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"You have not made the case that Obama is consistently anti-trade. I have not seen evidence to support such a conclusion"I suppose if you ignore his voting record and campaign positions against Free Trade the case could be made that Obama is theoretically in favor of Free Trade. However, at pretty much every step, in practice-rather than theory, Obama the politician has opposed Free Trade.MJ,Colombia Trade is in the news and before Congress again, and Obama/Emanuel were offered another opportunity to support American Exports, which they declined. Given that the UAW and Corporates both support it, the glaring failure of the Democrats shines brightly here.I am not that familiar with the S. Korean and ASEAN trade deals, but it looks like Obama has found some reason to oppose them as well. Were he and the Democrats to make 1/10 the effort to support rather than sink Free Trade, there might be some reason for economic optimism.JBP
I think this is the most edgy and intelligent post-electoral analysis i`ve read. As we can see here there is a lot of people who still suffer from the terrible indigestion they got some days ago...;-). The economist should use the motto Woody Guithrie put on his guitar case.
I have been an avid and excited reader of The Economist for fourteen years. I have always enjoyed the thought-provoking articles, the well-laid traps against stupidity, international reporting that took us off the beaten path and the Science and Arts sections that let us revel in wonderful creations without a thought about our political affiliation (or that of our neighbors). The Science and Arts sections still do this, to a certain extent, but I find that now these sections are all that I can bear to read. Since 2006 (coincident with the change in editors?) the rest of the magazine has gradually taken on a tone that I can only describe as condescending and partisan (with a decided anti-American flair). It is with real sadness that I am moving on. The Economist was an old friend who took me new places. Now it is the atheistic know-it-all at the cocktail party, whom I'd rather avoid.
Perhaps The Economist would put me in the category of "unworthy, timid ignorance [that is] obstructing its progress" and is glad to see me go. Perhaps. But it didn't use to be that way. Farewell.
Lets not assume anything about the Republican party. It's fine and easy to state that this election is a referendum on that party and its short sighted path to ignorance. But that doesn't mean that the American people aren't beyond being bamboozled several times more. Say what you will, but the GOP has had a fantastic marketing campaign ever since Reagan.
The American voting body has proven itself in the last eight years to be both easily fooled and ridiculously impatient. You think that when the economy doesn't make a complete turnaround in 2 years that the Republican party won't use that as a rallying cry? And do you think that it won't work well?
Don't get me wrong, I want to believe in the validity of this article, but that is the problem. It is so much easier to believe something that we want to believe. The Republican party has ceased to be the party of new ideas and fiscal conservatism, and I really hope they find their way our of this.
But I think that the election was perhaps a reaction to the presence of a failed economy rather than the Republican party. And lets be honest, Obama didn't win by a real landslide. He still faces plenty of opposition.
So lets not pretend that we know. Confirmation comes in staying power, and four years of solid, but not breathtaking, gains proves nothing. Republicans controlled Congress on the order of twenty years. Give me eight of Democrat's control and then we can talk
Don Quixote,You've been busy! And I appreciate you taking the time to make a thoughtful reply. However, I don't think I was being clear enough in my comment:"Bigotry" consists of thoughts and words, and should in most cases be protected by law, subjectively foul though these thoughts and words may be. "Violence", however, consists of actions that cause harm, are inherently and objectively foul, and should in most cases be punished by law. This distinction is crucial to legally-enforced freedom.Another distinction I wasn't really clear about was what the "legitimization of bigotry" consists of in your statement that "legitimization of bigotry is itself a form of violence". If this legitimization means, for instance, that a "legitimate" church or NGO takes up a homophobic position and vocally supports it, then the legitimization does not equal violence and the speech should be protected, as long as it is not calculated to incite violence or harm as in the "'Fire!' in a crowded theater metaphor. However, if you meant "legitimization" as in legally-enforced, then you and I are in more or less complete agreement: government has a legally exclusive monopoly on the use of force as a means to its ends and should not be legislated the power to enforce bigotry with violence.Which brings me to my last point: bigotry is indeed "fertile soil" for "actual physical violence". I don't disagree with you there. But it is possible to be both bigoted and peaceful. Perhaps groups and individuals that proffer bigotry should be closely watched--I don't know, I don't want to go off on a tangent about harassment and right to privacy--but until they cause or conspire to cause harm, they have done nothing that the law should prohibit. To punish them beforehand is a fallacious slippery slope--it amounts to punishment for incorrect thinking, and that's why I called it Orwellian.I realize I'm playing devil's advocate--I really find homophobia to be backwards and distasteful. But I will defend to the death one's right to be backwards and distasteful. By contrast, you, sir, are a forward-thinking and reasonable individual. I'm new here on these forums and I look forward to reading more of what you have to say.
Mr. JBP,
DQ responded quite well on my behalf, so I will leave his words to supplant my own.
I am quite curious as to your massive interest in both CAFTA and Columbia. Why have you routinely cited those, as opposed to the agreements with S. Korea or ASEAN, etc...?
It is possible, and in fact likely, to endorse a candidate while opposing one or several of his or her positions. And you have repeated one position on one policy: You have not made the case that Obama is consistently anti-trade. I have not seen evidence to support such a conclusion.
And we're not talking about baseball teams: We are talking about intelligent social policy. There is a very large, and very significant, difference.
So then why does the Economist bother expressing an editorial position? The position of the magazine on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is pretty clear; they support it. The position of the P-Elect Obama is pretty clear; he is against it. Publications such as this one can certainly sort through these issues. How they can come up with the conclusion that they should endorse someone who is near completely against their editorial stance is bewildering. What if a newspaper claiming to be the leading supporter of the New York Yankees baseball team came out next year and said they were supporting the Boston Red Sox? You can hem-and-haw all you like about your trade theories (maybe by supporting the Red Sox, perhaps there is some circuitous route to supporting the Yankees?), but as a journalistic measure, this is dishonest. JBP
JBP: The problem is that reducing issues of policy to the simplistic dichotomy of "protectionism" v. "free trade," and then arguing by labelling that any policy that is "protectionist" violates the editorial position of the Economist, and its purveyer should be condemned in service to editorial consistency, is a position far dumber than any the Economist would ever be caught taking, to its great credit.
The Economist has evolved, as have economists, to understand that economic analysis does not lead to support of some absolute commitment to something called "free trade." That's why the overwhelming majority of practicing economists support Obama's economic agenda over McCain's. You are clearly implying that not to be consistently and inflexibly opposed to anything that can be labelled "protectionism" is to be merely a politician of empty form and economic naivite, which is a position refuted by those who actually do economic analyses for a living.
I, personally, have no interest in sports or fashion, and yet, strangely, am not thereby forced to agree with your perceptions of reality. I am almost exclusively interested in social analysis of various sorts, and primarily political-economic and legal analyses, and yet, strangely, have not arrived at your "inevitable" conclusions and polarized conceptualizations.
The goal of serious economic analysts isn't to "liberalize trade," but rather to maximize utility. Liberalizing trade often, but not always, serves that goal. It is a means, not an end.
Why something so simple, and nearly universally understood by people who engage in economic analysis, should be so impossible for you to grasp, is the only salient issue in this discussion.
MJ,First and foremost, I don't like the editorial dishonesty of the Economist in their endorsement of a protectionist candidate. If a newspaper is for trade, then support trade. If a newspaper is in favor of fashion, then support the "stylish" candidate. It is entirely possible for the Economist, with its 160 years of experience in advocating Free Trade and Free Markets, to make a judgment as to whether a specific piece of legislation (how about an easy one: Colombia?) generally works towards liberalizing trade. The Economist does make those calls most every week, and still is fairly consistent.The inconsistency is the endorsement of candidates who completely fail support the editorial position of the newspaper, then the audacity to claim that the Republicans are somehow intellectually vacant. The vacancy is on the part of the Economist.I haven't been reading the Economist for 20 years because of it's coverage of Sports or Dining Out. I read it (and I suspect many other do too) because of it's sensible coverage of trade.JBP
JBP: I think one problem in this discussion is the reduction of policies to "for" or "against" free trade. That is such an absurdly reductionist conceptualization to begin with, it is hard to discuss intelligently.
JBP, it is fascinating that you would turn my suggestion that we take all data into account, in opposition to your insistence that we take only a very small microcosm of conveniently selected data into account, into just the opposite, in one of the most absurd rhetorical ploys I've yet seen on this forum (and, believe me, you're up against some stiff competition!). One can only hope that you are deriving pleasure from this exercise, because you certainly are serving no other purpose.
No one votes for or against free trade or any other abstract concept. They vote for or against a piece of legislation, which various interest groups then interpret as being "pro free trade" or "conservative" or "good for taxpayers." Actual laws rarely fit neatly into binary categories. For example, John McCain voted against certain legislation funding the Iraq war not because he was against the war, but because he was against a provision of the law which specified timetables fro an American withdrawal. I suspect that many of the members of Congress who voted for the TARP plan would describe themselves as being "pro-free market," but would also say that there was no better option on the table to preserve the American economic system. If you're an economic fundamentalist, then you would have to say that someone who votes to use taxpayer funds to bail out banks is a socialist, because a true believer would "let 'em fail." As yet there are no facts of President Obama being against free trade as a concept-- look at his economic team --just votes that you interpret that way.
Your argument continues to circumvent what you are genuinely expressing.
You do not like Obama, why? Is it because you are a genuine free-trader? For some reason, I don't think that is the limit of it.
Quite honestly, we've had the most business-friendly/regulation-lax administration ever in the White House, and look at where it has put us! Unbridled agreements concerning trade are perfect in the textbook or a vacuum, but they lose out in the real world.
I don't have a problem with free trade or lassiez-faire economics; however, those two principles do not account for human greed nor do they account for malfeasance. Your argument is not with Obama because you think he is against trade. It is with him, because you are afraid he will hold business and countries accountable for living up to their end of the bargain, not at the expense of the people.
DQ,So if we throw out the candidates voting record and campaign positions, and current campaigns after elected, that leaves us with what? A gamble that the President-elect might turn 180 degrees on the issue? Everything but the facts are in your favor DQ.A starting point on being in favor of Free Trade should be to vote in favor of Free Trade. After that, various trade-offs can certainly be made to gain votes from special interests. But when the P-Elect starts out by voting against trade, then campaigns against trade, it is a pretty good sign he is against trade.Again I ask, what else would President Elect Obama have to do, go to the ports and physically obstruct imports and exports to be any worse on trade and tariffs?JBP
I should add one more consideration to my post below: JBP mention the effects of one aspect of one policy on one sector in the American economy, and concludes that Obama is a protectionist who deserves to be reviled by magazines such as the Economist. I argued that to analyze a policy without looking at the entire cost-benefit analysis is uninformative. I should add that governance also includes conflating multiple issues not just into a single negotiation, but also into a larger on-going, multi-lateral negotiation including all issues. Even if one followed my advice below, and considered all aspects of all issues involved in our negotiations with Colombia, and came to the conclusion that not endorsing the free trade agreement is contrary to (immediate and apparent) American interests, it would still be quite a leap to denounce Obama as "a protectionist." It would only tell us that he chose a protectionist position on this one issue, and that on this one issue it did not serve our interests. What if, for instance, he were involved in a multi-lateral bargaining scenerio which involved give and take among several different countries, and the choice here were just one component? Or what if by making this counterproductive consession to American workers (who often favor protectionism) he gained other concessions in return, which he will then use to arrive at the best possible political outcome? It may appear artificial to resort to such hypotheticals, but they clearly illustrate the problem with JBP's form of analysis: Such simplistic, single variable, single value analyses, intentionally disregarding all considerations other than the one that, in isolation, proves the poster's point, are the epitome of folly.
I'm glad to see that there is at least one single issue voter whose single issue is something other than abortion. Still, the depiction of Obama as a protectionist is surely as overstated as the claim that he is a baby killer. It seems to me that like many voters, the Economist considered a number of factors before endorsing Obama. As I recall, free trade was an area where they gave the edge to McCain, but that the publication also thought more highly of Obama's economic team and his grasp of economics. As Don Quixote wrote, free trade can become something of a fetish, and the Economist's real agenda, as stated on its masthead, is to take part "in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress" not to promote free trade as an end in itself. I'm sure that Senators Obama and Durbin will hear plenty from Illinois manufacturers about the importance of eliminating tarrifs, but I suspect that any real multilateral trade deal (which the Economist would favor over a bilateral agreement) would require that the US eliminate some of its own agricultural subsidies, which could ultimately hurt Caterpillar and Deere more than opening the Columbian market would help them.
See JBP's last post:
1) It is also not that hard to figure out that in any context of decentralized decision-making, that "prisoners dilemmas" often result, in which each pursuing its own interests in the most rational manner will lead to all coming out worse than they would have had they been able to bargain their way to a better outcome (which includes the difficulty of enforcing agreements). Such bargaining inevitably entails GIVING SOMETHING UP, or, in other words, accepting a deal that in some ways is not in one's own best interest (but overall, all issues and factors considered, is). While I have not followed the details of the negotiations with Colombia, I do know, with absolute certainty, that the mere fact of pursuing and implementing some policies that in some particular ways are not in the best interests of some portion of Americans only informs us that we are looking at the act of governance; it tells us absolutely nothing about the value of the particular act of governance, since virtually ALL acts of governance involve some faction of Americans being worse off in the short run than they would have otherwise been. One must include an analysis of ALL costs and benefits (including those not normally included in economic analyses) in order to draw any informed conclusions about the VALUE of the act of governance. If you would like to make a cogent, non-raving, non-dogmatic, non-belligerent argument which lays out the complete assessment of costs and benefits, and all considerations involved, and then conclude that Obama favors a dysfunctional policy, then that would be interesting and informative, whether or not one agrees with your conclusions in the end. Your "argument," even to someone (such as myself) not well-informed about the particular issue at hand, screams worthlessness, because it is entirely one-sided, and mentions only one variable. Reality is rarely so kind to the simple-minded.
2) The Economist is a thoughtful magazine that has traditionally been a champion of "free trade." Its editorial staff is wise enough to prioritize "thoughtfulness" above its traditional ideology, such that it does not cling to a blind ideology when thoughtfulness does not support doing so. It is still a magazine which recognizes the robustness of markets, but it is growing and evolving to understand the world does not reduce to such oversimplistic and economically illiterate absolutes as "free trade good, everything else bad."
3) The Economist reported recently on how the vast majority of professional economists favored Obama's economic polisies over McCain's. So, apparently the overwhelming majority of actual, practicing economists are "hacks," as you say, and only those like JBP, who kling to a highly reductionist, non-analytical, knee-jerk, blind dogma, have any real understanding of our world. Hey, if that works for you, knock yourself out. But don't expect to sway anyone else with your "arguments."
Nicely put, Lexington! Loved it!
There's a lot of speculation going around 'Palin 2012'. I would be VERY, VERY surprised if she were nominated as the Republican candidate. The GOP is smart enough to know that while Ms Palin can energize a segment of the party base, she has no chance of being elected by a majority. Maybe she can reinvent herself, but not by 2012.
DQ,But your opinions, hack as they may be, are not in question. It is our print champion of Free Trade that flipped over to support the "stylish campaign" of a Protectionist.It is not that hard to figure out that higher tariffs on US Mining Equipment imported into Colombia are not good for US manafacturers of heavy equipment, including Deere and CAT, and their employees, both based in Sen Obama (and Durbin's) home state. Both Durbin and Obama are against Colombian Free Trade, to the detriment of workers and business alike.JBP
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Jun 9th, 2013 5 people agree 5 people don't
Terrible engine.
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Unity is an engine that gives new developers a chance to shine.
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This engine is quite a treat. It is free to download and allows for simple yet effective game creation. In my school we use it for a few classes and from that I have been able to code, implement custom models, and even create coop games if I chose to do so. If you are interested in a free engine with great capabilities I recommend Unity.
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This engine is amazing! It has everything I need to make awesome games and all for free as long as I don't make over 100k a year! (Can't wait till I'm 'forced' to purchase the full version ;) ) I'm just so pleased that I discovered it when I did, it really helped my development process!
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Hello everyone. My name is Ivan BiN@KoT Muratov. At the moment Im programmer in AR team. After Reset™ – a classic sci-fi role-playing open world game with old school top view. (www.indiedb.com/games/after-reset).
As you know we chose the Unity engine for this project. And I'll try to put the evaluation in terms of a person who works on this engine. I would not rate it in terms of declared capacity of the engine. And so they all know and can read on the official site of Unity technologies. I will try to highlight the most important features of this software on my point of view.
1. One User Per License. You must purchase a license for each individual using Unity Pro and any other paid Unity products.
2. Do not forget that the individual platform and team license purchased at an additional price.
Therefore, the apparent cheapness of the Unity engine is just an illusion.
3. The Unity technologies increasingly evolving towards mobile platforms. The use of the engine for the standalone projects isn't very popular.
4. Engine with closed source. Developers limited only by the fact that the Unity technologies realized.
5. The scripting language engine. It is possible to write scripts in 3 languages: C#, JS, Boo. There is the possibility of using other scripting languages. Object-oriented programming.
6. Bugs in the engine. The problem is not that there is a bug, but the fact that it can fix the Unity technology only. All what you can do is to send the bug report. And you have to wait for the new version with fix of this bug.
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I give only 7 out of 10. Unity is very good engine, but not perfect. There is nothing perfect :)
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For me unity has been the perfect game engine. I am a .net developer so being able to make games in c# is a big point. In 'Mammoth Gravity Battles' I was most interested in the graphics capabilities, and was very happy to be easily able to edit shaders and control effects. There is some debate as to if Unity can compete with AAA game engines, but for my needs, I was able to achieve better visuals than I imagined.
I can't comment on the physics engine, in 'Mammoth Gravity Battles' I control all the physics in code, from what I can see it looks very capable.
The main advantage with Unity is the reasonable license costs to get going and the wide platform support - being able to target iOS, Android, Blackberry, OUYA, PC, Mac, Linux is a real plus. Windows 8 RT and Mobile coming soon too...
One thing to we aware of, if your game has any GUI at all you will need to buy one of the GUI packages from the internal asset store (aprox 100usd), as the internal GUI is currently not capable enough.
Although, I didn't need them, real-time shadows requires the pro version, which gets more expensive if you are on multiple platforms. I think the prices are very reasonable given the lack of royalties, but its worth planing for. It is great that you can use the free version to build for PC, Mac or Web, which is definitely the way to go if you are starting - build the game, if you get it to a near finished state, start to pay for the platform add-ons and capabilities you need.
Overall, for me in the building of 'Mammoth Gravity Battles', unity has been completely ideal.
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Easy to learn and awesome features. Also powerful, mainly for indie developers.
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This engine was used to create such epic games like Slender or Insert Title Here (that seriously is the name of it, xD ). It has been manipulated in various ways to get different results, with Slender: The Arrival being my most awaited of them all.
Anyways, this engine has a lot of potential to become as big as Unreal Engine in the future (or not xp ). Or maybe close to RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).
To close this review up, I give this engine a well deserved 10 out of 10.
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Quick time events: are they a useful gaming mechanic or unnecessary pain?
I have been communicating with Paul for a couple of weeks now and have gotten to know a lot more about Magicland Dizzy and what went into the making of it.
Now that Nintendo has announced its plans to get into the mobile gaming market, how does its briefly alluded to new project, the "NX", fit in? What will its purpose be, and how will it tie into the mobile service with DeNA?
While most people are talking about the fate of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, I think it's a good idea to switch gears and explore the idea of a whole new frontier. Hideo Kojima is no longer shackled to pumping out MGS games, where does he go now?
Collecting is both an exercise of emotion and economics. I recently parted with most of my old games, and this is what I learned along the way.
Sparked by an intriguing and recent rumor, have a look what 4 PS2-era games our writer thinks Sony should resurrect on the Playstation 4.
With the Wii U still fresh in mind, we take a look at how the Nintendo NX can be the console we need from the Big N.
This is just a brief discussion of patches. Steam and consoles now allow for patches to automatically update a game instead of having to hunt down fixes like the old days. But is this modern convenience all its cracked up to be?
Wrong Number is a game that, whilst good, doesn't live up to the monumental success of the original and suffers from Sequel Syndrome. Have a read to find out why.
What is retro gaming? Is it a genre, a style, or something else entirely?


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At Riot your guys should tell us how to get some speciql skin... I play this game like 1 year, but only know how to get Twitch medieval skin 5 min ago.
I mean below those skin you should write some hint.
Sorry my English is BROKEN.
Lvl 8 Psyduck
Senior Member
by this way
Another one of those referral scams, are you people done yet?
And skins like the medieval one were for a limited time only, there is no purchasing it unless they release it again to the shop.
Use the wiki it is always being updated and is very helpful
That's the direct link to all skins and how they are/were acquired in the past
Something like it will take me, another year to get that Twitch Mzdieval skin = ="
Oh MAN!!! "350 Friends on the Refer A Friend Program" what the heck.
Riot occasionally offers skins for promotions. For instance, you can get an Alistar skin for subscribing to their youtube channel, or the Tristana skin for liking them on Facebook.
Riot also creates rare skins for holidays, though after the Snowdown 2011 holiday, Riot no longer guarantees that a limited edition skin will never be re-sold at another time.
Riot has also handed out skins for milestone achievements, such as UFO Corki for winning "game of the year" awards back in 2010.
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Welcome! Thanks for checking out my blog about music, worship, and trying to join God in his work to restore the world. I'm excited to share some ideas – in both directions. Let the conversation begin. . .
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The day has come, friends, and we couldn't possibly be more excited. You can now pre-order A New Liturgy No 6: The Examen (Extended Edition) and get an immediate download of the 28 minute Examen liturgy…
And then on 03.03.15, once you've had two weeks with this liturgy, we'll ship you a CD with all the extras…
(1) Audio: An Abbreviated Examen – a ten minute, mostly instrumental version of the Examen.
(2) Audio: The Cross Meditation – a ten minute guided meditation on the Sign of the Cross
(3) Teaching: St Ignatius and The Examen – Fr Michael Sparough teaches the history of The Examen
(4) Teaching: The Five Steps of The Examen – Fr Michael Sparough teaches through The Examen
(5) Video: A conversation with Fr Michael Sparough and Aaron Niequist about The Examen, spiritual direction, and learning from other Christian traditions.
So may this New Liturgy of a very ancient practice help you create holy space wherever you find yourself.
Grace and Peace,
The traditional church had the form but lost the heart.
The modern church found the heart but lost the form.
Our invitation may be to anchor our hearts in the form,
and join God in the holy tension.
More and more people seem to be exploring the intersection of liturgy and modern Christianity. My evangelical friends often love the energy of our tradition but feel it's a little too thin. And many of my mainline friends are deeply committed to their roots, but trying to breathe new life into the form.
It's a really exciting time.
And while there are many people exploring this both/and path, here are three that really inspire me…
(1) The Brilliance. In my opinion, David Gungor and John Arndt are creating the best spiritual music on the planet right now. Their honest, beautiful, raw, and haunting albums provide a powerful soundtrack for Lent, Advent, and every season of life. Check out their newest project – "Brother" – which comes out next Tuesday.
(2) Glenn Packiam: Discover The Mystery of Faith. Any time a worship leader asks me: "So what is liturgy all about? How do I move beyond singing into a more formational approach?"…I recommend Glenn's book Discover The Mystery of Faith. It's the most winsome, intelligent, and compelling invitation into this conversation I've ever seen. Especially for evangelicals. And his accompanying album The Mystery of Faith fleshes these ideas into powerful songs.
(3) Common Prayer (A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals). This resource by Shane Claiborne and friends is a freight train of goodness. I've used it for my personal prayer many, many times, and it continues to influence how we approach Sunday nights at The Practice. Shane and I even got to lead the Willow Creek Community in one of the liturgies (watch video). Most of all, "Common Prayer" connects our inner prayer life with the outer world…inviting us all, over and over, to become contemplative activists.
What resources would you add to the list? What are the other resources, artists, thinkers, and authors you have found helpful?
Next Tuesday (Feb 17th), we are launching A New Liturgy No 6: Examen at anewliturgy.com. You'll be able to download the 28 minute liturgy immediately, and pre-order the full Examen Expanded Edition. We hope that it serves you well as we move into this season of Lent…and all year long.
The following day (Feb 18th) begins this season of introspection and fasting with Ash Wednesday. This is a day where many Christians around the world confess our sins before God and remember "from dust we are and dust we shall return."
In preparation, we are giving away A New Liturgy No 3: Lord Have Mercy on NoiseTrade. Maybe you happily belong to a modern church but want to also connect into something more historic. Or maybe you are deeply rooted in the high church tradition, but are looking for a fresh way to engage this deep season. May "Lord Have Mercy" be a bridge and a gift in some small way. (Free until Feb 24th. Available HERE after that.)
A couple ways you could use it…
(1) Personally. Lent is such a great time to look inward and invite God to shine light into every dark corner. Maybe you could set one hour aside each week to pray along with the "Lord Have Mercy" liturgy and see how God leads you to respond.
(2) Small group. This may be a little intense, but might your small group be ready to engage this together? You could listen and pray through the first six tracks together, and then after the "Litany of Penitence", pause the recording and spend some time sharing with each other. A question to start might be: "What is one area in your life that you most need God's mercy right now?" And a second question: "How can we, as your community, help you receive this mercy?"
(3) Ash Wednesday Service. If you would like to lead your community through this liturgy (or a modified version of it) on Ash Wednesday, you can Download the basic chord charts and string quartet parts. Feel free to use this in any way that would serve your church.
Hey friends. I am so excited to announce that A New Liturgy No 6: The Examen is coming on Feb 17th.
The Story: Last April, my spiritual director—Father Michael Sparough, SJ—guided our Practice community through the historic Christian practice of The Examen. The night was so powerful and unexplainably holy that we wanted to invite more people into the experience. So we turned the live recording of Fr Michael into a full New Liturgy—fleshing it out with an evocative musical score and three original songs. We hope it helps you connect with God in a deep and daily way.
Because this is such a powerful practice and Father Michael has been so gracious, we are offering
the liturgy in two forms…
(1) A New Liturgy No 6: The Examen - a digital download of the full 25 minute Examen liturgy.
(2) ANL No 6: The Examen Expanded Edition - a digital download and physical CD of the liturgy, plus a number of extras to help you go deeper with The Examen and deeper with God. We're working really hard to make this expanded edition as robust and helpful as possible, so stay tuned!
You can stay up to date at anewliturgy.com/blog and facebook/anewliturgy.
Really excited for you to experience this one, friends. Grace and peace!
After re-immersing myself in The Beatles' music, I'm feeling really inspired. Continuing from last week's The Beatles (part 1) post, and here are a few more random reflections…
(6) Everything I know about creating vocal harmonies is from The Beatles. First, they often added subtle, simple, gradually building harmony parts. Listen to Paul's background singing on "The Ballad of John and Yoko". He doesn't even sing until half way through the song (the bridge)…adds only a couple words on verse 5…and then sings the whole verse 6. And it's exactly what the song needs! Second, the Beatles would often sing odd counter-melodies rather than the traditional harmony part. For example, listen to the chorus of "Yellow Submarine". What a strange and wonderful harmony. Finally, they often followed the "less is more principle". Paul sang one single harmony line on "I'm So Tired", and it was perfect.
(7) If I had to guess Enneagram types, I'd guess that John is a 1 (or 4), Paul is a classic 3, George is a 4 (or 9), and Ringo is a 7.
(8) As fruity as Paul could be, he did give us "Helter Skelter", which is one of the most brutal Beatles songs ever. It doesn't make up for the schmaltz of "Martha My Dear" or "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", but it is really heavy and quite awesome.
(9) Similarly, Lennon spent so much time keeping people arms length with humor and wordplay, but his moments of sincerity were devastatingly beautiful. The tender and heartbreaking "Julia" (about his mom who died when he was young) will make you cry.
(10) Let me end with a controversial one. Ready? The Beatles songwriting is a bit overrated. This pains me to write. To be clear, I believe that Lennon/McCartney are one of the greatest songwriting teams in history, and many of their songs are absolutely, brilliantly, game-changing: "In My Life", "Strawberry Fields", "Something", "Yesterday", "I Am the Walrus", etc. The Beatles are why I wanted to be a songwriter! HOWEVER, when you really look at it, even a superfan must admit that they had a ton of stinkers also. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Good Morning", "Your Mother Should Know", "Doctor Robert". And the White Album is a clear example of one brilliant album spread over two records.
This is actually really encouraging to me. Whenever I think of the mythic Beatles, they become an almost fictional, inaccessible fairytale that has nothing to teach mere mortals like the rest of us. But when I remember that they were actually just four guys (extraordinarily talented, of course) who were capable of writing bad songs AND brilliant songs, then there is hope for the rest of us!
So friends, may we each each create something today. In whatever you do, find a way to breathe new life into it. Take a risk…reimagine the process…use a new tool…approach it from a new angle…or simply toss out the old and begin with a new, clean sheet of infinite possibility. And let's see what happens.
You may end up creating a stinker like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", of course. And it sure will be fruity. But who knows, you may stumble upon a "Hey Jude"…
Hey friends. This Sunday night, our Practice community is diving into Practices for LIFE in the Now and Not Yet, and I'm so excited. Ridiculously excited. Nuclear-ly excited. (Annoyingly excited?) Regardless, can I tell you a bit about it?
For the next few months, we're exploring two foundational questions: (1) What is the LIFE to the full that Jesus invites us into? (2) How can we actively align ourselves to it? Or said simply: What is Jesus' invitation and how do we say "yes"? Read more here.
To do this, over the next five weeks, we're immersing ourselves in the central prayer of the Christian faith: The Lord's Prayer. This Sunday night begins with a deep dive into "Our Father who art in Heaven". Read more here.
Personally, looking back, 2014 was one of the best years of my life. After a difficult and pretty dark couple years, this is no small thing. Thanks be to God. And much of the joy was getting to be a part of this Practice community. I love this tribe. They are some of the most honest, humble, gutsy, sincere, intelligent, deep, and godly people I know…and it's such an honor to be on this journey with them.
You are more than welcome to join us. Everyone is welcome. The only requirement is a willingness to roll up our sleeves and humbly learn to put Jesus' words into Practice. We've all been invited to live in God's unforced rhythms of Grace. Will you join us? This Sunday, 6PM, in the Willow Creek Chapel.
Grace and peace.
The Beatles are my all-time favorite band who have influenced everything I write, sing, and play. And recently, after a bit of a hiatus, I've been listening back through their albums and feel SO INSPIRED by the Beatles again. Here a few random observations…
(1) McCartney's bass makes a lot of good Lennon songs into great Beatles songs. Whether it's "Dear Prudence", "Come Together", or most of Sgt Pepper, Paul's melodic, inventive bass parts carry many otherwise so-so songs. (Really, take a moment to listen to "Dear Prudence" and imagine it with simple bass line.)
(2) Lennon sure loves tempo and time signature changes. He jumps tempos in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Bungalo Bill", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", etc…and he loved to flip time signatures to drop/add a beat in "Good Morning", "All You Need is Love", "Don't Let me Down", etc. Because John Lennon was both a creative genius and musically untrained, he was able to make these complicated changes seem deceptively simple. My guess is that he was never thinking about tempo or time signatures at all…but simply following the muse.
(3) Ringo is wildly underrated.
(4) Everything is better with the clash of opposites. Like hot air meeting cold air creates tornados, Lennon's cynical angst meeting McCartney's cheery pop created the most important rock band of all time. Lennon (alone) gives you the rarely accessible art-rock-noise of "The Plastic Ono Band", and McCartney (only) gives you cheesy, fruity, bubble gum like "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" and "The Girl is Mine". But the tension of BOTH changed the music world. One of my favorite examples is Paul's line "It's getting better all the time", followed by Lennon's line "It couldn't get much worse". So great.
(5) The Beatles never got too big to keep risking. This is extremely rare and one of the keys to their musical revolution. Many bands "discover their sound" and then spend the rest of their career re-hashing that same formula over and over…with diminishing returns. But it's a rare band that becomes wildly successful…AND KEEPS EXPLORING! (U2 is another obvious example). It reminds me of these brilliant words…
"It is common history of enterprises (band, companies, churches, etc) to begin in a state
of naive groping, stumble onto success, milk that success with a vengence and, in the process,
generate systems that arrogantly turn away from the source of their original success: groping."
<MacKenzie, Hairball>
Curious to hear your thoughts and reflections. Where do you agree/disagree? What would you add?
Part two (and probably Part three!) coming soon…
Things are so heavy in our world right now. I find it both overwhelming and paralyzing. The temptation (at least for me) is to get angry and cynical, or simply numb the pain with busyness and egg nog. But there is a better way.
This is the great gift of ADVENT.
In December, as a Practice community, we are joining in the deep Christian tradition of ADVENT: a season of deep longing, powerful hope, wise preparation, and unforced rhythms of Grace. We'll only gather twice, but both Sunday nights are shaping up to be pretty special…
Christ's invitation "to keep company with me and learn the unforced rhythms of Grace" is not just for us, but for the sake of the world. For God so loves THE WORLD. We learn to align our lives with Christ so that His love might fill us and overflow into everyone we meet. We don't ignore or deny the present pain – in fact, we are brokenhearted and work toward justice – but we know that death won't have the last word. O Come O Come Emmanuel!
Please feel free to join in any and every part of this journey.
Grace and peace,
A couple weeks ago, I got to share with The Practice why GRATITUDE may be the center of the center of following Christ. In honor of Thanksgiving, here are those thoughts…
"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us.
And He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference." (Thomas Merton)
Jesus Christ is inviting every one of us into life to the full. And Gratitude is the very center
of this kind of life. Why? Because God's Love and Goodness is at the very center of Reality,
and Gratitude helps align us to what is most true.
N.T. Wright says "A sense of astonished gratitude is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience."
Fr Ronald Rolheiser writes "Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude,
nothing more and nothing less."
Meister Eckhart famously taught "If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice."
Gratitude aligns us with what is most true in the universe: the Love and Abundance of God.
And together, we watched this devastatingly beautiful short film about Ed's Story. May it encourage and inspire you today. Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
Ed's Story, Gratitude from Baas Creative on Vimeo.
I still haven't recovered from one scene in Intersteller. (Spoiler alert). When space pilot Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, returns to his ship after their first mission, he discovers that a couple hours on that planet actually equalled 27 years on earth. So while it was the same day to him, his children at home had lived 27 years.
And so he sat down to watch 27 years of video messages from his kids: first talking about school homework…then sharing a college story…then introducing his newborn grandchild…and on and on….until finally, his middle-aged son whispers "Dad, I know you probably aren't getting these messages. We haven't heard for you in so long. So this is my last message…"
It was all I could do in that packed movie theater to not lay down on the floor and cry.
Because Cooper missed his kids' childhoods. While he was off trying to save the world, his kids had to grow up without a father. It didn't matter that he loved them…because he wasn't there to show them. And by the time he realized his colossal mistake, it was literally too late.
Many of our fathers did this. And my friends and I are in the season of deciding whether or not we're going to do the same. None of us would ever consciously decide to miss our kid's childhood, of course. Never! But we are setting the patterns in our 30s that will make the choice for us.
This is especially dangerous for those of us in professional ministry. As soon as we add "God called me to this work", we can justify and spiritualize our workaholism. At least Silicon Valley CEOs can be honest and say they are driven by ambition, success, and power. We church workers, often driven by the exact same stuff, try to spin it as "humbly paying the price for The Lord's work." No wonder so many pastor's kids hate the church. No wonder so many pastor's wives hate the church.
Friends, we don't have to do it this way. There is a better way. Our kids don't need us to save the world; they need us to see their world, and join them in it. They need us to be there. Not just physically there, exhausted after work, but emotionally present. WITH them. Seeing them…hearing them…delighting in them.
This will cost us something. We may miss out on certain work successes and perks. We may not reach the peaks of our professional ambitions. But honestly, are those peaks worth our kid's childhoods?
There is another way. And our children desperately need us to find it. There is still time.
My friend and filmmaker Kurt Larson recently invited me onto his Bad Headshots podcast. We had a fascinating conversation about the creative process, growing up in the Midwest, and even making art during my own crisis of faith. (He tricked me into going to some deep places! Ha.) I think the world of Kurt, and am really honored to be a part of this. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think!
This Saturday morning was the first official Israel/Palestine "learning community" at Willow Creek. We set out 300 chairs, not knowing if people would come, and over 650 showed up. It was a stunning, powerful, fascinating, heartbreaking, and inspiring three hours.
I sat in the front row and pretty much choked back tears the whole morning.
Lynne Hybels began by sharing a bit of her journey into peacemaking. She read from the beatitudes and framed the whole conversation in terms of being "a common friend" to both sides. There are few people I know who live this out more fully. Lynne finished by gently yet prophetically declaring: "It is possible to be Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine. In fact, I believe this is the only way to be Pro-Peace. And Pro-Jesus." Amen and amen.
Second, Todd Deatherage (co-founder of Telos Group and friend/mentor to many of us) did the impossible: he presented a dual-narrative history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in 60 minutes. It was brilliant. Like watching a master painter with his canvas. Or like watching Obi Wan explain the force to Luke! Obviously, Todd would be the first to say that he could only give a basic sketch in such a short amount of time – the actual conflict is SO complex – but with God's grace he attempted to offer an honest story that honors both perspectives. Such a gift. At the end, he shared a few principles for peacemaking…
Finally, we heard from two peacemakers who have lived through the unthinkable. Robi Damelin (Israeli) and Bassam Aramin (Palestinian) both lost children to the conflict. Hearing their stories broke my heart, especially as a father, and yet their commitment to peace blew me away. When tragedy strikes, most people choose to either shut down or take revenge…which only prolongs the conflict. But Robi and Bassam have chosen the way of engagement, non-violence, and reconciliation. A couple quotes…
"Revenge is never an end to the violence, only a new beginning." (Bassam)
"Without a grassroots movement of reconciliation, there is no hope for peace. There may be a cease-fire, but not peace." (Robi)
I highly, highly recommend checking out what they're doing with The Parent's Circle.
FYI, Willow recorded this whole morning, and they are deciding the best way to make the content available. I'll keep you posted. You'll definitely want to see this!
Saturday morning was like pouring jet fuel onto a fire that's been burning in me for a long time. I want to be a peacemaker. I want to give my life to the things that Jesus gave his life to…although I'm not always sure what to do. But Saturday reminded of a wise mentor's response to the question "What do you think Jesus would do if he walked into Jerusalem today?"
After hearing the question, the 85 year old man paused for a moment…with a very intense expression…and then whispered quietly…
"If Jesus walked into Jerusalem today, he'd do now what he did then:
care for the poor, speak truth to power, and get himself killed."
The death of Robin Williams has really messed with me. It's just so profoundly sad and heartbreaking. But while re-watching many of his interviews and movies, one scene keeps playing in my mind, reminding me of the power of slowly repeating the Truth in love. Remember the famous "It's not your fault" scene from Good Will Hunting? (Watch it here)
This brilliant scene is profound at a number of levels, but lately it's been reminding me that we all need to hear the Truth more than once. Slowly, firmly, and with great compassion. Over and over. Reality takes time to seep through our defenses and distractions, and we can't always hear the beauty of Grace when she first begins whispering.
So as a worship leader, this raises a number of questions…
(1) If most of us need to hear the gentle truth repeated over and over, why do I spend so much time pursing innovation in worship and creative ways to reimagine our liturgy? Why are we so quick to add video content, moving lights, and production value to keep things fresh?
(2) If God often speaks in an easily missed, gentle whisper, why are many of my worship sets so loud? It's pretty hard to hear a whisper at 110 dbs.
(3) Am I more afraid that people will be bored, or more afraid that I will add to the distraction?
(4) Do my worship liturgies create space for people to hear God whispering over and over, or do I give people one more entertaining opportunity to miss God's voice?
(5) At the core, is my faith in God or in my ability to lead people to God?
These are easy questions to ask and impossible questions to perfectly answer. But we need to wrestle with them. I certainly do!
Which is why the Liturgy continues to capture and mess with me. We gather together to tell the Big Story…over and over, over and over, over and over…until it finally begins to sink in. Slowly and deeply. And in these holy moments, the beautiful Truth God has been graciously whispering to us since the beginning of eternity sneaks past our defenses and into the cracks of our aching hearts. Hallelujah. Thanks be to God. Amen.
May we all learn to have ears to hear what God keeps whispering.


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Tournament name: BST Lights Out 5v5 Tournament
Prize pool: 40,000 RP
Date: Feb. 28th, March 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Casted at: www.twitch.tv/bestsupporttrundle
Viewer giveaways: $200+ (This number will increase depending on the amount of donations I get this month.)
The following are the prizes for the tournament:
First prize 3.2k rp per member and triumphant ryze skin.
Second prize 2.4k rp per member.
Third prize 1.6k rp per member.
Fourth prize 800 rp per member.
- No wards allowed throughout the entirety of the tournament.
- Ward Trinkets are banned but Sweeping and Scrying trinkets are allowed.
- Teemo, Twitch, and Evelyn are permanently banned from this tournament.
How to enter:
- There will be room for 16 teams.
- At least 3 members have to be at least Platinum or above from season 3.
- In the comments section, type out your team name, your team members' names, elo, and the availability to play.
- You can also email me your team info to my email at firstname.lastname@example.com
- For teams that do not have at least three Platinum members or above, you may enter this tournament if you have at least 2 members subscribed to me on my channel. Subscription costs $6 a month and it helps the channel grow. For more info, check out my stream www.twitch.tv/bestsupporttrundle.
Bump, Still need more teams to sign up!!!
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Royal Challengers will be looking to halt its slide
NEW DELHI: The players will be at their best behaviour at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Wednesday when Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers face off.
The Indian Premier League contests have been dominated by the foreign stars mainly. It is time the Indians got going.
Virender Sehwag has batted himself into form and his breathtaking innings against Deccan Chargers was just a glimpse of his ability to tear apart the attack. "Nothing can stop me when I get going," he had said after that super knock and Royal Challengers wouldconcentrate on getting him early.
Delhi Daredevils knows its strength lies in its quality batting line up where Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir form a lethal opening pair. The likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Rajat Bhatia and Mithun Manhas would love to use the platform to make an impact but it is the presence of Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Malik that makes the home team the one to watch.
Farveez Maharoof and Glenn McGrath have bowled outstandingly thus far. Even though Sehwag must be tempted to play leg-spinner Amit Mishra on this strip, it is the batting that should carry Daredevils through.
Royal Challengers has not been able to form a combination that could make the opponent work hard. Two encouraging knocks from Wasim Jaffer and Ross Taylor may have sent some positive signals but much depends on Misbah-ul-Haq and Jacques Kallis.
Skipper Rahul Dravid's search for a fruitful knock continues. The teams seek a win desperately to avoid a slide in the rankings and this alone should make it a match worth looking forward to.
Can't afford mistakes
"Every match after this is important. We can't afford to make mistakes if we wish to make it to the semifinals," said Dravid.
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Monday's statement said the battalion was heading back to its permanent base in Russia's Samara region after completing training. The statement did not make clear whether other troops near the border would be pulled back.
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"In recent days, the Russian forces have been gradually withdrawing from the border," Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskiy, Ukraine's Defence Ministry spokesman, told AFP news agency.
US and EU officials estimated over the weekend, that Russia's sudden military buildup along Ukraine's eastern frontier had reached between 30,000 and 40,000 soldiers.
Kiev's Centre for Military and Political Studies analyst Dmytro Tymchuk said on Monday that his sources had told him Russia had only 10,000 soldiers remaining near the border by Monday morning.
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry official said Kiev had not been formally notified of the drawdown by Moscow and therefore did not know why the troops were being moved.
"This could be linked to a regular rotation of soldiers," said Dmytrashkivskiy. "Or it may be linked to the Russian-US negotiations."
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Crimean officials have said their economy is facing a shortfall and needs economic stimulus from Russia.
Medvedev promised to raise the level of salaries for municipal employees and pensions to average Russian levels and to modernise the region's hospitals.
"As a result of joining Russia, not one resident of Crimea, not one resident of Sevastopol should lose anything. They can only gain," Medvedev said during the special cabinet meeting.
Local officials, including Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov, were also present at the meeting that was broadcast on Russian state television.
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In my own experience, fully switched Gig-E was sufficient for operating a high performance distributed database. The bottlenecks were at the level of tuning the filesystem and hard drive parameters, and memory pool sizes. But that was also a few years ago, when the machines were a lot less powerful than they are now (though hard drives have not improved their performance by all that much).
Today, high-end machines have no trouble maxing out a single Gig-E interface, but unless you go with PCI-Express or similarly appropriate IO bus, they might not be able to take advantage of more. That caveat aside, if Gig-E proved insufficient for my application today, I would add one or two more Gig-E interfaces to each node. There is software (for Linux at least; not sure about other OS's) which allows for efficient load-balancing between multiple network interfaces. 10Gig-E is not really appropriate, imo, for node interconnect, because it needs to transmit very large packets to perform well. A good message-passing interface will cram multiple messages into each packet to maximize performance (for some definition of performance -- throughput vs latency), but as packet size increases you'll run into latency and scheduling issues. 10Gig-E is more appropriate for connecting Gig-E switches within a cluster.
The clincher, though, is that this all depends on the details of your application. One user has already suggested you hire a professional network engineer to analyze your problem and come up with an appropriate solution. Without knowing more, it's quite possible that single Gig-E is best for you, or 10Gig-E, or Infiniband.
If you're going to be frugal, or if you want to develop expertise in-house, then an alternative is to build a small network (say, eight machines) with single channel Gig-E, set up your software, and stress-test the hell out of it while looking for bottlenecks. After some parameter-tweaking it should be pretty obvious to you where your bottlenecks lie, and you can decide where to go from there. After experimentally settling on an interconnect, and having gotten some insights into the problem, you can build your "real" network of a hundred or however many machines. As you scale up, new problems will reveal themselves, so incorporating nodes a hundred at a time with stress-testing in between is probably a good idea.
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i know the heat causes flower drop. question is, is there anything i can do to stop it to get some peppers. especially with chocolate habaneros. i have heard these peppers are good. i have yet to even try one since planting and am excited about trying one. it is mid 90s here. i have a shade cloth over some of my other peppers. they are prolific. i am wondering if that will help.
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what about chocolate habaneros. how fast do they grow? have you ever tried growing them? this is my first year. im growing ghost peppers and they are growing prolifically. i did use shade cloth over my habs and they did produce abundunce of them. just got to find a way to move the structure.
Just be patient.
The plants won't set fruit until they're good and ready.
This is my third year growing the Chocolate Hab and they are slow like the other hots/superhots.
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Last year, my first pod set toward the end of July. I picked the first pod September 17.
The year before, I harvested around the first week of September. That was in-ground, though,
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Flower drop probable causes:
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2. Night temp too low 3. Too much nitrogen fertilizer
4. Too much water
5. Low light levels (reduces fertility).
6. Very low humidity (reduces fertility)
7. Poor air circulation (air circulation contributes to pollination).
8. Lack of pollinating insects.
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- Too much grower attention/anxiety.
Jim Duffy (Refining Fire Chiles) has in a flyer he sends with plants, once they start to flower use bloom booster to help avoid blossom drop. Last year all of mine were in full sun and we had pretty much 99+ temps for 3+ months- started in May (several 105+), I was buried in fruit. Tomatoes did crappy until it cooled off.


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