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Jones calls for Senate action following House approval of Medicaid expansion incentives
U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Ala., today called for the U.S. Senate to take action on his legislation to incentivize Alabama and other non-expansion states to expand Medicaid. Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a broad package to expand access to quality, affordable health care. Senator Jones' States Achieving Medicaid Expansion (SAME) Act was included in the House-approved legislation, and would provide the same federal reimbursement to states that expand today as those that chose to expand at the first opportunity.
"As more folks lose their employer-sponsored health care in Alabama amid the current economic and health crisis, the need to expand Medicaid is growing more urgent by the day. While Alabama has refused to take this common-sense step for years, and denied over 340,000 people access to health care, I believe states should still get a fair deal if they expand today. My legislation would ensure late-expanding states get the same level of federal reimbursement funding as those that took this step years ago. The Senate needs to follow the House's lead in approving these incentives, which will help shore up Alabama's struggling hospitals, create 30,000 good new jobs in our state, and bring quality health care to people who need it," said Senator Jones, a member of the Senate Health Committee.
The Alabama Hospital Association (ALAHA) estimates that expanding Medicaid in Alabama would generate an $11.4 billion economic impact and $715 million in additional state and local taxes. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, ALAHA had estimated that 88-percent of Alabama hospitals were operating in the red. Since 2011, when federal support for Medicaid expansion was first available, 14 Alabama hospitals have closed their doors, eight of which were in rural areas.
Rogers disappointed Democrats have not offered a Homeland Security reauthorization
Congressman Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, wrote an editorial in the Washington Examiner saying that he is disappointed but not surprised that Democrats have yet to offer a reauthorization package for the Department of Homeland Security.
"It's been over 1,100 days since the last Department of Homeland Security authorization bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives," Rogers said. "And as we approach the end of the 116th Congress, the chances grow thin of the majority introducing legislation to provide the Department of Homeland Security with the resources and authorities it needs to stop the growing threats to our homeland."
"I wish I could say I'm surprised Democrats have yet to offer a reauthorization package," Rogers wrote. "However, this is the party that started out this Congress with calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
Rogers slammed House Democrats for what he claimed is a trend of becoming increasingly anti-law enforcement and ignoring "violent mobs" that have been rioting in many major cities.
"This is the party that last year called the unprecedented migrant surge at the Southwest border a 'Fake Emergency,' and took half a year to vote on critical humanitarian funding to address the crisis," Rogers said. "This is the party that turned a blind eye as violent mobs took over cities across our country. It's reached the point that now some on the left are calling for the abolition of DHS and the defunding of our police."
Rogers said that while Democrats have done nothing, House Republicans have introduced a two-year reauthorization bill in The Keep America Secure Act.
Rogers said that The Keep America Secure Act will provide DHS with the resources and authorities that the department needs to stay ahead of evolving threats and position DHS to be successful on new battlegrounds.
Rogers is the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee and a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee
Rogers represents Alabama's 3rd Congressional District. He is seeking his tenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives in this Nov. 3's general election. Adia Winfrey is the Democratic challenger.
Aderholt says low Census response rate will come with big consequences for Alabama
Alabama trails the nation in 2020 Census response and that matters, says Congressman Robert Aderholt, R-Alabama, in an email to his 4th Congressional District constituents.
"In more ways than we could possibly name, Alabama is the best state in the nation," Aderholt said. "However, when it comes to the 2020 Census, we are sitting in last place in the country. Currently 81.5% of Alabama households have been counted, but that is nearly 10% less than the national count of 90.1%. I think we can do better, so let's make Alabama count."
"Why it Matters. One of the biggest questions asked every decade when the Census comes up is: why does it matter?" Aderholt said. "This is a great question, and I understand why it gets asked so often. So, I want to give you a few different answers that are grounded in facts. Federal Funds: It is estimated that per 100 people not counted in the Census, roughly $1.2 million dollars of federal funding is lost for your community. Here are just a few of the many items that would have funding severely cut due to a lack of Census responses: Schools, roads, hospitals, block grants, vocational education, and fire departments. These are all crucial aspects of living in a community, and they are all at risk of funding decreases.
"Jobs: Census numbers are used by both public and private organizations to determine where to build and bring business. This means that employment opportunities and economic development are at stake when it comes to the Census. This aspect is often overlooked, but it may just be the most consequential of them all. Representation in Congress: You probably know this one already, but Congressional districts are based on population.
"This means that the more people that are counted in your state the more representation your state has in the House of Representatives. For Alabama, we are in danger of losing a Congressional seat, so our count this year matters a great deal. Civil Rights: As a matter of fact, certain programs based around civil rights issues are directly correlated to the Census. Things like compliance with the National Voting Rights Act of 1965, housing, employment, and education anti-discrimination laws are monitored and enforced using the population count from the Census."
Go to my2020census.gov and follow the instructions on screen, or you can call 844-330-2020.
"I would encourage you all to fill yours out today and make Alabama count for the next decade," Aderholt said. 'If you have already completed your Census, please tell your friends and family to fills theirs out and spread the word."
Aderholt explained that the Census first started in 1790 and was conducted by Thomas Jefferson. The nation then had a population of just 3,929,214, compared to roughly 328 million today.
"From 1790 to 1879, the Census was counted by Federal Marshals going door-to-door across the country," Aderholt explained. "Back then they would show up to your house on horseback and fill out the numbers on parchment or animal skin. Although this sounds pretty cool to me, I am sure glad we can do it on our phones now. The Census started out with only 6 questions, then rose to 34 in 1920, but has settled back down to an even 10 the past couple decades."
The state of Alabama has seven congressional districts currently, but it appears that the state is likely to lose at least one, given the state's modest growth over the last decade and the people of Alabama's awful Census response rate.
Aderholt is in his 12th term representing Alabama's 4th Congressional District. He faces a general election challenge from Democratic candidate Rick Neighbors.
Aderholt supports the Republican Commitment to America plan
Congressman Robert Aderholt, R-Alabama, released a statement this week in support of the Republican Commitment to America, a plan put forth by House Republicans if the voters will give them control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming elections.
"The future of our country will be determined in the next few months," Aderholt said, "Make no mistake about it, what we do right now will have a ripple effect for many years to come. That's why I fully support and endorse the Commitment to America, because the clear path toward a bright future is paved with a restoration of our way of life, the rebuilding of the greatest economy in history, and a renewal of the American Dream."
"First and foremost, we need to restore our way of life," Aderholt said. "We are well on the way to defeating the virus and deploying a vaccine. This also means we need to stop the rioting, defend the police, and help people feel safe again. Second, we must restore what was once the greatest economy the world has ever seen. We will support local businesses and spur activities to create new jobs. And it's time for us to bring manufacturing back to America and hold China accountable for their unfair trade practices, their theft of intellectual property, and their crackdown on human rights. Finally, we must renew the American Dream and ensure it returns to the pedestal it belongs on. This starts by giving every family a choice in where to send their kids to school, taking care of and hiring our veterans, and promoting opportunities for workforce development."
"This Commitment to America is the right path to take as a country, and I would encourage my colleagues across the aisle to work with us as we enter the final stretch of 2020," Aderholt said. "Restoring, rebuilding, and renewing our country is critically important right now, so let's get to work."
"We are announcing our Commitment to America with three specific objectives: restore our way of life, rebuild the greatest economy in history, and renew the American dream," said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California.
"To rebuild our economy, we will commit to get America working again and add 10 million new jobs through proven, pro-growth policies," McCarthy said. "That starts with $200 billion in forgivable loans to local businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program. This program, which I call our Marshall Plan for Main Street, has already saved 51 million jobs and can still save more. Democrats' continued refusal to pass more relief over politics will only take our economy backward."
"Without question, we must and we will defeat COVID-19 and keep America healthy," McCarthy said. "To restore our way of life, we will work to triple rapid testing nationwide, deliver a vaccine that is safe, effective, and available by the end of the year, protect individuals with pre-existing conditions, and invest in therapeutics while lowering drug prices across the board."
"Following the recommendations of the China Task Force that House Republicans established last spring, we will increase U.S. manufacturing and build supply chain resiliency through full expensing on a permanent basis for all U.S. investment and restoration of domestic production tax credits," McCarthy said. "While Democrats ignore the threat from China, Republicans will take it head on."
After the COVID-19 crisis is over "many communities will still be gripped by unrest that continues to lead to violence," McCarthy wrote. "Without respect for public safety, all the pro-growth policies in the world won't put America back on her feet. We must ensure the security and safety of all communities. That means improving our police forces, not defunding them. We will increase funding for law enforcement by $1.75 billion for better police training, community policing, and equipment, including 500,000 more body cameras on the streets."
"To renew the American Dream, we will ensure every child in every neighborhood can go to the school that is best for them, while directing millions towards high-quality STEM education to prepare our kids for the jobs of tomorrow," McCarthy said in support of expanding school choice. "At the same time, we will promote opportunities for career and technical education and workforce development for any American looking to earn a promotion or pursue a meaningful new career, especially our nation's veterans."
Aderholt is in his 12th term representing Alabama's 4th Congressional District. He faces a challenge this year from Democratic nominee Rick Neighbors.
Sen. Doug Jones: "I voted no because the American people deserve better"
"If we let this pass, there would never be another opportunity to do more, to get help to the people who need it," Jones said. "That's why I voted no. I voted no because the American workers deserve better."
Calling it a "political ploy" by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Alabama Sen. Doug Jones joined his Democratic Party colleagues on Thursday in voting against a slimmed down COVID-relief bill that did little to address average workers' problems with the pandemic.
"Mitch McConnell doesn't care about the American people, he doesn't understand the American worker," Jones said. "This was a stunt. He wants partisan agreement, not a bipartisan bill to help people who are hurting."
Jones said that McConnell also introduced a scaled-down bill during the previous round of COVID-relief negotiations, which Democrats also defeated. After that defeat, McConnell worked with Democrats and a bipartisan bill passed the Senate with overwhelming support from both parties.
"Alabama would have lost about $2 billion had I voted for the scaled down version last time," Jones said. "That wasn't a good bill for the people and this one wasn't either."
Jones also pushed back on the notion that Democrats had "blocked" a COVID-19 relief bill, pointing out that House Democrats had passed an expansive relief bill before the summer break in July.
"There's no reason we couldn't have used that bill, which wasn't a perfect bill, as a starting point," Jones said. "Everyone knew this virus was going to be around through the summer, through the fall. We knew it. I asked for us not to leave, to get this done (before the break). We didn't. And now we come back and McConnell has this bill that's less than half of what he proposed before the break, because that's all he can get his people to agree on. It's not good enough."
McConnell's slimmed down relief bill didn't include rent protection to prevent those who are out of work because of the virus from being evicted (and to provide aid to landlords). It also didn't include stimulus payments to Americans out of work or any relief to state or local governments, which are starting to lay off workers. It also trimmed by two-thirds the extended unemployment benefits for Americans out of work, taking the federal payments from $600 to $200.
Jones pointed out that the bill did include, oddly, a $5 billion gift to parents who send their kids to private schools. That money, he said, was included to win Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's vote.
"We have too many people hurting right now to play these games," Jones said. "Too many good people are out of work and need our help. We owe it to them to do better. If we let this pass, there would never be another opportunity to do more, to get help to the people who need it. That's why I voted no. I voted no because the American workers deserve better."

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By Morgan Jarvis
Just three weeks ago, I witnessed (and subsequently wrote about) a historic moment in football for the deep south – a women's national league victory for the first time in more than four years. Southern United's 3-2 win over Auckland Football Federation at Forsyth Barr had it all, it was a classic 'David vs Goliath' battle. But no-one ever pays much attention to the struggle David must have faced trying to pick himself up the following week after causing the greatest of upsets.
After the ultimate high of beating Auckland in round one, Southern United travelled to Palmerston North and crashed back down to earth somewhat after a 3-1 defeat to Central. Understandably, it was always going to be tough to back up seven days after the emotional rollercoaster in Dunedin.
Last weekend, Southern hosted WaiBOP and the side was confident of bouncing back with another win. Despite dominating possession and creating enough chances to win, the team was gutted with a goalless draw. As coach Terry Parle said afterwards, "we're disappointed with the draw, purely on the basis we were the dominant team today, and we just lacked that clinical finishing up front. But on the positive side of that, I've just asked the girls, this time last year, the year before, we'd have been happy with a point. That's the level of progress we're making with this team and I'm happy with that."
Not being able to pick up a win against Central and WaiBOP had probably deflated the team a little, and had seemingly dashed any realistic hopes of making the playoffs knowing that the final four weeks of the league featured games against Canterbury United Pride, Northern Football Federation, Central, and of course the dreaded bye. The team travelled up to Christchurch to face the defending champion Pride on Sunday as heavy underdogs once again.
The match was only a few minutes old though when the visitors tore up the script. Defender Mikaela Hunt stepped up and won a strong challenge, before finding midfielder Shontelle Smith free in the centre circle. Smith deftly timed a through-ball to Lara Wall to absolute perfection, the striker beating the offside trap by the barest of margins. Clean through on goal, the youngster slid a left-footed shot with incredible composure calmly past the Pride keeper Briar Guyan. Seven minutes in, and Southern had a shock lead!
Lara Wall's opening goal for Southern United vs Canterbury United Pride
Wall's opening goal was good, but her second was stunning. This time it was Kirsty Hayr who was strong in the tackle and then slipped it to Ellie Isaac in space. Isaac unleashed Wall, who for a moment looked like she was going to break free in identical fashion to her opener. Instead, she cut back onto her right foot 25 yards out, and smashed a powerful, curling effort past a helpless Guyan and into the top-right corner – it was simply a sublime goal!
Lara Wall's brilliant second goal for Southern United
The Pride finally got themselves back into the game with 25 minutes left on the clock, and the finish rivalled Wall's second goal in quality. Parle has drilled into his Southern side an intent to confidently play the ball out from the back, but on this occasion, an errant pass was latched onto by Canterbury substitute Macey Fraser. Fraser belted a dipping shot from almost 30 yards out, leaving Nicol with no chance. Fantastic stuff!
Not to be outdone, Canterbury United Pride's Macey Fraser scored a superb goal
Both teams continued to have chances for the remainder of the match. Southern keeper Tessa Nicol made a handful of brave saves, and both defences were scrambling brilliantly. Hayr could have sealed the win late on with a header from close range that just flew over the bar. Then, as the game entered stoppage time, the Pride were piling on the pressure. But when the fulltime whistle blew, Southern United had held on for an unbelievable 2-1 victory over last year's champions.
I've mentioned previously about the incredible spirit that's developing in our National Women's League team. It was fantastic to be able to watch the team play so confidently against such an outstanding opponent… particularly as I wasn't even at English Park! I was able to watch the entire match (well, bar a few minutes where the stream appeared to drop out) live from the comfort of my office/mancave at home in Dunedin!
Bravo to the Canterbury United Pride and Mainland Football for streaming the match live on Youtube. Sure, it's single camera, and it may not come close to the production values that our friends at Sky Sports can provide – but, you know what? That doesn't really matter when you're caught up in the match. The quality is surprisingly good (quite a lot better than the quality of the above videos that I snipped from the stream), and the Youtube platform is easy to use and familiar.
It's not just Canterbury that has embraced live streaming of matches – I was able to watch our match in Palmerston North a couple of weeks ago thanks to the team at Central Football – it wasn't quite as polished as Canterbury's effort, but it was still amazing to be able to watch it live from 800km away. I could have been on the other side of the world and yet still able to watch my hometown team live!
NZ Futsal has also been doing a great job of streaming Futsal National League matches from various venues across the country. Again, it's a relatively simple setup, but it works well. Yesterday, I was watching National Women's League and the Futsal National League simultaneously on two screens!
Down here at Southern United, we pride ourselves on the effort we put into our social media and online presence, but I suddenly feel like we've got some catching up to do off the pitch in this regard, or else we'll be left behind!
I know there's a lot of conjecture about the recording & viewing rights of the ISPS Handa Premiership and NZ Football's agreement with Sky TV. Personally, I'm becoming a strong advocate for a dream scenario where all national league clubs are live streaming all matches themselves – although I'm realistic enough to admit that logistically it's still a fair way from being able to provide a service that's slick enough to please everybody.
So instead of bickering over that, it's great to see Federations and clubs focussing on the positives and presenting what they are allowed to show. Successful live streaming of National Women's League matches can prove to NZ Football that they should seriously consider the potential of embracing the platform across all competitions.
This is also a superb opportunity for the National Women's League to get a jump-start on the men's Premiership and nab the ever-growing segment of the audience that doesn't have access to Sky TV, but is desperately keen to watch high-quality football.
Even as interest in the women's game in this country grows rapidly, it's hard to see a time where the National Women's League is going to be broadcast on primetime TV – so let's credit the fine folks out there making it possible to watch these games from the comfort of our own homes.
Because, within four hours immediately after the shot had nestled in the back of the net, a short video of Lara Wall's second goal had received more than 2,000 views across the Southern United Facebook and Twitter accounts. Two thousand people had the opportunity to see a goal that would have otherwise only been witnessed by the players and crowd present at English Park. That's the kind of exposure that women's football in this country couldn't have even imagined just a few short years ago!
[Morgan Jarvis is a football fan & writer based in Dunedin. He is Southern United's Media Manager and has been a regular contributor to the Otago Daily Times newspaper and other local football publications. You can find him on twitter via @zealmanNZ]
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Can we regard those things which cause pain and suffering as beautiful?
Some of the beasties represented here have been too closely associated with my family for comfort over the years but the enhanced imagery by medical illustrators makes these deadly harbingers of disease fascinating rather than frightening.
My daughter was diagnosed with the fairy floss like Borrelia burgdorferi after a trip to Germany last year and had to undergo some serious chemo to remove it after oral antibiotics didn't work.
She did get asked to go on the science show, Catalyst, recently which was a positive experience. Luckily she is now looking so much better, but other people with Lyme-like symptoms in Australia often don't fare so well.
The official line in Australia is that the species of spirochete (the group of bacteria) which cause Lyme disease isn't found here so those people who have been bitten by ticks and suffer Lyme-like symptoms are not given any particular treatment and diagnostic tests for Borrelia are also very problematic. At least Catalyst gave the subject a good scientific airing.
The divine purple, fluffy bobbles below crept into my son's bloodstream shortly after he was born and resulted in meningitis when he was about 3 weeks old. Miraculously he had no major legacy except a problem where the bug landed in a joint in his arm and nuked the growth plate, meaning he had to have surgery a couple of years ago. I can look on it now with intrigue rather than loathing, but only because we were incredibly lucky.
The floaty, jellyfish like space ships below are a traveller's friend – not. I have had and 'diagnosed' giardia in most people based on their symptoms because the effect of the protozoa can be very up and down. The image on the bottom left shows how the beady parasite clamps onto the small intestine sucks up its juices and then moves on to the next spot. The illustrator enhanced picture on the top left shows the underneath sucker in a deep green. No wonder it gives you stomach cramps and makes you feel generally awful.
On the bottom right, the deliciously curling pink of Campylobacter is another little gut surprise you don't want. Luckily I haven't had this but kids, mums and dads – if you go to a farm and play with lovely little lambs, remember to wash your hands before you eat lunch!
Luckily I also haven't had any encounter with nature's strange beauty shown in the next couple of images. Ebola virus, seen here engulfing a cell in swirls of green and blue in a demonstration of a suffocating virulence. Then there are the apparently benign little lime clumps of Yersinia pestis (aka The Plague) clinging to the deep purple parts of a flea.
Either of these shimmering pathogens are definitely worth staying as far away from as you can.
Just to balance out the fear you might have that these bugs are out there and there is little we can do – here are some uplifting images of the body taking a stand in your defense!
The bright yellow globes of Staphylococcus aureus, (and not just any Staph but the nasty MRSA) and the pink lollypop Klebsiella are both about to be gobbled up by a lovely purple / blue neutrophil – one of our super white blood cells.
The enhanced visualisation of bacteria and viruses through electron microscopy is the true meeting of art and science, but the beauty we might choose to see is nature's rather than any projection by the artist.
The medical illustrator's only aim in enhancing colour or shape, texture and form, is to represent with clarity the data made known through measurement in a way that can enable visualisation to build understanding of the world around us and beyond.
In some cases the illustrator may have to build a model based on understood data and information. In other cases there is visual data – such as the electron microscopy images shown here which provide the artist with a base image in grey shade. The artist then enhances through colour and definition in a way which allow the researcher greater insight to the pathogens and their interactions with the body.
In my veterinary studies I made so many drawings of simple shapes and estimated forms, mainly from light microscope studies, of what these pathogens looked like. Against these images, our rods and ovoids and mere squiggles of viruses, look naive and very last century.
No doubt the medical illustrator today remains a rather unsung part of the research team just as the botanical illustrators of the 19th and 20th centuries were. In time I hope more of their stories will be told for their work has enormous value to science knowledge and engagement.
So which of the wonderful catalogue of images from the Public Health Library in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do you like best?
For more detail about the CDC for the images used in case you'd like to know more about these little beauties please read on – I know you want to..
… or for more superb images, so you can admire the hand of the medical illustrator, you can browse the catalogue at
Post also inspired by the FutureLearn Course on Big Data Visualisation I'm doing at the moment online thanks to the Queensland University of Technology.


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The problem of tracking can be defined as identifying the motion of the target in consecutive frames in the video. Conventional tracking methods fail to track abrupt motions because the motion is not smooth and uniform. A novel tracking algorithm based on Monte Carlo sampling method to deal with abrupt motions is introduced. The algorithm efficiently handles smooth and abrupt motions with the help of marginal likelihood and density-of-state term. The N-fold way WLMC method captures abrupt motions more quickly with the rejection free property of the algorithm. It helps estimate the dos value with a less number of samples without obtaining samples from the whole state space. The target tracking is guided by considering the measurement of the adjacent targets. A context aware sampling method which considers the position of the objects which are adjacent to the target helps track the target in case of occlusions. Experimental results show that the algorithm tracks the target in scenes containing complex scenarios such as occlusions, fast and abrupt changes in position and scale
|Abrupt motion, marginal likelihood, density of states
|Object tracking in video plays a major role in various surveillance systems, scene analysis, medical imaging and other intelligent systems. It aids in applications such as theft findings and illegal activities. Tracking involves associating the target in consecutive frames of the video. Tracking of target occurs in situations that contains either smooth motions or both smooth and abrupt motion. The identification of target in consecutive frames of the video is relatively easy for scenarios where the target follows only smooth changes in its motion. The target can also face some abrupt changes in its motion during the lifetime of the video. Abrupt changes can be due to a sudden change in motion such as a twist, pull or a push. The scenarios become even more complex when the frame rate is low and the scene contains edited clips from different videos. Conventional tracking methods fail to address the problem of abrupt motion tracking. They rarely consider abrupt motions and fail to track the target when abrupt changes in motion and position occur. The objective of this work is to track the target accurately even though its position and scale severely change over time.
|If a tracking method focuses on improving performance in tracking smooth motions, it may miss the abrupt motions of the target. On the other hand, if the method tries to track the abrupt motions robustly, the accuracy of tracking the smooth motions may decrease. The easiest way to handle abrupt motion is to guide the tracker to search the whole state space to capture the targets uncertainty in its behavior. But it is infeasible for practical applications because searching the whole state space will result in high computational cost. In addition, most MCMC algorithms are slow in sampling since they are collect samples from the state space by choosing random path for search.
|The proposed tracking algorithm states that the smooth and abrupt motions can be effectively tracked at the same time by finding two sampling values, the marginal likelihood (ML) term and the density-of-states (DOS) term. The ML term gives information about where the target object is present initially in the frame, given the object to be tracked as the input. The state space is divided into subregions and samples are collected from each region based on the histogram calculation. The region that contains the object exhibit high value and hence the target can be identified. The ML term is then calculated around the regions near the current local maximum that corresponds to the object position. This value captures the smooth motion changes of the target. This process is called exploitation. In addition to the calculation of ML term value, density of state term is calculated in each sub region. This DOS term calculation involves periodic collection of samples from all sub regions. Once the target initial position is identified by ML term, the dos value is calculated from other regions. So if the target makes a abrupt change in its motion, it is captured by the dos term value which indicates a clear increase in its value. By this way abrupt motions of the target can be clearly explored and intelligently tracked. Using this two terms the tracker identifies both abrupt and smooth changes. Our method consists of two parts: First, the target object is identified in the video and tracked by a NFWL sampling algorithm. Second, we include the dynamics of adjacent targets in the tracking strategy. It can be observed that adjacent objects may affect the motion of other objects. For this, measurements of the objects neighboring the target object are integrated into the sampling process. Our proposed method comes without additional computational cost since no extra measurements are made in the algorithm.
|Although there are several methods developed for visual tracking, there are disadvantages in conventional methods. In sampling-based tracking methods, the particle filter is used as a means to collect samples from the state space. PF shows robustness for visual tracking by handling non-Gaussianity and multimodality of a target density, and by reflecting the uncertainty of the target motion. However, the particle filter as the state space increases shows poor results and complexity. MCMC [15] reduces the computational cost in highdimensional state space. These methods requires large amount of samples in order to track the abrupt motion. The number of samples exponentially increases as the motion becomes more abrupt and hence the computational cost. The Adaptive MCMC algorithm unlike conventional methods automatically changes the proposal variance of MCMC as the Markov Chain goes on. This adaptive scheme is highly helpful in tracking the abrupt motion and also it is not as time consuming as conventional methods. However, this algorithm also has drawbacks. The algorithm does not provide a systematic way of escaping the local maxima and has no efficient sampling strategy to deal with large state space.
|Previously, abrupt motions are tracked by increasing the noise of the motion model [6]. So if there occurs a noise it is determined that there is an abrupt motion. Increasing the noise to handle abrupt motions may sometimes cause false alarms and the method becomes inefficient. When the state space becomes large performance degradation occurs. Hamiltonian [4] dynamics are introduces to find the object's trajectory. It incorporates gradient information of the dynamic trajectories and thus suppresses the random walk nature in traditional MCMC methods. It easily escapes local maxima and helps to reach global maximum. The disadvantages are it cannot accurately track the target when the scale of the target changes. Calculation of proposal density is susceptible to errors. Existing system and method either track smooth or abrupt motions. Most of the algorithms cannot efficiently track both abrupt and smooth motions. Some systems tracks abrupt motions but its performance degrades when either the state space increases or when there are large number of targets in the state space. Tracking fails in conditions when the object is totally or partially occluded. MCMC algorithms are slow in sampling and get trapped in local maxima. The proposed system overcomes all the problems and efficiently tracks the object motion in case of abrupt changes and even in a high state space and in occlusions. The algorithm helps to escape local maximum and reach global maximum.
|The objective of video tracking is to associate target objects in consecutive video frames. The association can be especially difficult when the objects are moving fast relative to the frame rate. Another situation that increases the complexity of the problem is when the tracked object changes orientation over time. For these situations video tracking systems must employ an efficient tracking algorithm that can effectively track the target in different possible motions of the target. The main aim is to efficiently track the target object in complex scenarios which contains abrupt changes. Our proposed method involves the following steps
A. Target Object Extraction
|The first step of the tracking process is to take video as input. The video is made up of image frames. In order to track the motion of a target we need to convert the video into frames and the motion of the target is analyzed between intra and inters frames. It involves identification of various objects available in the context of the frame and then selection of specific target to be tracked. Usage of Computer vision algorithms like SURF to identify key points and descriptors in the target to be tracked. Based on the algorithm the particular target whose motion needs to be tracked is identified and fed us input to the tracking algorithm which then identifies the motion of the target in the consecutive frames.
B. Calculation of acceptance ratio
|Once the target object is identified in the video using SURF, the location coordinates of the target is found and the state space is divided into disjoint regions. The likelihood term is calculated around that region where the object is identified. This region will have the high likelihood value. Now if the target makes any smooth motions around the region the likelihood estimation can capture the motions. Second is the calculation of density of states term. After the likelihood estimation the dos term for each region except the region where the object is actually found is set to 1.This is similar to histogram equalization. The equalization of dos term helps to track the target robustly when the search space contains similar objects. Periodically dos value for each sub region is calculated. If the ML term has high value it states there occurs a smooth motion. If the target makes abrupt changes the histogram value gets increased in that particular sub region and the dos term estimation in the sub region can capture the abrupt changes in motion and position. By this way the algorithm easily escapes local maximum and reaches global maximum.
|Frame by Frame comparison is done to see changes to the target object based on the algorithm. Algorithm for this step is discussed in the Section 4.
C. Morphological operations
|Morphological operations such as noise removal are done to avoid false alarms in tracking. This includes tracked features, voted center positions with high probability, bounding boxes plus trajectories and final foreground labels. Noise removal involves repeated erosion and dilation techniques to filter the object to be tracked from the remaining objects in the context.
D. Context Based Detection
|It involves identification of the key frame lists which acts as a representative of the video .The motion of one target normally influences the motion of adjacent targets. More precisely, the dynamics of the respective target are constrained by the position and movement of adjacent targets to avoid their collision. To incorporate this knowledge into tracking, we consider the measurements of objects neighboring the target during the sampling process of the current target. Thus when a target is tracked the position is the objects adjacent to the target are taken into account. So when the target undergoes partial or total occlusions, the target's future position in the frame can be guessed by the adjacent targets position. The objects adjacent to the target changes as the target moves along its path.
E. Building Update Mask
|Every tracking method requires an object detection mechanism either in every frame or when the object first appears in the video. A common approach for object detection is to use information in a single frame. However, some object detection methods make use of the temporal information computed from a sequence of frames to reduce the number of false detections. This temporal information is usually in the form of frame differencing, which highlights changing regions in consecutive frames. The knowledge about the previous frame which contains the target position in the state space before any change in motion helps us to efficiently track the algorithm. For this purpose an update mask which contains information about the previous frame is given as feedback to the tracking algorithm. To support tracking objects which stop still in the scene for a period, we can build an update mask as a feedback to the background model which stops the background model from updating the region covered by the objects that are reliably tracked. An important element for the entire model is a reference point for calculating relative positions and matching alignment. The center point of the bounding box is vulnerable to the changes in object contour. We also propose an online sampling method to train classifiers for the position estimation and pixel labeling during occlusion. It involves construction of update mask using computer vision algorithm, sending feedback to the back ground model through update mask and highlighting the tracked objects.
A. Tracking Method - Sampling
|In order to deal with abrupt changes in both position and scale, the NFWL-based tracking method considers the whole state space S that is constructed by the Cartesian product of the state space of position SP, and scale SS, and divides S into d disjointed subregions. The efficiency of the algorithm comes from two properties in the sampling process. The first property is that it is a rejection-free algorithm. That is, it accepts all proposed states without the acceptance step. The second is that the method employs a more efficient scheme to estimate the DOS term in the estimation step. It tries to obtain the DOS term with a smaller number of samples as much as possible
|1) Estimation Step: The method does not have an acceptance step, so it should propose states with good quality. The states with good quality means the states that describe the target posterior distribution well enough. To describe it well, the states with high posterior probability should be more frequently sampled, and the states of low posterior probability should be less frequently sampled. For this, the method presents a new proposal density which consists of two parts. The first part is to choose a subregion of S, and the second is to propose a state that belongs to the subregion. When the previous state belongs to the ith sub region Si, the method chooses the jth subregion Sj of the next state. The method prefers to choose a new subregion that has higher ML score, lower DOS score, and lower distance from Xt_1 compared with the previous subregion, respectively. This means that the method frequently makes a move to the subregion 1) where the target might be, 2) that is insufficiently explored, and 3) close to the subregion where the target existed at the previous frame. Using the calculation of d(si,s0)/ d(sj,s0) , the subregion which is close to the previous optimal state is proposed because the motion of the target is typically smooth. However, this assumption does not hold for abrupt motions. Therefore, the DOS term is additionally inserted by g(si) / g(sj) .This term encourages proposal of the subregions that have not been explored sufficiently. Since these subregions are far from the previous optimal state, they typically contain the states of abrupt motions. Thus, due to the additional DOS term, our method can deal with the abrupt motions as well.
|2)Proposal step: To update the DOS with a
|smaller number of moves as much as possible, the method calculates the lifetime of the previous sub region. Here ï´(Si) represents the lifetime value of the subregion Si. Unlike WLMC in which the histogram of a subregion is increased by 1 whenever it obtains a sample belonging to the subregion, NFWL estimates how many times a move to other sub regions would be a rejected on average in the usual update scheme. This estimated value is the lifetime. The lifetime value reflects how many samples are continually obtained by the method at the previous subregion. By estimating this value, our method can update the histogram of the previous subregion not by one as in WLMC, but by the amount of the lifetime value in
|h(Si) ï h(Si) + τ(Si)
|where h(Si) indicates the histogram value of subregion Si. The DOS score is then adaptively estimated by
|g(Si) ï g(Si) * τ(Si) * ƒ
|To make the flat histogram, the sampling method should visit all subregions sufficiently by moving a subregion to other subregions. The problem of WLMC is that it needs many samples to move from a subregion to other subregions, which is called tunneling time. On the other hand, NFWL needs a small number of samples to move from a subregion to other subregions because it always accepts the moves. In this case, however, the histogram is biased due to the rejection-free property of NFWL. The lifetime value ï´(Si) compensates for the bias of the histogram by measuring how many times a move to other subregions would be rejected on average in the usual update scheme. Hence, by updating the amount of ï´(Si) at a time, NFWL quickly produces the flat histogram using a small number of samples.
|3) Annealing Step: The method starts the process over the state space Sp and performs the WLMC-based tracking algorithm. If the histogram becomes semiflat, the method decreases Sp by selecting half the number of subregions in Sp. To choose the subregions, utilize the DOS information. Sp initially consists of d disjoint subregions. We choose the d/2 number of subregions according to the score in descending order because the DOS score indicates the probability of local maxima in a subregion. Then, each chosen subregion is divided into two regions so that the total number of subregions reverts to d. If the subregions have been horizontally divided, they are then vertically divided at the next time. The annealing step is terminated when the number of iterations reaches a predefined value. The dividing strategy provides sufficient results for our tracking problem.
|B. Tracking Algorithm
|Algorithm Subregion sampling-based tracking method
C. Context Based Sampling
|The motion of a target normally influences the motion of objects adjacent to it in the state space. More precisely, the dynamics of the respective target are constrained by the position and movement of adjacent targets to avoid their collision. To incorporate this context knowledge into the particle filter, we consider the measurements of neighboring tracked targets during the sampling process of the current target. We assume that the spatial configuration of neighboring targets is constant between two consecutive video frames. Let ˆxt−1,k and ˆxt−1,l denote the estimated positions of the current target k and its neighbor l in the previous time step. This guide is determined as
|For the final sampled particle position the guides from all neighboring targets and the motion model of the respective target are considered .The definition of neighboring targets typically includes the distance to the current target and the relative velocity in the last time step, if collision of the targets should be avoided.
|Given the video as input and the target to be tracked, the target is identified in the frame using SURF. The video is converted into frames and the target motions are analyzed in each frame. For better understanding the target is represented by a circle around it.
|The NFWL algorithm tracks the motion of the target efficiently when there are abrupt changes in the position and scale of the target. The algorithms effectively address the tracking of abrupt motions, as well as the accurate tracking of smooth motions. The algorithm tracks the target accurately even when the state space contains objects similar to the target. The dynamics of the respective target are constrained by the position and movement of adjacent targets. A context-aware sampling method, which considers the motion of adjacent targets during the particle sampling process of the current target is introduced. This strategy improves the robustness of the tracker, and effectively tracks the target in partial and total occlusions. Accuracy is ensured with providing feedback to the system through update mask which contains information about the targets position in the previous frame.
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The bow tie can be a perfect complement to a sharp suit. It can also be an extreme nightmare to tie. For anyone who has attempted to tie one, they know just how painful the process can be. Thinking back on the last few occasions I've thought to wear one; it usually involves a multi-hour process of researching steps on how to tie the bow tie, practicing endlessly in front of a mirror, panicking, and then desperately searching for someone who knows better. Being able to tie a regular tie knot practically asleep, I had always imagined a bow tie to just take a few simple adjustments. I was rudely awakened in my first attempt, second attempt, and even third attempt.
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The NRP Group Breaks Ground on Platform Lofts Affordable Housing Community in Charlotte, N.C. With Equity Financing from Bank of America Merrill Lynch
One of the first Communities Located at Old Concord Station On The Blue Line Extension Will Be Reserved For People Making 60% Or Less of Median Income, or About $44,460 A Year For A Family of Four
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The NRP Group, a vertically-integrated, best-in-class developer, builder, and manager of multifamily housing, announced today it has broken ground on Platform Lofts, one of the first affordable multifamily housing communities located on Charlotte's new light-rail extension on the Blue Line.
The community will be The NRP Group's third in the Charlotte area, after Loft 135, an upscale, market-rate apartment community on the south end of Charlotte, completed in 2016 and The Parkwood, which began construction in 2017 and is set to finish this fall.
"The City of Charlotte is committed to partnering with developers like NRP to provide affordable housing for our citizens," said Pamela J. Wideman, Director of housing and neighborhoods for the City of Charlotte. "The ability to have quality affordable housing in close proximity to the Blue Line extension and other transit options is a prime example of how lower income families can have access to affordable housing in areas that provide upward economic mobility opportunities. NRP's Platform Lofts development provides such an opportunity. The City of Charlotte is proud to be partnering with NRP in this exciting new development."
The 198-unit property will include a separate clubhouse and six residential buildings, consisting of a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom apartment homes. Resident amenities will include, a multipurpose community room, gym, computer room, laundry room, medical exam room, screened porch, children's indoor play area, and two covered picnic areas with grills, and playground.
Public access streets will run through the site, which will also have direct pedestrian access to the Cross Charlotte Trail. Platform Lofts is located across the street from Old Concord Station, part of the LYNX Blue Line Light Rail extension, and less than a mile from the Eastway Rec Center, a $40 million community center scheduled for delivery in 2020.
All of the apartment homes at Platform Lofts will be reserved for people making 60% or less than the median income in Meck County, about $44,460 a year for a family of four.
"We've been acutely aware that the city of Charlotte has a great need for affordable housing at a mix of income levels, so we are thrilled at the prospect of participating in the opportunity to supply this type of housing," said Aaron Pechota, Senior Vice President at The NRP Group. "The effort to bring affordable housing to this site, at this long-awaited transit line, was years in the making and should bear fruit soon."
Bank of America Merrill Lynch provided more than $25 million in loans and a direct LIHTC equity investment of $13.2 million. It was the 29th transaction the bank completed with NRP Group over the past 10+ years.
"This development is an example of the work we're leading to support Charlotte's housing needs," said Charles Bowman, Bank of America market president for Charlotte, North Carolina. "Our commitment to support affordable housing is part of how we drive economic mobility and help create safe and stable communities for residents of Charlotte."
The City of Charlotte's Housing Trust Fund is providing $5.1M in gap financing. The NRP Group also partnered with Community Housing Resource (CHR), a nonprofit dedicated to developing quality, affordable housing where built-in social services empower low-income residents to grow and prosper.
Completion of Platform Lofts is scheduled for 2020.
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A one-minute exercise to find your purpose
I did an exercise recently that made my whole life make more sense. It may be helpful for you, too.
Here's the background.
A few months back, I wrote a column about finding your purpose. In it, I suggest that instead of trying to pinpoint your precise calling (a daunting task in my view), just enjoy the moment.
"In other words, stop trying to figure it all out. The path to passion lies in enjoying right now. When that happens, we're happier. And when we're happier, life works better. It flows. We experience joy and ease and an authentic way of living — hallmarks of a life with passion and purpose — and that guides us fluidly toward more of the same. You may never be able to clearly articulate your calling, but in this approach, that ceases to matter. Life becomes subtly infused with beauty and meaning."
Well, this tactic has done some cool stuff — it guided me directly to an articulatable purpose. It happened when I started working with a branding coach who shared the following exercise. Here's how to give it a whirl.
Look at the accompanying list and select the category that feels most authentically you. There may be more than one that applies, but try to nail it down to one or two categories that fit best. You're not allowed to mix and match. Also, if one word in the category feels wrong, the whole line is out.
Your Purpose Category
1. Teaching Learning Knowledge Inspiring others
2. Creativity Art Craft Making Beauty
3. Healing Medicine Mending the body or mind Therapy
4. Awakening Spiritual growth Personal growth Evolution
5. Supporting others Helping Assisting Social work
6. Loving Nurturing Feeding Family care
7. Giving birth Mothering Nurturing
8. Fixing Repairing things, people, organizations Cleaning Restoring
9. Building Developing Designing Architecture Engineering
10. Nature Environment Earth-based traditions
11. Entertaining Fun Performing Play Enjoyment Theater
12. Discover Exploration Research Experimenting
13. Scouting Exploring new territory Journalism Astronautics Anthropology
14. Defending Protecting Military Warrior
15. Control Mastery Management Influence
16. Leading Business Politics Military Public service
17. Variety Exploring Changing Tasting
Source: Creating on Purpose
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My interests, career moves, favorite conversation topics and general life choices all made more sense when No. 4 was my clear answer. Questioning my purpose is my purpose.
But this exercise is helpful in other ways, too — such as understanding other people.
I previously didn't get, for example, why my mom redecorates constantly. She's No. 2.
My sister is a teacher. We endearingly poke fun at her for having 21 questions for everything. She's No. 1.
My hyper-logical husband, with a background in business consulting/management and law, who does nothing willy-nilly, is No. 15.
These categories aren't meant to put people in boxes. They're not limiting. I think they're the opposite. They call out foundational passions to help us gain insight about ourselves and others. That's big. Increasing understanding increases compassion and possibility. I can more actively support my loved ones — and myself — when I appreciate what's essential to each of us.
But back to my earlier column, I stand behind my conclusion. This exercise may help us name our purpose. Enjoying each moment is how we live it.
Marci Sharif is a Houston author, yoga teacher and meditation facilitator.
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When I was a child,
I saw the pictures in the stars,
and not just the ones
the grown-ups said were there.
But as the years went on,
the stars all faded one by one.
Now I look up past the buildings –
I hear car horns, people shouting –
and the city smog erases anything still left to grey.


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It's a bitingly grating style of film making, and is only made worse by the auto tuned vocals hoisted onto the soundtrack
Featuring some of the worst lip syncing seen in a lifetime of cinematic mouthing, Midnight Sun is the most generic of rom-coms, with a sole aim to making adolescents cry their little hearts out.
Focusing on Katie Price (Bella Thorne), no, not that one, a teen home-bound during the day due to an allergy to sunlight, Midnight Sun follows Katie as she falls in love with her neighbour, and fails to tell him about her incredible illness.
The whole film comes across as impeccably twee. It has the same nature as the majority of irritating American rom-coms, specifically those set in a high school where the female is almost eternally grateful for the man she has been sent from above. It's a bitingly grating style of film making, and is only made worse by the auto tuned vocals hoisted onto the soundtrack.
None of the performances are anything to shout about, and the direction doesn't promote the special romance Katie has found in a particularly exciting way. The morals point towards deceit and secrets, until that backfires massively, and to be honest, the ending is a pretty sadistic motion for a film aimed at adolescents.


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Grandparents increasingly are being pressed into service to raise their grandkids, but they seem to be holding their own, new research shows, even though the kids can be more argumentative and many grandparents wish they had someone to turn to for emotional support.
Researchers from the Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York reviewed the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's 2016 National Survey of Children's Health and compared data from nearly 45,000 parent-led households with findings from 1,250 grandparent-led households. They found grandparents and parents were close on most measures of coping, stress or caregiver-child interactions, with nearly three-quarters of the grandparents saying they were handling the day-to-day demands "very well.''
One difference noted was the attitudes of the kids under their grandparents' care. They were more argumentative, more likely to become angry or anxious with transitions, and faster to lose their temper — understandable given the circumstances that brought them to the care of their grandparents.
The researchers pointed to the opioid epidemic as a major factor in the growing number of grandparents raising children, which now tops 2.9 million in the United States.
The grandparents reported worse physical and mental health as a result of the added responsibilities, and they wished they had more emotional support. They also said they did not have a "Plan B" in place for raising the children in the event of a crisis.
The grandparents did have one advantage over the younger caregivers: They've done this before. From experience comes wisdom, the researchers noted, and that can make parenting a bit easier the second time around.


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Don't let anybody fool you into assuming that you can predict the future. At best, you can make a sufficiently informed decision that you are more likely to survive afterward than perish. That's not even accounting for unpredictable events, such as, say, the arrival of Europeans onto your indigenous Caribbean island with active smallpox virus. Even if you anticipated such an event, what could you do? Prepare all symptomatic treatments available? At what cost versus known and immediate predictable hazards?
We're all doing the best we can with the information available, which just proves that your best option when faced with any threat to your survival is to utterly eliminate that threat without hesitation or remorse. There are plenty other threats you can't see. Don't suffer the threats you do see.


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Eduardo is a Geologist Engineer, but he always dedicated his life to his passion, mountaineering. With more than 20 years climbing around the world, especially in the Andes, he actually dedicated to give instruction to beginners or guide from beginners to pro persons in the incredible world of the mountains.
In 2010, he obtained the UIAGM/IFMGA certification. He has a lot of experience in the Andes, where he normally guides and climbs. He also guided in Europe and Nepal, and made personal climbs in Europe and USA. Actually he lives in Chile and works specially in the mountains that surround Santiago.


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New research shows why we feel so groggy while traveling. It's because our brain refuses to shut down completely and is constantly scanning for danger. But there's a way around "the first-night effect" that can help on your family's next trip.
New research shows why we feel groggy while traveling even if we're in the same time zone. It's because our brains refuse to shut down completely when we're in a strange place; they stay half-awake all night, protectively scanning for danger.
This is useful if we're sleeping without a tent in a jungle or desert, not so much if we're tucked in safely in a nice hotel. Unfortunately, the phenomenon, called "the first-night effect," affects all aspects of sleep. When we're in a strange bed, it takes longer to get to sleep, we wake up more often, and we spend less time than usual in deep sleep, the lead author of the study, Masako Tamaki, told Smithsonian magazine.
To document what happens on the first night we travel, researchers monitored volunteers who spent two nights in a lab hooked up to instruments that measure activity in the brain.
They found that the sleepers were more likely to be disturbed by even slight sounds on the first night than the second, showing that the brain continues to analyze threats even as we sleep, Jerome Siegel, director of the Center for Sleep Research at the University of California Los Angeles, told Smithsonian.
"If something unusual happens — if a door opens or you hear a key in a lock — you can alert to that, even though the intensity of the stimulus is quite low," Siegel said.
Smithsonian reporter Adam Hoffman noted that researchers have seen similar patterns in animals, including birds, dolphins and beluga whales.
"In dolphins, for example, at least one brain hemisphere remains entirely awake and vigilant at all times, allowing the other half to safely descend into deep sleep," Hoffman wrote.
To counter the effect, Hoffman suggests we may be able to "tone down the bark of our neural watchdog" by bringing along familiar items from home.
To be safe, however, build in an extra day to recover. "If you have some important event, it's better to not arrive the day before so you don't have to suffer from the first night effect," Tamaki said.


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Unfortunately, bed bug problems are real so they cannot be ignored. To make sure these pest control problems and other related situations do not adversely affect your family, it is important that you understand what you need to do to prevent them. Thankfully, with so much data online about pest control issues and the statistics that affect the U.S. and others abroad, you can take advantage of the knowledge that you gain to create a bed bug-free environment for your home. Here are a few things that you can do in order to devise an effective plan that will work for you.
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I teach, and try to live, the fact that every Christian should live with a daily and hourly focus on the return of Christ and our appearance before his judgment seat. This is a given, and it is impossible to understand the faith in any other way. Nevertheless, false predictions pop up with alarming frequency;... Continue Reading →
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False Apostles are Smacked Down by Hurricane Irma!
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