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AW and the Bewares & Backgrounds room host a lot of threads asking about new independent publishers & announcements from new independent publishers seeking authors, editors and cover artists. Not in all, but in many cases, theyre start-up pubs founded by individuals who are either former authors or former editors.
When the threads open, we moderators allow people to ask questions about both what the publisher is seeking and about the companys suitability as a new market. When it comes from a potential author, we try to provide a link for other members to visit the site and look around. Quite often, the publisher (or an employee or an author pubbed by them) notices the discussion and drops by to interact with the members. That occasionally leads to problems, because legitimate questions by the members and moderators about the companys business practices can feel like "attacks" on the integrity of the PEOPLE running the publisher.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, its the authors and publisher that were trying to PROTECT. I know it doesnt seem like it, but reallyweve seen dozens of publishers come and go since AW has been in operation and we tend to fret when it seems like the people involved are inexperienced about the business of publishing, because things can go wrong so very fast in this business. Once you spend much time working with publishers, you realize that the business of publishing is counter-intuitive to the rest of the world. Normal business strategies used in other industries frequently wont work in publishing, so experience in "running a successful business" seldom applies to becoming a successful publisher. Nor does being a published author automatically give a person experience in the behind-the-scenes business of publishing. It takes study and hands-on experience. Someone without both of those elements is going to struggle more in setting up shop.
I think its important at this point to show you just HOW wrong things can go by giving you some real-life examples of situations that have happened to other equally well-meaning and enthusiastic new publishers. Regulars here will likely recognize which scenario goes with which failed publisher. Remember, these arent made-up events. We arent trying to pick scabs on old wounds. They really happened in either a blow-by-blow right here on AW, or behind the scenes between members. To protect all parties, no names have been used (although in some cases, a gender may be given.) Well also be locking this thread immediately before anyone tries to place a situation with a pub name.
This is a (pre)cautionary tale to those either starting a new pub or planning to sign on with one. At the end of the situations, Ill give you a list of what the companies failed to do to protect themselves and their authors.
Scenario #1 Publisher, a self-pubbed or aspiring author, opens company with fellow authors as "co-owners." Some of the co-owners become the editors for the publisher. But the co-owners dont actually put up any cash to ensure theres capital to do things like form a legal entity, hire an attorney to prepare the contract, or design and host a website. The co-owners trust that the founder/publisher/primary co-owner has made all these arrangements. But the publisher doesnt realize what needs to be done. So, the Publisher never actually files the paperwork for the entity. Instead, she opens it as a d/b/a (doing business as) of herself. So, its a sole proprietorship, not a partnership. She throws everything into the business. She racks up credit card debt, takes out second, third, and fourth mortgages, leases professional office equipment and . . . doesnt sell enough books to pay the loans and cards and leases. But she doesnt discuss this with her co-owners. She endures the worry and pain alone. Soon she doesnt have the money to pay the editors anymore. Or the author royalties. Or the website host. She files bankruptcy. Unfortunately, because the publishing company was a d/b/a, its a Chapter 7 bankruptcyof a person, not a company. The contracts with authors become personal assets which the Bankruptcy Trustee seizes to pay debts. Except, the royalties arent secured debts. The editor salaries arent secured debts. The mortgages are. The credit cards are. The equipment leases are. So, everybody loses everything. The company closes. Authors dont have their books back (because the bankruptcy trustee forbids the reversion of rights) and the editors never get paid.
Scenario #2 Publisher starts business and hires author-friends to become editors (rather than making them co-owners.) But the Publisher doesnt have written agreements with the editors telling them what their duties are. The Publisher doesnt tell the editors that theyre not only responsible for structural editing, theyre also responsible for making sure the copyeditor stays on schedule, proofing galleys, writing back cover copy, assigning an ISBN, creating website blurbs, and working with the cover artist to make sure the work is done on time. The publisher feels that the editors should know this is standard business practice with any publisher (which it IS, BTW) and presumes the editors are doing their jobs. Until everything stalls. The cover artist is never contacted, the ISBNs are double (or triple) assigned, the copy edits went to the author without the editors knowledge before the structural edits are even done, the blurbs never gets up on the website and essentially, the books never makes it to the point of being sold. Ever. The editors leave en masse, deserting the company and the authors. The publisher folds.
Scenario #3 The Publisher assigns a book to a co-owner editor where the author is a pain to deal with. The author and editor argue constantly about editorial suggestions and the author wants to spend HOURS on the phone with the editor, so the editor can tell them what a wonderful job they did. In other words, theyre needy. By call number 15, the editor is so fed up with the author that they contact the Publisher to say, "No more! Give this author to someone else." Except the editor is the fourth person to have the author, its a terrific book, and the Publisher says. . . well, "Suck it up and do your job." The editor isnt amused and does his best to avoid the authors calls. The editor also avoids even looking at the manuscript because it reminds him hell eventually have to talk to the author again. With no contact and no edits, the author takes to making snide comments on websites and on the editors blog and MySpace page (yeah, this was a while ago.) Annoyed, the editor lets the deadline for edits pass. The deadline for publication passes. The author sues. The editor shrugs. To the editor, thats the publishers problem. Unfortunately, hes wrong. Because, being a co-owner, his pockets are just as full of gold as the other owners. Hes found liable for breach of contract because there were no ownership documents limiting liability.
Scenario #4 The editor is working on the third book of an authors contract. The editor is also an author who has contracted books with the Publisher. The manuscripts have the exact same due dates, from edits to copyedits to publication. The editor complains to the Publisher that he cant both do his book and work on the authors. But the publisher has nobody else to assign to the authors book so the editor is stuck. The editor makes the decision to finish her book first and then work on the authors book. But then the editor gets sick/injured and cannot work for several weeks. The editor doesnt realize that the author has a specific time that the book MUST be out to catch a particular event (I think it was a themed holiday or something). The editor wasnt part of the negotiations of the authors deal. The author complains to the Publisher and threatens to sue. The Publisher comes down hard on the editor and makes a similar threat. The editor rushes, but the authors book fails to meet the publication date. The author hears through the grapevine that the editors book DID reach the shelf on the due date and sues the Publisher for loss of income. The Publisher countersues the editor (because the editor is a freelance contractor, not an employee or co-owner). The author wins in court but the Publisher is not the one to pay. The editor is.
Scenario #5 Publisher opens doors and uses authors as editors on a contract basis, paying by the word or page. The Publisher hires a cover artist, also on a contract basis. A dozen books later, and the artist hasnt been paid for his work because the books arent making a big profit. The Publisher pays part of the artists bill, but then cant afford to pay what royalties are owed. The Publisher also cant pay the editors. The editors stop working until they get paid. The cover artist refuses to allow ANY of the covers to be displayed on the site until hes paid in full (which is what his contract stipulated) and contacts the webhost to demand the covers be removed. The authors, not realizing theres any problem between the publisher and artist, continue to use their cover art to promote their books. The artist finds out and separately contacts the authors (some by email and some by phone) to advise them they cannot use the art and goes into long detail about why the publisher is a thief and cheat. The authors, panicked, contact their editors and demand to know whats up. The editors dont know and directs the author to the publisher (but privately sends their own email asking whats going on.) The publisher, feeling picked on by both sides, refuses to talk to anyone and ignores calls for months on end. The publisher makes snarky statements on the front page of the company website and deletes private messages or emails on the company forum that speculate as to the problem. The publisher begins to privately contact authors to ask for "donations" to keep the company afloat. Tempers raise. Multiple lawsuits follow, with nobody ever getting paid and the authors never getting back the rights to their books.
Scenario #6 Publisher opens the doors and brings in friends with no publishing or writing experience to help run the business. To make it seem like its a huge company, instead of a two or three person shop, the Publisher adopts different personalities online and, sometimes with friends in tow, wander around the virtual universe. The Publisher and friends comment on every website, every review, every blog where any of the books published by the Publisher are mentioned. They give dozens of five star reviews on bookseller sites, argue with reviewers in comments or forums about what a reviewer says about the book (especially if its panned.) They make personal attacks on third parties, frequently without the knowledge of the author. By the time the author learns about the flame-mail going on across the web, their name is frequently mud and they have to scramble to make amends if their book has any hope of selling.
So, what did these publishers do wrong? Here are some of the things:
1. The person(s) founding the company never created a paperwork trail that included a corporate/LLC/partnership documents, binding freelance contracts, employment agreements for W-2 employees (where you pay taxes on income) specific to THEIR company vision. Not an "off the internet for free" or "buy it off the shelf in the office supply store" but hiring an attorney and an accountant to work up a real company structure.
2. The person(s) founding the company didnt put any investment dollars into the company. Often the company runs on a shoestring until money starts to flow IN. But the nature of publishing is that most of the money goes OUT before it comes in. Websites cost money (up front), cover art costs money (up front), equipment and printing costs money (up front). Etc., etc.
3. There was no communication between the publisher and their staff. "Were going to be a friendly team" doesnt work when theres no communication. The publisher should provide the staff with clear guidelines of what duties are required of their job, in print. Not everything should ever be heaped on one person because thats the path to failure.
4. The Publisher entered the fray. Yes, there is a desire to protect the authors of a fledgling publisher. It seems to be a financially sound thing to do. But, in reality, the publisher, editors and artists should never interact with reviewers or fans to argue about the reviewers opinion of a book. They should never demand (or strongly suggest) that their authors buy each others books. They should never make snarky statements about authors, reviewers, or watchdogs of the industry like Writer Beware, Predators & Editors, AW or a thousand other sites out there. Finally, the publisher, editors and artists should NEVER ask for "donations" from the authors in order to stay afloat.
Instead, they should be professionals. Always. They should freely discuss their plan to keep afloat and the business standards they intend to use. They should willingly open themselves to scrutiny by those who hope to profit from the publisher.
These might sound ridiculous to you and I can hear you say they "could never happen to me" but in each case, the people involved said the same thing.
What happens after one of the scenario melt-downs? Well, then we get a flood of people here at AW, asking why WE didnt ask more questions. Why we industry professionals didnt warn people at the beginning, when we knew it was LIKELY to happen. We used to try to explain that everybody gets a chance to open their doors and give starting a business a shot. But over the years, weve gotten to the point where its easier to ask the tough questions up front and risk hurting the feelings of one publisher than soothe anger and frustrations of dozens of authors after the blood and dust settle.
So, if youre a new publisher, or an author looking to hire on with an editor, know that yeswe WILL ask the tough questions. We will question your plan, your goals , your experience, your qualifications, your background and sometimes your integrity. Theyre questions people looking to place their "baby", their novel or NF book, want to know. Editors trying to hire on, and cover artists placing their work also want to know. They deserve to know if you, the publisher, have your plan in place and your ducks in a row.
That is all. Carry on...


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Mr Specky Restaurant, Kuantan
>> Saturday, October 25, 2008
I was in Kuantan for the weekend again (24-26 October 2008)...yes, yes, again...I was here last week for an official visitation to the youth group, but this week, it's like a 'weekend get-away' for myself, as well as to spend some time with my family & friends here.
Since I came here for uni (year 2004), I've somewhat fell in love with Kuantan. Not just because it has a beautiful beach (I can't resist good beaches!), but I guess it's the warmth of the people here that made me feel SO at home... Every trip that I make to Kuantan, I'll always go back to the same house, which I call my 'Kuantan home' & have the same room & the same kinda warmth & hospitality that I had when I first came here. It's rather amazing, really. The family treats me as their own & I do feel as if they're my family as well! Call it foster family in simple terms :)
I'm very glad that I managed to spend time with all the people whom I wanted to spend time with, & though it was quite a rushed & tiring trip, I felt satisfied :) *yay* I didn't really go on some eating-spree though, but whatever food that I managed to eat, I enjoyed it with great delight, with the company of the lovely people whom I dearly cherish & love :) I really look forward to be back there again!
Date: 25 October 2008
Venue: Mr Specky Tomyam Seafood Restaurant, Kuantan
Occasion: Dinner with Kuantan family :)
Overall comment: This place is somehow famous for their crabs! My chi-chi (sister in Hokkien) will always head here for crabs at any time when she craves for it. The food here is good & I suppose it's value for money as well, else the family won't be coming back here each time when they crave for crabs & delicious food! The ambiance is like any Chinese restaurant, but it's quite clean, so no worries 'bout overall cleanliness :) My Specky offers a good variety of Chinese food, so you'll get yummy dishes, noodles, & rice of your choice ;)
Yummy!! I'm a black pepper fan!
This dish is quite nice, though I was actually too tired to bother how great it tastes like d...it was around 10.45pm when we had all these food! *faints*
Mr Specky Tomyam Seafood Restaurant
B-1161, Jalan Beserah, 25300 Kuantan,
Pahang Darul Makmur.
Tel: (609) 5667181
Opens: 6pm - 12am daily
Halal: No
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The crumbling of this world lately is heavy on my heart.
I know society has always been this horrible. Killing people for stupid reasons – things that don't matter. It's so easy to be hateful.
Now these horrors are more close to home, impossible to ignore – though we continue to be distracted in order to cope, to pretend that we are safe, that we are immortal, that time for our physical bodies is never-ending.
And then wham! We are dead. We are old, feeble, destitute. We lament our wasted days, the moments we gave to useless garbage. Those are completely irretrievable – they are lost and ancient relics, not worthy of a written history, not worth calling "memories" at all, because they're hollow – shells containing nothing at all.
I see people as conduits for astonishing beauty and discoveries – but humans on the whole seem to be a despicable species. We really have to fight our abhorrent natures to be luminaries. For some the fight is harder than for others. Some lose the war entirely, and cause more wars themselves.
We start out as beacons of hope, and for so many of us it is thwarted by other people, incidents that cause us to shatter, and the heaviness of everything going on in the world. These things drain us, jade us, and often turn us into dust.
Our lives are so fragile and easy to destroy.
Do we want an inner fire that is just an ember, so simple to smother? Or a wildfire impossible to put out?
If our bodies are killed, will we live on? Will everything inside us that was never released be lost forever? Or will we die EMPTY, having purged ourselves of all the ideas and art and music and beauty and goodness that we contain?
It is never-ending, of course. We can't stop creating. We can't stop loving, or doing – unless we are detached and inhuman. Too many of us are husks of our real selves – too many of us ignore those flames. We extinguish them with bullshit, with garbage, with chemicals that make life seem like a chore instead of a journey to our greater selves and the heights we can reach if we take each step of the climb to get there.
It is more important than ever to do what we have always dreamed of.
The reason we are so scared of death, particularly of premature death, is that we will not have the experiences we've always wanted, or to create what we've kept inside of us for so long. We fear that it's too late. We fear someone else will take it away from us.
Most of us deny it to OURSELVES. Most of us are killing ourselves slowly, yet we fear someone else doing it to us – it's happening to almost everyone, all the time. We kill ourselves with "food", drugs, horrible soul-crushing jobs, alcohol, awful relationships, and every other thing that does not give us true fulfillment.
It is more important than ever to release what we having burning inside us – those things that scorch our souls every day, that we are scared to let out, that we fear will be judged, that we are terrified will fall flat.
The only thing that can be happen if we don't let it all loose, is that we just exist and not much more.
The body is able to be killed, but the essence of who we are cannot be. The only way we can express ourselves in this universe, as who we are, is through the body we inhabit. This is our chance to do everything we dream of. Other than procreating, that is what a physical body is FOR.
We are not experiencing LIFE as we could be, not experiencing the natural world, the WILD, the essence of being AWAKE and AWARE of the intoxicating elixir of the universe.
Many people will see it through using medicinal plants, but astonishment and wonder are always there, and we can grasp them at any time if we pay attention. We need to listen to the calling of the heart that resides in our GUTS. It is always talking to us.
We need to stop silencing it, weighing it down, distracting it, poisoning it. It needs to be HEARD.
The inferno within needs to burn and take over our lives. Our world needs visionaries with torrid passion to lead us to our own paths. We need contributions of mad desire, of dedicated obsession, of star-bright wonderment. This path is available to all, at any time – we just have to discover the way. There are no maps. The only guide we have is our own imagination.
It is more important than ever that we do it NOW, because some lunatic could just kill us at any time – a person who chose the wrong fork in the road – someone who never really got to be who they were truly destined to be – that denial of their possible greatness led them to nefarious choices. They could shoot us in the face while we sign autographs. Slaughter us while we dance at a nightclub. Murder us while we are in our car. Mow us down while we celebrate life with others. It's impossible to know.
Unless you live through an ordeal where you almost lose your life, you may never stop taking life for granted.
Should we wait for these moments? Most people don't have near-death experiences. Most people are already near death without even realizing it. Sitting in their chairs staring at screens, mindless, scarfing down cupcakes and pizza, slogging through cubicle jobs and corporate drudgery.
And for what?
To drown out the deep soul-calling to be what they are capable of.
Being an example of human possibility is not an easy task to take on. It takes strength and courage and love. Most of us don't believe we have that in us.
The time is NOW. THIS SECOND. More than ever we are at risk – but remember – most people are dying slowly every single day of their own terror – the internal terrorism of their own minds.
We need to fight that internal war more than ever. We need to conquer ourselves.
The more of us that finally listen and follow this call, the more the world will heal, the better it will be, and maybe we can finally deem human beings a species worth calling magnificent.
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Hey, yo, Im the king of this muthafucka, I'm the king of Detroit You do what I say what I say nigga, yo dont say it we gonna smoke this nigga 'Proof'
Fuck that you shoot that nigga, right there, get that nigga!
King Of Detroit, what up now fool, what up now nigga!
Many men, wish death upon P
Its hard to survive in the 313
I'm trying to be what Im destined to be
And niggas tryin to take my life away
I put a hole in a nigga for fuckin wit me
He ain't come dollo face in 1E
Watch what you say when you talk about me
Cuz I come and take your life away
Many men, many many many many men
Wish death upon me
Dog I don't cry no more
Don't look to the sky no more
Have mercy on me
[Verse 1]
Man these pussy niggas put money on head
Gonna get your refund, cuz motha fucka I ain't dead
I'm the dozen in the dirt, that ain't been found
The real king of the 'D' (shit) that ain't been crowned
When Im on, something special happens every time
Im the dopest, something like Roy Jones in his prime
I walk the planks of the jungle, got a problem then fuck you
Show you what my gun do, if you whack and unhumble
Be for real, punk niggas, your new to the beat
Ask any playa in the 'D', your new to the streets
Ya'll ain't from 7 mile, and y'all ain't wound
Fuck a bone, when you hear that *click* its a gun!
Many men, many many many many men wish death upon me
Dog I don't cry no more
Don't look to the sky no more
Have mercy on me
Have mercy on my soul
Somewhere my heart turned cold
Have mercy on many men, many many many many men
Wish death upon me
[Verse 2]
Now there wouldn't be real, if it wasn't for no heart
If there wasn't 8 mile, there wouldn't be O Port
Death gotta be easy, cuz life is hard
Murk you in afterlife, and see twice the god
This is for my niggas on the yo, doin there time
The real murkers in Detroit, that shine on the ground
I heard about that little hit, that u put in the hood
But your shootifyougetshot ain't gonna do no good
Im like MG for shady, you can call me 'the Don'
If you Micheal mothafucka, you gonna die in the storm
Can't switch sides homie, let cash ride homie
Thought we was cool, why you want me to die homie?
[Verse 3]
You know how many mothafuckas wanna hear your bone break?
PA 7 Mile, FA's on May
School craft LA mack and B-wick
CCs Runyan AV. That's who 'P' wit
The cops don't know much, where I tuck my Glock
I got the word from E-dog when Stuck got locked
Ain't gunna spell it out for you muthafuckas on the grind
Are you blind nigga, can't read between the lines
From Cameon, Rico Shocka and G-low
Rock man, First born, boxy and Dlow
Now lets clear, Im here for a real reason
He do a a hit, I do a hit, lets see who's still breathin'
Many Friends
I lost to this game, and this cocksucka come namin names
So many hommies that passed away
Run up on him, point-blank and blast away
Many friends, many many many many friends
That died on me
I should have preserved my dog, poured out on the curb for ya'll
Your R.I.P
Many friends
I lost to this game, and this cocksucka coome namin names
So many hommies that passed away
Run up on him point-blank and blast away
For Lewon, Click-click, Bugs and Snook, Don't care bout all them drugs he took
Watch what you say when you talk about me, Cuz Im always gonna walk the 'D'
Many friends
That died on me
I shall have preserved my dogs, poured out on the curb for y'all
Yo R.I.P
A Diss Track aimed at Royce Da 5'9, a fellow Detroit rapper, who was highly associated with Eminem and D12 before the beef.


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Tabatha Coffey Picks Her Five Favorite Star Looks of 2012
The Bravo star has some pretty solid choices -- did your favorite make the list?
We've enjoyed hearing Bravo star Tabatha Coffey's take on star styles this year — and don't worry, she's coming back for more in 2013! But she recently took time out of her busy shooting schedule to critique the best in star style this year, and we have to say, she made some very solid picks. Read on to find out who earned top honors!
How can I sum up 2012? It was a very, very colorful year for fashion, to say the least. We saw vibrant shades of red, tangerine and yellow, and soft pastels like robin's egg blue and dusty lilac. It was refreshing to see a broader spectrum this year since in past drab neutrals have made starlets and musicians appear washed out and aged beyond their years.
Hair consisted of unpretentiously styled updos, whimsical braids, topknots and classic old Hollywood-esque chignons. Makeup was clean and fresh; less smoky eyes, more natural and effortless. It was a year to control the overall look and not let the overall look control you. With that said, here are my five favorite red carpet looks for 2012:
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1. Emma Stone. Undeniably my all-time favorite look for 2012; Emma looks absolutely ravishing in red at the Oscars. This is the epitome of old Hollywood glamour. The length, draping and striking color of this Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown is perfection. Most importantly, her hair is styled exactly as it should be. When you have a collar like this, the hair needs to be up and off the shoulders. What you can't see in this image is how beautiful the hair is pulled back into a twisted chignon. The accessories have the right amount of bling and I'm in love with this Louis Vuitton clutch.
2. Michelle Williams. I adore this Oscars look for several reasons. 1: Michelle's hair color and pixie cut are her namesake. She is a modern-day Twiggy and has the perfect complexion to accompany this hair color. 2: Her complexion also pairs well with the color of this Louis Vuitton gown. 3: The peplum detail and brooch at the waistline are an excellent amount of detail and just the right amount of whimsy. 4: Makeup is natural; cheeks rosy, lips striking. 5: Someone buy me that choker for my birthday next year. Thanks.
3. Octavia Spencer. Octavia, Octavia, Octavia, you are s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g! From head to toe, this is Oscars red carpet excellence. Love the deep part and classic styling of your hair and your perfectly lined and filled brows. What I love about this brow shape is how it really makes your eyes "pop" and shine. Your gown is breathtaking; beading is not exaggerated and the way it gathers at the center is quite becoming and flattering. You are a 10 in my book.
4. Heidi Klum. Aside from that horrendous ensemble seen at this year's MTV EMAs, Heidi Klum is one ray of red carpet fashion sunshine I can usually count on seeing. This aqua frock of hers from the Emmys is divine. She looks like a goddess! Her hair is picture-perfect and wearing it down with this neckline is spot on. Accessories are simple, makeup is clean and fresh.
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5. Tie: Ginnifer Goodwin & Padma Lakshmi. I like to call this the 'Tangerine Tie for 2012.' We all know that Pantone chose 'Tangerine Tango' as the color of the year for 2012, and it's evident that celebs loved wearing it on the red carpet. I had a hard time choosing which lady wore it best at the Emmys so I'm calling it a tie — Ginnifer and Padma both looked stunning. They wore the color, the color didn't wear them.
–Tabatha Coffey
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Genesis 2
1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3
1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 4
1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
18And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
23And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 5
1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
6And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
9And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
10And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
11And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
12And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
13And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
14And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
17And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
18And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6
1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Genesis 7
1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8
1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 9
1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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I am desperate to see a film, I have been waiting weeks for something I want to see, and finally I have worked out why this just won't happen until September?
Summer is a time when music festivals happen across the world, a time when TV schedules change, a time when everything seems just a little better than it did before.
It is also a time when school holidays begin and with the school holidays movie studios and cinemas across the country decide the only movies we should see are cute, cuddly and filled with animals.
On the subject on movies with animals this year you can't have an animal movie without talking animals. Which brings me to Cats and Dogs and true fest of talking feline and canine activity.
Here's the situation, Mr. Tinkles, is a leader of the evil cat variety, he is scheming to interfere in Prof. Brody's (Jeff Goldblum) work on a cure for dog allergies. Mr. Tinkles aim is to use the research to make every human in the world allergic to dogs.
A worldwide dog organisation is protecting the Brody household and preventing the cats getting to the Professors work. Unfortunately the agent protecting the Brody's house is captured making way for a replacement, Lou, an untrained pup who needs to learn how to be an agent - FAST.
An impressive voice cast includes Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon gruff and sly as Buddy and Ivy, veteran dog agents.
But by far the best character is the evil Mr. Tinkles (voiced by Sean Hayes) who has a wicked sense of humour and cutting wit all packaged in a white fluffy shell.
The trailer for this film is fantastic, sadly about 70% of the decent gags have been crammed in to it, which was a bit of a disappointment. Cats and Dogs falls a little short of being hilarious but has some truly excellent one liners, pretty good special effects and some convincing characters.
It's worth going to see just for the evil Mr. Tinkles!
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Faith Group Holds Food Distribution
Jubilee Ministries gave out thousands of pounds of food to more than 2,500 families on Saturday.
Jubilee Ministries gave out thousands of pounds of food to more than 2,500 families on Saturday.
Noem, a Republican, has refused calls to issue a mask mandate, disputing their effectiveness even as cases in South Dakota surge.
US President Donald Trump has admitted he faces an uphill struggle to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden in the recent election. In his first full interview since the November 3 vote, Mr Trump said it was "very hard" to get to the Supreme Court, even though "that's what everyone is fighting for". "I've got the best Supreme Court advocate that wants to argue the case if it gets there," he told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo in an hour-long interview littered with unsubstantiated claims about the election. Nearly every case brought by the Trump campaign in a blizzard of legal action has been thrown out by federal and state judges - many appointed by Republican presidents - who have given his allegations of irregularities short shrift. The US president still hopes to reverse the result by persuading the Supreme Court to consider cases brought by his legal team, which has challenged the results in several battleground states. But despite the Supreme Court now having a 6-3 conservative majority, legal experts believe that it will be reluctant to become embroiled in the election. With several important states due to certify their results shortly, the president refused to say when he would give up fighting his legal battles. "I'm not going to set a date," he said. Mr Trump could scarcely contain his anger at the judiciary in the wake of more than 30 defeats in the courts. "We are trying to put the evidence in, but the judges won't allow us to do it." For the sake of simplicity, Mr Trump added, he would like his campaign to file what he described as "one big beautiful lawsuit." Despite having just over seven weeks left in office, the president added that he would consider appointing a special prosecutor to investigate what he repeatedly described as a "rigged election." Even the FBI and the Department of Justice could have been involved in the attempts to "rig" the election, Mr Trump claimed. "This is total fraud and how – the FBI and Department of Justice, I don't know, maybe they're involved – but how people are allowed to get away from this with this stuff is unbelievable," he continued. The latest legal blow to the Trump campaign was in Pennsylvania on Friday, when the state's Supreme Court overturned a ruling which put the certification of the election results on hold. Republicans had argued that the use of mail-in ballots was unconstitutional and should therefore be discounted, which would have flipped Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes from Mr Biden to Mr Trump. The court said the case was filed months after the deadline for challenging the rules, adding that the Republicans had failed to provide evidence of a single vote being cast illegally. It was not only the courts which attracted Mr Trump's ire, but also Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia who along with the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, had approved the rules for the election which Mr Biden won. "The governor's done nothing. He's done absolutely nothing. I'm ashamed that I endorsed him. But I look what's going on. It's so terrible." Mr Trump was similarly dismissive of the media and big tech companies for failing to give his allegations of electoral fraud the attention he felt they deserved. "The media doesn't even want to cover it," he added. "We don't have freedom of the press in this country, it is suppression by the press. "You can't have a scandal if nobody reports about it." Republican senator Roy Blunt, who leads the committee for the presidential inauguration, yesterday said he did not believe the election was rigged in an interview on CNN. Most of the Republican leadership has yet to acknowledge Mr Biden's victory. According to the Washington Post one White House insider has likened Mr Trump's behaviour in the aftermath of his defeat to "mad King George", repeatedly muttering: 'I won. I won. I won.'"
Hundreds of handcuffed Salvadoran gang members were displayed before assembled reporters on Saturday, a vivid show of President Nayib Bukele's policy of confronting them and the violent crime they are accused of committing. In April, Bukele provoked the ire of rights groups when he published on social media jarring pictures of hundreds of semi-naked jailed gang members, pressed tightly together in rows, despite the raging pandemic. Security Minister Rogelio Rivas called the majority of the newly-detained "terrorists" in remarks after they were assembled in an open-air plaza by heavily-armed soldiers, nearly all the detainees wearing masks and with their faces, many tattooed, looking down.
An opinion piece published Sunday by a hard-line Iranian newspaper urged Iran to attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of the scientist who founded the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program in the early 2000s. Israel, suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the past decade, has not commented on the brazen slaying of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
The high-profile epidemiologist who led Sweden's no lock-down strategy in the spring appears to be being sidelined by the government after his prediction that greater immunity would mean a lighter second wave proved badly wrong. Anders Tegnell's biweekly press conference was on Thursday pushed into the shade by an overlapping press conference fronted by Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, where new scenarios prepared by the Public Health Agency were announced. "There's certainly a split, and I'm pretty sure that many in the government have rather lost faith in the Public Health Agency," said Nicholas Aylott, an associate politics professor at Stockholm's Södertorn University. "By some counts, we've now got exactly the same level of spread of the virus that we had in the spring, and that's about as clear a refutation of Tegnell's strategy as you could wish for." Dr Tegnell has always insisted that his Public Health Agency has never pursued a herd immunity strategy, but he repeatedly suggested in the summer that his counterparts in Norway, Finland and Denmark would face a tougher task over the winter because of lower levels of immunity in their populations. This month, though, the number of deaths in Sweden has again begun to soar above that of its Nordic neighbours, with 630 deaths so far registered as a result of Covid-19. That is about ten times the per capita death rate in Norway -- where just 30 Covid-19 deaths were registered between October 28th and November 25th.
Indonesia has nearly 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country, and while many show high levels of activity it can be weeks or even months before an eruption. Raditya Jati, a spokesman for the agency, said in a statement that the eruption from the Mt. Ile Lewotolok volcano had caused panic among those living nearby. Muhammad Ilham, a 17-year-old who witnessed the eruption, told Reuters that resident nearby were "panicked and they're still looking for refuge and in need of money right now". Indonesia's Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Centre said on its website that the area near the volcano is likely to be inundated with "hot clouds, lava stream, lava avalanche, and poisonous gas".
That seemingly didn't go according to plan.President-elect Joe Biden picked up 257 votes in Wisconsin's Milwaukee County on Friday after the Trump campaign demanded a recount there. President Trump did pick up some votes, as well, but the 125 he received gives Biden a net gain of 132.Biden won Wisconsin by around 20,000 votes, which was close enough for the Trump campaign to call for recounts, and a separate one in Dane County is expected to finish Sunday, so the president could still decrease his deficit. But Dane County is also Democratic-leaning, so it's unlikely the recount will significantly alter the results either way.The Trump campaign's efforts, which are grounded in unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud, cost $3 million.Trump's lawyers are still expected to mount a legal challenge of the overall vote in Wisconsin, The Guardian notes, but the state is on track to certify its results Tuesday. Read more at The Guardian and Business Insider.More stories from theweek.com Is Mnuchin trying to sabotage the economy? Trump: 'I'm ashamed I endorsed' Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp The vaccine breakthrough
A shooting at a shopping mall in Sacramento, California Friday has left two teenage brothers dead. As reported by KCRA-TV, the victims were identified as 19-year-old Dewayne Reed, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and 17-year-old Sa'Quan Reed, who died at a local hospital. The shooting reportedly happened around 6: p.m. Friday at Arden Fair Mall.
When Turkey changed the way it reports daily COVID-19 infections, it confirmed what medical groups and opposition parties have long suspected — that the country is faced with an alarming surge of cases that is fast exhausting the Turkish health system. In an about-face, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government this week resumed reporting all positive coronavirus tests — not just the number of patients being treated for symptoms — pushing the number of daily cases to above 30,000. No country can report exact numbers on the spread of the disease since many asymptomatic cases go undetected, but the previous way of counting made Turkey look relatively well-off in international comparisons, with daily new cases far below those reported in European countries including Italy, Britain and France.
A thousand people took to the streets of the Armenian capital Yerevan on Sunday demanding the authorities take action to find soldiers missing in recent fighting with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Harvey Weinstein's appeal against his rape and assault convictions has been hampered after the disgraced former movie mogul's two ex-wives reportedly froze £4.5 million of his remaining assets. Weinstein, who was given a 23-year jail term at a court hearing in New York in March after being convicted of rape and sexual assault, is allegedly no longer able to pay the lawyers working on his appeal. Weinstein's two ex-wives, Eve Chilton, whom he divorced in 2004, and Georgina Chapman, a British fashion designer who left the producer after assault allegations against him emerged in 2017, have reportedly taken legal action to freeze his accounts. According to the Daily Mail, the pair filed a motion in April raising concerns over the state of Weinstein's finances and provided evidence in July in the form of private jet receipts and expenses related to his criminal trial. The two women also reportedly provided the court with evidence of large deposits that had been made into Weinstein's bank account as well as proof of insurance fees he was set to collect.
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"What kind of a court system is this?" the president said he asked when his lawyers told him he didn't have the legal ground to file such a suit.
This month, some individuals took to social media to post screenshots of a fake arrest warrant for President-elect Joe Biden.
The former Zappos CEO died late Friday as a result of injuries he sustained from a November 18 fire in New London, Connecticut.
An unknown gunman fired into a crowd gathered at a Saturday afternoon burial service of a teenager who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy earlier this month, officials said. The shooting happened as guests gathered at Riverview Memorial Gardens to pay their respects to 18-year-old Sincere Pierce. Pierce and 16-year-old Angelo Crooms were killed Nov. 13 by a Brevard County Sheriff's deputy.
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared military operations in the country's northern Tigray region "completed' and claimed that his federal forces had captured the crucial regional capital of Mekele. Due to an almost complete communications black out in Tigray, it was impossible to independently verify his statement. The announcement on Saturday night came just hours before at least six rockets from northern Tigray hit Eritrea, according to diplomats, suggesting the prime minister's claims were premature. Catastrophic fighting was expected over the weekend in Mekele when the Ethiopian army said it was surrounding the city of half a million people with tanks and artillery and warned civilians to stay inside. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff visited government-run Ayder Referral Hospital yesterday, where they said approximately 80 per cent of patients were suffering from trauma injuries and basic supplies were dwindling. "The hospital is running dangerously low on sutures, antibiotics, anticoagulants, painkillers, and even gloves," said Maria Soledad, ICRC's head of operations in Ethiopia. It is thought that forces loyal to the powerful regional government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), may have tactically retreated into the nearby mountains days ago to avoid heavy clashes. The TPLF is thought to command as many as 200,000 fighters, some of whom fought in the bloody Eritrea-Ethiopia war from 1998 to 2000. Because of these old hostilities with neighbouring Eritrea, Tigray is home to some of the largest stores of weapons in the country. The US embassy in the Eritrean capital Asmara reported early Sunday "six explosions" caused by rockets from Tigray region had occurred in the city "at about 10:13 pm" on Saturday night. The strikes marked the third time that Asmara has been shot at since fighting began on November 4. The TPLF has only claimed responsibility for the first rocket attack two weeks ago but has frequently accused Eritrea of siding with Ethiopian federal forces. Eritrea, Africa's most totalitarian state, has not commented on the strikes. The conflict began when Mr Abiy, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced that he was sending federal troops into Tigray in response to attacks by pro-TPLF forces on national army camps. The move marked a dramatic escalation of tensions between the federal government and the TPLF, which dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades before anti-government protests swept Mr Abiy to office in 2018. Thousands have died in the conflict so far, with tens of thousands of refugees streaming across the border into Sudan. Each side has accused the other of grave crimes and mass killings.
Ever out of step with the Catholic laity, bishops are considering denying Joe Biden communion. That would be a huge mistake.
There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
An Interaction or Not? Understanding a Few ML Algorithms via an Example with No Evidence Either Way
Since Github Pages is way nicer than Blogger, I'm writing over there at http://davidchudzicki.com now. To keep old posts alive, these pages at http://blog.davidchudzicki.com will remain as is.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Interactive Lissijous Curves in d3
You can play with it (and see the code) here
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Then I learned that GIFs can only use 256 colors and we have to do something to map the many colors to the fewer colors. We could just use the closest available color in the new set of colors, but that results in sharp jumps and "color banding" where the colors change.
So instead we use (and ImageMagick's default is) dithering, which assigns pixels to a mixture of color values that locally average to the appropriate shade. I had a great time reading about this in ImageMagick's documentation! Here's a description of the default method:
The pixel is assigned the color closest to that pixels value, and any difference between the pixels original color and the selected color, is saved and added to the next pixels color values (which is always a neighbouring pixel) before a new color is again selected. In this way any color variations between selected colors and the images original color is distributed to the other pixels in the same area. The result is that while only specific colors will be assigned to the final image, the same basic overall color for that area will closely match the original image.When there aren't enough dots, the picture looks blurry.
|Resolution: 800x600
|Resolution: 200x150
|PNG (lots of colors)
|no dither (GIF, 256 colors)
|default dither (GIF, 256 colors)
convert -resize 100% -dither None ./zoomed_in/Weierstrass001.png ./res100no_dither.gif convert -resize 50% -dither None ./zoomed_in/Weierstrass001.png ./res50no_dither.gif convert -resize 100% ./zoomed_in/Weierstrass001.png ./res100default_dither.gif convert -resize 25% ./zoomed_in/Weierstrass001.png ./res25default_dither.gif convert -resize 100% ./zoomed_in/Weierstrass001.png ./res100many_colors.png convert -resize 25% ./zoomed_in/Weierstrass001.png ./res25many_colors.png
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
A Bayesian Model for a Function Increasing by Chi-Squared Jumps (in Stan)
This post will describe a way I came up with of fitting a function that's constrained to be increasing, using Stan. If you want practical help, standard statistical approaches, or expert research, this isn't the place for you (look up "isotonic regression" or "Bayesian isotonic regression" or David Dunson, whose work Andrew Gelman pointed me to). This is the place for you if you want to read about how I thought about setting up a model, implemented the model in Stan, and created graphics to understand what was going on.
Here's the source for this post, including markdown and and R code, and here's the Stan model it uses.
Many thanks to Naftali Harris for comments and insights on an earlier version.
I recently read a paper that Andrew Gelman wrote back in 1996 about theoretical considerations that can restrict model choice even "in the abence of data with minimal applied context". As one example, he describes the problem fitting a function \( f(t) \) that is known to be increasing and where \( f(0)=0 \) and \( f(1)=1 \) are known. We estimate the function given noisy observations of its value at \( (N-1) \) equally spaced sample points \( \theta_i=f(\frac{i}{N}) \) (for \( i \in \{1,2,3,...,N-1\} \)).
What prior should we use for the \( \{\theta_i\} \)? It might seem like a reasonable "uninformative" prior would make the \( \{\theta_i\} \) independent and uniform on \( [0,1] \), with the restriction that non-increasing sets of \( \{\theta_i\} \) are given zero probability. But this turns out badly! Gelman notes that this prior on the \( \{\theta_i\} \) is the same as the distribution of the order statistics of a samples of size \( N-1 \) from the uniform distribution on \( [0,1] \). As the number of points in the discretization increases, the mass of the prior concentrates around a straight line, which will overwhelm the data.
To illustrate, here are some samples from this distribution, for various \( N \):
This weird! Under the uniform distribution, each (legal) path is equally likely. That's why if we fit this model to noisy data, the maximum likelihood estimate (which is the mode of the posterior) would be reasonable. But it turns out that for large \( k \), almost all legal paths are basically straight lines, so the bulk of the posterior would be basically a straight line no matter what the data say. It reminds me a bit of statistical mechanics, which is largely about micro-level randomness determining macro-level properties. (I'm no expert, but I recommend this book.)
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Mine Depth (Make your axes meaningful!)
- From 1886 onward, the mine seems to get deeper as a roughly constant rate (averaged over time).
- Are they digging it deeper smoothly over time, or does the depth increase in spurts?
- Why do we have so much more data in the period from 1886 to 1892 than the rest?
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Effective altruists -- lifestyle changes for animals vs. the environment
Here are some guesses:
Monday, March 11, 2013
Weierstrass Elliptic Function
The code is here. The code is O(n^2) (where n is the number of terms I want images for) when it really should be O(n), since I'm in effect asking for a lot of repeated computation by making each image separately. Sorry!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Visualize a random forest that classifies digits
This time I looked at the digits data set that Kaggle is using as the basis of a competition for "getting started". The random forest is trained to classify the digits, and this is an embedding of 1000 digits into 2 dimensions preserving proximities from the random forest as closely as possible:
Here's the same but just for the 7's:
The random forest has done a reasonable job putting different types of 7's in different areas, with the most "canonical" 7's toward the middle.
You can see all of the other digits http://www.learnfromdata.com/media/blog/digits/.
Note that this random forest is different from the one in my last post -- here it's built to classify the digits, not separate digits from non-digits. I wonder what kind of results a random forest to distinguish 7's from non-7's would look like?
Code is on Github.
Random forests for visualizing data
- Have a data set
- Create a set of fake data by permuting the columns randomly -- each column will still have the same distribution, but the relationships are destroyed.
- Train a random forest to distinguish the fake data from the original data.
- Get a "proximity" measure between points, based on how often the points are in the same leaf node.
- Embed the points in 2D in such a way as to distort these proximities as little as possible.
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- Position (only how far left/right)


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Futures are up overnight as Intel's rosy demand prediction lifted the entire market and it has not fallen back:
That price action now has prices right at the top of the blue channel depicted below. A break above that channel is a clue that wave c of B may be occurring:
The short term stochastics are very overbought and there is a small RSI divergence at this point.
The MBA purchase applications index plunged from 285.6 down to 258.8 for the past week. Here's Econoday:
Whatever improvement there was in the MBA's purchase index was fleeting, falling back in the July 10 week by a heavy 9.4 percent to 258.8. Difficult job conditions and difficult credit conditions continue to limit home buying despite falling prices and low rates. Rates have been lower but are falling again, at 5.05 percent for 30-year loans for a nearly 30 point drop in the week. Low rates fuel demand for refinancing where the index rose 18 percent in the week to 1,707. Next data on the housing sector will be the housing market index tomorrow.
Well, bonds are down again this morning producing higher rates… the recent up trend line in prices (lower rates) has been broken.
The CPI data is doing the same thing as the PPI data did, namely showing month over month improvement but at the same time year over year is negative by 1.2%. Again, here's Econoday's spin, I pay far greater attention to the year over year numbers than the month over month:
In June, consumer price inflation jumped and on higher gasoline price but other components also added to the spike. The headline CPI surged 0.7 percent, following a 0.1 percent uptick in May. The June rate matched the market forecast. In the latest month, energy costs posted a 7.4 percent hike while food price inflation was unchanged. Meanwhile, core CPI inflation firmed to 0.2 percent in June from a 0.1 percent uptick in May. The market expectation was for a 0.1 percent gain for the core.
The 7.4 percent boost in energy costs was due to a 17.3 percent spike in gasoline prices after a 3.1 percent gain in May.. Heating oil rose 2.0 percent while piped gas and electricity declined 1.2 percent.
Within the core, new & used motor vehicles advanced 0.4 percent, apparel jumped 0.7 percent, and recreation gained 0.5 percent (largely on admission fees and for cable and for satellite television and radio). Tobacco and smoking products increased 0.8 percent. On the soft side were rent of primary residence and owners' equivalent rent, both rising 0.1 percent.
On a year-ago basis, headline inflation dropped to down 1.2 percent (seasonally adjusted) in June from down 1.0 percent in May. Meanwhile, the core rate eased to up 1.7 percent from up 1.8 percent in May. On an unadjusted year-ago basis, the headline number was down 1.4 percent in June while the core was up 1.7 percent.
The June CPI report showed temporarily hot headline inflation as the energy component is expected to reverse in July. But some portions of the core were stronger than expected, including apparel and recreation. Also, the CPI for new and used motor vehicles rose significantly.
While most of the headline numbers should be shrugged off, the firming in the core should be a little worrisome and likely will weigh on bond prices. There were enough components showing notable increases to question the view that the recession is keeping inflation down. Also, the Empire State manufacturing index posted a nice increase and that should also help bond yields bump up.
And the Empire Manufacturing index did indeed post a nice gain, rising from negative 9.4 to just negative .55:
Rates of manufacturing decline are slowing decisively, pointing to a near-term bottoming in the sector and what would be a big plus for the economic outlook. The Empire State general business conditions index is only slightly negative in the July report, at -0.55 vs. -9.41 in June. A zero reading would indicate no month-to-month change, and at least that high of a reading seems certain for the next report given the big improvement in new orders which jumped into positive ground, at 5.89 indicating month-to-month growth vs. a long run of negative readings.
Shipments also shifted into growth mode, at 10.97 vs. May's -4.84. Prices paid likewise showed an increase, at 10.42 vs. -5.75 and likely reflecting more than just energy prices which have come down so far this month. Despite the signs of improvement, both here and in other reports, firms continue to destock at an accelerating rate with the inventories index at -36.48 vs. -25.29 in May. Thin inventories are not a vote of confidence in the outlook but will help limit future layoffs as demand for future goods will have to be met by production. A mild negative in the report is an easing back in the general six-month outlook where the index fell about 14 points to a still optimistic 33.99.
A leveling in the manufacturing sector would not only point to wider economic recovery but would also give a boost to demand for risk. Confirmation of strength in the manufacturing sector could make tomorrow's report from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve a market-moving report.
We'll have to watch this one. While it appears to be a positive that this index has leveled off, the level of manufacturing is so low that no growth in manufacturing still means dire times. But no growth is certainly better than freefall, so we'll see what happens as we exit the spring time and lose the seasonality later.
Industrial production fell .4% in June, less of a fall than forecast month over month. Capacity utilization rose to a still very anemic 68% which was slightly better than forecast.
So, there's enough green shoot data (less of a free fall) that the holders of now worth less and less fiat dollars may generate another leg up. Watch that channel top, a break above is bullish and I would not stick around on the short side if it breaks. On the other hand, if it holds, there may be a good short opportunity coming off it, but I don't see the fuel for the shorts today except for the overbought condition. Hey, no matter which way it goes, you've got to roll with the changes!
Have a good day,
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