#import <NTBitmap.h>
Inherits NSObject.
Instance Methods | |
| (BOOL) | - isEqual: |
| (NSUInteger) | - hash |
| (id) | - initWithPixelData:width:height:colorFormat:bytesPerRow: |
| (unsigned int) | - getWidth |
| (unsigned int) | - getHeight |
| (enum NTColorFormat) | - getColorFormat |
| (unsigned int) | - getBytesPerPixel |
| (NTBinaryData *) | - getPixelData |
| (NTBinaryData *) | - compressToPng |
| (NTBinaryData *) | - compressToInternal |
| (NTBitmap *) | - getResizedBitmap:height: |
| (NTBitmap *) | - getSubBitmap:yOffset:width:height: |
| (NTBitmap *) | - getPaddedBitmap:yPadding: |
| (NTBitmap *) | - getRGBABitmap |
Class Methods | |
| (NTBitmap *) | + createFromCompressed: |
A class that provides the functionality to store, compress, uncompress and resize basic image formats.
Currently supported formats are png and jpeg. Upon loading compressed images will be converted to
alpha premultiplied uncompressed bitmaps of various image formats.
| - (NTBinaryData *) compressToInternal |
Compresses this bitmap to a internal format.
This operation is intended for serialization of the data only, no actual compression is performed.
| - (NTBinaryData *) compressToPng |
Compresses this bitmap to a png.
| + (NTBitmap *) createFromCompressed: | (NTBinaryData*) | compressedData |
Creates a new bitmap from compressed byte vector.
If the power of two conversion flag is set, additional padding will be added to the image to make it's dimensions power of two.
| compressedData | The compressed bitmap data. |
| - (unsigned int) getBytesPerPixel |
Returns the bytes per pixel parameter of this bitmap. Valid values are 1, 2, 3 and 4.
| - (enum NTColorFormat) getColorFormat |
Returns the color format of this bitmap.
| - (unsigned int) getHeight |
Returns the height of the bitmap.
| - (NTBitmap *) getPaddedBitmap: | (int) | xPadding | |
| yPadding: | (int) | yPadding | |
Returns paddedsub-bitmap with specified offsets and dimensions.
| xPadding | Padding along X coordinate. If negative value is used, the bitmap is padded from the left. By default, bitmap is padded from the right. |
| yPadding | Padding along Y coordinate. If negative value is used, the bitmap is padded from the top. By default, bitmap is padded from the bottom. |
| - (NTBinaryData *) getPixelData |
Returns a copy of the pixel data of this bitmap.
| - (NTBitmap *) getResizedBitmap: | (unsigned int) | width | |
| height: | (unsigned int) | height | |
Returns resized version of the bitmap. The power of two padding added during the construction of this bitmap
will be removed prior to resizing. If the power of two conversion flag is set, new padding will be added to the image
after resizing to make it's dimensions power of two.
| width | The new width of this bitmap. |
| height | The new height of this bitmap. |
| - (NTBitmap *) getRGBABitmap |
Returns copy of the bitmap converted to RGBA format.
| - (NTBitmap *) getSubBitmap: | (int) | xOffset | |
| yOffset: | (int) | yOffset | |
| width: | (int) | width | |
| height: | (int) | height | |
Returns sub-bitmap with specified offsets and dimensions.
| xOffset | X coordinate offset in the bitmap. |
| yOffset | Y coordinate offset in the bitmap. |
| width | Width of the sub-bitmap. |
| height | Height of the sub-bitmap. |
| - (unsigned int) getWidth |
Returns the width of the bitmap.
| - (NSUInteger) hash |
Returns the hash value of this object.
| - (id) initWithPixelData: | (NTBinaryData*) | pixelData | |
| width: | (unsigned int) | width | |
| height: | (unsigned int) | height | |
| colorFormat: | (enum NTColorFormat) | colorFormat | |
| bytesPerRow: | (int) | bytesPerRow | |
Constructs a bitmap from an already decoded vector of bytes. The bitmap data is expected to be alpha premultiplied, if alpha channel is used.
If the power of two conversion flag is set, additional padding will be added to the image to make it's dimensions power of two.
This can be useful when creating OpenGL textures from the Bitmap, because some GPUs perform badly with non power of two textures.
| pixelData | A vector of decoded, premultiplied bitmap bytes. |
| width | The width of the bitmap. |
| height | The height of the bitmap. |
| colorFormat | The color format of the bitmap. |
| bytesPerRow | The total number of bytes per row. Some bitmaps have additional padding at the end of each row. If the value is negative, then bitmap is assumed to be vertically flipped. In this case absolute value of the bytesPerRow value is used. |
| - (BOOL) isEqual: | (id) | object |
Checks if this object is equal to the specified object.
| object | The reference object. |


The Filth And The Fury
Rock 'n Roll is a musical canvas artists have used to express themselves for over half a century now. Since its inception it's always been considered a threat to the establishment and many musicians have come along and made good on that threat while others are just fronts for big-business record companies. In this age of glamor boy bands, sultry teenage girl singers and bubblegum pop that rivals the 1950s for sheer cheese value there's never been a more appropriate time for "The Filth And The Fury." This is a documentary about The Sex Pistols, one of the most controversial and shocking bands due to the fact they were absolutely 100 percent authentic in their rage against the machine.
Most bands you hear today are just watered-down versions of a better artist that isn't in the limelight anymore. I've read about The Sex Pistols and heard of their outrageous behavior but I've never truly understood or appreciated how influential they've been on rock music for the past quarter century. If their story were told as fiction today it would probably be the most trite thing you could imagine.
"The Filth And The Fury" lives up to its name right from the get-go. There's a considerable amount of time spent in depicting England in the mid-1970s which apparently was on the verge of a revolution, a civil war or just pure anarchy. We're shown real footage of news broadcasts of the time - of garbage piling up all over London due to a labor strike, of people rioting as if it were their full-time job and of the punk scene where the youth did everything and anything outrageous and rebellious to lash out against the system. Then along came The Sex Pistols, a rock band born and raised in these deplorable conditions that utterly symbolized the people's outrage.
The band consisted of four members; lead singer Johnny Rotten; bassist Glen Matlock; drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones. Matlock later quit the band and was replaced by Sid Vicious. They dressed in ripped t-shirts, ripped leather held together by safetypins with dyed hair and sometimes adorned themselves with Swastikas. Their fans had even more outrageous hair designs and clothing, often looking like monster out of an Ed Wood movie. The music was probably the "hardest" rock of the day although by today's standards it's almost run-of-the-mill. What put it overboard was Rotten's lyrics and vocals - an all-out assault of outlandish behavior and anti-establishment messages that added up to a big middle finger to world (of course that gesture was employed a lot too). Their first gigs took place in the back of strip clubs and S&M shops, attracting the kind of people we'd think of as the most twisted and perverse. But it's not like they were out to make radio-friendly unit shifters and sell records. The band was each of the members' reason for living, otherwise they could just wallow their lives away like so many other people of the time.
What's most interesting about this film is that it's the story of The Sex Pistols in pretty much their own words. There's present-day interviews with the band members individually (they still hold grudges against each other and their former managment). Each has his own chance to tell his perspective of a story or of an event - there's no neutral narrator. There's no interviews with musicians of today discussing the influence they had. About 95% of what appears on screen is original footage shot before, during and after their rise to fame. It's almost unbelievable how much was captured on film, so much so that you wonder if a lot of it is re-enactments because there's so much footage of such significance.
Director Julien Temple and company keep the motif of the dark and dreary 70s rich and consistent. This is the REALLY ugly side of the 70s you never read about in history books or see in mainstream rock documentaries. The mood is so wholly "underground" that when stuff like the occasional S&M scene is throw in, or when psychedelic animation shows the band in a dream-like state, or we see real documentary footage of The Sex Pistols live shows and how insance their fans were it never seems out of the ordinary. This whole movie is practically one step away from being hardcore pornography or even an snuff film, the only difference is those vices come in the form of the Pistols' existence - of being the most dangerous thing to the English empowerment at the time.
I do have a few bones to pick, though. Firstly, the editing style is a bit strange, with constant cuts from footage of the Pistols performing live to backstage footage to newsreels to bizarre S&M and punk footage that has little to do with the band themselves. If Oliver Stone had this made this movie then I could understand it. Also, the modern-day interviews with the band are shot in shadows - why? Are they ashamed of themselves? It's probably meant to keep with the overall darkness of the film, but it seemed out of place to me. I didn't even enjoy the music that much, I find their sound bland and repetitive and Rotten's singing is grating and unmelodic. That's why these guys aren't recoginized so much as musicians as they are performers and revolutionaries (they only have one studio album).
For the most part this is a pretty enjoyable film, certainly an educational one at the very least. "The Filth And The Fury" is a must-see to anyone whose ever thought ANY form of mainstream entertainment could be a public enemy. The Sex Pistols might not have changed the world for the better, or in any way at all, but the fact they shocked the establishment as much as they did and were persecuted for simply being themselves is scary.
GRADE: B
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[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> For now I’m going to advise no one use exrates at all
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> definitely not planning to after this
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> Lesson to learn? Pay to get on a proper exchange?
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m going to see if I can work out a deal with some of my old contacts
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> sickening they charge so much just to screw everyone over for their own greed as it seems
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I paid almost 26k for that listing lol
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> What??
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> i believe it bro
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> yeah it isn't cheap
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> 26 grand?
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Top 30 seemed to follow nicely
[dscrdeql] <KQweci-Mod> wow 26k
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Welcome to the business end of running a coin
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Lol
[dscrdeql] <KQweci-Mod> And they messing us up
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> You paid 26 grand to get listed on exrates?
[dscrdeql] <KQweci-Mod> We can get o twitter and tweet asking people to wthdraw from exrates
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> Wtf
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> nuts right?
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> That's more than i make a year
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> way more than i make a year lol
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> Lol
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Yup. Hitbtc starts at 40btc but I’ve talked them down as low as 10 before
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> dont use them either
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> did you see what happened to APR?
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Hell no lol
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> lool its nearly half of what I make which is ridiuculous.
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> hitbtc is a better exchange than exrates but well
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> I never liked exrates in the first place since they froze my account with no reasons lol.
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> hitBTC took APR Coin's deposit and the 10k coins and then dumped those and the rewards from staking almost immediately upon listing them because they "didn't stake as many coins as they expected" so they dumped them to get the BTC they wanted out of it
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[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> and APR hasn't recovered since still
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m looking way down at the other end of the spectrum
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Crex24, litebit, trade satoshi, stocks exchange,
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> love crex24
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> a little slow to load for me sometimes, but is a good newer exchange for sure
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> ya TS runs on raspberry pi not quite safe but the others they seem a good option for sure xD
[dscrdeql] <SwimedDragon> Cryptopia seems for me, a descent exchange to buy coins. I've been using it for a while now, never had any problems
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> Is it unreasonable to assume all these exchanges are incohutes with eachother?
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Nah they aren’t
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> problem with cryptopia is it is hella expensive to list
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Each exchange does their own thing
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I messaged Alan booth last night, he’s the ceo
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> If cryptopia
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> If there’s a shot to get us there that’s the way on
[dscrdeql] <Smoky Satoshi> Never had issue with cryptopia
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> cryptopia seems like a fair exchange to be listed I woul say so,
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I did but it was because of our teams actions
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Cryptopia is gonna cost us around 8-13 btc
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> whats that
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Or 5 million DoT coin
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> tbh I would prefer you spend that money in the project funding..
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Yeah
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> rather that ec
[dscrdeql] <SwimedDragon> How much is 5m DoT coin?
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> exchange listing*
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m focused on building
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> But I need somewhere for you all to trade as well
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> obviously and exrates isn't an option right now.
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> or ever
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> lol
[dscrdeql] <KQweci-Mod> Honestly these are living changing funds just for listing. It's amazing how they charge such huge amounts and late dump on you again
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> @SwimedDragon people can sell the DOT however much they want, so really depends on market price
[dscrdeql] <SwimedDragon> I think a descent exchange will be good to also get new people involved. But yeah those listing fee's are annoying to handle with
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> but like cowboy said, easily 8-13 BTC or more depending
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m about to go to my desk. I’ll figure something out
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> I agree altough those fees are ridiculous.
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> yup they are
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> they take so much advatange thats the problem.
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m going to get creative and hopefully rock out a decent listing or two
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> I trust you!
You do know that
[dscrdeql] <Zach> You must be a very creative dude.. haha
[dscrdeql] <SwimedDragon> If the prototype gets build, ask people for a small donation to stay the night in there
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> we got your back cowboy!
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> ahahah
[dscrdeql] <KQweci-Mod> I do trust him too
[dscrdeql] <SwimedDragon> Just making a joke haha
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’ve done more with much less lol
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> The fact that you are as straightforward about everything instead of covering it up makes all the difference!
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m here for the ride with you lol
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> ye you are not shady and are open foward that makes the difference.
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Truth be told I know of one person who has more invested in this than I do
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> well hes a big bag holder thats fore sure
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> quite a heavy bag I would say
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I put 10s of 1000s in this to get it going
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> Of my own money
[dscrdeql] <Linkara6669-Mod> i believe it man
[dscrdeql] <SwimedDragon> I must say I think that a new exchange will be good for people to buy and sell, and can get more people in, but I have no doubt that most of us will not sell anyway
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> yep thats a lot of money
[dscrdeql] <Zach> I don’t even have $2k in
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> yea neither do I
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> this thing at ICO price was about 50 cents
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> so you go figure
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> That’s ok it doesn’t matter who has how much in it. We are all here
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> I’m gonna get down to my office in a min
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> you could buy a lot more coins now that at ICO price even if it was much less.
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> but we are all here for the long run..
[dscrdeql] <CowboyCrypto- Founder> You guys hit me with some ideas
[dscrdeql] <Buddz1993> who cares about ICO prices.
[dscrdeql] <spydr> I missed the DoT coins thing... Could someone tldr it for me?


Strong start crucial for Southern United
by Jeff CheshireA strong start today could be key to victory on Sunday for Southern United.
The team remains a title chance heading into the final weekend of the Futsal Super League in Wellington.
It begins with two games today, before another two tomorrow to complete its round-robin.
The semifinals and finals are on Sunday.
Making those semifinals is the goal and today's games will vital.
Southern holds a two-point lead over Auckland in fourth place and it can extend that to five when the two sides meet at 11am.
If Auckland loses to Capital and Southern beats lowly Bay of Plenty, it would leave Southern a lock for the top four.
That would give it flexibility for Saturday's games, giving it the option to rest players before the finals.
"You have the ability to decide how you want to see out the weekend," Southern coach Darren Hart said of the importance of today's games.
"We'll see. We're going to go great guns in the first day, push hard and know if we can get it all right we can decide what to do about the rest of it on the Saturday and not worry about
it too much.
"But if we're starting to fall behind the curve on the Friday then we'll have to push ourselves in all of those games on the Saturday to get back into it."
If the team falls into that trap, then there is potential for the players to become tired for the final.
Six games in three days was a lot and being able to reduce workloads of the top players could be key, Hart said.
The side was still building, although was slightly behind its normal progress due to the shorter pre-season.
That was the same for every team though. It had produced a more hectic, less controlled league.
Southern will be without experienced goalkeeper Fraser Hunter, who has left for the United Kingdom.
Kasam Ali and Rahan Ali were both unavailable as well, although Ben O'Farrell had overcome an injury scare to be fit.
Southern begins at 11am against Auckland, before playing Bay of Plenty at 5pm.
It then plays Waikato at 1pm on Saturday and Northern at 8.30pm.
The semifinals will be on Sunday morning, followed by the final at 12.30pm.


Timo Werner 'must accept Jurgen Klopp term' to agree Liverpool transfer
The Premier League club are reportedly interested in a move for the RB Leipzig striker
by Hassan RashedTimo Werner would have to accept a back-up role at Liverpool in order to complete a move to Anfield, according to reports.
Although the Reds have made a stunning start to the season and currently hold an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League, Jurgen Klopp is understood to be looking to strengthen his side when the transfer window re-opens in January.
And the German has reportedly put RB Leipzig star Werner at the top his list as he looks to guide the Merseyside club to their first league title since 1990.
Liverpool have long been linked with a move for the striker, but Bleacher Report claims that the 23-year-old would have to agree to a place on the bench in to secure a switch to the European champions.
Despite already scoring an impressive 15 goals in all competitions for Leipzig this season, the Germany international would face a tough task to force his way into a dominant front three.
Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah have been on top form in the early stages of the season and played a crucial role in the Reds' unbeaten start to the league campaign.
Werner's record of 61 goals in just 104 Bundesliga games for Leipzig has seen him establish himself as one of the top talents in Europe, with Manchester United and Bayern Munich also believed to be showing interest in the former Stuttgart man.
He is currently under contract until 2023, but current boss Julian Nagelsmann has claimed that he would not stop his star forward from leaving if the right opportunity arises.
"I’ve already advised many players to take off their wedding ring with their current club to move somewhere else," Nagelsmann said in an interview with Sport Bild .
"I’d do the same with Timo Werner if he were developing faster than the team at RB Leipzig."


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I live in a j's podcast for monday, most wonderful show is keeping up with the Joneses.
Hello Mrs Jones.
Hello sir.
Amazing week.
Very good week yes.
We are recording this as we come straight back from dinner with our jingle winners.
It's true.

Yes.
We fed them steak for writing music.
And creme brulee.
Yes.
If I could write music, I would work for steak.
You would.
Give me slabs of cow and I will compose your music.
Wouldn't you?
No.

Not every time.
Seriously.
My mom's last time you went there and didn't have steak.
I go back and forth between the Thai Kai salad and prime rib.
Okay.
So you either eat meat or meat.
Well, so I'd need to be paid in chickens and cow.
We will start a bar-trings system.
We had a fabulous week this week.
We really did.
Should we start with the fact that I am now an owner of a bike?
You are the owner of a bike.
And in the last two days, I have ridden seven miles.
Yes.
And my butt and my knees would like to talk to you about that.
If only they could talk, which I'm kind of glad they can't.
So if you were listening last week, I was talking about toying with the idea of getting a bike.
And so worked very closely with our new friend Jeremy at Moala Bikes in Franklin, who was very,
very helpful. And we ended up with a bike for Abby for Christmas and a bike for me.
And we went back and forth of, "Should we let Abby ride on our bike before Christmas day?"
And we thought, "We're in such unseasonably warm weather right now. Let's let her ride her bike,
because on Christmas day it could be raining." Yeah, it's in the 70s right now.
It seemed kind of cruel to be like, there's your new shiny bike.
Yes, it's in the garage and you know, it's there.
And you have to wait two weeks, but you're going to wait for two weeks.
So we went to the park where they have like a walking riding trail.
And I thought, gosh, this bike ride stuff's easier than I thought.
And we just did four miles, no problem.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
I was like, man, I'm totally be able to bike to work on Monday.
This is going to be so easy.
I guess I am healthier than I thought.
You know what's true what they say when she's on a ride a bike you never forget I am good for this.
Yeah and then today happened and I thought you know what I'm going to cycle half the way to work you know just kind of break it in.
I can go for subdivision.
Well you made it out of the subdivision I mean out of the subdivision and then can I made it halfway up the hill.
Are you going to be 96 or commute to work is 10 miles.
I managed to get three of them done.
Well one and a half was your way back to you you made it a mile and a half before you packed it in turn around.
Yeah it was there's a big difference between actually riding on terrain versus riding around a level thing in the nice park.
This is why I think that.
Maybe if you rode with somebody that rides like ronsen or don or something like that right the only people understand how the gears work and how you.
- Use the gears in different ways.
- It isn't a gear problem.

- You're adorable blaming that in gear.
I think it's a general lack of fitness.
- I'm not fully blaming it on the gears.
I'm just saying perhaps there's some help for you
to be found.
- The help that could be found.
- Can't understand the gears better.
- The help that could be found is if our friends Don
and Ronce and wanted to swap legs and butts with me.
- Or toe you.
(laughing)
- Maybe I could follow him and just slip stream.
Yeah, yeah, that's what you do.
Anyway, I started my journey as a bike person
and there's a whole subculture that I don't understand.
Yes, these people are into their bikes.
They're so into it, they've committed to a world of lycra.
Nobody wants to see me in lycra.
No, there was like an old guy that came in
to get his bike fixed,
while you're buying your bike fully in lycra.

Okay, so bikes and like were a high point.
Yeah.
Um, we did a lot of social activities this week.
We did.
We had dinner with our fabulous small group leaders on Tuesday night.
We did and fabulous.
They are.
We have 13 small group leaders.
I think so.
At our school who help us from the school, they're just fabulous.
So we enjoy the Christmas dinner with them, which is lovely.
And then later, we had Mexican food for a Christmas dinner.
Every good Christmas dinner should be Mexican.
What are you going into Mexicans?
If you should erase this.
They celebrate Christmas with tacos.
And then Thursday night we had our whole school Christmas party, which was a spectacular success.
It was a great success.
Thanks to Danielle and Sarah.
They're amazing.
They're always good fun.
I always loved the videos and the things that people put together.
They're amusing.
And then Friday we went to a new restaurant, Tupelo Honey.
Tupelo Honey Cafe.
Which I hadn't heard of but it's a southern restaurant.
Starting...
Asheville, I think.
Asheville.
Mm-hmm.
Really nice.
I was quite impressed.
Yeah, it was very good.
What did you end up having?
Steak, fruits.
Mexican food.
No.
[laughter]
I had the chicken tacos.
All from say, I see the bay.
Because if there is tacos on our menu, I'm more than likely to eat them.
That's very true.
My favorite part of the entire meal was, are you ready?
The drink.
- What did you have to drink?
- A blueberry fizzy, I think it was called.
- That sounds like a real big grown up, big girl drink.
- It was a big girl drink.
- What is blueberry fizz?
- I don't know.
I don't know what was in it, blueberry and fizz,
but it was good.
- And then Saturday, you ran a screening of Return of the Jedi.
- Yes.
- How's "Appound" is a new Star Trek movie coming up?
- Alan Jones, "Star Wars" is coming out next Friday.
We of course were not seeing it until the following week
because we wanted to make sure that we got IMEX 3D tickets.
But yes, so it just made sense
that we would have a little update for those.
There are people that have not seen four, five, and six.
I don't care about one, two, and three
'cause they were horrible. - Nobody cares
about them. - No.
They don't even exist.
But people had not actually seen four, five, and six.
And that's just wrong.
- And you said to the Lord's work and evangelize.
- Yes, absolutely.
- You know what, baby, I commend you.

- Thank you.
I did want to watch a new Hope,
the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi back to back,
but we didn't have nine available hours to do that.

- Yes. - Yeah.
And so I found a video that summarized the first two.
- Your diligent. - And then we watched
the third one. - Very good.

- Yeah.  - Yeah.
- It was, we don't know what triggered them,
it was completely a false alarm,
but worship was amazing.
- It really was, it was fantastic.
- And Jeff did his thing again
that we talked about last week, where he just stands up and keeps going with the Holy
Spirit and everybody just applauds Jeff for that because he's brilliant at it.
And then our good friend Artie Kendall was speaking.
Yeah, and it was really good.
That was an amazing word.
Yeah.
Really, really simple.
Really simple, but so profound.
Great teacher.
Really loves seeing Artie.
It's quite fun watching him pick on other people.
Yeah, you're just glad it's not you.
That's really it.
All right, our main topic for this week.
- It's all about hard work.
- It is, and our topic is brought to you by Jessie Early.
- Yeah, she said, why don't you speak on about hard work?
You did a great summary this week.
You said, it often seems like we all want the fruit
of hard work without actually having to do
the hard work itself.
- Sure, and I'm sure it would be much easier
if that was reality, but that's very few people's reality.
So the same thing is, you know, you look at the house
that your parents had when you're 20 and you're moving out.

Well, your parents probably didn't know that house
when you were little, you know what I mean?
- Right, that wasn't our first house.
- Yeah, it's, we always have interesting perspectives
on how much effort needs to go into something
that looked to us like it was free.
- I think being shaken free from entitlement
is a hard thing. - Yeah.
like when you suddenly realize, oh, oh, that's not the way life works.
Right.
It's a bit of a shock, isn't it?
Yeah.
One of the conversations that we tend to have over and over and over and again,
I don't say this to ridicule the people we have conversations with because I
remember being on the other side of this conversation.
And I was their age where it seems that people have a vision and a dream for
their life and are quite content to work towards that dream in their vision.
but unfortunately none of those doors are opening for said dream and vision.
Right.
At the moment.
And what doors are opening are, would you like fries with that kind of jobs?
Right.
Or, or maybe they're great office jobs, but they're not the dream.
Right.
And we've had the benefit of some hindsight where you realize looking back
in life that you actually work hard in one season to reap in another.
Yes.
And that's kind of the tricky part about God.
I, you know, a lot of the conversations we have, people are like, I'll be willing to work hard for my dream, but they're reluctant to work hard without a dream in sight.
Right.
Which kind of makes sense, but it's like, hey, if you don't work, you won't have rent, you won't be able to live, you won't have food, and then you'll never be able to fulfill your dream.
In essence, you are supporting your dream, just not in an immediately tangible sense.
Yeah. And I think that there's something to giving a hundred or 150% wherever God places you
that is satisfying, even when you're not working in your dream, that God's favor can still show
up. You can still receive promotion. You can still impact the world around you while you wait
for the dream to come to fruition. Yeah. I mean, that's the life of Joseph, isn't it?
Right. It's funny that there's a couple of verses in Proverbs. There's two that are identical.
One found in Proverbs 1211, the other found in Proverbs 28, 19, they both say pretty much the same
thing.
Or those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty. And that's the thing where like,
"Oh, in this fantasy rich wonderful world, I'm quite content to work hard for that dream,
but I don't work hard in the land that I have right now.
And the right of a proverb is saying it doesn't work that way.
Proverbs 14, 23 says this all hard work brings a profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
The truth is you practice working hard where you are right now.
Yes.
And that's hard because it seems so detached from your dreams.
Yeah, but I mean, when I look back, of course, hindsight is 20, 20.
and we are in full-time ministry,
and we are doing a job that we're designed for.
But I've done plenty of jobs
that were nowhere near the dream.
I served tables for 14 years,
and then I worked for a corporate business for five years,
and none of those things were the dream.
But I don't know that I could have been happy
going in and giving less than 100%.
- Yeah, that's the thing that people don't understand
that every job has sucky parts to it.
- Sure.
- It really does.
- Yeah.
- And I forget who it was, was it Danielle?
said everyone needs a would you like fries with that season one of our friends said I think
everybody needs an apple bees season in their life apple bees is a restaurant you probably
want to aspire to work at but you know so yeah I think it was Danielle so here's Danielle our
wonderful school administrator but after she graduated from college she's highly educated
highly employable and she couldn't find a job so she just worked at apple bees and I think
everybody needs a season like that where you learn hard work without any visible return on those
benefits. Yeah, and you get to find out where you're really made of. I think that's one of the
seasons where you find out where your character really is. Are you going to be able to serve somebody
else, do a great job, and not grumble and just get on with it? Right. You mentioned earlier that
we love our job and Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, said, "Choose a job you love,
and you'll never have to work a day in your life." Now, I get the point he's making. We work very
harder our jobs, the differences we absolutely love it. But the truth is we learned the part
of working hard in jobs we didn't love. For many, many years. That skill set got cultivated
elsewhere. Before we were in ministry, when I worked for restaurants, and again,
restaurants is not your glamour job, I couldn't be proud of me if I
I was giving less than 100 percent.
Right.
Because that's, I'm not built to live at 80 percent or 70 percent.
And I don't think you're going to impact other people living like that or working
like that either.
Thomas Edison said it like this, what you are will show in what you do.
Yeah.
And I, I fully agree even when I was a school teacher and didn't love being a
school teacher, though it's still the same care.
There wasn't the passion, but there was the same care, attention to detail and
diligence as I have preparing work for students that I am passionate about now.
Yeah. And, you know, it's about that thing of my mom used to quote this verse all of the time,
Colossians 3 23, whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord,
not for human masters. Right. And if you truly believe, which I do, that there's no difference
between the spiritual and the secular, then it really shouldn't matter what you're doing right
now because it's all training for your future you. I was, when we were talking about this
earlier, I was saying about when I interviewed to work for National, I knew from the Lord,
or I had heard from the Lord in five years, he'll be in full-time ministry.
And I knew that going into the interview. So I knew I was going in and interviewing for
position that they wanted to spend several years training me. And so when I sat down with the VP,
I said, you know, they went through the whole program and what it would all look like and
and everything. And I said, I need you to know, I feel like in five years, I'll be in full-time
ministry. But for the next five years, I'll give you 150%. But I just want to be honest
with you that that's what I feel like, where my life is going. And, you know, even in that
job from where I started to where I finished, I got promoted eight times. But again, I went
in there like that was my mission field. And this is where God has me. And I get to give
my hundred and you know, 10, 150% here today. I think it a lot of it. I think God's looking
at our attitudes when we're when everything's not going our way, because it'll give us a good,
it'll give him a good indication of what we're going to be like when everything is going our way.
Yeah, there's a verse in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 58, it says this, always give yourself fully to
the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. We tend to think
that that verse is just for the missionaries and the pastors. But again, if you believe that
everything that's before you is the work of the Lord, that's an encouragement to do it brilliantly,
to work really hard, knowing that your labor isn't in vain. And that's the encouragement we try to
give the young people who are coming to us going, "I'm tired of waiting tables. I feel like God's
called me to acting or to writing or to songwriting or whatever." And you're like, "That's great.
I'm sure that he has, but in the meantime serve your tables brilliantly.
In the meantime, take out the trash.
Yeah, be a good witness by doing your job with amazing vigor.
Right.
Realizing that you are currently investing into your future.
You.
Yeah.
Here's the sneaky part of God.
When you look forward, there's no guarantee there is a brilliant future.
You're like, Lord, why am I busting tables like this sucks?
Like, how does this make me a movie star?

But the beauty is in retrospect, once you are what you're hoping God's
called you to and you look backwards, you're like, Oh, I told you what God
was doing with the busing table.
Right.
He was teaching me diligence or long hours on set or whatever.
Right.
And that's just the majesty of God.
Yeah.
Do you want to know a secret?
Yes.
It's a secret that I would probably attribute to anything good that I have
achieved in life.
Hit me.
is found in Psalm 90 verse 17. It's the prayer of Moses. It says this, "May the favor of the Lord
our God rest on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
I have prayed that verse for years." Yeah.
"If I, Lord, I'll show up and do the work, but could you establish the work of my hands for me?
And with that, would you let your favor rest on me?" Yeah. When we were at dinner today,
I was saying, I keep having this quote running through my head from the gladiator. That whole
thing of what we do in life echoes in eternity.
And I, you can, you can talk about that in a number of different ways.
But I think one of the things that makes talking about God easier at work is if you
are one of the workers that people can recognize that you give your 100%.
Does that make sense?
So I think like I got to lead people to the Lord.
Almost every place I worked.
Um, and you know, sometimes management, sometimes other servers,
sometimes bartenders, whatever.
But I think it was because you get an opportunity to live life in front of them,
live life a hundred percent and a hundred percent you in love with God is a good
thing to come and contact with.
That's brilliant.
Yeah.
Here's a verse that everybody loves Proverbs to 29.
Do you see someone skilled in their work?
They will serve before kings.
They will not serve before officials of low rank.
You know, many people want to serve before kings.
And many people want to be super skilled in the work, but few want to do the work
required to be skilled.
We tend to write off other people's success because we think they're talented,
not skilled.
Stephen King, who, you know, forget what he does for a living,
ring horror books, he is actually very successful.
He said this, talent is cheaper than table salt.
What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Like when I think about the different people I admire or have admired in different
stages of life, it's never been the people that lie on the couch or the people
that grumble and complain.
You know, it's, they've always been people that have worked hard for things
that they're passionate about or just been hard workers in general.
And the Lord has honored that.
You want to quote stand with?
Sure.
Thomas Edison said this opportunity is missed by most people because it
dressed in overalls and looks like work.
You're like the quote maester tonight.
Let me tell you, I'm just, I open up my quote book and pulled some favorites out.
Thomas Jefferson said this, "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the
more I have of it."
Here's a problem that you and I both face as people who love to work hard, is we begin
to, after a season of working very hard, we begin to lose perspective.
Yeah.
So many times we've had to go to Jeff and go, hey, could you have some perspective?
We have no idea if we're doing a good job or not.
We're just caught up in doing without actually evaluating if what we're doing is helpful.
Right.
So maybe we need to revisit on the podcast, the whole topic of rest.
I think that would be really good because we're heading into the Christmas season and I'm so looking forward to resting.
Same.
But we tend to run in, you know, marathon like sprints.
Yeah.
Busy, busy, busy, busy rest.
The trick is not to die doing that.
perhaps we would be better suited at pacing our hard work.
Food for you to think about.
- Well, thanks for listening.
If you have any questions that you'd like to ask,
go ahead and head over to alanannaj.com/ask.
And if you'd like the show notes for today's show,
go to alanannaj.com/81.
- That's it.
Thanks for listening guys.


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My passion for technology began when I started my own business in high school repairing broken phone screens and became more structured when I completed 3 internships with The Kroger Co. in Research & Development before beginning college. From there I interned with NCR as a software development intern to gain exposure to development where I not only implemented spec but redesigned specs which were later implemented. Finally for my last two internships, I interned with VMware as the only undergraduate student in the company to be a Product Management Intern where I worked on the Boxer mobile application and created ideas that have been drafted into a patent to be filed in the coming months.
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I have completed 2 internships with VMware as a Product Management Intern working with the Boxer mobile application team. I was the only undergraduate student to be hired for product management and the only product management intern who was given an offer to return the next summer. The first summer I worked on competative analysis documents as well as researching the possibilities with the new mobile OSs coming out. I also created essential documentation and worked on the nomination process for beta customers.
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BANDITS (2001) Rated PG-13; running time 123 minutes Genre: crime adventure with random and yet unfunny "comedic" elements Seen at: Lowes Star Southfield (Detroit, Michigan) Official site: http://www.mgm.com/bandits/ IMDB site: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0219965 Written by: Harley Peyton Directed by: Barry Levinson Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Bobby Slaton
Review Copyright Rose Cooper, 2001 Review URL: http://www.3blackchicks.com/bamsbandits.html
So, what do you do when the very first scene in a movie has you rolling your eyes...and you've barely made it through the credits?
The Story (WARNING: **spoilers contained below**) Impulsive Cool Dude Joe (Bruce Willis) and his Neurotic Hypochondriac Buddy Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) are escaped cons [roll] on the run, who decide - rather, Joe decides on the cuff; the more careful Terry just hangs on for the ride - to get back into the bank robbing business. Needing to come up with a plan, they settle on a scheme to make enough money doing bank heists to front a legit restaurant business in Mexico. Being Gentlemen Bandits, they decide to take the unusual tack of kidnapping bank managers and their families the night before a holdup, taking them to the bank the next morning, thus causing as little disruption as possible. It is in Mom & Pop USA's homes where Hilarity begins to Ensue.
The duo becomes a trio when Terry is nearly run over by almost equally neurotic (and definitely sex-starved) Bored Housewife Kate (Cate Blanchett), who pisses Terry off and melts over Cool Dude Joe's Manly Manliness [roll]. They grow into a foursome when Joe brings on his Braindead Stuntman Cousin Harold (Troy Garity) to drive the getaway car [ooh roll].
Meanwhile, this unnecessarily long flick is further elongated by a completely unnecessary "America's Most Wanted" take off, with Bobby Slaton as a reporter tracking the "notorious" Sleepover Bandits, and their supposed hostage Kate, across Oregon and Califunny, to what could be their ultimate showdown.
The Upshot: It is my custom to give my readers a "spoiler" warning, since any plot info I divulge in "The Story" might be something for which the audience did not want to be forewarned. I needn't have bothered with BANDITS, though. This movie is actually its own self-contained spoiler, leaving traces of itself all over the theater floor. I wasn't surprised by a single frame of it, not for one millisecond. Every plot device, inanimate or human, was clearly recognized for what it was from the time it showed on-screen. Forget the "too much information! They've shown all the best bits!" trailers in the weeks before its release; BANDITS spoiled *itself*.
In more ways than one. I'll admit that I lost interest in this train wreck early on, when Joe got all High And Mighty about being called out his name by Kate when she chided him about stealing hard-earned moolah from The Little People. 'Nonsense!', spewed Joe; 'this bank money is FDIC-insured, I'm just stealing from the government who stole from us'. PeeYEW, who left that fetid meat out on the editing table?
The only reason BANDITS doesn't get my full redlight wrath is because you gotta love somebody named Billy Bob who doesn't also have most of his teeth missing, fly a rebel flag at a civil rights picnic, and have a broke down trailer for a home. As often happens, Billy Bob Thornton plays the only interesting character in the bunch. His Terry is the only one - and I do mean the! only! one! - I didn't feel like taking a baseball bat to every time he opened his mouth. And even then, Billy Bob Thornton's presence just barely moved this flick to yellowlight territory. I especially cringed at e-v-e-r-y s-i-n-g-l-e m-o-v-e by Kate; then again, Cate Blanchett tends to have that effect on me. Terry's neuroses made him interesting, in a way that Joe's and Kate's didn't even come close to, not to mention Harold the ObDoofus. I found myself cursing the day that Barry Levinson ever saw Wills and Blanchett and thought, "aha!"
Not that Levinson - former writer, director, and producer of TSFKABDSOT (ask somebody), HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET - gets a pass. Indeed, I blame him most, especially for that bile-inducing payoff at the end.
An internet friend of mine (who, coincidentally, is a member of the same ex-"Homicide" list I'm on) asked me if I thought the "Once Upon A Time In China" parody movie IRON MONKEY, was over-the-top. My response?
 Wanna play? Sure you do.
"Imagine Joe and Terry as Black bank robbers, traipsing across the countryside, robbing banks and being generally thought of as Charming Goofs...and no one ever calls the cops." Can ya see it?
Then again, I can't really see this mess with *White* folks, so...
 Bah.
 I'd like it back, please.
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WARNING!: MAY CONTAIN SOME MILD SPOILERS AND OFFENSIVE MATERIAL.
 (A mild R rating)
Starring: Rob Schneider, Oded Fehr, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Amy Poehler, Norm McDonald.
 It isn't any kind of cinematic classic, but it's a very very funny comedy that keeps us entertained until the end credits which themselves are funny too.
Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) is your typically average guy: He cleans fish tanks for a living and gets an average of 10 bucks for it. Though one might call him a loser, Deuce gets a job he would never thought he would get. He gets to clean the tank for a Male Gigolo (Oded Fehr) and gets offered to watch over his place while he goes on a trip. Trying to be like him he hangs upside down from a pole and accidentally pushes off the fishtank and burns his cabinets. The thing is now he has to try and find $6,000 dollars in three weeks to make sure everything looks right again.  He charges $10 but he is willing to negotiate. From now on he is considered Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
With non-stop laughs an a abundence of crude humor "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" is sometimes like last years hit "There's Something About Mary" that is offensive but very funny. The screenplay by Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider himself is a smart, clever and witty screenplay that seems to have been written with care to make is so hilariously funny. The characters in the film are all actually likable especially "Jabba Lady" with her big body but soft heart. There are actually times in the movie where I fell out of my chair laughing so hard that my stomach was killing me. Even though I thought "Toy Story 2" and "Being John Malkovich" were the funniest of the year "Deuce Bigalow" follows right behind them.
The directing by Mike Mitchell is fantastic and shows he took time on the film. Rob Schneider gives a surprisingly endearing performance and when his romance develops with one of his customers Kate (Arija Bareikis) it is a sweet romance that we get involved in and actually like being involved in it. "Deuce Bigalow" is a good-natured film worth all the merit it can get. Its not a classic or a masterpiece, it's just a comedy that we don't feel bad about watching. Sure it may come off as offensive and may come off as dumb sometimes, but you cannot deny that it isn't funny.
"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" is no disappointment. Its a fast paced, entertaining sweet and hilarious comedy that may be destined to become a cult classic. Fans of Schneider will not be disappointed and fans of crude but nice comedies will not either. For some reason the film garnered an R rating but with no "f words" or extensive use of sexual content or explicit nudity I was really wondering why the film was R. A mild R to put it to the least, but even if your under 17 or above at least 13 this film is good enough for you to see.
Reviewed by Brandon Herring December 9, 1999
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A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.
by gus619USAAthens has had numerous fortification walls around the city since ancient times. When the Second Persian War ended in 479 BC, it resulted in the destruction of most buildings, statues, and walls in and around the city. After the departure of the Persians the citizens began planning the rebuild of the city. Athenian statesman Themistocles feared a return of the Persians and urged the citizens to prioritize building the fortification walls. They agreed and did so using scavenged material, primarily spoila from the buildings and monuments destroyed by the Persians mixed together with mudbrick, to create the Themistoclean Wall.
A portion of the Themistoclean Wall passed through the pine-clad slopes of Filopappou Hill, an area just south of the Acropolis. That area thrived until the 12th century AD, when a steady decline in the population began. The area was pretty much abandoned by the beginning of the 13th century and was not heavily repopulated until the post-Ottoman era when working class residents moved in. During this time, much of the wall was used during the building process and most of the rest of it disappeared over the next several decades.
The area experienced a building boom in the 1960s and 1970s and several project excavations revealed ancient ruins and artifacts. One of these projects was the Divani Palace Acropolis hotel. While excavations were taking place a large portion of the Themistoclean Wall was discovered. Because Greece has strict laws protecting archaeological sites and artifacts, the hotel’s renovation plans were tweaked to both protect the ancient wall and allow the public to admire it. As part of the new plans, it was decided to display the wall on the building’s lower level, immediately at the bottom of the main staircase in the lobby.
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This southwest portion of the Themistoclean Wall is on display 24/7 in the lower level of the Divani Palace Acropolis hotel. There are stairs and an elevator that access this level. The area is cavernous and noise carries, so it is asked that voices be kept down. Hotel security is monitoring the area on CCTV cameras and roving officers are present to protect the wall and artifacts. The hotel staff have basic knowledge of the display, are not archaeology experts (nor expected to be) and are deserving of respect.
The largest standing portion of the wall is on display at the archaeological site of Kerameikos (northwest portion of wall). This site displays the remains of the wall outdoors. The site requires a fee to enter; however, there is great viewing from public areas outside the paid site.
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Makes 24 shortbread sandwiches
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Jameela Jamil's star-shaped shortbreads are filled with marshmallow for a moreish treat. Hopefully it tops the bake-off charts!
Equipment and preparation: For this recipe you will need a chef's blowtorch and a star-shaped cookie cutter.
Preheat the oven to 180C/170C Fan/Gas 4. Grease two baking trays and line with parchment.
Put the butter, orange zest and orange blossom water in a free-standing mixer and mix until soft. Add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add the flour and bring the mixture together with your hands.
Generously flour a work surface and roll the dough to 5mm/¼in thick.  Use a palette knife to transfer the shortbread to the prepared baking trays. Prick each star with a fork and place in the fridge for 15 minutes.
Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Leave to cool on the tray for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
For the marshmallow filling, put the sugar, liquid glucose, salt and 2½ tablespoons water in a small, heavy bottomed saucepan. Place over a high heat and stir until all the sugar has dissolved. Use a sugar thermometer to monitor the temperature, once it has reached 115C remove from the heat (CAUTION: boiling sugar is extremely hot. Handle very carefully).
Whisk the egg whites and vanilla bean paste in a free-standing mixer until they form soft peaks. With the whisk going, add 2 tablespoons of the sugar syrup. Gradually add the rest of the syrup and continue to beat for about 5 minutes, or until a stiff consistency is achieved. Pour into a piping bag and place in the fridge.
Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl over a pan of simmering water, making sure the bowl doesn't touch the water, then set aside to cool.
To assemble, pipe the marshmallow into the middle of a shortbread and use a blowtorch to brown. Gently place another shortbread on top to make a sandwich. Repeat this process with the remaining shortbread and marshmallow to make 24 sandwiches.
Using a fork, drizzle chocolate over each sandwich in lines. Leave to cool.


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LSTMs consist of chained, repeating modules. At a high level, what are the two pieces of information that is passed between modules?
The information that between modules are past outputs and past states.
"LSTM" stands for "Long Short Term Memory". The name is a reference to a problem with RNNs that LSTMs are designed to solve.
What is this problem? At a high level, how do LSTMs attempt to address this problem (what extra information do they add)?
The problem is that RNNs cannot learn long term dependencies. LSTMs attempt to address this problem by remembering cell state.
The blog post describes two views of RNN/LSTM architectures. In one of these views, we think of the RNN as being "unrolled" into a chain of repeating modules.
What values (represented with tensors) are shared between these modules, and what values are different?
The values that are shared between these modules are the parameters. The values that are different betweent the modules are the cell states, intermediate inputs, and intermediate outputs.
Think about the ranges of the output - what is the property of sigmoid's output range that makes it work for our purpose when we multiply with the current state vector?
ReLU's output range is between 0 and infinity. We want to use sigmoid's output range because it's between 0 and 1, which means that 0 is forget all while 1 is remember all.
2) Run the model.
Run the model for 10 to 15 epochs, or until you see interesting results. Pause the model and record the perplexity. Perplexity is a measurement of how well
the model predicts a sample. A low perplexity indicates that the model is good at making predictions.
Try to find a temperature that produces the most natural seeming text, and give some examples of your generated sentence results.
Temperature = 0.25: Very repetitive words and sentence structure
Temperature = 0.5: Performed best in terms of less repetitive words and misspellings
Temperature = 2.51: No repetitve words, all mispellings
Temperature = 7.94: No repetitve words, all mispellings
Write down any observations about your generated sentence results. Does your text reflect properties of the input sources you used (i.e. vocabulary, sentence length)?
Yes, the input sources have short words and short sentence structures, just like most of the generated sentence results.
In temperature = 0.25, the generator couldn't close the parenthesis. Whenever "I Will" came up in the middle of the sentence, the "I" has a "(" in front of it.
In all argmax, the common theme is "I will".
Try changing the model parameters and initialization. Record your observations from at least one of these experiments.
Params: changed "LSTM" to "RNN" and decreased learning rate from "0.01" to "0.005"
Temperature = 0.22: Very repeatative
Temperature = 0.63: Many misspellings
Temperature = 1: Worse than "LSTM" + learning rate = "0.01" with little no correctly spelled words
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KomodoWorld20-Oct-18 08:29 PM
I'm really not much into trading and TA, but that triangle makes obvious a large move is close and I've seen many repeating the same
Cryptoon20-Oct-18 08:30 PM
Jeeeep
Entire weekend with my company on a big event, some big orders coming in, so big bonus coming
More for buying kmd
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bpkdasbaum20-Oct-18 09:10 PM
@siu - Chainmakers looks ready to go, but also looks like 2014 bulltrap all over again rsi and macd in same setup. I have hope that we will bounce off the longer time trendline since 2012, might as well crash down again to 200weekly MA as it did before https://www.tradingview.com/x/zo4wJAv5/
@kmdwhale please pump to 100k sats, we all exit the market and comeback in 6 months :>
btw I assume even whales play with only 5% or their portfolio. So by this his pockets are ~30mio deep. Does anyone know this to be true? Anyone ever playeds with/known whales, do they go all in?
Vote now: How much KMD do you hodl? - 1k or less, 1-10k, 10-50k, 50k-100k, 100k-500k, 500k-1mio, 1mio+ or ... Whats your opinion?
jspook1620-Oct-18 11:33 PM
@siu - Chainmakers is it time to board the space rocket?
siu - Chainmakers20-Oct-18 11:41 PM
It can go anywhere, really
No matter where it goes, ones it break the range it will get brutal
meatspoon20-Oct-18 11:54 PM
space rocket or short-bus, which are we boarding?
Hollowman900020-Oct-18 11:58 PM
Which has more windows to lick?
There’s your answer
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Vertigo21-Oct-18 12:08 AM
I'm happy no matter what . Glad I sold all my Lisk for KMD at $1
Lisk was 3.46
Also was tired of the Dpos cartels.
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I think dpos is flawed.
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Vertigo21-Oct-18 12:18 AM
Volume is just crappy all over the market I don't like that.
Vertigo21-Oct-18 12:41 AM
Come on KMD I need to buy 157 more go down a bit.
bpkdasbaum21-Oct-18 01:27 AM
Question: could a whale sell to himself on binance? making it appear as if there is more buy volume than it is in reallity?
bishop21-Oct-18 01:55 AM
Sure
actionslacks21-Oct-18 04:58 AM
Compared to gold and silver manipulation. Kmd is childs play. Crypto is only in its speculative phase. This market is only 100% manipulation and hype
actionslacks21-Oct-18 05:10 AM
This is blockchain innovation. We are witness to the birth of the future of secure, distributed, anonymous systems that are gonna change fundamentally the way the world operates towards the betterment of humanity.
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ErikB21-Oct-18 05:51 AM
betterment and a betterNET
Cryptoon21-Oct-18 07:14 AM
I wonder if the whale has found a way to manipulate bots with the way hes placing the orders etc
And to be able to buy large amounts without pumping price
ErikB21-Oct-18 07:38 AM
I was thinking the same thing
@Cryptoon
NNoperator21-Oct-18 09:01 AM
KMD at 20K looking good
Mark8121-Oct-18 10:04 AM
@bpkdasbaum I think this whale pockets are lot deeper than 30 million since i think its same guy that has bought over 7 million kmd from begin of january during this bear market.
seems he takes dollar cost averaging very seriously
Mark8121-Oct-18 10:07 AM
Wouldnt you if you had deep pockets?
ComputerGenie 👴👴👴21-Oct-18 10:08 AM
LOL @ "if"
Mark8121-Oct-18 10:11 AM
How would you like me to rephrase that?
ComputerGenie 👴👴👴21-Oct-18 10:19 AM
He's smart enough to use diversification, but JL be making the look like a
Mark8121-Oct-18 10:23 AM
Yes that is obvious since two biggest shareholders of btcd were pondsea and jl by their own words if i remember correctly. Also jl is one best traders in this industry what i have seen doing investments through years of following supernet.
There is probably next year new notarynode operator on komodo with hes sharerights by voting
BlockTech21-Oct-18 10:41 AM
Bitcoin rising again, reaching 6550$ again on CMC, let's hope it keep getting that way and not a dump to 6k$ =D.
ErikB21-Oct-18 10:42 AM
@BlockTech volume has turned to dust on Binance
jl777c21-Oct-18 10:43 AM
is this USD or USDT?
hyperDEX21-Oct-18 10:59 AM
I think average
Also $100 is not something to write home about
Bitmex still $6,440.50
jl777c21-Oct-18 11:02 AM
seems bitmex might be the most "real" of all these prices?
ComputerGenie 👴👴👴21-Oct-18 11:09 AM
CB has price":"6436.75000000"(edited)
hyperDEX21-Oct-18 11:45 AM
yeah seems like USD spot is at a discount to fakeusd spot
Also Bitfinex is losing lots and lots of volume, was 21st yesterday now in the 30s. They were top 5 from memory for a long time
Bitfinex, an exchange famed for its opaque banking arrangements, has begun ordering its users to submit their tax details. The platform, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, a known tax haven, will retain this information and may share it with tax authorities in...
hyperDEX21-Oct-18 11:55 AM
No that wouldnt be the cause as i am pretty sure i saw the volume change only in the last week.
Acura21-Oct-18 11:55 AM
ok
hyperDEX21-Oct-18 11:56 AM
Maybe tether fud really killed off the big volume players
jl777c21-Oct-18 11:56 AM
tether implosion could take down bitfinex
nobody knows as the exact details of tether, bitfinex corporate structures, funds on deposit, etc. are all based on trust in bitfinex
We will be moving some funds between our cold wallets. A tell tale sign of a new cold wallet on Binance is two small transfers from and BACK TO an existing wallet, then a large transaction. No need to be alarmed. Funds are #SAFU.
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Might be a cold store
But somehow the pattern does not follow what CZ described
Kitchen Table21-Oct-18 12:19 PM
I'm going with no cold storage for the time being. Someone knows they can make some serious bank on the interest alone when KMD hits 100 dollars.
snowdamn21-Oct-18 12:21 PM
maybe read my KMD strategy lol
Kitchen Table21-Oct-18 12:25 PM
You know how you hit the claim button in Agama and for 1 block your wallet shows 0 funds? I bet he was sweating bullets during that one block.
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passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴21-Oct-18 12:33 PM
what is the meaning of cold storage? if someone accidently guess your key does it matter it's cold storage or hot storage? he just got the access right ?
is it a problem for crypto that it is "too virtual" ?
jl777c21-Oct-18 12:34 PM
once you do a tx, it isnt cold anymore
passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴21-Oct-18 12:34 PM
too liquid
jl777c21-Oct-18 12:34 PM
the pubkey is known
so the proper procedure is to send all funds to a new cold address
passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴21-Oct-18 12:34 PM
you can try to guess private key from public ?
jl777c21-Oct-18 12:35 PM
no, but QC has efficient ways to calculate from it
passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴21-Oct-18 12:35 PM
so cold address = never send outgoing ?(edited)
jl777c21-Oct-18 12:35 PM
when it is cold, then it is only known a hash of hash, which QC has no significant advantage over random guessing
if you ever make a spend, you need to disclose the pubkey to do the spend
and then it isnt cold anymore
so we can 100% say that the RD7SZpgtfrLXB32bRcckYaVmre2ByL73Pi is not any binance cold storage


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You know, I am just too busy to deal with the tone of your messages right now. Give me a contact at AA and as soon as I finish my budget and pricing projects I will call them directly.
Before I can do anything, I need the Enron company number for EGP fuels. I do know that our actuary has never broken out the expense or PBO for this company. Until I know what the company number is we won't know which ETS group it was consolidated within. Probably the Services Group, but maybe Corp. Once we know that then either the ETS accounting or corp. accounting can look into the actual intercompany allocations if any. Tracy, can you do me a favor and look into how you all do the accounting for this company and I'll try to give you a call later this week. (Tracy, I may be able to locate the 2000 and possibly the 2001 allocation sheets but I am not comfortable that we will still have the budget information for 1998 and 1999. In addition, the true-ups definately do not go to this level.)
Arthur Anderson is in the process of completing the preparation of audited financials for EGP Fuels Company. Included with these financials are footnote
disclosures. Please provide the following information to be included with these financials.
1) Total charges from Enron Corp for EGP Fuels employee benefit plans for 1998, 1999, and 2000. (I would think that the books of EGP should show the actual charges. Our reserve records only provide a total distribution allocation. This will have to come from accounting.)
2) EGP Fuels' Enron Retirement Plan pension costs for 1998, 1999, and 2000. (As stated, this is not prepared at the EGP level. The best we can do here is to work with the actuary to do an estimate of the costs but this will likely require a historical pull of information which you may or may not have available. I'll need to speak with AA&CO directly to determine best course of action.)
3) EGP Fuels' Accumulated Postretirement Benefit Obligation (APBO) for benefit plans other than pensions net periodic postretirement benefit costs for 1998,
1999, and 2000. (Same as above.)
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 8:02 AM
To: Barrow, Cynthia; Huseman, Sandy
Subject: RE: Benefits Costs
Cynthia,
Please note that Sandy and I did talk but I was left with the expectation that I would still receive some type of response, even if that response was merely that
the information is not available. Also, it was suggested that I try contacting You, Mikie and Sandy for this information but I did not receive a response from
any of you without additional proding. And, those responses left me believing that I would hear more from you, which I did not. Lastly, I did mention that if
necessary we could look at using Financial Accounting for this information but this is not desirable since this method will result in fragmented and less
accurate information. Also, Arthur Andersen has indicated that this is not the preferred method of providing this information.
Based on the email which follows below I will assume that Financial Accounting is my only recourse and that You will assist in convincing Arthur Andersen
that this is the only alternative available to meet their timing requirements.
 Just so you know I am not ignoring you I have literally worked 4 weeks straight without a day off and with an average of 14 hour days!
I can not do this until my budgets and medical pricing are complete. If you need it immediately, then you will need to do what Sandy talked with you about last week and that is to get with Financial Accounting. There is no way I can look at this until later this week.
-----Original Message-----
From: Meers, Thomas
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:08 AM
To: Olson, Cindy
Cc: Barrow, Cynthia
Subject: FW: Benefits Costs
Cindy,
Arthur Andersen has requested benefits information necessary to complete audited financials that are required to complete Project Timber (the sale
of the MTBE assets to EOTT). The following requests have not been acknowledged and remain unanswered. Please let me know who I should contact
for this information.
Arthur Andersen has since also requested this information for the 6 months ending June 30, 2000 and June 30, 2001. Any guidance you can provide is
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom X54899
-----Original Message-----
From: Meers, Thomas
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:12 PM
To: Meers, Thomas; Barrow, Cynthia; Rath, Mikie; Huseman, Sandy
Subject: RE: Benefits Costs
Hello?! Is anyone going to acknowledge this request? Any suggestions on where I should go for this information?
-----Original Message-----
From: Meers, Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:23 PM
To: Meers, Thomas; Barrow, Cynthia; Rath, Mikie; Huseman, Sandy
Subject: RE: Benefits Costs
Cynthia/Mikie/Sandy,
What is the status of this request? Enron would like to sign off on the audit by the end of this week.
Tom X54899
-----Original Message-----
From: Meers, Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 8:44 AM
To: Barrow, Cynthia; Rath, Mikie; Huseman, Sandy
Subject: Benefits Costs
Arthur Anderson is in the process of completing the preparation of audited financials for EGP Fuels Company. Included with these financials are footnote
disclosures. Please provide the following information to be included with these financials.
1) Total charges from Enron Corp for EGP Fuels employee benefit plans for 1998, 1999, and 2000.
2) EGP Fuels' Enron Retirement Plan pension costs for 1998, 1999, and 2000.
3) EGP Fuels' Accumulated Postretirement Benefit Obligation (APBO) for benefit plans other than pensions net periodic postretirement benefit costs for 1998,
1999, and 2000.
Please let me know if and when this information may be available.
Thanks,
Tom X54899
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Let $T$ be a random variable, and let $S$ be a random variable defined on the same space as $T$. As we have seen, conditioning on $S$ might be a good way to find probabilities for $T$ if $S$ and $T$ are related. In this section we will see that conditioning on $S$ can also be a good way to find the expectation of $T$.
We will start with a simple example to illustrate the ideas. Let the joint distribution of $T$ and $S$ be as in the table below.
t = [3, 4]
s = [5, 6, 7]
pp = [0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1]
jd2 = Table().values('T', t, 'S', s).probability(pp)
jt_dist = jd2.toJoint()
jt_dist
How can $S$ be involved in the calculation of $E(T)$?
Notice that to find $E(T)$, you could use the joint distribution table and the definition of expectation as follows:
3*(0.3 + 0.2 + 0.1) + 4*(0.1 + 0.2 + 0.1)
This is equivalent to going to each cell of the table, weighting the value of $T$ in that cell with the probability in the cell, and then adding. Here's another way of looking at this.
Let's condition on $S$:
jt_dist.conditional_dist('T', 'S')
Each of the three conditional distributions is a distribution in its own right. Therefore its histogram has a balance point, just as the marginal distribution of $T$ does.
jt_dist.conditional_dist('T', 'S', show_ev=True)
You can see $E(T) = 3.4$ in the row corresponding to the distribution of $T$. And you can also see the conditional expectation of $T$ given each possible value of $S$:
This defines a function of $S$: for each value $s$ of $S$, the function returns $E(T \mid S=s)$.
ev_T_given_S = Table().with_columns(
's', s,
'E(T | S = s)', [3.5, 3.5, 3.25],
'P(S = s)', [0.2, 0.4, 0.4]
)
ev_T_given_S
This function of $S$ is called the conditional expectation of $T$ given $S$ and is denoted $E(T \mid S)$. Unlike expectation which is a number, conditional expectation is a random variable.
As it's a random variable, it has an expectation, which we can calculate using the non-linear function rule. The answer is a quantity that you will recognize.
ev = sum(ev_T_given_S.column('E(T | S = s)')*ev_T_given_S.column('P(S = s)'))
ev
That's right: it's the expectation of $T$.
What we have learned from this is that $E(T)$ is the average of the conditional expectations of $T$ given the different values of $S$, weighted by the probabilities of those values.
In short, $E(T)$ is the expectation of the conditional expectation of $T$ given $S$.
In general, suppose $T$ and $S$ are two random variables on a probability space.
Then for each fixed value of $s$, $T$ has a conditional distribution given $S=s$. This is an ordinary distribution and has an expectation. That is called the expectation of $T$ given $S=s$ and is denoted $E(T \mid S = s)$.
So for each $s$, there is a value $E(T \mid S=s)$. This defines a function of the random variable $S$. It is called the conditional expectation of $T$ given $S$, and is denoted $E(T \mid S)$.
The key difference between expectation and conditional expectation:
Since $E(T \mid S)$ is a random variable, it has an expectation. That expectation is equal to $E(T)$. We observed this in an example; now here is a proof.
Suppose we want the expectation of a random variable, and suppose it is easy for us to say what that expectation would be if we were given the value of a related random variable. The rule of iterated expectations says that we can find that conditional expectation first, and take its expectation to get our answer.
Formally, let $S$ and $T$ be two random variables on the same space. Then $E(T) = E(E(T \mid S))$.
Proof:
\begin{align*} E(T) &= \sum_{\text{all }t} tP(T=t) \\ \\ &= \sum_{\text{all }t} t \sum_{\text{all }s} P(S=s, T=t) \\ \\ &= \sum_{\text{all }t} t \sum_{\text{all }s} P(S=s)P(T=t \mid S=s) \\ \\ &= \sum_{\text{all }s} \Big{(} \sum_{\text{all }t} tP(T=t \mid S=s) \Big{)} P(S=s) \\ \\ &= \sum_{\text{all }s} E(T \mid S=s)P(S=s) \\ \\ &= E(E(T \mid S)) \end{align*}Let $X_1, X_2, \ldots $ be i.i.d. and let $E(X_1) = \mu_X$. Let $N$ be a non-negative integer valued random variable that is independent of the sequence of $X$'s and let $E(N) = \mu_N$.
Define the random sum $S$ to be
$$ S = X_1 + X_2 + \ldots + X_N $$where $S = 0$ if $N=0$.
Notice that $S$ is the sum of a random number of terms.
Question. What is $E(S)$?
Answer. If $N$ were the constant 10, then the answer would be $10\mu_X$. This is our signal to condition on $N$. Here are the steps to follow.
This is a natural answer. It is the expected number of terms being added times the expected size of each of those terms.
This is an important point to note about calculating expectations by conditioning. The natural answer is often correct.
In a Galton-Watson branching process, each individual has a random number of progeny. Assume that the numbers of progeny of the different indviduals are i.i.d. with mean $\mu$. Suppose the process starts with one individual in Generation 0.
Question. Assuming that there are no deaths, what is the expected total number of individuals in Generations 0 through $n$?
Answer. Let $T_k$ be the number of individuals born in Generation $k$. We are assuming $T_0 = 1$. By the example above, for each $k > 1$,
$$ E(T_k) = E(T_{k-1})\mu $$So by induction, for each $k > 1$ the expected number of people in Generation $k$ is
$$ E(T_k) = \mu^k $$Indeed, the result is true for $k=0$ as well. So the expected total number of people through Generation $n$ is
\begin{equation} \sum_{k=0}^n \mu^k = \begin{cases} n & \text{if } \mu = 1 \\ \frac{1 - \mu^{n+1}}{1 - \mu} = \frac{\mu^{n+1} - 1}{\mu - 1} & \text{if } \mu \ne 1 \end{cases} \end{equation}The value of $\mu$, the expected number of progeny of a single individual, determines how this expected total behaves as $n$ gets large. Even with no deaths, if $\mu < 1$ the expected population size tends to a positive constant as $n \to \infty$. But if $\mu \ge 1$ then the expected population size explodes.
The most important property of conditional expectation is the iteration that we have studied in this section. But conditional expectation has other properties that are analogous to those of expectation. They are now expressed as equalities of random variables instead of equalities of real numbers.
Go through the list and notice that all the moves you'd naturally want to make are justified. The proofs are routine; we won't go through them.
Two more properties formalize the idea that the variable that is given can be treated as a constant in conditional expectations.
For example, $$ E(3ST + \log(S)U + 7 \mid S) = 3SE(T \mid S) + \log(S)E(U \mid S) + 7 $$
though we sincerely hope you won't encounter a random variable as bizarre as this.


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