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Mr Jones
Welcome to episode 268 of Keeping Up with the Joneses
How are you?

Thank you, very cool though
I mean I just, I was like
like, oh, I need to basically put on a coat.
- You heard it here first, probably until April,
you're gonna hear every week,
as you say it's so cold in our basement.
- It's so cold in our basement.
- Yep, that's our weekly update.
- There you go.
(laughing)
- Speaking of weekly update,
we had another snow day this week.
- We did.
- We started the week Monday,
Martin Luther King Day.
- Yes.
- Did you enjoy your day off?
- I did.
- Yeah.
- Thank you, we had such fun having
Remington on the podcast.
Thank you to everybody who sent in feedback.
glad you enjoyed the episode. So we were off Monday work.
Yes.
And then the following day, the kids were off school.
Yes. Yeah, first no day, which is, it's just nice. I mean, honestly,
my favorite part is that I don't have to get up at 6 a.m.
So that's the best part.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's no day. It's apparently going to be 15 degrees tonight,
which to centigrade people that is,
I don't know.
Minus 9.4 degrees Celsius.
Okay. So it's going to be cold tonight. Wow.
Don't do that thing where we leave our faucets running and open the cabinet doors,
which feels like witchcraft.
But every time I'd done it, we haven't had burst pipes.
Right.
But I don't know that we would have burst pipes.
I'm just getting out of no, no, no, no.
I just, here's my question.
Let's stick with it.
It's for the So I've served our breath in Canada.
We never did that.
I love it that you're positioning these questions at me, like suddenly
I'm a general contractor.
Exactly.
But you're the one that goes around and opens up every only because our towns
folk tell us to do what townsfolk told you to do that.
Literally everybody in the south tells me to do that.
I've never had anybody tell me to do that.
I trust Mr. Bill and Mr. Bill told me that in fact today Mr.
Bill and Miss Noni said that's what they're going to do tonight.
And I was like, I just do what they do.
Okay. All right.
I still think it's odd.
Okay. Tonight we won't.
And if the bursts, if the pipes burst, we'll have a weekly update for next week.
Okay. Great.
I can't even do that.
Oh, okay.
our homeowners insurance cameras.
And how's that happened this week?
How, I mean, how was your week?
We've had a good week in terms of seeing each other.
I felt like last week, aside from the fact that we went away for the weekend,
we just barely saw each other.
Really?
Was my memory wrong?
I don't know.
I mean, it was a busy week, but I mean, it wasn't like we didn't see each other.
Yeah, but I mean, hard, hard connection.
Because you know, I'm big.
It's so cute, aren't you?
Yeah.
Yeah, no, it was a good week.
We were mostly at home doing Zoom meetings, so.
We watched the new "Eternals" movie, or the new Marvel movie called "Eternals."
Yes.
Two hours and 37 minutes I wasn't ready for that.
Oh, so long.
Did you enjoy it?
No, I mean, it was good.
I don't think it's the best Marvel movie that I've ever seen or anything, but...
I would say it's a huge departure for them in tone.
Yeah, maybe.
I don't even know if I'm interested enough to even have a conversation about tone.
I'm going to start my universe podcast and they are not invited.
I don't even know what that means.
It'd be like never mind.
You don't care.
I can see your eyes.
But we watched a huge divergent.

Did we already say about Abby's bed?
You built her bed and all that.
Yeah, I went out to a forest.
I fell to a tree.
I dragged it home as a lumberjack.
I blamed the tree and I built it with my own.
I mean, but when you say you built her bed, it was a.
You had a full day pre-made bed from wherever we are at a wayfare or whatever.

I did.
You were her hero.
Ah, yeah, I met her bed.
Yes.
She's in the process of moving from one room to the other and making her new room her little teenage haven.
Yep.
It's interesting to watch.
That was it. That was our weekly update.
That was it.
It was bananas.
I was just thinking about this new course that I'm launching.
Yeah.
I say that we are launching.
I'm not doing it.
[LAUGHTER]
Let's be super clear.
That was very definitive.
OK.
Yeah, yeah.
Think about this new course on launching.
Yes.
And I'm thinking it's about this time of the month
that we tend to get our Christmas bills coming.
Yeah.
So if you spend money on a credit card,
it's round about now that you'll get your bills.
And I was just thinking, and I want to invite our listeners, if you want to end 2022
in a financially better place than when you started 2022, do I have a course for you?
Do I have a course for you?
We, we, it has done nothing.
I have a question.
It's something you've done nothing because I keep thinking.
I lived it with you.
You know, I just didn't teach it.
I'm being flippant, but you also created space for me to devote time to doing this.
Like the notion that you haven't helped create the courses.
Yeah, that's right.
No, I'm being serious.
Like in one sense, we did navigate the life season together.
Yes.
We processed the revelation that God was giving us together.
We chose how we were going to walk that out together.
We made really costly financial decisions together.
And you protected my time so that I could devote hours to filming and editing and polishing and creating.
So I, yeah, but, but still you're the one that's teaching the course.
I'm the one that's teaching the course.
But basically it's all about, it's all about finances.
Here's the thing, we are big Dave Ramsey fans.
Yes.
We're still doing his baby steps.
We loved the Financial Peace University and we still tell people to do all the time.
One of the things that Davis so good is the practical nuts and bolts.
One of the things that I noticed was absent, which totally fine, was a lack of focus on the
supernatural and the spiritual aspects that affect your finances. He touched on it, he talked about
tithing, he talked about generosity, which is all very good. But our course, our course, that I will
will be teaching is all about finances. It's all about biblical foundations to partner with God.
And when it came out of a number of years ago, the Lord started asking me questions that I found
uncomfortable about why we were the way we were with our finances. And then over the course of a
year, he started radically challenging me us to think differently and inviting us into stuff that
we had kind of known. Graham Cook loves to say this. Like he talks about it's not enough to believe
we have to live fully persuaded. Yeah. And so there's this invitation to tricered and different.
And as we did that, we saw a radical shift. In fact, such a radical shift, not only in our finances,
but in our outlook of what was possible, that it was kind of uncomfortable. Do you remember that?
Yes. And comfortable because like, I'm in new, I remember the first time I went to Japan,
as a six foot one tall white westerner. Everywhere I looked, I did not belong. I didn't even
know how to navigate because nothing was in English. Culturally, I was just in a new land
that I didn't know if what I was doing was the right thing. It felt like that.
All this goodness, but I didn't know if I was going to do the right thing. Anyway,
the Lord just kept teaching us and challenging us. Anyway, I put together this course. I think
I think it's nine lessons.
It's an exhaustive, comprehensive,
practical teaching and course, built with you in mind
to equip you to help you in the most practical ways
to help partner your finances with heaven
to give you hope for a future
that's better than you currently imagine.
- Yeah, good.
- And yeah, I'm really excited.
And if that sounds even remotely like something
you'd be interested in,
Do me a favor, go to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>pop in your email address,
and I'll send you details about the course.
And if you know friends that you think,
man, they might be interested in this,
or you don't want to go through a course on your own,
tell them about it<EMAIL_ADDRESS>It's the same thing that if you've done
like our Finding Father course, our Boundaries course,
you watch the videos in your own time,
and then you hop on a call with me, a weekly call,
where I get to answer your questions, talk about it.
It's very, very proud of you.
I'm gonna give you stuff that you can implement almost immediately within the first week of the classes,
the first lessons.
There's gonna be stuff for you to fill out, stuff for you to practically think about.
And I'm just really excited about being with you in 2022 and
hearing your testimonies of God being radical the way he has been to us.
>> So good.
>> AJ Jones. >> Yes.
>> Is Donna of a new era?
No, it's not the dawn of a new era.
It is in the podcasting world.
Well, no, because the new era would suggest that we're going to continue in this format,
which no, it is a.
We're trying something new today.
And that I not only don't know what our main topic is, but I also don't know where it's
going to go because you're leading the whole thing.
The only thing I know is what our listeners question is.
Okay.
- Other than that, I don't know where we're going.
- Well, I don't know that this is gonna give you any comfort,
but I'm not completely sure where we're going either.
- I'll tell you this. - But I have a skeleton.
- Okay, is this like confession?
- No. - Okay.
- Like in the closet? (laughs)
No. - Tell us, what's our main topic?
So I know how to title this episode.
- I'm navigating seasons of waiting.
- Navigating seasons of waiting.
- Yes. - Okay, where do you wanna start?
- Well, so here's how I ended up chatting
or thinking about this is, of course, Samuel, he--
Explain who Samuel is.
Samuel's my therapist.
Everyone's tomorrow, you know, Samuel asked me some question
that I'm like, I have to process that for awhile.
There was a habit of doing that.
Yeah, I'm like, oh, here we go again.
I was chatting with him about the weirdness
of the season that we're in, in that we're
in this wonderful season where we're following the Lord
towards adoption.
- Yes.
- And we're, we've done all the steps
that we can physically do,
you know, practically do all that kind of stuff.
And now we must wait.
And we have no control over what the waiting looks like,
how long the waiting will be.
- And no indication to help us along the way.
- Right, no indication of whether we'll be waiting
for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, a couple of years.
- I hope we're not in a couple of years
because our whole study expires.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes, I hear you, but I'm just saying like--
- We're powerless.
- We're powerless over all of it.
As much as this waiting in this moment
is a new kind of waiting,
I'm familiar with seasons of waiting.
And it doesn't have to be, you know, waiting for adoption
or waiting for a baby, but just I think
I wanted to talk a little bit about
what does it look like to kind of keep your head
and keep your heart in a season of waiting?
'Cause I think that's the challenge.
Nobody likes waiting.
- No.
- Right?
We don't even like waiting 15 minutes for a table.
Like, well, let's go to a different restaurant.
It doesn't have a 15 minute wait.
You know what I mean?
So that was a job at you.
Okay.
Just a.
- Guilty is charged.
(laughs)
- It's gonna take us longer than that
to drive to another restaurant.
Let's just say.
- Well at least it feels like you're doing something.
- Yeah, okay.
Well that's kind of the point.
But anyway, I was thinking about like,
okay, if we talked about it practically,
what can you do in a season of waiting?
But also, how do we maintain our spirit
in a season of waiting?
And then also what do we do for our souls in a spirit of waiting?
So that's what I want to talk about.
And I have some thoughts, but I'm hoping you're going to have other thoughts
because you're brilliant.
No, I'm on a snow day.
No, no, you're not on this no day.
I'll taser you.
So my first thing was talking about the practical.
And I had mentioned to you upstairs, I remember listening to a joy
my teaching. I don't even know how long ago it would have been that I listened to it 25
years ago, something like that. I mean, a long time.
Before you were in ministry.
Yeah. Before I was in ministry, but I knew I was called to ministry. And I had said yes
to the call, but I hadn't actually seen it start yet. And somebody had given me this
teaching by her called the silent years. I remember reading it or listening to it rather
and just being like, "Oh, because one of the things she said is, do all that you can do on your end to be ready so that when the moment comes, you're not wishing you'd gotten ready."
And I was like, "Right, okay."
At the time for me, I knew I was, I knew from my prophetic words that I was going to be traveling and I was going to be preaching and things like that, but I didn't currently have anything on the horizon that looked like that.
So for me, I started preparing sermons and got my passport.
And just, I mean, I didn't try and crowbar my way into churches.
I just did anything that was within my realm of doing to do so that if somebody were
to call and say, Hey, would you come?
I could go.
Yeah, I can come because I have my passport and I've spent time with the Lord and I put
messages together.
How many messages did you have ready to speak on before you ever got an invite?
Well, this is kind of funny. I had 30.
I don't know if I have 30 messages on me today.
Yeah.
You prepared 30, 30 messages. It's actually in a binder somewhere over there in the basement.
But yeah, I had 30 messages.
You had 30 messages.
Good to go.
And I would get people who actually taught like our youth pastors and whatever to go over them,
like I was going to use them and pick them apart and you know.
You send them to Patricia King as well and she would give you feedback.
Yeah. So no invitations.
Nope.
But you're doing it.
But that's because that's all I could do.
So I thought, all right.
I'm spotting a slight fly in the ointment.
Yes.
I mean, I think everything you said is brilliant and absolutely wise and I appreciate all that.
Just knowing me and I'm curious if this showed up for you
is like, I think it is wise to use that time to prepare.
But I think there's also a danger in my head, I'm thinking, because I'm
preparing, I'm speeding up the process, which, of course, is fallacy.
No, I don't think it's better up the process at all.
But did you fall in the trap of like, OK, and now I'm ready.
I've got 10 messages.
Nothing.
Now I'm ready.
I've got 20 minutes.
I did.
But I also had so much fear of actually doing it in the first place that was
So I'm just part of me that was like,
okay, ready, but I'm good for, you know,
I'm good to wait.
- I think it's always funny,
and maybe this is just my impatience speaking
in both these questions.
It is always funny when that thing, right?
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna use this time,
and somehow that will speed up God.
I think that will probably play in the back of my head.
But the other thing is, and we're in this right now is,
it wasn't our idea to adopt.
I mean, we'd flirted with the idea
and talked about it and we were open to it,
but it wasn't our idea at this stage of life to start it.
There's very much the Lord. You've probably heard our story, you know, and so we're now
we're doing everything. And I mean, even on our website, I probably need to change this,
but on our adoption page on our website, it's talked about like, now that the longest period is
behind us, this thing could go really quick, which is still true. It could go really quick.
But I don't know if it, if we don't know if it will. But my point is, I think I tend to think,
and I keep getting tripped up because I've read a Bible and there's no real examples of this.
Well, no, there is, but there's a lot more examples of the opposite.
Why don't I finish my point?
Yeah.
There's a notion that if God asks me and I say yes, then we're off to the races.
Yes.
Yeah, because we're like that fast food generation.
We just want everything quick.
But like that wasn't true of Abraham and it wasn't true of David and it wasn't true of Noah.
And you know, and Jesus, his ministry didn't start until he was 30.
Yeah.
So there is this notion that well, and also, like if it's taken a long time for you to say yes,
to God. You know, it was God.
Then maybe you didn't hear God, right?
Oh, no, I'm also thinking like, if God is speaking to you about something, and maybe
he takes him two years to get your yes, you're like, okay, well, let's make up for lost time.
And it might take years before, like I was a school teacher when God would speak to me
about sending me around the world to travel, took years before that ever happened.
And even when I would think, oh, well, this is it.
And if I go here, I'll get noticed enough for do this.
And oh, this is the beginning of my ministry.
Basically, my point is God always seems to move much slower
than I would have anticipated him doing.
Is that being true of your experience?
- I mean, I guess in some things, yes.
And then other things I feel like he moves pretty quick.
But I think anytime that you're in a season where
whether it's your own heart has long for it
or you're longing for it
because the Lord has lit it in your heart.
- Right, no way can be.
- Those seasons always feel longer
than they are practically anyway.
Does that make sense?
Like you're like, you look back and go,
actually that was only X amount of months or whatever,
but when you're living it, it's--
- Practical example.
- You know.
- When we were trying to get pregnant with Abigail,
our firstborn, it actually only took 10 months.
- Yeah.
- Which 10 months is a very short period of time.
- Yeah.
- But those 10 months fell years.
- Or whatever.
- And you know, until it happened,
maybe it will never happen.
- Yeah, and in the midst of those 10 months,
we had 14 friends that got pregnant.
- Right.

Kind of like God's short handed on miracles and,
you know what I mean?
So I was thinking like practically you can do
whatever you can do to prepare for us right now
with what we're practically trying to get ready for.
We don't really know what we're trying to get ready for
in some ways.
- In some ways, but in other ways,
have you made a list yet, baby?
For, have you started nesting?
Have you made like a list of things we need?
- Oh yeah.
Have you registered for a baby?
Okay, of course you have.
Yeah.
I love keeping in mind.
Let's just stop and appreciate your paper.
Well, it just dawned on me.
Oh, yeah, that's something we could do.
And I'm like, have you done it?
Because you haven't spoken to me about any of it.
Oh, yeah.
I've researched like I've researched rollers and baby seats and all the things.
But also moving Abigail into a new bedroom is we're preparing a nursery.
Yes.
So that yeah, when we have a baby or a child, there's that room is there's a room ready and yeah, so we're doing like whatever we can.
And I'm trying to do research on I haven't figured this one out yet, but like best organic baby formulas and things like that.
You know what I mean?
So that because we've seen a couple different situations now and we're aware.
Hey, it could be we only have a week or two notice.
They also could be we have three months notice.
I want to front end as much of it as I can in terms of look at this.
I want to front end.
Well, even like in terms of like doing the research and not having to do anything under
pressure that I would have preferred to have time to contemplate.
And again, I'm a second language contemplating.
So, content.
But if you don't know what we're talking about with shape and contemplate, I'll put link
in the show notes, the life languages.
It's a communication profile that you can take.
- That's what we're talking about.
- Yeah, super helpful, super helpful.
- And in being able to understand yourself.
- Contaminers love to think.
- So I was thinking like, okay,
so we're doing practical things.
So you do your best to do whatever the practical things are
in the moment for spiritual things,
although this is slightly practical as well.
So maybe it's a transitional thought.
My thing is like, all right,
and now I do my best job now with what is before me
me to do right now because I think also I have currently three children, a husband,
a job.
And so if I'm living so for the future, you'll neglect your and getting, you know, hung
up in the waiting, I'll actually forget to love and appreciate and take care of and take
responsibility for all the things that are actually my current reality.
And so, and I was thinking even with like when I was waiting to go into ministry, I was like,
okay, so these doors haven't opened yet.
But what I do have is a job that I can give 110% to and a church that I can volunteer
at.
Yeah.
And you know whatever.
And so what is before me to do right now that I can do well instead of, I think if you
don't you end up in the place of like grumbling over the waiting?
Because you forget.
You become more aware of the lack of the thing being there.
Yeah.
Then longing for the thing to be here.
Yeah.
So thinking about that, but then I was also thinking like spiritually in a
season of waiting.
I mean, look at Joseph, right?
Why are you smiling at me?
I'm what I'm smiling about is I love hearing you talk, first of all.
OK.
And I love hearing you process.
Yeah.
And I love that a lot of this came out of you talking to Samuel.
Like eight hours ago and I'm like, you've had a lot of time to think about this.
Well, I've been cleaning the house all day pondering.
Yeah, I left.
I went out with a friend all day and I just come back and we need to record a podcast.
And so
how do you come back?
Oh, it's amazing.
But amazing.
Yeah.
So my, my smile is the gladness in hearing.
all of this passion tumble eye review.
- Yeah.
So here was my thought.
My thought was like when you consider you're talking about
like there's all these Old Testament people
who they all had a season of waiting
which often feels like a season of testing.
- Yes.
- And again, thinking about Joseph,
we've talked about Joseph plenty.
He's a great example from many things,
but him knowing something was coming, not fully knowing,
you know, what that's gonna look like,
but it's gonna look radically different
in his current scenario, but then hitting so many huge roadblocks.
I mean, not just speed bumps, but like, okay,
now you're in slavery, just kidding, now you're in prison.
But him obviously staying the course
because of how everybody responds to him
and because of the favor he keeps getting shown,
somehow he's managing his internal dilemma
or angst or whatever, enough that no matter
what the circumstances are of the waiting,
He's still positioned for favor.
Yeah.
You know?
And so I feel like there's a challenge in that to manage ourselves,
like to, to, and go, oh, right now I'm leaking in terms of like something negative.
I'm leaking.
That's going to affect my environment.
I'm allowed to be stressed.
I'm allowed to be wanting this to go faster.
I'm allowed to have all the feelings, but I also do need to take responsibility for
them and manage them, whatever.
And so I was thinking a little bit about what does it look like to help
ourselves in the season of waiting?
So what did you come out with?
Well, have a couple of thoughts.
Okay.

So I think historically what has helped me the most in any season where the
Lord has said, Hey, I'm going to do this.
Um, or Hey, let's go do this.
Uh, and then it feels like it's taking a long time.
we've actually had a lot of those moments, right?
And many of them to do with finances,
and you know, but lots of those moments.
And I was thinking about how, you know,
in the Old Testament, the Lord would encourage them
when there was a place of breakthrough
to build a monument, right?
And the monument wasn't for God,
it was for them to remember that God showed up.
- Wow.
And so my thought was in a season where you're waiting again,
and whatever that waiting looks like right now,
to look back at the monuments that you've built with the Lord,
where you've had the same thing,
whether it's, you know,
it's probably not exactly the same circumstances,
but you, we all have a history of,
I believe God, there was a season of waiting,
it was really awful, it was really hard,
but I broke through and yay!
And then again, to I think part of what we can do is look back at those and go, God, you are faithful.
I know you to be kind.
I know you to be good.
I know you to be faithful.
And I'm reminding myself, you broke through for me here.
You said this and then broke through here.
You said this and then broke through here.

So, you know, just sort of speaking to your spirit, like be encouraged, you know.
And then I was also thinking of just like things like reading
Ephesians and Philippians and some of those these books that are
in my mind, they're the tone of them is so elevated, like in terms of how
encouraging they are to hang on to God and to push in and whatever.
And again, knowing he's writing them from prison, knowing he's writing them
in the midst of not having the breakthrough.
But he is knowing he'll see the breakthrough
because he's seeing God break through for him time and time again.
And so like I know for myself, I had said this to the school.
Like when I in seasons where I'm like, oh, I'm struggling.
I quite literally open Ephesians.
Wow.
Because it's my go to like start reading Ephesians.
I, you know, Romans works for me too, even though Romans is like
super long, but Ephesians is shorter if you're needing a quick hit, you know.
But just and read like, oh, he's so faithful, you know, from someone who's in prison and is still
choosing to declare faithfulness. And to me, that just encourages my spirit like, yep, we're good.
Like, do I enjoy waiting? No, nobody enjoys waiting, you know. Do I wish we had a plan?
Yes, I'm a high shaper.
I want a plan.
I want a date.
I want something to aim at it.

He's good.
You know what I mean?
And I'm going to focus on that.
Do you have any other thoughts about caring for your spirit
and waiting?
Yeah.
I think looking at your prophetic words, you know,
Paul wrote to Timothy and just as you know, by them,
you fight the good fight.
And so I think looking back on your prophetic words
and allowing them to encourage you,
because at least speaking personally,
I know that I get a prophetic word
and think it's gonna happen tomorrow.
- Or we want it to.
- Yeah, okay, this, you know.
Like I was laughing because very early on
in our relationship with David Wagner,
he was in town, I don't think we'd even met him personally yet,
but we went over to Legacy,
and he was, you remember when Legacy was meeting
their old old old location?
And we went there and it was getting late
and we had a babysitter to get back to it.
And so we just tried to sneak out surreptitiously.
And David just called us out by our names
to remember as we were trying to leave.
We're just on our way out.
And David's like, "I heard you asked the Lord a question,
can we go to Iceland for the weekend?"
And the Lord says, "Yes, you can."
And he just started prophesying over us,
traveling and everything.
And that night I went home,
made sure our passport was up to date.
And I hadn't done this yet
because we just moved here.
But I researched what was the best airline to fly
out of Nashville.
And I just started doing all this research.
And I think I even got,
like I think I ordered some stuff for travel.
Now, I don't think we went to Iceland
for a couple of years after that,
but it tickled me pink.
I came home to the-- - No, I don't think you're right.
I think it was, I think it was a couple of months after that.
I don't think it was very long.
- It was years.
- I remember thinking, can I over show that one, Jones?

But, you know, and so, because I think I remember going,
well, I mean, I guess maybe David Mister,
I guess maybe I missed it.
- Right.
- But when the time did come,
I remember we were on an airplane,
and, you know, so I can't believe we're going to Iceland
for the weekend.
- That picture just came up in my screenshot yesterday.
The picture of us on the airport, yeah.
- Anyway, I think looking at your prophetic words,
reminding yourself of your prophetic words,
asking for encouragement and input, super helpful.
- Yeah, and I think too, if you've shared your prophetic words
or shared with your close circle of friends or whatever.
Whatever the Lord is speaking to you about,
then they can actually encourage you
when you're having your like, oh my gosh, you know,
kind of days.
- I think another key thing is to celebrate
other people's breakthrough,
especially if it's in the area of the breakthrough you need.
- Yeah, for sure.
- So we were trying to get pregnant for 10 months
and I don't know how many people go for it.
- 14, yeah. - So celebrate.
- I remember.
- You went to get married, like you've been divorced
and you had this prophetic word about this strong handsome hunk of a man,
body of a Greek god coming from the fair islands of Scotland.
And I hadn't shown up. How many bridesmaids?
Oh, I don't know how many times I've been a bridesmaid.
I mean, seriously, pretty close to your 27 dresses.
And so you're waiting for me and, you know, it's important to celebrate.
Same with financial breakthrough.
Like I remember we were wanting to buy a house.
Remember we really wanted a house.
And then our friends, Gary and Morgan, Gary and Sarah,
out with a blue were given a house.
And I'm like, they don't even wanna have it.
- I didn't wanna house.
- And I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
position your heart, like genuinely be happy for them.

Sure is.
- Well, I also think like,
'cause you mentioned the Gary and Sarah thing
and I think we've told that story before,
but for me, my immediate reaction wasn't,
I was happy for them.
I was like, what?
They don't even want a house.
- Right.
and actually having to take a few hours to have a conversation with the Lord and realize he doesn't have crocodile arms and you know all that kind of stuff.
So even if you find like you're hearing us talk right now and you're going, "Oh, I don't think I have celebrated other people when they've had the breakthrough."
Totally fine. You can have an attitude tune up anytime you want.
And it's your day.
Let's carry for your spirit.
How do you care for your soul and your body?
Well, I think, well, that's great.
I hadn't really thought about body,
but I think I really hadn't, you know.
Oh, you just mentioned it.
I don't think I did.
Oh, I feel it in the gap.
But body's good.
Yeah.
Because really you did need to care for all of you
in any season, but I think in any season of waiting
is a season of stress.
Yeah.
For most people.
No, I mean, I don't know people that love waiting.
- Yeah, just do an airport and walk.
- I'm certainly not one of them.
- Yep.
- So carrying for your body, I would say for me,
and I haven't been very faithful with this
the last couple of weeks, but exercise actually helps me
de-stress.
- How about couples and such?
- Yeah, but also things like having a day of rest,
going to bed at a decent time, and unfortunately,
what I'm eating, 'cause usually when I'm stressed,
I want to not care about what I'm eating,
'cause I'm like, I'm too stressed to care about
what I'm eating, but then I feel like garbage,
and then I feel even worse.
- So true.
- And I don't seem to learn that lesson.

But I remember, like, I don't mean I was falling
into depression, like clinical depression.
But I remember all my thoughts being so heavily influenced
in a negative direction.
- Yeah.
- And as soon as I cut out sugar,
it's not like I backed back and suddenly I was happy.
It was just an absence of those things.
- Right.

- Yeah, all those things are important.
And I think we want them not to be as important,
or certainly I do.
I don't know if you're gonna file a sundur,
soul care or body care.
Okay.
But I also think about therapy,
a big shock, Ellen thinking about therapy.
Would that come under soul?
I think that would come under soul.
I'll save it for soul though.
Well, we can go to soul now.
I don't have any other thoughts on body
'cause I didn't really think about that.
But I was thinking for soul care.
Yes, I mean, I think part of how I'm caring for my soul
in this season is I see a therapist.
Yeah.
And so I can go in there
have all my feelings and all of my ponderings.
I was thinking about that this week that therapy is amazing.
If you have a good therapist and we've talked about that before, but in one
sense, the cynical of you is like, why can't we see a therapist talking about
doesn't change anything?
You're absolutely right.
Talking about it does not change this, the external circumstances that are,
doesn't speed up the process, doesn't change other people.
But what it does is it changes how all those things are affecting you.
Yes.
And you might not even feel like it's changing anything, but having a dialogue with
somebody, having a scaled outside perspective or being validated in the
middle of the, you know, whatever being offered a different lens to look
through at the same situation.
Oh, so powerful and really, really kind to your soul.
Yeah.
I was also thinking about stuff like still enjoying life.
You know what I mean?
Like, so like, because I think sometimes we're like, okay, God, Freddie, I'm geared up for
whatever.
And then I can be super tempted to like, now we don't do anything else until we know about
this baby.
Right.
Alien everything else because we're focusing on this.
Right.
So like, like even with our anniversary, we had had a conversation of do we not, do we
not even go?
I mean, we're getting ready for a baby.
We'll be with your birthday as well.
Like, do we want to celebrate your birthday because we might be.
Yeah.

And I think actually it's probably more important to still celebrate in the moment and realize,
hey, I actually need to have some fun.
And I need to consider not just what my body needs, but just what like what I need as a
human as a human as a wife as a mom.
So we're doing things like we're still dating.
- We are.
- Trying to prioritize playing with the kids.
And partially I'm like,
right, I'm probably gonna paint a room with Abby tomorrow,
so I'll have to help me paint them terrified,
'cause I'm so picky about painting.
But we're gonna paint together.
(laughing)
But like realizing--
- I can't wait for week to catch up, actually.
- There's so many sweet moments to be had
if you're paying attention to what you need in the moment.
- Yeah.
- And paying attention for me as a mom
and you as a dad to what our kids need in the moment to you
because I don't want them to,
and I don't think they will
'cause I think we've, I hope we've done a good job
but I don't want them to remember the season
of waiting for a baby as like, oh my gosh, we did.
- Like drop it on hold.
- Yeah, life got put on hold.
It's not on hold, I have three other children.
You know.
- I was also thinking about,
of where this fits in, soul, body, or spirit, but the importance of sewing where you want
to go.
Yeah.
So long as you're not doing that to try and speed up the Lord.
Right.
If you try to do any of these things in an effort to speed up the Lord.
Yeah, let me help you out, Lord.
Yeah.
But the importance of sewing where you want to go and investing in your future is so,
so important.
For sure.
How do you feel?
That's the end of my thoughts.
You just did like this kind of downhill ski of your thoughts.
Yeah.
I mean, I think I feel fine.
I don't know if it was as succinct as it might have been
if I, I don't know, like written it out or whatever,
but I'm good.
- I gladness being with you and watching you down it.
I would like to reward you with a listener's question.
- Oh, that sounds so exciting, I think.
- This is a question from Caleb and Bailey.
And they say this, "We have a five-year-old daughter
"and a two-year-old son.
On a recent podcast, you mentioned that you spoke with your children about pornography and why it is bad.
At what age do you do this?
What are some resources I can use in the future as I navigate this topic?
It's like swimming upstream because it's not the norm in Christian culture to talk about these things.
We'd love to hear your input.
At what age did we talk about these things?
Can I jump in?
Yeah, go ahead.
Our conversation about pornography with our kids didn't come out of a...
you know, a desert place like we've tried to as parents being very open with our
children about everything.  We would talk to them about
like the parts of their body that that only they get to touch.
Or a doctor or a mommy.
Nobody gets to, you know, and we would talk about that in non shaming.
Yeah.
Ways we up until a certain age, we were very comfortable with our kids being around us when
we were naked so that we're not trying to demystify or hide from them.
Well, we are trying to demystify.
Oh, what did I say?
Here you said we're not trying to demystify.
We're trying to have healthy body.
Yeah, there's not shame about and in the process we'd kind of let them set the pace because kids are great at asking question. Yeah, you know, like, what's that and why does she have that and I don't just, you know, making it with our faces and with our body language that you haven't asked a bad question or a weird question or an uncomfortable question.
And we've still tried to do that.
And you're watching for age appropriateness.
And we've probably had the conversation about sex,
about your bodies, about pornography,
over and over and over with different revisions,
different terminology, different language,
different amount of detail as they go over.
- And probably not huge sit down conversations.
They're sort of more naturally happening stuff
at the dinner table or whatever.
And so not like, guys, we're now all gonna sit down.
and talk about pornography, which, you know, I feel like that makes it like a,
but just being able to talk about.
Before we ever talked about pornography, we would talk like you said, we would name their body parts and we would tell them why they're called their private parts and why they're special and who gets to see them and who gets to touch them and prepare the kids.
I remember telling each of our kids, Hey, it might happen as you go up that you might have friends who want to see your private parts or might want to touch them or might want to talk about them.
I want to talk about them and it's your job to say no, it's my body.
And if they do do that, come and tell us about it.
And we're trying to make it like a throwy comment.
And we've done it.
We've also said that, you know, with sitters or whatever, like,
Oh, absolutely.
Hey, and then we've told the sitters when they come over, hey, they're very aware.
It would always after we'd have a babysitter would say, how was the babysitter
last night?
Did you have fun?
Were they safe?
Did they do or say anything made you feel uncomfortable?
Yeah.
Or a case, not every time we'd say to them,
we'd touch your private parts,
but we'd bring up here and there.
But also, because you would normalize that,
I can think of at least one of our kids,
maybe two of our kids who've had experiences
when they're young, playing with friends who said,
oh, so and so wanted to, wanted me to take my clothes off.
But I said, no, it's my body and I came and told them.
And then we could go to the parents and say,
hey, like this happened.
- So you're aware this what happened, yeah.
- Trying to de-shame it.
So we've always had that conversation.
probably with pornography where we would get very,
when I say very detailed,
let me tell you exactly what we'd say,
is when our kids got iPhones, right?
When they got iPads, they were locked down.
They couldn't do anything.
They can't access the internet.
Every app they have to ask us and we approve.
- Yeah, but now both the girls have iPhones.
- And they got their iPhones when they were 12?
- Yeah.
- 'Cause they're going to middle school.
- Yeah.
- The reason we gave them iPhones is their bus
is about a 30 minute ride.
- A little bit longer, yeah.
- A little bit longer.
And so we gave them a cell phone,
but here's the pornography part was part of
responsible use for having a cell phone.
Okay, here's your cell phone.
It's got a camera on it.
This is gonna be a weird thing,
but never, ever, ever take a picture of yourself naked, ever.
And if anybody ever sends a picture of themselves naked,
tell my mommy and daddy immediately.
You understand that?
Yeah.
Okay, your phone automatically switches off
with iCloud, you can use what's it called?
Screen time?

They can always call or text us.
- That's it.
- And they never get their phones in their bedrooms overnight.
You always charge your phone outside.
- They know that we look at their phones.
- Yeah, you also know that mom and daddy
get to look at your phones and we never want you
to text anything that you wouldn't be comfortable
saying to somebody if mommy and daddy were standing right next to you.
And if you ever get anything, so it'd make you feel uncomfortable.
And in the context of that, we would say, Hey, listen, no matter what
mommy and daddy do, there's always going to be stuff that's going to come
that we wouldn't want you to see.
And so we have to ask you to protect yourself.
But we trained them with that from a very early age.
We set a standard of what they're allowed to see.
Yeah.
Like we didn't like our kids doing any Halloween stuff.
So even your most benign, you know, wholesome American cartoon
when Halloween comes round, there's going to be Halloween content.
And we just got, we just trained our kids from a very early age to self
moderate that there's a Halloween thing.
We'd skip the episode.
Yeah.
So just kind of building and building and building.
And then we talked to our kids about consequence.
And that's how we've done it.
I don't know if we've done a good job or not, but that's how we
And just again, I think the most important thing is that you can talk about anything.
You can ask any question that you're not going to get shamed for having a question
or having seen something or any of those things.
I love that I asked you the question and then I just got excited and answered the whole thing.
I apologize.
OK, well, listen, I'll do your favorite.
I answered the question.
Why don't you do the wrap up?
If you'd like the show notes from two days podcast,
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And if you would like to ask us a question that we can answer on the podcast,
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And if you are a member of the show, you will get a discount on that course, too.
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Code Formatting
问题描述 :
You are taking part in a proof-of-concept project for a new code formatting tool code named Salvation. This is only a pilot project aimed not for a practical usefulness, but to demonstrate your ability to parse and format code of a high-level language. Your task is to write code formatter for a language called TRIVIAL (The Rival Implementation-Agnostic Language). This language has trivial lexical and grammatical structures. It does not have any keywords and control structures, because all constructs of the language are represented as function calls and closures.
The lexical structure consists of identifiers, opening and closing parenthesis and curly braces, commas, and semi-colons. Identifiers consist only of digits ’0′-’9′ and Latin letters ‘a’-'z’, ‘A’-'Z’. Lexical terms may be separated by whitespaces, leading and trailing whitespaces in the file are also allowed. Whitespace may consist of spaces, tab characters (ASCII code 9), and line separators (a pair of ASCII 13, 10).
The structure of the valid trivial program is derived from the following productions:
- Program ::= Block
- Block ::= ‘{‘ Statements ‘}’
- Statements ::= Statement | Statement Statements
- Statement ::= Expression ‘;’
- Expression ::= identifier ['(' Arguments ')'] [Block]
- Arguments ::= Expression | Expression ‘,’ Arguments
Properly formatted trivial program additionally conforms to the following rules:
- There are no empty lines.
- Tab characters are not used.
- The first character of the file is opening curly brace ‘{‘ (no preceding whitespaces), and the last character of the file is closing curly brace ‘}’ (no trailing whitespaces).
- Each line is preceded by 4N space characters, where N is called indentation level.
- The first and the last lines of the program have zero indentation level.
- Lines that constitute block body and are enclosed in curly braces ‘{‘. . . ‘}’ have one more indentation level.
- No whitespace is allowed inside the line with the exception of the following two cases where a single space character is mandatory: before opening curly brace character ‘{‘ and after comma ‘,’.
- Lines (with the only exception of the last line) end with semicolon ‘;’ or opening curly brace ‘{‘ characters. These characters cannot appear in the middle or at the beginning of any line (including the last one).
- Closing curly brace ‘}’ characters appear only at the beginning of lines after indentation spaces.
See sample output section for an example of properly formatted trivial program.
输入:
输出:
样例输入:
{class(Point) { member ( int ( x ) ) ; member ( int ( y ) ) ; member ( fun ( Length ) { return ( sqrt ( sum ( sqr ( x ),sqr ( y ) ) ) ); } ) ; }; Main { repeat { set ( n,input ( int ) ) ; for ( int ( i,0 ) , lt ( i,n ) , inc ( i ) ) { print ( mult ( n,n ) ) ; }; }; }; }
样例输出:
{ class(Point) { member(int(x)); member(int(y)); member(fun(Length) { return(sqrt(sum(sqr(x), sqr(y)))); }); }; Main { repeat { set(n, input(int)); for(int(i, 0), lt(i, n), inc(i)) { print(mult(n, n)); }; }; }; }
解题代码:
//* @author:alpc12 import java.util.*; import java.io.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); String line; StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) { for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) { char ch = line.charAt(i); if (ch != ' ' && ch != 9) sb.append(ch); } } in.close(); int indent = 1; boolean needws = true; System.out.println("{"); for (int i = 1; i < sb.length(); i++) { char ch = sb.charAt(i); if (needws && ch != '}') { printws(indent); needws = false; } switch (ch) { case '{': System.out.println(" {"); indent++; needws = true; break; case '}': needws = false; indent--; printws(indent); System.out.print("}"); break; case ';': System.out.println(";"); needws = true; break; case ',': System.out.print(", "); break; default: System.out.print(ch); } } } private static void printws(int indent) { for (int i = indent; --i >= 0;) System.out.print(" "); } }
m^n % k 的算法写错了，没有人发现吗？？？正确的返回值应该是return b*m % k;
这配图…..
不错，现在就缺少新的资料
纠正一个错误，二分查找树的中序遍历获得元素的升序排列。
不对吧 你算的an是前面说有的项的和
a是根先忽略掉，递归子树。剩下前缀bejkcfghid和后缀jkebfghicd，分拆的原则的是每个子树前缀和后缀的节点个数是一样的，根节点出现在前缀的第一个，后缀的最后一个。根节点b出现后缀的第四个位置，则第一部分为四个节点，前缀bejk，后缀jkeb，剩下的c出现在后缀的倒数第2个，就划分为cfghi和 fghic，第3部分就为c、c
mark, 备用
大哥，你复制也看看是不是这题的答案才复制吧。
妈呀！这个Dijkstra模板好长OwQ！
说的就是无向图啊，有向图的算法也是类似的
很好！！
为什么不直接用STL排序呢？
非常不错
这一题的代码这样提交时错误的~少考虑了很多情况


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The lipid scrambling activity of protein extracts and purified scramblases is often determined using a fluorescence-based assay involving many manual steps. flippant offers an integrated solution for the analysis and publication-grade graphical presentation of dithionite scramblase assays, as well as a platform for review, dissemination and extension of the strategies it employs. The package's name derives from a play on the fact that lipid scrambling is also sometimes referred to as 'flipping'.
| Version: | 1.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.3.2), ggplot2 (≥ 2.2.1) |
| Imports: | assertive.files (≥ 0.0-2), assertive.numbers (≥ 0.0-2), assertive.properties (≥ 0.0-4), assertive.strings (≥ 0.0-3), assertive.types (≥ 0.0-3), data.table (≥ 1.10.4), magrittr (≥ 1.5), minpack.lm (≥ 1.2-1), plyr (≥ 1.8.4), RcppRoll (≥ 0.2.2), stringi (≥ 1.1.2), utils, withr (≥ 1.0.2), wmtsa (≥ 2.0-2) |
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| Published: | 2017-02-04 |
| Author: | Johannes Graumann [cre, aut], Richard Cotton [ctb] |
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 Here's how it works:
(input).group_by { block }
The input
is what will be grouped. This can be a collection of strings or numbers inside an array or hash.
The block
is the statement for how you will evaluate or group the input.
Example #1: Grouping strings
strings = ("a".."z").group_by { |x| x == "a" || x == "b" }
OUTPUT: {true=>["a", "b"], false=>["c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k",... }
The code returns a hash with two keys "true" and "false", which contain the defined arrays. We can then access the "true" and "false" arrays by true_strings = strings[true]
Example #2: Grouping arrays
int_arr = (1..10).group_by { |i| i / 2 }
OUTPUT: {0=>[1], 1=>[2, 3], 2=>[4, 5], 3=>[6, 7], 4=>[8, 9], 5=>[10]}
The output here groups hashes into arrays depending on how many times 2 can go into each integer. So, int_arr[3]
returns [6, 7]
.
Example #3: Grouping hashes
hash = { fat: "cat",
skinny: "hat",
free: "love",
happy:"mat"}
a_hash = hash.group_by {|k,v| v.include?("a")}
Here, we are trying to group the hash by values that contain an "a". As a result, we get:
OUTPUT: {true=>[[:fat, "cat"], [:skinny, "hat"], [:happy, "mat"]], false=>[[:free, "love"]]}
So, a_hash[true]
returns three a hash value that is an array of three arrays.


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a. You can also enter the algorithm's parameters in the provided input. For example, in the case of Threshold for LCS
, you can enter the minimum number of word tokens you want to view.
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Unai Emery: Arsenal boss likely faces sack after Mauricio Pochettino
- Unai Emery is believed to be the next manager whose position is threatened and could be sacked
- The Spaniard has failed to meet the towering expectations of the Gunners since taking over the London side
- Emery has been reportedly issued with ultimatum by disgruntled Arsenal chiefs
Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, seems to be the next manager whose seat in Premier League is threatened after the disgraceful sack of Mauricio Pochettino's by Tottenham.
The Argentine manager was relieved of his position on Tuesday, November 19, with Jose Mourinho taking over the affairs of the North London side in what signals his surprising yet sensational return to the Premier League.
The development has put the Arsenal boss' future in big jeopardy as he may be shown the way out of the Emirates Stadium if Arsenal's woeful run of lacklustre performance still continues.
Although the former PSG boss admitted he was not threatened by the growing discussion surrounding his job, report from England claims he has been issued one-month ultimatum to prove his potential worth.
Arsenal have failed to record a magical resurgence since the former PSG manager assumed Emirates Stadium mantle in a deal that ended Arsene Wenger's lately inglorious reign.
A torrid Premier League run summed up in defeat to Liverpool during Carabao Cup and disgraceful defeat to Leicester City has left the North London on the losing side with Emery daily sliding down the pecking order with Arsenal management.
Emery was given £100m in the summer to bring in new players but that could not save the Spaniard who is reportedly fighting hard to save his job.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that Arsenal legend, Patrick Vieira, has been tipped by former colleague Nigel Winterburn to take the helm of Emirates affairs from embattled Gunners manager Unai Emery.
A consistent clamour for fresh breath from Arsenal fans saw the Spaniard manager take over from legendary Arsene Wenger.
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Jump through the tiles and get to 2048!
How to play: Press any key to move the tile. When the tile go through a barrier, you get score!
"Created" by starfannnn Basically stolen from donaldguy, hcz and laferrera. Based on 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli and Flappy Bird by Dong Nguyen.


- Ace v3.1 is not different from Ace v3.0. It's just an improved version with extra example pages.
- The old Ace layout and default dashboard is brought back. See layouts
- Other changes can be seen in Changelog
You can still use the default layout and dashboard of Ace v3.0 without any modifications which is now Dashboard 2
- Ace v3 is not much different from Ace v2 in terms of general struture
- There is a new default dashboard and layout in which sidebar starts from top of document and navbar is inside content area. See layouts
- The older default layout of Ace v2 is used in Dashboard 3 and Dashboard 4 pages. See dashboard 3 layout
- Other changes can be seen in Changelog
In Ace v3, both background and text colors are now darker (for more contrast).
So if some of your elements look darker after upgrading to v3 and you don't want that, you can use a lighter version of the used colors.
For example if you had an element with
So if some of your elements look darker after upgrading to v3 and you don't want that, you can use a lighter version of the used colors.
For example if you had an element with
bgc-blue-m1
and it now looks dark, you can change it to bgc-blue-m2
, etc.
.btn-warning
has dark text color now. For a similar button with white text, you can use .btn-orange
Ace v2 is based on Bootstrap 4, while Ace v1.4 was based on Bootstrap 3 and therefore there are major changes in Ace as well.
For BS3 to BS4 migration guide please see Migrating to v4
The naming convention and layout is very similar to the previous version of Ace. There are some small differences:
-
navbar
has now anavbar-inner
child. See Navbar -
sidebar
has now asidebar-inner
child. See Sidebar -
main-content-inner
has been removed -
footer
should be inside.main-content
(i.e. after.page-content
) -
body
doesn't need ano-skin
,skin-1
, etc class. Instead you should specify theme classes for sidebar and navbar:
html

...

...

- For an overview of required CSS files, see CSS files
- SASS is now used instead of LESS
- Many CSS classes have been dropped such as
item-list
,itemdiv
,profile-user-info
etc.
Instead I use basic CSS classes to change an element's properties.
At first this may seem a little verbose and long but it allows for quick changes and more flexibility, without needing to memorize a lot of different class names.
So this old version:
html

alex

message

9:12 am

is rewritten with something like this:
html

alex

message

9:12 am

- For an overview of required JS files see JS files
- There are no
ace-elements.js
orace-extra.js
files anymore - The naming convention has been changed to camelCase. For example
ace_file_input
has been renamed toaceFileInput
. Property names are also camelCase now - Some property names have changed. For example the
no_file
andno_icon
properties in Custom file input have been renamed toplaceholderText
andplaceholderIcon


Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
The Missile Man of India
Bharat Ratna Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Ab dul Kalam, generally known as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was the
11th
Presidentof India (2002-2007). He was elected against Lakshmi Sehgal in 2002 and had support from both
the
Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress, the two leading political parties of India.
By profession, he was a scientist and an administrator in India. He worked with the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as an aerospace
engineer before becoming the President of India. His work on the development of launch vehicle and
ballistic missile technology had earned him the name of the ‘Missile Man of India’. The Pokhran-II
nuclear tests conducted in India in 1998 after the original nuclear test of 1974 saw him in a pivotal
political, organisational and technical role.
Achievements as a Scientist
- At the starting of his career, he designed a helicopter
- From 1963 to 1964, he visited the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the
Wallops Flight Facility located at the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Langley Research
Center of NASA situated at Hampton, Virginia.
- He developed a low-cost Coronary Stent along with Dr. Soma Raju, a cardiologist, in 1998. It
was named “Kalam-Raju Stent” after them. Both of them also designed a tablet PC called
“Kalam-Raju Tablet” for healthcare in rural areas.
To know more about Dr.kalam please visit here
Some Famous Quotes of Dr.kalam


Using the emulator
If you want to load your code into the emulator, just click "Emulate" button
.
But you can also use emulator to load executables even if you don't have
the original source code. Select Show emulator from the Emulator menu.
Try loading files from "MyBuild" folder. If there are no files in "MyBuild" folder
return to source editor, select Examples from File menu, load any sample, compile it and
then load into the emulator:
[Single Step] button executes instructions one by one stopping after
each instruction.
[Run] button executes instructions one by one with delay set by step delay
between instructions.
Double click on register text-boxes opens "Extended Viewer" window
with value of that register converted to all possible forms. You can modify the
value of the register directly in this window.
Double click on memory list item opens "Extended Viewer" with WORD value loaded from
memory list at selected location.
Less significant byte is at lower address: LOW BYTE is loaded
from selected position and HIGH BYTE from next memory address.
You can modify the value of the memory word directly in the "Extended Viewer" window,
You can modify the values of registers on runtime by typing over the existing values.
[Flags] button allows you to view and modify flags on runtime.
Virtual drives
Emulator supports up to 4 virtual floppy drives. By default there is
a FLOPPY_0 file that is an image of a real floppy disk (the size of
that file is exactly 1,474,560 bytes).
To add more floppy drives select [Create new floppy drive] from
[Virtual drive] menu. Each time you add a floppy drive emulator
creates a FLOPPY_1, FLOPPY_2, and FLOPPY_3 files.
Created floppy disks are images of empty IBM/MS-DOS formatted disk images.
Only 4 floppy drives are supported (0..3)!
To delete a floppy drive you should close the emulator, delete the
required file manually and restart the emulator.
You can determine the number of attached floppy drives using INT 11h
this function returns AX register with BIOS equipment list. Bits 7 and 6
define the number of floppy disk drives (minus 1):
Bits 7-6 of AX:
00 single floppy disk.
01 two floppy disks.
10 three floppy disks.
11 four floppy disks.
Emulator starts counting attached floppy drives from starting from the first,
in case file FLOPPY_1 does not exist it stops the check
and ignores FLOPPY_2 and FLOPPY_3 files.
To write and read from floppy drive you can use INT 13h function,
see list of supported interrupts for more information.
emulator can emulate tiny operating system, check out operating system tutorial.


Art Contest!
Midterm: Cel Shading
Overview
The purpose of the midterm was for students to experiment with Cel Shading (aka "toon shading"), or a nonphotorealistic set of techniques for making rendered images appear as cartoons. Students experimented with quantized shading and Gooch shading, and they drew lines on back faces so the outlines of images would pop out.
Submissions (in no particular order)
Aliaks
Quantized shading + back face lines on the default scene provided in the assignment
Azeb
Flat shading + back face lines on the default scene provided in the assignment.
Christian
Cool to warm (aka. Gooch Shading) on the default scene
CJ
Cool to warm (aka Gooch shading) on some spheres
Cristiano
Cool to warm + back face lines on Robotnik
Ordinary Phong |
Cel Shading |
Dalton Rothenberger
The penguino gang with quantized shading + back face lines
Parker Fairchild
A halloween scene using quantized shading + back face line drawing.
Thin Lines |
Thicker Lines, more quantization levels |
L_Domenic
Quantized cel shading + back face line drawing on the scene from mini assignment 2.
Tom R.
Quantized shading on the ray tracing default scene.
Val
"Funky cel shading" (aka saturation bug when not dividing by number of quantization levels)


Nottingham's new Winter Wonderland Ice Bar has a frozen air hockey table and much more - see inside
We popped down to Old Market Square for a first look ahead of its opening
by Rachel GormanBy the very nature of its substance, no two Nottingham Winter Wonderland Ice Bars have ever been the same.
But this year its creators have pulled something completely new out of their box of tricks and ice picks.
An air hockey table, made entirely from ice, which punters can actually play, will surely be the runaway hit of the magical Yuletide hideaway.
The bespoke bar game is just one of the attractions at the city's coolest pop-up boozer.
Keeping with an Alpine theme there is also a bobsleigh - with enough room for up to five people to park themselves on the faux fur rugs and practise their best Cool Runnings impressions - a snowboarder sculpture, supersize beer glass, ice sofas and a pint-drinking grizzly bear.
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"We start planning the theme very early," says Edward Mellors, a director of the Mellors Group who run Winter Wonderland in partnership with Nottingham City Council.
"After last year's one we probably started thinking about it in January or February. I just throw a few suggestions at the guys and they come up with the ideas."
"The guys" are award-winning sculptors Sand in your Eye - the team behind director Danny Boyle's moving Armistice Day Pages of the Sea sand portraits.
As well as ice and sand they also create phenomenal pumpkin carvings and the artwork for the Tour De Yorkshire. It is the fourth year they've been involved with the frosty pop-up attraction, which is carved out of 13 tonnes of solid ice.
In the last four years, the ice bar has grown to twice its original size, and included Lapland and Narnia themes.
Edward says: "We listen to feedback and try to change and tweak it each year. After the first year we could see there was a demand for it so that gave us the confidence to invest more into it.
"Then we had the bar in the middle with stools around it to encourage people to sit and drink but that made it more difficult for others to order drinks, so we moved it to the corner. But that was a little out the way. I think this is the best we've done yet, the best of both worlds.
"It feels a lot bigger."
If you can brave it, entry allows up to an hour inside including two drinks (£13) or two drinks and a glass of fizz (£16).
It will be open from Friday, November 15 until New Year's Eve, when the sad process of melting it down begins.
Edwards says: "We literally turn the heating on and watch it go."
Tickets can be purchased in advance online at nottinghamwinterwonderland.gigantic.com
Opening times
Christmas market: 10am-6pm, ever day, late night shopping, December 17-22, 10am-8pm
Sur La Piste ski lodge: 10am-11pm, Monday-Thursday, 10am-midnight, Friday-Saturday, 10am-10pm, Sunday
Ice bar: Sessions from 1.15pm-10pm
Ice rink: 11am-8pm, Sunday-Monday (except Christmas Eve and Boxing Day), 11am-9pm, Friday-Saturday
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i was born and raised in Westlands Nairobi and despite the frequent moves that we made, east or west home is best.
Did my primary school education at st Hannahs Preparatory School.
I did my high school at Dagoretti High School and completed in 2017 and i'm currently a student at Moringa School.
I decide to do programming after I realised the future was in tech and thats when I decided to find the best place to do my tech studies and found Moringa
Clickhereto see my project.


Twitterati support Harsha Bhogle after on air spat with Sanjay Manjrekar
by IANSHighlights
- Manjrekar seemed to suggest that he knew better about cricket than Bhogle since he had played the game.
- While doing commentary, Bhogle suggested they ask the players whether there were problems regarding visibility.
- To which, Manjrekar responded with "only you need to ask, Harsha, not us, who have played a fair bit of the game."
NEW DELHI: Twitterati flayed former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar on Sunday after he got into a minor verbal spat with commentator Harsha Bhogle over the visibility of the pink ball used in the maiden day-night Test in the country between India and Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
The hashtag SanjayManjrekar trended on Twitter after Manjrekar seemed to suggest that he knew better about cricket than Bhogle since he had played the game.
While doing commentary, Bhogle had suggested that they needed to do a proper post-mortem after the pink ball Test, asking the players whether there were problems regarding visibility.
To which, Manjrekar responded with "only you need to ask, Harsha, not us, who have played a fair bit of the game."
Listen to the spat here:
Cricket fans, however, came out in support of Bhogle.
One fan criticised Manjrekar: "Low blow from @sanjaymanjrekar there".
Another post read: "Imagine insulting or even making fun of one of the finest analysts of the game in that manner. You deserve to be expelled from the commentary box. Absolute disgrace. #SanjayManjrekar".
A Bhogle fan commented: "Sanjay Manjrekar questioning Harsha Bhogle's cricketing expertise is blasphemy. #INDvBAN."
More was in store for Manjrekar, as another user wrote: "@sanjaymanjrekar I think that was a very cheap shot saying to @bhogleharsha 'For those of us who played the game'."


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AFC Member (1992–2002)
The country of Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union on December 16, 1991. Its national team then split from the Soviet Union national football team (a UEFA member) and joined the Asian Football Confederation. At the time, they were one of strongest teams in Central Asia, and one of the most improving teams in Asia. The team played their first match against another former-Soviet debutant, Turkmenistan, on June 1, 1992, as part of a Central Asian tournament. Kazakhstan won 1–0. The tournament also saw the footballing debuts of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. After beating Libya in a friendly in North Korea on July 3, Kazakhstan played the remainder of its Central Asian fixtures and avoided defeat in all of them. They beat Uzbekistan 1–0 at home on July 16, then drew 1–1 away in Turkmenistan on September 14, in Kyrgyzstan on September 26 and Uzbekistan on October 14. The final match was a 2–0 home victory over Kyrgyzstan on October 25.[3] Kazakhstan entered qualification for the first time in the attempt to reach the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In the first round they were placed in Group 9 alongside Pakistan and Iraq. Kazakhstan's first qualifying match was won 3–0 at home in Almaty on May 11, 1997, against Pakistan. On June 6 they travelled to Baghdad to face Iraq and won 2–1, then five days later won an away match against Pakistan, 7–0 in Lahore. The result remains Kazakhstan's biggest-ever international win. They retained their 100% start to World Cup football by beating Iraq at home 3–1 on June 29. In the second and final round of qualification, Kazakhstan came last in the group. Their only victory was on October 18, 1997, when they beat the United Arab Emirates 3–0 at home. Kazakhstan drew three other games – all at home (versus Uzbekistan, Japan and South Korea). In the first round of Asian qualifying, Kazakhstan were placed in Group 6 alongside Iraq, Nepal and Macau. All games in the group were to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after Nepal failed to organise matches in Kathmandu in March 2001. After an Iraqi protest, the first three games for each team were moved to Baghdad, Iraq. Kazakhstan started off well in Baghdad by beating Nepal 6–0 with two goals by Oleg Litvinenko on April 12, and Macau 3–0 two days later. On April 16 they held Iraq to a 1–1 draw in front of 50,000. Ruslan Baltiev put the Kazakhs in front in the 6th minute and Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail equalised with a penalty in the 31st. In Almaty Central Stadium, Kazakhstan beat Nepal 3–0 with two goals by Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko on April 21. Two days later they beat Macau 5–0, Dmitriy Byakov and Igor Avdeyev scored two each after a goalless first half. The final game on April 25 saw a 1–1 draw against Iraq in front of 25,000. Litvinenko put Kazakhstan ahead in the 32nd but Iraq equalised ten minutes later. Despite being level on points, Iraq advanced on goal difference mainly due to a 9–1 victory over Nepal.
UEFA Member (2002–present)
Being a transcontinental country, Kazakhstan joined UEFA in 2002. They had to wait until the 2002 FIFA World Cup finished on June 30 before making the switch, as they had entered the tournament as an AFC member. Kazakhstan therefore could not enter qualification for UEFA Euro 2004, as the draw had been made on 25 January 2002. Since joining UEFA, Kazakhstan has been a relatively minnow force in the continent, with most of their qualifications being unsuccessful and often finish near dead last or bottom. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, now as members of UEFA, Kazakhstan was placed in the last drawing pot with Andorra and Luxembourg,[4] being placed in Group 2 alongside Turkey, Denmark, future UEFA Euro 2004 winners Greece, Ukraine, Georgia and Albania.[5] Their first official UEFA match was on 8 September 2004 and ended in a home defeat by 2–1 against Ukraine. Kazakhstan lost their next 9 matches, including a 6–0 home defeat against Turkey, their tied-biggest defeat up to 2018 and conceding a home defeat to Greece into four minutes of the stoppage time. Their sole point of the qualifying came in the next match, on 8 October 2005, in a 0–0 away draw against Georgia played behind closed doors, before losing the last match at home against Denmark.[6] For the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying, Kazakhstan was once again placed in the last drawing pot. Their campaign started with two away draws against Belgium (0–0) and Azerbaijan (1–1). They lost the next three matches before getting their first official win as UEFA members in a 2–1 home triumph against Serbia with goals from Kairat Ashirbekov and Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev. After a home loss against Armenia, Kazakhstan got their sixth and seventh points after drawing again with Azerbaijan (1–1) and Belgium (2–2), both at home. Losses against Poland and Portugal were followed by their second win, this time away from home, with Sergei Ostapenko scoring the winning goal against Armenia. Their last match was a delayed game against Serbia, ending in defeat. In the end, Kazakhstan finished with 10 points and in 6th out of the 8 Group A teams.[7] The 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification had Kazakhstan in the 5th of 6 drawing pots, drawn in Group 6 with Croatia, England, Ukraine, Belarus and Andorra.[8] They started the campaign with a 3–0 home win against Andorra on 20 August 2008.[9] However, that was the only opponent they managed to get points from, after they won the reverse fixture 3–1 on 9 September 2009 and losing all the other group matches. Kazakhstan finished in 5th, ahead only of Andorra, who lost all of their matches.[10] Kazakhstan was drawn in the Group A of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying and lost the first five matches without managing to score a single goal before defeating Azerbaijan on 3 June 2011 by 2–1 with two goals from Sergey Gridin. They lost their next three games before ending the qualifying with a goalless home draw against Austria. They ended in the last place with 4 points, three behind Azerbaijan.[11][circular reference] Following recent unimpressive qualifying campaigns, Kazakhstan was once again in the last drawing pot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification. Their campaign in Group C started with two defeats before getting their first point in a goalless home draw against Austria on 12 October 2012. Losses to Austria and twice to Germany were followed by their first and only win of the qualification by 2–1 against Faroe Islands on 6 September 2013. They still got a fifth point in a 1–1 away drawn against the same opponents. Kazakhstan finished in 5th place, ahead only of the Faroese. The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying had Kazakhstan once more in the last drawing pot. Their first match was a home 0–0 draw against Latvia on 9 September 2014, followed by six consecutive losses before another goalless draw, away from home, against Iceland. After their seventh defeat of the qualifying, Kazakhstan ended the campaign with a 1–0 away win against Latvia on 13 October 2015. The goal scored by Islambek Kuat got the Kazakhs the 5th place, tied in points with the Latvians, but with a better head-to-head record.[12] Once again in the last drawing pot, Kazakhstan had an unimpressive 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, failing to win a single match. After two home draws against Poland and Romania in their first three matches, Kazakhstan lost their following six matches, ending the qualifying with a 1–1 home draw against Armenia and finishing last in Group E.[13] For the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League, Kazakhstan was in Pot 3 of League D, the fourth and lowest division of the UEFA Nations League. Drawn in Group 1 with Georgia, Latvia and Andorra, their campaign started with a 2–0 home loss against group winners Georgia. Away draws against Andorra and Latvia had Georgia with 9 points after the three first matches, with all the other teams tied with 2 points. Kazakhstan defeated Andorra by 4–0 on 16 October, but the Georgia win against Latvia got the Georgians promoted to League C with two matches still to be played. Their sixth and last point came in a 1–1 home draw against Latvia, before being defeated by Georgia in the last group match and finishing in the second place of the group.[14] The UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying for Kazakhstan once again was unsuccessful, with the team continued to fail in the qualification due to being inferior to Russia and Belgium. However, Kazakhstan won ten points in the qualification, its best performance up to date in any Euro qualifications, including a shock 3–0 home win over Scotland,[15] and a 1–1 away draw over Cyprus, though they still finished fifth at the end.


As you can see from the examples above, there are many properties to consider when dealing with borders. To shorten the code, it is also possible to specify all the individual border properties in one property. The border property is a shorthand property for the following individual border properties: border-width border-style (required) border-color You can also specify all the individual border properties for just one side.
ShortHand Border
ShortHand Border for bottom


public static interface Faction.FAbilityUsage
Faction.addAbilityUsage(String)
,
Faction.abilityUsages()
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
java.lang.String |
abilityFlags()
The unconverted ability mask, denoting ability ids, domains, flags, etc.
|
int |
domain()
An ability domain that an ability must be in order for this usage to apply, or -1
|
int |
flag()
A bitmask of ability flags that MUST be set for this usage to apply to an ability
|
int |
high()
Returns the maximum value that a player must have in the faction to be able to use the selected
ability referred to by the ability flags of this usage criterium.
|
int |
low()
The minimum value that a player must have in the faction to be able to use the selected
ability referred to by the ability flags of this usage criterium.
|
int |
notflag()
A bitmask of ability flags that must NOT be set for this usage to apply to an ability
|
boolean |
possibleAbilityID()
Whether the abilityFlags() method is possibly a specific Ability ID
|
java.util.List<java.lang.String> |
setAbilityFlag(java.lang.String str)
Sets the ability usage masks and methods from an ability id, domain, flags, etc.
|
void |
setHigh(int newVal)
Sets the maximum value that a player must have in the faction to be able to use the selected
ability referred to by the ability flags of this usage criterium.
|
void |
setLow(int newVal)
Sets the minimum value that a player must have in the faction to be able to use the selected
ability referred to by the ability flags of this usage criterium.
|
java.lang.String |
toString()
Returns a semicolon-delimited string of the values of this ability usage, suitable for
using to create a new one later.
|
int |
type()
An ability code that an ability must be in order for this usage to apply, or -1
|
java.lang.String abilityFlags()
setAbilityFlag(String)
java.util.List<java.lang.String> setAbilityFlag(java.lang.String str)
str
- the ability usage maskabilityFlags()
,
notflag()
,
possibleAbilityID()
,
type()
,
domain()
,
flag()
int notflag()
abilityFlags()
,
flag()
,
Ability.FLAG_DESCS
int flag()
abilityFlags()
,
notflag()
,
Ability.FLAG_DESCS
boolean possibleAbilityID()
abilityFlags()
,
CMObject.ID()
int type()
abilityFlags()
,
Ability.ACODE_DESCS
int domain()
abilityFlags()
,
Ability.DOMAIN_DESCS
int low()
abilityFlags()
,
setLow(int)
void setLow(int newVal)
newVal
- a new minimum faction valueabilityFlags()
,
low()
int high()
abilityFlags()
,
setHigh(int)
void setHigh(int newVal)
newVal
- a new maximum faction valueabilityFlags()
,
high()
java.lang.String toString()
toString
in class java.lang.Object
Faction.addAbilityUsage(String)


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--- layout: project title: Portable air purifier description: A low-cost and easy-to-carry air purifier for cities tags: [Tangible, Product] order: 16 team: Ashish(Concept, Product design, Prototyping), Allwin(Tangible interface design, Mobile application) duration: 2 weeks ---


--- title: List of Publications bibliography: "resume.bib" output: md_document link-citations: yes author: Sam Clifford date: '2018-02-14' csl: chicago-author-date.csl disableComments: true ---
This page contains selected references from major projects including doctoral and postdoctoral work. For the most up to date publication list, please check Google Scholar and ORCID.
| Citation | Description |
|---|---|
| S. Clifford (2013) | Spatio-temporal modelling of ultrafine particle number concentration - Using the Generalised Additive Model to model temporal trends in ultrafine particle number concentration with penalised splines and spatial trends with Gaussian Markov Random fields. |
| Clifford (2008) | Honours thesis on dispersion of a compount in shear-augmented flow |
| Citation | Description |
|---|---|
| Clifford and others (n.d.) | Spatio-temporal model of coral cover derived from traditional monitoring and citizen science elicitation of captured images |
| Vercelloni et al. (2017) | Gathering information from experts and citizen scientists in a virtual environment to understand what people believe makes an aesthetically pleasing reef |
| Mengersen et al. (2017) | Spatial modelling of presence only data with a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques |
| Bednarz et al. (2016) | Using virtual environments to elicit information about ecosystems |
| Citation | Description |
|---|---|
| Clifford et al. (2018) | Main UPTECH paper detailing the inflammatory and pulmonary response to ultrafine particles |
| Morawska et al. (2017) | Indoor sources of exposure in the home, office, school and aged care facilities |
| M. M. Rahman, Yeganeh, et al. (2017) | Land use regression modelling with variable selection of NO\(_\mathrm{x}\) and NO\(_2\) concentrations |
| M. M. Rahman, Mazaheri, et al. (2017) | Bayesian GAMs used to model urban background particle concentrations and the contribution of new particle formation |
| Yeganeh et al. (2017) | Application of statistical and machine learning models used to estimate air pollution concentrations from satellite imagery |
| Salthammer et al. (2016) | Impact of climate and air pollution on children’s health at school |
| Toms et al. (2015) | Multinomial regression modelling to look at the relative proportions of various polybrominated diphenyl ethers across classrooms |
| Clifford et al. (2014) | Mathematical and statistical models for particle deposition inside the lung |
| Mazaheri et al. (2014) | Analysis of inhaled particles in primary school children |
| S. Clifford, Low Choy, et al. (2013) | Spatio-temporal model in INLA of air pollution in Brisbane, Australia |
| Citation | Description |
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| van Havre et al. (2017) | Overfitted mixtures and Dirichlet process mixtures for spike classification |
| S. Clifford and Low Choy (2012) | A book chapter on various implementations of Bayesian spline regression |
| S. Clifford, Mølgaard, et al. (2012) | A preprint of an unpublished paper looking into Bayesian GAMs with autocorrelated errors |
| Clifford et al. (2011) | Using GAMs to model temporal trends and covariate effects for PNC in Helsinki, Finland |
| Citation | Description |
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| Salimi et al. (2017) | New particle formation typically occurs during daylight; here we investigate evidence of night time events |
| Rivas et al. (2017) | Identification of problems with DustTrak performance seen during measurement campaigns – indicating conditions under which this instrument shouldn’t be used |
| Jayaratne, Clifford, and Morawska (2015) | Predictive model for whether or not midday new particle formation events will occur based on morning PM\(_{10}\) and visibility |
| Stevanovic et al. (2015) | Semi-parametric regression used to model particle losses in aerosol measuring equipment |
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| Czaplinski et al. (2016) | Redesign of a first year unit with blended learning to improve student engagement and success |
Bednarz, Tomasz, June Kim, Ross Brown, Allan James, Kevin Burrage, Sam Clifford, Jacqueline Davis, et al. 2016. “Virtual Reality for Conservation.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web3d Technology, 177–78. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2945292.2945319.
Clifford, Sam. 2008. “An Analysis of Shear-Augmented Dispersion with Analytical and Numerical Methods.” Honours Thesis, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology.
———. 2013. “Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Ultrafine Particle Number Concentration.” Doctoral Thesis, School of Chemistry, Physics; Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63528/.
Clifford, Sam, and Sama Low Choy. 2012. “Case Studies in Bayesian Statistical Modelling and Analysis.” In, edited by Clair Alston and Kerrie Mengersen, 197–220. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Wiley. http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119941822.html.
Clifford, Sam, Sama Low Choy, Tareq Hussein, Kerrie Mengersen, and Lidia Morawska. 2011. “Using the Generalised Additive Model to Model the Particle Number Count of Ultrafine Particles.” Atmospheric Environment 45 (32):5934–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.05.004.
Clifford, Sam, Sama Low Choy, Mandana Mazaheri, Farhad Salimi, Kerrie Mengersen, and Lidia Morawska. 2013. “A Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Model of Panel Design Data: Particle Number Concentration in Brisbane, Australia.” arXiv, no. 1206.3833. http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3833.
Clifford, Sam, Mandana Mazaheri, E. R. Jayaratne, M. A. Megat Mokhtar, F. Fuoco, G. Buonanno, and L. Morawska. 2014. “Estimation of Inhaled Ultrafine Particle Surface Area Dose in Urban Environments.” ANZIAM Journal 55:C437–C447. https://doi.org/10.21914/anziamj.v55i0.7819.
Clifford, Sam, Mandana Mazaheri, Farhad Salimi, Wafaa Nabil Ezz, Bijan Yeganeh, Samantha Low Choy, Katy Walker, Kerrie Mengersen, Guy B. Marks, and Lidia Morawska. 2018. “Effects of Exposure to Ambient Ultrafine Particles on Respiratory Health and Systemic Inflammation in Children.” Environment International.
Clifford, Sam, Bjarke Mølgaard, Jukka Corander, Kaarle Hämeri, Sama Low Choy, Kerrie Mengersen, and Tareq Hussein. 2012. “Bayesian Semi-Parametric Forecasting of Particle Number Concentration: Penalised Splines and Autoregressive Errors.” arXiv, no. 1207.0558. http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0558.
Clifford, Sam, and others. n.d. “Combining Citizen Science and Traditional Monitoring Data in Modelling Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef.”
Czaplinski, Iwona, Sam Clifford, Ruth Luscombe, and Brett Fyfield. 2016. “A Blended Learning Model for First Year Science Student Engagement with Mathematics and Statistics.” http://eprints.qut.edu.au/96972/.
Jayaratne, E. R., S. Clifford, and L. Morawska. 2015. “Atmospheric Visibility and PM\(_{10}\) as Indicators of New Particle Formation in an Urban Environment.” Environmental Science & Technology 49 (21):12751–7. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b01851.
Mazaheri, Mandana, Sam Clifford, Rohan Jayaratne, Megat Azman Megat Mokhtar, Fernanda Fuoco, Giorgio Buonanno, and Lidia Morawska. 2014. “School Children’s Personal Exposure to Ultrafine Particles in the Urban Environment.” Environmental Science and Technology 48 (1):113–20. https://doi.org/10.1021/es403721w.
Mengersen, Kerrie, Erin E. Peterson, Samuel Clifford, Nan Ye, June Kim, Tomasz Bednarz, Ross Brown, et al. 2017. “Modelling Imperfect Presence Data Obtained by Citizen Science.” Environmetrics 28 (5). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2446/.
Morawska, L., G.A. Ayoko, G.N. Bae, G. Buonanno, C.Y.H. Chao, S. Clifford, S.C. Fu, et al. 2017. “Airborne Particles in Indoor Environment of Homes, Schools, Offices and Aged Care Facilities: The Main Routes of Exposure.” Environment International 108 (Supplement C):75–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2017.07.025.
Rahman, M. M., Mandana Mazaheri, Sam Clifford, and Lidia Morawska. 2017. “Estimate of Main Local Sources to Ambient Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations in an Urban Area.” Atmospheric Research 194. Elsevier:178–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.04.036.
Rahman, M. M., Bijan Yeganeh, Sam Clifford, Luke Knibbs, and Lidia Morawska. 2017. “Development of a Land Use Regression Model for Daily NO\(_2\) and NO\(_x\) Concentrations in the Brisbane metropolitan area, Australia.” Environmental Modelling and Software 95:168–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.029.
Rivas, Ioar, Mandana Mazaheri, Mar Viana, Teresa Moreno, Samuel Clifford, Congrong He, Oliver F Bischof, et al. 2017. “Identification of Technical Problems Affecting Performance of Dusttrak Drx Aerosol Monitors.” Science of the Total Environment 584. Elsevier:849–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.129.
Salimi, Farhad, Md Rahman, Sam Clifford, Zoran Ristovski, Lidia Morawska, and others. 2017. “Nocturnal New Particle Formation Events in Urban Environments.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (1). Copernicus GmbH:521–30. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-521-2017.
Salthammer, Tunga, Erik Uhde, Tobias Schripp, Alexandra Schieweck, Lidia Morawska, Mandana Mazaheri, Sam Clifford, et al. 2016. “Children’s Well-Being at Schools: Impact of Climatic Conditions and Air Pollution.” Environment International 94. Pergamon:196–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2016.05.009.
Stevanovic, S., B. Miljevic, P. Madl, S. Clifford, and Z. Ristovski. 2015. “Characterisation of a Commercially Available Thermodenuder and Diffusion Drier for Ultrafine Particles Losses.” Aerosol and Air Quality Research 15 (1):357–63. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2013.12.0355.
Toms, L., M. Mazaheri, S. Brommer, S. Clifford, D. Drage, J. Mueller, P. Thai, S. Harrad, L. Morawska, and F. Harden. 2015. “Brominated Flame Retardants in Primary Schools: Sources and Exposures.” Environmental Research 142:135–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2015.06.007.
van Havre, Zoé, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Sam Clifford, and Kerrie Mengersen. 2017. “Clustering Action Potential Spikes: Insights on the Use of Overfitted Finite Mixture Models and Dirichlet Process Mixture Models.” Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics under review.
Vercelloni, Julie, Sam Clifford, Alan R Pearse, Ross Brown, Allan James, Bryce Christensen, Tomasz Bednarz, et al. 2017. “Understanding Aesthetic Attributes of Coral-Reefs: Using Virtual Reality to Support Conservation of Ecosystem Services.” Nature Scientific Reports submitted.
Yeganeh, Bijan, Michael G Hewson, Samuel Clifford, Luke D Knibbs, and Lidia Morawska. 2017. “A Satellite-Based Model for Estimating PM\(_{2.5}\) Concentration in a Sparsely Populated Environment Using Soft Computing Techniques.” Environmental Modelling & Software 88. Elsevier:84–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.11.017.


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We present a database of parallel recordings of speech and singing, collected and released by the Human Language Technology (HLT) laboratory at the National University of Singapore (NUS), that is called NUS-HLT Speak-Sing (NHSS) database. This database consists of recordings of sung vocals of English pop songs, the spoken counterpart of lyrics of the songs read by the singers in their natural reading manner, and manually prepared utterance-level and word-level annotations. The audio recordings in the NHSS database correspond to a total of 100 songs sung and spoken by 10 singers, resulting in total of 7 hours audio data. There are 5 male and 5 female singers, singing and reading the lyrics of 10 songs each. We release this database to the public for research activities.
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- Comparative studies of acoustic attributes of speech and singing signals
- Cooperative synthesis of speech and singing voices
- Singing voice conversion
- Speech-to-singing conversion
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Please cite the following paper if you use this database:
"Bidisha Sharma, Xiaoxue Gao, Karthika Vijayan, Xiaohai Tian, and Haizhou Li. "NHSS: A Speech and Singing Parallel Database." arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00337 (2020)."


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