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Purgatory vs limbo3/31/2023 ![]() The Greek god Hades was the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death. The Greeks had come up with myths that all the dead dwell below the earth in the realm of Hadēs and Persephonē, good and bad alike, and were held in a dark existence. ![]() This is at odds and in contrast to the scriptural teaching that the dead go to the grave and know nothing and at the end, a eternal oblivion of the wicked and a eternal life for the saints. Christians picked up these false ideas and beliefs of immortality of the soul, or that a part of, or essence of, or spirit being of an individual being held in the underworld, from Greek mythology. The problem of picking up these ideas from Greek mythology is because of the Greek words used in translating from the Hebrew text has become confused with Greek myths. Now Limbo as a belief seems to presuppose that the dead are held in the Greek myth of the underworld (Hades) and came to be associated mainly with Limbo of Infants, where the unbaptized who die in infancy, too young to have committed personal sins. In ancient Egypt in the worship of the dead, substantially the same doctrine of purgatory was taught as today and its priests created grand funerals and masses for the dead, along with celebration of prayer and other services for the dead. Purgatory is given as a way that no matter how sinful or unbelieving, when you die, you go to Purgatory and get things sorted out and finally get to heaven, so no acceptance of Christ is needed, you can buy your way in. Purgatory is the belief that presupposes that the dead can be assisted between death and their entry into their final abode. The practice of worship for the dead and praying to them, or making prayer or offerings on behalf of the dead to contribute to their afterlife purification is not scriptural and in fact is forbidden in the Bible.ġ0 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. It existed among the ancient Greeks, other ancient people. It comes from the worship of the dead or ancestor worship which involve addressing prayers or offerings to the spirits of the dead. ![]() The realm of the dead is as the word says, dead, but many have picked up ancient Greek myths or even older pagan mysteries and made them beliefs such as Purgatory, Limbo and Hades. ![]()
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Epic books for kids login3/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Since Epic’s debut, more than 40 million books have been read on the service. Other notable features include an algorithm that makes personalized recommendations for kids based on their reading level and content preferences, and the ability to create personalized profiles (up to four per family) to keep track of reading materials individually within an account. Read-to-Me titles, audiobooks, and Spanish-language and Spanish/English bilingual books are part of the content mix. Content is curated by an in-house editorial team that receives input from Epic’s advisory board, which is composed of publishing and digital industry experts, including Joanna Cotler, former publisher of HarperCollins Children's Books award-winning author Jenni Holm and Tim Ditlow, former v-p and publisher of Listening Library/Random House, who is also Epic’s v-p of content. With Markosian, an Internet entrepreneur who had major success with social and mobile gaming company CrowdStar, Donahue, who was part of the original team at YouTube as v-p of content and head of marketing (pre-Google acquisition) notes, “We were enthusiastic and passionate about solving this problem.”Įpic carries more than 14,000 e-book titles from more than 100 publishers-including HarperCollins, Macmillan, Candlewick, Disney, Bellwether Media, and Eerdmans-and describes itself as “the world’s largest digital library for kids.” The focus is on providing unlimited access to high-quality content for children 12 and younger via a platform available on the Web, iOS, and Android devices, as well as Apple TV, for $4.99 per month. At that time, iBooks and Amazon “weren’t being directed toward children,” he explains, recalling his experiences seeking out titles for his daughter. ![]() Officially launched in January 2014 by Donahue and Suren Markosian, Epic was born from a desire to “make e-books more available to children online,” Donahue says. “We were up 400% last year and will probably see the same or more this year,” he notes. Epic cofounder Kevin Donahue shared exclusively with PW the latest statistics measuring the company’s performance. ![]() Children’s e-book subscription service Epic, based in Redwood City, Calif., is one company that is bucking the naysaying trends. ![]()
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Almost there a twisted tale3/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The cheapest and most expensive Wetherspoons burger and pint deals Pub 'That's the big thing that means sales are down on 2019. 'People thought that after lockdown there would be a boom in people suffering from cabin fever but, instead, it has almost been the opposite situation as people have got in the habit of staying in. That is the picture for the whole pub and restaurant industry. Its chairman Tim Martin said: 'The aftermath of the pandemic and lockdown restrictions have been far more difficult than anyone thought. Wetherspoons also noted that costs were far higher than three years ago, especially for labour, food, energy and maintenance. ![]() Like-for-like sales rose 18 per cent in the last quarter of 2022 at the firm's 844 pubs, but are still 2 per cent behind 2019 levels. In January, after announcing the closure of ten pubs, the chain explained that sales jumped at the end of 2022 but it is still struggling to keep up with its pre-pandemic performance. The new changes by Wetherspoons now means the cost of a pint of Carlsberg has risen from £2.39 to £2.57, a pint of Stella has gone from £3.35 to £3.60 and a Leffe has spiked from £3.85 to £4.14.Īt the start of the year Wetherspoons warned that prices could climb to battle the soaring food and energy costs. This comes weeks after it confirmed that ten of their pubs will be closing for good after being sold and another 35 branches are still up for sale. The popular low-cost pub chain also increased the cost of meal deals by up to 75p amid the cost-of-living crisis. Bristol's The Jolly Sailor sells the combination for the UK average of £8.55Įarlier this month, the low cost pub chain hiked their food and drink prices by 7.5% in a move which will see the price of a pint increase by up to 29p. ![]()
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Ireal pro jazz standards3/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It will happen naturally as you get accustomed to the instrument and the layout of the notes.įurthermore, whenever possible, attempt to use the top two strings on the guitar when learning to play a new (or unfamiliar) melody, playing in a more horizontal fashion. The way you play a certain melody on the fretboard may change over time, and that's okay. Make it very concrete and "formalize" this way of playing the single-note melodic material so you always play it the same way every time. Learn to play the melody (from memory) in one way that feels comfortable to you now. I don't see the point, or the gain in sticking the fretting hand in one strict position. I have yet to find the rationale behind teaching beginners to use positions when learning melodies. Please dismiss teachers instructing you to learn any new Jazz standard melody "in 2 positions on the fretboard" as a first step to learning any standard tune. Pick one classic (or obscure) performance of the piece in question as your template for the melody and chords.Īction step: Get a good recording (and listen to it!) for any new song you want to learn. but you should have a recorded "model" of the standard you want to memorize. just a cheat sheet to remind you of the harmonies and melodies. The info that is on the piece of paper is NOT the tune. You cannot memorize a new song simply from a chart. So, read on for some advice and seek to understand which of those widely underrated steps you can take (now) to add more songs to your Jazz repertoire. Why not train in doing what he wants to do in the endand sprint a little bit every week / day? without running at all for months at a time. But he only trains with squats and bench press at the gym. Think of an athlete specializing in 100-meter dash (sprinting). Beginner jazzers typically spend lots of time memorizing scales and chords "in a vacuum", so to speak. Isn't this surprising? In most people's practice session, I've noticed that getting familiar with actual tunes is delegated as a low-priority item, while learning technique(s) takes precedence. but very often lack a decent repertoire of common standard songs.Īnd by "decent" I only mean knowing five to ten tunes!!! Not hundreds. In the midst of teaching, coaching and creating new lessons for , I recently realized that most students may know a few to a lot of chords, scales and arpeggios (and the theory around that). To search this page in your browser press control and F.Let's be honest: you probably don't know enough Jazz Guitar Standards tunes to jam with a fellow jazz musician for an hour. And the problem might simply be that you are not taking the necessary steps to really learn the tunes in question. For Jazz books and sheet music you can buy check the Jazz Guitar collectionand the The Jazz Fakebooks at Sheet music Plus Should you need a print-out of the song, PDF versions (without banners or adverts) are available from the link at the bottom of most song pages. To avoid large slow to load pages ONLY THE FIRST PAGE IS DISPLAYED, in these cases you will need to DOWNLOAD the PDF file to view all of the song pages. Many of the songs, particularly those including tablature, extend to several pages. ![]() Several of the songs include two or more different versions. Although primarily intended for guitar, these chords should also be suitable for use with other instruments such as Ukulele or Banjo etc. These songs include lyrics with chords marked, some also include Guitar Tabs and may include playing hints and tips. ![]() They are being shared on this site for educational purposes only, please see our copyright page for more info. These transcriptions are made by many different individuals from all over the world for their own research and instruction, and as such are liable to great variation in interpretation and opinion. Some of these songs are may be in the public domain or traditional categories, however this cannot be guaranteed, and should you wish to use them as a basis of a performance or for any non-personal study purpose you are advised to contact the copyright holders (where available, copyright info has been included with the song). Also the keys and chord sequences chosen may also vary considerably between versions by different artists. Although many of the songs mention artist names, this may not be accurate and these these songs should not be considered as definitive versions representative of any particular performance or artist. THE JAZZ STANDARDS SONGS IN THIS SECTION are mainly from top bands and vocal artists who commonly perform in the jazz idiom. ![]()
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Pdf toolkit compress files3/30/2023 ![]() īy executing the program, the original PDF document size is reduced, and you will get the optimized PDF. Private Sub RemoveFormFields(loadedDocument As PdfLoadedDocument, value As Boolean)ĭim totalFieldCount As Integer = įor i As Integer = totalFieldCount - 1 To 0 Step -1ĭim field As PdfField = Tr圜ast((i), PdfField)Ī complete work sample can be downloaded from OptimizePDFSample.Zip. Private Sub RemoveAnnotations(loadedDocument As PdfLoadedDocument, value As Boolean)ĭim collection As PdfLoadedAnnotationCollection = Nothingįor j As Integer = 0 To - 1Ĭollection = loadedDocument.Pages(j).Annotationsĭim totalAnnotationCount As Integer = collection.Countįor i As Integer = totalAnnotationCount - 1 To 0 Step -1 'This will open the PDF file so, the result will be seen in default PDF viewer LoadedDocument.CompressionOptions = options PdfLoadedAnnotationCollection collection = null ĭim loadedDocument As New PdfLoadedDocument(inputFile)ĭim options As New PdfCompressionOptions() Private void RemoveAnnotations(PdfLoadedDocument loadedDocument, bool value) Int totalFieldCount = įor (int i = totalFieldCount-1 i >= 0 i-) Private void RemoveFormFields(PdfLoadedDocument loadedDocument, bool value) This will open the PDF file so, the result will be seen in default PDF viewer RemoveAnnotations(loadedDocument, false) ![]() PdfCompressionOptions options = new PdfCompressionOptions() PdfLoadedDocument loadedDocument = new PdfLoadedDocument(inputFile) ![]()
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Snort beanie baby3/30/2023 ![]() This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Republic of Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam. The seller is “cbasi002″ and is located in this country: US. ![]() A black and white skunk, Stinky can sell for 25,000 if its tag bears any of the following names: Bongo, Chip, Doodle. Batty Ty Beanie Baby (Rare-Retired) Mint ad vertisement by NueAme. Another Ty Beanie Baby known for tons of errors on its tags is Stinky. This item is in the category Toys
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Webscraper missing from developer toold3/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The price for a developer is free, for any other users. When setting up a scraper (Sitemap) you can use different types of selectors to tailor the scraper for a specific site. XPath can resolve 80 of data missing problems, even in scraping dynamic pages. Web Scraper is built on modular selector engine. Let's walk through 4 of these libraries to see how they work and how they compare to each other. In this case, it’s easy to miss these irregular data during collecting. Luckily for JavaScript developers, there are a variety of tools available in Node.js for scraping and parsing data directly from websites to use in your projects and applications. It’s very generous they offer free unlimited pages. An example of a browsers developer tools. Octoparse is a free and powerful web scraper with comprehensive features. In other words, it gives users the data and logic but they have to put them together to see the whole, rendered web page.Īn example of such a page would be as simple as: Ĭontent: "Available 2024 on scrapfly.io, maybe."ĭocument. Read on to find out what web scraping is, why you should do it, and how you can get. On the left we see what the browser sees on the right is our http webscraper - where did everything go?ĭynamic pages use complex javascript-powered web technologies that unload processing to the client. You can scrape data from a few dozen web pages using a single machine, but if you have to retrieve data from hundreds or even thousands of web pages, you might want to consider distributing the workload. Why can't my scraper see the data I see in the web browser? Web scraping, also known as web crawling, uses bots to extract, parse, and download content and data from websites. One of the most commonly encountered web scraping issues is: Refresh the page, check Medium ’s site status, or find something interesting. ![]() What are existing available tools and how to use them? And what are some common challenges, tips and shortcuts when it comes to scraping using web browsers. Scraping the Web with WebScraper.io by Donovan Cotter Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at how can we use headless browsers to scrape data from dynamic web pages. Many modern websites in 2023 rely heavily on javascript to render interactive data using frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js and so on which makes web scraping a challenge. ![]()
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![]() With HDR, Nest Hello can take multiple photos and then blend them all together to give you brighter, more crisp images with sharper details, no matter what the lighting conditions outside are. HDR allows the Nest Hello to adjust to changes in lighting. With the Nest Hello seeing everything in front of it, you can be at peace no matter where you are. You can use your mobile phone to check on things at home. This allows you to take a breather from the notifications. This means that it can capture anything that moves in front of it and there would be almost no space for potential intruders to hide! The camera on the Nest Hello has a field of view of 160 degrees. You can see things clearly even at night with the camera’s night vision capability. Nest Hello gives you crisp and clear images and high-definition videos. It comes with a black face, but the body is white and the back panel is gray. The Nest Hello Video Doorbell measures 1.7 inches wide by 4.6 inches high. ![]() The ring button is lit by a light ring, making it easier to see at night. Nest opted to have it look symmetrical with the camera sensor at the top and the ring button at the bottom, both having the same size and the same circular shape. The Nest Hello Video Doorbell is rather well-designed, taking on a rectangular form with rounded ends. The Nest Hello Video Doorbell replaces your existing doorbell, allowing you to see who is at your door without having to open it. 2.2 What you would like about the Vivint Doorbell Camera.1.3 What you would like about Nest Hello.Once again, Andscape presents its annual NBA All-Snub team, our squad of the most deserving players who didn’t make the cut, that began with Edwards. NBA fans, media and players selected the starters a week ago, and the reserves for both conferences, as selected by coaches, were revealed Thursday. Twenty-four players will compete in the 2023 NBA All-Star Game on Feb. And that was my second year in the league, so I don’t want to go another year without going back.” Never knew what it felt like till last year. ![]() “But I think for me, me and my family talk all the time we just want to go back to the playoffs. “It’s definitely a goal,” Edwards said of becoming an NBA All-Star. But the silver lining for Edwards is that he already had NBA All-Star break vacation plans in the works, and says he is more focused on returning to the playoffs. The Timberwolves’ 28-26 record probably didn’t help either, although they have been without injured star forward Karl-Anthony Towns. But that wasn’t enough to become a first-time NBA All-Star. 1 pick in the 2020 NBA draft is also perhaps the league’s most electrifying dunker. The third-year guard had his best month of the season in January with a scoring average of 27.3 points. ![]() 25.Įdwards was 20th in the NBA in scoring entering Thursday (24.9 points per game). I just love the game of basketball,” Edwards told Andscape after scoring 37 points in a 111-102 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Jan. 1 pick, right? So, I’m used to it at this point. I’ve never been the person to get chosen to be an All-Star. NEW ORLEANS - Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was mentally preparing for being an NBA All-Star snub just days before it actually happened. ![]()
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Windows 7 crashes flickery screen3/30/2023 ![]() If your problem does not occur while the computer is in a clean boot environment, then you can determine which startup application or service is causing the problem by systematically turning them on or off and restarting the computer. While turning on a single service or startup item and rebooting each time will eventually find the problematic service or application, the most efficient way to do this is to test half of them at a time, thus eliminating half of the items as the potential cause with each reboot of the computer. You can then repeat this process until you've isolated the problem. Here's how: How to determine what is causing the problem after you do a clean boot You might need to contact the program manufacturer for more specific support. If the program still doesn't run as expected, this issue is not caused by application or service interference. How to determine what is causing the issue by performing a clean boot If the program runs correctly, this issue is caused by application or service interference. You can find out which application or service is causing the issue. Then, do one of the following, as appropriate for your situation: Install, uninstall, or run an applicationĪfter you restart the computer, you'll have a clean boot environment. Reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting and resume functionality. Your computer might temporarily lose some functionality while in a clean boot environment. Follow troubleshooting steps to install, uninstall, or run your application. When you restart the computer, it will be in a clean boot environment. On the Startup tab of System Configuration, select OK. (Keep track of which items have been Disabled. On the Startup tab in Task Manager, for each Enabled startup item, select the item and then select Disable. On the Startup tab of System Configuration, select Open Task Manager. On the Services tab of System Configuration, select Hide all Microsoft services, and then select Disable all. Using the System Configuration utility might make the computer unusable. ![]() Only use the System Configuration utility to change the advanced boot options on the computer with guidance from a Microsoft support engineer. Important: If the computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might prevent you from following these steps. ![]()
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The absinthe drinker3/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Again, we have a figure of a woman dressed in black, save for her white petticoat revealed by the gust of the wind from the title. The wind as a motif appears again in the painting “The Gust of Wind” from 1904. The colour scheme and sharp contrats makes me think of the German Expressionist cinema. The contrast between the tread and the riser of the stairs is sharp and precise. ![]() I can imagine her climbing up the stairs and stopping for a moment only to look into the dark abyss bellow. It’s only the woman and the wind on the stairs. The space around the woman, dark, empty and isolate, oozes an equally nightmarish vibe. The figure is painted in such a nightmarish way that it could also be the figure of death itself. Painting “Vertigo” shows a figure of a woman shrouded in black, her long gauzy black scarf dancing in the wind. A strange chill goes down my spine when I get immersed in his dark world. If I had to chose, I would chose Ensor’s art as my favourite, but Spilliaert’s artworks are something that I gaze at half in awe and half in fear. The two painters, despite the generational gap between them, actually became friends and connected over their art endeavors. Both Ensor and Spilliaert’s art have an element of eerieness, it must be something in the Ostend air. Skeletons that pop up in almost all of Ensor’s paintings are at once creepy and comical. Interestingly, the town of Ostend gave the art world another amazing painter James Ensor. Even in childhood he showed a love of doodling and drawing and this love grew into real painting. Spilliaert, a reclusive child with frail health grew up into an equally sickly and reclusive young man who took solace in the world of art. Léon Spilliaert was born in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend, on the 28 July 1881. Big crazy eyes, thin lips pressed together, almost comically large and dark circles around her eyes, her flesh morbidly pale she sees something that we cannot see and the glass of absinthe hides the secret. Her silhouette, with the hat, flowing hair, dress and even necklace bring to mind the lovely Edwardian photographs and other portraits from that time, but Spilliaert’s absinthe drinker lives not in Edwardian world but in her own dark fantasy. The woman and the space around her are both painted in the same shades of black and midnight blue, as if the woman is inseparable from the space that she resides in. If you look into them long enough she will suck you into her nocturnal world of nightmares and lost hopes. I mean, just look into the eyes of the woman in the painting “The Absinthe Drinker” two dark abysses, her pupils swirling rivers of dark, haunting absinthe laced dreams. I have felt drawn to Léon Spilliaert’s dark, disturbing and nightmarish paintings for years now, but I always found them just a tad too disturbing to write about. Léon Spilliaert, The Absinthe Drinker (La Buveuse d’Absinthe), 1907 ![]() |