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you were cringe. in your younger and more vulnerable years, when you were rocking the short bob with zero cares, you had no concept of cringe or shame. you were like the cringe prince of gotham, harnessing the fire of cringe bestowed from above.
you took a bite from the tree of the knowledge of cool and cringe. it is uncool to be cringe, cool kids do not commit cringe crimes. adam and eve were not sinners until they learned of the existence of the cool and the cringe. cringe was no sin until there’s cool.
why be cringe when you can be cool? free choice exists, and cool existed as an entity separate from the psyche, as it was not in anyone’s inherent nature to desire it. it is the gradual socialization around you that created the desire to be cool; eating and internalizing the forbidden fruit has altered your mind, and thus born the cool inclination.
you were cool. you still are. but there is a larger part of you that is cringe, and you can never outrun the cringe. you cringe at the thought of you being cringe to anyone, and it is just simply uncool to be this cringe.
you hereby sentence yourself to 3 years of reflection. you were banished from the garden of blissful posting; vestiges of your past remain in those “4 years ago…” archives, haunting you like the undead. you are repenting your sins of the cringe with silence, compensating your naïvety with tongue-tied guilt.
you started doing think pieces like this about two years ago, as you find alternative ways for you to express yourself. you don’t want to overshare, but it was never your intention to undershare. weeds out the superficiality, doesn’t it? you went from posting 5 times a day to posting once or twice every few months. you’re in a constant turmoil of self-awareness, self-loathe, and self-obsession; you are forever chained to the trapeze of the cringe and cool.
cool and cringe are like yin and yang. one cannot exist without the other, these rigid dichotomies should not chain anyone down. perhaps it's not that deep; the puberty mind is getting the best of me. everybody is watching, yet nobody is watching. art is what you make of it, and so is instagram. is this a celebration of life? or the church preaching fomo and social pressure? do you wish to be perceived? and which version of you do you wish to be perceived?
i’m no prometheus. i’m not here to change the status quo, i am still doing my sentence for the cringe i did 4 years ago. will i ever recover from embarrassment? if i stop caring about these external ordeals that have zero value in the eyes of God, i shall be released from this cyber prison. can you take the cringe out of the cool? did i create the garden of blissful posting, and do i even need to feel bad for being cringe?
until i find the perfect place where i could instill my passions without feeling im annoying everyone, i will speak now…
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I live in a j's podcast for your Monday.
Most wonderful show is keeping up with the Joneses.
Hello, Mr. Jones.
Hello, Mrs. Jones. How are you?
I'm well. How are you?
That's because you've just come back from a wedding.
It's true.
And you were always well when you were a wedding.
I like to be social.
Do you know why I like to be social tonight?
For the reward of cake.
Ah, you took the words out of my life.
For the reward of delicious wedding cake.
Yes.
Made by the mother of the bride.
Yes, it was fantastic.
Oh, that's so good.
Well, we've had an interesting week, haven't we, babe?
Yeah, good to that.
Interesting with the capsule.
Ah!
How are you doing?
I am good.
For those of you who don't know what we're talking about last week,
we found out that my father had passed away while on vacation in Croatia, which
suddenly, which, well, it's still like he went on vacation to die.
Oh, yes.
I guess any time you die on vacation to suddenly.
Yes.
And we have been amazed at the amount of red tape it takes to get a body back from Croatia to
Britain. And at this point, I need to take my hat off to my two sisters who are doing an amazing
job at navigating all of that. Oh my gosh, they're just amazing.
They're just, yes. That's an engine. So yeah, if you've just joined the podcast or you've skipped a
few episodes and you're like, wait, what happened last week? Yeah, my father died while on vacation
had a massive heart attack. So we're just trying to sort out the ensuing stuff that happens when
when somebody dies overseas.
So it's been a bit bewildering this week.
It hasn't helped that all of us got sick.
- No, that did not help.
All of us went down with some sort of stomach bug.
- That the immediate effects of which would last
for about four hours will go no further in that.
But the overall feeling lasted about 24 hours.
- Yeah.
- So you got it what?
Monday?
- I did, I got it Monday.
I'm wondering if the reason I got it was that MJ was actually sick on Thursday.
Right.
And we thought it was because of ice cream, because he basically never eats ice cream.
And the last time he had had this particular ice cream, he had vomited.
So when we, when he vomited and he only threw up once, we were like, Oh, it's ice cream.

Oh, my gosh.
I am horrible.
I'm just finding this out.
So you are horrible.
I think that's how I got sick, baby.
I don't know.
I don't know how long bugs live on sleeping in a Petri dish.
No, I was sleeping in a Petri dish.
I was sleeping next to you.
Yeah, you're kissing a Petri dish.
So anyway, hindsight is 20, 20.
You know what?
You didn't need hindsight for that.
Well, okay, it wasn't my best move, but I forgot about it.
I flipped it over in the middle of the night because I was like, oh my gosh, it's three
in the morning.
I don't care.
And then I totally forgot about it until I got sick.
And then I thought, oh, I never washed my pillow.
That's gross.
Yeah, I know.

Yeah.
Then I got sick on Tuesday.
Yeah.
And Abil.
Yeah, we were both useless.
Yeah.
And then Wednesday, poor tea got sick.
Tea went down just before going to bed.
She was started complaining about her stomach and then voila.
Oh my gosh.
So yeah, I was, I was for the count for the first part of the week.
So everyone's like, how are you feeling about your dad?
And I'm like, oh my feeling about my dummy.
Yeah.
So yeah, crazy week, but.
It was an exhausting thing.
Thankfully, if anyone gets it, it doesn't last long, which is really, really good.
Yeah.
In the middle of all of that, you decided to start painting the kitchen.
I did.
And it looks amazing.
I love it.
It's not done, but it looks amazing.
It's getting there, isn't it?
Do you want to talk about how we ended up with two gowns of spare paint?
Well, here's the thing.
So for the guest room, for the bathroom, I had picked a color called Barely Teal, which
was supposed to be a very light aqua type color.
And to your credit on the paint sample?
It looks like a very light aqua.
Barely teal.
Barely teal.

Yes.
But turns out inside of a very small bathroom with no windows, it looks very teal, not
barely deal. And I had bought two gallons of it because I planned on doing it also in the
guest bedroom, but we just felt this is just way too much.
But you were going to do it on all three walls and then you had another color for an accent
wall. But once we saw it, we were like, no, no, no to the max.
Right. But it actually looks fantastic in the kitchen.
Well, because the kitchen is massive.
The kitchen's massive.
- It has tons of daylight.
- It has tons of daylight and has dark cabinets
and dark granite.
So having a nice light color to sort of set it off,
it looks really nice.
So I'm happy about that.
- Do you wanna talk about my sine wave moment
for the first couple of days?
- Oh my gosh, you were so funny.
So I painted just like one wall
and then a portion of the two side walls,
you know, just before I went down with the illness.

I love it.
Oh, I'm so happy.
It makes me happy.
Boa, blah."

We're going to have to paint it.
We're going to have to switch the whole kitchen to gray, you know, blah, blah."
And then like an hour later, you'd be like, "Oh, it's beautiful."
I was like, listen, at this point, I'm ignoring everything you're saying because it's,
this is the color it is.
After a week, I quite like it.
Yes.
It is intense at night when it's again.
I think the trick is to have natural light illuminating it.
I think intense is too strong a word.
I'm sorry, when the LED lights are on,
I'm thinking we're gonna have to burn down our kitchen and rebuild.
Oh, okay.
But maybe that's a little intense, I don't know.
That's maybe a bit much.
My emotions might be all over the place.
The disadvantage of starting to paint the downstairs
is that you become very aware of the builder's beige
that is everywhere else.
Bummer.
But it's amazing that paint is a fairly affordable transformation tool.
It really is, yeah.
All right, then Friday, our poor kids,
if you guys can pray for anything,
pray for our kids who I think are fine
with grandpa's passing because they see grandpa once a year
and maybe FaceTime with them once a month or so.
But I think they're feeling the flux of us
because basically for this, just today,
I booked my flights to come home.
So I haven't known when the funeral is
or when anything's happening.
So they've been feeling our influxness
and they've been feeling our busyness
as our schedule is out of whack.
And so they're--
- Yeah, and everything for them is changing, isn't it?
Like we were gonna be on vacation,
now we're not gonna be on vacation.
So everything for them is just feeling like
they don't know where to put their foot down, yeah.

And there was a big chance I wasn't gonna be here for it,
which I think she was more upset
about than anything else.
- Yeah.
- So we tried to do something fun.
We tried to do a family day on Friday.
We went off to National Shores, which is a big water park.
And then we took Tia for her early family lunch,
which she loved at the Rainforest Cafe.
Now, let's talk about the Rainforest Cafe
for introverted parents who are a little bit maxed.
Good idea, bad idea.
- Bad idea.
I mean, I'm already really sensitive sensory-wise.
And of course, there's a thunderstorm
that happens every 15 minutes and animals
that are screeching and moving.
- And we were right beside the ape section.
- Yes, and then of course,
sitting next to a fish tank and MJ would loudly call out
every color of fish that would swim by every two minutes
and it just got to her.
It was like, "I just need to get out of here."
Yeah.
- But anyway, she was thrilled.
- She was thrilled.
So we just managed ourselves
and then eventually just sort of went,
"We've got to get out here.
You pay the bill.
I'll take the kids out."
So, but we made it.
- And there was no bloodshed, which was good.
- It was really good.
And then today that brings us up to today.
We had Trenton Morgan's wedding.
- Yes. - Congratulations guys.
It was great to marry you.
- So great.
And oh my gosh, Morgan looks stunning.
Just stunning.
So yeah, it was a lovely wedding.
I had no idea there was a massive mansion
in the middle of East Nashville.
- No clue whatsoever.
- It's so pretty.
Like I just thought the grounds were so pretty
and I just was, I thought the venue was lovely.
- While we're in the season of sorting out funeral details
from the other side of the world.
We're kind of cheating at podcasts.
- Yeah, sorry about that.
- Yeah, what I mean by that is we're here talking
to you, dear podcast,
and it's like we normally do on a normal week.
And we love that.
I put out last week something on social media,
but like, hey, sorry, we're kind of deviating
from our normal format.
We do wanna get something out for you.

Don't worry about the podcast.
But we actually quite enjoy just pausing
and out with the business of our week
and recapping our week and just talking about what we've loved
and reflecting on something God has done.
It is an awful lot of work, but it is joy.
And so we're trying to keep some semblance
of normality and routine.
The trouble is we're not gonna do a real episode,
probably for the next couple of weeks.
We'll probably do the,
probably do what we did last week
and again, what we're doing this week,
which is chat, catch up,
just try and actually connect with everybody.
But then what we wanna do is because we don't have
the bandwidth to record, edit, and produce a normal episode, which takes a number of
hours. What we're trying to do is include a message that we've spoken before, that
we absolutely love somewhere, that we think we'd encourage you. And it's win-win. We
get to sit down and be with you. I'll be in a shorter manner. And also you get something
that's hopefully encouraging to start your week off with.
So, A.G., what is this week's message about?
This week's message is actually about Esther.
- Ooh.
- Yes.
And I don't wanna spoil it,
but essentially we're talking about how God always wins.
So.
- I thought you were gonna say,
I don't wanna spoil it,
but there's aliens in this one.
- Oh, well, there may be aliens you won't know
unless you listen. (laughs)
I don't remember any aliens, but it's possible.
- And so you spoke to the same, Anit?
- Yes.
- Okay, well, before we play that message,
just wanted to say thank you for all the love.
I've really appreciated all the emails
and Facebook posts and Instagram comments
and you guys reaching out this week.
We really, really appreciate it.
And if you just started listening to our podcast,
this is not our typical format.
It's just the season that we're in right now.
It's an easy balance while we are sorting out
some more pressing things.
We will be back to our regular programming post funeral
in a few weeks.
But lastly,
- We just wanted to let you know
that we have an eight month school here
in Franklin, Tennessee, that is called the School of Supernatural Life.
And we have been seeing amazing transformation happen in the lives of our students
for about six years now. So it's pretty exciting.
The application deadline for the school is actually fast approaching, is June 15th.
So, yeah, that's the deadline. If you are interested in hearing some information about it,
listen to episode 152 and you can hear all about the school and hear some of the testimonies of
people that have actually been there and what the school has done for them. You know that's been,
that episode has been one of the most listened to episodes of any episode we've ever produced.
Wow. Right. And it's only about a couple of weeks old. Yes.
And it's already been downloaded more than almost any other message.
That's amazing. I know. People love it. Well, people want transformation.
And people love hearing stories about it.
If you want to apply to school or just even learn more, go to gracecenter.us/school.
Like AJ said, you've got until June 15th to apply for fall entrance to school, which
starts in September of this year.
All right, we're going to leave you with AJ talking about Esther.
There may be UFOs.
There may be dinosaurs in it who can know you're going to have to listen to the whole thing.
Yep, you're just going to have to listen.
And we'll be back with you next week.
Have a wonderful week, guys.
Thanks for the grace, guys.
And now that I went on vacation, when did we go on vacation baby June?
June, July, it was sometime it was hot.
And so we went on vacation and we were suffering for Jesus and North Myrtle Beach.
And I remember one particular day I was looking off of our balcony at all these little colorful
umbrellas on the beach.
And the Lord just said to me, I want you to go and read Esther.
And I was like, okay, I mean, I love the Book of Esther anyway, so it's not like I'm going,
no, it's not like Leviticus, you know what I'm saying?
It's not hard reading.
I'm like, okay, yeah, totally.
Go read Esther.
And so I read Esther and the Lord was talking to me about a few things.
And then the next day I read Esther again, and then the Lord said, I want you to read Ruth.
And I was like, oh, okay.
So I read Ruth.
And then the lawyers started talking to me and saying, "Hey, do you notice any similarities
here?"
And I honestly would have to say I never have before, but I started to go, "Oh my gosh,
Lord, there's some major keys in these books about actually how you're asking us to live
and walk before you."
And so today's message is brought to you by two women in the Bible, Esther and Ruth.
Now, gentlemen, it still applies to you.
It's quite okay.
You don't have to have any particular level of estrogen for this to actually work for
you today, okay?
But these two women and their stories specifically are going to tell us some keys actually that
hopefully help us walk into what God has for us.
And I'm aware even as I'm going to start talking about this stuff that what I'm going
talk about isn't the popular message right now, especially with our age group.
"Ow, do you like how I lumped me in with you?"
Yeah, anyway, let's not go there.
But it seems like it's almost cooler right now to be grumpy and disenfranchised with the
church than to actually be a part of a church.
And while it may seem cooler and trendy, it isn't biblical.
Sorry.
So my message this evening may not be that popular, but actually, as I reflect on what
our jobs are as pastors, it's to talk about stuff whether we like it or not, and whether
it's popular or not, because otherwise I'm not doing my job.
Right?
Three of you agree.
Okay.
There was me, there was me.
So let's first talk a little bit about Esther.
How many of you are like,
I've never heard the story of Esther before.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Okay, so Esther is a book in the Old Testament
somewhere near the beginning,
just after judges, I think.
And now I'm gonna be confused as to whether I'm confusing Ruth
and Esther, I think I'm confusing, yes.
So Ruth is just after judges.
Work with me on this.
So in the story of Esther,
Esther actually is a Jewish girl
that is living under the kingship
of a king named Xerces.
Actually, depending on what translation you use,
there's another name that I can't pronounce.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
It starts with an A, it's like A-H
and then 48 letters after it.
Or if you go with like the NIV, it's Xerces.
So I went with that.
And Xerces as a king is kind of driven by the wind.
Do you understand that expression?
He seems to be really concerned
with what other people are thinking all the time
and makes a lot of his decisions
based on what his nobles will think of him.
So he's definitely given a fear of man,
definitely sort of makes his decisions
a different way maybe than we would prefer.
And so at the beginning of the story of Esther, Xerces is holding a party essentially and
he asks his queen Vashti to come in and dance.
She refuses to dance.
And so he's like, "What should I do about this?"

And so basically he doesn't have her killed but he has her removed and she's removed
his queen.
And then they start looking for a new queen for Xerces.
So far, am I getting this right?
Anybody have any confusion about what we're doing here?
So they're looking for new queens, so they say, "Bring all the beautiful virgins."
It's funny how often this happens in Scripture.
Anyway, bring all the different message for a different time.
Bring all the beautiful virgins and have them prepared.
And basically, they're all going to be brought in before the king.
And afterwards they're going to become one of his concubines, but during this process
he's going to pick one of them as queen.
I don't think I'd want to sign up for that.
But anyway, they all get brought in and among them is Esther or Hadassa.

So, hi guy who is one of the eunuchs that oversees these women before they go in to
the king and oversees their preparations.
He notices her and he gives her special treatment.
He gives her the best sweets and he gives her the best maids and the best everything.
Now, think about this for a second.
What would cause him to notice her?
Because what we know is they've gotten all the most beautiful girls in the land.
So there's lots of beautiful women there.

Right?
There's something about an incredible attitude and personality that actually draws you to
people even more than their looks do.
So something causes this eunuch to actually show her favor.
And so she spends 12 months preparing in a bunch of like different oils and frankincense
and mr. and all the cool stuff, right?
And then she's brought into the king and it says basically right away he falls in love
with her.
He's just like, that's it.
It's her.
She's the one.
Okay?
Queen and she has an uncle who is named Mordecai. Mordecai is kind of one of the elders in the city
and he sits by the gate and Mordecai is a good dude. He is a solid righteous guy. Now during this
time another guy that is part of the Kings court is a guy named Hammon and Hammon is actually made
sort of second in the land under the king. And Hammon is not a good dude. That's like the
NIV version. Says not a good dude. Yeah. And so Hammon, basically the king says everybody
should be bowing down to Hammon because that's what Hammon wants. But Mordecai won't because
He says, "Jew."
And so Haman wants to get back at Mordecai,
but instead of just getting back at Mordecai,
he decides he wants actually to kill all of the Jewish people.
Again, something that happens throughout Scripture.
So anyway, he gets the king to sign off
on killing all the Jews throughout the land
on the 12th month.

But they send out word throughout all the land.

And they're not allowed to fight back, okay?
So of course, Mordecai is just a little bit upset about this.
And he rips his clothing and you know,
it's the whole sack cloth and ashes.
And of course, all throughout the land, all the Jewish people are very, very upset.
Are we all with me so far?
And then what happens is Mordecai sends to Esther.
Now, when all of this has happened and the decree has gone out and all that kind of stuff,
is now the woman in favor. But even if you were the woman in favor, she still couldn't
go to the king without him summoning her. If she did, she could be killed unless he extended
his scepter towards her. I mean, it was all just a very scary environment. Okay? And keep
in mind this king is really sort of driven by the wind, okay? So Mordecai actually sends
to her and says, "Hey, this is your time.
You're going to have to do something about this."
So let's start at turn to Esther and go to 413.
So this is Mordecai talking to the messenger
that's going to go and talk to Esther.
says Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther,
"Don't think that you will escape the fate
that all of the Jews, because you are in the king's palace.
If you keep silent at this time,
liberation and deliverance will come to the Jewish people
from another place."
Can I stop there for a second?
God's always gonna take care of his people.
Like even when you look at the political climate right now,
God's heart is for his people.
And you always want to be praying along with God's heart.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Because we're part of that group now, right?

Who knows?
And again, this is one of the most famous verses
from the Book of Esther.
Who knows?
Perhaps you have come into the kingdom for such a time as this.
It's so funny because I think often in our lives,
we don't realize that even the things
that seem really difficult,
God can weave together to get us to the right place
for the right time for such a time as this.
And often, I think if we knew what God was doing,
most of the time we'd stop fighting Him
and start participating, right?
But we just think, oh, well, you know,
this just seems so random, listen,
God always has a plan, right?
For I know the plans I have for you declares a Lord.
That's not just the person next to you, that's you.
God has a plan for you.
I think sometimes it would be really wise to go,
God am I fighting your plan or am I participating in it?
Because sometimes God's plan does seem a little bit scary
and a little bit like it could be heading towards death.
Okay, which it does for Esther at this moment
Because basically, Mordecai is saying,
listen, you need to do this thing.
You need to go into the king,
even though he hasn't summoned you,
and you need to reverse this.
You're the only person who can do it,
or your people get wiped out.
And she knows in doing that, she's risking her life.
But she actually chooses to honor and obey Mordecai.
She honors his wisdom and she chooses to obey.
So she says, "Okay, get everybody fast and I'm going to do it."
And they launched this little plan.
I like a lot of things about this story.
But one of the things I think that's like super encouraging,
how many of you have ever been
in the position where you know you're doing your very best
for whatever reason, you know that people are orchestrating things in the background that
are not for your good.
Right?
And you're like, I'm being totally misunderstood here.
That is not what just happened.
And you know whatever, but you can't defend yourself.
And there's no way to reverse what's going on.
And you know that it's happening and there's not a stinking thing you can do about it.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
Right?
This is actually what's going on in the background in this story.

Haman is still trying to get Mordecai killed, right?
Like first, not just wait for until the rest of them are killed.
He wants him done now, right?
So while the plan is afoot for Esther to bring some sort of relief to the situation, you
have this other plan that's going on.
So let me start at chapter 5 verse 9.
It says, "That day, Ham and left full of joy and in good spirits.
He just gone for, he goes for two dinners with Esther and the king."
Okay?
Now he has no idea why he's being invited to these dinners.
He just thinks it's because he's cool and everybody likes him.
He's going to find out something different soon, but at the moment he thinks he's winning.
Right?
Listen, often right when it looks like they're winning, they're not.
Okay, really, you don't have to worry about it because God backs up his kids. Okay. So
he's just come from this dinner and he's all excited. He's in good spirits, it says, but when
Haman saw Mordecai at the Kings gates and Mordecai did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence,
Haman was filled with rage towards Mordecai.
Yet Haman controlled himself and went home.
He sent first friends and his wife,
Zaresh, mice, to join him.
And then Haman described for them his glorious wealth
and his many sons.
He told them all how he and the king
had promoted, or how the king had promoted him in rank
and given him a high position over the other officials
in the royal staff.
What's more, Haman added, "Queen Esther invited no one but me
to join the king of the banquet that she had prepared for him.
I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.
Still, none of this satisfies me since I see Mordecai the Jew
sitting in the king's gates all the time.
He might have some unresolved issues."
So basically his wife and his friends
advise him to build a 75 foot gallows and ask the king the next day to hang Mordecai.
Now it seems like, guys, Mordecai's gonna win.

It seems like Hammond's gonna win, doesn't it?
Right?
It's like, but he's got all his favor and the king listens to him and the, oh, but God.
I love the but gods.
Did that come out wrong?
Chapter 6, "That night sleep escaped the king."
So he ordered the book, recording daily events to be brought and read to the king, and they
found written there the report of how Mordecai had informed on these names are really unfortunate.
Big Santa and Teresh.
Wow.
Well, at least it wasn't a female.
Two eunuchs who gathered the kings at the king's entrance when they planned to assassinate
King Xerces, and the king inquired what honor and special reggignition have been given to
Mordecai for this act.
And the king's personal attendance replied, "Nothing has been done for Hammon."
So the king asked, "Hey, who's out in the court?"
And they say, "Hammon's there."
And we know Hammon's there because he wants to request what?
For the king to kill Mordecai, right?
So he has Hammond come in and he says to Hammond, "Haven, what should be done for somebody that
the king wants to favor?"
Now who does Hammond think the king is talking about?
Himself, right?
So he's like, "Well, a robe should be brought forth that the king has worn before and a
horse that the king has ridden and catch this, a crown on the horse, not on the person."
I got stuck on that for a bit, like how they make the crown state.
But anyway.

And the king says, "That's an awesome idea.
Go now, you do it to Mordecai."
Now that had to sting.
Right? You gotta think.
I mean, Hammond was like,
awesome.
Love to you.
Fantastic.
Gonna do it right now.
And it actually says,
well, you can, you know, you can kind of read into it,
but it actually says,
when he's actually done this,
he basically goes home and licks his wounds.
Like, you have no idea what happened today.
And then his family says, "Oh, if this Mordecai is a Jew,
much worse things are gonna happen to you
for trying to mess with him."
And it's true.
So the next day he goes back
and everybody knows what happens.
Esther says to the king, you know, he asks again,
"I'll give you up to half my kingdom.
What is it that you want?
Why are we having these dinners?"
And she says, there's a plot against my people.
They're trying to kill them all.
They're trying to destroy them.
He says, this is horrible.
Who has done this?
And she says, it's him.
It's Hammon.

And Mordecai starts begging the queen.
Oh, please, please.

When Xerces comes back in, he says, now you're
going to molest the queen and has him hung on his own gallows.
Has Hammond hung on his own gallows?
Did I say Mordecai again?
Darn.
So what I think is even interesting just about
that little bit is,
Hammond wasn't actually molesting the queen.
He was begging for his life,
but he was, his actions were misunderstood,
just like he had maligned the actions of Mordecai.
So he's, yeah, exactly.
He's actually reaping what he's sown.
But it earns him death because that's what makes the king go.
That's it, kill him.
Interesting.
Here's the things that we learn from Esther.
I think the two keys to her actually saving her people
are that she honored and obeyed Mordecai.

She honored Mordecai.
Mordecai said, "You need to go and you need to stand up for your people."
Who knows?
Maybe you're here for such a time as this.
Mordecai knows what he's asking of her.
She's risking her life.
But she chooses to honor and she chooses to obey Mordecai.
And that is what actually frees her people because the king reverses the order.
In fact, he even goes one better.
He says they're allowed to attack those that try and attack them and take all of their
stuff too.

"Let's move on to Ruth, shall we?"
Wait, let me check my scribbles.
Yeah, to go back to
to Hammond for just a second and his little plots.
You know, we talked about how many of us have experienced the thing where something's going on behind you.
And there's nothing you can do about it
except for ask God to intervene.
And maybe you've ever had that scenario going on, right?
It's a total bummer and you kind of want to you wish you could broadcast something, you know, I didn't do it. I miss a new start
I'm glorious, you know
But here's the thing
God loves to bring things into the light
He does things will come into the light they sure did for Hammon
It got brought into the light. What was actually happening?
So if you're in a moment where you feel like, "Lord, I feel so misunderstood.
I feel like stuff is going on in the background to make me look bad or whatever."
Really?
You don't have to do anything about it.
All you have to do is trust God.
Sometimes that's harder.
Right?
Seeing God, obeying God, listening to God, those things are all way harder when things
are in a rough place.
It's really easy to honor and obey people that are in authority when everything's going
the right direction.
It's a lot harder when that person stands up and goes, "I think it would be better if
you put on."
I've had lots of those moments in my life because I can honestly say that I've chosen
to walk underneath Godly authority for 22 years at this point.
Now before that, I would probably more accurately say I fought against authority and I would
talk about them behind their backs and even if I didn't see anything out loud in my heart,
I would grumble against them.
But about 22 years ago, I decided to start trusting the people that God had put in my
life to love me back to life and at that time it was John and Carol and there were tons of moments
where they were saying that thing there God wants that thing there and I'm like
or actually I think maybe you need to sit aside for a season and do this and I'd be like
but every single time that I chose to honor God actually brought the fruit out that he wanted
And there were a couple times when I chose not to honor right away and then you just
end up in a stalemate until you do choose to honor.
Just I know it's a bit of a plot killer.
I told you the thing that happens at the end before it happens but that's just what happens.
We don't get a reward for listening to authority when they're only saying exactly what we want
to do. It's great when they are saying exactly what we're going to do. That's awesome, right?
But sometimes they're going to go and we're going to go, "Okay." God always honors us
as we honor. He really does. Even when it doesn't make sense to us at the moment. So
Let's look at Ruth for a second.
I regret to inform you that are not enjoying this message
that Ruth essentially has the exact same keys
to favor in her life.
See, they're leaving already, it's really sad.
Just kidding, I'm just kidding, I was right.
Just kidding.
Potty break, I understand.
Essentially it's honor and obedience, right?
So Ruth, Ruth was basically known for her attitude,
her great attitude, but for the story of Ruth,
Ruth ends up, I can't pronounce any of these people's names.
It's like Malon and Killian are the sons
And then it's a mimi mimi like a mimi that guy, okay?
Is the dad anyway, the Mo guy, Mary's Naomi.
And there's a famine and so they go to Moab.

And then all three of the men die.
That by the way is a bad year.
So, they all die and Naomi decides that she's going to return to her people.
She's going to return to Judah.
And the daughters, to begin with, they come with her, but then she actually encourages
them, "Go back.
There's still a chance for you to marry someone else, to have kids.
They have no kids.
They have no one who can later on in life take care of them."
Okay?
So Naomi says, "Hey guys, go back.
Go and have a life."
And so I want to say Oprah, but that wasn't her name.
It's like missing an R or something, OPPA or something like that.
She does agree to go back and she goes back.
But Ruth stays with Naomi.
Now I think it's because Ruth realizes Naomi on her own, how does she survive?
How does she make the trip?
How does she take care of herself?
young enough that she can actually go out there and do some physical labor and
that kind of stuff Naomi probably isn't okay and so Ruth says let your people
be my people let your God be my God and she goes with her right everybody know
the story so far and so as they go again favor follows Ruth right so they get
there and one morning Ruth gets up and she says I'm gonna go into the fields
and I'm gonna glean.
So that basically meant that she would stay behind those
that were harvesting and pick up any little bits
that she could in order to be able to feed her and Naomi.
Okay?
And as she does that, she ends up in Boaz's field.
And the very, it says she's there,
she's in that field and Boaz notices her,
which is very cool.
So let's go here for a second.
Let's go to Ruth 2, verse 8.
So Boas has noticed her in the field
and goes over and talks to her
and it says, "B Boas said to Ruth,
"listen my daughter,
"don't go and gather grain in another field
"and don't leave this one,
"but stay here close to my young woman.
"See which field they are harvesting and follow them.
"Have and I ordered the young men not to touch you.
When you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars that the young men have filled.
She bowed with her face to the ground and said to him,
"Why are you so kind to notice me?"
"Although I am a foreigner," Boaz answered her,
"Everything that you have done for your mother-in-law
since your husband's death has been fully reported to me.
How you left your father and mother and the land of your birth
and how you came to a people that you didn't previously know. May the Lord reward you for
what you have done, and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel under whose
wings you have come for refuge." What she had chosen to do to serve somebody that was
an authority above her granted, who she obviously loved, God was now honoring out in the open.
And she was a Moabite.
She was a foreigner, which would make her somebody that they didn't necessarily want
to associate with.
But he was not only wanting to associate with her, but actually making room.
He later tells his harvesters, "Leave lots behind," so she gets lots, so she doesn't
have to work hard for anything.
Have her come in for food.
Like he's totally taking care of her.
And then later on, Naomi says, which this is a whole kind of bizarre thing, but for those
of you that know where I'm going.
You know, Naomi says, "Go and lay at his feet and ask him to be your Kingsman Redeemer."
So there's something in Leviticus called a "Kinsman Redeemer."
And basically what it was for was if a woman got married and the husband died, she could
go to a family member of the husband and ask him to redeem the dead man's family line by
giving her a child in the hopes that that child will be able to take care of her and
be able to take over the inheritance and all that kind of stuff.
OK?
Awkward.
For sure.
But she's so Naomi's like, so you got to think,
this is not Moabite culture.
She's totally just honoring Naomi and going, oh, hey,
this is what we do.
I'm going to brush my hair.
And woo-hoo, here we go.

So he wakes up in the middle of the night and there is a woman lying at his feet.
That granted he's met her before.
Alan says it reminds me of how he met.
Does it though?
So there she is, she's lying at his feet and she asks him to be the kinsman redeemer.
Now he actually says, "I'm not your first kinsman redeemer, I'm not your closest relative."
Because actually with her would come any land that Naomi had or that the sons had been given
all that kind of stuff, right?
So if you're going to be the kinsman redeemer, you get all the land but you also have to
provide an heir or try to anyway, okay?
I was just about to go inappropriate.
I felt your inappropriateness coming and I was just going to channel it.
Yes.
So anyway, so he goes and he goes to the city gate and he has like all the elders there
and he calls the actual guy who's supposed to be able to redeem her if he wants to.
he says, "No, me is returned and she has a plot of land and it's yours if you want it."
And he's like, "Well, then I shall have it."
And he says, "Oh, but with it comes the Moabite."
Now he knows that's not a good thing to any Israelite.
"Oh, by the way, you get the foreigner and you have to give her a child."
And he says, "Oh, no, that's going to mess with my own inheritance with my kids.
You can have her."
Boaz is smart.
And so them Boaz goes and actually marries her.
And they have a child called Obid.
Interesting.
Obid is the father of Jesse.
Jesse is the father of David.
So they have a child that is in the line of Jesus
who's the ultimate kinsman redeemer.
Again, it's out of Ruth choosing to honor and choosing to obey even when she didn't
understand the customs and it seemed really awkward.
That God brought about a restoration and a redemption.
He actually likes us to operate in obedience.
He loves us to operate in obedience to Him and to honor and listen to people that are
an authority that He is placed there, even if it's not popular.
Here's the thing.
This is just sort of the musings of my heart, perhaps in jumbled form.
I think often the reason that people are building theologies that take authority out of the mix
is because they've been hurt by authority and have them process their wounding.
Because we do that in all kinds of areas of our lives, don't we?
When you have an area where you get hurt or you don't understand why God moved a certain
way often, we build a theology that makes whatever that was okay and we move on.
But it's not necessarily a theology that lines up with Scripture.
We do it with stuff like why aren't we getting healed?
We do it with all kinds of things.
And I think granted, lots of people have been hurt by people in authority.
I have too.
I get that.
So I'm definitely saying you want to be looking for people to get underneath that you know
are the kind of people that love God, that listen to God, that are going to love you
well or not just like in it to say, "Hey, stock chairs."
Because I've met leaders like that too.
But I'll tell you something, even honoring those leaders, God will honor you.
I have been in situations and I'll leave names out, but I've been in situations where I've
had people in authority over me for a season that I would say honestly were spiritually
abusive. And in the midst of those seasons, I'm not saying I enjoyed them. I didn't. And
I felt misunderstood and I felt maligned. And I was like, I want to give up. But every
single one of those situations, and there was a couple, the Lord brought the truth out eventually.
Every single one. And every single one, I was so glad in the end that I had chosen to just
honor and believe that God was somehow going to do something.
And it was a big death process, but honestly, I learned a lot.
I also learned a lot about the kind of stuff I don't want to do to other people.
Leaders will make mistakes.
Yep.
We will.
We have.
I know that we hurt people.
I hope that we're really fast to apologize when we know.
I mean, that's the best I can do is go, "Fff, I'm so sorry.
Let can we process this together.
Does that make sense?
There's not perfect people out there that aren't going to hurt you."
But I absolutely know God will honor you as you honor those that he's placed above you.
Here's an interesting thought for you.
Jesus honored, delegated authority even though he was the son of God.
Right?
Jesus went and got baptized by John the Baptist.
Remember the whole argument?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
But actually he chose to honor earthly authority and get baptized by John.
And that's actually when all the miracles started happening was right after that.
Just so you know.
Here's the thing.
I really think that obedience and honor, and I know obedience, I don't know if obedience is exactly the word I want to use this.
the word I want to use there, but let's maybe more focus on honor, releases you into your
destiny because that's what causes you to walk in favor and favor releases you into
destiny.
One of the things that makes me the most concerned when I see people not walking under
authority isn't part of it is the whole you're not under a covering who's protecting you.
wide open folks, but it's not just that it's your short circuiting your destiny
because unless you're walking underneath authority or you're not going to have access to your destiny.

Or what if your destiny is about a nation?
What if the test that God's asking you to pass now
is actually a lot more important than you think it is?
So here's my thoughts.
Well, let me say this, and I don't, maybe, baby can help me with this, but I was thinking
about when I worked for National Car Rental, and I worked for them for about four and a
half years, when I started there, my interview was with the president and the VP operations.

And I said, "I want to be in full-time ministry, and I believe the Lord told me I'll be in
it in five years."
So until then you have 150 percent.
But when God says go, I'm gone.
And they said, cool, we'll take it, we'll take your five years.
And I was like, cool.
And I remember a couple months in, I was working in a different department.
And one of the people that was over me told me to lie.
Tricky.
Tricky, right?
tricky, but I'm like, okay, God says don't lie. This guy says lie. And at that point,
I had to go, okay, God, this one's in your arms to protect me because I'm not going to
do it. But I was really clear. Can't do that. That's lying. And he said, I'm going to go
talk to Vince. I'll have you fired. And I said, you can do that if you want. But I can't do
what you're asking me to do. Okay, I'm going to go back to work now. So I went back to
to work.  And Vince said, what happened? And
he didn't really say exactly how it happened. And Vince actually said to the guy, so you
asked her to lie. And he said, well, you know, he said, you asked her to lie. And he's like,
well, yeah, but it's the best thing or whatever. And he said, she won't lie. And I won't fire
for it. And that was it. The whole thing was over.
I'm not saying that if somebody in authority tells you to do something that's again scripture
to do it.
But I think there's a way to still honor people and do what God's ask you to do in
the midst of it.
Does that make sense?
Let God have your back and just check your attitude at the door and try and do your best
to be where God's asking you to be at the moment
and be the person God's asking you to be in that place.
So here's my thought for you.
I actually thought it would be fun to take a minute
to ask the Lord, God, who have you asked me
to be under authority with?
Like who have you placed in my life
to speak into my life and to call me to life?
And I would say, put it right down your phone.
I'll tell you why.
Because it could be that a couple of months from now,
that very same person might disagree with you
about something and say, "Ooh, I feel like God is saying this."
And you don't wanna go, "Oh, God never said that person
in the first place, so I just chose them myself."

We wanna do stuff like that, don't we?
Just me.
So take a second and just be like, "Okay, Lord.
Who have you placed in my life that you want me to receive from and walk underneath?
Now, please understand by walk underneath, I do not mean you're a peon at all.

So if you have your phone or something you can write it in,
go ahead and just write down whoever that is.
For some of you, it might be your parents.
For some of you, you might have three or four different people.
It's my parents, and then it's this person, it's that person.
Or you can say, "Lord, I have no idea.
"Could you bring these people in my life
"because I want to walk under authority."
Here's sort of my final thing before I ask Alan if he wants to add anything.
Please do not be the people that diss on our government.
Whether you like the people in power at the moment right now or not, God has delegated
them authority.
Pray for them.
Quit posting stuff on Facebook about them.
Right?
Our job is to pray and to not be part of the people that are trying to tear them down,
but actually people that are saying, "Lord, you can awaken them in their..."
You know, you can keep them awake at night and remind them of things.
You can do amazing things.
You can turn this around.
Lord, would you work in this person's life
as opposed to being part of the people that are,
you know, trying to riff them down?
Babe, do you wanna add anything wise, sage-like?
Is that the right word?
Nope.
Shanks.
Let's do this.
Why don't we stand?
Father, I thank you for this incredible group of people.
And Lord, I thank you that you have a plan and a destiny for every single beating heart
in this room.
Lord, I ask that you would even now be orchestrating
and organizing things for their blessing,
for their favor, and for their release into their destiny.
Lord, I ask for each person in this room,
God, that you would raise up safe leaders
that would love them enough to challenge them,
but also love them enough to open doors for them.
Wow.
And God, I ask that you would help us
as people who are under authority to respond well to authority,
to be teachable, to be able to hear and respond well.
And Lord, I ask for any of us that are experiencing that thing
where others are talking and saying things
and we have no way of defending ourselves,
God that you would bring things to the light.
God, I thank you that you really do love us and you're in the details.
You know what's going on.
And so God, would you make us people that know how to walk in righteousness, that know
how to walk in favor, that know how to walk in honor and that do it well?
Yeah.
Yeah.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
men. Can I get you to have a seat again for a second? If you are currently in some level
of authority over other people, whether it's at your job or whether it's you're leading
a small group or you're in some sort of church leadership, would you stand?
So can you guys all stretch your hands towards everybody that's standing?
Father, we bless these people with wisdom.
God, we bless them with your eyes to see people as they are,
to see the callings that you've placed within people,
to see the giftings, to see where they need to be loved back to life.
God, I ask that you would give us as leaders your eyes to see others.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Lord, I ask also for these leaders, God,
for any that have just sort of gotten a bit sheep bitten
by people that are around them
or people that have said things.
Lord, I ask that you would restore us.
God, that you would just pull out any little arrows
that we've received.
Wow.
Lord, that you would help us to be full of love and not cynical or demanding or anything
like that, God, that we would be people that love well, the people that you've placed in
front of us to love.
And we thank you that you're working in our lives and you're not done with us yet.
Yeah.
I want you, if you're standing to say this, I give myself permission to not be perfect.
to learn how to apologize?
Wow.
And to learn how to love well.
And I ask for your help
because I need it.


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Serves
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Dietary
Take ever-popular squash soup to the next level with the addition of lime, spinach and a poached egg.
Heat a sauté pan or a large saucepan until hot. Add half of the butter and the onion and fry for 1-2 minutes.
Add the squash and cook for another two minutes. Add the garlic and cook for a further minute.
Add the stock and bring to the boil, reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for five minutes, or until the squash is tender.
Add the lime juice and double cream, cool slightly, then transfer to a food processor and blend to a purée. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Return the purée to the pan and heat through.
Meanwhile, bring a saucepan of water to a simmer and fill a bowl with iced water.
Add the vinegar to the pan, then swirl the water and crack in two eggs at a time. Poach for 1½ minutes, or until just cooked.
Remove the eggs using a slotted spoon and transfer to the bowl of iced water. Poach the remaining eggs in the same way.
Heat a frying pan until medium-hot, add the remaining butter and heat until foaming, then add the spinach and fry gently until just wilted. Season to taste with salt and black pepper, then drain on kitchen paper.
When ready to serve, drop the eggs back into gently simmering water to reheat (approximately 30 seconds to a minute, depending on how long the eggs were sat in cold water). Lift out, drain onto kitchen paper and season with a little salt and black pepper.
Place a mound of spinach into each serving bowl, pour over the soup, top with a little more spinach and a poached egg. Finish with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a few cress.


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.format(timeout, filename))
def await_pid(self, timeout):
Wait up to a given timeout for a process to launch.
self._wait_for_file(self.get_pid_path(), timeout)
return self._get_pid()


quotek::
broker
¶broker class is meant to embedd all the methods that interract with the broker configured by the user.
Public Functions
broker
(strategy *s)¶Broker object constructor
strategy
- back link to parent strategy object
buy
(std::string asset, int quantity, int stop, int limit)¶buy sends a buy order to the broker. it will then open a long position having the caracteristics defined in the arguments.
asset
- name of the asset to take position on.
quantity
- Number of contracts to take for the position.
stop
- Stop-loss security thereshold, in BPS.
limit
- Profit thereshold before close, in BPS.
buy_hedged
(std::string asset, std::string hedged_asset, int quantity, int stop, int limit)¶buy_hedged sends a buy order to the broker along with a sell order for the another asset. quantity, stop and limits are the same for the long position and the hedged one.
asset
- name of the asset to take position on.
hedged_asset
- name of the asset to take position on for hedging.
quantity
- Number of contracts to take for the position.
stop
- Stop-loss security thereshold, in BPS.
limit
- Profit thereshold before close, in BPS.
buy_hedged_asym
(std::string asset, int quantity, int stop, int limit, std::string hedged_asset, int hedged_quantity, int hedged_stop, int hedged_limit)¶same than buy_hedged but here you can choose the quantity, stop and limit for hedged asset.
sell
(std::string asset, int quantity, int stop, int limit)¶sell sends a sell order to the broker. It will then open a short position having the caracteristics defined in the arguments.
asset
- name of the asset to take position on.
quantity
- Number of contracts to take for the position.
stop
- Stop-loss security thereshold, in BPS.
limit
- Profit thereshold before close, in BPS.
smartbuy
(std::string asset, int expexted_risk_reward)¶smartbuy will place a long trade where stop and limit will be automatically computed according to:
smartsell
(std::string asset, int expexted_risk_reward)¶smartsell will place a short trade where stop and limit will be automatically computed according to:
close_position
(std::string ticket_id)¶close_position allows to close a position given its ticket id given by the broker.
ticket_id
- id of the position ticket provided by the broker.


Mklaren is a library containing Multiple kernel learning and Kernel low-rank approximation methods, written in Python.
Features:
import os
os.chdir("..")
import mklaren
import datasets
% matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
np.set_printoptions(precision=3)
The input data is represented by a set pairs:
$$ \{(\mathbf{x}_1, y_1), (\mathbf{x}_2, y_2), ..., (\mathbf{x}_n, y_n)\}$$
where $\mathbf{x}_i$ represent independent variables (covariates) and $y_i$ are real-valued regression targets. The data is split in 50% (training set) and 50% (test set) in this example.
from datasets.delve import load_boston
data = load_boston()
X = data["data"]
y = data["target"]
print X.shape
tr = range(0, len(X), 2)
te = range(1, len(X), 2)
X_tr, X_te = X[tr], X[te]
y_tr, y_te = y[tr], y[te]
The central data structure in the library is the Kinterface
(Kernel interface) class. It mimics a Numpy array storing a kernel matrix generated by the kernel
function (with parameters kernel_args
) on a finite data
sample. The idea behind Kinterface
is the dynamic calculation of the kernel matrix values, as the usual kernel matrix approximation algorithms do not require access to the full kernel matrix.
from mklaren.kernel.kinterface import Kinterface
from mklaren.kernel.kernel import rbf_kernel
K = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=rbf_kernel, kernel_args={"sigma": 30})
K.shape
The Kinterface
is accessed in a same way as a standard Numpy array, via the addressing brackets. The brackets notation always assumes two arguments and addresses parts of the kernel matrix.
print "The value of K at row 42 and column 66: "
print K[42, 66]
print
print "A 3x3 submatrix of K"
print K[:3, :3]
print "Another 3x3 submatrix"
print K[[0, 10, 20], [1, 2, 5]]
print
print "The value of K of sample 0 against samples 0, 1, 2 ..., 9: "
print K[0, :10]
print
Similarly, the full kernel matrix can be generated.
plt.figure()
plt.imshow(K[:, :])
plt.show()
The low rank approximations to K
find a low rank matrix (termed $\mathbf{G}$) such that
$$ \mathbf{K} = \mathbf{G}\mathbf{G}^T $$.
Incomplete Cholesky decomposition finds $\mathbf{G}$ by greedily maximizing a lower-bound to the gain in approximation error (Fine, 2002).
from mklaren.projection.icd import ICD
model = ICD(rank=15)
model.fit(K)
G_icd = model.G
inxs = model.active_set_
print "G shape:", G_icd.shape, "Error:", np.linalg.norm(K[:, :]-G_icd.dot(G_icd.T))
The Nystrom approximation (Seeger, 2001) randomly selects a subset of active colums $\mathcal{A}$ and approximates
$$ \mathbf{\hat{K}} = \mathbf{K}(:, \mathcal{A}) \mathbf{K}^{-1}(\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{A}) \mathbf{K}(:, \mathcal{A})^T $$
or in terms of $\mathbf{G}$:
$$ \mathbf{G} = \mathbf{K}(:, \mathcal{A}) \mathbf{K}^{-1/2}(\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{A}) $$
from mklaren.projection.nystrom import Nystrom
model = Nystrom(rank=15)
model.fit(K)
G_nyst = model.G
print "G shape:", G_nyst.shape, "Error:", np.linalg.norm(K[:, :]-G_nyst.dot(G_nyst.T))
The approximations can be compared also visually.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=3, figsize=(10, 6))
ax[0].imshow(K[:, :])
ax[0].set_title("Original")
ax[1].imshow(G_icd.dot(G_icd.T))
ax[1].set_title("ICD")
ax[2].imshow(G_nyst.dot(G_nyst.T))
ax[2].set_title("Nystroem")
fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()
from mklaren.regression.ridge import RidgeLowRank
for method in "nystrom", "icd":
model = RidgeLowRank(method=method, rank=15)
model.fit([K], y_tr)
yp = model.predict([X_te])
rmse = np.var(y_te-yp)**0.5
print "Method:", method, "Test RMSE:", rmse
Multiple kernels can be passed to RidgeLowRank
model. This corresponds to an uniform combination of kernels in low-rank feature spaces.
from mklaren.kernel.kernel import linear_kernel, poly_kernel
K_exp = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=rbf_kernel, kernel_args={"sigma": 30}) # RBF kernel
K_poly = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=poly_kernel, kernel_args={"p": 3}) # polynomial kernel with degree=3
K_lin = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=linear_kernel) # linear kernel
model = RidgeLowRank(method="nystrom", rank=5, lbd=1)
model.fit([K_exp, K_lin, K_poly], y_tr)
yp = model.predict([X_te, X_te, X_te]) # The features passed to each kernel
rmse = np.var(y_tr-yp)**0.5
print "Test RMSE:", rmse
Alternatively, multiple kernel learning methods can be used to learn an optimal combination of kernels. The mklaren
library implements methods based on centered kernel alignment (Cortes et. al, 2012). The following methods operate on full kernel matrices.
Given $p$ kernel matrices $\mathbf{K}_1, \mathbf{K}_2, ..., \mathbf{K}_p$, centered kernel alignment learns a linear combination of kernels resulting in a combined kernel matrix.
$$ \mathbf{K}_{c\mu} = \sum_{q=1}^p \mu_q \mathbf{K}_{cq} $$where $\mathbf{K}_{cq}$ is the centered kernel matrix: $$\mathbf{K}_{cq} = (\mathbf{I} - \frac{\mathbf{11}^1}{n})\mathbf{K}_q (\mathbf{I} - \frac{\mathbf{11}^1}{n})$$
The following methods perform a constrained optimization over $\mathbf{\mu} = (\mu_1, \mu_2, ... \mu_p)$ maximizing the centered alignment:
$$ A = \frac{<\mathbf{K}_{c\mu}, \mathbf{y}\mathbf{y}^T>_F} {n <\mathbf{K}_{c\mu}, \mathbf{K}_{c\mu}>_F} $$where $\mathbf{y}\mathbf{y}^T$ is the ideal kernel based on target vector $\mathbf{y}$ and $<., .>_F$ is a matrix inner product (the Frobenius product).
align. The align
method sets each $\mu_q$ independently such that
$$ \mu_q = <\mathbf{K}_{c\mu}, \mathbf{y}\mathbf{y}^T>_F^d $$
with a user-defined parameter $d$.
from mklaren.mkl.align import Align
model = Align()
model.fit([K_exp, K_lin, K_poly], y_tr)
model.mu # kernel weights
alignf. The alignf
method optimizes with respect to $\mathbf{\mu}$ to maximize centered alignment.
$$ \text{max}_{\mathbf{\mu}} \frac{<\mathbf{K}_{c\mu}, \mathbf{y}\mathbf{y}^T>_F} {n <\mathbf{K}_{c\mu}, \mathbf{K}_{c\mu}>_F} $$
such that (typ=linear
):
$$ \sum \mu_q = 1$$
or contraining sum of wieghts to a convex combination (typ=convex
):
$$ \sum \mu_q = 1 \text{ and } \mu_q > 0, \forall q$$
from mklaren.mkl.alignf import Alignf
model = Alignf(typ="linear")
model.fit([K_exp, K_lin, K_poly], y_tr)
model.mu # kernel weights
model = Alignf(typ="convex")
model.fit([K_exp, K_lin, K_poly], y_tr)
model.mu # kernel weights (convex combination)
The Kinterface
class provide a callable. A new kernel function is a linear combination of base kernels.
mu = model.mu
combined_kernel = lambda x, y: \
mu[0] * K_exp(x, y) + mu[1] * K_lin(x, y) + mu[2] * K_poly(x, y)
combined_kernel(np.array([0, 1, 2]), np.array([2, 1, 0]), )
The obtained callable can be used e.g. in sklearn
kernel methods.
from sklearn.kernel_ridge import KernelRidge
krr = KernelRidge(kernel=combined_kernel, alpha=10.0)
krr.fit(X_tr, y_tr)
yp = krr.predict(X_te)
print "Test RMSE:", np.var(y_te-yp)**0.5
The Mklaren algorithm (Multiple kernel learning with least-angle regression) perform simultaneous low-rank approximation of multiple kernel learning using least-angle regression (Stražar & Curk, 2016).
from mklaren.mkl.mklaren import Mklaren
K_exp = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=rbf_kernel, kernel_args={"sigma": 30}) # RBF kernel
K_poly = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=poly_kernel, kernel_args={"p": 3}) # polynomial kernel with degree=3
K_lin = Kinterface(data=X_tr, kernel=linear_kernel)
model = Mklaren(rank=15, lbd=1, delta=30)
model.fit([K_exp, K_lin, K_poly], y_tr)
yp = model.predict([X_te, X_te, X_te])
print "Test RMSE:", np.var(y_te-yp)**0.5
Kernel more related to targets are approximated with greater accuracy.
G_exp = model.data[0]["G"]
G_lin = model.data[1]["G"]
G_poly = model.data[2]["G"]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=3, figsize=(8, 4))
for i, (name, K, G) in enumerate(zip(["exp", "lin", "poly"],
[K_exp, K_lin, K_poly],
[G_exp, G_lin, G_poly])):
ax[0, i].set_title(name)
ax[0, i].imshow(K[:, :])
ax[1, i].imshow(G.dot(G.T))
ax[0, 0].set_ylabel("Original")
ax[1, 0].set_ylabel("Mklaren")
fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()


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Here, you will find estimates of the socioeconomic status (SES) percentile scores of various countries across the globe over a 130-year timeframe. Data source: kaggle.


Example representations for some of the resources are given below.
Note that the resource attribute names match the XML tags and JSON names. However, there can be extraneous attributes in the API's response, and they must be ignored. Only the attributes listed in the Resources Section above form the API.
[ { "experiment":0, "algorithmName":"Traverse Paths", "graphSize":20000, "withCycles":false, "hasCycles":false, "execTime":57953.002641 }, { "experiment":0, "algorithmName":"Discard Deadends", "graphSize":20000, "withCycles":false, "hasCycles":false, "execTime":7648.072389 } ]
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I have taken part in many different sports.
I enjoy the buzz it gives me, along with the social advantage it offers of meeting new friends.
Of course, there's also the obvious health benefit of fitness and sanity. I've always been interested in sports, from watching rugby
matches on the TV to travelling to foreign countries to perform at festivals.
Over many years I have tried a variety of sports including:
| Sport | No. of years played |
| Football | 2 years |
| Soccer | 5 years |
| Hockey | 3 years |
| Gymnastics | 3 years |
| Boxing | 4 years |
| Irish Dancing | 13 years |
Boxing | Irish Dancing |
| My favourite of all, boxing, has been the most rewarding but challenging.
I began it in 4th years as part of Gaisce presidential award, and I'm glad I did. The fitness aspect is very beneficial as training consists of an hour of running, skipping and HIT training. It also equips me with important self defence skills |
Irish Dancing has been my main sport for many years now.
I began when I was 4 and have loved it ever since. The most competitive years came in 2016 and 2017 where I competed at the Irish Dancing World Championships in Glasgow and Dublin. I must admit, it took me a while to get used to the wigs, fake tan and fancy dresses, but once you look past that you see the talent and dedication of the dancers. Click here to view an article defending Irish Dance against shallow accusations |
Soccer | Hockey |
| Another sport which benefited me a lot was soccer which I played from the age of 9 to 14.
I played with Richmond, a small team with big players. It was through this soccer team that I met many of my childhood friends whom I am still in contact with today. Click here to view Richmond FC's website |
Finally, I also played with the school Hockey team in Cholaiste Choilm from 1st to 3rd year. This consisted of weekly training sessions, where our coach would wear us down with excessive burpees session. We also played many and matches throughout the year (which would excuse us from classes to our delight) |


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As a hobby, I created an iOS puzzle game. The game is logically challenging, while also striving to be fun and entertaining. The objective of the game is to help a lost balloon find their way out of a ventilation system.
The player guides the balloon by making light taps. When a light tap is visible, the balloon follows the light. The balloon will go to the exit if it sees it, but there are many dangerous obstacles on the way...
There are 9 balloon characters that users can pick from. This lets users customize the game to their taste and style.
Each character has their own voice and personality. I worked with actors and friends to do the voice recordings an make sure that each balloon was voiced uniquely.
We developed low-fi prototypes that allowed us to easily
Rapid prototyping of game levels was needed, and due to a lack of a good third-party tool, I developed my own. It is a drag & drop editor that can export levels in a format that the game can read them. This allowed me to test numerous levels in a very short time period. Here is what the tool looks like:


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Note that the system does not contain all Alko beer. Notably, all lagers with the exception of Karhu A are missing right now.
Beer rating scores are from the wonderful RateBeer.com.


object
Useful predicates over lists of pairs (key-value terms).
Paulo Moura
1.1
2011/1/7
static, context_switching_calls
(no dependencies on other files)
Converts between a list of pairs and lists of keys and values.
static
keys_values(Pairs,Keys,Values)
keys_values(+list(pair),-list,-list) – one
keys_values(-list(pair),+list,+list) – one
Extracts a list of keys from a list of pairs.
static
keys(Pairs,Keys)
keys(+list(pair),-list) – one
Extracts a list of values from a list of pairs.
static
values(Pairs,Values)
values(+list(pair),-list) – one
Transposes a list of pairs by swapping each pair key and value. The relative order of the list elements is kept.
static
transpose(Pairs,TransposedPairs)
transpose(+list(pair),-list(pair)) – one
(none)
(none)


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This package contains basic components 1D mechanical translational drive trains.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Fixed | Fixed flange |
| Mass | Sliding mass with inertia |
| Rod | Rod without inertia |
| Spring | Linear 1D translational spring |
| Damper | Linear 1D translational damper |
| SpringDamper | Linear 1D translational spring and damper in parallel |
| ElastoGap | 1D translational spring damper combination with gap |
| SupportFriction | Coulomb friction in support |
| Brake | Brake based on Coulomb friction |
| IdealGearR2T | Gearbox transforming rotational into translational motion |
| IdealRollingWheel | Simple 1-dim. model of an ideal rolling wheel without inertia |
| InitializeFlange | Initializes a flange with pre-defined position, speed and acceleration (usually, this is reference data from a control bus) |
| MassWithStopAndFriction | Sliding mass with hard stop and Stribeck friction |
| RelativeStates | Definition of relative state variables |
| GeneralForceToPositionAdaptor | Signal adaptor for a Translational flange with position, speed, and acceleration as outputs and force as input (especially useful for FMUs) |
| GeneralPositionToForceAdaptor | Signal adaptor for a Translational flange with force as output and position, speed and acceleration as input (especially useful for FMUs) |


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At a very basic and simple level, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), is the bones of a webpage. This is where the content that is to be shown on the webpage is set. This includes setting titles, paragraphs of text, images, links to other pages etc.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) on the other hand is used to organise and style those bones. With CSS we can arrange HTML segments on the page. We can colour text and backgrounds. We can select fonts and the size fo text. We can do some very basic animation and much much more!
With all this talk of bones, lets use a skeleton as an analogy to describe the difference between HTML and CSS
So lets create out skeleton shall we?
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Pretty basic huh?
In fig 1. you can see the HTML code that turns into the content in fig 2. A quick view of fig .1 shows the layout of our skeleton.
Inside the body tag we have a 'skeleton' container section. Inside the skeleton container we see a few sections, each representing a section of our skeleton.The top 'header' segment contains our skull, after that the 'topHalf' segment contains our arms and torso, then finally in the 'footer' segment we have our legs. At the moment however all the bones are in a pile, there is no visual structure.
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The CSS used here is able to grid out the webpage as the user chooses. In the example above we are able to set up a grid which organises our bones into their correct places on the webpage.
sidenote: Some great resources for CSS grid -
css-tricks a great beginners guide to CSS grid
layoutit fantastic and easy tool to create a grid system
Now lets add some style, lets put some meat on these bones, then a cool hat on that meat.
Now, is this the most beautiful Webpage ever made? very much no. It is however a great example of what you can do with CSS
Amongst other things were able to set a font and the colour that font is, set background-colours to our grid sections, add stylized borders and do more aligning of segments (mainly vertically) with CSS flexbox (note: I added a few extra paragraphs with random text into the torso section to help show spacing)
If you would like to look at all thats been added here is a link to a codepen -
See the Pen skele.html by Louis (@stupidcocain) on CodePen.
As I misread the instructions and only answered one of the questions, here is a link to the other questions


L.A. Confidential", a review by Ed Johnson-Ott.
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In "L.A. Confidential", James Ellroy's novel of police corruption in 1950's Hollywood becomes a powerful, stylish film with dazzling acting from an exceptional cast. Gorgeous art direction highlights the lurid pulp tone of this complex, violent tale. "L.A. Confidential" is a rarity, a major Hollywood film with smart acting, dialogue and production values that actually works from beginning to end. The noir thriller about rogue cops takes place in 1953, when Los Angeles still seemed glamorous and magical, as opposed to now, where it is simply the worst city on Earth. A major mob boss goes to jail, prompting a feeding frenzy as bad guys scramble for his turf. Meanwhile, a corrupt officer is one of the victims of a grisly coffee shop murder, triggering a massive police investigation.  The art direction of "L.A. Confidential" is spectacular, perfectly recreating a picture-postcard Hollywood. Director Curtis Hanson uses the sets masterfully, layering realistic bits of detail over the splashy backdrops to simultaneously accentuate and offset the sense of glamour. "L.A. Confidential" features near-flawless acting from its large ensemble cast. Russell Crowe ("Romper Stomper", "Virtuosity") gives an Oscar- caliber performance as Bud White, a great bull of a man who has learned to slug, rather than think his way through situations. Initially, White seems to be a simple thug, but there's far more to him than meets the eye.
Guy Pearce ("Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert") is striking as the sanctimonious Ed Exley. His most impressive moment comes during an interrogation scene, where his manipulative skills while grilling a trio of suspects is both repellent and mesmerizing. As Jack Vincennes, star-struck technical advisor for a "Dragnet"-style TV series, Kevin Spacey ("The Usual Suspects") demonstrates why he is one of the most respected actors anywhere. Spacey has a great face, and he uses his craggy features to convey just what happens when a man trades his morals for the spotlight. Kim Basinger is also strong in her best role in years, as a high-priced call girl who becomes involved with White. Basinger does fine work adding nuance to a character who is basically a live-action Jessica Rabbit. Surprisingly, the film's only shaky performance comes from veteran actor James Cromwell ("Babe") as Capt. Dudley Smith. Cromwell plays his character well, but inexplicably jumps back and forth between American and Irish accents. In the future, James, pick a country and stick with it.
With nods to "Pulp Fiction" and "Chinatown", "L.A. Confidential" is complicated, but never muddy. The complex tale is told in a straightforward fashion, resulting in an utterly engrossing piece of filmmaking. The movie was a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival and come next March, should draw a lot of attention at the Academy Awards as well.
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I am home, it is 5:00pm. and I have just downed 15mg. 2c-e dissolved in a solution of 80% water/20% ethyl alcohol (everclear). I have taken this substance three times before at 10mg. oral my first time, and about 4 or 5 mg twice intranasally, which I dont recommend as the burn is incredibly intense and lasts quite a while, and believe me, when youre already tripping on 2c-e those 5 or 10 min. feel like forever. It should be noted that the three times I have used this substance was during the last week, for which I should have developed some tolerance.
5:30 (00:30)
I begin to feel a slight effect, definitely there. I am not expecting the effects to be very strong as I am sure I have developed tolerance, but will see.
I think I will clean my apt. it's really messy and I think I will feel better if everything feels clean.
Feel 1000% better now everything is in better shape. (not a usual feeling for me)
5:54 (00:54) im begginning to feel the full effects now, its coming on fast. Light up a bit of cannabis, good on the stomach, enhances the visuals.
The 2c-e trip is muted, it has no sequence, its just now, memory is diminished, but mostly by it being irrelevant. Slightly uncomfortable feeling in the body, slight shivering, coughing, which I find interesting, this substance may perhaps produce a metabolite or is itself excreted through the lungs, or else it expels mucus trapped in your lungs. This symptom has diminished with every use.
There is an indefinite pressure on the digestive system which I cant quite put my finger on. Im tryng to decide whether eating is a good idea or not, or even desirable, I simply dont know, theres too much going on for me to feel something as subtle as hunger, even if I am, as I know I must be, quite hungry. there is a generalized feeling of uneasiness but not entirely unpleasant. This trip is what it is, and, depending on what you're looking for, this could range from either 'not really worth it, although interesting' if you're just looking to have fun, to a sense of 'there is something big here, and benign, and intelligent'.
I can see the enormous potential of this compound, the fact that it is so neutral, so unemotional(but not apathetic or unsensitive),the fact that it does not engage the emotions or the thoughts and the effects are so purely spychedelic give this compound the feeling that it is either useless if your'e expecting to be 'carried away' by the pleasurable effects of a drug, or the true 'philosophers stone' of psychedelics for those interested in finding some truth in themselves and are willing to dig for it. Think about this, a psychedelic that has the potential to yield deep insight without disturbing your judjement in the least, you gotta be kidding me!!!
It is now 2:30am. and I have just had a great night night out at the movies, a little intense at times but all good, really I was expecting more from 15mg. but, like I said, from three other indulgences this week, I guess I got out of it what I could.
I have just been experimenting the ranges of this 'high', It is really quite extraordinary, I can be having an interesting conversation on politics while having a full trip, not only that but I can do so with a special insight which is so plain, so simple and direct, this chemical is a rare gem!
As far as having concious control over my thoughts and actions, I am perhaps a tad removed from baseline, during a full on psychedelic trip. Sometimes it is difficult to decide if the intensity of a trip is ++ or +++, and I can see it really doesnt let me know where I am, as much depends on why I take it.
This is a substance that really puts itself out to any purpose whatever, it mixes well with alcohol, so it is a party goer, I say this only to give you an idea of the flexibility of this substance, but I believe the nature of it is really much more serious, there is much to be learned here, about oneself, so I wouldnt be wasting my time, my energy, and my precious 2c-e just for kiks, for going to parties and stuff like that, but for some serious self reflecting shit, this is it, look no further, I have not pushed it over the edge (which I plan to do, I'll keep you posted) but I can really see how this substance can effectively dissolve the ego, which is REALLY what I am after.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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In the last years I have been involved in several European projects. Here
is a list of the most relevant projects for which I am involved as a scientific
responsible (i.e. principal investigator).
Below follow a summary of the the research projects I have been involved in. For a complete list of papers see my publications list (Publications).
Whole-body dynamics with contact switching
with D. Pucci, F. Romano, G. Nava, S. Traversaro, S. Dafarra and F. Andrade
This research activity concerns the control of the iCub whole-body posture
in situations which involve breaking and establishing contacts. At present,
this research benefits of recent results in force/torques sensor calibration,
proof of stability of inverse dynamic control approaches.
Dafarra S., Romano F. & Nori F. 2016, ‘Torque-Controlled Stepping-Strategy Push Recovery: Design and Implementation on the iCub Humanoid Robot’, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Cancun, Mexico,November 15-17 2016.
Pucci D., Nava G. & Nori F. 2016, ‘An Automatic Gain Tuning Method of a Momentum Based Balancing Controller for Humanoid Robots’, IEEE/RAS International Conference of Humanoids Robots, Cancun, Mexico,November 15-17 2016.
Nuno Guedelha, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Silvio Traversaro & Francesco Nori 2016, ‘Self-calibration of Joint Offsets for Humanoid Robots Using Accelerometer Measurements’, 2016 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots,.
Whole-Body Dynamics Control
with D. Pucci, F. Romano and G. Nava
This research activity concerns the control of the iCub whole-body posture
exploiting whole-body distributed contacts. This research activity is based
on the iCub ability to control joint torques and to detect external contacts
through whole-body distributed tactile sensors (i.e. artificial skin).
Nori F., Traversaro S., Eljaik J., Romano F., Del Prete A. & Pucci D. 2015, ‘iCub whole-body control through force regulation on rigid non-coplanar contacts’, Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
Pucci D., Romano F. & Nori F. 2015, ‘Collocated Adaptive Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems’, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Whole-Body Dynamics Modeling and Identification
with S. Traversaro, R. Camoriano
This research activity concerns the problem of modeling the whole-body
dynamics of an articulated rigid-body structure. Focus is on computational
efficiency which is obtained by implementing state-of-the-art inverse
and forward dynamics algorithms (Featherstone 2007). This research activity
includes the iCub simulations which include available
(e.g. Gazebo) and custom (e.g. mex-wholebodymodel) open-source software
Mingo H.E., Traversaro S., Alessio R., Mirko F., Settimi A., Romano F., Natale L., Bicchi A., Nori F. & Tsagarakis G. Nikos 2014, ‘A YARP based plugin for Gazebo Simulator’, 2014 Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, Rome, Italy, 5-6, May, 2014.
Whole-Body Dynamics Estimation
with S. Traversaro, M. Fumagalli and S. Ivaldi
This research activity concerns the estimation of dynamic quantities (e.g. joint torques,
joint accelerations, joint velocities, external forces) from whole-body distributed
heterogenous sensors (e.g. artificial skin, accelerometers, gyroscopes, force/torque sensors).
Nori F., Kuppuswamy N. & Traversaro S. 2015, ‘Simultaneous state and dynamics estimation in articulated structures’, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2015), Hamburg, Germany, October (29 September - 1 October, 2015).
S. Traversaro, A. Del Prete, S. Ivaldi, and F. Nori. Inertial parameters identification and joint torques estimation with proximal force/torque sensing. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE Inter- national Conference on, pages 2105–2110. IEEE, 2015.
Ciliberto C., Fiorio L., Maggiali M., Natale L.R. L., Metta G., Sandini G. & Nori F. 2014, ‘Exploiting global force torque measurements for local compliance estimation in tactile arrays’, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, Illinois, September 14-18, 2014.
Fumagalli M., Ivaldi S., Randazzo M., Natale L., Metta G., Sandini G. & Nori F. 2012, ‘Force feedback exploiting tactile and proximal force/torque sensing. Theory and implementation on the humanoid robot iCub.’, Autonomous Robots, vol. 33,no. 4, pp. 381–398.


This changelog will only be served in english.
1.1.0 minor
- Added bot badge powered by FrankerFaceZ
- Fixed issue that prevented messages from being deleted
- Clearing emote search via the 'x' will now display all emotes properly
- Auto scroll notification
- Don't process empty messages
- Removing the 'reward' system message from reward gift messages
1.0.1 patch
- Fixed an issue with transfering addons from old version that might also broke addon updates
1.0.0 major
- New animations on channel overview
- Instead of highlighting deleted messages they will be slightly faded out
- Lighten accent font color to be readable with darker accent colors
- Fixing an issue with spamming refresh in channel view
- Fixing select elements start at the right default value
- Start application in right language by default (always falls back to English)
- New riotjs version and all it's changes (this will also improve performance significantly; but also break most plugins)
- Better loading screens
- Display incompatible addons in red
- Minor performance tweak by disabling red dot notification animation
- Better addon handling
- addon installation without restart
- batch update
- batch uninstall
- Fixed window state not saving
0.10.7 patch
- Fixed an issue where multiple emote addons could replace the same emote and cause issues
0.10.6 patch
- Fixing Unicode emoji destroying everything for your messages
- Single instance lock to avoid issues
- Timeout handling and faster reconnecting
- If no message was received from server for 30 seconds the connection is tested by forcing the server to respond (simple PING-PONG exchange)
- Disconnects are now immediately reconnected. If more retries are needed, they will be spaced out more and more (up to 5 seconds).
0.10.5 patch
- Made some changes to the stylesheet load, to make it easier for addons to use it
- Fixing Unicode emoji destroying everything
- Fixed emotes in resub messages
- Fixing some layout issues in classic chat
0.10.4 patch
- Fixed not displaying last played game by hoster on raid
0.10.3 patch
- Fixed various issues with cockpit resizing
- Fixed auto scrolling on resizing
- Display the game a hosting channel was playing last (if possible to obtain)
0.10.2 patch
- Did some more testing in a real environment, addon updating should work flawlessly now
0.10.1 patch
- Hopefully making addon updates, uninstalls more stable
- Better debug logging
0.10.0 minor
- Allow channel specific settings
- Add an optional classic chat view
0.9.1 patch
- Fixed a bug that prevented the emoticon drawer to open
0.9.0 minor
- Electron updated to 4.1.4
- Added a way to resize the columns in the cockpit view (pull the left edge of each column; the cursor will change; double click the edge to reset)
- Added a way to zoom each column in the cockpit view with holding the Ctrl-Key and moving the mouse wheel; while holding Ctrl, click the mouse wheel to reset
- Fixed dark theme in pop out user moderation window
0.8.1 patch
- Added support for cumulative subscription counter
0.8.0 minor
- Added Twitch moderation popout (use /user <username> or the new "Moderation" option in the user context menu)
0.7.6 patch
- Fixed a bug where when a message was deleted at least twice it was not recoverable
- Fixed user context menu not working properly
0.7.5 patch
- You can now hide subscription messages from chat
- Room state (e.g. slow mode, subscriber only, etc.) will now be displayed in message input
- Emote filter will now filter every emote-only message even if it has less than 3 emotes
- A emote stream can now be displayed if emote filter is active that displayes emotes below the chat in a single row, so you can still get chat reactions
0.7.4 patch
- Channel owner should also be moderator, wouldn't you say?
0.7.3 patch
- Message delete button moved to the far right
- Message delete button shows only if message deletion is possible
- Fixed timeout/ban message not showing in action stream when no ban reason was set
0.7.2 patch
- Show games in channel overview
- Allow user to select text in chat
- Support for single message deletion
0.7.1 patch
- Allow for overlay clients from other locations to connect to websocket
- Localization of reconnection message
- IRC communication secured via TLS
0.7.0 minor
- Electron version updated to 3.0.4
- This means that the button for clip creation in the twitch player should work now
- Unexpected disconnects from TMI (Twitch Messaging Interface) are now being reconnected properly
0.6.0 minor
- Added a overlay command to skip a track in the music overlay
- Music overlay now has a better initial shuffle
- Music overlay volume control is now updating itself again
- A completely new countdown overlay
0.5.2 patch
- API call is retried on a server error
- On an API error the channel is not considered offline but in the state of the last request
0.5.1 patch
- Fixed the non-working login
0.5.0 minor
- Make it possible for addons to replace for example custom emotes in messages
- Removed OK button from addon (un)install dialog
0.4.0 minor
- Press F5 on follows page to refresh
- Option to hide viewer amount
- Made it less likely that the viewerplotter is not plotting right
- Changing versioning policy to Major.Minor.Patch
- Added this Changelog
- Adding update eye catcher for addons and changelog
0.3.11 patch
- Stop tile grid to flow off the grid
- Add streamelements as a known bot to filter out
- Performance adjustments for the user list
- Properly remove player when channel goes offline
- Keep the @ when mentioning a user
- Finally keeping the viewer-plotter from "floating"
- You can now follow a host by clicking on the channel name
- Fixing stream status and game update not working
0.3.10 patch
- Autocomplete now works again with stream player active
- Fullscreen now hides the sidebar and can be activated by pressing F11
0.3.9 patch
- Helix hybrid mode: The new twitch api named Helix is now used where I was able to apply it. For anything else the old twitch api is used.
- Offline follows will be grayscaled
- Added an option to hide notification/action stream
- You can now open a twitch stream player by clicking on the bar above the chat when channel is online
- Two basic chat filters are now available to help you keep track of important stuff
0.3.7 patch
- Updated electron to version 2.0.0
With the Electron 2.0.0 came a feature to hint to some possible security concerns. Complying to these some changes had to be made, making current addons incompatible. So I had to add a check to which version the addon is compatible and not load it if not. All official addons were have an update you can install to make them work again.


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