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Problem- a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome.
In the Old Testament in the Bible, there's a book called Judges in which we find two tribes of people called Ephraim and Manasseh who experienced oppression for seven years from a much larger and stronger tribe called the Midianites. The Midianites would come through their land around harvest time when all their crops were ready to be picked and steal everything, and there was nothing they could do about it because Ephraim and Manasseh were much smaller. To survive these two small tribes would grow their grain and hide it away in caves to keep it away from the Midianites. One day God spoke to a man named Gideon and told him that he was going to help his people get out of this oppression they were facing.
God told Gideon to mobilize an army to defeat the Midianites. He did just that and got an army together of around 32,000 people. It had seemed like a pretty good amount, but the Midianite army was believed to have over 160,000 soldiers in it.
That seems like a pretty impossible fight if you ask me. Gideon's army had 20% of the amount of people his enemies did. Put yourself in the shoes of Gideon and his troops, could you imagine how scared you'd be? That tribe that's been bullying you for years has five times the amount of soldiers you have!
This next part is so ridiculous that it could only be God.
God instructed Gideon to give these soldiers a way out; He told him to tell any soldier who was afraid of the enemy to go back home. Gideon did just that.
I'm sure Gideon in his mind thought that these guys were the manliest of men and would stand tall and start a big rally cry and say they weren't leaving, they were all in this together. BUT that didn't happen 22,000 men left his army!!!!! 22,000 !!! Now Gideon was left with 10,000 soldiers against 160,000 Midianite soldiers.
They now only had about 6.25% of what their enemies had in regards to soldiers.
Just when he thought this was it God told Gideon to cut his army one more time. This time he was asked to narrow his army based on how his soldiers drank water. It seems so silly, but this is what happened, Gideon cut down his army based on how the soldiers drank their water. God told him that if a soldier got down in the river and drank with two hands, he was to be removed from the army, and if a soldier were to drink with one hand and hold his spear with the other, he were to remain in the army. Gideon once again had faith that God was leading him and he obeyed.
After this final cut, he was left with only 300 soldiers. Gideon's army went from 32,000 to 10,000 to 300! That means Gideon's army was .1% not even a full percent of the size of the Midianite army that he was supposed to fight!
What do you think happened? Gideon's army won! He had defeated the Midianite army! All 160,000 plus of them! All the glory goes to God!
I think God wanted to show us something with this story. We all have obstacles in our life whether it be financial, spiritual, educational, relational, or otherwise, we have them there, and we are all trying to defeat them. Most times we decide to fight this battle by ourselves. We calculate what works best, and we attack it, but we always find ourselves back at square one looking for an answer to overcome the issue. Gideon was in this same spot for seven years until he finally listened to what God wanted him to do, and even when he heard what God commanded of him it wasn't something that was easy, it was something that seemed impossible!
Here's where we come in! I want to challenge each of you to enlist God in your battle with an issue that is plaguing your life. Like Gideon, we might find God lead us to do things that we never thought of doing before, things that may scare us. That's how we know it's God! He looks at our problems, our obstacles, our odds, our situation and He knows that if we listened to Him, we could overcome them and move forward.
With God, our problems are nothing more than a way for Him to show how truly powerful He is.
Thanks for reading,
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the Lord in everything you do, and He will show you the right way." – Proverbs 3:5-6


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When Acid Reflux Leads to Barrett's Esophagus
Most people will on occasion experience heartburn. It isn't a pleasant feeling, but soon passes and happens only once in a while. Some people, however, are frequent sufferers of acid reflux. These people suffer weekly or even daily with the uncomfortable symptoms of acid reflux. When left untreated, acid reflux can become a serious condition often damaging the lining of the esophagus. In about 10% of the cases the lining of the esophagus becomes so damaged that it changes to resemble the lining of the stomach. This condition is called Barrett's esophagus. It is considered a precursor to esophageal cancer and often goes on to become cancer. Although most people do not develop this disease, the number of people with it is on the increase.
Alkaline Foods for Fighting Acid Reflux
Potassium is essential for healthy body function; it strengthens cellular structures, assists the kidneys in detoxifying the blood, and manages the acid to alkaline ratio in the bloodstream. Interestingly, some of the most popular and effective alkalizing foods, such as lemons and apple cider vinegar, seem as though they would be acidic at first glance. These foods, however, along with bananas, honey and sweet potatoes, are extremely high in potassium, and should be included in every person's dietary routine. For example, coffee is a highly acidic beverage, yet so many North Americans begin their day with a cup or two. Simply starting your day with a glass of warm water with lemon juice squeezed into it will give you protection from the upcoming coffee, and the numerous other onslaughts of acidity the body will likely be subjected to throughout the day.
Living Without Tomatoes When You Have Acid Reflux
Do tomatoes aggravate the symptoms of acid reflux? Sometimes, yes. That answer may be a bit confusing, but not all people are bothered by tomatoes. Such a lovely fruit, yes, a fruit, really dresses up a salad or adds great flavor to all kinds of dishes. Fresh tomatoes in the summer are a delight, and tomato sauce is essential to some of our favorite recipes like pizza or spaghetti. So what's a person to do if they suffer from acid reflux?
Non-Dietary Causes of Acid Reflux
Acid reflux, medically also referred to as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), is a condition that is typified by the leaking of the stomach contents into the esophagus, irritating it and leading to nausea and heartburn, among other symptoms. The general notion associated with this condition is that acid reflux is caused by the foods you eat. However, medical experts will tell you this is not always the case. In addition to lifestyle factors, acid reflux can also be caused by a variety of anatomical and medical conditions, some of which are being looked at in this article.
Obesity - Leading Cause of Acid Reflux
Acid reflux is on the rise. A headline like this causes one to start thinking about illnesses in the past, before antibiotics, that swept the country with unrelenting consequences. Although many of those illnesses are now controlled if not done away with completely, many Americans still experience poor health. Acid reflux or GERD can be chronic and painful. It can lead to more serious diseases or even cancer. However, the drastic rise in patients with acid reflux in many cases may be avoidable. One of the leading causes of acid reflux is obesity.
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Acid reflux disease is on the rise in the United States. Anyone who suffers from the recurring symptoms of acid reflux thoroughly understands how uncomfortable this condition can be. There are a variety of ways to treat the symptoms of acid reflux. However, a possible new treatment, electrical stimulation of the muscular valve in the esophagus, may be a safe and effective way to manage this disease.


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The mechanism of brown fat activation has been worked out pretty properly in rodents, which rely greatly on non-shivering thermogenesis thanks to their small human body measurement. Specialized locations of the hypothalamus in the mind perception body temperature (via sensors in the mind and physique), entire body vitality standing (by measuring leptin and satiety signals), anxiety stage, and most likely other elements, and combine this info to set brown excess fat exercise. The hypothalamus does this by acting via the sympathetic nervous technique, which seriously innervates brown body fat. As an aside, this approach performs fundamentally the same in human beings, as considerably as we at present know. Those who claim that rodent versions are irrelevant to people are completely complete of hot air**, as the high degree of conservation of the hypothalamus in excess of 75 million years of evolution demonstrates.
Two new reports concurrently revealed in the Journal of Clinical Investigation final week display what I've suspected for a long time: brown unwanted fat can be 'trained' by chilly publicity to be much more lively, and its activation by chilly can minimize body fatness.
It was formerly demonstrated that non-shivering thermogenesis is increased in winter than in summertime in the identical folks (1), suggesting that it could be a modifiable trait. As an aside, overweight men and women have a tendency to have low brown body fat action (2)****. The 1st new examine demonstrates that brown excess fat can be trained to be more active in as small as 10 times, and that this instruction triggers folks to turn out to be more chilly-tolerant (three). The protocol concerned exposing men and women to 60 F (15-16 C) air for two hours on day one, four hours on day 2, and 6 several hours on times three-ten. Although I presume they had been frivolously clothed, this is a rather delicate chilly publicity.
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You've seen me from all angles.
My best, my worst, the ugly, the beautiful, the overweight and the transformed. Despite my trials, you never once judged me and I thank you for that. At times I felt like giving up, you whispered in my ear to remind me that the finish line wasn't that far away.
You pushed me to greatness and without you, I wouldn't be sitting here right now writing this. I could be stuck in you, I thought about it -- but what good would that do me in the end?
Dwelling on you would only take me ten steps backwards and I had a date with destiny, there was no way I was going to arrive late. You held me in your arms when love wasn't enough and you freed me from the pain when joy was within arms reach. You tried to hold me back, but I wouldn't let you. The future was calling my name, how could I not answer?
I resent our relationship sometimes because you hold so many memories I cherish deeply. 'If only I could get one more chance', a thought I pondered on briefly. I've learned to let go and move forward because of you and although we aren't as close as we once were -- you will always be right there and that's always a good feeling.
The future tells me that he has great things in store for me. I hope you understand that I never meant to hurt you or leave abruptly, but I deserved so much more. It's not that you weren't worthy, it's just I had to learn that nothing lasts forever.
You were a present and I'll cherish the memories forever, but the future needed me. Don't remember me for who I was, appreciate me for who I'm going to become because you finally set me free -- or maybe, I just learned to set myself free along the way.
Thank you.
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What Bead Table?
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Such is the life of a person who creates (anything, really!) :)ReplyDeleteReplies
you know it. now i need the motivation to finish it:)Delete
Mine looks very much like that and I don't have the excuse of a show.ReplyDelete
When I get home from a show I'm so exhausted that I just dump things just barely inside the door. Then I spend a couple days putting it all back in place and recording my sales etc. Shows are fun, but I don't care for the hectic 'before' and the messy 'after'.ReplyDeleteReplies
depending on how close my next show is, sometimes things never get unpacked!Delete
Studio, what's a studio? That looks like my living room. At least around the couch!ReplyDelete
By the way, this is my first time here, and i think I am in love with your butterfly motifs!ReplyDeleteReplies
Nice to meet you Beti! welcome:)Delete
Lol. I'm at a show right now and you reminded me of what waits for me at home. You're not alone. I don't mind the mess because it makes me organize again. My mess will have to wait since I'll be here until Sunday and then I go to another show on Friday.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you posted about this. I'm avoiding my workspace right now. Luckily I can pretend it's because I don't want to disturb the resin still in the beginning of it's curing process, but I'm 2 hours away from the 24 hour mark. You and Oscar Crow posted about cleaning up work spaces so it is motivating. Better get too it.ReplyDelete
That is awesome! Mine is completely trashed and I have only had it up and running for 2 weeks...ReplyDeleteReplies
I began clean up and have some SERIOUS destashing to doDelete
Aww, heck, that's not so bad! LOL But, really, the good thing about it is that it's our little mess and our piece of heaven on earth!ReplyDeleteReplies
I think I fret more about my work space then the rest of the house! (my poor family, though there space is better then this one)Delete
Staci.. it means "you are working".. I see photo's of these pristine studio's sometimes and wonder.. How the heck do you working there? I know its easier for people who have large spaces or big homes with a dedicated barn or shed or whatever, but not me.. I have a messy studio too! Messy studio rocks!ReplyDeleteReplies
can't work now until everything is back in place;) took a few days off, time to hit it hard!Delete
I'm totally loving this post! Love your studio which reminds me of mine :)ReplyDelete


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|Silly poster! Melanie Griffith does not actually play Cherry 2000
The film, set in a vaguely postapocalptic future, offers an update of sorts to a very old story: Boy meets robogirl. Boy has sex with robogirl in a puddle of water. Boy loses robogirl when her circuits short out because they're having sex in a puddle of water. Boy hires bounty hunter Melanie Griffith to escort him into the lawless Sector 7 to find him a replacement for his robogirl because her model (the Cherry 2000) has been discontinued. Shit happens. Stuff blows up. Melanie Griffith kicks ass, pouts, and kicks ass again.
The movie sets up a stark contrast between the infinitely pliable and submissive Cherry 2000 sexbot and actual not-so-pliable women. In one early scene, intended as something of a satire of the dating scene at the time, our hero and some of his pals go to a singles bar -- where, if they decide they want to get with a sexy human lady, they need to negotiate the terms of the sexual encounter with her and her lawyer, and fill out the appropriate paperwork.
We get to listen in on a couple such negotiations; the women in question are all portrayed as, er, pretty touch negotiators -- that is, bitches. One of the lawyers is portrayed by a young, pre-Matrix, Laurence Fishburne. At this point, I suspect most woman-hating, Matrix-loving manosphere dudes watching the film will jizz. in. their pants.
In fact, we get to see a lot of loud and obstreperous women in the film. In one memorable scene, a grizzled old junkyard owner asks his ornery young assistant for a favor:
GRIZZLED OLD COOT: Randa is going to fix us lunch, ain't you, Randa?
RANDA: [Indignantly] No.
COOT: Well, then, you can just go shit in your hat.
Randa does not in fact fix anyone anything. Manosphere dudes will probably be happy to learn that later in the film -- SPOILER ALERT! -- she's shot in the head at point-blank range.
Anyway, long story short: after (barely) surviving assorted assaults from Sector 7 baddies with the invaluable assistance of the ornery Melanie Griffith, our hero is forced to choose between saving her or the robogal he's devoted the whole movie to finding. Naturally, being a robot-loving idiot, he chooses Cherry 2000 -- then, after heading off with her in tow, he realizes that she's sort of a simpering moron, and goes back to rescue the real woman. Cue happy ending. (Well, happy for everyone except for sexbot-coveting manosphere dudes watching the film, who will probably rush off to their favorite MGTOW forum to denounce the filmmakers as evil manginas.)
The moral of the story? Even the complete idiots who made this incredibly stupid movie realized that real women -- with opinions and ideas of their own -- are preferable to adoring sexbots.
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Episode 19 – Emma Span (Sports Illustrated)
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Emma Span of Sports Illustrated joins the show to talk about getting her start in her career as a writer for The Village Voice, making the leap with Sports on Earth as an editor, joining Sports Illustrated as a senior editor, the editing process from start to finish and the future of the magazine and feature writing industry.
Special thanks to Jon Waltz for letting us use "Justified" as the podcast intro music. Check out his music on SoundCloud and iTunes.
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Usually when an artist puts pencil to paper, that's when he starts to create his masterpiece. But for Salavat Fidai, paper is out of the equation completely. He has the ability to turn an artists tool into the art itself.
His talent has enabled him to build a following base of 260,000 meaning his miniature sculptures are swept up immediately and purchased, and looking at the fine detail and effort put into each design we can see why…
Being a son of an arts teacher, what was the most valuable lesson your father taught you?
My father and mother taught me to love art. They also taught me to see beauty in simple things. I think the most valuable thing they gave it sincerity and respect for people.
Your first idea to create miniature sculptures from a pencil originated from Dalton Ghetti. Can you recall the story behind your now world famous talent and passion?
I saw a lot of interesting works on the Internet. I was very surprised how you can create such incredible sculptures on such a small scale. So I decided to try to something like that myself.
You once said, 'Our people love art but there is a big crisis in Russia and art is not a prime necessity for them." Having a large appeal and customer base in the United States, Europe and Australia but few from your home country, what are your thoughts on the importance of arts and creativity in this capitalist world we live in?
The "capitalist" countries (I usually say "on the West"), love of art is passed from one generation to the next generation. This is due to high culture in civilized countries. Much is due to the financial well-being and satisfaction of basic needs. When a person no longer need to worry about their daily bread, for food, for shelter (housing) about their safety – then this man will surround yourself with comfort and arts. Loving art – it is a manifestation of a civilized and highly developed society.
What has been your most rewarding achievement so far and what is your vision for the future?
Now my parents are proud of me. They did not believe that an artist from Russia could earn money from his art, for the family. I did it. I have proved that this is possible. My greatest achievement – this is the love and respect of my family.
In the future I would like to do an exhibition in USA, Australia and in Europe, as well as in other countries.
In your new book, The Pencilbook, one of the concepts you explain is how to catch inspiration from others. But what exactly inspires you?
I am inspired by the art of great artists. I love the art of Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and many contemporary artists. I do a lot of reading, and go to other artists' exhibitions. I am inspired by comic books, movies, and books. I am inspired by the music, I love instrumental music, hard rock, blues.
And sometimes it's my dreams that inspire me…
If you would like to check out more of his art, follow him on Instagram @salavat.fidai or take a look at his website www.salavatfidai.com
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The Frost Museum of Science is scheduled to open on May 8th of this year, according to The Miami Herald.
The $305 million museum is located in Museum Park in Downtown Miami next to the Pérez Art Museum of Miami.
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Mur-Lok 1⁄4" Mur-lok Polyethylene RO Tubing
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Hey guys,
Adding some upgrades to my 4-stage Plus RO/DI. I want to split my product line to two separate locations. If I do the split after the check valve (included in the *Plus system) would I need to add any more of these? Maybe one for redundancy?
Sorry but the image doesn't seem to want to cooperate. That said though, no extra check valves should be necessary as long as its split after the check valve . The included check valve on our units is in the membrane housing so you couldn't split before it if you tried. As far as running to multiple locations, its as simple as a tee. I would recommend adding an inline ball valve to each side of the tee so that you can manually control which one is filling if you desire (otherwise it will just favor the path of least resistance). Another option would be to use a 3 way valve, though personally I prefer the two single inline valves as not only is it a bit cheaper last time I checked but you also have the option to leave both open, so in theory it would fill the first container, when the float goes up be forced to go the second container, and when that float goes up be done. With the 3 way ball valve you would have to manually switch from one container to the next. Just my two cents worth :-)
Will this work for CO2 line for Calcium RX.
Would this work on 1/4 inch airline tubing?
You will need to use a Mur-Lok Stem Adapter to convert the Murlok fitting to a barb where the airline could slide over. I have attached a link below.
If the output connection on the RO housing is the Mur-lok Elbow Check Valve (your product SKU: 200801), then this inline check valve would not be necessary to allow for the auto-shutoff valve (your product SKU: 200011) to function correctly, yes?
The check valve is already built into our units and this separate check valve is not required for our auto shut offs to work on our units.


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Time: 3:36 AM dECEMBER 9
Location: @Work
Batteries: 20%
MOrale: (=_=)
I am SO tired right now.
I got home this morning at about 8:30, but I wasn't all that tired at first so I ended up staying awake until at least about 11AM. Which was bad, because I needed to get up and running, since I had a long day planned ahead of me.
The plan was to wake up at about fall asleep at 9am and wake up at 5pm, which would have given me a solid 8 hours. Estimate that because of whatever reasons, I might be woken up, so I might lose an hour or so.
Well, the plan was to wake up at 5pm, finalize some repairs on my Rampage (which is the name I've decided to give my winter bike, for reasons I'll explain at a later time), head downtown, return Inifinite Unidiscovery, rent a new game, go to the Mac store and pick up an english copy of Snow Leopard to send to Zanshin in South Korea, and finally, meet up with [Supergirl] and some of her friends to see New Moon at the Scotiabank Theatre.
Well, instead of waking up at 5pm like I'd planned, I slept through my alarm, and was only woken up by my phone ringing. It was Supergirl, who I had asked to give me a call at 5:30pm to wake me up for sure (my phone ring is a lot more pestering than my alarm). Not without good cause, it seems, because if she hadn't done that for me I probably would have slept a couple more hours at least.
I basically had to skip everything except meeting up for the movie, and I was still dead tired.
We watched New Moon and I must say: Wow. Like really, wow.
How can a movie get away with this kinda stuff?
On a side note: God, do the wolves have awesome bodies.
Anyway, the movie was so unbelievable for a number of reasons, but I guess it did make me think about a lot of things, particularly the nature of relationships.
First of all, Edward and Bella both have issues. But I'm sure you already know that.
When I think about relationships, a lot of it has to do with timing. It's not just about love, and it's not just about who you are, but there are a lot of other factors that come into play, and timing is probably one of the most important.
If I look at what happened with every girl before [Supergirl] I've ever had a crush on, maybe propositioned, maybe dated, or been the receiver of said feelings, things probably didn't work because of timing. Sometimes it was just a lack of interest.
I'd like to think, however, that because we're constantly growing, it's a question of how much time it takes you to become what the other person needs, and how much time it takes for the other person to become who you need. And I don't say want. I say need.
The difference between needs and wants is something they teach you in basic economics– needs are more or less limited, and have a lot to do with survival. Wants, on the other hand, are icing on the cake. They're little garnishes that make things better.
If you asked me to be totally honest about What's wrong with Bella and Edward in a nutshell, is that they're focusing too much on their wants.
Bella loves Edward.
Edward is a vampire.
Bella figures, Bella must become a Vampire.
Edward loves Bella.
Bella is a human, who he doesn't want throwing away her humanity.
Edward figures, the best thing to do is run away and ignore the girl.
Uh, hello? Hasn't anyone ever heard of communication?
See, they're both too busy thinking about what they want for the relationship to work. But what they need is something simple– BRAINS.
Edward especially, the one who takes initiative– he's 108 years old, and can recite ROmeo and Juliet verbosely– and he doesn't learn any lessons from Shakespeare about the importance of sitting down for some simple, frank discourse; nor does he learn anything about the stupidity of suicide?
Time: 01:18 AM DECEMBER 10
Location: @Work
Batteries: 70%
Morale: 🙂
I didn't really get the chance to finish what I was writing yesterday about New Moon, so I can't exactly remember what I intended to say anymore.
But in general, here are my thoughts about relationships, inspired by what I've seen of New Moon:
Don't date a bitch like Bella.
If a man is 108 and still acts as retarded as Edward (ie: abandons you to "save you", choses to commit suicide after he can't have you (big surprise! you dumped her!) etc etc etc) don't date an idiot like Edward.
Team Jacbo seems to have a bit of "Nice Guy Syndrome" but I would understand– I mean, he's a frigging wolf, that's not an easy thing for most girls to accept. He certainly handles his situation a lot more pro-actively and, in my opinon, much more honestly than Edward.
I think what it comes down to is that a relationship always comes down to a unit of two people, and not a couple of units. Edward and Bella both have their individual problems, but they have neither the ability to resolve their problems on their own or to communicate with the other in such a way that they can get help from the other.
Solution? BREAK UP. It's BROKEN.
If one peron has a problem that they can't solve on their own, and the other person can't solve it for them, either that person has to continue to try to fix that problem BEFORE expecting the relationship to work, or they need to go looking for a new partner who can give them what they need. Otherwise, the relationship will be pointless. And it's not just because people are unhappy– because, aside from not getting what they want out of the relationship, they're not getting what they NEED.
Look it up an pscychology textbooks. Look it up in any wellness book. True, there are many types of relationships out there, but not all of them are healthy.
Time: 2:15 AM
Batteries: 70%
So, I forgot to mention, but Montreal was hit with it's two first significant snowfalls in the past 3 days. The first time it happened it wasn't much at all, maybe a few centimeters that mostly melted as it hit the ground. I took out the winter bike for a spin and it just ate those roads up– light slush and hardpacked snow? NO PROBLEM.
It's kinda cool that when my winter tire hits clean asphalt, the studs on my tires give off this crazy sounding droning noise like a tracked vehicle. Which is why I've decided to name the new bike "Rampage," after the character in Transformers: Beasties/Beast Wars. Originally, because the bike was supposed to be white with black patches, it was going to be named "Snow Cow," but since the final color scheem turned out to be white, blue and black, it didn't seem appropriate anymore.
Well, a couple of days ago when it was just a few centimeters, Rampage fared pretty damn well. But tonight? Well, tonight, it's over 20 centimeters out there and let me tell you– it's pretty hard work to get through all that on a bike.
Don't get any misimpressions– I'm not riding right through snowbanks, up and down hills of shoveled snow. I'm actually mostly navigating through tire tracks or any patch of ground that's been paved within the last couple of hours, and even so, it's a crazy ordeal.
This is the first winter that I've ever tried something like this so I'm still getting used to the whole thing. It'll be a lot like getting used to a footbrake bike, or using toeclips on my shoes I suppose– it just feels impssoble at first, but one's brain adapts with time.
Some of these things, I will be tweaking day by day to see what works, and some of them have no solutions except to get better at biking through the snow. In no particular order, here are things that require attention:
Rampage's bike's derailleur system is fucked up, so it's essentially a fixed gear bike. This is because I didn't have good deraiuleur parts leftover, so essentially, I'm not switching gears at all.
With regards to that, i'm somewhat concerned about the derailleur getting more damaged during a right side fall, so I was thinking of maybe getting BMX foot bars for the back wheel. It might be useful anyway when the snow melts so that I could take passengers, but it has the nice benefit of protecting the derailleur on right-side falls. The tradeoff: Rampage already weighs over twice as much as Warthog (my summer bike), and with knobby tires 3 times as big, it's slow as fuck. Should I really be adding more weight?
The toe clips in installed on the pedals aren't compatible with my winter boots (my winter boots are too thick) so it gets a bit cold at times. There's not really a solution to this, except that I've taken to wearing my leather Merrels instead of any running shoes, which are fully waterproofed.
Because it takes significantly more effort to pedal this thing, I want to raise my seat to increase pedaling efficiency. However; I lost control and fell once tonight; I lost control but recovered by putting a foot to the ground three times tonight because I could no longer stay on just the wheels; I purposely put my foot to the ground at least a half dozen times before losing control. All these control issues suggest that I need to keep the seat level down so that dismounting is easier. It's more strain on my muscles, but I guess this is the only way to do it– with all the patches of ice due to snow compression hidden under snow, my bike fishtails a whole lot. If I start experiencing any knee pains then I'll know I've got to make some adjustments.
I need to figure out a good cadence, which I haven't yet. The thing is, the front wheel is responding really well, mostly because it's being shoved headfirst through things and is basicalyl just a glorified ski. But the back wheel (the one I've got the winter studs on) is actually slipping out constantly. Rampage suffers from sever understeering because I can't risk fishtailing at high speeds.
I think in large part the fishtailing is because my current MTB riding technique is to rock the bike left and right to generate more thrust, but that doesn't work on winter roads it seems because the angle of the wheels is very important. Because I can't rely on traction, and because I'm going at low speeds, the slightest tilt results in fishtailing because there's not enough consistent centripetal force to keep the bike upright.
So, what I need to do is what I developed for my road bike technique– that is to say, commited, straight line "railgun" riding. It's somethign I learned when I started riding with my roadbike early on: because the steering on a road bike feels a lot less forgiving than the steering on a MTB (in my opinion anyway), rocking my roadbike when trying to climb hills, or when racing down areas with potholes or lots of little ups and downs, well, it was just kinda dangerous. So, instead of rocking, I've learned to just use more of my upper body muscles to grip the handlebars and really use my back muscles to "row" to counteract the pedaling action. If it's timed correcetly, you can really get a lot more power transfer into your drivetrain, at the expense of upper body exertion. But the added benefit is that your bike stays perpendicular to the ground. Timing just requires that you make small hops to clear potholes and debris. Steering ability is severely reduced when riding like this though, because when stabilizing the handlebars this much and pumping that hard, it's just not easy to safely turn. So it's a technique that is mostly used alternately with a seconds of steering here and there. I call this railgun riding because it sacrifices maneuverability and agility for straight, forward action that cuts through all obstacles.
In winter, and I was trying this just today, it's a lot more difficult to pull off because the snow is constantly bogging me down, making it difficult for me to keep up the necessary speed necessary to really cut through angled snow (for example, the 'valleys' of snow cut out of the main road by car tire tracks). Without a certain amount of speed, hitting little snow hills at angles tends to deflect my bike sideways, but not my momentum, which results in a fight for control. I think, however, that if I can acheive a sufficient speed, I might be able to resist deflection of my angle of incidence and just keep a true path.
Question is: do i want to go faster, given that brakes are almost useless in this weather?
I have, however, installed a wider handlebar set for more stability.
Visibility is an issue because when it's snowing, even if it's not blowing against me, it's a lot more distracting than rain because it falls a lot slower. It's not something that I can block out of my eyes mostly by tipping my helmet more forward– snow tends to blow up into my face, more subject to the aerodynamics of my forward downward angled arms. Thankfully, [Supergirl] is going to lend me a pair of he ski goggles.
All in all, the ride to work today took me 40 minutes, wheras it takes a bit under 15 under summer conditions with my road bike. I say "ride" but it was more like a biataholon, because there were parts of my route where it was impossible except to get off my bike and run with it, either by my side, or on my shoulder. So, give or take, it's about 3x longer to ride druing winter.
But I think I'll be able to stick to it for the next little while at least– it's actually pretty fun. It's been a while since I've done any kind of physical activity that really required me to struggle. Doing this requires a surprising amount of concentration– I need to coordinate not only my body movements but balance and time them based on the shape of the road.


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AMY: the Carpentries' internal database¶
Logging in¶
- Log in to AMY here. Contact Carpentries staff if you need login credentials.
AMY login screen goes here
AMY dashboard¶
All the menus and a search bar are displayed across the top. The main page has three column view showing published workshops, uninvoiced workshops, and unpublished workshops.
This view can be filtered to show workshops assigned to the logged in administrator, unassigned workshops, or all workshops.
AMY dashboard
- Published workshops have a complete start and end date, a valid url, and a complete location.
- Uninvoiced workshops are those the invoice status is marked "Invoice not requested".
- Unpublished workshops are all workshops that do not meet the criteria to be published.
Published workshops will show up on the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, or Library Carpentry website, depending on how they are tagged.
From here you can also add new persons, events, organizations, or airports to the database.
AMY add new elements
Adding a new organization¶
If the site name is not already in AMY, add a new one by selecting "New Organization." Do not enter
http:// or any slashes in the domain name.
AMY add new organization
Adding a new person¶
If a person's record does not exist in the database, it can be added individually or as part of a bulk upload.
Adding an individual record¶
Select "New person" and enter in as much information as possible. At minimum a personal name is required. If the airport is not listed, it will need to be added in.
AMY add new person
Adding bulk records¶
Person records can also be added in bulk from a
.csv file using the
Bulk add persons menu option in the regular
+ menu or the
More menu. Note: To bulk add records, the persons must have a role specified (instructor,helper,learner,host) associated with a specific event.
AMY bulk add person menu
Use the blank template to generate a well formed csv noting each person's personal name, family name, email address, role, and associated event.
The role must exactly match the instructions. The event slug must exactly match the slug for the event recorded in AMY.
This will take you to a screen where you can verify each record, correct any errors, and submit them for bulk upload.
Adding a new airport¶
Airports are used as approximate geographic identifiers for our instructors. Each airport is identified by its three digit IATA code which can be looked up using the link in AMY.
Enter in the airport's IATA code, full name, country, and latitude and longitude.
AMY add airport
Adding a new event¶
New events can be created one of several ways:
- By manually entering all information on the new event page
- By importing from URL on the new event page
- By accepting a workshop request
Creating a new event manually¶
- Create the workshop slug. This must be in the form
YYYY-MM-DD-sitename(for example,
2018-01-01-hawkins. The same slug should be used for the workshop's GitHub page and any other place the workshop is identified. If the exact date is not known,
XXcan replace the month and/or day (for example,
AMY new event slug
- If known, enter in the workshop dates.
AMY new event dates
- Select the host site name from the drop down menu. If the host site does not appear on the list, create a new organization.
AMY new event host
- Select the administrator from the drop down menu. This will almost always be
Software Carpentry,
Data Carpentry, or
self organized.
AMY new event administrator
- Select the name of the Carpentries administrator responsible for managing this workshop.
AMY new event assigned to
- Assign all appropriate tags to the event.
AMY new event tags
- Enter in the workshop's url (to the GitHub page, not the repo). This is generally in the format
AMY new event url
- Enter in the human language the workshop is taught in. This is especially important for the Carpentries to track workshops in languages other than English.
AMY new event language
- If the workshop is using Carpentries Eventbrite for registration, enter the Eventbrite key. This is not needed if the host site is using their own Eventbrite account or any other internal system.
AMY new event eventbrite
- If the event has a fee due to the Carpentries, enter it in and note when the invoice has been requested to be sent to the host site. If there is no fee due, note the reason why.
AMY new event invoice
- After the event is over, record the total number of learners who attended the workshop.
AMY new event attendance
- Enter only the email address for the main contact person for this event. AMY new event contact
- Add in any other notes that may not be covered in any fields above. AMY new event notes
- Add in the location including the country, venue name, address, and latitude/longitude coordinates. AMY new event location
Creating a new event from URL¶
If you already have the event's URL with properly formatted metadata, the following information can automatically be imported:
- Slug (created from GitHub repo name)
- Start and end dates
- Location details
Instructor and helper names will be in the notes field but not assigned in the database. All people will need to be assigned to the event.
All other information will need to be entered in as above.
Creating a new event from a workshop request¶
A workshop can be requested from a host site, and this information can be used to create an event in AMY. Select "Workshop requests" from the "Requests" menu.
AMY workshop requests
This page will show a list of all open workshop requests, with the name/email of the requestor, their affiliation, their preferred dates, the Carpentry type, and any other comments. Click on the "i" icon at the end of the line to view more details.
AMY workshop request list
This will give the user the option to accept or discard the request. All requests should be accepted (unless spam or otherwise inappropriate) so the Carpentries can maintain a history of workshop requests. Events can later be marked as stalled or cancelled.
This will open a page with a side by side view of the request details and view to create a new event. The new event can be created manually or if available, from the URL, as described above.
AMY workshop accept request
Assigning people to events¶
Regardless of how events are created, adding the people associated with each event can not easily be automated. Name matching is hard.
People can be associated with events one by one or as a bulk upload.
Assigning people to events one by one¶
Go to the event page and click the "Edit" button at the top of the page. Select the "Tasks" tab. (Note the sponsor tab is not currently being used.)
To add a new person to the event, start typing the person's name in the "Person" field. Auto-completed suggested names will appear.
Add the person's role in the event (Helper, Instructor, Workshop Host, Learner, Workshop Organizer). "Contributed to Lesson Materials" is not used in this context. "Title" and "URL" are also not used in this context.
If a person's name does not appear in the dropdown, they may need to be added to the database.
Below this form, a list of all people assigned to this event is displayed. A person's role can not be directly changed. Instead, delete the item and enter a new one.
When done, go back to the "Event" tab at the top of the page, and click "Submit" at the bottom of the event page to save changes. All people should now appear at the bottom of the event page.
Assigning people to events in bulk¶
See section above.
Instructor Training¶
Accepting Trainee Applications¶
In addition to tracking workshops, AMY also allows us to track applications to instructor training events. The public facing application is here. Applicants are given a group name if participating in a member training event. Open applicants will likely not have a group name.
Once an individual submits the form, the record can be viewed by going to Requests –> Training Requests.
Applications can then be searched by individual name, email address, group name, status (pending, accepted, or discarded), affliliation, or location.
Some trainees will already be in AMY because they were formerly learners or helpers at Carpentries events. If there is a record with a matching name and email address, they will show up with a "matched trainee" when you search for them. If "matched trainee" is blank, you will need to create a trainee record for them.
To create a trainee record, click on the "i" icon at the far right of the individual's line. If you know this person is in AMY under a different name or email address, look this person up here and click "Match to selected trainee account." If this is a new person, click "Create new trainee account."
This will return you to the search screen, and this person's record will be updated with the new trainee account.
Continue doing this until all relevant applications have a new trainee account. This must be done individually; it can not be done in bulk.
Once all trainees for a given event have trainee accounts, we can assign them to a specific training event and associate them with a specific member contract. This part can be done in bulk for each group of trainees with a unique training date and member site affiliation. The event and the member agreement must already have been created in AMY.
Check all the names to be assigned to the training event and membership, and then select the training event from the first drop down menu. Select the member agreement from the second drop down menu. If the trainees are coming through the open application process rather than a member agreement, check this box instead of choosing a member agreement.
Click "Accept & match selected trainees to chosen training." The search screen will then update to show that the trainees have been matched to this event. The event page will also update to list these trainees as learners at that event.
Match trainees to instructor training event
Tracking checkout progress¶
The above steps note that a trainee was accepted in to a training event. Completion of the training event and three steps towards trainee checkout can be tracked in AMY. Each person's record will have a line for Instructor Training Progress.
AMY training progress
Click on the plus sign in the Training Progress line. This will go to a screen where you can track the all steps towards certification.
AMY training progress steps
Recording completion of training event¶
On the screen above, select 'Training' and note whether they passed or failed.
Recording completion of discussion session¶
On the screen above, select 'Discussion' and note whether they passed or failed.
Recording completion of teaching demo¶
On the screen above, select 'DC Demo' or 'SWC Demo' depending on which lesson they used for their demo, and note whether they passed or failed.
Recording completion of lesson contribution¶
On the screen above, select 'DC Homework' or 'SWC Homework' depending on which lesson they used for their contribution, and note whether they passed or failed. In the notes section, link to their lesson contribution.
Issueing badges¶
The Carpentries has various badges that can be issued, including Data Carpentry Instructor, Software Carpentry Instructor, Trainer, Maintainer, and more.
An individual badge can be issued by going to a person's record and clicking the
Edit button.
AMY edit person
Choose the
Awards tab on the next screen. Select the Badge type from the drop down menu, and fill in the date it was awarded. The associated event (such as a training event) and awarded by fields are optional. Click
Submit to save the entry.
AMY issue badge
AMY is also used to track all Carpentries memberships. To create a new membership, the site must first be listed as an organization in AMY.
On the organization's page, click the green "Add a membership" button. Enter the following information:
- Variant (membership type)
- Agreement start and end dates
- Contribution type (Financial, Person-days, or other)
- Workshops without admin fee per agreement
- Self organized workshops per agreement (can be left blank as this is typically unlimited)
- Instructor training seats (actual number alloted in contract)
- Additional instructor training seats (any additional seats allowed beyond contracted amount)
- Notes.
AMY comes with several built in reporting features that can be accessed by clicking
Reports in the top menu. Most reports include an api link for further analysis.
- List of instructors by time period will generate a list of all instructors who have taught or will teach a workshop in a given time period and can be downloaded as a csv file. This is especially useful when inviting instructors to discussion sessions.
- Workshops over time, Learners over time, Instructors over time show cumulative numbers of workshops, learners, and instructors from the start of the Carpentries to present day.
- How often instructors have taught returns a list of all instructors who have taught at least once with the number of workshops they have taught.
- All activity over time returns data on the number of workshops, number of instructors, number of learners, and identifies gaps in data.
- Workshop issues and Instructor issues identify specific workshops and instructors with gaps in data.
- Find duplicates identifies persons that may be listed as duplicates due to having the same name or email address, and allows the user to merge them.
Roles in AMY¶
What you are able to edit or view depends on your assigned role in AMY.
Instructor login¶
Instructors can log in to AMY to view and update their own information. To do so, they must have a valid GitHub username in their profile. Instructors should visit the AMY login page and click on
Log in with your GitHub account.
If an instructor is having trouble logging in, an administrator can verify the following information.
- Be sure the GitHub user name is accurate.
- Click on
Change permissionsand be sure
Is activeis checked. No other permissions should be checked unless the instructor is also an otherwise authorized user.
Logging in allowedshould show next to the GitHub name in the profile. If it says
Allow logging in with GitHub, click this to allow logging in. This must be done after setting permissions to active above.
Other tasks¶
Merging duplicate persons or events¶
If duplicate persons or event records exists, they can be merged. Select "Merge persons" or "Merge events" from the "More" menu.
Choose the two Persons or Events to be merged, and click "Submit" to see merge options. Here you can choose to keep the value from Person/Event A, from Person/Event B, or to combine the values.
General search¶
The quickiest and easiest way to search is using the search box in the top menu bar. This will perform a case insensitive search of any field in AMY, including searching for partial matches. For example:
12-12-will match any workshop slug containing that string (essentially any workshop on December 12 of any year.)
ola teswill match
Nikola Teslaand
Nolan Bates
stanfordwill match any one with a
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ARM will replace the big.LITTLE cluster design with a new one that allows up to 8 CPU cores per cluster, different types of cores within a cluster, and anywhere from one to many (unlimited?) clusters:
The first stage of DynamIQ is a larger cluster paradigm - which means up to eight cores per cluster. But in a twist, there can be a variable core design within a cluster. Those eight cores could be different cores entirely, from different ARM Cortex-A families in different configurations.
Many questions come up here, such as how the cache hierarchy will allow threads to migrate between cores within a cluster (perhaps similar to how threads migrate between clusters on big.Little today), even when cores have different cache arrangements. ARM did not yet go into that level of detail, however we were told that more information will be provided in the coming months.
Each variable core-configuration cluster will be a part of a new fabric, with uses additional power saving modes and aims to provide much lower latency. The underlying design also allows each core to be controlled independently for voltage and frequency, as well as sleep states. Based on the slide diagrams, various other IP blocks, such as accelerators, should be able to be plugged into this fabric and benefit from that low latency. ARM quoted elements such as safety critical automotive decisions can benefit from this.
A tri-cluster smartphone design using 2 high-end cores, 2 mid-level cores, and 4 low-power cores could be replaced by one that uses all three types of core in the same single cluster. The advantage of that approach remains to be seen.
More about ARM big.LITTLE.
Don't think about language first. Think in terms of Map and Reduce frameworks. Look for problems that can be decomposed into much smaller pieces. Ideally the class of problems that are "embarrassingly parallel". For example, computing each pixel of an image of the Mandelbrot set. Or any other pixel computation where each pixel is computed independently of its neighbors. (eg, 3D rendering, many photoshop filters, maybe video encode / decode) Or if the setup/teardown overhead is too high for computing a single pixel, then divide the image into blocks of pixels that are computed iteratively. Example, break a 4096x4096 image into 256x256 pixel blocks, treat each block as a fundamental problem element.
Don't look at C / C++. Look at higher level languages. Examples: Clojure, Erlang, and others. The overhead of the runtime substrates for the higher level languages is not as important as the need to be able to easily scale the problem by simply throwing more cpu's at it. If my high level language solution is ten times slower than your C++ code, but I can trivially just throw more cpu's at my solution to scale up to any level I please, then I have a winner. You shouldn't even be thinking in terms of C++ thread models. Think "forbidden planet": that machine is going to provide whatever amount of power your monster needs to achieve its goals.
The problem needs to be decomposable into small parts. Ideally very small, hence "embarrassingly parallel" like many pixel based problems. As a counter example, I would offer the problem Spock asked of the Enterprise computer: compute to the last digit the absolute value of Pi. The idea was that more and more "banks" of the computer would work on the problem until capacity was exhausted. I have difficulty imaging how this particular problem could achieve that, since it is not obvious to me how the computation of an infinitely long Pi could be done in parallel.
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The understanding of the details on which are built those high-level frameworks is slowly being locked away in the in the walled gardens of giant corporations. The only way to solve problems will be to do so within their set of concepts, because it will be too complex to reverse-engineer just what's going on.
The user is being pushed to increasingly higher levels of abstraction (as you note), which are attached to reality through carefully guarded industry secrets. The world of computing is ever more magical.
I have an idle long-term plan for that: Build an auditable computer from scratch. Would probably take decades though.
It would involve fuse ROMs programmed through CRC protected toggle switches. Then using those ROMs to build periperals like keyboards and monitors that you can trust.
Would involve code correctness proofs as well. I am hoping that as complexity goes up, the formal proofs will greatly reduce debugging time.
Goes off to start dreaming for reals.
Which is great if your program only need run a few times. Otherwise if it runs ten times slower it requires ten times the electricity and ten times the data center capacity. So many people make that mistake, deploying scripting and other toy/fad/academic languages into production and only when the crunch time comes realize that the survival of the company now depends on replacing that hot mess with real code before the hosting bills from chasing the load bankrupts them or starts chasing off the users who are finally swarming in with error messages. Remember the fail whale; don't be Jack. They barely survived the mistake.


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Law Enforcement shooting citizens in the back with shotguns and getting away with it
Four Texas Klansmen, from left, John Grindle, 30, his younger brothers, Joseph, 24, and George "Rusty,' 29 and their brother-in-law, William Pete Lofton, 49, all lost their businesses and jobs after they were photographed without their Klan hoods. Photo by Ron Laytner, Edit International
John Grindle, 30, Klan member from Livingston, Texas, poses with son John Jr., 6, with Bible and portrait of the Klan's Imperial Grand Wizard. 'Signs of the Anti-Christ," according to the Klan, are peace movements, the United Nations, Jewry and communism. Photo by Ron Laytner, Edit International
I went to a [New Hampshire High School performance] of, "Our Town," last night. I learned about Jonathan Daniels and another member of the clergy being shot in back with shotguns where the law enforcement officer was not punished. Not much has changed today. They are just slicker, have more tools, and are less obvious with their abuse. The Irish, Italian, Jewish, and other Mafias, along with the offspring of Ku Klux Klan members can sit in the same bleachers cheering on the same teams their kids play together in, intermarry, and some are part of an even bigger, more inclusive version of the Ku Klux Klan, the insiders in government Mafia. It is even a bigger version of them against us.
The Ku Klux Klan infiltrated law enforcement, the courts, town hall, and major businesses in areas for long periods of our American past. Something similar exists today. Outsiders who get mouthy, want a piece of the pie, or want social justice are still targeted, jailed on trumped up charges, all court cases rigged, are financially ruined, have their families and reputations ruined, and some are even still tortured and murdered, just not hung from a nearby tree as a message.
Blogspot, youtube, etc are all Google. Google is allegedly NSA. I was asked for a phone number by google inorder to continue to blog. It is only a matter of time before even little voices like mine are silenced on the web. Let's see if they'll censor or not allow plays written with a sense of educating others in what is really going on behind the modern curtain of Oz.
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Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was an Episcopal seminarian, killed for his work in the American civil rights movement. His death helped galvanize support for the civil rights movement within the Episcopal church. He is regarded as a martyr in the Episcopal church.[1][2] One of the five elementary schools in his hometown of Keene, New Hampshire is named in memory of him.
Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Jonathan Myrick Daniels was the child of Phillip Brock Daniels (14 July 1904 - December 1959), a Congregationalist physician, and Constance Weaver (20 August 1905 - 9 January 1984). Daniels joined the Episcopal Church as a young man and considered a career in the ministry as early as high school. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute after graduating from Keene High School,[3] where he began to question his religious faith during his sophomore year, possibly because his father died and his sister Emily suffered an extended illness at the same time. He graduated as valedictorian of his class and, in the fall of 1961, entered Harvard University to study English Literature. In the spring of 1962, Daniels was attending an Easter service at the Church of the Advent in Boston, and felt his doubt disappear, to be replaced with a renewed conviction that he was being called to serve God. Soon after, he decided to pursue ordination, and after a period of working out family financial problems, he applied and was accepted to Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, starting his studies in 1963 and expecting to graduate in 1966.
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In March 1965, Daniels answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King, who asked that students and clergy come to Selma, Alabama, to take part in a march to the state capital in Montgomery. Daniels and several other seminary students left for Alabama on Thursday, and had intended to only stay the weekend, but Daniels and friend Judith Upham missed the bus home. Forced to stay a little longer, Daniels and Upham realized how badly it must appear to the native civil rights workers that they were only willing to stay a few days. Convinced they should stay longer, the two went back to school just long enough to request permission to spend the rest of the semester in Selma, studying on their own and returning at the end of the term to take exams. Daniels stayed with a local African-American family, the West family. During the next months, Daniels devoted himself to integrating the local Episcopal church, taking groups of young African-Americans to the church, where they were usually scowled at or ignored. In May, Daniels traveled back to school to take his semester exams, and having passed, he came back to Alabama in July to continue his work. Among his other work, Daniels helped assemble a list of federal, state, and local agencies that could provide assistance to those in need. He also tutored children, helped poor locals apply for aid, and worked to register
On August 13, 1965, Daniels, in a group of 29 protesters, went to picket whites-only stores in the small town of Fort Deposit, Alabama. All of the protesters were arrested and taken to jail in the nearby town of Hayneville. Five juvenile protesters were released the next day. The rest of the group was held for six days; they refused to accept bail unless everyone was bailed. Finally, on August 20, the prisoners were released without transport back to Fort Deposit. After release, the group waited by a road near the jail. Daniels with three others—a white Catholic priest and two black protesters—went down the street to get a cold soft drink at Varner's Grocery Store, one of the few local stores that would serve nonwhites. They were met at the front by Tom L. Coleman, an engineer for the state highway department and unpaid special deputy, who wielded a shotgun. The man threatened the group, and finally leveled his gun at sixteen-year-old Ruby Sales. Daniels pushed Sales down to the ground and caught the full blast of the gun. He was killed instantly. The priest, Richard F. Morrisroe, grabbed the other protester and ran. Coleman shot Morrisroe, wounding him in the lower back.[4] Coleman was subsequently acquitted of manslaughter charges by an all-white jury.[5] Richmond Flowers, Sr., the then Attorney General of Alabama, described the verdict as representing the "democratic process going down the drain of irrationality, bigotry and improper law enforcement." [6] Coleman died at age 86 on June 13, 1997 without having faced any further prosecution. [7]
One of the five elementary schools in his hometown of Keene, New Hampshire, is named after him.[1] He is also one of forty martyrs memorialized at Southern Poverty Law Center's Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. In 2010, a commemorative pilgrimage in Hayneville included Ruby Sales and Bishop Todd Ousley of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan.[8]
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was listed as a martyr by the Episcopal Church in 1991, his name added to the official church calendar of "Lesser Feasts and Fasts" for the date August 14.[5][9]
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