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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Why I Hate Crazy Love
A) Kirk Cameron on the cover via Fireproof taking over about 4 shelves
B) Joyce Meyer on the cover
C) cheesy sunset with a couple holding hands with how to catch a perfect single pastor, or something along those publications.
Yes, I judged a book by it's cover, and the cover may be simple, but after reading the first few pages, it's challenging book already.
On Disturbed Christians, we don't exactly point out how the American church can do better, but how us as Christians can live, be and do better than what the American church has to offer. It's something I've recently struggled with and I'm literally holding it in my hands. After reading, and studying and having my own opinions about what scripture has to say, I'm finally listening to what Jesus has to say about it, and I truly believe He let's Chan speak to a generation that has complete disgust with the church built by human flesh and greed.
So why do I hate this book so much? I hate it because I'm comfortable. I'm comfortable with attending church, a Bible study and just study what needs to be covered in order to live the Bible thumpin' life. I hate it because it challenges that helping takes more than just writing a check or clicking away via Paypal. I hate it because it cuts deeper than what Christian high school camp taught me that summer (and trust, it was a very emotional summer for a poorly behaved 15 year old pastor's daughter). I hate this book so much because I learned everything I learned had a missing piece and I finally found it, now I don't know what to do with it. I hate this book so much is because for the first time in a long time, I can see why I fell in love with God in the first place.
I'm not finished with the book yet. It's a book I was sure I could finish in one night. 186 pages is a good evening well spent, but every time I get to a paragraph, even a sentence in the book that shakes me a bit, I put it down. It stares at me when I pass by it, and when I take it out of sight, I can't stop thinking about it. I shrugged off a lot of pages but then it hits you like a bad itch. You can't scratch it because you have your hands full, but it refuses to get away from you.
I'm sure once I'm done with this book, I will have more reasons why I hate this book and hate Francis Chan for writing it.
Monday, September 28, 2009
I Won't Be Praying for You
Friday, September 25, 2009
The Scars of Bullying
I tried to pretend that the bullying didn't bother me. I wore black, sneered, and stuck up my middle finger at anyone and everyone who dared to look at me funny. But I wasn't fooling anyone. I would eventually break down and cry, and sneak into the bathroom to cut my arms. The scars on my body reflected the scars I felt inside.
And many of my bullies claimed to be Christians. They didn't really act like it though; they were always talking about smoking weed and getting laid. And yet they wore huge crosses and those WWJD wrist bands. Since I didn't really grow up in the Church, I didn't know any difference, so I thought all Christians were judgmental liars and bullies. It didn't help that Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were still the most public Evangelical faces, so that made my disgust for religion grow. If God was just as self-righteous as the so-called "Christians" who treated me like dirt, I didn't want to have anything to do with Him.
And then when I was 17, some one introduced me to the real God. This God wasn't anything like the bullies. This was a God of love, mercy, and forgiveness. This was a God who was saying, "Come home, son. Everything is going to be alright." That was about nine years ago, and in those years there has been a lot of healing.
Although I can't say that the scars have completely healed. There are some people in my life right now who are trying to help me grow as a man and as a Christian. But whenever they speak, I feel like they are just judging me, like the school bullies judged me. Then I get upset and think about giving up on the whole God thing. Of course I could be just overreacting; I'm pretty prone to automatic negative thoughts, always thinking that other people are judging me when they're really not. But when you've been mistreated for so long, and people are constantly pointing out what you are doing wrong (even if they are right), you sort of automatically assume you're being judged.
Well, I know that when this life is over my scars will fully heal. But I do wish they would completely stop stinging right now.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Do You Want Books with that Prayer?
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Dan Brown Interview
A few years back, I wrote a faux interview with Dan Brown for the Door Magazine several years ago. It's one of the several interviews included in "Christian Obscenity" (others include that eHarmony guy, Kirk Cameron, Mickey Mouse, and lots more). Since Brown's new book is now out, it seems like no better time than the present to post the interview. Enjoy!
The Man Who Spoiled DaVinci: Interview with Dan Brown
You made Catholics and art critics angry with The DaVinci Code. Your next book will tick off Masons, and, in turn, the power elite. Who's left to pick on?
The animals of Protestants.
Could you explain?
Well, dogs--to be precise. After my next book is published, I'm going to go straight to work on it. It will take place in Mexico City and delve into the brutal world of dog fighting. I believe Christian missionaries started this cultic practice in 102 B.C., and I can prove it if you show me a peso.
How could there be Christian missionaries in 102 B.C.? Christ wasn't even alive yet.
That's part of the conspiracy. Christ only said He died when He did to cover up what He was doing in the year 102 B.C.
Which was?
Training missionaries to go out unto the world and make fighters of dogs.
And all this is proven on a peso?
It is.
What about the peso says this?
I can tell you're intrigued, but I've already said too much. You'll just have to read the book to find out the rest.
And you think dogs will be the ones upset?
Their owners, too--but mostly the dogs. This is where Christians send their dogs when they get old. So naturally the dogs will be mad at their owners.
But it's only the dogs of Protestants?
Yes, of course.
So if Christ was the one who started all of this, then why didn't Catholics or Orthodox believers adopt the practice? They were around long before Protestants.
No, Protestants were around first. They just kept quiet and worked on training dogs. While all those other groups were trying to decide how to make Jesus more likable and marketable, Protestants were busy working on His true message.
Your last book said Jesus married and had kids--not exactly something that other people haven't claimed--but this seems sort of out of the blue. Where did you do the research?
Online. You wouldn't believe how much stuff is on the Internet that you can't find in libraries.
If you can't find it in libraries, then how did it make it online? Where did they get the information from?
It was passed down to them verbally.
So for hundreds of years people passed this crucial information down verbally just waiting for the Internet to be invented?
Why not put it in a book?
That's not how Protestants work. They knew it would be better to spread their message online, so they decided to wait.
And the only proof you have of all this is the peso?
I have lots of other proof. For instance, a dog has two eyes and two ears, which, if you cut them off, you can make a cross with it. Coincidence? I think not. And have you ever seen a dog wag its tail? Christ did the same thing when he waved at people. He trained their tails to do that as a sign.
And is this something all Protestants know, or just missionaries?
It used to be all of them, but the ultra-secret Council of Dog Fight Trainers decided that it would be best to adopt the same doctrine of other major religions for marketing purposes. No one wants to join a church that believes in dog fighting.
Um, didn't you say that Protestants send their dogs there when they're old? They must know something is up.
Absolutely not. Pastors tell them to give them their old dogs, then they in turn send them to their main headquarters, and then headquarters sends them to the dog-fighting trainers. But no one except the dog-fighting trainer missionaries know what's really going on. They just send the dogs there because that's what they've been told.
I've never had a pastor tell me this.
They say it hypnotically--they don't even know they're saying it. And if you ever take your dog in to the vet to put it down, that vet is owned by the church. You just don't know it. Until now.
So why do they still have dog fighting? Why hasn't it got phased out over all these years? There are certainly more profitable things for missionaries to do.
Dog fighting is one of the most profitable organizations out there. They own all kinds of companies. Microsoft, Intel, Ford Motors, Sony--all owned by the dog fighting organization. Isn't it at all odd that all those companies have dog names?
Actually none of those sound like dog names.
In English no, but in Dog Language they all translate to pet names. Microsoft in dog means Fido, for instance.
Don't you get tired of making people mad? Don't you want to write a fluffy book just once to see what it is like?
Most people enjoy the books--they're not mad. They're entertained and they've learned something.
But they've learned something that's not true.
But it is true.
Then why is it placed in fiction?
Because bookstores are run by Christians, and they won't admit their lies.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
In Honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day
Originally published in the September/October 2005 (Issue #201) of The Wittenburg Door (http://archives.wittenburgdoor.com/archives/pirates.html)
FALWELL: Cool beans! Fog. That's a creepy way to start a movie.
LAHAYE: It's very end times-ish. Not bad for a secular film.
ROBERTSON: I heard that one of the assistants to the Director of Photography was a Christian.
FALWELL: That sounds like gossip.
LAHAYE: I agree with Jer on that one ... we better stick to facts.
ROBERTSON: (Snickers) Oh, like you stuck with "the facts" in the Left Behind books...
FALWELL: That song she's singing is very enchanting.
ROBERTSON: I think it's too scary for children under 12. Teens could handle it though—if they're with their parents, of course.
FALWELL: Of course.
ROBERTSON: I never let my children listen to songs with words. Except for John Denver.
FALWELL: John Denver was a very good singer. Of course, he's burning in hell.
LAHAYE: Of course.
ROBERTSON: You know I'm not too sure about this film. It almost seems like that girl is thinking positively about pirates.
LAHAYE: Kids are so wicked today. It's a sign that the end is near.
FALWELL: If it wasn't for those queer little Teletubbies, our kids would be a lot better off.
ROBERTSON: Oh brother—here comes another one of Jer's Telly rants.
LAHAYE: Both of you shut your traps and let's watch the movie.
FALWELL: I'm just saying that kids were a lot less wicked when we didn't have those freaky little puppet fags singing to them.
LAHAYE: And I say drop it. Let's watch the movie.
ROBERTSON: Oh my—now that's definitely not good!
LAHAYE: What? What'd I miss? Darn it Falwell, you made me miss something.
ROBERTSON: That girl—the one that acts like a demon—she just stole the demon necklace that guy was wearing that they pulled out of the water.
FALWELL: They pulled someone from the water?
ROBERTSON: For Pete's sake Jer, keep up—you're so impossible to watch a movie with!
LAHAYE: She definitely stole it all right. Stealing is so wrong. A lot of people don't know that it is, but it is.
FALWELL: This movie reminds me of The Shaggy Dog.
ROBERTSON: The Shaggy Dog?!
FALWELL: You know about the girl who goes to Vegas and becomes a stripper?
LAHAYE: Showgirls?
FALWELL: That's the one. I thought it was The Shaggy Dog.
ROBERTSON: You saw Showgirls?
FALWELL: I had to be able to tell my congregation why it was evil to see it.
LAHAYE: Why didn't you just say it was a porno?
FALWELL: I guess I just didn't.
LAHAYE: Oh no, this looks scandalous. That girl's in bed.
ROBERTSON: Relax, she's fully covered.
LAHAYE: Well, I hardly think we should be imagining any girl but our wives in pajamas.
FALWELL: He's got you there, Patty-boy.
ROBERTSON: I'm not even listening to you. I can't believe you saw Showgirls.
LAHAYE: You know, the girl's dad is wearing a really nice wig.
FALWELL: I had a wig like that once. I read a passage in the Bible that I misinterpreted as saying only bald men will go to heaven, so I cut off all my hair. Then I wore that kind of wig when I figured out that hair was okay with God.
LAHAYE: I can't believe they're showing the girl putting on her dress. Scandalous!
FALWELL: It looks innocent to me.
ROBERTSON: Compared to Showgirls I'm sure it is.
LAHAYE: I suppose since they're not showing anything it's okay for married couples to see. It's better than her prancing around in those pajamas.
ROBERTSON: And it is one of those nice Victorian dresses.
FALWELL: I sure wish women still wore those.
LAHAYE: Now they walk around half-naked in their tight jeans and loose fitting t-shirts. It's a sign of the end. Not that I look at them, of course.
FALWELL : (Giggles) Of course.
ROBERTSON: My son told me a lot of this movie is taken straight from the ride. I'm not seeing it, though.
FALWELL: Ride? There's a ride about this?
LAHAYE: At Disneyland—surely even you must have known.
FALWELL: Disneyland? Do you mean to say that this is a Disney movie?
ROBERTSON: Didn't you see the logo at the start of the movie?
FALWELL: I was making the popcorn. Why didn't you tell me? I can't watch this. I'm supposed to be boycotting Disney movies.
LAHAYE: Roberston and I were talking about that while you were popping the kernels. We thought you lifted the boycott to focus more attention on homosexual awareness of Spongebob.
FALWELL: I did no such thing, and I can watch no more of this.
ROBERTSON: Hey Timmy, ain't that the elf guy from Lord of the Rings?
LAHAYE: Like I'd know. That movie was based on a book by a Catholic.
ROBERTSON: A Catholic? I didn't know that.
LAHAYE: How could you not? All fantasy books are written by either Catholics or witches.
ROBERTSON: He's carrying a sword—this must be why it got the PG-13 rating.
LAHAYE: PG-13? I can only watch G or PG.
ROBERTSON: Wasn't Left Behind: The Movie PG-13?
LAHAYE: I watched the censored version.
ROBERTSON: Well, how about if I just tell you to close your eyes during the bad parts?
LAHAYE: I still have ears.
ROBERTSON: How about you cover your eyes, and I'll cover your ears.
LAHAYE: And what if the world ends while you're doing this? God might mistake that as some kind of homosexual ritual and send us both to hell.
ROBERTSON: Point taken. I'll tell you how the rest of the movie turns out.
LAHAYE: I wish I could have at least seen a few pirates.
ROBERTSON: There's pirates in this movie?
LAHAYE: That's what the title says.
ROBERTSON: I'll have no part in that. Pirates are sinners!
LAHAYE: Arrgh, matey! (Snickers.)
Friday, September 18, 2009
Apparently I am a Commie After All
The other day I was browsing around Worldview Times when I came upon this quiz that determined if I had a liberal or conservative worldview. Even though I don't care much for labels--I no longer consider myself a liberal or a conservative or a libertarian or any other political label--I took the quiz.
The quiz started off asking questions about God and the Bible, but then shifted towards politics. Specifically the quiz asked what I thought the Bible said about the role of government, which is something I honest don't know much about. I don't remember anything in the Bible that explicitly said whether God prefers a small government or a big one. The quiz also asked if I thought America's Founding Fathers were influenced by the Bible. That's also something I'm not sure about. I've heard some say that the Founding Fathers were Deists, and other say that while America is not a "Christian nation" (according to C.S. Lewis, a Christian nation requires that all citizens have to be Christians) our Founding Fathers were heavily influenced by Biblical principles when they shaped our Constitution. So for those question, I just put down "no opinion."
Well, according to the results, I am a Communist.
Which is strange, because I read The Communist Manifesto this past summer, and I didn't agree with it. I can understand why so many people got into it. I agree to a certain extent about the eternal struggle between the rich and the poor, but once Marx started talking about doing away with property rights I was like, "You lost me there, dude! I like to own my own stuff."
What's also strange is that Worldview gives you a list of all the correct answers to the quiz. In other words, if you a true Christian you have to be a neoconservative. Which is weird, because I thought being a Christian meant you believed in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and He died for your sins. I didn't know you had to vote a certain way.
But apparently according to Worldview, even though I believe in Jesus but don't vote the way they do, I am Commie.
So, uh . . . workers of the world, unite?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Can the Real Monkey Please Stand Up?
Earlier, it was announced that a new biopic about Darwin starring Jennifer Connelly would not be released in the U.S. because no distributor wanted to touch it--they are too afraid of crazy Christians, who will no doubt flood any studio who has the guts to not censor the film with death treats and hate mail, and it just isn't worth the hassle.
So if you have an interest in Darwin in states, then I guess you'll have to bootleg. One day I hope people realize censorship never helps any one's cause--it only creates more interest.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Christian Obscenity
It's called "Christian Obscenity: Essays, Stories, and Other Potentially Damning Ramblings" and it's available for the low price of $10 (which includes shipping), and supports a hungry writer and his wife. It's a collection of what I call "Christian Humor." It's about 1/2 stuff that I previously published in The Door and about 1/2 completely original material. It's filled with fake interviews (including the one with the Christian Porn Star), satire, parody, and fiction.
Friday, September 11, 2009
More Goodies from Pastor Steven L. Anderson!
So let's see . . . aborting babies is murder (which I understand), but killing presidents, gays, and abortion doctors isn't (which I don't understand).
Of course Anderson isn't just about bumping off the nasties. In this video, we learn that according to King James Bible, God is greatly concerned about how men urinate:
So what have we learned today?
1. It's okay to kill gays, abortion doctors, and Democratic presidents.
2. All gays are child molesters, even when they're not
3. God says only real men pee standing up.
Boy, sign me up for this guy's church!
Monday, September 7, 2009
The Sabbath Is Greek for Sleeping In, Right?
When I was young, I got into the practice of never doing homework on Sundays; it was the Sabbath (actually, Sunday isn't the true Sabbath, but it seemed the most practical time to take a day off from school). In college, while working a summer job for a company that rented out space in Disneyland, I had to put this practice to rest. It was a long summer and I swore to God and myself that I'd never work Sundays again when I quit.
Over the years, I've heard a lot of sermons, but one that I've never heard (perhaps I've just been in the wrong churches on the wrong Sundays?) is a sermon about the Sabbath. It seems just an unmentioned rule that people are supposed to pick a day in the week and rest, but no one ever puts an emphasis on why. And no one really says what we're supposed to do on the day—at least no one in Protestant churches; Orthodox Judaism does it much better.
While I never work on Sunday's anymore, I frequently find myself busy with other things—so much so that it doesn't seem like a day of rest at all. There's a reason God says to obey the Sabbath, and it's not to get extra housework done. It's for devotion and reconnection.
Today's a holiday. I have little to do today day; while I don't obey the Sabbath on Monday's, the pause makes me wonder why I don't obey it better on Sunday's.
The Bible doesn't clearly define what we have to do on the Sabbath; God doesn't say it's the day we spend on our knees praying or doing something else ritualistic. I think God just wants us to pause from the world and reconnect with everything we've been too busy to think about with the chaos of the world. The Sabbath should be the day that brings us closest to heaven on Earth. Is that such a bad thing?
Friday, September 4, 2009
Joel Osteen Teaches Us
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text: Currently I keep all my music on my PC in MP3 format at 320kbps. I prefer 192kbps on my phone as I'm not too concerned about quality on the move and I can fit more music on that way. I don't want to keep 2 versions of each album as I have loads and that's not really practical. At the moment I sync using WMP12 as it allows you to re-encode to a lower bitrate as it syncs but the only problem is that it re-encodes to WMA format. I don't really have a problem with that as it's only going on my phone but with Froyo there's a bug that means the phone can no longer read the artist tag of WMA files. Since Froyo has now been out for months and there's no word about the bug from Google it appears there's no chance of it getting fixed (a cunning ploy to stop people using WMA seems the most likely explanation I guess) So can anyone recommend a piece of software I can use for Windows that will re-encode to a lower MP3 bitrate as I sync? Does such a thing exist?


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Big, long, exhausting but awesome hike day!
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Today was my long hiking day and the weather couldn't have been better. Kevin and I took a train to Grindelwald where I bought a pair of hiking poles (thank god I did, since I definitely used them all day!). From Grindelwald, we hiked for almost 3 1/2 hours which resulted in just over a 1,000 m altitude gain. It was tough but a lot of fun and the views were incredible. Alogn the way we took pictures with some cows, which was on my "to do" list haha
For lunch, we ate up at Klein Schiddieg, overlooking the valley that we climbed from, with views of three huge mountains (one about 11,000 m above sea level). I think it was probably the best place I've ever eaten a tuna sandwich!
From there we hiked down to Wengen which took about an hour and a half. From there we trained back to Interlaken where I was meeting Shane and Leigh Anne. Omg it was so nice to see them! We went out to the same square I had been at a couple nights before to watch some of the game, drink a beer and have them fill me in on all the news I've missed over the past two months! I haven't felt homesick at all until I was talking to them and heard about the stuff I've missed. Ah well, I guess this is a good time to be homesick, since I'll be heading home in just under two weeks!


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Were the Mongols Barbarians? An Intro... In the course of history, the great Mongols were portrayed as ruthless barbarians with the main focus of obtaining wealth and power, but also as smart and tactical people who's leaders were excellent at warfare. The word "barbarian" was originally a Greek word that meant foreigner. Starting in the 1200s and continuing today, the word has changed to mean uncivilized, savage, and even evil. But the question is, were the Mongols really that barbaric? Our Thesis Although the Mongols may have had some form of civilization and organization, ultimately they were a ruthless people that had little respect for any other society but themselves. They had cruel ways of treating the people they conquered, strict policies or ways of life, and merciless battle tactics. By: Olajumoke Jegede and
Shannon Moore Background Info:
The Life of the Mongols The Mongols lived in yurts, which were round tents that could be easily moved. They were nomads, meaning that they moved to the next best prosperous part of the Gobi Desert (where they lived) The Mongols Had No... The mongols were a farming and pasture people. ...mining ...metal working ...written language ...and no permanent homes The Mongols had Strict Policies Over the People they Ruled... The Mongols were cruel to the many people they conquered... Document D:
"...they throw Greek fire (napalm); they even take the fat of the people they kill and, melting it, throw (catapult) it on to the houses..." Document D:
"...but the others, with the exception of those they wish to have as slaves, they kill with the axe... Document E:
" They severed the heads of the slain from their bodies and heaped them up in piles..." Again, they were nomads The cruel tactics used in battle and while ravaging the towns they passed through, show how barbaric they were... But that's not all! Document N: Mongol Rule "Whoever commits adultery will be executed, whether or not they have previous convictions" "If an Unbeliever (i.e. a Mongol) desires a married woman he will kill the husband and then have relations with the woman" "...if he oversteps this limit he makes himself guilty of a punishable offense The way of life was violent and any wrong turn could result in death. The Mongols Harsh Battle Tactics From: "The Mongols: How Barbaric Were the "Barbarians"?
"Despite being outnumbered three to one, the Mongol's handily defeated an army of 75,000 Russians. From Document D: "Carpini on Battle Tactics"
"...sometimes they make figures of men and set them on horses. They do this to give the impression that a great crowd of fighting men is assembled there" From Document D: "Carpini on Battle Tactics"
"If the position of the fortress allows it, they surround it, sometimes even fencing it round so that no one can enter or leave." The ways the Mongols took over the places they conquered was with no mercy and no thought of the people inside those places. In Conclusion The Mongols, as they have been called, really were the definition of barbarian that is used as a term today. They were as this definition says:
bar·bar·i·an [bahr-bair-ee-uhn]
a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.
a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine.
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So here is the down low - my name is Emily, but my friends call me E-Ho! I am not great at introductions - and am painfully shy - but I am working on it. I started Hope Squared shortly after Steve and I got married as a way to document our first year of marriage. Hope Squared has since then turned into a phenomenon [Cue Music] as I pursue my destiny of becoming blogfamous. I blog about life. design. and travel [as much as I can]. Oh and the cat. Here's his story. And this is a bit more about me.
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Better interfaces to Unicode<==>UTF8 conversion routines in FriBidi?
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- Dov Grobgeld's FriBidi package has two procedures for conversion between
UTF8 and 4-byte Unicode forms of character strings.
The prototypes of the procedures are:
void fribidi_unicode_to_utf8 (FriBidiChar *us,
int length,
/* Output */
guchar *s);
/* warning: the length of output string may exceed the length of the input
int fribidi_utf8_to_unicode (guchar *s,
/* Output */
FriBidiChar *us);
/* the length of the string is returned */
(declared in fribidi_char_sets.h).
Those interfaces suffer from few problems:
1. Unless you allocate lots of memory, the procedures don't protect you
against accidental overwriting of memory beyond your buffers.
The worst case of converting from Unicode into UTF8 is that a single
Unicode character (4 octets long) may be converted into 6-octet long
UTF character sequence.
Therefore, for safe operation of fribidi_unicode_to_utf8(), your UTF8
buffer (guchar *s) must be at least 1.5 times longer than your input
Unicode buffer (FriBidiChar *us), in octets.
2. They are not friendly toward applications, which have to convert very
long strings from one into another format, but do not have too much
memory to spare - because you have to convert the entire string at
once - allocate a long buffer, and wait for as long time as necessary
for the operation to complete.
Also, the buffer areas have to be contiguous.
I designed better interfaces, as follows:
gboolean /* Returns TRUE if the outputs are valid, even if the entire
** Unicode string was not converted.
fribidi_unicode_to_utf8_p(FriBidiChar *in_unicode_str,
/* Unicode string */
guint in_unicode_length, /* Unicode string length in
** Unicode characters
guchar *utf8_buffer, /* Buffer for UTF8 translation */
guint utf8_buffer_length, /* Length of UTF8 buffer */
/* Outputs */
guint *out_uni_consumed_length_p,
/* Actual number of Unicode
** characters translated
guint *out_actual_utf8_buffer_length_p);
/* Actual number of bytes
** used in the UTF8 buffer.
gboolean /* Returns TRUE if the UTF8 string was converted without
** errors, and the outputs are valid - even if the entire
** UTF8 string was not converted.
fribidi_utf8_to_unicode_p(guchar *in_utf8_str, /* UTF8 string */
guint in_utf8_length, /* Length of UTF8 string in octets
FriBidiChar *unicode_buffer, /* Buffer for Unicode translation */
guint unicode_buffer_length, /* Length of Unicode buffer in
** Unicode characters
/* Outputs */
guint *out_utf8_consumed_length_p, /* Actual number of UTF8
/* octets translated
guint *out_actual_unicode_buffer_length_p);
/* Actual number of Unicode
** characters used in the
** Unicode buffer.
With the new interfaces, you can convert the input string in pieces, just
as long as necessary to fill the buffer allocated for the output string.
An example of using such procedures is to retrieve a long text string
from a text widget, convert it in pieces of about 4096 bytes each, and
write each converted piece into a file (or to a TCP socket).
While memory is not that big problem in PCs, which run Linux, it is a
problem in the embedded device, for which I ported FriBidi.
I would appreciate being informed if I overlooked anything obvious in the
above design, which may be of a problem to future users of the conversion
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First we had Obsidian's Stormlands, which was cancelled after seven months of development, leaving Obsidian in a state of near ruin, at which point they had to lay off 30 people, go to Kickstarter, start work on a f2p game, and turn the remnants of that game into Tyranny.
Then we have the infamous Phantom Dust debacle. I'll just leave some choice quotes here:
After some heavy-duty conversations in the spring of 2014, the two companies walked away with a deal: Darkside would get a $5 million budget to build a multiplayer-only reboot of Phantom Dust, complete with a spectator mode, tournaments, and a complicated replay system allowing players to share files, according to one person familiar with the original pitch. The initial plan was to make it a competitive online sport, along the lines of Hearthstone and League of Legends. They gave it the codename Babel.
No more than a week after theyd signed the contract, according to several ex-Darkside employees, Microsofts team came back to the studio with a new request: they wanted a single-player campaign. They decided that fans were gonna want a single-player game, said a person who worked on the project. But they werent going to change the budget or the timeframe.
Suddenly, what was once a $5 million multiplayer reboot of Phantom Dust had become a $5 million multiplayer reboot of Phantom Dust with a six-hour single-player story mode attached. That meant Darkside would need more designers, more artists, and more programmers, all of which equated to extra time and money that they didnt have. Still, employees say they were committed to pulling it off. This was their first solo project. They wanted to prove they were good enough to do it. According to one Darkside source, their tentative plan was to build a fun vertical slicea playable and demonstrable chunk of the gameand use it to persuade Microsoft into giving them more money.
Darkside was in the very early stages of development when E3 came around in June of last year, and some at the studio say they were shocked to see Microsoft announce Phantom Dust there. They were even more shocked to see the game announced through a pre-rendered trailer that nobody at Darkside had worked on, according to studio sources. Perhaps most frustratingly for people at the studio, Microsoft wouldnt tell anyone that Darkside was developing the game. Darkside was put on a gag order; though the game had been announced, they still couldnt tell people they were making it. It was very sad, said one person on the project. It showed a lack of confidence in us.
Microsoft wanted a longer single-player campaign; they wanted various features added and changed; they wanted Darkside to help contribute card art to the accompanying mobile game Microsoft had planned. This kind of focus change happened on a nearly monthly basis, said a person who worked on the game.
They asked for things pretty quickly, said a second person close to the studio. We kept telling them, We cannot make this game for the budget you want.
In the fall of last year, another obstacle popped up: one of Microsofts creative directors, who Darkside sources described as integral to Phantom Dusts success, left the company. His role was never re-filled, which hurt Darkside a lotproducers at the studio had to communicate with Microsofts creative team on a daily basis, and he had been one of their most important connections in Redmond.
The end result is that Darkside went out of business.
One particularly strange moment for Darkside happened around then, when Microsofts Ken Lobb said on a podcast that Phantom Dust would be about a 30-hour JRPG. The developers were baffled. That was never part of their plan. Nobody knew he was gonna say that, said one Darkside staffer. We were told by people at Microsoft that Ken just does things like that.
Then we have Scalebound, which according to several sources involved Microsoft setting very high milestones and withholding pay
And as a result a significant portion of Platinum workers are without a task, Kamiya on mental health leave, and the studio bereft of payment for a month of work.
We also have Fable Legends, though that was a first party game so not sure how that fits in here.
So, overall, if this were just one developer and one set of rumors, maybe it would be some bad apples and conjecture. But this same pattern has happened several times with them, which begs the question, is it all bad third party relations, or perhaps some sort of mismanagement from Microsoft? I don't wanna be all "doom and gloom" but can this be really attributed to a series of coincidences and bad partnerships? Even then, isn't it still on them making those partnerships?
My presumption is that Microsoft perhaps underestimated the effort it would take to get games with as-a-service multiplayer (which seems to be their big push with all the full priced titles with pay2win microtransactions) that also has a AAA grade campaign out of smaller studios with newer IPs. They tried their luck at getting these projects at a low cost, but then as management and goals changed (a lot of these projects must have started during Mattrick and Ballmer's era and shifted to Spencer and Nadella) they no longer were interested in that kind of investment for that kind of project. Presumably not wanting to back out of contracts, they just used increasingly high demands on developers to burn them out and make them drop the contracts instead, taking the damage with them. Is this an unfair characterization of the situation?
Given an attitude like this towards new AAA IP, it seems it would be difficult for them to grow new IPs in this climate without investing significantly. Perhaps this signals a change in philosophy in Microsoft?
I'd like to discuss these subjects without being bogged down by the specifics of the individual games, as there's threads for those. This seeming strategy change and possibility of mismanagement (or arguments against it) are the specific points I'd like to speculate on.


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NEW YORK — Two prominent foreign policy journalists are pushing back at The New York Times Magazine for what they described as a "defamatory" characterization in a much-discussed article.
The article, a nearly 10,000-word profile of Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes, suggested that the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and Al Monitor's Laura Rozen "helped retail" the Obama administration's argument for a nuclear deal with Iran. Both Goldberg and Rozen described the description as false, even slanderous, and criticized the paper for failing to seek comment ahead of time.
"This is an unsupported, defamatory allegation that somehow slipped into The New York Times Magazine by a guy, it should be pointed out, who has had a grudge against me for several years," Goldberg told HuffPost. (He later wrote of once accepting, then declining, a position at Tablet, where Samuels was a senior editor and Samuels' wife is editor).
On Monday, Times Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jake Silverstein defended the article's language, telling HuffPost that the publication did not mean to imply the veteran journalists "were colluding with the administration." Silverstein did acknowledge, however, that magazine should have asked for their response prior to publication.
In the much-discussed profile, magazine writer David Samuels explored how the White House pushes its foreign policy narrative in the media and, specifically in the case of the Iran nuclear deal, how the administration was able to spin "often clueless reporters." Rhodes candidly described creating an "echo chamber" in which experts speaking to reporters validated the administration's arguments. And Rhodes offered his unvarnished thoughts on how some reporters lack the experience and expertise of their predecessors.
"They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo," Rhodes said. "Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing."
But later in the article, it's Samuels who specifically identifies Goldberg and Rozen, each of whom have reported on foreign affairs for decades, as having helped promote the administration's narrative.
As [Director of Digital Response for the White House Office of Digital Strategy Tanya Somanader] explained how the process worked, I was struck by how naïve the assumption of a "state of nature" must seem in an information environment that is mediated less and less by experienced editors and reporters with any real prior knowledge of the subjects they write about. "People construct their own sense of source and credibility now," she said. "They elect who they're going to believe." For those in need of more traditional-seeming forms of validation, handpicked Beltway insiders like Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Laura Rozen of Al-Monitor helped retail the administration's narrative. "Laura Rozen was my RSS feed," Somanader offered. "She would just find everything and retweet it."
Rozen said in an email that she is "seeking a correction from the editor and an apology for misleading and inaccurate assertions made about me" in the profile.
"The New York Times Magazine editor has already acknowledged to me that the magazine made a mistake by failing to give me a serious chance to respond and offer my blanket objection," she wrote.
"The magazine slandered me without speaking to me; or giving me a reasonable chance to strongly object," she added. "Samuels mischaracterizes the meaning of what the White House aide said to him about me: that she reads my Twitter feed. I should not have been named in the piece at all based on Samuels' mischaracterization of her quote. It was a drive by shooting."
In covering the Iran nuclear talks for four years, Rozen said her Twitter feed "has become one of the go-to follows for people around the world interested in this issue," and that the information she tweets and retweets "comes from a wide range of news sources, journalists, diplomats, governments, experts of broad and varied ideological views on Iran and many other foreign policy and political issues."
In an email, Silverstein expressed support for the writer's "helped retail" characterization, while acknowledging the two journalists should've been contacted.
"As I've told Goldberg and Rozen, we should have asked them for a response, and I regret that we did not do so," Silverstein told HuffPost. "As I also expressed to them, when David used the phrase 'helped retail' he did not mean to imply that Goldberg or Rozen were colluding with the administration. Rather, he meant that certain people within the White House were retailing their talking points, and that they saw Goldberg and Rozen as helpful in doing so. David's extensive reporting supports this assertion. It is also important to note that David's piece is about a system for crafting and disseminating policy narratives, and because of his remarkable access, he was able to describe that system from the perspective of the people who operate it."
In a phone interview, Silverstein suggested the genesis of the article — which has prompted both criticism of the writer and the administration since being published online Thursday and in Sunday's print edition — was fairly conventional.
Samuels, a veteran magazine writer, pitched Times Magazine editors late last year on a profile of Rhodes. Silverstein said the magazine was interested in looking at how a 38-year-old with a background in creative writing was now "playing such a critical role in the formation and distribution of American foreign policy."
"That idea was very interesting to us, this idea of storytelling and narratives and the role they play in the way the Obama administration not only communicates its message, but shapes its message in the first place," Silverstein said.
This is familiar territory for the magazine, which last year examined how the Obama White House communicated details of Osama bin Laden's death through the press. That cover story drew criticism from some prominent Washington journalists, including several in the paper's own Washington bureau.
After getting a commitment from Times editors, Samuels approached Rhodes, who not only agreed to an interview, but also provided extensive access and offered surprisingly candid assessments of the foreign policy establishment and the press.
In recent days, critics of Samuels' framing of events have seized on video of an April 2015 panel as evidence of his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.
At the Hudson Institute event, Samuels described being "startled by the lack of attention and clarity" in much of what had been reported on the Iran deal, and suggested cutbacks in the media business led to a situation in which the Obama administration's claims weren't being as thoroughly vetted as they would've been in the past.
"What happens to a Democratic society when you decide to do away with the institutions of a free press? Because that is a decision, without knowing it, our country has made." he said.
During the panel, Samuels described an apocalyptic scenario of "unchecked nuclear proliferation in a world where the United States has decided that it will no longer enforce the very, very basic structures we put in place after World War II in order to prevent the horror of a world in which many, many states, some of them led by people whose perceptions of reality depart from our own in very significant ways, are armed with weapons whose capacity to kill hundreds of thousands of people and to destroy if used in great numbers the basic functioning of not just individual societies but of large chunks of the global system that feeds and provides basic security to billions of human beings on the planet."
"This is a terrifying, terrifying prospect," he said. "And that's what's at stake in this deal. And the inability of people to recognize that that is what we are talking about is, in part, tied to the institutional collapse of the structures in which I've spent a good deal of my own life working."
Samuels argued in Slate in 2009 that Israel should bomb Iran before it can develop a nuclear weapon. During the Hudson Institute panel, he said it was wrong to take the possibility of a military strike off the table during negotiations.
The Times Magazine story doesn't mention Samuels' past, public concerns with the Iran deal.
"I don't really find that stuff to be relevant to what David did here," Silverstein said.
"The engine of this piece was the trust that David was able to build with Ben Rhodes, who was one of the primary architects of how that deal was crafted and disseminated," Silverstein added.
The Times Magazine editor said that Rhodes apparently "felt that he was going to be getting a fair shake" from Samuels given the access he provided. "I don't believe he feels he was burned by David either," Silverstein said of Rhodes. "I think David told a very compelling story and one that is true and accurate."
"I've seen some people saying this was an ideological hit job, which is just ridiculous. I've also seen people saying it was a puff piece, which is also ridiculous," Silverstein added. "I sort of take it as a mark of the success of the piece that it's been such widely divergent reads on it. I think it's a complicated story, one with a lot of nuance, and one that can't be easily fit into a particular category."
Rhodes took to Medium late Sunday night to respond to the story and explain how the White House advocated for the Iran deal. He was more complimentary toward the press this time around, writing that "there was no shortage of good reporting and analysis—positive, negative, and mixed—about the Iran deal."
He also disputed the idea that Goldberg was hand-picked to help "retail" the White House's message in a response to Goldberg.
"I told him that our goal was to try to convince you and a handful of other columnists that the Iran deal wasn't a total catastrophe," Rhodes recalled of his discussion with Samuels. "I told him I don't think I ever convinced you that it was a good deal."
This story was updated with comments from Silverstein and more information on Samuels' past comments on the Iran deal.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/05/09/new-york-times-magazine-iran-deal-journalists_n_9872960.html


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I just finished this yesterday. It's based off Glampyre's Boobholder (very loosely based, I guess you could say) but I changed the gauge, got rid of the garter stitch edges, joined in the round to make a v-neck, and added waist shaping. I crocheted slip stitch on the edge of the v-neck to make it lie flat, which it did after blocking. I used 2 skeins of Cottonease, only dipping into the 3rd for the ribbing, which means it cost around $10 to make. Now I have an extra two skeins to make another boobholder! There were no seams, but I had a few yarnovers and ugly stitches I had to fix, so I guess that was as timely as seaming would be. The underarms are a little tight, but they seem to have stretched out today as I've worn it. My dad took the pics outside.
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Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in the area referred to as the daleor a valley.
Dyal Early Origins
Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Dyal Spelling Variations
Dyal Spelling Variations
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Dyal family name include Dale, Daile, Dales, Dayle, Daele and others.
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The Great Migration
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Dyal surname or a spelling variation of the name include: Robert Dale who settled in Woburn, Massachusetts before 1680; John Dale settled in Salem a little later, in 1682; Edward Dale settled in Virginia in 1642.
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Contemporary Notables of the name Dyal (post 1700)
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817 Edgewood Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Beds: 3
Baths: 3 | 1
Sq. Ft.: 1,570
Listing #5878429
Live in one of Inman Park's best kept secrets. Enjoy festival from your wide wrap around front porch and evening sunsets from the rear deck. This updated 3-level attached home features refinished pine floors, light filled rooms, high ceilings, fresh interior paint, new carpet, renovated kitchen, spacious master suite, and hard-to-find-intown 2-car garage parking. Private Inman Park Pool membership included. All of this just steps from local restaurants, Krog Street Market and the Beltline.
Property Features
Location Information
County: Fulton
MLS Area: 23 - Atlanta North
Subdivision: Inman Park
Directions: From Little Five Points, go west on Euclid, continue west on Edgewood. Home on left. Park on street in front of property. Rear drive off of Spruce.
Interior Features
Approximate Size (Sq. Ft.): 1, 570
Square Feet Source: Public Records
Rooms: Separate Lvng Rm
Interior: Entrance Foyer, Pine Floor, Wall/Wall Carpet, Wet Bar
Bedroom Description: Roommate Fl Plan
Master Bathroom Description: Garden Tub, Sep Tub/Shower
1/2 Baths: 1
Has Dining Room: yes
Dining Room Description: Separate Dng Rm
Kitchen Description: Breakfast Area, Breakfast Room, Cabinets White, Counter Top - Stone, Pantry
Has Fireplace: yes
Number of Fireplaces: 2
Fireplace Description: Double Sided, Factory Built
Heating: Forced Air, Gas, Zoned
Cooling: Ceiling Fans, Central Electric, Zoned
Laundry: Basement, Hall
Disabled Features: None
Appliances: Dishwasher, Garbage Disposal, Gas Ovn/Rng/Ctop, Gas Water Heater, Microwave, Refrigerator, Sec System Owned, Smoke/Fire Alarm
Basement Description: Daylight, Driveway Access, Exterior Entry, Finished, Full, Interior Entry
Has Full Basement: yes
Exterior Features
Style: Traditional, Victorian
Stories: 2 Or + Stories
Construction: Frame
Exterior: Deck, Fenced Yard, Front Porch, Pool House, Wrap-Around Porch
Roof: Composition
Sewer: Public Sewer
Water: Public Water
Parking Description: 2 Car Garage, Attached, Auto Garage Door, Drive Under Main Level
Has Garage: yes
Garage Spaces: 2
Has a Pool: yes
Pool Description: None
Lot Description: Level
Lot Size: Under 1/3 Acre
Lot Number: 2
Lot Size in Acres: 0.068
Energy Features: Other
Road Description: Paved, Private Maintain
Water Body: None
Elementary School: Lin
Middle School: Inman
High School: Grady
Additional Information
Property Type: SFR
Year Built: 1993
Status: Active
Complex Name: Inman Park
Neighborhood Amenities: Club House, Homeowners Assoc, Near Beltline, Near Trails/Greenway, Public Trans., Restaurant, Sidewalk, Street Lights, Swimming Pool, Walk to Marta, Walk to Schools, Walk to Shopping
Area Code/Name: 23 - Atlanta North
Special Circumstances: None
Tax Year: 2016
Tax Amount: 4, 987
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The Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) has protested against the proposed banking amendment bill 2015 that seeks to cap lending rates at a maximum of 4 per cent over the Central Bank Rate (CBR) that was passed by the Kenyan Parliament on Wednesday. KBA has asked for a review of the bill which the association says will go against promoting financial inclusion in the country, locking out those that struggle to access capital.
Read: Kenyan banks have ample liquidity says Central Bank of Kenya
Speaking to CNBC Africa, the incoming KBA Vice Chairman, John Gachora reckons the bill will be bad for the economy "Kenya has made steps in financial inclusion, we should not take those gains for granted. Free markets have allowed banks to be innovative, they have allowed us to get more people financially included, the moment we control and take away this aspect, we are saying that financial inclusion is not something that matters to us but we care about those already financially included."
The bill currently awaiting assent from the president to become law will drop lending rates to 15 per cent in reference to the 10.5 per cent key lending rate. Current commercial bank lending rates average 20 per cent with highs of up to 24 per cent depending on the risks involved.
Attempts to put a cap on lending rates chargeable by commercial banks have been mooted since 2000. Only last year, the bill was rejected as contradictory to article 114 of Kenya's constitution, which requires all finance bills to be passed in accordance with the relevant committee of assembly, taking into account the views of the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance.
The Kenyan Treasury had earlier opposed the bill, with Henry Rotich the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary saying "The solution is dealing with underlying factors that cause the interest rates to go up".
In comparison, the capping of lending rates has proved faulty to countries around the world. According to the incoming Kenya Bankers Association Chair and Group MD at NIC Bank Gachora, there is need to provide solutions to underlying issues that push up lending rates "Let us look for ways to get down those rates, ways that are sustainable, ways that are market friendly and ways that foster financial access like making sure that there is food transparency… focusing on those things that make credit expensive, the cost of charging property is too high in this country, the cost of money is high. Accessing credit risk of individuals is very difficult and that is why we suggested that the credit reference bill be formed."
The Banking Amendment Bill 2015, sponsored by lawmaker Jude Njomo, also seeks to set the minimum rate for bank deposits at 70 per cent of the Central Bank's benchmark rate.
The lenders' umbrella body feels, the bill will cripple small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which depend on financial support from banks resulting in interrupted enterprise development, poor performance and unemployment.
Speaking for the industry, Gachora says the banking sector has fully committed to supporting emerging businesses: "We have suggested to parliamentarians to put money on the side to educate and help those SMEs and individuals who have suffered from this high rates and we feel need access at affordable rates, we are willing to set aside Ksh30 billion as an industry for funding SMEs at concessionary rates."
The proposed law comes on the back of the Monetary Policy Committee's decision to maintain the key lending rate at 10.5 per cent on Monday, while reducing the Kenya Banks' Reference Rate (KBRR) by almost 1 per cent to 8.90 per cent from 9.87 per cent. Though largely unsuccessful, the KBRR was introduced to enable transparency in the pricing of loan products.


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Kenneth Oppel introduces us to young Victor Frankenstein in his new book, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. Victor is sixteen years old and very curious about alchemy. He lives with his twin brother Konrad and his cousin Elizabeth. They are victims of typical teen curiosity and idle times. As they explore their extensive chateau in Geneva, they discover the previously unknown Dark Library. Clearly, this is a forbidden area to explore. They discover books about alchemy and ancient remedies. Their foray into the off-limits room is discovered by Victor and Konrad's father. He is incensed and instructs them to never go into the room again and to certainly never explore the writings.


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