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6 People Who Turned the Tables on Government Surveillance
Call us old-fashioned, but if you're going to go through the trouble of spying on your enemy, you might as well do your homework: buy some good equipment, get a background check, borrow a trench coat, etc. What you don't want to do is half-ass something that can end up getting you and your country into a heap of trouble. After all, it's a fine line between being a badass spy and being a wacky bumbling spy character played by Kevin James.
#6. The CIA Can't Tell the Difference Between Lesbians and Dog Lovers
Let us tell you about the time the CIA got involved in a slapstick misunderstanding that would have been considered too goofy for an episode of Frasier.
The whole ridiculous thing started when, in the 1990s, the CIA wound up spying (in a roundabout way) on one of America's own ambassadors. That's not the misunderstanding -- they were doing that on purpose. What, you thought the CIA only spied on enemies? Foreign affairs are more complicated than that, we're afraid.
"She's on to us! Pretend you're stargazing."
At the time, there was a civil war in Guatemala. The U.S. was backing the government, and that government did some pretty awful things (during the war, 200,000 people were killed, and over 40,000 disappeared). However, America's ambassador to Guatemala, Marilyn McAfee, was pretty free about criticizing said government. The government that was backed by the CIA.
So, at one point a Guatemalan colonel ordered the Guatemalan Intelligence Service (GIS) to bug McAfee's office in the hope of digging up some dirt on her that he could then use to curry favor with his CIA handler. And he got his dirt: evidence that the married McAfee was having a lesbian affair. At one point they heard her say, "Oh, Murphy ... I love you. Give me some kisses. You're such a bad girl ..." Note that that McAfee's secretary was a lady named Carol Murphy. Busted!
Via Embassyofafghanistan.org
When you scissor out of wedlock, you scissor the American flag in half.
The colonel relayed the evidence of this scandalous situation to his friends at the CIA. The agency began deeply investigating McAfee's life, recording a detailed log of both McAfee and Murphy's movements. The CIA station chief then confronted McAfee about it, and she was confused, to say the least.
See, in the course of their investigation, the CIA happened to somehow miss certain other details about McAfee's life, like how she owned a small poodle that was also named Murphy.
God, no, you disgusting freak! Wait, she was just ... Oooooohhh, OK.
Yep, what the Guatemalans and CIA believed was evidence of a hot lesbian affair was a recording of McAfee petting her dog.
#5. Student Finds GPS Device on Car, FBI Demands It Back
Imagine you take your car to the shop for an oil change. As the car is raised, you notice an odd wire sticking out from the bottom. Upon closer inspection, you see it is part of a device attached to your car, a device that includes a big metal tube-shaped container and transmitter. That's weird. Do you:
A. Shit your pants because you think it's a pipe bomb.
B. Ask the mechanic to pull it off your car, then take pictures and upload them to Reddit asking for advice.
"Sorry, officer, but this is one of those rare 'you wish' moments."
If you're 20-year-old American college student Yasir Afifi, you choose B. Which was a brave choice, considering his deceased father was a Muslim community leader, he logs a lot of flight time making frequent trips to the Middle East and his stoned-off-their-asses friends thought it was a bomb for sure. Try picturing the cast of Half-Baked as you read the Reddit post and you get a sense of how bizarre the situation seemed. By the way, this was what they were looking at:
Via Reddit
"I've seen one in my mom's underwear drawer. Does that mean she's being tracked, too?"
Within a very short amount of time, the world's most trustworthy source of information (aka Internet users) identified the gizmo as a Guardian ST820, a tracking device sold exclusively to law enforcement agencies. And if you're wondering, yes, law enforcement agencies could, at the time, legally implant tracking devices without a warrant. But more on that in a moment.
So in October 2010, Yasir Afifi had some kind of GPS gizmo on his hands -- one that he knew was placed there by someone in some kind of authority. He did what any 20-year-old college student would do -- he considered selling it on Craigslist. But before he got the chance, he was confronted with half a dozen FBI agents at his apartment complex. They wanted their GPS tracker back, please.
Via Reddit
"Trust me, you wouldn't want it back if you knew where it's been."
Without even a hint of embarrassment at their own incompetence, the agents indicated that Afifi had been under surveillance for three to six months, and that they knew he had a new job and that he was going to Dubai in a few weeks. Then they asked a gaggle of questions -- did he know anyone who was traveling to Yemen, was he friends with anybody undergoing military training, was the friend who posted the pictures on Reddit a straight up terrorist? And then they giggled and told him he didn't need to call his lawyer, saying "Don't worry, you're boring." Case closed!
Two side notes: One, Yasir Afifi hooked himself right up with the ACLU and sued the federal government over the whole ordeal. And two, in January 2012 the Supreme Court ruled (in a different case) that, yes, from now on police need a warrant before placing a tracking device on a suspect.
"That's strange. According to this, he's just been sitting on the side of the highway for six days."
#4. Operation Igloo White
Let's play a game. Imagine that we're Cracked.com and you're the leader in charge of American forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. (We never said it would be a fun game.)
Here's your problem: The enemy army in North Vietnam is trucking supplies and soldiers into South Vietnam via a road called the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And this "road" isn't an asphalt highway featuring access roads and exit ramps where you can easily set up a roadblock to thwart Charlie. It runs through the jungles of Laos, Cambodia and both Vietnams, and by 1973 the entire road was under canopy. Meaning whole convoys of commies could get from one end to the other without detection from the air. So, you're in charge of stopping them. What are you going to do about it?
Sabotage, baby.
If you're Secretary of State Robert S. McNamara, you're going to get $1.7 billion worth of electronic sensors up in that shit. During Operation Igloo White, over 20,000 acoustic and seismic sensors were airdropped along the road and monitored by orbiting aircraft 24 hours a day. When the sensors detected a target, an alarm would be triggered at headquarters and planes would be given the coordinates, and then they'd level the area with bombs. There is no way this could ever possibly go wrong. And in fact the operation reported destroying 35,000 North Vietnamese trucks! Good job, guys!
Except not exactly. The results seemed a little too good -- for instance, the Air Force's own numbers estimated there weren't that many trucks in North Vietnam, period, much less clogging the path of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And there was scant evidence of the aftermath of all of these successfully bombed targets. So what was the deal?
"We're just gonna go ahead and round this one up to 35,000 and call it a day."
The deal was that the North Vietnamese weren't idiots. They discovered the sensors, messed with them to make them go off and ran away giggling while the Americans scrambled to bomb that spot. Specifically, the enemy soldiers were playing tape recorded truck noises or driving empty vehicles along the road as decoys. Some of the sensors were designed to detect bodies, like through sweat or urine, so the Vietnamese just threw bags of pee around to confuse them.
It worked. Oh, and it didn't help that the sensors couldn't tell the difference between a commie soldier and, say, a frog.
Guess how long it took the Americans to figure out their sensors were recording frog croaks, decoy trucks, urine bags and vacationing noncombatant Vietnamese people? Five years. And $1.7 billion.


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Call it another fee for the residents of the city of Fall River; not just for taxpayers, but a fee for every individual putting a bag of trash on city sidewalks for our city employees to pick up. It will cost you a couple bucks.
There's plenty of money in trash, and Mayor Will Flanagan is eyeing this money to fill the holes in his administration's foolish spending on bad decision-making. Like our former "rain tax mayor," Bob Correia, now we have the "trash bag mayor," Flanagan.
History always repeats itself in Fall River. After more than one term, they want to be dictators and the City Council is the puppet show whose hands are tied and mouths are silenced. No vote, no say, no solutions; just do what I say.
The plan is to pick the pockets of everyone with fees and fines — Fall River politics at its best. Our City Council, the mayor and his administration needs to be dismissed next election for no accomplishments, just following this mayor with all his pipe dreams. This is Fall River politics, where politicians don't plan on failing; they just fail to plan.
Angelo Donato
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What Is Your Teen Doing on Facebook?
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Fortunately, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 91% of kids and teens who have a profile on a site such as Facebook or MySpace use it only to keep in touch with friends they see in person. Very few teens are using social networking sites to meet new people. While these numbers seem encouraging, they may give your child a false sense of security, leading her to post personal information in her profile.
Although the danger of posting personal information on the Web may be obvious to adults, children tend to be naïve about the potential risks. According to i-safe.org, more than half of high school students surveyed have given out personal information to someone they have met only online. If privacy settings are not activated to restrict who can view your child's profile, the Internet connects your child to the whole world. Posting an address or cell phone number increases the risk of a host of dangerous situations. Your child may think he is supplying his phone number in his profile so his friends know how reach him offline, but he may also be supplying his phone number to online predators.
Consider this scenario: Your child receives a friend request from a user claiming to be a friend of a friend. Your child believes him and accepts the invite. This unknown user starts chatting with your child, pretending to be the same age. Your child starts communicating and trusting this new "friend." Perhaps she even begins to trust him so much she agrees to meet him in person, when all along this new "friend" is really a sexual predator twice her age. Although this scenario may seem extreme, it is all too common. According to i-safe.org, 20% of high school students and 19% of middle school students surveyed admitted to meeting face-to-face with someone they knew only from the Internet.


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Are they physically different? If so, what is the difference, between a gel and gelatine, or it's proccesses gelation and gelling (gelatinization. gelatinisation)?
A gel is any liquid (usually) or gaseous medium suspended in a solid three-dimensional mesh which entraps the medium so that it does not flow.
By way of (somewhat flawed analogy) think of a giant role of bubble wrap. Its mostly air. But the plastic keeps the air from flowing at a large scale.
Gels can range from very soft to very hard. New modern aero-gels have fascinating properties.
Gelatin is a protein formed when collagen (a connective protein in animals) is heated under moist conditions. Gelatin forms cross-linked networks exceedingly well, and therefore is a wonderful gelling agent.
The name has also taken to mean the gel created from gelatin and a water-based liquid like stock or sugary flavored water. You may have guessed by now that gels in general take their name from gelatin.
So the specific answer to the first part of your question is: gels are the general category, and gelatin (in the second sense) is a specific kind of gel.
I have never heard the term gellification. The only verb I am familiar with is to gel. The process is gelatinization or (more familiar to me), just gelling.
In those links in Wikipedia for gel, gelatin, collagen, and areogel you will find out much more.
Gelatinization means the starch grains swelling, releasing the starch molecules, which then cross link to thicken the liquid. The gel forms, trapping water between chains of starch. It is a heating process. Gelation is a cooling process as the gel sets.


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I'm trying to re-order the links in the media box when selecting an image. I want to move "Use as featured image" above the insert into post button.
I also want to rename the "Use as featured image" text? I have done this by editing the media.php file in wp-admin/incudes/media.php but I don't want to edit this everytime I upgrade.
Is it possible to re-order the elements without having to re-write the whole function?
Thanks in advance.
Basically I want to move the text above the button and maybe add a label on the left too like the others above. I also want to rename the text "use as featured image".
Thanks to goto10 for helping me get this far, the code below "works" as it changes the text and location of the featured image. Although as I cannot get the attachment ID, it will not save the image...it works by manually typing in the attachment ID.
function custom_attachment_fields_to_edit($form_fields, $post) {
$form_fields['buttons'] = array(
'label' => 'Banner Image',
'value' => '',
'input' => 'html'
$thumbnail = '';
$calling_post_id = 0;
if (isset($_GET['post_id']))
$calling_post_id = absint($_GET['post_id']);
elseif (isset($_POST) && count($_POST))
$calling_post_id = $post->post_parent;
$attachment_id = ???
$ajax_nonce = wp_create_nonce( "set_post_thumbnail-$calling_post_id" );
$form_fields['buttons']['html'] = $thumbnail = "Set as Banner Image";
return $form_fields;
add_filter('attachment_fields_to_edit', 'custom_attachment_fields_to_edit', 11, 2);
Tried these to get attachment ID :
$args = array('post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_parent' => $_GET['post_id'] );
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
$attachment_id = $attachment->ID;
$attachment_id = get_post_meta($_GET['post_id'], '_wp_attachment_image_id', true);
$attachment_id = get_post_meta($_GET['post_id'], '_wp_attachment_url', true );
Also tried replacing
$_GET['post_id'] with
Any suggestions on how to get the attachment ID? I tried copying most of the code from
media.php without any luck.


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The $9 billion Nghi Son complex, to be located 180 km south of Hanoi, will have a refining capacity of 200,000 bpd. It will process Kuwaiti crude oil supplied exclusively by Kuwait Petroleum International.
By VU TRONG KHANH
HANOI -- Petrovietnam, and its partners from Japan and
Kuwait, will start the construction of Vietnam's second oil
refinery in September or October
this year, instead of this month as planned, local media
The $9 billion Nghi Son complex, to be located 180 km south
of Hanoi, will have a refining capacity of 200,000 bpd. It
will process Kuwaiti crude oil supplied exclusively by Kuwait
Petroleum International.
"According to our previous plan, construction would begin in July,
but it will be delayed until September or October,"
Petrovietnam Chairman Phung Dinh Thuc was quoted as saying in
online news provider Dan Viet's report.
Mr. Thuc said all the partners have arranged sufficient
funds for the project, but didn't provide a clear
reason for the delay, according to the report.
Petrovietnam executives weren't immediately available for
Idemitsu Kosan and Kuwait Petroleum each own a 35.1% stake
in the project, while Petrovietnam and
Mitsui Chemicals own 25.1% and 4.7%, respectively.
Petrovietnam will buy all oil products from Nghi Son at
Asian market prices, as its output is primarily intended to
meet the needs of Vietnam's domestic market. It is also allowed
to export any excess production to avoid reducing the refinery's operating rate.
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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Reviewers: Li Liu, MD
Source: Cancer, 86(5): 826-835, September 1999
Stage for stage, Japanese women with breast cancer have a better survival compared with Western women. Diet has been thought to be one of the contributing factors. This report comes from a study of whether diet before as well as after a diagnosis of breast carcinoma was associated with survival.
This study involved a cohort of 121,700 female registered nurses from the Nurses' Health Study using biennial questionnaires. Of those, 1982 women with breast cancer were eligible for the study. A total of 92 food groups or nutrients were evaluated.
It is noteworthy that the subjects of this study were highly selected. In addition, other well-known prognostic factors were not stratified for prior to analysis of the effects of the nutrients and food groups on survival. Two randomized studies from the Women's Intervention Nutrition study and the Women's Healthy Eating and Lifestyle are currently underway. They consist of dietary intervention vs. control group for women with Stage I, II, and IIIa breast cancer. The results will be available in 5-7 years.


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text: The next few lessons that I will be submitting today will be Thanksgiving based. After these tutorials I will not be making more lessons for the Thanksgiving holiday because there really isn't anything else I can possibly do. So to start things off I will be showing you "how to draw a Pilgrim face", step by step. The face is going to be rather simple to recreate because it just consists of a few shapes and lines. The pilgrim is cute enough for anyone to draw, but if you would like to make this a female pilgrim, all you have to do is not include the beard, draw long hair, and then add some eyelashes. Of course the hair color can be any shade you like, that is all up to you. Anyways, that's about it. Have fun drawing a pilgrim face. I will return with some more fun on the way. Adios!


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People struggle to enter Heaven, but what guarantees you that once you get there you won't be cast out from Heaven? In the Bible there is no guarantee about that. What will prevent you from making bad mistakes there?
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In the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus, Jesus says no:
Now, Heaven here is the "bosom of Abraham", but if this parable has anything to do with us (and all scripture has something to do with us) I doubt Jesus is only talking about Heaven in the moral sense here.
Fairly widely held doctrines that would tend to discount this possibility:
1. Eternal Security
John 10:28, typically used to support the doctrine of eternal security, would lend credence to the idea that once saved you cannot be "unsaved:"
If this is true on Earth, how much more should this be applied to heaven?
2. Christians cannot sin
Additionally, it should be understood that in many theologies, there comes a point at which Christians cannot commit sin - b/c the law no longer applies. This would be a fairly straightforward reading of Romans 7:
Whether or not that happens on this side of eternity is moot for purposes of the question - In heaven, there is most likely no law to break.
3. Grace - It's not like we earn heaven anyway...
Foundationally, for reformed believers, salvation is about a grace - it is not a work of your own lest any man should boast. There is no amount of sin that makes God love us less, there is no amount of good that can make God love us more. Were heaven a reward for our behavior, then there would be reason to fear "losing" one's reward (and yes, there is Scripture to that effect). But, if in fact, heaven is God's gift, then ultimately, it doesn't matter what we do now or in the afterlife.
I think Rev. says it best:
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.(Rev. 21:4 ESV)
If there is no more death that means there cannot be hell. If there are no more tears, then there cannot be weeping over how our sins hurt our relationship with God which means there can be no more sin. If there is no more pain, then we are unable to hurt ourselves through self-defilement.
The solution here is a bit esoteric. I'm having trouble finding the reference, but as I have heard the body of the Resurrection is not subject to the passions, i.e. lusts, hunger, thirst, sickness, poison, rage, greed, etc. Thus we have in Revelation that we will be free of sickness and suffering. This also is in Isaiah's prophecy as well, along with 'They will not need to say to their neighbor, 'Know the Lord!' for he will be written upon their hearts.'
St. Maximus writes that 'All will have eternal being, but not all will have eternal well-being.' Eternal being itself is a different manner of existence, and eternal well-being - this state/place/condition known as Heaven or simply the Life to Come is one not only free from sufferings, but free from the effect of sin, thus free from the temptations and errors that have been compounded both in those we know and in the world they inhabit.
Then, those who dwell in virtue not because of nature but because of choice, and who live free from the effects of sin will have neither a reason to fall away as a choice (like Satan's or Judas') or as an error of ignorance or result of corruption.
It goes without saying that such a state cannot be attained without the grace of God; but effort is required to 'work out one's salvation with fear and trembling' - once victory is attained and in accordance with how the Life to Come is described in scripture, the reasons for the occurrence of sin (and thus falling away from God and that state/place/condition known as Heaven) will be gone.
This is absolutely beyond all possibility in every possible term and sense.
There are many ways the Bible argues the impossibility. One is simply from the fact that the life of the redeemed is not their own life but a life derived from Christ. Therefore with that life, one can't go against the power of its own nature, which is Christ's nature. But this is all too high doctrine for the level of the question, so why not just let the Bible answer itself:
The only possibility of the redeemed being cast out from heaven is if God is evil and his word is a lie. This is impossible.
Beatific Vision
Catholic theologians of the middle ages, particularly Thomas Aquinas, along with with a few protestant denominations, taught this doctrine.
My understanding of it, as relates to this questions is that, whereas now God's full glory is hidden from us, once the saved find themselves in heaven, they will see God face to face. This experience is so overwhelming and life changing that, even though the blessed still have free will to choose right from wrong, their will, will have been so altered by this vision, and continued contact with God, they will by no means wish to commit any type of sin.
Check out the Catholic Encyclopedia under the section 'Supernatural character of heaven and the beatific vision', and wikipedia as well.
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I've actually come up with a pretty good solution, to support the weight of the nn4 up there.
as soon as it stops raining ill test it out, but I'm 99% sure my solution will work.
I've actually come up with a pretty good solution, to support the weight of the nn4 up there.
as soon as it stops raining ill test it out, but I'm 99% sure my solution will work.
It all depends on how it is implimented. On a tandem bicycle (bike built for two) long cable runs are used for controlling the brakes and shifters. The brakes and derailleurs have stiff return springs. If the upper arm on the pano head had a return spring, you could use the same cable/housing setup a bicycle uses.We think using a long cable to control the tilt is below customer expectation
Now that's a good idea. Something like an index shifter. You could click through several different angles -- and then go back.
Very Good!!!
Bike cables are reliable and simple. No batteries. Light weight. Could be on the inside of the pole.
Waiting with interest for your surprise.
what i have done with my manfrotto stand, it have support cables, but i have 4 different lengths so i can do 4 different heights with no problem. with your idea, it would have to be similar, have a few different cable options supplied, but a quick change connection of the cable would have to be used.
The way bike cables are used is to put them in a cable guide. The guides are fixed to hard points and the cable guide is free to flex and move all it wants and the cable stays the same length. If the cable guide is coiled, it might (but maybe not) be able to be coiled inside the pole. Maybe not for really long poles.
But Nick already said he has another way so this is just all talk.
a 'handgrenade' pin that you pull after the first set is done?
(A cotter pin would be pretty damn small and cheap- available anywhere in case lost, string is provided by the end user)
the trick would be keeping the tension on pulling the pin right so as to not blow the position-
a solution might be two half grooves on both sides of facing plates allowing the axle of vertical motion
when you align the grooves (camera tilted up) the hole idents would be aligned and would be open facing as near straight down the shaft as practical- keeps the line of force even with the pole.
the tension for the rate of drop could be adjusted by the tightness of the axle.
run it up, shoot the top row, pull the pin and the rig drops, shoot second row.


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"I never said most of the things I said." ~ Yogi Berra
I wonder if Assmop is working at the gay porn theatre today?
I wonder if Assmop has been promoted to Head Jizzmopper yet at the gay porn theatre?
Assmop, you creepy little jizzmopper. Don't think I've forgotten about you. How is life in mother's basement? Did you spend yet another day watching gay porn?
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The White County Fourth of July Fireworks will be held Thursday at the White County Fairgrounds in Carmi.
Ray Mitchell, executive director of the Carmi Chamber of Commerce said the fireworks will get underway shortly after dusk Thursday. He explained this year's display promises to be a "great show."
"Former chamber director Glenn Coleman and WRUL/WROY General Manager JC Tinsley worked very hard on a patriotic musical program to accompany last year's fireworks," said Mitchell. "And due to the cancellation because of the 2012 drought this year's program is in place and ready to go, complete with the accompanying music."
He explained viewers of the fireworks can tune to WRUL, 97.3 on the FM dial and listen to the music to enhance the fireworks display."
Mitchell also explained due to last year's cancellation, this summer's display has been paid for, but reminded local residents and business the Chamber of Commerce will be collecting donations for next year's display.
"The City of Carmi picks up the biggest part of the fireworks cost and the chamber is very grateful for that," said Mitchell. "And we are extremely grateful to the other communities, local businesses and residents who have supported the fireworks throughout the years."
This year's display will run around $15,000 in cost. Melrose Pyrotechnics of Indiana will again conduct the display from the infield of the White County Fairgrounds.
Carmi Chief of Police Randy Hamblin reminded those parking in or near the fairgrounds to observe established traffic patterns and local authorities when leaving the fireworks, which will close out the Carmi Lions Club's Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show to be held Thursday at the fairgrounds.
If inclement weather should force the cancellation of this year's display, the fireworks will be rescheduled for later this year.
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Cited: Theresa Hedmond, 40, 112 Piper Place, Follansbee, speeding; Christopher Vanscooter, 20, Mingo Junction, one way street violation and driving with suspended license; Michele Pasco, 34, Wintersville, driving with suspended license; Chelsea M. Baker, 17, 1091 county Road 56, Toronto, failure to stop in assured clear distance ahead; Rashoon D. Mukes, 26, 518 Pittsburgh St., failure to signal turn and driving with suspended license; and Kevin M. Donegan, 26, 427 Lawson Ave., expired plates.
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Break-in: Resident of the 300 block of Lincoln Avenue reported waking up around 1:40 a.m. Monday to find an intruder, who ran away when the resident yelled. An officer reported finding a basement door open.
Vandalism: Vehicle window broken in the 100 block of Grandview Avenue, Friday.
Theft: Man reported money stolen from him Oct. 2 in the 400 block of Commercial Street.
Theft: House entered in the 600 block of Logan Avenue on Oct. 2 and several items stolen.
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I have a concept for a campaign that uses a Dresden-Files environment in a medieval fantasy setting, but for reasons of familiarity and experience prefer to use the Pathfinder system. I specifically need to be able to create stat-blocks for the vampires. I'm not sure I understand the vampire system well enough to create them myself. I understand there is a Dresden-Files RPG, and I don't know of any conversion techniques for Dresden stat block -> Pathfinder stat block. My player characters are built according to standard Pathfinder rules, it's only the monster blocks that need creating.
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The Dresden Files is a different paradigm in RPGs than Pathfinder. The concept of statistics doesn't enter into the picture. What you would probably want to do is to take a vampire in Pathfinder, then take the spirit of the Vampires of the Courts in Dresden.
Black Court Vampires (OW85) would do very well as standard Pathfinder vampires; from the Dresden Files, these are the standard vampire that we usually think of.
Red Court Vampires (OW88) would be similar; I'd keep the Energy Drain, Blood Drain, Create Spawn, and Change Shape (but only to a Dire Bat) abilities, and the weakness to Sunlight and Holy Things, but remove the other special attacks and qualities. In place of those, the addictive saliva (which would be a variant on dominate), and the vulnerability in the stomach would have to be modeled.
@JonathanHobbs suggested in the comments that a slightly increased critical range might be good for modeling the vulnerability in the stomach. I like that approach, though @CRoss suggested a reduction in the natural armor that vampires receive.
White Court Vampires (OW90) would be a bit more tricky. Keep Energy Drain, and feeding would have to be altered to be based on that. All other special attacks and qualities are invalid- other than a variant on Dominate to emulate the incite emotion. Their Energy Drain would be dependent on the victim being under that effect. Their only drawback would be the vulnerability to emotion.
For the Raiths, for an example, I'd probably use Charm Person and/or Enthrall, one to represent the attention of the Vampire on one target; the other one their ability to affect a crowd by their presence. Honeyed Tongue might also be appropriate, as the more subtle effect probably better represents their influence.
There are other tweaks- but they won't be direct conversions; the systems just don't lend themselves to that IMO. Just keep the spirit of the vampire, while modeling off of the pathfinder version.
As mentioned above, Black Court are pretty close to the standard vampire.
Red Court need blood to get powerful but you can kill them by puncturing their stomachs to spill their blood, so maybe give them a bonus after feeding or a bonus that's based on their current HP?
White Courts are meant to play on the succubus myths more than the vampire myths, so you might use a succubus with the spell-like abilities and shapeshifting trimmed off.


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They are an entirely flash based website, but are higher up on the search list than me. So I thought I would see why and I noticed that there is a bunch of commented out text with the Keyword "ABSOLUTE" in it. Is that considered black hat seo?


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It appears my flowchart is nonplanar (it contains a subdivided K_3,3...)
How do I colour specific arrows, so I can make it visually clearer what's going on when they inevitably cross? (by 'arrows', I mean the whole arrow as opposed to just the arrow head).
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I have a few older lenses that I'm thinking of selling. What are some essential steps in preparing photographic equipment (such as lenses, camera bodies, speedlights, etc.) for resale? Are there steps I should take to ensure I can get the most value out of the sale and prepare the equipment for a new owner?
In addition to the other great answers.
If it is older equipment, it would benefit you to include a link to any documentation that you can find online. Whether that is the original owners manual, a historical site from the manufacturer, or some type of photography equipment museum online. If it is old equipment, some people may need to do research to even understand why they would want to buy it, and the if you make it more available for them then it might help to sell the merchandise.
Some very good points there but I'd like to add some more.
Choose a medium. ebay is probably your best bet and there are quite a few tips out there on their own website. Most importantly are decent photos, as noted above.


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New York University (NYU) Libraries is hosting an exhibition: "Albert Gallatin: A Genevan at the Heart of the American Dream" in the Mamdouha Bobst Gallery in the Bobst Library through April 1, 2013. The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9:30am-6:00 pm, Monday through Saturday.
Gallatin was the longest serving Secretary of the Treasury, serving for nearly 13 years from 1801 to 1814, under Presidents Jefferson and Madison. Though his political career is fairly familiar to many people, Gallatin's anthropological interests are not. The exhibit includes material related to Gallatin's work as an ethnologist and linguist, concentrating primarily on Native American languages. The exhibition will feature the many roles Gallatin played in the United States as statesman, diplomat, ethnographer, and founder of New York University.
The original exhibition was installed in the Library of Geneva last year, curated by the Library of Geneva and the New York University Archives. It highlighted the achievements of a native son as well as the history of Geneva as a hotbed of enlightenment philosophy and its influence on Gallatin's intellectual development.
"Fabienne Finat, curator at the Library of Geneva, thought NYU would be a natural venue for the exhibition so I collaborated with her on adapting it to the Mamdouha Bobst Gallery," said NYU Archivist Nancy Cricco. "Most of the materials on view are from Geneva, with the exception of some items from the University Archives and New-York Historical Society."
Cricco adds: "The unique aspect of this collaboration with the Library of Geneva is our mutual bond with Albert Gallatin. The education Gallatin received and the ideals instilled in him while growing up in Geneva turned out to have a significant impact on NYU and the United States."
The NYU Division of Libraries comprises five libraries in Manhattan and one each in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Its flagship, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square, houses more than four million volumes and received 2.5 million visits last year. Around the world the Libraries offers access to more than 800,000 electronic journals, books, and databases; its website received three million visits last year. For more information about the NYU Libraries, please visit http://library.nyu.edu
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by Melissa Brunner
There's nothing quite like tax and budget debates to illustrate the tough decisions lawmakers face in crafting spending and earning decisions.I mean, who doesn't want better roads, pristine schools, great health care for everyone, offices available to serve us without minutes of our homes - and all while paying nearly nothing in taxes?!
Of course, that's how it would work in an ideal world. But, funny, people expect to be paid for goods and services in the real world and not even the state government can escape the bill. Among amendments lawmakers have discussed in their recent debates - a tax credit for adoption expenses (voted down in the House, restored in Senate debate) and funding for public television and Meals on Wheels.
Another issue once again introduced in the legislature comes against the backdrop of a new study showing cases of autism in the U.S. may actually be underdiagnosed. Already, estimates are that 1 in every 88 children has some type of autism-spectrum disorder. A new study suggests that milder cases, especially in older chidren, are being missed. Advocates say it's important because the earlier austism-spectrum disorders are diagnosed, the better intervention that can be offered to help children thrive.
In Kansas, lawmakers are again being asked to consider a measure that would require insurers to cover treatment and diagnosis of autism-spectrum disorders in those aged 19 and under. A pilot program in 2010 included the coverage for children of state employees. An effort to expand it failed late in last year's session. A sticking point in the debate is whether such a requirement would increase insurance costs for everyone.
I found a fact sheet on the issue from the group Austism Speaks (note, it could be considered biased to their position). Take a look at it here: www.austismspeaks.org.
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Deadly Blast Hits Mexico Oil Giant
MEXICO CITY—A blast ripped through the Mexico City headquarters of state-run oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos on Thursday, killing 25 people and injuring 101 more, an official said.
The explosion hit an administrative building near the company's main tower in Mexico City, damaging the basement, ground floor and mezzanine, Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said in a televised news conference late Thursday.
Mr. Osorio said that of the 25 people who died, 17 were women and eight were men. Of the 101 injured, 46 remain hospitalized, he added.
Rescue workers tried to dig through huge blocks of concrete and twisted steel in the search for employees feared trapped in a basement floor of the building, which was badly damaged by the blast.
Mr. Osorio said earlier reports of 30 people still trapped in rubble couldn't be confirmed, although one person had been rescued alive from the debris.
The cause of the blast wasn't immediately known. Mr. Osorio said it would be premature to speculate on the cause, and authorities would wait until the completion of a thorough investigation.
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One employee said she believed the blast came from an electricity substation located in the building.
"All of a sudden there was shaking and we were in rubble," Christian Obele, a Pemex employee who was in the building at the time, told Milenio TV. She said the explosion cut out the lights, making it difficult to escape.
Mexican foreign minister José Antonio Meade, in an interview, said the blast would not affect Pemex's operations. "There is no impact to Pemex's capacity to operate, its capacity to take decisions or its production capacity," Mr. Meade said.
Images from a camera video broadcast on television showed a large fireball briefly going up around the company's iconic skyscraper.
Dozens of ambulances lined the streets around the complex, while the injured were rushed on stretchers to waiting helicopters for transport to local hospitals.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto turned up to see the damage firsthand, while army soldiers guarded the area, a working-class neighborhood in Mexico City.
"I profoundly lament the death of our fellow workers at Pemex," the president tweeted. "My condolences to their families."
He later visited a number of injured people in hospital.
Just two hours before the blast at Pemex headquarters, the company touted its security record at a conference titled "First Congress for Security, Health and Environmental Protection" in the city of Merida in eastern Mexico.
"Operations Director Carlos Murrieta pointed out that we have reduced the occurrence of accidents in recent years," Pemex said on its Twitter page, adding that its accident rate was below international standards for similar companies.
Pemex does have relatively rosy numbers in terms of on-site industrial accidents, but most of the people who have died over a number of decades in Pemex accidents have been contract workers, or others killed by fuel leaks and gas explosions—victims who aren't counted as workers for the purposes of reporting industrial accident rates, said George Baker, who runs a Houston-based energy consulting firm.
In September of last year, a massive explosion at a Pemex natural-gas plant near the northern border city of Reynosa killed 30 workers and caused critical shortages of the fuel, causing the state-run electricity company Comision Federal de Electricidad to switch to more expensive fuels in order to free up some natural gas for industry.
Just before Christmas in 2010, a crude-oil pipeline ruptured near the central Mexican town of San Martín Texmelucan, killing 30 people and damaging dozens of homes.
"This latest blast shows the results of a systematic lack of oversight in contracts at Pemex that the company relies on for everything, including industrial security," said Alberto Islas, a security expert in Mexico City.
Recently, Mexico's lower house of congress said it would put together a working group of lawmakers to investigate corruption within Pemex and the company's safety record.
Mr. Peña Nieto, from the country's centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party, has vowed to try to push through changes to Mexican law that would allow private companies to partner with Pemex in search of oil.
Mexico's oil output has fallen to about 2.6 million barrels a day from a peak of 3.4 million in 2004, and experts say Mexico could cease to be a major oil exporter within the next six years.
Pemex started in 1938 after Mexico nationalized its oil industry, an important moment in Mexican nationalism.
"This tells you that Pemex needs to change," said Mr. Islas.
—David Luhnow and José de Córdoba in Mexico City contributed to this article.
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I want to extract the cluster of points inside 3D box, is there any way one can do this in Mathematica?
OK, there is good news and bad news: as it seems Version 8 can not import the vtk cluster data directly (and I filed this as a suggestion for future improvement). The good new is that this does not matter too much. Here is a starting point, for more details you will have to look at the vtk documentation and what is stored in your vtk files.
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OK, I think it is fair to say that the stuff below illustrates the quote "it seems Version 8 can not import the vtk cluster data directly" from the nice answer by @ruebenko .
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It may happen that providing a smaller data set of your original data you lost the cluster points. If you zoom out of the center of the cube you can see that points fill the space rather uniformly - so there is no way for some of them to be more special than the others. It looks like there is no cluster. Could you please check and resubmit a verified data set with cluster points?


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I know the phrase "put two and two together", and in fact someone has already asked a question regarding its origin. However, I recently heard someone say the phrase with an addition of the humorous "and got five". Is this part of the original saying? If not, was it coined and by who?
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"Put two and two together and getting four" is from at least since 1816, see my answer on this similar Q&A.
"Put two and two together and getting five" is from at least 1859.
From The New England farmer: Volume 11, in 1859:
Albany de Grenier Fonblanque in c.1860, in Hector Mainwaring; or, A lease for lives
The Hon. Mr. Dorion in 1865, in the Parliamentary debates on the subject of the confederation of the British North American Provinces
Here's Frances Eleanor Trollope in the The Fortnightly Review from 1870, in the serialisation of her story Anne Furness:
So it looks like getting five came a bit later than getting four, and possibly from Canada/north America.
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Edit2: Or to look at it another way, "Two and two is four" is from at least 1655 with plenty of 17th century references.
"Two and two make five" is from at least 1690 with plenty of 18th century references.
Observations upon anthroposophia theomagica and anima magica abscondita by Alazonomastix Philalethes in 1655:
And also:
A moral essay upon the soul of man: In three parts from 1690:
Wikipedia gives "two plus two equals five" as a slogan from George Orwell's 1984, with the suggestion that if everybody believes something to be true, then for all practical purposes it is true (i.e consensus reality).
For me "putting two and two together to get five" is about combining different pieces of information and then drawing unjustified additional conclusions.


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Brooklyn Nets Center Brook Lopez Fuels His Biggest Passion at Comic Con
Brooklyn Nets coach Avery Johnson gave his players the day off Sunday. Some watched football. Others enjoyed a quiet day with their families before the onslaught of the NBA regular season.
Nets center Brook Lopez had something else in mind. He grabbed his brother, loaded up on Doritos and sour gummy worms, and headed to New York's Javits Center to hang out with Boba Fett, Captain America, Catwoman and an oddly bulbous-looking Mr. T, who was posing for photos with a toy machine gun.
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"He has an agenda today," said Lopez's older brother, Chris, who accompanied him to Comic Con, a sprawling festival of comics, science fiction and all things nerdy.
"I couldn't miss this," Brook said.
Most NBA players consider themselves pop-culture trailblazers and self-styled ambassadors of cool. They wear hip glasses. They drive ridiculously expensive cars. They pop Champagne bottles that are the size of propane tanks.
But the 7-foot, 265-pound Lopez, an unabashed comic-book fanatic since he was a kid growing up in Fresno, Calif., would trade all of that to walk among a throbbing mob of men, women and children dressed as comic-book superheroes, videogame villains and Japanese anime characters.
Nets' Lopez Visits Comic Con
He's something of a celebrity in this world—but hardly the biggest. As Lopez wandered through the exhibits, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, co-publishers of DC Comics, spotted him and waved him over to join them in their private, roped-off suite. Lopez got to know the two industry giants at a convention in Phoenix, back when his twin brother and fellow comic-book aficionado, Robin, was playing for the Suns. After hugging Lee, Lopez whipped out his cellphone.
"I have to show you this," he said as he scrolled through several photos. "To organize all my comics, I've been making custom cabinets."
"Wow," Lee said. "Is it fingerprint locked? Super high-tech?"
As they talked, cast members from the ABC drama "Lost" were making an appearance nearby. This development pushed the NBA star even further off the radar. Lopez didn't care. "This is one of the few places where I blend in," he said.
For Lopez and his three brothers, reading has been an important part of their lives since childhood. Their maternal grandmother had a vast collection of rare, first-edition books at her home, including the Wizard of Oz series. The Lopez boys would spend hours thumbing through the pages. Their mother would read to them at night. "There was a huge emphasis on literature and all that kind of stuff—just being creative," said Chris Lopez, who lives with his brother in New Jersey. "That's how it all started."
Brook was studying creative writing at Stanford when he left for the NBA in 2008, after his sophomore season. At some point, comic books became more than a hobby. He hopes to parlay his interest into a second career. "I want to try my hand at everything," he said, whether that means writing, drawing, designing—whatever. So Comic Con set up as a giant networking opportunity, albeit one that was staged at a dreamlike amusement park. Lopez's favorite word of the day? "Awesome." His favorite expression? "So awesome."
At least one of his teammates on the newly minted Brooklyn team was jealous. Carleton Scott, a forward, said he was upset that Lopez didn't invite him to come along. Like Lopez, Scott is a huge comic-book fan. "We have a lot of closet nerds on this team," Scott said.
At Comic Con, Lopez was in his element. He wandered over to a glass case that housed row upon row of superhero figurines. "These have all come out," Lopez said, which was his way of saying that he already owns them. He rattled off their names: "Robotman, Negative Man, the Metal Men—Gold, Iron, Mercury, Tin…"
Upstairs, in a cavernous space that felt like an airplane hangar, Lopez hit "Artist Alley," where many of the industry's top artists and writers had stationed themselves at booths to meet fans and sell sketches. Lopez scanned his program. "I have to figure out everyone here who's on my list," he said.
He slowly made the rounds, stopping to chat with artists he's befriended in recent years. A constant topic of conversation: Lopez's storage-cabinet project, which is quite involved. For each alphabetized drawer, Lopez is commissioning an artist to draw a comic-book character whose name starts with that letter. Lopez has lost track of how many comics he owns. "Thousands," he said, "at least." He visited with Jim Calafiore, who had already contributed to the project with a drawing of Aquaman.
"I asked Jim Lee to do Batman for me," Lopez told Calafiore. "It's going to be awesome."
About a dozen Comic Con devotees who were waiting on a line craned their necks to gawk at this sudden intruder. "Who is he?" asked Catwoman, aka Brittany Holzherr, a 22-year-old NYU graduate. According to an unscientific survey, roughly 5% of Comic Con's attendees recognized Lopez. ("Oh, s---! That's Brook Lopez!") The other 95% remarked on his height. Those who did know who he was had the unsettling habit of reaching out to grab at one of his elbows.
Later, as he made his way outside to his brother's idling BMW BMW 1.33 % X6, Lopez was still buzzing from the Comic Con high. Armed with a gift from one of his favorite artists, Todd Nauck—an original, hand-drawn page from "Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham"—Lopez mused aloud that someday he'd join the masses and show up to the event in full costume. "But it'd have to be a legit costume," he said. "I want it to look good."
For now, he will make do dressing as a Net.
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Based on the biblical doctrines, is it possible to achieve a completely holy life without any sin during our lifetime after salvation?
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Only Jesus was perfect. The notion that one has become sinless can only be thought from a heart blinded by wicked pride.
The bible makes the model prayer to be a daily confession of our daily sins. The moment any man thinks they have gone a day without sinning is the moment this prayer becomes insincere hypocrisy of the self-righteous.
Even the most holy men that have ever lived never thought for a moment were were free from sin but bitterly complained about the sinfulness.
Of course John Calvin, Luther and all the reformers understood these verses by Paul was a description of his 'Christian' experience.
Sufficient to say there is no biblical warrant to suppose we can for a moment be without sin. If I ever met a person who loved God with all their heart, which is the greatest command, I would ask them to sign my bible and I would sell everything I have and follow that person.
Of course we know that would not happen as only Jesus was perfect.
The Catholic might say, "yes" and point to the doctrines surrounding the Virgin Mary. But, this does not really answer the question as you asked, whether it is possible to achieve this life (Mary was exempt from original sin).
While the testimony of the Saints is unanimous in the fact that you can live in near-sinlessness state (where you are free from mortal sin) (Fire Within by Dubay goes into some detail about John of the Cross's and Teresa of Avila's thoughts on this), the fact that there is a requirement that the faithful go to confession during Lent suggests that the Church does not believe that it is possible to go a year without sin.
There is disagreement on this. Many denominations believe that we always sin, some going so far as to say that even our best is still sin to God, even after salvation. Others, such as the Nazarenes, teach a doctrine called Entire Santification, which claims that by wholly submitting to the Holy Spirit, it is possible to reach a point at which we no longer sin. In spite of that teaching, I've never met someone who claims that they are no longer sinning.
Even Paul wrote of doing what he knew he shouldn't do, and not doing what he should. None of the Biblical characters are ever depicted as reaching a point of no longer sinning.
The Bible states that human are born sinful.
But John Wesley wrote a book named A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (short explanation of the book). The book is still debated to this day. I do not know any other christian or evangelical demonination that would argue in favor of perfection this side of heaven.
Many here say no. To them, my question is, "If you could live a life free from sin, would you?" If your answer is no, then there is no need to continue reading. If, however, you answer is yes, I will give you a few scriptures to read.
What does it mean to be a son/child of God, and for what is the power that John said he will give us?
John goes on to say,
This is what the power spoken of in St John 1:12 is for.
This is the power that he gives his children, power over sin in this life. Remember the mission of Christ Matthew 1:21
He came to save or deliver us from our sins. Also look at Titus 2:11,12:
This is how the bible teaches we should live here in this life. Some believe that everyone is going to fall sometimes, but Christ didn't teach that at all. Matthew 7:24- 27 says
Christ made it clear in his world that if we simply do what he says we will not fall. This was also taught by the apostles.
Christ is not only our savior, but he is also our keeper; once he has saved us, Halleluiah!!! I didn't intend to write this much, but I feel that it is necessary.
Finally, remember this, Christ has all power.
Moreover, he said in John 1:12 that he would give us the power. Anyone who says that they cannot live free from sin is correct, because in your own strength you cannot. Jesus said it in Matthew 19:25-26
Once people came in contact with Jesus and he forgave them of their sins and they were no longer condemned in his eyes he gave them a parting message in John 5:14 and 8:11,
I welcome you to email me directly and I will explain further how this is to be done. Once we stand before God our profession will not matter; all that will matter is if there is sin in our lives.
Christ also had a message for those that profess to be Christians and still commit sin (work iniquity):
That is exactly what Jesus Christ did.
But I take your question to mean, can one of God's created beings (humans) possibly live without sin on earth. The answer to that is no and the justification is really very simple.
A created being does not understand the mind of the Creator. The clay does not declare to the potter, it is not right for you to make such and such of me. The pile of clay can only allow the potter to make something of it. It cannot fashion itself into a plate or a pot.
Like the clay, we need to go to our Creator to learn, first, just what sin is(!), then to learn how God would like us to deal with it. And if we are still learning, then we cannot live a life without sin because we do not yet properly act or react with the appropriate love or other quality that is needed. Presently, God alone knows perfectly how to properly act and react with the appropriate love or other quality and so lives without sin.
Someday, we will have learned fully and live without sin, but not today.
I apologize, I was not very careful. I answered only the title of this question. I have not fully answered the body.
The biblical doctrine you are asking about can be termed "total sanctification".
Now the water is muddied a little by equating a "completely holy" life as that which is one without any acts of sin in it. I submit that a "completely holy" life must be much broader than simply not sinning. Where is worship? Where is praise? Where is a willingness to serve as our Lord would like?
As I write this, I am asking myself the question, is a sin free life my only goal? My answer is, I don't think so because there is no fruit bearing in simply living a life free of sin. In John 10:10 Jesus says "I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly." Life with God is meant to be so much more than simply not sinning. But I digress.
There are two seemingly valid but opposite views for total sanctification.
The above view seems to indicate it is very possible to achieve total sanctification. But the opposite view seems to also be clearly endorsed.
So how is one to deal with a doctrine that seems to have two valid and totally opposite views? I think we should turn to the book of Job. God himself declared Job blameless and upright. I submit he must be an example of total sanctification. Job feared God and turned away from all evil. Clearly total sanctification - a life without sin.
But as we read the rest of the book, we find things broke down and Job sinned. In the end Job confessed and repented and God accepted and restored him. If he was restored, didn't he return to when he feared God and turned away from all evil? Wasn't he back to a life without sin?
So let me explain what I believe is a doctrinal position for total sanctification. To your question I say, yes, it is possible to live a life without sin in it. However, if this goes on for an extended period of time, you are stagnate and not growing in the grace of Jesus Christ.
If I choose not to be stagnate, then I will be asking the Holy Spirit to make known any inner sin I am hiding or sin I am somehow blinded to or to put me in some sort of situation where I will, like Job, be tested and fail so I might gain a more complete level of purity like Jesus Christ.
I want to be found living a life where the Almighty God of Creation is active in cleansing me of all sin. I think if I am living a life without sin, either I have achieve this perfect cleansing (ha!) or I am not seeking all that God can make of me. I guess I am not really eager for my "total sanctification."
No, and here's why.
When I was young, I went to a Catholic grammar school. The teachers made it perfectly clear: Follow the Ten Commandments if you want to go to Heaven.
Now you may have noticed - The Decalogue, for the most part, is a list of things that you must not do if you want to go to Heaven. So as a child I wondered: If that's the case, and Heaven is what all Catholics strive for, why don't parents prevent their children from participating in society in order to absolutely ensure that they will honor this list of "don'ts" and virtually guarantee their passage to Heaven?
Of course, as I got older, I realized how absolutely absurd this idea was, but I actually think that my childhood "literalist" interpretation of the Ten Commandments might help to illustrate my point.
To live the life of a Christian is to live the life of Jesus. If you "Love thy neighbor as thyself", to your fullest capacity, every day of your life, then you've done just that. At the risk of sounding irreverent, you may think of the Ten Commandments as guidelines to help you decide how you can "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself."
Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not suggesting that you ignore the Sabbath, and disrespect your parents. I'm just acknowledging that living life at any time in any society will present problems and conflicts. Our imperfect human vessels may "sin" and violate the Ten Commandments from time to time. But at the end of the day, if you endeavor to "Love thy neighbor as thyself", you really can't go wrong.
Some say that we can not live a life without sin, as this is unattainable! Why not? "...:go and sin no more" John 8:11, This is what Jesus told a woman caught in sin. I think those that don't believe we can live without sin in our lives are getting sin and temptation mixed up! Temptation is like the birds flying around your head, sin is like allowing them to build a nest in your hair! How long did it take this woman to learn? Repent means to turn from sin. This is what she did!"... now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2. Salvation came to her that day. She was not about to go back into what she just got forgiven for. And Jesus would not have told her to do something that's imposable. She will be tempted, but Jesus did not tell her not to be tempted, He told her not to sin! James 1:14,15 "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." There is a progression. We are to "nip it in the bud". Thats what Jesus was saying and thats what we must and can do with the spirits help."But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Romans 8:9. Paul said in Galatians 5:16, "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh." Are you any of his or none of his? Thats the only thing you need concern yourself with!
I don't know exactly what you mean by salvation. Until we are restored to perfection after Armageddon there is no way to be free from sin. It is a condition we see we obtained at the inception of the human race back in the garden of Eden. Adam and eve disobeyed god by eating the forbidden fruit and that is when sin entered the world. After that account they started having children after they where no longer perfect through sin.
Romans 5:12 explains this "12 That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned. 13 For sin was in the world before the Law, but sin is not charged against anyone when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the same way that Adam transgressed, who bears a resemblance to the one who was to come.
Jesus provided us with a means for forgiveness and salvation with his ransom sacrifice. It allows god to forgive us because we are imperfect and sinful. We will remain Imperfect until we are made perfect again. As for the timing on when that happens, well that's up to god to decide when all people have had the chance of serving him.
We were born in sin. But we can rely on God not to fall in it. No one is clean, but every time the devil suggests a thought we replace it immediately. We condemn it with what the Lord teach in the bible.
The devil may use anyone close to you. Some say you will not make it. "You are not clever, you are a failure. You will not get a job. You will not over come financial problems."
But immediately when someone says such condemning words, I receive strength from the lord who strengthens me. Every time they say this to me, I say, "I have done better other times; I can improve." Stay in the present. Learning from the past, planning ahead, you can face any challenge. Every time you feel upset you look for what is right, replacing it immediately. Because anything negative grows like a seed, you don't have to spend time praying in tongues over what somebody said. Calling people for prayer, you just replace a good thought.
To achieve a holy life in this life? David said "Thy word have I hide in my heart that I might not sin against thee". Today we have that word , the very word that is God (Jesus)John 1:1, in our hearts!
Paul said in Romans chapter 7 that he was in a wretched war with the flesh, but chapter 8 tells us his great victory through faith in Jesus Christ in the spirit! Verse 9, "But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you." Thats a big if, but not impossible! Paul in Titus 2:11-13 gives us instructions. "...teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and Godly in this present world." Well how do we do that? Verse 13 By "Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior Jesus Christ."
If we are conscience of Him and in expectation of Him, we will live accordingly.There is great reward for those that keep oil in their lamps (the spirit and the word). These will go to the marriage supper of the lamb, Matthew 25:1-13, especially verse 13,"Watch therefore..."
Again, if holy living is impossible, then why did Peter say in 1 Peter 1:15,16 "But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be you holy; for I am holy."
Salvation. All scripture herein is KJV.
Without salvation, mortal man returns to dust, and then the judgement.
The Old Man.
The New Man
True conversion is the beginning of life without sin.
There will be a remnant of true believers at the end of time.
Is it possible to achieve a completely holy life without any sin during our lifetime after salvation? Yes. Its all so possible to achieve a righteous life after salvation.


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I have a few HLSL files that I'd like to add into a DLL project so that I don't have to keep adding these same shader files into a new Content project every time I want to use them. Is this possible, or does the XNA framework have to compile the shader files beforehand?
I have another solution in addition to Russell's which allows you to use the content manager and allows you to embed all of the types of content XNA supports.
XNA supports the ContentManager though a resource instead of a content project. To use it do the below. Of course you will need to pass a reference of your game's services at some point.
Use this to compile the shader or anything to a xnb.
Add any and all of the XNB to your resources. Them simply load your content as usual.
You don't actually need to have an actual content project: all you need to do is copy the effect XNBs to your output directories.
However, if you really want to embed them in a DLL first create a .resx in your DLL and add all the compiled effects to it (you can use
Or for XNA 4.0:
Keep in mind that you won't get the resource sharing that
I used the Stock Effects Sample to do just this, which also allows you to create a wrapper class that works like the standard effects.
There is a readme inside the sample download that explains exactly what to do. The sample contains a project that compiles shaders to a binary using the EffectProcessor class. You add the shader and subclass Effect in your library, build the binary and add it as a resource. Your Effect subclass then passes the binary into the Effect constructor.
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