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While our Host Daughter was here, we shared the gospel with her. She informed us that she had heard about how Jesus loved her enough to die on a cross for her sins but that she didn't believe it. But she did not discuss the subject any further than that. During a car ride from Charlotte, the subject came up with Cava. I asked him about the missionaries coming to visit the boarding school, how they showed the Jesus film, and shared the gospel of God's love to the kids. I asked Cava if he heard that and believed that God loved him.
"No," he replied, "because if He did why was I there?"
While his response did not surprise me, it cut me deep. I mean it makes sense: Why believe in a loving God when no one else around you is loving or cares for you?
"Do you believe that God loves you now?" I asked.
"Because you prayed and God brought you to Ukraine to adopt me."
Cava knows God loves him because of the love he's experienced since he's been here and he sees the love of God through people. It's a daily encounter with love.
God's love is relentless, is ever-reaching, is a pursuing, intense love. It's a radical tenderness. I've been reading through the Old Testatment prophets and it's been a real hootenanny, especially as I wrestle and struggle with the will of God and trying to understand. Reading the prophets, like much of the Bible, has been less comforting and more confronting. Yet there, amidst all the doom on Jerusalem, I came across this line in Zephaniah 3:17, " . . .he will quiet you by his love . . ." Not exactly a line one expects from a prophet, but there it was. Immediately, my mind conjured up a mother going to her wailing baby during the night, to hold and comfort the infant. Isaiah also presents this mothering image of God when he wrote, "As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you . . ." or "Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb?"
While people talk of God's love, they tend to see it as a gentle, Mr. Rogers' kindness than the love portrayed in the Bible. No, scripture shows that God's love is more like the powerful, raging falls of Iguaza where there are 275 waterfalls, including one that reaches a height of 269 feet. It is twice as tall as Niagra. 1,500 cubic meters of water fall per second. During the rainy season, 13,000 cubic meters of water falls per second. This kind of love is more like what Rich Mullins describes when he sings about being "caught in the reckless, raging fury that they call the love of God." That is an intense love of a storm that sweeps one up and away and drowns us in it. It's the kind of love that neither height nor the depths of hell can escape. It's the kind of love that causes a father to not be ashamed to run, embrace and kiss his prodigal son who is covered in and reeks of the muck of pig pens. Jesus even addresses his Father as "Abba" or "Papa," a very loving and intimate title.
But how do children who either do not know their parents or, worse, have very negative memories of their mother or father then begin to understand the love of a God who is shown as both mother and father?
The theologian Jean Vanier wrote, "To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth, their importance." God has done this to a violent degree. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son . . ." Yet for the orphan, those are just words. Empty and hollow as they feel inside. They have no context. Many of them can only identify father or mother with neglect, abuse, and rejection. These kids don't understand an unwavering love that accepts them as they are but does not leave them that way.
Cava still has trouble accepting our love. He has been with us just over two years and he is only now, slowly, seeing that our love is not an elevator love that goes up and down depending on his behavior. Oh, Cava had a bad day, love goes down. Hey! Cava had a great day, love goes up. That is not love. But the love we offer him is frail and a pale comparsion to the unconditional love of God. Yet for him to begin to comprehend that love, which is something most of us cannot do, he first had to see it mirrored in people. He had to see that our love was reliable before he could even start the process of accepting that God's love was even more so.
In his book The Furious Longing of God, Brennan Manning wrote, "The revolutionary thinking that God loves me as I am and not as I should be requires radical thinking and profound emotional readjustment."
It is very much like a child being adopted into a family. The adopted child struggles with self-acceptance, with being loved because they don't feel lovable, that they have worth and value. They see their pasts, their hurts, their deep wounds, the rejection, loss, fears, and say, "You can't possibly love me." They will often fight against the very love they long for. Love has to continously come back again and again to overcome that rejection. Both Cava and our host daughter have responded to my statement, "I love you," with, "No love you." They were both stunned with my responding back with, "That's okay. You don't have to love me because I still love you." This kind of love is frightening to them because it is unfamiliar and strange. It shocks them because they are not used to someone loving them and they will test that love to see if that love is true. They want it to be, but they are afraid it's not. Many of us are the same way with God. We are secretly praying, "Are You for real? Do you really love me?"
Romans 8:14-17 tells us, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry, 'Abba, Father.' The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ . . ."
Many reject this because we cannot believe it's true. Or we fight and struggle and question, but we do it with a furious longing for God's love to be true.
Going back to those who are in orphanages or foster care, how will they truly know the love of God if Christian's don't love them into that love? We, as believers, need to stop offering the orphan our indifference and walk in obedience to God's call that we take care of the orphan, so that, through us, they see God's love. Only His love will change them. Only His love will heal them. Only God's relentless love, tenderness, and grace can reach these children who desperately need to know a love that the poet Rilke wrote about in a poem that was more of a prayer, "I yearn to be held / in the great hands of your heart -" The hands of that heart alone can heal them, give them peace, and hold them as Jesus held the children that came to him.
For those who do step out in adoption to reach these kids, know that in the midst of the whirlwind of chaos that is the normalcy of their lives that they will bring to yours, what 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 tells us is, "Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen."
If we aren't willing to show these kids the relentless love of God, how then will they ever know and believe?


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On a Close Encounter with Reality...
"I walked up to Pat Schroeder and said, 'If you think these pictures are disgusting, you ought to see it in real life.'"
--Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse who is credited with providing the lurid testimony that helped build Congresional support for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which President Clinton vetoed in April. Rep. Schroeder, Colorado Democrat, had objected to drawings of partial birth abortions being displayed on the House floor during the hearings. Washington Times, June 21, 1996. Page A4.
On Wanting to be Like... Bill?
"As president, I know better than most how tough things are for you now. I feel all your pain, and all the country's pain."
--Russian President Boris Yeltsin, in his 127-page platform. Washington Times, June 20, 1996. Page A6.
On Good Faith and Honor...
"The prior system of providing files to the White House relied on good faith and honor. Unfortunately, the FBI and I were victimized."
--FBI Director Louis Freeh, concerning the Clinton Administration's request and receipt of over 400 confidential files on Republicans. Washington Times, June 17, 1996. Page A20.
On Having Nothing to Hide...
"(Beverly) Bassett (Schaffer) is so [expletive] important. (I)f we [expletive] this up, we're done."
--Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes in a meeting January 7, 1994 concerning damage control for the Whitewater scandal. Ms. Schaffer was the Arkansas Securities Commissioner who oversaw the regulation of Madison Guaranty in the mid-1980s. An RTC criminal referral expressly referenced Ms. Schaffer, and her contact with Mrs. Clinton in connection with Mrs. Clinton's representation of Madison Guaranty. Washington Times, June 17, 1996. Page A11.
On the New Definition of Christian ...
"Most people in the White House did not know about Hillary's sessions with Houston. ...To some of the few who did, the meetings could trigger politically damaging comparisons to Nancy Reagan's use of astrology."
--Bob Woordward, in his new book The Choice. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as a therapeutic release but declined a personal adviser's suggestion that she address Jesus Christ, however, because it would be "too personal." Received June 23, 1996, via e-mail on the Promisekeeper listserver; originally from the CNN website.
On the Current State of Education ...
"Your job is . . . not to judge the rightness and wrongness of each student's answer. Let those determinations come from the class . . . "
--Matthew Robinson of Investor's Business Daily, reporting a new high in education theory: subjective mathematics. This excerpt is from a guide to teaching mathematics in the state of California. Received June 20, 1996, via e-mail from the Promiskeeper listserver.
On the Past State of Education ...
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being... It's up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future."
--Chester M. Pierce's keynote address to the 1972 Association for Childhood Education International, in an article by John Loeffler on Outcome Based Education. Received June 20, 1996, via e-mail from the PromiseKeeper listserver.
On Who Exactly Does Own Our Children ...
"Children...are not owned by their parents....the Christian fundamentalists who want the freedom to indoctrinate their children with religious education do not understand [that] the law that prevents them from legally teaching their kids prevents someone else from abusing theirs."
--Kathy Collins, former legal counsel to the Iowa Department of Education, in an article by John Loeffler on Outcome Based Education. Received June 20, 1996, via e-mail from the PromiseKeeper listserver.

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Promoting heart rate based healthcare sensor to stimulate prevention of work related musculoskeletal disorder and heart disease for elderly worker at workplace
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In this paper, we discussed the possibility and proposal to adapt heart rate based healthcare sensor at workplace to estimate working load for elderly worker by an holistic literature study. The occurrence of work related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) increase with age. Many older workers will have spent more time working in situations that are prone to lead to MSDs. There are predictive equations developed to estimate metabolic work rate (MWR) as a function of heart rate and physical characteristics. Besides, there are significant effects of mental stress on trapezius muscle activity and heart rate. On the other hand, little is known about occupational risks for coronary heart disease. A few specific toxins encountered occupationally are known to affect the heart, most prominently carbon disulfide, nitroglycerin, and carbon monoxide. However, the age group between 60 and 65 or 67 has been neglected from current standards. Therefore, this paper has promoted to protect those target users from mental stress and MSDs at workplace and promote heart health meanwhile improve the productivity of the companies
CitationZhang, B. [et al.]. Promoting heart rate based healthcare sensor to stimulate prevention of work related musculoskeletal disorder and heart disease for elderly worker at workplace. A: International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention. "10º Congreso internacional de prevención de riesgos laborales : Bilbao, 23, 24 y 25 de Mayo, 2012". Bilbao: 2012, p. 1-10.
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Unity is possible.
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- Dear friends, In our parish, the Jacobite priest in the
area concelebrated with Orthodox side priests for the
feast day evening prayers. They also entered altar and
also did incense prayers. They didn't consider any "aitham"
or untaouchability. I am hopeful that unity is possible in
- Shlomo,
Witnessing various falsehoods written in both the forums by misguided
people I felt it logical enough to reproduce the true version of the
Church History written by none other than the most Rev Malankara
Malpan Dr Kanyamparambil Achen.
I humbly implore this forum to kindly reproduce the article as it is,
so that the faithful could have a clear view about the happenings in
this church for the past 100 years. This article starts from page 173
of the book. However only select but important portions (relevant in
this context) have been written along with my very small observations
in the spare time I could afford because of my busy schedule.
I do not know if this book is available anymore but I sincerely
exhort every faithful to try to get at least a copy of it.
Aloho Ahmuch .
Dipu George
The Supreme Court judgment of 1958
In spite of unselfish services rendered by Dr P T Thomas and Adv K P
Abraham and P P John the Catholicos could win the suit on " certain
legal points". In spite of this adverse decision the prelates and
the faithful worked with determination for the perpetuation of their
Holy Faith.
But "peace at any cost " became the slogan of some influential
quarters. The following pages will show whether it was for the better
or for the bitter.
The Union of 1958
In His memorable Patriarchal Bull of 9th December 1958 His Holiness
after elaborating the advantages of union and peace ends the Kalpana
with the words that "We are pleased to accept Mar Baselios
Geevarghese as Catholicos for the sake of peace in the Malankara
This magnanimous gesture from the Holy Father was lauded by the whole
Christendom but the partisans of the Catholicos found it as a
submission of the Patriarch in the wake of the adverse judgment of
the Supreme Court. This is totally incorrect. It has already been
cited earlier that in His first Patriarchal Kalpana to the Malankara
Church dated 11th November, the Holy Father had clearly expressed His
prime desire for peace and that too it was at a time when the High
Court of Kerala had "DECIDED IN FAVOUR OF THE PATRIARCH'S PARTY".
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|06 Aug 2014
Google cannot connect
Hello Everyone I think I have some sort of malware / virus that I caught ( don't know how I caught it )
I was able to connect to all the web sites I visited on Monday and Tuesday of this week , and this morning I got the unable to connect ( with firefox and Chrome ) IE and Opera seems to be ok. I have ran every thing ( Malawarebytes, AVG, Outpost, MS malicious tool. ) I have on my PC and what every they found, which was not much, I removed.
Did a System restore, no luck. date and time is correct, ran Hijack this, and I notices these entries look suspect to me
4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-21-1340213506-2708032153-3723090383-1002\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'UpdatusUser')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-21-1340213506-2708032153-3723090383-1002\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'UpdatusUser')
I am at a loss as what to do next to remove the cannot connect to google , I do have a image that is 2 weeks old, but unless its absolutely necessary I am not ready to do that yet
and suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
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Uninstall Firefox and Chrome, cleanup the registry with Ccleaner, run full scans with MSE and MBAM delete anything that turns up. Re install Chrome and test, Firefox is not needed, don`t bother re installing it
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
Fiddler free web debugging proxy uninstall that software first!! Then try again.
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|06 Aug 2014
Hello again, Thanks AddRAM... will give it a shot and get back ..
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|06 Aug 2014
Hello again I was about to follow AddRAM and Kats instructions ( and I still am ) but I am now not getting my original cannot connect to google......... very strange.
Well I am going to remove firefox and chrome and run a full scan and CC the reg,
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www.fiddler2.com is in the screenshot of yours! Uninstall that stuff as told before
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|06 Aug 2014
Hello Again, I was never fond Of CC, what should I exclude if anything with the cleaning of the registry ?
Thanks again,
|My System Specs
|06 Aug 2014
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
The certificate error is refering to www.fiddler2.com . Uninstall that stuff and https will work again.
ccleaner has nothing to do with this problem.
So uninstall it. Or configure it correctly. http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/conf...s/firefoxhttps
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Hello again, I don't ever recall installing Fiddler.2. and I have no idea how it got there but I have Scanned my PC and it seem to be Clean now .
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Noticing many major sites have declined in their traffic for the 10 month period ending March 1st, 2012, has anyone else observed this? (greater than 40% - 50% loss)
Trying to decide if this has been due to the economy. Or, the change in type of serp results, ie; favoring site pages having the question-response type format.
What do you mean by "many major sites"? Which sites? How do you know they have declined in traffic?
Going by compete.com
I think there is no major update in these days in any search engine algorithm, even Google don't have any update. They are running panda very frequently and some small changes every week but no major change which can hit websites very badly. I think this is only happening with the your website, compete is also not a reliable source so we can't consider that data is accurate. You can Google trends for that and check if there is drop in all websites.
Also suffering from the same issue and still want to know where we are lacking. looking for some more fruitful answers.
So how does Compete.com know that "many major sites have declined in their traffic"? Do all the major site operators disclose their traffic figures to it? Or, is it just an estimate based on who-knows-what method?
My point is that you shouln't necessarily believe any figures unless the person stating them can demonstrate how they were obtained.
But even if your supposition is correct, it's got nothing to do with how your site or my site is doing. Nor is it connected with SEO or Google algorithm changes, since any change that pushes a site down would push another site up.
I doubt that the economy is a factor either. Was the economy (of the entire world) in overall better shape ten months ago than it was today?
Personally, I woulnd't worry about any of this.
I guess I could have been more direct.
What I'm getting at, is the trend toward returning results that model person-to-person interactions. The question answer format and its gain over the more "traditional' results. Looking at how forceful of a trend this is, and, whether it is simply in vogue or becoming a presiding factor. [I]With more sites being designed/redesigned to fit this need and given what I take to be, more of these type pages being returned in the top results.
Mentioning the economy, and if there is anything else, that might isolate this as a growing trend in and of itself.[/I]
I think Google is just making more adjustments to how people are linking. I'm finding having too many exact match anchor backlinks seem to be getting hit. Try mixing up more phrases with your backlinks and see what happens.


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One of the central themes of Tracking First's Adobe-specific solution is that it uses your own SAINT data to guide you in creating and classifying new codes. But what if your existing SAINT table is a mess? Or what if a renegade Marketer has created a variety of rogue codes that don't comply with your syntax or classification standards? In these cases, you'll need to do some SAINT table maintenance, to make sure that these problems don't bubble up to the reporting level.
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Doors 7:00 PM / Show 8:00 PM
This event is all ages
Lord Dying come from Portland, Oregon, a place over abundant with purveyors of the heavy riff. A region where the inhabitants are plagued with nerve and joint damage due to lack of sunlight. In a time where everyone is trying to out-sludge or out-doom each other Lord Dying gives something less than a fuck. They are a metal band with members of Black Elk , Portals, Le Force, and Cremains, who i
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ANDREW LEIBENGUTH/TIMES NEWS Bargain hunters can easily browse through a hundred large items for sale by the non-profit organization.
The expanded area of Life's Second Hand Treasures Thrift Store, a program for Access Services LIFE Program, is now open after two weeks of setup and preparation.
Access Services, a non-profit organization, purchased the Tamaqua Community Center, 223 Center Street, on January 1 to be used to store and sell appliances, furniture and any other large items. Currently, it is filled with over a hundred second hand items.
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Major migration projects make a test lab practically mandatory. A test environment allows you to try new things without risk; it also helps you write and test your migration plan.
It's best to build a lab that mimics your production environment as closely as possible. Seeing your company's directory structure in Active Directory (AD), for example, gives you a "been there, done that" confidence that no canned environment can duplicate.
Here's how to build a system that serves as the cornerstone of a lab network. You can use this lab for planning and practicing migrations from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 and/or from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000.
Your test server should have the capacity to run Windows 2000 AD and Exchange 2000. It also needs enough disk space to restore your Exchange directory and information store and a tape drive to perform the restore.
Follow these steps:
You now have a test server with your company's production Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.5 directories. Now that you've built the main server as a PDC, you can add other systems into the environment as required to simulate your production network.


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Schmidt produces athletic excellence throughout the school year
Specializing in one sport is not only the rave, but also the norm.
Yet, Meggie Schmidt is bucking that trend. The Edgerton High School senior is proving that there still is a place for the three-sport athlete. She�s also proving the naysayers wrong that insist that the �elite� high school athlete has to concentrate on just one sport.
Schmidt started for four years on Edgerton�s three-time Rock Valley Conference championship volleyball team, earning first-team all-conference honors the last three years. She�s in her fourth year as a starter on the basketball team, and will cap off a remarkable high school career this spring as a four-year starter in softball.
�The three-sport athlete is a dying breed,� Edgerton girls volleyball coach Jason Knott said. �You still have your three-sport athletes here and there, but none that have had the impact like Meggie has had. She is the only girl in the history of our volleyball program to rank in the top 10 in four different categories.
�When people ask me about Meggie, I tell them that she is not a volleyball, basketball or soffball player. She is an athlete. And a very special one that doesn�t come around too often.�
Schmidt is the point guard for a Crimson Tide basketball team that is 9-1 overall, including 6-0 in the Rock Valley North. Edgerton has never won a conference girls basketball title, but with the state�s No. 5 ranking in Division 3 and Schmidt leading the way, the drought could end for the Crimson Tide this season.
Schmidt�s father, Mike, is the girls basketball coach. He has gotten a first-hand look at his daughter�s assault on the school�s record book. Meggie is first all-time in steals, second in assists, third in points scored and fourth in rebounds.
�Meggie�s a �gamer,� � Mike said. �The better the competition, the better she plays.�
Meggie hopes to make a college choice soon. She wants to play basketball, with hopes of also being able to play volleyball.
�I�ve just told her to do whatever is the most fun for her,� Mike said. �And right now, that�s basketball.�
For now, Meggie is concentrating on Edgerton basketball. She is averaging 17 points a game and is trying hard to not look ahead to a Jan. 27 Rock Valley North showdown with unbeaten East Troy.
�I�ve learned to focus on one game at a time,� she said. �I�ve been on teams where we�ve looked past an opponent and we shouldn�t have.�
Edgerton softball coach Tony DeWar believes Meggie also could be a solid collegiate player in his sport. She has started and earned first-team honors at shortstop the last three years after starting in the outfield her freshman year. Schmidt has led Edgerton to three straight conference titles, including the 2008 championship that signaled the end of the original Rock Valley Conference.
�I know Meggie is going to go and play where her heart tells her to go,� DeWar said. �But softball-wise, she could certainly play at the next level.
�She is probably the best base runner I have ever seen, and she would be a terrific outfielder in college because of her speed and arm.�
Overall, Meggie Schmidt might be part of a �dying breed,� but she�s the poster child for the three-sport athlete.
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Well there may be a deep recession but this hasn't stopped SGV developers from putting up new buildings and restaurants from moving into them. Ruben's Kitchen has opened up in the new building at 8728 Valley Bl. While I had speculated pre-opening that this might be a Taiwanese restaurant (based on the installation of Taiwanese ice machines) it turns out to be more cafe style food, and with a limited menu at that. Food is very tasty, though.
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Installs everything you need to write serious Catalyst applications.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Catalyst/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/www/p5-Task-Catalyst/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-Task-Catalyst
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Help! How can I communicate with Amazon.co.uk???
Briefly: Can anyone let me have a telephone number or email address so that I can communicate with someone (a human being) with a bit of authority to discuss my problem with Amazon.co.uk? I have so far drawn a blank! I would be so grateful! Thanks!
Thanks Stuartli. I spent a whole day going down that route but I only get to post boxes. There is no intelligent Human Being at the other end that I can communicate with.
I have just beeen given a new delivery date for my order, the second delivery date. It is 28 to 42 days as of yesterday. I feel that I have been mucked around enough.( The first delivery date was 2 to 4 weeks from order.) I ordered in late February and now cannot expect a delivery before May.
Surely with 28 days extension of delivery date, Amazon have sufficient time to effect a cancellation. But no, my only recourse is to use my Statory Rights, at my expense for the return postage. Something is not right here. This should be looked at by the OFT. My heckles are rising!
I have given a lot of business to Amazon of late, and have spoken highly of them so far, but I am beginning to wonder.
I emailed them in Jan to complain about the delivery time of some books I bought for my bro's birthday. The estimated time was 3 - 4 days by quick post. When I checked later the actual time was 3 - 4 weeks! The way they hide the real delivery time I feel is sneaky. I said I wouldn't use them again and they replied 'they were having difficulties with the site which would soon be rectified'.
BTW it would have been quicker for me to ring a book store for them to post it.
Yeah and when you try and sell on their Marketplace they expect you to deliver the next day, one rule for them and another for us.
Never had any problems with amazon - quick and efficient.
You did originally ask for a phone or e-mail address...:-)
A few months ago I rang Directory Enquiries and got the number off them. I rang it and got put through to someone straight away. Unfortunately I can't find it! But if you try ringing DR you might be lucky.
I'm always having problems with Amazon as regards delivery, with constant delays. The latest problem has been a nightmare, with me ending up cancelling an order as I can't get in touch with DHL to deliver it.
I have used amazon for many thousands of pounds worth of book purchases.
Occasionally, things have gone wrong.
Thye have always sorted it out. Sometimes, I've even been given gift vouchers by way of compensation.
Anyway, try ringing them:
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I have found they normally respond to emails very quickly. I recently had a problem with business delivery taking a lot longer than it should have. Sent them a mail and in under 24hours got a mail back refunding the postage. Their delivery does seem to take a lot longer than it used to, but the service is always excellent.
The delivery service may take a little longer due to competition from other sources leading to a free delivery offer.
Clearly using this method amazon is not going to use the dearest, quickest service available...:-)
Thanks everyone. I got so depressed about this matter that I went and spent a whole day at my allotment to forget the world of the PC. Yes, I have had escellent service from Amazon uk when ordering books. I have recently bought just under £100 worth of books. No problems, excellent delivery times. I have praised them openly on forums.
However, my order of Creative Lab Webcam NX Pro has become a nightmare with postphonement after postphonement of despatch date. (It means they do not have the goods advertised or haven't negotiated the rights for distributing it.)
I thank "chOpper" for spelling out the phone and fax numbers, and will give it a try later. Strangely, all the other links I clicked on provided me a page of unrelated "Sponsored Link" with no useful information that I thought I would receive. I am not so sure that this new technology is likely to endear users to the link system newly introduced. It is a diversion and a time comsumer and another way of "pop-up advertising". Please provide a customer choice button toggle that we can switch this off by choice, if we prefer.
I have been reassured that I am quite normal and that this problem with Amazon has not been a figment of my insecurities. If Amazon behaves in this way they will certainly put off serious repeat customers.
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On Tuesday 11 July Tanunda Pines Golf Club hosted a Breast Cancer Golf Day.
The weather was fabulous, as was the overall enthusiasm for the goal of the day – to raise money for Breast Cancer Research.
The fully booked event featured 87 playing participants from a range of clubs from across the state.
The Team Winners on the day were Merrilyn Middleton, Cariolyn Mroczek and Susan Lewis from North Adelaide Golf Club.
94 people attended the lunch, and with the generous support of this event from businesses and individuals: raffles, silent auctions, and general donations Tanunda Pines were able to raise over $5000 for Breast Cancer Research $1500 more than last year's great result.
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Here is a dialogue between two friends about a holiday in Italy. Read the dialogue and practice with a friend to help improve your pronunciation. Test your understanding with the follow up quiz and check your answers with the answers after the quiz.

A Holiday in Italy

(two friends looking at pictures of a holiday)

Tim: Alan, do you want to see the pictures of my holiday in Italy?
Alan: Sure, what was it like?

Tim: Ah, the holiday was great! The food was great! The wine was great! The traffic was horrible!
Alan: Why was the traffic horrible?

Tim: Those Italians are crazy drivers! I don't want to think about it!
Alan: OK, OK, let's return to the good parts ...

Tim: Yes, so here's a picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Alan: Incredible!

Tim: It was raining that day, but it was still wonderful. We climbed to the top!
Alan: And what's this?

Tim: That's a photo of the Arno river, in Florence. That's the 'Ponte Vecchio' the old bridge.
Alan: What was Florence like?

Tim: It was very interesting. There were beautiful old medieval buildings in the city, impressive cathedrals and churches, and lots of wonderful museums.
Alan: How was your Italian?

Tim: My Italian wasn't very good. But many Italians speak English very well. I was impressed!
Alan: Oh, this one is nice.

Tim: Yes, that's a shot of a tasty pizza served by a beautiful Italian!
Alan: She is beautiful, isn't she?

Tim: Ah, yes, the land of fashion, food and wine. I'd recommend Italy anytime!
Alan: I'm so jealous...

Italian Vacation Quiz

1. What wasn't great about Italy?

 The wine
 The food
 The traffic

2. Which city did he not mention?

 Florence
 Pisa
 Rome

3. How did they get to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa?

 By elevator
 On foot
 By escalator

4. Why didn't he have problems with his poor Italian?

 All Italians speak perfect English.
 Many Italians speak English well.
 A few Italians speak English well.

5. Which river does the Ponte Vecchio cross?

 The Arno
 The Pisa
 The Tiger

Quiz Answers

The traffic - Tim says "The traffic was horrible!"

Rome - Tim doesn't speak about Rome, but mentions Pisa (the Leaning Tower of Pisa), and Florence (Ponte Vecchio).

On foot - Tim states that they climbed to the top of the Learning Tower of Pisa.

Many Italians speak English well, - Tim states "My Italian wasn't very good. But many Italians speak English very well. I was impressed!"

The Arno - The points out the Ponte Vecchio bridge when showing Alan a picture of Florence.

Discussion Questions

Continue practicing your English with a discussion about Italy and the Italian language. Here are some questions to get you started.

Have you ever been to Italy?

If yes, which cities did you visit?

What did you like best about Italy? What didn't you like? Why?

Do you know any words in Italian?

Does your language use any words from the Italian? For example, the words pizza and pasta  are Italian.

More Dialogue Practice - Includes level and target structures / language functions for each dialogue.


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This morning, I woke up with the realization that I am officially closer to 40 than I am to 30. After making this realization, I burst in to tears and ate an entire chocolate cake.
For the record, I'm just joking about the tears and the cake thing. Honestly, getting older has never really bothered me other than the general acknowledgement that everything is harder than it used to be from getting out of bed to getting over drinking a bottle of wine–the things that used to be nothing more than a second thought have become a reminder that the ol' body isn't as wirey as it used to be.
Back to the point, as I was laying there thinking about getting older, I started thinking about planning. With things getting harder to do, what can I do to make them easier and to live a happier, healthier, saner lifestyle. If you read this blog, or know me in person, you know I'm notorious for making plans to do something within the next year. This time, however, I'm thinking bigger. I'm thinking longer. I'm thinking of a 5 year plan.
Kidding! We all know I'm too pretty for jail. And by pretty I mean "Soft, lazy, and scared of the dark" for jail. Here's some things I'd like to accomplish in the next five years:
- Finish my Master's. This is the big one and actually isn't going to be the easiest to do in just five years. I start back to school in January and I'll be taking one Master's class per semester. If I take summer classes, it's going to take me approximately 100 years to complete the degree. Or 5. Math's never been my strong suit. When I'm 40, I want to be able to say "Whew, that's done" and be able to reflect back on how it's improved my career.
- Find a healthy lifestyle that I can stick with forever. Okay, maybe this is the big one. I've said this a million times, but I really do want to get and stay healthy. I am tired of the yo-yoing back and forth but I'm not getting better at dropping that game. I've started really thinking about what I want to do, the kind of life I want to live, and how I can handle situations that lead to negative choices without making the negative choices. Good news: I've come up with a plan. Bad news: I'm going to have to live in a cave and stop all communication with the outside world. This may impact #1.
Honestly, it's a lot of thinking without a lot of action. I feel like I'm on to something, though, because I normally dive in to things without a plan, especially when it comes to a healthy lifestyle. That works well for maybe two weeks, but it isn't a sustainable plan. With taking the time to plan and really think about things, I'm hoping that when I'm 40 I'll be a little less achy and a little more likely to fit in to my skinny jeans without throwing out a hip.
- Get my finances straight. I take it all back. This is definitely the big one. Finances cause me more stress and sleepless nights than either of the other two before. Really, #1 and #2 could probably be listed as "wants" whereas this one is a "need." Nothing would make me happier then if I could be out of debt by the time I'm 40. This isn't a realistic goal, though, and I know it. For one, I own a house. Yes, I have renters but that debt isn't going away until I'm almost 60 and this isn't a 21 year life plan. However, I can get my rotating debt under control. Knock a chunk out of the student loans, especially since I don't qualify for any more to cover my Master's degree.Pay off my car and credit cards. Buy a second home somewhere that it isn't cold and be a lady of luxury. The last part might not be a smart part of the plan, but you've got to have a little bit of a dream, right?
- Keep on being happy. For the past two years, I've been living a happy life. I'd like to keep doing that for the rest of my life. Yes, there are ups and downs, but the average of times swing towards happiness. I want to keep that trend going. Life is too short to be unhappy and miserable.
Believe it or not, that's it. This plan obviously needs fleshed out more but it's where I'm starting. Welcome, everyone, to my 35th year of life (plus one day). It's time to slay.


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PSAC levels masterful blow to feds over Phoenix pay system
The longer this lingers, the bigger the opportunity for political damage. Coast-guard ship crewmember Bill Ryan last week put a human face on the cost of the fiasco.
Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote, centre, pictured in May, has expressed her frustration with the Phoenix mess, but that hasn't muted PSAC. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright


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Betting company, Betway brought West Ham representatives to Ghana to promote Betway in Ghana.
Ghana vice-captain Andre Ayew and promising England star Ashley Fletcher were at the Lizzy's Sports Complex in Accra on Wednesday morning to interact with fans and journalists.
The visit of the West Ham United duo was facilitated by BETWAY, the title sponsors of the Premier League club, as part of efforts to strengthen their brand presence across Africa.
Ayew, who has been out injured since August, spoke about his journey towards recovery as well as his hopes of seeing his Black Stars teammates kick-off their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign with a win against Uganda in Tamale on Friday.
The 21-year-old former England U-20 striker Ashley, on the other hand, expressed his excitement about visiting Ghana and getting to connect with fans as well as the opportunity of experiencing a new culture.
Late in August, BETWAY agreed a contract extension with West Ham, constituting a significant upgrade from £6 million to £10 million per annum, making it the club's biggest ever sponsorship deal, as well as the 7th most lucrative deal in the Premier League's current scheme of affairs.
The event at the Lizzy's Sports Club featured a trial football game followed by a press conference and photo session. Well attended, it sported a sizeable crowd of football stakeholders, including former Ghana captain Stephen Appiah and 2015 Ghana Premier League-winning coach Bashiru Hayford.
Betway, who recently launched operations in Ghana to rival other bookies giants such as Supabets and Mybet.com, will also organize a coaching clinic for Ghana Premier League coaches at the Alisa Hotel tomorrow, Thursday October 6.


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18 Jul Plan finances in apartments for rent in Grand Prairie TX
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Planning the finances in apartments for rent in Grand Prairie TX will help saving money. Buyers opt for rental apartments to save money in order to buy a personal apartment or bungalow.
Rather the benefits attached with rental apartments can be used for planning the future finance. The rental apartments have fixed costs and do not require too much repairing.
To plan finance, the following steps must be followed-
- The budget that should be created must be simple and easy going. All the sources of income should be added together and finalize the monthly amount to be taken home. This will help in creating the household expenditure and budget.
- The monthly expenses must be determined. Begin with the rate of rental apartment. All the expenditures such as phone bills, electricity, Internet, utilities, cable services, car loan, insurance, groceries, student loans, discretionary expenditures such as clothes as well as entertainment must be written down. Expenses are not same every month. Henceforth the expenditure and budget must be controlled.
- Budget should be created. All the source of income and expenditure must be calculated. The money left at the end of month should be determined. The budget should be broken down so that at least 35 percent of the money for paying rent and different utilities, twenty percent for transportation, fifteen percent of expenditure in loans, debt and credits cards, twenty percent for personal expenditure such as entertainment, clothing and food. The remaining ten percent should be for either saving or investing according to individual choice.
- Calculation must be done against the thirty five percent for rent and its utilities. If the rental utilities are less than thirty five percent, then the extra amount can be added to saving per month. It may also be saved yearly and can be used for paying debts and loans. However if the amount crosses the thirty five percent then the discretionary expenditures such entertainment must be cut down to balance the expenditure. Nonetheless the amount for paying the debts and loans should not be reduced at any cost. This is because if it is reduced, then the burden will increase simultaneously.
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If you're anything like me, you're always on the hunt for a great television show to watch. Well, look no further! ABC's "Revenge" is definitely the series to be watching right now. The second season premiered on Sep 30 and there is already so much going on.
"Revenge" is about a girl, Amanda Clarke, who comes back to her old home in the Hamptons under a new alias, Emily Thorne. She has come back after many years in order to seek revenge on the people who caused her father to be wrongfully imprisoned. She gets close to the different residents in her community in an attempt to just knock them down. She wants everyone to pay for what her and her family had to go through.
If you like "Pretty Little Liars," you'll love "Revenge!" You thought the mysterious "A" was bad? Wait till you meet Emily Thorne, the main character on the hit show. She could easily give "A" or the whole A-Team a run for their money. The only difference, though, is that on this show we're actually rooting for Emily. We want her to get revenge on everybody who wronged her and her family and we want to see her to succeed.
This show has a bit of something for everybody. There is mystery, suspense, romance, action and even a bit of comedy. It'll have you on the edge of your seats the entire hour it's on television. Plus, I mean, look at the cast; they're all beautiful. The fantastic eye candy is just one of the many perks of this show!
You can catch up with season one and the first few episodes of the second season on Netflix or online! Make sure you tune into "Revenge" Sunday nights at 9/8c on ABC! Are you going to watch? Do you already watch? Let us know what you think!


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Someone in the office here recalls once being told that (I think this is how it went) when a While loop is executing in OptoScript, it takes up the processor until completion of the loop, where a For loop would be allowed to be split up and let other charts nab some processor time as well, even if it hadn't completed yet.
Is this true?
Also, is there any way to break out of a For loop?
Short answers: No, that's not true. Use a while loop if you want to "break out."
Longer answer:You don't have to worry about one chart blocking other charts from running. The processor time is shared equally between each of your charts (and the "host task") in turn.
However, if you have a lot of charts running, that means they each have a smaller slice of the pie, and that's why it's a good idea to add an appropriate delay in any looping logic (using the "DelaySec" or "DelayMsec" Timing command), BECAUSE any charts in a "delay" give up their slice until that delay is over.
Are you looping to check the temperature? No need to do that every 1 ms, maybe every 10 seconds or so. Even better, use a variable for these (like "long_delay" or "medium_delay" or "short_delay"). That way, if you're troubleshooting logic and don't want to wait for that whole "long_delay" value, you can temporarily modify it during your debugging.
More info on time-slicing, etc. in doc 1779, our PAC Project System Performance tech note.
I hope that helps! Happy looping.


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"Metaphase". The coordinates for this image are from a FractInt PAR file by Paul Derbyshire, dated 14 Mar 1996, and the title is his. It was incredibly clever of him to locate something like this, especially considering the hardware that was available in the early/mid-90's.
This is one of my first deep zoom images. I have since created some animations that zoom into this location.
The top thumbnail links to the earliest image (Jan 14, 2002) of this location that I can find on my system, which is rather small. The bottom thumbnail links to a high-resolution 2000x1600 image from April 2004. The size of the images is 5.0e-30.
The bottom image does not use the exact coordinates form the original PAR file, but rather is at a slightly different location. Still, it looks essentially identical to the image at the original coordinates.
|Continuing to zoom in to the Metaphase structure above. The exact magnification is unknown.
|My first image deep zooming into a mini-brot on the zero axis. This area is a rich source of relatively easy deep zooms since the iteration count tends to remain fairly low as you zoom in compared to other areas in the set. I think the "40a" in the title refers to E40 being the magnification, although I don't have any documentation to confirm this. The "prec6" in the title means that 160 bits were available, which means it must be less than E48 for sure.
|Zoom41 must refer to the size of the image being E41. This is dated Jan 15, 2002 and is also a mini-brot on the zero axis. It reminds me of the "horizontal hold" image that was generated long ago by the real pioneers of deep zoom imaging of the Mandelbrot set, although this image is nowhere near that level of zooming.
|My first deep zoom into the main cusp, an area which turned out to be my favorite for many years, so much so that it is going to get its own whole page soon. There is incredible richness of structure here and the spirals and pods always manage to arrange themselves in the most amazing patterns. Unfortunately, the iteration counts go up extremely fast in this area and it is very difficult to generate animations here.
|Jan 20, 2002. This image is a deep zoom to 1.9e-15 in the cusp. It's only interesting to me because it's the first one where the BMP file name matches the historical log file name, so I can be sure I know where it is and what its zoom factor is. It's pretty but not spectacular. This is from the period where I was in love with the RGB-violet color palette.
|Finally breaking away from the RGB palette. Another image from the cusp, 6e-15 deep zoom.
|Jan 20, 2002. The deepest zoom up to this point in the past. The size is 4.6e-45.
|Jan 23, 2002.I have no idea anymore why this was called "test image", but you have to love the distance estimator's cool dwell bands. You can still see the bright banding from the linear color palette interpolation. The location and zoom of this image were not recorded.
|Feb 9, 2002. Three different colorings of a modest deep zoom to
These images are some of my favorite. Consider each of the tiny little barely-visible spirals around the mini-brot in the center. Each of them has thousands of is its own little spirals and M-sets, going on deeper and deeper forever. It's sometimes easy to ignore the staggering magnitude of the depth of zooms of these images, but this one always makes me just pause and contemplate the profound, awesome magnitude of this object. It also makes me think how little of it has really been explored. What's in those arms? How different is one arm from another? How do the images in the green area differ from the images in the pink area? This could go on forever, and the same mini-brots keep appearing, with an almost psychotic relentlessness. And this all comes from that one simple little quadratic polynomial. It's so simple that it is probably universal--if there is life on other planets, or if life evolves in another Universe, it is almost certain they will discover exactly these same images.
|Mar 24, 2008
Size: 1.0e-99
Something I found along the way to developing an extreme deep zoom that will be published at some point. I just love the colors here. This is at the center of the 1e-98 image below.
|Mar 24, 2008
Size: 1e-98
1000x1000 (442 KB JPG)
This is me attempting to recreate an effect similar to the famous (yes, it is famous) "horizontal hold" effect that was seen with some serious deep zooms using FractInt. They were actually realized at E-1500, which was an amazing accomplishment on a 486(!!). I'm not going to do a zoom that deep any time soon, but this gives a rough approximation. Can you imagine if you saw this come out of your software after spending days writing your new high-precision math function? You'd have to be pretty confident to say it was working right! This looks nothing like the swirls and spirals that the Mandelbrot set usually produces.
If you look really closely you will see the 1e-99 image above in the center of this image.
|Mar 23, 2008
Size: 3.3e-66
|Mar 24, 2008
On the way to the 1e-98 horizontal-hold image above, taken in the cusp of a mini-brot
|Mar 24, 2008
Related to the horizontal-hold images, but taken near the antenna of the mini-brot in the images above.
|Mar 22, 2008
Size: 7e-100
I have completely forgotten why I made this. Probably it is related to the upcoming Centanimus project since it looks a lot like its end point.
|Mar 23, 2008
A test of my program after recompiling with a new maximum high-precision limit of 480 bits (144.5 digits). This is zoomed in to the fixed point at (0,1). No matter how close you get to this point, it always looks the same, although, believe it or not, as you zoom in, the fiber actually rotates around the point because the fiber is actually a spiral. See the animations E100.wmv and ZeroOne.wmv.
|Mar 23, 2008
More testing, this time zooming to the fixed point at (-2,0), the tip of the antenna (utter west). As with (0,1), this point looks exactly the same no matter how close you zoom in.
|One of my first really impressive images with a great color palette. I printed this one to 8x10 photo paper and framed it. I have lost the record of where this is located, but it's clearly somewhere in the main set's cusp.
|Feb 8, 2002
Size: 7.99e-12
The same image with two different colorings. These are both high-resolution images at the highest zoom possible with standard-precision math. The blue one also got printed to 8x10 and framed.
|Feb 20, 2002
Another nice image with no record of where it is from, but probably you could figure it out based on how it looks.
|Apr 6, 2002.
|Nov 19, 2002.
I didn't record where this was, but it's probably not a deep zoom. It's pretty but could use some anti-aliasing.
|Nov 21, 2002.
This is really one of my favorite. Unfortunately, the raw data is not in my history folder and I don't know exactly where the image is located, but again it is somewhere in the cusp of the main set and doesn't seem to be a deep zoom.
|Jan 27, 2003
Size: 2.81e-12
Another heavily anti-aliased zoom in the cusp of the main set. The size is right at the borderline of the maximum zoom that can be drawn with native floating point precision at this resolution.
|Sep 3, 2004
Size: 3.71e-31
|Jun 6, 2005
Size = 9.71e-28
|Aug 6, 2006
Size: 3.46e-18
|May 6, 2007
Size: 4.04e-32
|Jun 19, 2007
This is a low-precision zoom to an area in the western antenna using the distance estimator drawing method. Is this gorgeous or what? Definitely worth 7.2 million pixels.
Size: 4.8e-11
I made a quick (36 seconds) animation into this location.
320x240 15 fps
|Sea Horse valley example. This was done with
25X oversampling for extreme anti-aliasing to produce a very
high-quality, noise-free image.
Click here for an image of an actual seahorse (public domain image by NOAA).
The genus name "hippocampus" was adopted by neuroanatomists to refer to an area of the brain that has a similar spiral shape.
|The earliest dated saved image I can identify
from my Mandelbrot set explorer, dated December 8, 2001.
I know there are earlier images, but I can't be sure about the dates on some of them. For many of the images from this time, I forgot to save the image location, so I don't know exactly where in the set they are from. This image is nice, but not extraordinarily interesting. It's just the earliest one I can definitively date.
|This is another very early image from Dec 16, 2001, demonstrating the distance estimator method of drawing. I like the way the DE highlights the dwell bands and gives a really cool gradient effect.
|This image demonstrates how bad aliasing can get when drawing certain regions of the Mandelbrot set. Compare this with the next image, which was drawn with aggressive anti-aliasing.
|This image is the same as the one above, but has anti-aliasing enabled. Anti-aliasing is essentially subdividing each pixel into smaller regions, calculating a count value in each region, and averaging them together. This smoothes out the bright spots in many images but dramatically increases the time required to draw the image.
|A small portion of a fibrous Julia set drawn with the distance estimator method. This image was created before I implemented a cubic spline interpolation for the color palette, and you can see bright bands where the linear interpolation segments meet. One of my favorite effects is using the DE method with a really saturated palette like this one, which is RGB-yellow-white.
|Dec 18, 2001. One of my favorite earlier images, and, at the time, one of the most impressive I had found, which is what led to the title "wow". The AA5 in the title refers to 5x5 anti-aliasing, which means each pixel is an average of a 5x5 subpixel grid. That is why this image is so incredibly smooth and free of aliasing.
|This is a moderately close view of the cusp of the Mandelbrot set, which is the part off to the right that folds in and actually extends all the way to (0,0) in the complex number plane. The top and bottom are actually in the set, and the narrow strip in the middle is the cusp extending inwards. This was drawn on Dec 18, 2001, way before I had high-precision math implemented, so it can't be more than E11 or E12 in magnification. Still, the flatness of the cusp is impressive.
|Dec 20, 2001.
A "pod of doom". These were one of my favorite structures to find for a while in late 2001.
|This was an attempt at recreating the "wow" image from above. It's not really high-precision, but it's from this time period in the past. I still don't know exactly where this is from since I consistently failed to document what I was doing back then.
|Feb 13, 2002
I enjoyed finding these things for a while. This kind of effect is seen when you zoom into something near the "antenna" in the west part of a set embedded within another region.
Note on size and magnification: The sizes here (and on the Animations page) are the actual size of the smallest dimension of the image (usually vertically) in the complex number plane. Some programs describe image sizes by "magnification" which is usually related to the reciprocal of the image size. A size of, say, 1E-100 corresponds to a magnification of 1E+100. Some software uses the half-height of the image, so there may be an additional factor of two involved in conversion.