My friends, on this miraculous night, the message I want to leave with you is so simple: Listen. I never heard what had happened, or the real story about that Christmas, until after my parents had died.īut I’ll always remember that my uncle did more than hear a need. The salesman who lost his job was my father. That Christmas happened over 40 years ago. It happened because when he heard someone in need, he listened. He drove down with his family and he helped create Christmas that year – the tree, the dinner, gifts, the spirit, the memories that would last a lifetime. But she swallowed her pride, and called her brother in another state and asked if there was anything he could do. How would they celebrate Christmas? She was also a very proud woman, and hated to ask for any kind of help. His wife was beside herself with worry, and didn’t know what they would tell the kids. ![]() The man was a salesman with two young children. It’s a story we’re hearing a lot these days. Not long ago, I heard the story of a man who had lost his job right before Christmas. It is also there in the silence, when the one who used to share your life and your home is no longer there, and you find your heart full of sorrow and longing and memory – and into that, unexpectedly, comes Christmas. It comes on Christmas Eve, when a recovering alcoholic walks by a bar, and hears the laughter inside – but keeps on walking. A soft voice that a soldier hears on the other end of a telephone line, a voice that says “I miss you.” ![]() The laughter of loved ones around the table. It comes to us with the clang of bells, a blare of trumpets. It comes to us with angels singing and a baby crying. Think of how Christmas comes to us – if only we listen for it. The news all of humanity has been listening for. This is the news we have been waiting for. Or as Isaiah puts it so beautifully: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” “The grace of God has appeared,” Paul writes. That He has come into our lives, and into our world. To listen for His good news.Īnd what good news it is: that God is with us! That we are no longer alone. But are we paying attention? Are we listening? Two thousand years later, we confront this stunning message – “tidings of comfort and joy,” as the carol describes it – and our hearts swell with the sentiment of the season. In the passage immediately following this, they go out and tell the world what they have seen. The shepherds listen when the angel announces the “good news of great joy.” When the angel tells Joseph in his dreams what is about to happen…he listens. When Gabriel arrives to bring Mary the news that she will bear a child…she listens. So much of the Christmas story is, truly, about listening. ![]() That wonderful answer popped into my mind as I read over this gospel that we just heard, the greatest beginning of the greatest story ever told. What do you hope God will say to you when you finally see Him?Īnd Spielberg thought for a moment and smiled. It can make for an interesting examination of conscience.Īnyway: on this episode, the person James Lipton was interviewing was Steven Spielberg. It’s a good question, by the way, to ask ourselves periodically. And he always ends each episode the same way, with one particular question: “If you believe that God exists, what do you think He will say to you when you finally see Him?” If you’ve seen it, you know the basic idea: Lipton invites celebrities – famous actors, writers and directors – to talk about their careers and how they do what they do. Join our new Discord server to chat and play guitar together.A few years ago, I caught an episode of the cable TV show “Inside The Actor’s Studio,” with James Lipton.Check out the Wiki/FAQ for answers to common questions.Be kind to new musicians and don't downvote or mock legitimate questions. Message the mods with any thoughts/issues/ideas.*īe excellent to each other, be respectful, make your criticism constructive (and not destructive). Welcome to AcousticGuitar! - a place for fingerstyle, flatpicking, tapping, body percussion and good old strumming.
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![]() ![]() To be sure, this is a daunting proposition and a long-term project. Today, I'd like to introduce the idea of the commons to you and suggest its enormous potential for re-imagining so many things – the capitalist political economy, state power, our social relations and hierarchies, our relations with the Earth, our inner lives. We desperately need to find a new North Star and a more stable, wholesome order. On the other hand, as we move more deeply into the danger zones of climate change, authoritarian nationalism, savage precarity and inequality, and institutional breakdown, we have little choice. On the one hand, few people want to talk about structural change and necessary alternatives lest it open a Pandora's Box of monsters and chaos. Existing institutions and categories of thought aren't working so well. It's fair to say that so many grand narratives of our time - about citizenship, freedom, property rights, economic growth, and theories of value – have been called into question these days. The dialogue provoked by this workshop is timely and necessary because so many of the certitudes of political economy and culture are slowly crumbling before our eyes. The Commonsverse as a Parallel Polis: Opportunities and Challenges The event was hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the Heidelberg Law Department at the University of Würzburg, and The New Institute (Hamburg, Germany).Ī video version of the talk (with my slides, two formal responses, and audience Q&A) can be found here: My talk begins at the 5:32 timecode. Below are slightly edited remarks that I delivered at a a workshop, "Beyond Liberalism: Commons, Constitutionalism and the Common Good," in Berlin, Germany, on May 31, 2023. ![]() In your top level comment be sure to include one abbreviation for your judgment, i.e.Īttack ideas, not people. ![]() See our resources for those in an unhealthy or abusive relationship and resources for members of the LGBTQIA+ community that might need help or support Looking for some Regional Assholes? /r/suisjeletroudeballe /r/EuSouOBabaca /r/BinIchDasArschloch /r/BenIkDeEikel /r/AkoBaYungGago/ See our Best Of "Most Controversial" at /r/AITAFiltered Visit our sister subreddit /r/AmItheButtface/ for posts about fiction or relationships, and basically anything that we don't allow here! If your top level comment has the highest number of upvotes in a thread, you will get a flair point. ![]() This flair is determined by the subscribers who have both rendered judgment and voted on which judgment is best. Were you the asshole in that situation or not? Post should reflect real situations, and abide by the rules below.Īfter 18 hours, your post will be given a flair representing the final judgment on your matter. This is the sub to lay out your actions and conflicts and get impartial judgment rendered against you. Tell us about any non-violent conflict you have experienced give us both sides of the story, and find out if you're right, or you're the asshole. A catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in a real-world argument that's been bothering you. You begin the hike by descending down into the valley. Waimano Falls is a slightly longer trail, coming in at 3.5 miles and takes more cardio endurance to complete. The waterfalls at Waimano Falls feel like an adult playground. Multiple waterfalls with pools of water and a rope swing overhead! You will be hiking over tree roots, through a lot of mud, and you will have to cross a river several times to reach the falls and pool. Maunawili Falls is a 3.5-mile hike in Kailua that has beautiful jungle views, a view of the Koolau Mountains, and ends at a fun and cool waterfall. Main trailhead closed for repairs as of July 2021Ĭliff jump from the side of a waterfall into a beautiful pool of water! If you’re not hiking with somebody who is experienced on that trail, and not an experienced hiker yourself, I would not recommend attempting to locate the top of the falls. However, hiker beware! The trail to the top of Manoa Falls is very dangerous! You need to scale the side of a wall that is often wet and does not have the best handholds or ropes to help you get to the top. Upper Manoa Falls is known for its infinite-like pool that overlooks the valley below. The waterfall directly above Manoa is a popular one for its beautiful view. There is actually a series of waterfalls that run above Manoa Falls. Note: When you are at Manoa Falls and look at the very top of the falls, it’s not uncommon to see and hear people at the top of the falls. Waterproof shoes and clothes are always a plus on this one! Manoa also tends to be very wet and rainy, so prepare for a lot of mud and potential rain. This is not a hike for somebody who wants to be alone in nature. An easy path to get to a beautiful waterfall.īecause Manoa Falls is so great of a hike, it does tend to get very crowded.Įxpect to have a very busy trail and come across a lot of other hikers.Manoa Falls is one of the most popular hikes on Oahu and for good reasons. The 1.5-mile Manoa Falls hike takes you through the jungle and lands you at the foot of a beautiful 150-foot waterfall. Also, don’t forget bug repellant, drinking water, and other essential hiking gear. Note of caution: These hikes are all in lush, green, and rainy areas of Oahu. If you feel comfortable on that trail, then you may want to consider advancing to some of the others. If you’re a novice hiker, Manoa Falls is definitely a great place to start. Oahu is filled with beautiful hikes and waterfalls! While you can spend hours following streams and chasing waterfalls (insert TLC lyrics), there are many relatively well-marked hikes that will take you to some beautiful falls. After living on Oahu for several years, these are the best waterfall hikes on Oahu that I recommend to travelers visiting on the island.Īs you read this blog, I have the trails listed by level of difficulty, from easy to strenuous. ![]() Ap–CDPH Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Updates More Information.Ap–CDC & FDA Clear Janssen Biotech, Inc (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine for Use More Information.Ap– Governor Newsom Statement on CDC Outdoor Mask Guidance More Information.Ap– Monterey County Residents Required to Follow California Face Covering Guidance More Information.– COVID-19 Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People More Information.Monterey County Health Department will align itself with the FDA, CDC, and WSSSRW and begin offering COVID-19 vaccination to adolescents 12 to 15 years of age. – CDC and FDA Recommend Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Use in People 12 Years of Age and Older.Families can visit MyTurn.ca.gov, Call the CA COVID-19 Hotline at 1-83, or Contact Primary Care Doctor to Schedule a Vaccination Appointment. 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I’m looking forward to where it goes, but I do hope the glaring issues mentioned above get some attention. Installation: PC: Unzip the mod and put the folder named 'game' from the mod in your 'ReluctantArchon-Chapter. Adds a Scene Replay Gallery to the Main Menu. If I was going to rate this game for sexiness, then it would get a low score.Īll in, this is a game with a good, well paced, and well built story. 4 Complete with bugfix Multi-Mod Game Developer: Kyois Features: Adds in-game walk-through for the important choices. However, whether the story stands on its own without the added spice of being an adult game is too subjective for me to state categorically. The animations are very, very basic affairs of two images on a loop, and the scenes themselves are really too short to titillate. The biggest flaw in this game, however, is the sex scenes, and for an adult game, that’s a pretty major flaw. The models are attractive, but there are too few renders to really show the wealth of emotion and expression that seems to be going on in the text. This isn’t a flaw, in my mind, but there are some points where some more atmospheric lighting could have added to the general ambiance of the scene. There are no glaring issues with it that ruin immersion in the game world, but there’s also nothing exceptional to make it stand out from others. The art is good, if a little straightforward. The errors are not as bad as some, but sometimes the use of punctuation seems to have been decided using a form of ‘Pin the tail on the donkey.’ I’m not one to continue to read through bad spelling and grammar unless I find the story entertaining, and this story is definitely that. While the world-building is well done, the grammar and spelling really need the attention of a good proof reader or editor. More substantial Voting power for extra renders. Includes Discord benefits Elders 10 / month Previous Tiers rewards. The choices you make in the story do have some impact, and that adds a layer of replayability to the game. Vote on extra renders of the ladies of the VN. There are some scenes that are a little simplistically told, but nothing so jarring as to detract from the general quality of the tale. The story becomes rich and full of detail at a good pace, and the way the story is told doesn’t leave a player overly confused, unless they try to skip a bunch of text. The way this game uses visuals and text is an excellent example of the old adage in writing: show, don’t tell. Character introductions and the small lore drops do depend on the reader having some experience with the genre, but that’s allowable. ![]() The beauty of this game is the way world-building is handled the player isn’t bombarded with exposition at the outset, and we learn the world as the story progresses. Reluctant Archon is an urban fantasy visual novel where you play the role of a sorcerer who owns a club and is in hiding from his family. Bad writing can easily put me off a game, but good storytelling can make me overlook a few issues, and Reluctant Archon has some really good storytelling, but is that one good thing enough to counterbalance some fairly fatal flaws? ![]() For newcomers to the google hangout scene, these can be fun addition. The command is powerful enough that you can some of them may be old favorites that you already know. A male/female emoji popping out of a gift to using the “/roll” command you can roll a random die automatically in chat by default. This way, this command has a unique gender separation actions. Google’s easter eggs are no top-secret to easter eggs and other hidden projects that google hides in their apps. UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A (use the directional keys).Google hangouts is an all-in-one chat application that can support instant messaging, video chat, voip calls, and much it is very easy to access hangouts from your gmail account, your smartphone, or any other web-enabled device.Simply type them in the chat box and press Enter: Hangouts contains quite a few Easter eggs, and since I don't like spoiling surprises, I'll only tell you how you can trigger them, but not what they do. Select the "SMS disabled" option and press "Yes" in the prompt that shows up.įor those of you who aren't familiar with the term, an Easter egg is a feature that isn't documented and which has been added by the developers as a joke or bonus for the users who can manage to find it. In order to try this out, tap the hamburger icon, then open the Settings menu and go to SMS. Use Hangouts as the SMS app - if you're tired of constantly switching back and forth between the default SMS app and Hangouts, you can easily group all your conversations together by using Hangouts as the SMS application.Simply long tap the one(s) that you want to select, then use bin icon in the upper-right corner to delete the chats. On the main screen of Hangouts there's a list with all your conversations. Delete conversations - in case you forgot to turn off the history or if it's becoming a nightmare to scroll all your conversations, you can easily delete any of them.All you have to do is to open the conversation that you don't want to be saved, then tap the three dots button from the upper-right corner and select the "Turn history off" option. By default, Hangouts will save a log of all your chats, but you can easily change this. Turn off history - while there are situations when it's actually useful to have a record of your conversations, there may be cases when that can be detrimental. ![]() Finally, find the "How others get in touch with you" category, then press Customize Invites and select the option that you want to go with. ![]() Once there, tap the Account Settings button and chose your account. To get to this configuration, you will need to open the app's menu by tapping the "hamburger" button from the upper side of the screen and go to Settings.
![]() Finally, we will have a panel discussion to suggest how models could be challenged by experimental data, and provide new explanatory mechanisms. The symposium has four talks, by Edith Kaan (associate professor, specializing in psycholinguistics of bilingualism), Yung Han Khoe (PhD student, working on models of bilingual sentence production), Lin Chen (research associate with an expertise in reading processes), and a joint talk by Irene Winther (PhD student working on bilingual sentence processing) and Yevgen Matusevych (research associate in computational cognitive science of language). Our symposium aims to bring together researchers from different labs and with different research traditions, working on the intersection of models and experiments in bilingual sentence processing. ![]() Moreover, better understanding of bilingual processing will give more insights into more general mechanisms such as cognitive control processes involved while switching languages (Luk et al., 2012). ![]() This lack of computational specifications can hamper further progress in bilingualism research. There are currently only very few sentence-level computational models of second-language (L2) or bilingual processing (Frank, 2021). The role of reflexive collaborative inquiry and active public participation in emergent research is considered as a way to offer socially responsible scientific tools to the cognitive science community.Īlthough sentence comprehension and production are increasingly often studied by combining computational modeling and human experiments, this approach remains mostly restricted to studies of monolingual or first-language (L1) processing. This contributed symposia will stimulate debate and questions arising across the intersections of art, neurology, cognitive science and public participation to leverage understanding of reality and the self through interdisciplinary considerations of cognitive difference. The exhibition, public events and recent inbuilt psychological study, embrace the subjective nature of perception and highlight a role for augmented reality art experiences as cognitive science experiments in public settings. This exhibit draws on Visual Snow experienced as experienced by the artist and informed by interdisciplinary research, including cognitive science. A commonly experienced visual symptom is described as the 'persistent effect of television “snow”', and was first described in the literature in 1995.ĭistorted Constellations is an immersive, sensory, labyrinthine environment and playful experience of an augmented reality interpretation of artist, Nwando Ebizie's unique perception of the world. Whilst Visual Snow produces a collection of different symptoms, it is clinically recognised. Visual Snow is a neurological condition that is experienced as an ‘augmented’ reality of auras, glowing lines, depression, anxiety and depersonalisation. The tutorial will provide a working knowledge of the state of the art methods for encoding and decoding, a thorough understanding of the literature, and a better understanding of the benefits and limitations of encoding/decoding with deep learning. In this tutorial, we plan to discuss different kinds of stimulus representations, and popular encoding and decoding architectures in detail. ![]() Recently, inspired by the effectiveness of deep learning models for natural language processing and computer vision, such models have been applied for neuroscience as well. Both the brain encoding and decoding problems have been studied in detail in the past two decades and the foremost attraction of studying these solutions is that they serve as additional tools for basic research in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. The brain decoding problem is the inverse problem of reconstructing the stimuli given the fMRI brain representation. The brain encoding problem aims to automatically generate fMRI brain representations given a stimulus. How does the brain represent different modes of information? Can we design a system that can automatically understand what the user is thinking? We can make progress towards answering such questions by studying brain recordings from devices such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). ![]() Use the legend at the top-right to understand how many detections, including analytics rule templates or hunting queries, are available for you to configure. Select items in the Simulate menu to simulate your organization's possible security status. In Microsoft Sentinel, in the General menu on the left, select MITRE. View your simulated coverage to understand your organization's possible security status, were you to configure all detections available to you. In the MITRE coverage matrix, simulated coverage refers to detections that are available, but not currently configured, in your Microsoft Sentinel workspace. Simulate possible coverage with available detections Select links to any of the active items to jump to the relevant area in Microsoft Sentinel. 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