is used by this AI programme to discover keywords and context. Its low prices and features make it an excellent alternative for small businesses. However, it may be advantageous for larger corporations.
WordHero is another AI content writer that may assist you in creating original content. This application employs eight distinct deep learning models to generate high-quality, plagiarism-free material. This tool is available in three different versions: free, unlimited, and saver. It is suggested for persons who want to save time when generating material. It has a reasonable price range. So, while selecting an AI content writer, keep in mind that you might go with one that offers a free trial plan.
CopyMatic has a number of capabilities, such as article writing and landing page generation. To develop text that converts, the AI is trained on a variety of leading brands. The software can also create a succession of content variants dependent on the type of material. Furthermore, it can generate several text versions that are targeted to your audience. This artificial intelligence content writer is available on JVZOO and may be viewed from any device.
GPT-3 is regarded as the most powerful language model yet devised. GPT-2, its predecessor, was already capable to generate believable streams of writing in a variety of genres when given an initial sentence. GPT-3, on the other hand, is a huge step forward. The model includes 175 billion parameters (the values that a neural network tries to optimise during training), compared to GPT-2's 1.5 billion. And size does matter when it comes to language models. However, according to reports, it should be used with caution because GPT-3 is still prone to hurling sexist and racist slurs.
AI.com AI Content Maker
Using a sophisticated AI-based software writer, such as that supplied by AI.com, that can generate material ranging from short-form concepts such as sales copy to long-form blog entries and essays, may assist you in increasing the popularity of your website. The ai.com AI content generator is compatible with two AI engines:
Tinyseed, on the other hand, generates low-quality but high-volume data at a slower rate than Open AI gpt-3.
The alternative, on the other hand, involves more fact-checking and editing due to the generated content. Professional content developers understand how much time and effort it takes to create high-quality content that actually engages their target audience.If you're writing blog posts or articles or even interacting with your audience on social media, it can be a tedious process to develop information that not only informs but also speaks to their hearts.
List of AI Content Writers Conclusion
The finest AI content writer for your website is determined by how much you value quality and uniqueness. AI content writer tools aren't yet ideal, and they won't be able to write your material flawlessly. However, the content generated by these technologies should be of good quality.
If you want high-quality, error-free writing, you can hire an AI content writer who employs numerous models. When utilised to write sales content, this can significantly enhance conversion rates. However, before you make your decision, you should be aware of the limitations of these instruments.
While you may pay a human writer to create website content, AI writers can also create marketing copy. AI writers can even compose blog entries, social media captions, and even full-length books. AI content writers are capable of producing a wide range of content and maybe the solution to your content writing problems. You may read more about these artificial intelligence content writer tools and select the finest one for your website.
Artificial intelligence (AI) content writers may be taking over the role of content writers, and we encourage you to think about how AI content writer tools might help you progress as a professional content writer.
You can also repurpose old articles, blogs, and other content by using content generators. Another creative application of AI is utilising it to create in-demand and trending content based on popular YouTube videos, which you can learn more about here. https://ippts.net/content-gorilla
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CBN.com - NEW YORK -- At the conclusion of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, have conquered the White Witch. For their efforts they become kings and queens of Narnia. But for Peter there is extra incentive. He has been crowned High King. There is no greater honor. The kingdom of Narnia is his.
Yet we find a very different Peter Pevensie at the beginning of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, a new movie from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. Following a reign of 15 years, the Pevensie children are hurtled back into a world they know all too well – World War II England.
While the other three children certainly struggle to re-acclimate themselves into society, the transition is the hardest on Peter. He finds himself in one predicament after another culminating with a fight in a subway station that he loses. He is far cry from the bold and noble king who Narnians adored.
"(Peter) has to go back to school for a year," explains Prince Caspian screenwriter Stephen McFeeley. "Whereas you were signing treaties, defeating giants, and bringing people together, now you are doing homework and not going to the prom."
Perhaps you have found yourself in a similar situation. You are the very best at what you do. People look to you for leadership, wisdom, and a sense of confidence that goes beyond any other. But everything changes in an instant. Perhaps you lose your job, you are demoted, or people just lose faith in you. This is an incredibly difficult position to be in. Yet through it all you are left with a simple choice. You can wallow in your misfortune or you can make the best of your circumstances. If you choose the latter option a time of great growth and learning is likely to ensue.
Upon his return to Narnia 1,300 years later, Peter finds everything is different yet in many ways it is the same. He is still revered as a king by Narnians but discovers the land he once ruled belongs to someone else. Further complicating matters, the person who can help Peter restore the land to his people is also the one who will succeed him – Prince Caspian.
"I think that at the end of the day leadership is about serving other people," says William Moseley, who plays Peter in Prince Caspian. "It is about a place or a country and not serving yourself. Peter had to learn that very valuable lesson and reinstate his trust in Aslan. Peter obviously needs to pass the torch on to Prince Caspian and has to pass the torch on very honorably and nobly."
When we are faced with humbling experiences it is often easy to turn away from God and try to govern our lives independently of our faith. This was very true in Peter Pevensie's case. Instead of relying completely on Aslan to guide his steps, Peter uses poor judgment by trying to lead the Narnians by his own might.
As Christians, we sometimes approach decision making in similar fashion. According to author Gene Veith, the world around us either consumes us or loses all meaning for us. We begin to seek meaning from our own inner feelings. Our own self-interests rule the day. The end result is that we might consult God at some level but when it comes to the big decisions, we often act out of our own selfish impulses without taking God into account.
Such is the fate of Peter in Prince Caspian. His decisions are bold, concise, even daring but are not rooted in his faith. People respond to him affirmatively but he can tell there isn't a high degree of respect for him. Something is lacking.
"Peter just decided that he would do things without Aslan," says Moseley. "He thought that he could take it on. But Aslan sort of took his fight from him. He took on the White Witch but Aslan came in and saved the day."
Peter leads his people into a climactic battle against the Telmarines in a conquest that will determine the fate of Narnia. It will either continue to be ruled by Prince Caspian's evil uncle King Miraz or fall back into the rightful hands of the creatures of Narnia. Even though Peter turns his back on Aslan, the mighty lion intercedes and protects his people from annihilation. Narnia is victorious. Peter should be ecstatic but he isn't. He realizes that something far greater than him has insured victory. It is the protective and watchful eye of Aslan.
Rather than take credit, Peter humbles himself before Aslan and the people of Narnia by making a great sacrifice. He relinquishes his position as High King to Prince Caspian. Doing so will require his departure from the land he loves. But he knows it is the right thing to do. He has regained his faith.
"I think the scene where Peter hands over his sword to Prince Caspian is probably the biggest sign of change we see," says Andrew Adamson, Prince Caspian's director. "He lived 15 years as the High King, conquering the giants, all those kinds of things. Now he has to pass that on and accept that he is going back to being a school boy. That is a pretty hard change."
"Peter has been one thing, it has been taken away from him, and now he is trying to figure out who he is and how does he prove it," adds Prince Caspian screenwriter Chris Markus. "That rates as a huge failure on his part. But he is sort of stiffly heroic in that he is the leader and he wins (with Aslan's help)."
In I Kings 2:3, it is written, "And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn …"
As Peter Pevensie realized in his relationship with Aslan, obeying God is more than a choice of convenience, it is a command. As God's children, we are to listen to Him, following and obeying all that He teaches us so we may not grieve His spirit. Jesus Christ obeyed His father giving to us the supreme example of obedience. He obeyed to the point of death.*
The obedient spirit reaches its highest point when it desires to obey in thought and attitude – not through mere lip service.
God promises us success in all that we do, wherever we turn, in good times or bad. All we need to do is follow His commandments and delight to do His will.*
Are you a Peter Pevensie? If you are, consider the words of Aslan: "You learn all you can and your trust is 100 percent in me."
* Portions contained within this article from the Transformer Study Bible.
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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
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Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn—or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to "fix" her own brain. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain interweaves her personal tale with riveting case histories from her more than thirty years of working with both children and adults. Recent discoveries in neuroscience have conclusively demonstrated that, by engaging in certain mental tasks or activities, we actually change the structure of our brains—from the cells themselves to the connections between cells. The capability of nerve cells to change is known as neuroplasticity, and Arrowsmith-Young has been putting it into practice for decades. With great inventiveness, after combining two lines of research, Barbara developed unusual cognitive calisthenics that radically increased the functioning of her weakened brain areas to normal and, in some areas, even above-normal levels. She drew on her intellectual strengths to determine what types of drills were required to target the specific nature of her learning problems, and she managed to conquer her cognitive deficits. Starting in the late 1970s, she has continued to expand and refine these exercises, which have benefited thousands of individuals. Barbara founded Arrowsmith School in Toronto in 1980 and then the Arrowsmith Program to train teachers and to implement this highly effective methodology in schools all over North America. Her work is revealed as one of the first examples of neuroplasticity's extensive and practical application. The idea that self-improvement can happen in the brain has now caught fire. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain powerfully and poignantly illustrates how the lives of children and adults struggling with learning disorders can be dramatically transformed. This remarkable book by a brilliant pathbreaker deepens our understanding of how the brain works and of the brain's profound impact on how we participate in the world. Our brains shape us, but this book offers clear and hopeful evidence of the corollary: we can shape our brains.


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The Catholic Encyclopedia contains more than 10,000 articles. It gives full and authoritative information on the Catholic interests, action and doctrine. It was begun in January, 1905 and is designed to present the full body of Catholic teaching and the results of the latest research in theology, philosophy, history, apologetics, archaeology, and other sciences.
- The work is entirely new, and not merely a translation or a compilation from other encyclopedic sources. The editors have insisted that the articles should contain the latest and most accurate information to be obtained from the standard works on each subject... Representing as they do Catholic scholarship in every part of the world, they give the work an international character. [1]
The encyclopedia was published in 1913, and thus does not include information regarding the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and the important changes it brought about. The Catholic University of America currently maintains The New Catholic Encyclopedia, though this encyclopedia is protected by copyright and is not available for free online reading.
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The Next Frock by Friday Is.....
September 30, 2010
The Gail Frock! I'll be showing how to make the alterations so that it more closely resembles the Modcloth frock. So print the patter and buy your material for next week. I'll be giving periodic updates on the frock to my followers. So please follow the blog for those.
And since the second frock was soooo popular I do plan on using it as November's FBF.
Stay tuned for a Thrift Store Thursday post later today! It's a good one:) (I think)
18 {comments}:
Yay, glad I voted.
Grosgrain: where every vote really counts because there's no electoral college. - September 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Danse De La Fleur said...
Awesome! I'll definitely be following this one :)
What fabrics/notions would you suggest? - September 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Britta said...
I'm so thrilled to participate in this again! Yeah! One question though, what kind of fabric would you recommend for a beginning sewer? I'm confident I can execute the dress, but on the other hand I don't want to spend tons of money on silk just in case I do an awful, awful job.
- September 30, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Rochelle Barlow said...
Can we do the Madison next month? Pretty please?
- September 30, 2010 at 12:53 PM
- Darsana said...
Another request for fabric help! What kind fabrics should we consider (especially as beginners?) and should we buying extra lace if we're doing ModCloth mods?
- September 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Sewing Princess said...
I also loved the one that didn't win... can we do it for next month and maybe add sleeves?
thanks and congratulations on your book deal... I hope some of your unique designs will be included! - September 30, 2010 at 3:13 PM
- Grosgrain said...
That's what I plan to do:) - September 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Thank you for doing Madison next month! That's a great consolation prize :)
- September 30, 2010 at 5:45 PM
- jennifer said...
...so do you buy a piece of big lace for the top?..and where do you get that?
- September 30, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- Gail said...
My name is Gail so I guess I should sew along!
- October 1, 2010 at 1:27 AM
- Unknown said...
Thanks girlfriend...can't wait!
- October 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM
I'm headed to the fabric store tomorrow and would love some guidance on what kind of fabric to get and what other notions I might need. Thank you!!
- October 1, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Grosgrain said...
I wrote a post to my followers about this issue. See here:
I just don't want too many FBF cluttering my front page. - October 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Thank you!!!
- October 1, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- jessi_O said...
This will be my first time following!! Can't wait~
:) - October 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM
- Marie said...
Best of both worlds! So excited to be doing both dresses... even if I have to wait till November for my own top choice ;) Looking forward to sewing!
- October 2, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- jessi_O said...
This will be the first time i follow along! I can't wait :)
- October 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM
I think the FBF is a lovely concept and I would like to join in and learn from these.
I clicked on the follow the blog link but there seems to be a problem(it says sorry come back later). Could you help me out please...
leena - October 3, 2010 at 7:04 AM