I'm good how are you?
I am good.
You sound amazing tonight.
Thank you.
You look amazing.
Thank you.
I have a full heart.
Why so full?
Because I'm getting to build stuff.
Okay, yes.
Why don't we just start right there?
Okay.
The DIY project.
I'm DIYing.
in blood. What? The paint looks like alien blood. Okay. Well, there's been a mishap with the paint.
We, uh, the paint that I picked on the actual paint chip looked much lighter and less like
alien blood than it does on the wall. Well, alien blood's probably it's just a very bright turquoise.
Is turquoise? Apparently. I thought it was teal. Well, they're in the same family.

It looks a little bit like that, but I'm going to fix it. It's going to be fine. And then I will post it to Instagram.
Here's the thing. I have great confidence in you to make it brilliant.
Thank you.
In the same way that you have this unfathomable confidence that I will solve technology problems,
even when I know that it's outside the realms of my capabilities.
Yes.
your belief in me empowers me to do see and vice versa. So you're just happy because you're building.
I'm building. I'm using power tools. I'm using power tools. I'm using my nail gun and my mitre saw and
measuring things and cutting wood. Yeah. All right. Well, that's great. But something else happened
this week that was amazing too. It's true. Even more amazing. We graduated our school.
Congratulations to all of our graduating students from first and second year. We're so proud of you.
You've done an amazing job. We had a great night at graduation. I loved it.
It was really, really good. The hall was full. There was lots of smiling family members and friends.
Everybody looked so nice. They dressed up real sharp. Nobody fell off the stage. It all went off
without a hitch.  No, but that's because me and Matt
help people up and down off the stage because we're gentlemen like that. So thank you to everybody
who made that year of success. Our staff at the school, Jeff and Becky, it was just a great time.
I loved it completely. So we had a high of graduation. You had a high of building stuff.
Yes. You don't know what my personal high was. What was your personal high, darling?
Getting to go on a date with little Tia. Oh, she was so excited.
Our slightly for both seven year old had made it known to us that you were...
Slightly for both. She's very earnest.  So she came up with, "I would like to go on a date with you to see Boss Baby at the
movie theater." And then also we could go for dinner and then also we'd also have popcorn and candy.
And so I made all our dreams come true and it was amazing. MJ did mention on Friday night
when you were gone. He was like, "Where did they go, Mummy?" And I said, "They went on a date." And
And he said, "Do they get to go see Boss Baby?"
And I said, "I think she's seeing Boss Baby.
I want Daddy to take me to see Boss Baby."
- It was very cute.
I loved it.
My favorite part was we ended up eating at Panda Express
for no other reason than it was one of two restaurants
right next to the movie theater
and she didn't want to go Panera Bread.
In fact, we walked into Panera Bread and she said,
"This is not the restaurant I was thinking of."
(laughs)
Turn around left.
- The child knows what she wants.
- So we went to Panda Express,
which for those of you who know what Panda Express is,
it's not the world's greatest Chinese food restaurant ever.
It's like a chain.
- No, yes.
- Well, she was thrilled with it.
She sat there with cheeks full of fried rice
and she said, "Daddy, let's make this our special restaurant
that nobody needs to know about."
And I thought, "I don't think the world's gonna be angry
about that, babe."
(laughs)
So anyway, yeah, my daddy heart was full
just being with her this weekend.
- And I took Abby to a girls thing on Thursday, didn't I?
- So really the only child with left out is MJ.
MJ, he's owed a date.
No, well, that's not true because I bought him a $2 toy at the bargain store.
And he just thought it was the best thing ever.
This unsolicited gift, we were just wondering around the store.
Yes, but he's the cuddliest child you've ever met.
So he's going to want the quality diamond.
And it was a ninja turtle.
I don't know.

I don't know what it's supposed to do with it.
Bong, bong, bong, something like that.
I don't know. Take out your eye.
Anyway, he loved it.
He just, daddy, did you just buy me that?
I said, yeah, he said, why?
I said, because I love you.
You're the best daddy ever.
So my family love tank is full.
- Yes.
- Speaking about families and babies and where they come from.
- Huh?
- Well, and I'm trying to say,
we're going to talk about marriage
and introduce our guest tonight.
(laughing)
- I was like, were we speaking of babies
and where they came from?
- We have babies.
- And are these guys gonna talk about babies
and where they came from?
I don't think so.
- Well, tell us why we're so excited.
- We are so excited because we have Mike and Phyllis
best with us this evening.
We do.
Mike and Phyllis, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you.
Thanks.
You guys are best known in our community as a married couple who have a heart to help
strengthen marriages.
That's something that we really enjoy and appreciate because we prayed about that and
we want that to be true.
We've had other people in the RTF community that say we don't want to be known for certain
things.
We had a conversation about eight years ago and I said,
we do want to be known for that.
- Right.
- So.
- I want it to be known and I hope you're okay
with this being known that while you guys have,
it seems like specialized in marriages,
you still absolutely minister to single people,
people who are getting married, divorced people.

- Yes.
- But your heart and it just seems the thing
that comes out with you, the fruit that's from your lives
is you love helping people in married life.
- Absolutely.
- And all the marriages I know that you have touched
have flourished because of that.
- Oh yeah.
- Let me start with some basic questions.
How long have you guys been married?
- 39 years in May.
- Oh.
- Wow, congratulations.
That's amazing.
And how long have you been ministering to people before?
- In the 80s, our church asked us to do life groups.
So we started with the life group on marriage
because it was what we knew something about
because we'd been doing it for probably five years.
were experts by then. Yes. But for some reason, we've talked about the several times. We don't
even know why we got so intense and excited and attracted to marriages and helping couples.
And we've always had a patient for married couples ever since we were in our 30s, 30 years
ago. And it's just a big joy to us. We do it together. Our hearts are for it. It's easy
for us. We say we think with a marriage filter, we just see life that way.
So, Phyllis, for people listening that may not be aware of what it is that you guys do,
could you explain a little bit about how do you minister to people?
The basic thing that we do is restoring the foundations, which is just a basic foundational
clearing out the junk ministry.
And we feel like everybody needs that.
If they're alive and breathing,
we all have stuff that we carry.
And so we do that,
but we also incorporate some other things to help couples.
Life languages being one of them.
- Oh, cool.
- Yes, we love the life languages.
- We've benefited from both those things.
In fact, I wanted to talk about how we first met you.
And so I'm going to go to story time.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, our pastors from Canada met our
pastors who are in Nashville.
So this is John and Carol, meet Jeff and Becky.
And John and Carol had been through what we call RTF or restoring the foundations,
which I think we've talked about a bit on the podcast.
And John and Carol were saying, Jeff and Becky, you need to go do RTF.
It's amazing.
And one of the funny things about RTF is it's very hard to describe what it is that's so
amazing without going through it.
I mean, you can for sure break it down what it is, but it's the value you receive from
going through it.
It's one of those weird things.
So Jeff and Becky, I think, I don't want to put words in their mouth, but maybe reluctantly
went, you know, I think they went because John and Carol said go.
And so they went out to the restoring foundations base in North Carolina, went through this,
we call a healing week, which is five days in a married couple.
I think it's three days if you're, I mean, you guys are the experts.
Yes. You guys are nodding.
And so, you know, Jeff and Becky went through these five days.
They would tell you this as they've shared publicly many times.
And they were like, this is life changing.
Like this is life changing.
And they promptly came home and thought, we need to send all of our
pastors and staff through this and quickly realized that logistically
sending everybody out to North Carolina,
would be good for the life of our church,
would be just prohibitive for a number of reasons.
And so they asked you guys to kind of come down to Nashville
on extended trips and just all of our,
almost all of our passes and staff at the time
went through this restoring the foundation's healing week.
My memory's certainly correct.
- That's correct.
- And is that how you ended up at Grace Center?
Just tell us that story of how you ended up at Grace Center
because later on it seemed like you guys moved here
and now you're permanently part of our church.
We love that.
(laughing)
Talk to us about your introduction to Grace Center,
how you, your side of that story.
- Well, we did start coming.
The ministry said, "Hey, would you guys be willing
"to go to Nashville and do some ministry to church there
"and they want their staff to go through?"
And we said, "Sure, that'd be great.
"We love adventure, we like travel,
"we like being on the road."
And we went to Grace Center.
And it was back in the days when Chris McCarny
doing worship. That very first Sunday, it's like, wow, this is an amazing church. This is just
fantastic. We loved it so much, cried about halfway through the service. And we came back
over a four-year period. We made 17 trips. Good night. Stave with six different families,
and we added up the weeks, and over four years, we were in Nashville about one of those years
when you edited it all up. Wow. That's amazing. I know you were here a lot. I didn't realize
it was that much. So obviously you had to move here. I mean, you know.
We did. We loved it here. And everybody was so welcoming and just really embraced ministry
and us. And it was just a, we just felt like the Lord eventually said, it's time to quit making
the trips every month or so and just move. Our community is so much a better community because
because you guys are here.
All the people, all our friends, our family,
the people that you've ministered to over the years,
we've just benefited from you guys being here.
You've ministered at the church,
you've done marriage teaching on our Wednesday nights.
And again, your full-time jobs are ministering to people.
- Correct.
- What did you guys do before you were in ministry?
- I was a nurse and Mike is an engineer.
- Wow.
- Yeah, it was an automotive engineer.
Engineers are problem solvers.
Nurses have big hearts to help people.
And so the combination seemed to work pretty good.
- Yeah, I'd say so. (laughs)
- We literally could spend hours picking your brain
on the full spectrum of healing.
Questions about demons and deliverance
and past hurts and soul spirit hurts and this,
that we could just, we could spend all the evening
talk about that. But one of the reasons we invited you on was to talk about marriage,
to just come and share some of your wisdom about marriage. And we've got a bunch of questions
we'd love to ask experts on marriage, which is you guys. I know you just look to each other
like, wait, who are they talking about? So babe, what question would you love to ask?
What are some of the main things that you see in marriages that start to cause breakdown?
Are there any things that you're like, you know, when we start to see a combination of
these two or these three things that you start to go, "Oh, you probably want to deal with
those because those are eventually going to erode your marriage."
I feel like every couple is so different.
I don't know that I could say that there are specific things.
I mean, there's basic things like learning how to forgive and those kinds of things.
But every couple seems to bring their own unique, what they brought into the marriage,
how they grew up, what they learned from their family of origin.
And they always just respond differently.
And so I feel like most couples are fairly unique.
Wow.
I did not expect that answer.
That's fascinating.
I would agree with Phyllis, but I would say the things that we commonly see, though
they're different. We started seeing this almost from the start when we were doing ministry,
we would see a couple and we go, "That's a gift problem." Like the wife would be prophetic
and the husband would be real gentle and tenderhearted. And she would think that he was weak
and wasn't direct enough. And he would think that she was harsh and critical. And everybody
He was kind of acting a little bit out of being unhealed, but we would look at it and
go, that's a gift problem.
That's how they are.
And the one common thing we see with almost every couple is each mate judges the other
mate based on who they are.

If the wife is real merciful, she looks at the husband and says, you don't care about
me, you are harsh, you are, and the things are usually true, but it's really gift mix
issues that seem to be the biggest problem in marriage.
Whoa. I'm just thinking about how freeing that would be, where suddenly you're validated
rather than criticized for the way you are.  Yes. That must be so freeing for people to hear and see.
It is. And it's just fascinating that we don't even realize that we all have individual ways
that God created us and that were gifted and those filters really direct incoming and outgoing
communication. Right. Let's just stop there, maybe in a moment to forgive one another.
You know, really, we've pitched this as a podcast, but we just want to like free marriage.
Free counseling.
On here. So this is perfect. We can just lead us in a prayer.
It's fantastic though. If he can show a spouse how to communicate with the other,
and it's almost always the one that's a tenderhearted one, you know, if you just
demonstrate that you wait he just pointed to himself he thinks he's
a tender hearted one.
I didn't mean it. My tender heart's being crushed by that.
But it's just it's fabulous. I had you know we can't really talk about specifics but had a
guy a couple years ago that I saw in church and he goes you know the first you know several
decades of our marriage were really bad. And then when I learned how to treat my wife as a
responder and show her that I cared, he goes, it was simple, but it was amazingly beneficial.
And she doesn't remember what you did for her. All she remembers is what you did for me, but I
don't care how she interprets it. All I know is our marriage is great now.
- That's awesome.
- Those kinds of stories, they're simple. The gift stuff is not complicated.
Most people don't know how they're gifted and they don't know how they communicate.
It's not hard. It's usually a lot of benefit for a little bit of effort for a couple.
So I find it really interesting and amazing that you guys have combined RTF with life languages.
Because obviously we went through RTF. We didn't do life languages at the same time. We did life
languages at a different time. It was very helpful. But when I heard that you guys were doing that,
I thought, "Oh my gosh, that's brilliant," because you not only get to deal with your stuff,
but then you get to work out how to communicate with one another afterwards,
which is a perfect way to sort of launch back into, "Let's do this a different way now."
So where did you get that idea from?
Actually, it came from, we were just observing. We'd go, "See the couples?" We go,
That's a gift problem.
We didn't have a tool for that.
And then someone in the RTF community named David Linda Rader, we're doing life
languages.
The whole RTF staff went through it and I go, this tool is the tool.
They trained us in it.
We started taking couples through about five years ago.
We got this is descriptive of what's going on.
It gives a good distribution of what the gifts and communication patterns are.
And it's just valuable.
We don't know of any other tool available.
It does what Life Languages does.
But it was the tool we go,
these people have already done the work.
- Right.
- All the couple has to do is go out, take the profile,
and then the information is there to solve the problem.
- Yeah, so cool.
- And for those of you who are maybe newer to the podcast
and you're unfamiliar with this term Life Languages,
we interviewed one of our friends
who's a Life Language trainer, Alison Hendrickson.
If you go to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or<EMAIL_ADDRESS>you can hear Alison share in depth about life languages
and the importance of it.
But in summary, it's a communication tool
that helps people understand
how they are predominantly wired for communication
and how to learn to communicate in styles
that they may not be as fluent in.
And it is life-changing.
has helped our community hugely both our church staff and grace in or at large.
Similar to the question that AJ asked you, what are some of the most common things
husbands don't understand about their wives?
That's an interesting question because we don't really see a hall at a men, women.
Almost everything we see is more from a what your wounds and how to those impact now.
what is your gifting? How does that work now? We don't see a whole lot of men, women kind of
things. We're looking to solve things at the root cause. And so we don't really do as much,
okay, you're a man, so you should think this way. You're a woman, so you should be this way.
I just don't think that way as much.
Although, Levin Respect talks about that a lot because, you know, our brains are wired
a little differently.
But some of the things that we see more commonly are not being able to see our own stuff.
And it doesn't matter if you're the husband or wife.
Most of the time when people come in, they want us to look at their spouse.
Right.
If you just fix my spouse, my marriage would be better.
Yes.
- Yes, and so communication, and I guess it just goes back
to back in the garden with the finger pointing.
You know, it's, if you'll just, it was just Adam
and that woman that you gave me.
- Right.
- So that's just our tendency.
It seems like to look at them rather than our own lives.
And I just know from my own life,
I think God uses marriage more than any other relationship
on the earth to make us look at maybe what's going on in our own lives.
And our tendency, as I said, is just to look at what they need to fix. But I know in my own life,
if I look at me rather than continuing to look at what he needs to do, it seems like I don't have
have to go around that mountain again. So we love a marriage in that it can be one of
the most damaging relationships on the earth, but it can also be one of the most amazing
relationships on earth as you learn to grow together.
That's fascinating to me because I've listened to both your answers and I was thinking like
In our experience, we often show up, but we're being incredibly serious that you've probably heard us say early on in our marriage, we had to figure out when AJ was upset.
Men have this lovely tendency where they just want to fix the problem, so they stop hearing about the problem.
Whereas women often just want to be heard and comforted.
They're bringing a problem to be heard, not to be fixed, which is alien to the male mind.
So I'm thinking, wait, why don't you guys mention that one? Like, isn't that obvious to you?
And then I realized you're not you're not dealing with the problems that are up here.
And for those of you who can't see me, I'm motioning up high. The ministry is called
restoring the foundations because that just tends to be a fruit thing if you can minister
down here. So I hadn't even considered the that you're going to have to far deeper,
more significant issues. Is that a correct? Now I'm unsure about everything, but
we'll go back to school with these guys. Yeah, you know, a while ago, you said, well, you know,
we can talk about the foreign ministry areas and we almost never get into that conversation with
people because it's not very persuasive and it's not very motivating to people. You just tell them
that. But when you say, okay, here's, here's the thing. RTF will help you to solve the key issues
in your life, the deepest issues at the root cause using Christian principles.
We tell them that.
That makes sense to people more than we're going to do these four ministry areas and
usually say that their eyes glaze over and you know that you didn't connect with their
heart.
So either RTF is going to help you solve your issues at the root cause or we give them testimonies
and people go, "This is what happened in our life."
They go, "Oh."
So it's that kind of thing.
This will actually get to the root of what's happening in our life.
That's really the key idea is we're not telling people, "Here's your bad behavior.
Do this better."
Those are pretty easy to figure out, but it doesn't help anybody because our behavior,
when we get under stress, we're going to do it again.
In our mind, we know that it's wrong until we get the root thing healed that causes to
react poorly.
We're going to keep doing that when we're under stress.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
Well, okay.
How about this question?
What are some of the best preventative steps that folks can do while they're single to
prepare for married life?
I would say get as much healing as you can.
Yeah.
Before you even go into marriage because then you're not working with two cycles, your own
and theirs, because we all bring so much stuff into our marriages.
We often joke that our marriage problems start when we are five years old.
But we learn things from our families of origin.
We learn how to handle conflict or not.
We learn how to deal with feelings or even the feelings are okay to have.
We learn how to forgive or not.
I mean, there's so many things that we learn just from growing up that we don't even think
about that we bring into the marriage that we just think everybody else is that way.
Right.
And so just recognizing any wounds, because we've all been hurt in life, it may be families
of origin or it may just be from living life.
And we develop beliefs and different ways of interacting out of that.
And so just looking at those kinds of things and getting as much taken care of as you can
before you get married, you start off in a way better place.
Right. Sounds good.
And you tend to attract a different level of health. I've noticed that the more,
here's one of the most perplexing things that I've seen, is incredible women who end up in
relationships with some questionable characters. And as pastors, when we've sat down with
with them when that relationship inevitably crashes and burns because there's a huge mismatch,
not just in personality, but also in maturity, perhaps maturity socially, maturity with the Lord.
We're thinking, how is this incredibly godly, beautiful, incredibly,
appearingly confident woman attracted to this severely insecure, somewhat broken individual,
and you realize that person is actually a reflection of how this person sees himself.
We notice that the more healing you get, you tend to radiate and attract different out me.
Calibernal. We radiate confidence. We attract a different type of person. We radiate rejection.
We attract a different kind of person. More confident out going, people go, "Oh, they must beThey
must have some health. Yeah, when we get our self healed and start looking at our identity,
the way God sees us and start radiating that and start expecting more. We don't we won't settle for
something different. God has something great for me. We're looking for something good. We're looking
for a good mate. We're not looking to settle. We're looking for what God has for us.
So it changes the whole ball game. One of the things that we saw in Nashville that we hadn't seen
before, because we were in a retirement community in North Carolina. But with the young people,
with several young people come for ministry, and the problem was they were 30ish, 35ish,
and wanted to be married and couldn't figure out what the roadblock was. They dated several times,
but it usually ended not well, and just didn't know what was going on. So we were able to talk
through some of those things.
And actually we saw several people that came for RTF get married.
It's a result of their history time.
Come on.
So yeah, that was thoroughly.
I mean, we had no idea that that was going to happen.
And it was really exciting.
That's awesome.
So you say that and me and probably every single person who's listening is like,
tell us the answer.
What were some of the roadblocks?
And I'd imagine it would vary from person to person.
But are there any general things you can share?
I think there's a commonality in it.
I don't deserve at some level.
People didn't feel like they deserved somebody good.
And there was a fear of rejection sometimes of,
I've got to reject people before they reject me.
Sometimes that's a common thing that people do.
And I think it's underestimating
what they really deserve and what God really wants.
And so radiating it, I don't deserve to be loved kind of a thing.
And even a desperation when you don't think you deserve to be loved,
then sometimes you can be desperate and settle.
Wow.
And that's not attractive.
Right.

And the things that God says about your identity, you project something
different and you attract something different.
Yeah.
You know, here's an amazing business opportunity for you guys
is to create like some sort of downloadable identity statement
for for dating, you know, kind of like the is smart eyes, kind
eyes, wonderful thing.
I'm sure people would love it.
I think that's a fantastic idea.
But here's the beauty of what makes identity work is it's not,
there's not a I am smart.
I am beautiful.
What's what is what is powerful about the identity thing is when
you figure out who God says you are.
Yeah.
And that's what makes it unique.
Because if you just said, you know, I'm smart, I'm attractive, I'm kind, these kinds of things, you'd become, what kind of already knew that?
But when God says something about you and he just says it directly to you, that identity has life and it's infinitely more life than anything with kind of a generic approach.
It's the life that's coming from inside out,
rather than trying to talk it into you
with some of the generic identity statements.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes.
And it's who you are.
And usually when people figure out who their identity is
and it comes from God,
it's something they probably haven't heard before.
When God says something to you,
it's a level of truth that it impacts your heart
in a really deep and profound way.
It's funny that even in saying,
And of course, I'm not picking on you, Alan,
'cause I think most people would love to just have
a statement that we could say.

Do you know what I mean?
So like what you are saying is,
hey, out of relationship with a father,
let him speak truth to you and believe that,
where we would love to just have four-line prayers
for everything.
- We just don't love them, right?
- Right, that we could just download a memorized,
But that's really no different in a lot of ways
than just memorizing scripture verses
and trying to beat yourself up with them.
If it's truth from the Father,
it's just a different strength of revelation.
- Is it a whole different level in your book,
finding Father changed our identity.
The same way we went through that book.
I could remember some of the things God said.
That was identity inducing,
and even at our age,
where God's still shifting identity around it,
made a profound during that time period.
It was four or five years ago.
There was nothing that made more impact in our life and changed than that book.
That's true.
Wow.
That's awesome.
Thanks.
Hugely impactful to us for the people who can't see age's face.
There's some weird moisture growing in your eyes.
Yeah.
It was a bug.
A bug flew my eye.
That's what it was.
You know, what God says it to you, it's absolutely the truth and infinitely impactful.
and nothing else anybody else could say can do that like God can.
Yeah.
One of the other things that is really impactful along those same lines are,
you know, how our church has been doing declarations and you talked about that one time,
just making declarations over your marriage.
What does God say about your specific marriage and doing that together and then just declaring
his truth over your life.
Amazing impact.
- Wow.
- Let's start doing that.
- My mind went somewhere that I can't say on my best behavior.

They said declaration over your marriage.
- I'm sure that's included.
- But I know what you were thinking.
(laughing)
- Of course you knew why I was thinking.
(laughing)
- But a declaration might be something like,
We're forever people.
We're gonna have a forever marriage.
And when you approach marriage with that perspective,
it's like, there's certain things we're not gonna do.
'Cause we're gonna go forever.
We're going all the way to the end.
We're gonna get old together.
We're gonna get wrinkles together.
We're gonna finish well together.
And there's just certain things you just don't do.
There's certain conversations you don't have.
There's certain ways you just don't act.
And because you're in it for the long haul,
it's not a if this doesn't work out, I'm going to change partners is no, we have to make this thing
work. Right. So there's not a plan B, there's no other option. There's no plan B. So you're on your
best behavior, kind of like when you're dating, you always putting your best foot forward, we'll
keep doing it in marriage because if you're going for the gold, there's a certain things you don't do.
You guys are so prophetic. You're actually answering the next question I had, which is
what are some of the best prevented to steps folks can take to create and protect a healthy
marriage. So you've already talked about making declarations already talked about making a commitment,
having a longer term view than just, I remember Danny silks saying, most people only plan their
wedding, they never plan their marriage. And so having a longer view than just the wedding day
is important.
What are some other practical things you encourage couples to do in their marriage?
One thing that's really important, I feel like, is just learning how to forgive well.
And often.
Yes.
Daily.
Easy.
Easy.
And we have a three-part thing that we like to teach couples because most of the time
And we just say, "I'm sorry."
But we feel like when you say it,
"I'm sorry for what you did."
And that was wrong because acknowledging the pain
that you caused your spouse,
and then will you forgive me?
So it would sound like,
"I'm sorry for walking away from you
"when you were trying to talk with me."
That was wrong because it was very disrespectful to you.
I was only thinking in myself, would you forgive me?
- Yes, I forgive you,
but I would also like to ask you to forgive me
for the tone that I was using and even the attitude
I had as we were talking,
'cause that wasn't very respectful and that was wrong.
Would you please forgive me for that?
- Yes.
- These are not paid actors, that's a real--
- That's a real conversation.
- Mike and Phyllis,
(laughing)
event.
- I have no idea what you're talking about.
- Yeah, never happens.
- We didn't have one of those.
Just at dinner today.
(laughing)
- It's so powerful.
I'm sorry I was wrong, please forgive me.
I was wrong as a really important thing.

I'm sorry that I talked butt,
if you wouldn't have, just totally leave it out.
It's always there, but if you bring it up,
it wrecks your apology.
Mm hmm.
Yep.
So good.
That's amazing.
Any other little nuggets you can throw our way?
There's one.
I'm going to steal this one from Billy Graham, but a long time ago, Billy Graham said he's
never alone with another woman that's not his wife.
And even when he travels, he's on the road.
He says, okay, if somebody comes up and picks me at the airport, I want it to be a man.
Do not send a woman to pick me up.
Yeah.
That's fascinating.
He goes, I've never had a problem with adultery because I've never been alone with another woman
other than my wife. So I was saying to the boundaries early, saying to them firm and that
may sound really old school, but that's a good way to a fair proof your marriage is
just set the boundaries firm, set them early and stick to them.
That's one of the things that they encourage us to do when we were itinerating in Toronto.
Like I started itinerating, you know, just as a single female for about five years before
Alan and I got married and started deteriorating.
And that was one of the things, actually, that Jack Frost as well used to do.
And so that was one of the things that I was part of my rider.
Like, if you send a man to pick me up, I won't get in the car.
It's, you know, no offense or anything.

And I wasn't even married then.
I was just like, you just don't need any kind of question available.
You know, so I love that.
That's really good.
Another thing that I might add is if you're struggling in your marriage,
hang out with a healthy couple.
Wow.
Statistics show that hanging out or being around or having relationship with a healthy couple
is just as effective as being with a licensed counselor.

Yes, isn't that amazing?
But you catch so much about relationship, about interacting,
in those kinds of things. And so that's just a tip that we like to also.
You know, it's so good.
So funny you say that because A.G. and I often point to when we first got married,
we lived with John and Carol and we knew that there was value added to our marriage by that.
But they didn't quote unquote "do anything." Like we just did life with them.
Yes.
We were traveling. They were traveling. But when we'd be home, we'd often eat a meal together.
the advantage of them living upstairs from us is if we had a fight, you know, they heard it.
They heard it and they would be like, they'd wait about half an hour. They'd be like,
"You guys okay? You can come and talk?" Or if we needed help, we'd just put popcorn on
because Carol, it's like catnip. Carol would smell the popcorn and she'd come down.
But the value of having an amazing, and they, you know, John and Carol would tell stories about
themselves or tell on themselves about, you know, one time Carol was so mad that she didn't talk to
John for X number of days.

And, you know, it's, so that's amazing.
That must be the thing that we experienced.
- It was.
- We would send the money from professional licensed
counseling fees.
- I think that makes me sort of even more excited
'cause Alan and I have a vision to be able to do that here,
you know, to have a young couple that lives with us
that we can, you know, and that sort of makes it make more sense why it, why, you don't
even why it worked. Like we just sort of know that it did work.
We want to pass it off.
Yeah, and we want to pass it off.
Yeah, for sure. And you don't even have to live with somebody.
Right.
That makes sense.
I think one of the things that is also just really important is just choose kindness.
It sounds so simple, but when push comes to shove, if you can make a choice to choose
kindness, it's huge in a marriage or in any relationship.
Did you hear that, Ajay?
- I got it, thanks.
(laughing)
- I'm gonna have to edit that.
We got, that was supposed to be funny, but it didn't work.
- It's kind of funny.
- I heard somebody say it recently,
I don't have to be right, I just have to be nice.
And I'm thinking, well, that's pretty a profound, you know?
I don't have to always have the last word.
- Always have the answer.
always have the answer, but if you can choose to just be kind to the other person.
And sometimes it's just a simple, you look out, okay, what would be more kind,
what would be less kind? Okay, I'm choosing the more kind option here.
And just tend to do that every chance you get really helps things out a lot.
Jeff said something to you, didn't he?
When we first moved here, I think we'd been here like a year or two,
year or two and Alan and I had had this huge fight.
Huge fight.
Huge fight.
And I had told him to get out of the house.
I was so mad.
And I was more than ab to get out of the house
until I got in the car and I stormed off.
And I'm like, you know what, Lord, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna teach her.

I'm gonna turn off my phone.
And the Lord's like, oh great.
Where are you gonna stay?
And I'm like, I'm just gonna get a hotel
and the Lord's like, with what money?
(laughing)
We had like no money.
That's not going to work.
So I'm like, well, I'm just going to go Starbucks and.
And salt.
I'm like, OK, what's the shelf life on the sulking thing?

And Jeff said, well, Alan, I guess you're going to have to decide whether you'd
rather be right or have relationship.
And he said, Alan, I've learned that he who apologizes first wins.
I was not in the mood to do any of the things that you're talking about.
But again, I just realized what is the end.
I didn't realize the Holy Spirit showed me like, what?
Okay.
So you're sulking.
I get that.
You're really angry.
You're really hurt.
Totally get that.
How long is that going to last?

And by the way, you work with her.
How long, you know, at some point, you know, you're
And you know you're not getting divorced.
At some point you have to return.
Why not return with humility?
I'm like, "Oh, wow."
That's true.
So we're choosing kindness, folks.
Yeah.
So you guys are not just trained in RTF, but like we mentioned earlier, you're also trained
as life language people.
And so one of the things that's very, very helpful in the world of life language is this
whole thing of cross talks where you take a profile, say from a husband and a profile
from a wife and using some, you know, magic formula, you work out the cross talks at areas
of conflict. And it just so happens that we haven't to have our life language profiles
here. And we're wondering whether you could just do like an on air cross talk and identify
some of our areas.
Sure.
This will be fine.
This could be entertaining.
I would write that.
This could be entertaining.
Yeah, we're, we love the lifelike widgets.
Yeah, this is good.
So you guys, life languages are really similar in the top.
Yeah, they are.
Yeah.
Okay.
So while these guys are looking over our profiles, let me explain what's going on.
For those of you who don't know about life languages, you basically go to a website,
you fill out a series of questions which produces a profile that gives you some results of your
most fluent ways of communicating the seven life languages. They all have a name each language
has a filter the way you see things in life the way you approach things they have they
have strengths and weaknesses with each one of them but after you fill out the profile
you're given a chart that tells you your strength or your fluency in each of these languages
and what these guys are doing right now is they're looking at AJ's profile they're looking
at my profile and they're using their training and their experience to say, "Hey, it would
not surprise us if some of the areas of communication conflict would appear here or here or here."
So right now I need to find some music to be playing while I'm looking at this stuff.
Exactly.
Okay.
Do you want to start, baby?
You want me to?
Well, the amazing thing about you too is that your giftings are so similar in so many areas,
the top ones.
Many times conflict comes more when our giftings are so different, but you guys are similarly
gifted in a lot of areas with both of you being shaper as your top gifting, which is
leadership.
And so the thing that I would wonder is, who's going to be the leader?
Do you ever have conflict with who's in charge?
We used to.
We used to have a lot more than we do now.
But when we first got married, we would both wake up and literally our eyes were open and
we would form a plan.
But we wouldn't communicate our plan to one another, but we both believe that each of
our plans was the best plan.
And so our conflict would arise from him having an idea that was outside of my plan or me
having an idea that was outside of his.
And now we've got to a place where we realize, I mean, you can see from ages results, she's
an off the charts shaper.
What is she?
You can come down though, I used to be 97.
So I feel like I've mellowed at 93.
She's 93.
So we're first, so the shaper again for people who are not familiar with this terminology,
shapers love to plan.
They love to lead.
I think after all these years of marriage, we've realized all there's areas that AJ can
out plan me. The stuff I just don't care about that's more passionate to her. And so
I, as I say, I let you lead.  But we both benefit when you lead
and conversely there's there is now there are times when our plans overlap. But I think
we've done a good job. I'm just trying to think like we even had a conversation today
on the way to one of our meetings in the car where we're, you know, there's a little bit of
miscommunication about what each of us was saying. But I mean, think we were well, didn't you say
it wasn't conflict. It was just like, yep, I get it. But yes, early on, huge problem. But and we
realized either we hadn't communicated the plan or our plan was being threatened.
And now we're much better at real life.
Both of us, because we're high shapers, realize that when there's a change to the plan,
either because of weather or timing or other people, we realize, oh, we get in distress,
but we've learned those signals and we talk each other down, which is good.
We have looked at with every couple of you seen probably for the last five years,
we've gone over life languages with them. And I have never seen a couple as similar.
Your top three languages being the same and in the same order. And even probably at least it's
important that your bottom life language is the same responder, which is the mercy gift.
And so that you're so the same. Like Phyllis said, Phyllis and I are both leaders.
And sometimes what we have to do is this is a conversation.

Who's going to be the sous chef?
Or if we're going to hang a mirror together, who's going to be the one that's calling the shots?
And who's going to be the helper because we both want to lead.
Right.
And that's important.
But so I would think that would be part of it.
But the fact that both of your responders are low.
Um, is kind of interesting.
And I would wonder if as a couple, sometimes you might feel like you don't care, even
though neither one of you is a high responder.
So it's not like here looking for that.
But I wonder if there might be times where you're going, I just don't feel like you
care about me.
And just because it's responders, just not a high.
Yeah.
You guys are all about business.
I mean, you're, you're probably both very smart and very action-oriented, very much get things done.
Yeah.
Our earliest profile is 2004.
We've kept all our profiles throughout the years.
So we've got maybe four profiles, you know, every five years or every three years we've done it.
And we can see the stage of life we were in.
Because when we met, our profiles were very different to that.
My influencer was very, very high.
My shaper was quite high, but then early on in marriage, my shaper just dropped because I realized
there's no need for it. There's a 97% shaper. And as you know, shapers are happy to lead,
but they're also happy to be led if there's a competent leader. And so mine just dropped.
And my doer came way up, especially when we moved to Gray Center, our dynamic would be
Ajay would plan. I would do. Yeah, I was sort of shaped by the thing. Here you go. This is what
emanate's going to look at. And he would just take the checklist and make it all happen.
and build the website, do the blah blah,
and then I'd move on to, okay,
this is what encounter we can's gonna look like,
and he'd do the manual, do the, you know,
so it was, yeah, I mean, that's what we--
- That worked well, but--
- So we did everything.
- Your comment about the responder,
I'd never even thought about in those terms
that yes, both of our responders are low,
mine is notoriously low,
but because I work with all responders,
I've learned to speak it.
Fairly fluently when I'm deliberate,
often catastrophically terrible when I think I'm getting away with speaking it fluently.
If I'm intentional and turn it on, I'm good. If I think I can coast with it, a train wreck
happens inevitably. But I'd never thought about it in the terms of everybody has a
responder. Mine happens to be low. Is it low out of wounding, perhaps? Is it low because it's
being suppressed? But when you said, I wonder if both of you at times feel like you don't care,
That would be a thing where I'm like, "Babe, I feel uncomfortable with the language,
of course, with it being so low." But I'm like, "Babe, I feel like you don't care about this."
And vice versa, that's fascinating.
So that's bang on. That's probably one of the more common type of conversations that we would have.
What are you guys doing next week?
It needs to get sorted out.
Can we hang out with you?
My responder used to be third.
Right.
It's just sort of steadily moved its way down to the bottom.
It's interesting how different things shift in different seasons of life,
depending on what you need at that particular season of life.
We speak responder to our kids because they're very, very high responders.
T is a very high conan player.
Our responder sometimes comes out to play, but MJ and Abby, I would imagine,
our first language responders.

What's the plan for the morning?
And he did. If the babysitter doesn't tell him the plan, when I'll go in and kiss him at night,
he'll be like, "What, the plan for tomorrow?" He just needs the plan.
So I think he might have a shaper in there somewhere, but they're certainly...
Yes, Abby too. Abby likes to plan.
And they don't do great if the plan has changed. Do great. They don't do that well.
But again, with two high, high shapers leading the pack, it's no one that they think that
of biosmosis.
Yeah, yes.
But the good thing about that is, is I hear that they know there's a plan.
If you're in a family where there's not a plan, that's dangerous.
That doesn't feel good as a person.
When the leaders lead, it feels comfortable and safe for the people that are in their
organization or in a family, you know, mom's leading, dad's leading, somebody's leading,
Somebody's got a good plan.
Well, there's comfort and their safety.
And there's the people that are in charge have a plan.
Right.
There's a shaper.
I know that.
Cause when you're in an organization where it feels like
leadership is weak, that feels insecure.
Yes.
I've been in that situation as well.
Where you're just like, what am I following?
You're bringing security to your family
by making a good plan.
So they always go, they know there's going to be a good plan.
when they go to bed at diet. I love that. There's a shaper. I love that.
Any other conflict points that your professional eye is catching?
No, you guys probably have very low cross talks. Based on this, you're probably somewhere in the
teens or lower. We don't see your numbers, but the fact that you're top three of the same and
your bottom one is the same, you've got a very low up. It's easy for you all to speak the same
language. You're speaking about what's the plan. You're thinking about, "Am I interested?   Fairness is our biggest conflict point.
Absolutely. It was the thing that came up in our healing week with the kill stress, our biggest
thing was fairness. Yeah, okay. Absolutely.
Well, the funny thing with the fairness thing was when I was when we went away and did our healing week
Chester and Betsy our ministry people who were doing the ministry they would give me homework and I just thought that was normal
Okay, I'd go home work side come home and I'd be like
Did you get homework and they just like no they just told me I need to sleep more and of course
My fair thing is like they told you what?
all week and I was trying to get homework because I was aware this wasn't going to be a good scenario.
And so I would say to them, like, "But Alan's doing homework. Do you want me to do homework?"
 Do you want me to read that again?"
You know, whatever. And they're like, "No, we just feel like the Lord just wants you to have a
season with just having some rest." And you know, whatever. I'm like, "Okay." And I'm thinking,
"This isn't going to be good." That was historically our thing.
when we'd go for marriage counseling or we'd go for ministry,
it would always be like, are you doing your share in ministry?
Like how much of your heart are you bearing?
Because I'm bearing my heart.
So yeah, fairness is a thing.
It's significantly better now than it was then, but it's still,
you know, it's still appears.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think to worry about it.
What are some resources that I see that you brought some books with you? What are some resources that would help people?

You know, we have a track record, I think, if you listen to our podcast, we are all about people getting healing.
But I also know because we have had friends, we have helped connect people from all over the world who've flown to Franklin, Tennessee
to receive ministry from you guys.
So I know that you minister to people all of the time.
And I will say that the guys, no matter what state your marriage is in or no matter
what state your life is in, you certainly don't need to be married to receive
ministry from RTF.
And also it's worth saying you don't need to fly to Franklin, Tennessee.
There's RTF trained ministers all over the world.
However, if you want the best, they're called Mike and Phyllis best for a reason.
But you know, so yes, of course, book an appointment, come and get
some ministry from these guys, it would be well worth the investment in your life and
your marriage.
Aside from that, we'll talk about how people can get in contact with you in a second.
What are some resources that you would really recommend people would sink their teeth into?
One of them is speaking of love, which is the book on life languages by Fred and Anna
Kendall that we've been talking about so much.
That book really goes in depth.
When you take the profile, you get a lot of information already, but the book talks about
just every aspect of the life language, even how they decorate their room, what they like
to do on vacation, how they like sex.

Another one is the Seven Love Agreements by Douglas Weiss.
It's just basic tools that you can use to strengthen your marriage.
And so every week or so you'll take one principle like patience and work on that and there's
some specific exercises.
So that's a real practical book that you can order.
And the other one that we really love is 10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage and it's
by John Gottman.
The Gottman's are premier marriage researchers and they just have practical tools for communication,
for dealing with when you think that you're in a no-win situation and there absolutely
is no answer to whatever situation you're in.
And so it's just a really good, another really good book just for practical information.
That's at sex and output links to all those resources in the show notes.
The question that we want to leave you is, how do people get a hold of you?
How do people want ministry from you?
What is the best way for people to get hold of you?
Probably the best way to get a hold of this is through email.
We have two email addresses, maybe three, but our two top ones for ministry are<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Phyllis, P-H-L-L-I-S at bestmarriage.us.
The third is RTF Nashville at gmail.com.
I will put links to all of those in the show notes.
What do people do?
They just email you and say, "Hey, I heard you in the podcast.
We'd love to talk to you about getting some ministering.
They just pick up a conversation from there.
Is that the best way?"
Yeah, that would be fantastic.
Say yes, we're interested in ministry.
a phone number so we can give you a call and we can contact you and set something up.
I'm not exaggerating when I've said that we've had people from outside the US from far away places
come to receive ministry. It's really by word of mouth, isn't it, that people come,
they have their marriage transformed, their life transformed, they go home and people are like,
"What happened to you?" They're like, "Well, I met this couple in Franklin, Tennessee."
and they're like, "Where?" Franklin, Tennessee. And of course, we've got great donuts. So you come,
you get ministered to this tremendous coffee, great restaurant.
Let's not forget the coffee donuts and acai bowls that are available here.
That's worth the trip right there.
Right there. Well, Mike and Phyllis, thank you so much for coming and being on the podcast and
dropping your bombs of wisdom about marriage and all things interhealing. We really, really,
They really appreciate it.
Thanks for the impromptu cross talks.
It's, you know, we'll work on those responder issues.
- Thank you so much for having us.
It's been a joy.
- A wonderful evening.
- If you want the show notes for this week's episode,
you can get them at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- We'd also like to invite you to the more conference
which is happening May 19th and 20th.
- Yeah, it's coming up fast.
- It is coming up fast.
We have Kale Mumbi coming to speak.
And then we have Callie Heiligenthal and Hunter Thompson
coming to lead worship.
- Yeah, they're both Bethel worship artists.
We're excited to have all three of those in our house.
Tickets are available at graceinner.us/more.
Speaking of events that are at Grace Center
that are of the life-changing nature,
our School of Supernatural Life,
the school that we just graduated this week,
we are now accepting applications
and we would love you to come applications
for the school this year, close June 15th.

- I also wanna remind you, if you have done this school
and you're thinking about year two
that we'd also love to have you on that.
- Oh, that would be great.
- It would be very good.
- Oh my gosh.
- We love year two, it's very fun.
- The book that Mike and Phyllis talked about
saying had the most impact on them in recent years
was Finding Father, written by the very good looking
and wonderfully beautiful,
AJ Jones sitting at the other end of this table for me.
- Oh, thanks babe.
- AJ's book is called Finding Father,
it's a 12 week study guide.
It is purposely written to lead you into greater intimacy with God.
You can pick up your own copy too and have your own life changing identity statements
by going to Allen and AJ.com.
Scroll to the bottom.
You'll see Finding Father There.
Thanks once again to Mike and Phyllis and thank you dear listener for tuning in.
We'll see you next week.
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Code Requirements¶
- Your code must be fully documented by doxygen style.
- Make sure the compiler option WITH_STYLE_CHECK is on and the compiler passes the code style check.
- All code must have unit test.
- Pass all unit tests.
The following tutorial guides you into submitting your contibution.
Creating a Fork¶
Just head over to the GitHub page and click the “Fork” button. It’s just that simple.
Clone¶
Paddle is currently using git-flow branching model. The develop is the main branch, and other user’s branches are feature branches.
Once you’ve created a fork, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or just head straight to the command line:
# Clone your fork to your local machine
git clone --branch develop https://github.com/USERNAME/Paddle.git
If your repository doesn’t contain develop branch, just create it by your own.
git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/Paddle.git Paddle
cd Paddle
git checkout -b develop # create develop branch.
git remote add upstream https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle.git # add upstream to baidu/Paddle
git pull upstream develop # update to upstream
Then you can start to develop by making a local developement branch
git checkout -b MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH
Using pre-commit
hook¶
Paddle developers use pre-commit tool to manage git
pre-commit hooks. It can help us format source codes (cpp, python), check some
basic thing before commit (only one EOL for each file, do not add a huge file
in git). pre-commit
tests is a part of unit tests in Travis-CI now, every
PR doesn’t fit hook can not be merged into Paddle.
To use pre-commit, you should install it by
pip install pre-commit
, and currently, Paddle uses clang-format
to format
c/cpp sources. Please make sure clang-format 3.8+ installed.
Then just run pre-commit install
in your Paddle clone directory. When you
commit your code, the pre-commit hook will check the local code if there is
anything not suitable to commit, and so on.
Commit¶
Commit your changes by following command lines:
# show the working tree status
git status
# add modified files
git add xx
env EDITOR=vim git commit # You can write your comments by vim/nano/emacs.
The first line of commit infomation is the title. The second and later lines are the details if any.
Keeping Fork Up to Date¶
Before pull your request, you should sync your code from the latest PaddlePaddle. To do this, you’ll need to add a remote at first:
# see the current configured remote repository
git remote -v
# add upstream repository
git remote add upstream https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle.git
# verify the new upstream
git remote -v
Update your fork with the latest upstream changes:
git pull --rebase upstream develop
If there are no unique commits locally, git will simply perform a fast-forward. However, if you have been making changes (in the vast majority of cases you probably shouldn’t be), you may have to deal with conflicts.
Now, your local master branch is up-to-date with everything modified upstream.
Push to GitHub¶
# push to your repository in Github
git push -u origin MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH # create remote branch MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH to origin.
Pull Request¶
Go to the page for your fork on GitHub, select your development branch, and click the pull request button.
Update your pull request with the lastest version¶
During the code review, your pull request may become stale because new commits in baidu/Paddle. GitHub allows autmotic update if there is no conflict. You can do this by clicking the “Update Branch” button in your pull request page. However, in the case of conflict, you need to do the update manually. You need to do the following on your local repository:
git checkout MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH
git pull upstream develop
# You may need to resolve the conflict according to the git prompt.
# Make and test your code.
git push origin MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH
Now your Pull Request is updated with the latest version.
Revise your pull request¶
When you revise your pull request according to reviewer’s comments, please use ‘git commit’ instead of ‘git commit –amend’ to commit your changes so that the reviewers can see the difference between the new pull requrest and the old pull request.
The possible commands are
git checkout MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH
git pull upstream develop # update local to newest code base.
# May be some conflicts will occured.
# And develop your cool stuff
env EDITOR=vim git commit # add your revise log
git push origin MY_COOL_STUFF_BRANCH


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The Akan people of Ghana frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born? These "day names" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name.
This naming tradition is shared throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. During the 18th–19th centuries, slaves in the Caribbean from the region that is modern-day Ghana were referred to as Coromantees. Many of the leaders of slave rebellions had "day names" including Cuffy or Kofi, Cudjoe or Kojo, and Quamina or Kwame/Kwamina.


| Function | beautify |
Undocumented |
| Function | generatefig |
Plot function values versus function evaluations for multiple sets. |
| Function | main |
Generate output image files of function values vs. function evaluations. |
| Function | plot |
Plot function values versus function evaluations. |
| Function | plot2 |
Plot function values versus function evaluations. |
| Variable | lineprops |
Undocumented |
Plot function values versus function evaluations.
Plus (+) markers for final function values and run lengths and dashed lines. Lines for the max and min and median.
Plot markers for all quartiles when: * the first run stops * the median run stops * the maximum number of evaluations is reached * at 1/2 of the first run stops


It's an example of Float property.
HTML stands for hypertext markup language. It is the most basic building bloc of the web. It defines the meaning and structure of web content.
Hypertext refers to links thats connect web pages to one another, either within a single website or between webites. HTML uses markup to annotate text, images, and other content for display in a web browser.


Anthony Hamilton pushing son Lewis to race for another "five or six" years in F1
by Matt GrettonAnthony Hamilton believes his son Lewis Hamilton can race in Formula 1 for at least another five years. Hamilton wrapped up his sixth Formula 1 title last weekend and is now chasing down Michael Schumacher's elusive total of seven.
Hamilton, who turns 35 in January, has another year left on his Mercedes contract but the British driver has said he is keen on working in 2021 and beyond. Hamilton's dad has provided Lewis with support and the determination needed throughout his career. His dad is now pushing him for five more years.
"Five to six years, that's where I'm pushing him. I said to Lewis you just have to keep going for as long as you really enjoy it. And if your body can keep up with it, then great, but if you're not enjoying it you know it's time to leave, but he loves the sport," Hamilton senior told Channel 4.
"He’s on his plant-based diet which I think really does work for him, it’s worked for a lot of other athletes in the past. But I think the key is he will leave here [Austin], we’ll go home and he’ll probably be into his fashion or something else. He won’t be focusing on motorsport until he has to come back to the factory or the race circuit, and I think that’s what keeps him fresh."


Autoregressive models
We begin our study into generative modeling with autoregressive models. As before, we assume we are given access to a dataset of -dimensional datapoints . For simplicity, we assume the datapoints are binary, i.e., .
Representation
By the chain rule of probability, we can factorize the joint distribution over the -dimensions as
where denotes the vector of random variables with index less than .
The chain rule factorization can be expressed graphically as a Bayesian network.
Such a Bayesian network that makes no conditional independence assumptions is said to obey the autoregressive property. The term autoregressive originates from the literature on time-series models where observations from the previous time-steps are used to predict the value at the current time step. Here, we fix an ordering of the variables and the distribution for the -th random variable depends on the values of all the preceding random variables in the chosen ordering .
If we allow for every conditional to be specified in a tabular form, then such a representation is fully general and can represent any possible distribution over random variables. However, the space complexity for such a representation grows exponentially with .
To see why, let us consider the conditional for the last dimension, given by . In order to fully specify this conditional, we need to specify a probability for configurations of the variables . Since the probabilities should sum to 1, the total number of parameters for specifying this conditional is given by . Hence, a tabular representation for the conditionals is impractical for learning the joint distribution factorized via chain rule.
In an autoregressive generative model, the conditionals are specified as parameterized functions with a fixed number of parameters. That is, we assume the conditional distributions to correspond to a Bernoulli random variable and learn a function that maps the preceding random variables to the mean of this distribution. Hence, we have
where denotes the set of parameters used to specify the mean function .
The number of parameters of an autoregressive generative model are given by . As we shall see in the examples below, the number of parameters are much fewer than the tabular setting considered previously. Unlike the tabular setting, however, an autoregressive generative model cannot represent all possible distributions. Its expressiveness is limited by the fact that we are limiting the conditional distributions to correspond to a Bernoulli random variable with the mean specified via a restricted class of parameterized functions.
In the simplest case, we can specify the function as a linear combination of the input elements followed by a sigmoid non-linearity (to restrict the output to lie between 0 and 1). This gives us the formulation of a fully-visible sigmoid belief network (FVSBN).
where denotes the sigmoid function and denote the parameters of the mean function. The conditional for variable requires parameters, and hence the total number of parameters in the model is given by . Note that the number of parameters are much fewer than the exponential complexity of the tabular case.
A natural way to increase the expressiveness of an autoregressive generative model is to use more flexible parameterizations for the mean function, e.g. multi-layer perceptrons (MLP). For example, consider the case of a neural network with 1 hidden layer. The mean function for variable can be expressed as
where denotes the hidden layer activations for the MLP and are the set of parameters for the mean function . The total number of parameters in this model is dominated by the matrices and given by .
The Neural Autoregressive Density Estimator (NADE) provides an alternate MLP-based parameterization that is more statistically and computationally efficient than the vanilla approach. In NADE, parameters are shared across the functions used for evaluating the conditionals. In particular, the hidden layer activations are specified as
where is the full set of parameters for the mean functions . The weight matrix and the bias vector are shared across the conditionals. Sharing parameters offers two benefits:
-
The total number of parameters gets reduced from to [readers are encouraged to check!].
-
The hidden unit activations can be evaluated in time via the following recursive strategy:
with the base case given by .
Extensions to NADE
The RNADE algorithm extends NADE to learn generative models over real-valued data. Here, the conditionals are modeled via a continuous distribution such as a equi-weighted mixture of Gaussians. Instead of learning a mean function, we know learn the means and variances of the Gaussians for every conditional. For statistical and computational efficiency, a single function outputs all the means and variances of the Gaussians for the -th conditional distribution.
Notice that NADE requires specifying a single, fixed ordering of the variables. The choice of ordering can lead to different models. The EoNADE algorithm allows training an ensemble of NADE models with different orderings.
Learning and inference
Recall that learning a generative model involves optimizing the closeness between the data and model distributions. One commonly used notion of closeness is the KL divergence between the data and the model distributions.
Before moving any further, we make two comments about the KL divergence. First, we note that the KL divergence between any two distributions is asymmetric. As we navigate through this chapter, the reader is encouraged to think what could go wrong if we decided to optimize the reverse KL divergence instead. Secondly, the KL divergences heavily penalizes any model distribution which assigns a low probability to a datapoint that is likely to be sampled under . In the extreme case, if the density evaluates to zero for a datapoint sampled from , the objective evaluates to .
Since does not depend on , we can equivalently recover the optimal parameters via maximizing likelihood estimation.
Here, is referred to as the log-likelihood of the datapoint with respect to the model distribution .
To approximate the expectation over the unknown , we make an assumption: points in the dataset are sampled i.i.d. from . This allows us to obtain an unbiased Monte Carlo estimate of the objective as
The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) objective has an intuitive interpretation: pick the model parameters that maximize the log-probability of the observed datapoints in .
In practice, we optimize the MLE objective using mini-batch gradient ascent. The algorithm operates in iterations. At every iteration , we sample a mini-batch of datapoints sampled randomly from the dataset () and compute gradients of the objective evaluated for the mini-batch. These parameters at iteration are then given via the following update rule
where and are the parameters at iterations and respectively, and is the learning rate at iteration . Typically, we only specify the initial learning rate and update the rate based on a schedule. Variants of stochastic gradient ascent, such as RMS prop and Adam, employ modified update rules that work slightly better in practice.
From a practical standpoint, we must think about how to choose hyperparameters (such as the initial learning rate) and a stopping criterion for the gradient descent. For both these questions, we follow the standard practice in machine learning of monitoring the objective on a validation dataset. Consequently, we choose the hyperparameters with the best performance on the validation dataset and stop updating the parameters when the validation log-likelihoods cease to improve1.
Now that we have a well-defined objective and optimization procedure, the only remaining task is to evaluate the objective in the context of an autoregressive generative model. To this end, we substitute the factorized joint distribution of an autoregressive model in the MLE objective to get
where now denotes the collective set of parameters for the conditionals.
Inference in an autoregressive model is straightforward. For density estimation of an arbitrary point , we simply evaluate the log-conditionals for each and add these up to obtain the log-likelihood assigned by the model to . Since we know the conditioning vector , each of the conditionals can be evaluated in parallel. Hence, density estimation is efficient on modern hardware.
Sampling from an autoregressive model is a sequential procedure. Here, we first sample , then we sample conditioned on the sampled , followed by conditioned on both and and so on until we sample conditioned on the previously sampled . For applications requiring real-time generation of high-dimensional data such as audio synthesis, the sequential sampling can be an expensive process. Later in this course, we will discuss how parallel WaveNet, an autoregressive model sidesteps this expensive sampling process.
Finally, an autoregressive model does not directly learn unsupervised representations of the data. In the next few lectures, we will look at latent variable models (e.g., variational autoencoders) which explicitly learn latent representations of the data.
Footnotes
-
Given the non-convex nature of such problems, the optimization procedure can get stuck in local optima. Hence, early stopping will generally not be optimal but is a very practical strategy. ↩


President Higgins signs gift voucher legislation into law
by Jack QuannPresident Michael D Higgins has signed legislation, which gives consumers extra protection when buying or using gift vouchers, into law.
The Office of the President says the Consumer Protection (Gift Vouchers) Bill 2018 has accordingly become law.
It will see gift vouchers have an expiry date of at least five years from the date of contract.
Where a gift voucher contract does not include an expiry, a term of five years would automatically be applied.
While users of gift vouchers will not be required to spend the full value of the voucher in a single transaction.
The cancellation of gift vouchers, or the imposition of charges if a recipient's name is registered incorrectly, is also banned.
And a gift voucher will not contain a term that places a limit on the number of gift vouchers a person is allowed to redeem in a single transaction.
Speaking back in December 2018, Business Minister Heather Humphreys said: "By having a set five-year expiry date on all gift vouchers, we will provide certainty to everyone involved.
"This has been a real bugbear for people for many years and, of course, it's particularly relevant now in the run up to Christmas when many of us will buy gift vouchers for family and friends."
The minister had also sought to deal with the issue of fees for the replacement of gift vouchers and for 'inactive balances', commonly known as maintenance fees.
But a number of legal issues on foot of advice from the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of Parliamentary Council were presented.
The minister said rather than delay the bill, she decided to progress it without this provision.


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Node is a Javascript runtime
... so it runs Javascript
V8 engine like in Google Chrome
Comes with special libraries and tools to make life easy
console.log('Hello World');
^ save into bacon.js
node bacon.js
It's a framework
-Benjamin Franklin
but!
Library = you are in control
Example: jQuery
Framework = framework controls you
Examples: Rails (Ruby), Laravel (PHP), Express (Node.js)
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
// TODO: party
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(port);
console.log('Listening at port', port); // so that you know the code's running
app.get('/test', function(req, res, next) {
res.send("It's working!");
});
node server.js
Is run "in the middle" of something, as kind of a side effect
For example, on every web request:
app.use(function() {
console.log('I was just run as middleware');
});
Go back to /test
console.log() worked but page didn't load. WTF?
next(), please
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
console.log('I was just run as middleware');
next(); // continue to next middleware
});
Goal: serve up static content from filesystem
function handleStaticFiles(req, res, next) {
if (thereIsFile(req.fileName)) {
renderFile(req.fileName);
}
else {
next(); // continue with next middleware
}
}
app.use(handleStaticFiles); // register the funciton as middleware
The code has already been written (yay 4 frameworks)
You just need to tell Express to use it:
app.use(express.static('public'));
"What about my Icefire project?! :("
-Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Let's use POST (privacy, yay)
method="POST"
action="/submit"
app.post('/submit', function(req, res, next) {
res.send('You submitted the form!');
});
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
npm i --save body-parser
Register it as middleware:
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })); // copy-paste from GitHub docs
app.post('/submit', function(req, res, next) {
// req.body contains the data sent via POST
console.log(req.body);
res.send('You submitted the form!');
});
app.post('/submit', function(req, res, next) {
res.json(req.body);
});


Kitchener man arrested after robberies involving food delivery drivers
Police have received 11 reports of robberies since May 2019, all targeting food delivery drivers in Kitchener
by Mark PareA 22-year old Kitchener man has been arrested in connection to a slew of robberies in Kitchener.
Regional Police say they have received 11 reports of robbery since May 2019, all of them targeting people delivering food in the Kitchener area.
Police made the arrest sometime on Friday.
No name has been released.


LIAR LIAR (1997) A movie review by Serdar Yegulalp (C) 1997 by Serdar Yegulalp
CAPSULE: Side-splitting comedy that follows its own merciless logic almost through to the end... but not without providing a good deal of genuine laughs.
Most comedies these days have one flaw. They're not funny. They think they're funny, but they are devoid of anything really penetrating or dastardly. Occasionally a good funny movie sneaks past the deadening Hollywood preconceptions of humor and we get a real gem: RUTHLESS PEOPLE, for instance, which established a microcosm of a setup and played it out to the bitter end.
LIAR LIAR is built the same way and is just about as funny. This is one of the few movies I've seen where I was laughing consistently almost all the way through: instead of a couple of set-pieces that inspired a laugh (think of the dismal FATAL INSTINCT), the whole movie works like clockwork.
Jim Carrey playes a high-powered lawyer, to whom lying is as natural as breathing. There is one thing he takes seriously, though: his son, and we can sense the affection that they have for each other right away. But his wife is divorced and seeing another man, and now it looks like they may move away together. The son goes with them, of course.
The movie sets up this early material with good timing and a remarkable balance of Jim Carrey's over-the-top persona with reality. Then the plot springs into action: after being snubbed (not deliberately) by his father at his birthday, the kid makes a wish as he blows out the birthday candles: that for just one day, Dad can't lie. He gets the wish.
What happens next is sidesplitting. Everything turns into a confrontation: when cornered by a bum for some change, he shouts, "No! I'm not giving you any money because I know you'll spend it on booze! All I want to do is to get to the office without having to step over the debris of our decaying society!" He can't even get into an elevator without earning a black eye. And what's worse, he's now gotten himself into an expensive divorce settlement that requires him to twist the truth like abstract wire sculpture.
Carrey, who I used to find unfunny, has gotten better at his schtick, even if it's a limited one. He uses it to great effect in this movie. There is a scene where he tries to test his ability to lie and nearly demolishes his office in the process (there's a grin breaking out across my face right now, just remembering the scene). He can't even WRITE the lie; his fingers twitch, his body buckles like someone in the throes of cyanide poisoning, and when he tries to talk it's like he's speaking in tongues. Equally funny is a scene where he beats himself to a pulp (don't ask why), tries to drink water to keep from having outbursts in the courtroom (it fails, with semi-predictable results), and winds up biting the bullet when he gets called into the boardroom to have everyone ask what they think of them. This scene alone may force people to stop the tape for minutes on end.
The movie sustains its laughs and also its flashes of insight until almost the end. A shame, too, because the movie insists on having a big, ridiculous climax that involves Carrey's character flagging down a plane using a set of motorized stairs, then breaking his leg, etc. A simple reconciliation would do the trick.  It's not even part of the movie's real agenda. Thankfully, LIAR LIAR survives it, and so does Carrey. Maybe they were being merciful, on reflection. If I'd laughed any more, I might have needed an iron lung.
Three and a half out of four... STARS! Because stars are so much less pretentious than those other rating system gimmicks!
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the_queue module¶
-
class
the_queue.
TheQueue
(head, publisher)[source]¶ Bases:
object
TheQueue class-converted from js dict in Planner.js into a python class
TheQueue class is used to hold the array of groups contained in a protocol instruction and process them iteratively.
The robot_protocol file is an array of instructions.
- An instruction is an array of groups + a specified tool which executes
- the group.
- A group can be defined as the lifecycle of a tip. Each group holds
- a single command.
- A command is one of the following:
- Transfer; Consolodate; Distribute; Mix
- The instructionQueue iteratively selects an instruction in the
- robot_protocol array and passes it to theQueue object along with the specified tool(pipette). The theQueue object iteratively processes the groups in the instruction until theQueue is empty, which triggers the InstructionQueue to select the next instruction. All protocol processing stops when the instructionQueue is empty.
- TheQueue object holds the groups contained in the instruction in a
- FIFO array called qlist. When a ‘{stat:0}’ is received from the smoothieAPI object, TheQueue pops off the next group in qlist, passing the command to the smoothieAPI.
qlist
- List that holds the commandsTodo: - Use a dictionary object, similar to
subscriber.Subscriber.dispatcher
, to process commands with head’s microcontroller –> promote modularity, enable dictionary to be swapped in/out and linked with microcontroller being used (could be other than Smoothieboard)
- Use a dictionary object, similar to
Remove redundant methods
-
erase_job
(data)[source]¶ Call
clear()
... redundant, consider removing, and why does it have unused data parameter???
-
sent_successfully
()[source]¶ Callback to be passed to smoothieAPI (
smoothie_ser2net
) inhead
objectNote
NOT ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTED YET
-
step
(just_started)[source]¶ Pop a command from
qlist
and process it via smoothieAPI (smoothie_ser2net
) object inhead
Todo: 1. Use a dictionary object, similar to
subscriber.Subscriber.dispatcher
, to process commands with head’s microcontroller –> promote modularity, enable dictionary to be swapped in/out and linked with microcontroller being used (could be other than Smoothieboard)


HttpRpcClient |
HttpRpcClient is meant to run outside of Corda Node JVM and provide connectivity to a node using the HTTP-RPC protocol. Since Corda Node can expose multiple RPC interfaces through HTTP, it is required to specify which RPCOps interface should be used. class HttpRpcClient<I : RPCOps> : AutoCloseable |
HttpRpcConnection |
Represents a logical connection to the HTTP RPC server which may go up and down. The proxy object can be used to make remote calls using the interface methods. interface HttpRpcConnection<out I : RPCOps> |
HttpRpcConnectionListener |
Can be attached to HttpRpcClient to be informed about connection and disconnection events. interface HttpRpcConnectionListener<I : RPCOps> |


.jsx
(although you can use `.vue`)One instance, one or multiple components
vm
, for view model
new Vue({
el: '.js-instance',
name: 'vue-instance',
data() {
return {
greeting: 'Hello DotNed!',
question: 'Whats up?',
};
},
});
{{ greeting }}
{{ question }}
At high level, components are custom elements that Vue’s compiler attaches behavior to
Vue
instance, or in a parent component
Vue.component('my-custom-component', {
data() {
return {
weather: 'Sunny',
},
},
props: {
name: {
default: 'John Doe',
},
},
});
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Recipe 4.10. Adding an Entry to a DictionaryCredit: Alex Martelli, Martin Miller, Matthew Shomphe ProblemWorking with a dictionary d, you need to use the entry d[k] when it's already present, or add a new value as d[k] when k isn't yet a key in d. SolutionThis is what the setdefault method of dictionaries is for. Say we're building a word- to-page-numbers index, a dictionary that maps each word to the list of page numbers where it appears. A key piece of code in that application might be: def addword(theIndex, word, pagenumber): theIndex.setdefault(word, [ ]).append(pagenumber) This code is equivalent to more verbose approaches such as: def addword(theIndex, word, pagenumber): if word in theIndex: theIndex[word].append(pagenumber) else: theIndex[word] = [pagenumber] and: def addword(theIndex, word, pagenumber): try: theIndex[word].append(pagenumber) except KeyError: theIndex[word] = [pagenumber] Using method setdefault simplifies this task considerably. DiscussionFor any dictionary d, d.setdefault(k, v) is very similar to d.get(k, v), which was covered previously in Recipe 4.9. The essential difference is that, if k is not a key in the dictionary, the setdefault method assigns d[k]=v as a side effect, in addition to returning v. (get would just return v, without affecting d in any way.) Therefore, consider using setdefault any time you have get-like needs, but also want to produce this side effect on the dictionary. setdefault is particularly useful in a dictionary with values that are lists, as detailed in Recipe 4.15. The most typical usage for setdefault is something like: somedict.setdefault(somekey, [ ]).append(somevalue) setdefault is not all that useful for immutable values, such as numbers. If you just want to count words, for example, the right way to code is to use, not setdefault, but rather get: theIndex[word] = theIndex.get(word, 0) + 1 since you must rebind the dictionary entry at theIndex[word] anyway (because numbers are immutable). But for our word-to page-numbers example, you definitely do not want to fall into the performance trap that's hidden in the following approach: def addword(theIndex, word, pagenumber): theIndex[word] = theIndex.get(word, [ ]) + [pagenumber] This latest version of addword builds three new lists each time you call it: an empty list that's passed as the second argument to theIndex.get, a one-item list containing just pagenumber, and a list with N+1 items obtained by concatenating these two (where N is the number of times that word was previously found). Building such a huge number of lists is sure to take its toll, in performance terms. For example, on my machine, I timed the task of indexing the same four words occurring once each on each of 1,000 pages. Taking the first version of addword in the recipe as a reference point, the second one (using try/except) is about 10% faster, the third one (using setdefault) is about 20% slowerthe kind of performance differences that you should blissfully ignore in just about all cases. This fourth version (using get) is four times slowerthe kind of performance difference you just can't afford to ignore. See AlsoRecipe 4.9; Recipe 4.15; Library Reference and Python in a Nutshell documentation about dict. |


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A family friend of a 5-year-old who survived after being thrown from a third-story balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota says the boy is back in school and walking without a limp.
Noah Hanneman posted on a GoFundMe page that the boy, named Landen, was released from the hospital in early August and is “now walking PERFECTLY with even legs.”
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