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Welcome to episode 289 of Keeping Up with the Joneses.
I'm here with the Bearded Wonder, Mr. Alan Jones.
I love that's my new name.
The Bearded Wonder?
You had coffee with a friend this morning
who I don't think I'd seen since before Christmas.
Maybe.
And she was like, I really like your beard.
I keep forgetting I have it.
And then she asked if I liked it.
Which is a good question.
- Do you like the beard?
- I do, I guess.
(laughs)
I know it doesn't sound convincing, does it?
- What's your argument for in a game?
- I think it looks handsome.
- Yeah.

- Yeah, I don't like that my hairs go up my nose.
I'm actually thinking of shaving it off.
- You are?
- No, I think so.
I might actually just trim it down and see if I can do it.
- No, no, no, no, 'cause I remember the last time.
So a couple, the last time you grew a beard,
and then you like shaved it down to various horrific versions.
- Oh, I wasn't thinking of that.
I was thinking of like keeping it as it is,
but like this is right now a three,
like I went over it with a beard trimmer, a three.
So maybe taking it down to a two,
with this like,
- Okay.
- Tiding up a little bit.
- Okay, that's okay.
- Okay, that's okay.
Quickly, move from the beard discussion
to a weekly catch up.
We've had an interesting week.
- We have.
episode is a week late.
- It is.
And do you wanna say why?
- I really like having COVID.
- I managed just to be an overachiever.
- You are.
- Yeah.
- You know, in our family, we've only had COVID once.
And I thought, you know what?
Let's go for it a second time.
- You like to lead the pack?
- Well, let's hope we're not leading the pack.
- No.
- I got COVID for the second time.
And you can still hear, I don't know if you can still hear
a little rasp in my voice.
It was so nondescript that I didn't even take a COVID test
until what, three or four days in.
- Yeah.
I was like, "Dell, why don't you take a COVID test?"
I'm like, "Yeah, sure, I'll take a COVID test."
Because I--
- I just like to say that the day before that,
I suggested you take a COVID test.
And you went, "Is that COVID?"
And you're like, "The deeper."
- I don't, you and I remember that.
Interchange very differently.
- Okay, it was the deep, I must say, your voice
when you have a cold and it's all deep, it's like,
(growls)
- Well, I did have a voice.
My primary symptoms, I had a voice that Barry White.
- It's not COVID, I don't have a fever.
I'm like, oh, okay, Dr. Jones.
- Turns out, apparently, you can't just guess
whether you have COVID now.
I took a COVID test. - I think that's a rule, yeah.
- How did COVID went straight into isolation for--
- How did COVID?
- What did I say?
- He said I took a COVID test, how did COVID?
- I had a COVID.
- Well, the thing is, I didn't have any,
I didn't have a fever.
- Yeah.
- It does make me think,
it does make me wonder how many people
who have cold right now actually have COVID.
- The vid.
- And they're not aware of that.
- Yeah.
- I had no fever.
I had a sore throat for the first day
and then it went.
But it's the usual thing, like, do I have a sore throat?
Just because I didn't sleep well, two nights in a row.
Oh, look, my sore throat vanished overnight.
Like I slept and I didn't have a sore throat the next day.
Then I had the mother of all congestion,
I thought it was a cold.
Anyway, turns out I had COVID.

But not sick enough that I couldn't enjoy the benefits
of being in bed, watching TV, video, playing video.
- Right, right, well put on Wednesday,
which was your first day of sort of symptoms.
- Yeah.
- I knew that something goes up
when about 10 o'clock in the morning,
you left your desk and you went,
I just don't kind of feel myself.
And I think at that point,
one of the things I'll sidebar on this one,
one of the things I love about this house
is that we have a huge guest room upstairs.
- Yes.
- That is separate.
- Yes.
- And so. - It's very easy for us to isolate.
- The second that one of us goes,
"Huh, I just don't quite feel myself or I don't, you know, whatever.

So we always divide.
So it was literally, I think 10 o'clock in the morning when you're like, "I just don't
know how I feel.
I just went and grabbed my pillow and walked upstairs."
I was like, "And we're done."
Yeah, we're pretty good.
We're pretty good at isolation.
So none of the rest of us got it.
- Nobody else got it.
- No, we just kinda locked you in a room.
- Yep.
Well, I don't really need to come out of the room.
You would bring me food.
- Yes.
- And you would make it like small enough
that it would just slide under the door.
So I've lived on craft singles.
- That's not true.
I've made you soups and all kinds of things.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I basically stay in my room.
- Just you had tray service to your room.
- I had tray service.
I have fast internet.
I have a PS5 and an Nintendo Switch
in my bedroom.

- There's no real reason to leave.
- Yeah, yeah.
The other main headlining event was COVID was one.
The other was we're under a winter weather advisory.
- Yes.
- Kids have been off school the last couple of days.
- Yes, they went today late start,
but I was really surprised by that
'cause there's ice everywhere still.
- Two hour late start, which causes chaos.
But I have loved having the kids home.
- I know, they're so fine.
- I loved having the kids home the last couple of days.
- Yeah.
- Probably because I was quarantined in my room,
I didn't have to be with them.
But no, I'm kidding.
- We loved having them home
'cause I was dealing with it.
No, there's-- - It was lovely
having them home.
I really enjoyed that.
Yeah, the weather has been all over the place.
Our trees look amazing though.
- They do.
Actually, I wanna go take some pictures of them.
- I went out to be at the bus stop with MJ today
'cause you picked up tourist letters.
And if you just stand still, you can hear--
- The crackling.
- The crackling of the ice on the trees.
It sounds amazing.
- That's very cool.
- And then anything else?
Like, I mean, my week was inside of a room.
What was your week like?
- Well, I mean, once we knew you had COVID,
I kind of canceled a bunch of things
'cause I was supposed to get to see a whole bunch of people,
but I just, it just in the effort of,
in case I have it and just don't know or whatever,
I don't wanna spread it,
especially since a lot of people I would hang out
with have babies or, you know, whatever.
So that slowed down the week quite a bit.
So mostly I just painted in.
- Yeah, you've been painting like a storm.
- Yeah.
- Like a storm?
- Is that an expression?
- You've been painting a lot.
- I've been painting a lot.
- I love painting.
- If we don't know where mommy is,
She's in the basement painting and I now have to layer up.
It's been so cold that I'm layering up.
Or especially in the middle of an ice storm.
Yeah.
Freezing.
Yeah, so cold.
I was curious as, you know, I've been out this week
with the week before and I got sick at the end
when we, end of the week when we usually record an episode.
I was thinking about how in one sense our life
hasn't changed that much because we're still
pastoring people even though we're not pastors at a church.
Like most of our week is still spent meeting with people,
talking to people, helping people, helping people,
helping people process.
- Yes.
- And I just thought that was,
'cause usually when we come and record these episodes,
I just sit down and open up my calendar and go,
what was our weekly update?
And I look at our week and I'm like,
oh, yeah, we did a lot of that stuff.
- Yeah, yeah.
- How do you feel about that?
- I mean, I feel fine about that.
There are people we've invested years of relationship with.
- Yeah.
- So I feel great.
- They're not equal.
(laughs)
He just pulled the strings.
For those of you listening,
- Out of my hoodie and the strings are in equal.
- She had one string that was tucked
and that was off me.
- Well, it was leaning over.
- Okay, there you go, it's equal, it's perfect.
Okay, just don't touch it.
- I'm fine.
- Everything's fine.
- I was painting in this shirt yesterday,
which I shouldn't be 'cause I tend to get paint all over them,
but I was, and so I tuck those strings in.
- When I look over to the part of the basement
that you paint in.
- Yes.
- But yes.
- This paint all over the floor.
- There it is.
(laughs)
But what part of the painting process is that?
- It will be.
The paint that's all over the floor is from this spinner.
The like lazy Susan thing that I made.
And like it just peels off the floor, it's acrylic paint.
- Does it peel off the floor itself?
- It's not self-feeling now.
But Tia enjoys peeling it off the floor.
- You're blaming on that, 13 year old.
- So I left it for her.
Yeah, yeah.
- Very good.
- The other thing we did this week
as we launched the Finding Father Spring School.
- We did. - Never mouthful.
Tell the good people all about the school.
- Well, the goal of the school
and getting to do it together is basically
to learn how to hear God's voice or sharpen that
if we already know how to hear his voice,
experience more of God's love.
And to figure out together, well, how do we live from there?
How do we live from there and live in peace?
So that's what we're gonna do together.
And basically to join the school,
all you need is a copy of the book
and a copy of the teachings,
which you can get all of that on the website.
And then you would join me for a live call
every other week.
And we just processed together,
I help you with anything where you might be getting stuck.
And yeah.
- I was looking, we did it three years ago.
We called it the final final summer school
'cause you did it in summer.
- Yes, yes.
- I had a great time.
- It was so fun.
I mean, I looked forward to it a lot.
And then I got, I got mono in the middle of it, didn't I?

Yeah, I stood in for you.
If you have done the school previously,
or if you've enrolled in the Finding Father video course,
and you would like to get in on this cohort
of students going through it,
if you want to meet with AJ on Saturdays
for the live coaching part, you can still do that too.
You should have got an email if you're,
if you're a previous student of either the summer school
or the Finding Father video course,
you can get in on that.
But for anybody who wants to get in on it,
if you go to findingfather.school,
that you can find the links, all the information you need.
- So good. - So good.
- And it closes February 20th.
- February 20th, yep. - So, don't delay.
- So our topic for this week.
- Yes, ma'am. - Is dealing with anxiety.
- I thought that we'd look at anxiety
from a three prong perspective.
- Okay. - So I thought we'd look at it
from a spiritual perspective.
- Yes.
- I think we'll look at it from an emotional perspective.
And then I wanna look at it from physical,
kind of like a brain science perspective.
- Love it.
- Because I think I know you have been in church meetings
where everybody treats a subject as purely dualistic.
It's either God or it's the devil of work.
- Right.
- Which sometimes leads us into error.
- Yeah, for sure.
- 'Cause not everything is a demon hiding behind a rock.
- Right.
- Sometimes we can completely ignore the spiritual perspective.
- Yeah. - And I think there's actual wisdom
when we step back and in year two of "S.O.S.L."
I remember I started teaching on brain science
'cause I was fascinated looking at the neurochemical components
of what we previously talked about as emotional
or spiritual events. - Mm-hmm.
- And I actually be able to say,
"Oh, look, you can see through brain imaging
what the brain physiologically looks like
when this stuff is happening."
So anyway, I wanna talk about anxiety.
Think it's super important.
We were talking earlier, we've both got an interesting history
with the topic of anxiety.
- Well, the other thing I was thinking is
when you were just talking about,
I wanna look at it from a spiritual perspective
and then, let's look at it from these three perspectives.
I was thinking, well, it makes a lot of sense
'cause we are actually, we are three in one.
We are spirit, we are soul, we are body.
So it makes sense to look at all of those components
'cause I think often we don't, as you say.
We just want to assign it to it's bad or it's good or it, you know, whatever.
I also think there's a tremendous amount of shame for believers around even saying that you might be
having anxiety. So that's why I love that we're going to talk about it. Yeah.
Do you want to talk about your relationship with anxiety?
Well, I was saying it's so funny because we can all have our own perceptions about what we're
like. And so I actually said to you, this is how I feel I am. Do you think that that's accurate?
'cause you're the person that spends the most time with me.
But I would say I'm not a particularly anxious person.
Like I, that's not my first response.
It takes quite a bit for me to arrive at anxiety.
Like I have a hard time thinking of times
when I've been anxious.
- Yeah, I was doing some quick back in the envelope math.
I think I've only experienced you in anxiety twice
in my life.
- 18, 19 years.
- Maybe I'm gonna add that to three
'cause I just remembered another event.
- You did? - Yeah.
- Which one?
- When you were in a payphone
and you had a family member who was in crisis,
but I didn't think it was crisis when we were dating
and it was triggering your old familial patterns
of being family glue.
And I was just like, okay, we're gonna breeze right now
and we're not gonna rush to rescue.
Do you remember that?
- No, I don't remember it all.
I probably blocked it out.
(laughing)
- But even then, we're talking like less than five times
in 20 years of knowing you.
have I seen you anxious?
Like even in all the stuff that we've been through,
we've been through a lot, a lot of crisis.
I think even times when we're,
I remember one time we were at an airport
and the plane that we were about to get on landed on fire.
And I would say we were both very calm in that situation,
but just watching you, you tend to be very calm
and you don't tend to go to anxiety.
- Do you remember the time we were on a plane
that was trying to land in Wellington, New Zealand
and the wind was too high and they tried to land
like several times.
- Only because you mentioned it.
I've never thought about that.
- That was horrific 'cause I can't be like the planes
coming in sideways and they were like, nope,
and they kept trying.
- But even, you would get a nervous flying,
which would be different than anxiety, I would say.
And we're maybe blurring some terms here.
- I don't enjoy flying.
- You don't like flying and you don't like turbulence.
Where I'm kind of like, egh, you know, about turbulence.
So yeah, you don't tend to be a very anxious person.
- No, I mean, I think when you said,
oh, we're gonna talk about anxiety.
I can think of one solid time when I remember thinking,
I'm, I don't know if this, if panic attacks are the same thing.
- Go and tell your panic attacks, sorry.
- But I felt like that's where I was headed, rapidly heading.
I think I've told it before, but it was when we were going
to Israel or we were in Israel and we were going down
to go through Hezekiah's tunnel.
- You don't have to explain what that is.
- So Hezekiah's tunnel is a tunnel
that is dug underneath David's city.
It was dug by two teams that miraculously
ended up meeting in the middle
so that when the Assyrians attacked,
they still had water.
I mean, it's like this, it's a really, really cool story,
but you can go down and walk through Hezekiah's tunnel.

Or teavas.
Like sandals, they're kind of like rubbery sandals, you know, that are attached to your
feet.
But anyway, so I don't like closed spaces.
That's part of why I don't like flying.
I don't think I put tunnel and closed spaces together maybe as quickly as I should have.

- Well, first of all,
(laughing)
the thought of what we're gonna do
didn't sound appealing at all.
Like, okay, you're gonna go through tunnels
that sometimes the waters are up to your chest
depending on the height of the water.
- No.
- This is what I read in the guide.
- I never read that.
(laughing)
I never would have signed up for that.
You will be wading through,
and then sometimes, like, I'm particularly broad shoulder.
Like, sometimes men won't fit through the tunnels
and you'll have to hunch up.
And right there, I'm like, no,
this does not sound like fun at all.
- Okay, I did not read any of that.
I just, Raimi told me that it's like ankle deep,
and it's, you know, you have to do it.
Never told me.
- But they didn't tell you that the water level
would fluctuate depending on how much rain was in the area.
- Yes, but they said like, then it might get up to,
in places like up to your calves.
They never set up to your chest.
- No, I saw like, oh, it could go from the middle
of your shins up to your chest, certainly hip height.
How deep was it for you when you went?
- Well, let's back up because you're--
- We enter.
- We enter.
- We get to where you have to see,
you have to drop down into this hole
to go into the tunnel and at that point you're committed.
There's no getting back out, right?
So you see it for, I can't see past you
and the kids are in between us.
- Are you blaming me for this?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, I just wanna know where the story goes.
But Tia sees it and goes, "Nope."

And then MJ Luxon goes, "Nope."
And so I was like, "Babe, it's okay.
"I'll take them to the dry route
"and I'll meet you at the other end, you know,
"whatever."
And I'm thinking, "Oh, oh God, okay."
You know, and then--
- And I went the dry route, and I'll tell you
that the dry route was supposed to be the easier thing.
There's no water, you're still walking through tunnels.
You know, it's a guide.
But I have a backpack on my back.

Yeah. You know, there was times when I wouldn't fit comfortably.
I did the dry route when I took the team and it's still, yeah, it's a little squishy,
but at least it's there's a lot of water.
There's no water and there's light.
And you're not going to drown. Right. Yeah.
So there's that. Yeah, go back to your story.
But Alan also saw the sign that says this is a 40 minute walk in water in pitch black.

But when you get inside, it's so pitch dark
that you feel like you have a flare.
It's so bright this little time.
- I'm feeling anxiety with you describing the story
on a podcast.
So you willingly got into a hole with rushing water.
- I was the first one and Sarah,
our guide was like, yeah, you get in
and then we'll put Abby between us and I'll come last.
And I was like, okay.
And I didn't see the sign that said it was 40 minutes.
So I was like, I can do this, I can do this
'cause Abby really wanted to do it.
Otherwise, I would not have.
but I was like, I don't want, you know,
Abby to not do it because I'm afraid
and you know, that whole thing of like,
okay, even if you're afraid, just do it afraid, like go,
you know, how bad can this be?
Anyway, I drop in and it's waist deep
where you drop in and then you kind of come up with slant
and it's about knee deep and then it gets
to about ankle deep for the rest of it.
But it's freezing cold.
I mean, we did it in March.

And so Abby comes in and she comes out, you know,
of the deep part and then Sarah, and we start walking.
Well, I'm realizing I'm like forgetting how to breathe.
I'm so, it's so enclosed at times,
you're literally hunched over, like I was hunched over,
and the walls are hitting both my shoulders.
You mean it's so low that you're out of control.
- It's so low, yeah, and a couple of times
it's low enough that I was hitting parts on my spine
as I'm hunched over trying to get through it.
And the water off the walls is getting on your arms
and all that kind of stuff because--
- Yeah, this sounds like a nightmare.

And we're on our own, it's not like there's
a good, a million people with us, it's just the three of us.
Potential for all the disaster scenarios
to go through your head.
I'm just like, I know it's been standing for thousands of years,
but this will be the day when it falls
and I've killed my daughter.
You know, like I, and then I'm like,
and Abby's just seems to be doing fine.
Like I'll be like, so Abby, I'm trying to sound calm.
How you doing?
She's like, yeah, good.

And I'm like, okay.
And so I'm like praying in tongues,
constantly praying in tongues.
- Well, slow down for a second.
What are you feeling in your body as you're in there?
If you go back to that state.
- Oh, I'm, I'm.
- What do you feel?
What do I feel?
I was terrified.
I was literally shaking and I was having to coach myself
on breathing.
So you're having a step outside yourself
and soothe yourself.
So your heart rate is elevated.
Oh, I'm sure it was.
Your breathing is--
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm literally like, OK, what can I focus on?

And the rest is pitch black.

- Oh yeah, like, oh yeah, every nightmare scenario.
- Yeah.

And I literally was like, Jesus, just like,
if you would just get me out of this tunnel,
like I'll go anywhere.
You know, like I'm negotiating, I was great.
And then everyone's like, hey, and Abby's just like,
she's chatting away with Sarah and they're,
well, I didn't realize I was basically speed walking.
Like I need to get out of this tunnel now.
So we've been walking for about 10 minutes
and I'm thinking, 'cause I didn't see the sign.
Like how long is this tunnel?
'Cause I'm hoofing it through this tunnel.
And so I say to Sarah, like, and I'm trying to sound calm,
"Hey, Sarah, any idea how long this takes?"
And she's like, "Well, I've never walked it this fast before.
Normally it takes about 40 minutes,
but we might make it in 20."
(laughs)
I was just like, "Oh, dear God."
So we, I mean, we walk as fast as we possibly can.
And then about three quarters of the way in,
we come on the back of this German tour group
that are barely moving.
And I got to get out of this tunnel.
- You're like, come on, Lance, let's go, go, go.
- Go Hans, go.
And they're all like, look at the,
you know, you're listening to them talk about,
they might not evolve in German
'cause I could understand some of what they were saying.
No, you can't get past them.
- It's single file.
- Yeah, it's single file.
And so they're like walking real slow
and talking about like, look at this, you know,
seam of whatever kind of rock in here.
And I'm just like, this is all my nightmares come together.

I don't care.

And when we took the team the next year, I didn't go.
I was like, not doing it.
Did it once, did it for my daughter.
She said she had no idea.
- That you were freaking out.
- I was completely freaking out.
- Well, I remember, 'cause when you came out,
you started going through my backpack looking for liquor.
(laughing)
- You were like, there's gotta be some alcohol in here somewhere.
- Give me something.
- Yeah, you looked pale, you were speed talking,
talking a million miles away, you're claws.
- Yeah.

You were in a highly- - It took a while to regulate.
- Yeah.
- To regulate.
- You were like, all your nervous system
was fully present on account for.
- Oh yeah, and I remember later, we went back
and the kids just wanted to like, have a rest or whatever,
And I was like, I need to go walk.
Like I still felt so--
- Had so much adrenaline.

I don't know how that works in the old city,
but you're always going up the stairs.
But I just was like, I have to,
I'm still so keyed up from being--
- Yeah, sounds like you're right on the edge of a panic attack
there.
- Oh, I literally was saying to myself,
you cannot lose your mind.
What I wanted to do was just break down crying and stop.
And I was like, you don't have that option.

- Well, also thought you can't go back.
- You can't go back.
I mean, and it's dark, I mean, it's just, it's so dark.
And you're cold, I don't like being cold in the first place.
So it was just, it was a recipe for disaster.
- It's not a good time to mention that this episode
is sponsored by tourism for Israel.
(laughing)
- How can you imagine?
Go to Hezekiah's tunnel.
You'll love it to just kidding.
- Okay, well that's quite the primer, Frank.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh.
Well, I don't know where to start
because as you were describing your story,
I said that I want to talk about it
from a spiritual perspective, an emotional perspective,
and a physiological perspective.
I think I might start there with a physiological perspective.
- Yeah, because that's probably where I was camped.
- Well, there's a whole bunch.
If you look at anxiety from a neurobiological perspective,
which I am not a neuroscientist, like not even remotely.
- You like to pretend you are though.
- I like to pretend I'm a physician of any kind.
- Yeah, I know, you're just like,
"Hey, let me look at that, why?"
"That is what I want to see whatever it is."
No.
- Be that as it may, I am fascinated by knowledge
and learning new things. - Yes, yeah, yeah.
- So there's two neurotransmitters
that are believed to be involved directly with anxiety
in the human brain.
The first one is GABA,
which stands for gamma amino butric acid.
We'll just call it GABA from now on.
- Yes, please.
- And this is what's called an inhibitory neurotransmitter.
So this helps decrease the activity of neurons.
- Okay.
- The second one that we've probably all heard of is serotonin.
- Shall we call it Sarah?
- Yes, Sarah for sure.
- Gavin, Sarah, they're out for a walk together.
- And serotonin helps regulate mood and anxiety.
Yes. All right. So there's those two neurotransmitter work.
And then there's two areas of the brain that they think are active or,
or tend to be overactive in people with high anxiety. Yes.
The first part is the amygdala.
And that's probably what was firing hugely when you were in Hezekiah's tunnel.
Okay.
The amygdala is a part of the brain that controls the fight, flight,
freeze response. Yes. Right. And it sounds like you were in all three.
Rotating, even like seriously. And then that's probably what caused your boy
to speed up and walk and let's just get through this.
I'm gonna hold it together.

You have your daughter here.
But stay with your amygdala for a second.
That's the part that is your fight flight freeze,
the part of your brain.
The second part is the hypothalamic pituitary,
adrenal axis.
- It's very short for a bit.
There is, they call it the HPA axis.
- Okay.
- So the HPA axis is a system in the body
which is all about stress management.
When it's activated, it releases cortisol
which contributes to anxiety.
So you know how you said, I came home
because you just wanted to rest
and no, I needed to walk off all that adrenaline.
You probably had higher levels of cortisol
running through your body.
All right, so there is absolutely
a physical component to anxiety.
And I want to leave that aside for a second
because what we're going to do is we're going to talk
three of them. And then we're going to talk about an approach with all three in mind to
helping us deal with anxiety. Oh, that sounds good. Yeah. So there is a neurobiological
physiological, physiological, yes, of anxiety, for sure. Yes. Let me talk about the emotional
part of anxiety. Yeah. Our feelings expert friend, Dr. Chip Dodd, who's been on the show
before wrote a brilliant book called The Voice of the Heart and many others. He maintains
that every feeling has both a gift and an impairment.
That when we feel our feelings,
we receive the gift of that feeling.
When we refuse to feel a feeling,
we end up with an impairment that feeling.
So he says that anxiety is actually an impairment of fear.
That is when we refuse to be present with our fear,
when we refuse to feel our fear,
when we refuse to talk about our fear.
- A knowledge it.
- When we just push it down, we deny it's there.
It's kind of like holding a beach ball under water.
Eventually that thing's gonna spring up
And while we're suppressing our fear, while we're not talking about it, anxiety is the byproduct.
Yes.
Which is an interesting way of thinking about it emotionally.
Sure.
But it makes a lot of sense.
Oh, totally.
For sure, yeah.
Totally.
Now, before I'd done any feelings work, if I was listening to this podcast, I'd be
firing up an email to myself to say, "Ah-ah-ah."
Second Timothy one says that we don't have a spirit of fear, but we have a spirit of power,
love, and of a sound mind.
Yes.
Right?
Therefore, we don't need to be talking about this fear stuff and you know that's all fine.
just put a bandaid on it.
- But what's funny about that is that's actually
a fear response to fear.
- Oh yes.
- Right?
- Yeah.
- Because if you actually read that verse,
we can say, yeah, yeah, you're right.
We don't have a spirit of fear,
but we actually have power, we have love,
we have a sound mind.
Those three combined allows us to be present
with what might be scary and we'll still be okay.
- Yeah.
- Like we won't receive a spirit of fear
by talking about our fear.
- Right.
What was the gift of fear?
- The gift of fear.
So if we work hard and we feel our fear,
and we talk about our fear and we give space to it
and we give it to God,
we actually receive faith and wisdom.
- So that sounds more like what that verse is talking about.
- Consider the irony.
If we are actually human and we bring to God
the stuff that we're scared about.
- Right, and by the way, he made us to be able to feel fear.
- He absolutely did because fear is actually necessary
for a safe life.
you're walking down the road and a line comes out the way.
- Yeah.

- Right, right, yeah.
- So fear is actually a really healthy thing.
And actually being able to process that
and think about that is actually a good thing.
But when we refuse to do that,
that's where anxiety is produced
from an emotional perspective.
- Got you.
- What's interesting is you actually find
that pattern repeated through scripture.
So Psalm 55 verse 22, the whole of Psalm 55,
David is really emotionally present.
- Yeah, he's got to love David.
He's just telling it like it is.
- Fully present with a fear.
But in verse 22, he says,
cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
- Yes.
- Now what's interesting is cast your burden.
- That means you have one.
- That means you have one.
- Right, right.
- Right, cast your burden.

He has that on the Lord and in doing so, God's going to work wonders for you.
He's going to ensure that you will not be shaken.
But if you keep it to yourself, if you try and deny it, if you're just moving the opposite
thing, you're going to end up with anxiety.
It's funny that you were saying, I was trying to keep it together, I understand for the sake
of your daughter, but it didn't make your feelings go away.
- No, it also makes me think, and this is probably like a,
just an interesting side note, but you know,
when he says, and he won't allow the righteous
to be shaken, right?
It's interesting that when you,
when I've observed panic attacks,
usually there's a whole bunch of shaking
that is involved in that scenario.
- Yeah, both physically and emotionally.
- Yes, or how about first Peter 5'7,
where it says cast all your anxieties
upon the Lord for he cares for you.
- Yeah, it doesn't say deny all your anxieties.
- No, it says cast all of them.
And that means you're gonna have some.
- You mean it a lot.
- And you can't cast what you're busy denying.
- Right.
- So again, it's like be present
and tell the Lord about it.
Why? Because he cares for you.
To have anxiety is not to lack faith,
to have anxiety is to be human.
- Right.
- And our solution is to give it to God.
- Yes.
- But in order to give it to God,
you have to be present with it first.
- Yeah, you have to acknowledge it first.
So anxiety basically comes to us when we refuse to feel our fear.
Right.
And the solution for that is to actually talk about our fear with the Lord and other trusted
people to kind of get it out into the light as a word.
Yeah, chip summarizes as, you know, feel your feelings, talk about your feelings, give it
to God.
Yeah.
And I love that process.
So good.
I've been reading Genesis recently and I was reading about Jacob and Jacob is being hugely
successful in this story. He's been with his uncle Laban. He's worked for 20 years.
Forever. Changed his wages like 10 times. Cheat him out of a wife, got his wife anyway.  And so he starts doing that and being
to the Lord. But then Esau, his brother comes out with like 300 men and suddenly Jacob's like,
And you read this beautiful passage where his fear, his anxiety comes to him and he's caught because he's like,
"Wait, Lord, you've asked me to do this thing, but it looks like it's going to go south."
But I also realized that actually last time I crossed the Jordan, I just had a staff and now you've given me everything.
So no, you're going to be good. Oh, and, PS, I'm only doing this because you've told me,
"Please, please, you know, don't let my brother overtake me."
And it's this beautiful human moment that I think we all face when we follow the Lord,
we're going to come into circumstances that feel overwhelming, feel scary, can be anxiety-inducing,
and the trick is not to ignore it, the trick is to take it to the Lord and set it in its proper
consciousness. Yeah. Hey, Lord, anxiety is saying this. Yeah. What do you have to say to it? Yeah.
Which brings us neatly and nicely to the spiritual component.
Right? So we've talked a little bit about the physical component. Yeah. We've talked a little bit
about the emotional component. The spiritual component of anxiety is interesting because I think at its
root, anxiety is always about contesting God's word.
Really?
So you look at the very first question that's asked in
Scripture, Satan comes along.
And the very first question is, did God really say that you can't
eat from fruit, the trees in the garden?
Right.
Right.
The first challenge is all about God's word and its
desires to produce anxiety.
And we see that it does because as soon as they disobey God, they
start hiding.
Yeah.
And God's like, where are you?
Yeah.
Right.
First recording of hide and seek.
And that's consistent throughout Scripture.
That the enemy is constantly asking a question that undermines.
Absolutely.
Did God really say?
Yeah.
Which, the fruit of that is all with anxiety.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
So God says, where are you?
He's like, well, I'm hiding because I was afraid.
Yeah.
So the first response is like fear, anxiety.
Oh, God, what's going to happen?
Yeah.
And it was all about God's word.
You see this in the life of Jesus, Matthew four.
Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness.
And then the devil comes along and asks some three questions.
Now, to be biblically sound, it only says that Jesus was hungry.
It doesn't record that Jesus was anxious.
Right.
But look at the questions that Satan's asking Jesus.
They're all about inducing anxiety.
Okay.
All right.
So question one is, if you're the son of God, tell these stones to turn into bread.

- Right.
- And then question three is like,
hey, if you'll worship me, I'll give you everything.
- Right.
- And what's interesting about that,
the first two questions are designed to bring about anxiety
around his identity.
- Yeah, if you're really...
- If you're really the son of God.
- Yeah.
- And what's curious about this is this is Matthew chapter four.
Guess what was in Matthew chapter three?
- What?
- You know already.
It's baptism of Jesus.
- Mm-hmm.
- Matthew chapter three closes with the...
- This is my beloved son.
- Here you are, my boy.
- Oh, please, yes.
This is a beloved son.
Yes.
And so the very next thing, the thing that is attacked
is an identity.
And then the third question--
The very thing that God just spoke about.
The very third clearly.
The very third God just spoke.
The word of God came out.
And the next thing, there's questions designed
to challenge the word of God and to do anxiety,
if you're the son of God.
The third question is all about his destiny.
And I think anxiety is usually about who we are
and what we're becoming.
Yeah.
Think about it.
Think about what you've been anxious about this week.

- Yeah.
- It's crazy.
And it's all rooted in trying to undermine
what God said about us.
- So anxiety then is most often about who we are
and where we're going.
- Yeah.
If you look at Jesus' response as brilliant, it's like it is written, it is also written
for it is written.
The best tool to combat a challenge against God's word is God's word.
Yes, for sure.
So if you bring all three of these things, the spiritual component, the emotional component,
the physical component, I've got a list of things, the practical things that we can employ
in life that will help reduce anxiety in our life.
Ooh, I love it.
Let's do it.
What's number one?
two are going to go together. Okay. Number one and two are the things that arguably have produced
the biggest change in my anxiety levels and yet remain the biggest obstacles in my life.
I know what these are. Number one would be exercise and number two would be food.
Yes. All right. So number one exercise. Exercise, I think everyone knows exercise reduces stress.
- Yes. - Stress is a huge contribution to anxiety.
- Yes.
- But also exercise increases levels of GABA
and serotonin in the brain, which is good.
But it's even simpler than that.
And I know you're gonna laugh
'cause I've made you do this last couple of weeks.
Dr. Andrew Huberman, who is a neuroscientist
out at Stanford University.
What is that? - I was like,
do we wanna shorten his name to Huberman?
- Maybe it's Huberman.
Huberman Huberman, it probably is Huberman,
and I said it wrong.
Okay. Hoops, hubs. He has this brilliant teaching. He talks about optic flow. He says,
just even go out for a walk. He talks about lateral eye movement. Your eyes naturally moving
left or right. The flow of information going past your eyes because of optic flow has huge
benefits at soothing the amygdala. Okay. And you're like, well, that didn't work because I was
in a dark tunnel. I couldn't see anything. There was nothing going past my eyes. But it's
- It's interesting that what you want us to do
to get rid of your stress was go for a walk.

And even in the last couple of weeks,
especially since Scott died,
there's been a couple of times when you've been like,
just put on your clothes, we're going for a walk.
And I'm like, I don't want it or anything.
- That's cold as miserable as damn.
- It's cold, it's miserable, but you're right.
Like once we get out, it does do something.

- Just going for a walk is gonna be huge.
Did you wanna say something else?

- No, no, that's fine.
- All right, number two is diet.
We know that food affects our mood.
- Some people more than others, I won't say who,
but there is a whole category of food grips
that we call comfort food.
- Yes.
- Yeah, that makes us feel better.
But also there's a whole group of food that we can eat
that makes us feel better, but actually makes us feel worse.
- Yes.
Again, if we're thinking about those two neurotransmitters in our brains, right, Gaba
and serotonin, there's things that you can eat that can actually help raise the levels
of that.
That's right.
We need to feed Gabby and Sarah something different.
I was going to say, what are you laughing on that thought?
Just wait, she'll tell you.
So tryptophan found in Turkey, balls of founded chicken, found eggs, found in dairy food.
Tryptophan is a building block of serotonin.
The foods that are naturally high in tryptophan will help boost serotonin.
Foods that are rich in magnesium help support GABA.
Okay.
So, what?
So, leafy green vegetables, nuts, seeds.
Okay.
But what's interesting, because I know you were commenting on me and my diet, I found
that when I do keto, which is naturally high in foods like we've discovered, my mood stabilizes
way better than on ketosis.
And it's the keto diet is naturally low
in all the things that you're allergic to.
(laughs)
Sugar, chocolate, carbs.
Sorry, go ahead.
- No, it's just cocoa.
- Cocoa, which is the main ingredient of what now?
What is it called?
Chocolate, yes, go ahead.
- It's cocoa and sugar that I'm highly entirely.
- Wait, chocolate, cocoa and sugar.
- All right, number three.
Nevertheless, food is important.
Number three is sleep.
I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to realize that when we are low on sleep, it absolutely affects.
Sleep? Are you low on sleep?
When we are low on sleep, it absolutely affects all parts of our body.
Oh yeah.
But especially our emotional makeup.
Oh yeah.
I always, I always, whenever I talk to like new moms that it's like their first baby and the baby's not sleeping yet.
And so they're not getting a sleep and they're like, I feel like I'm losing my mind.
I'm like, oh yeah. Yeah, that's, that you are.

- To live this way, you're gonna make it,
you're gonna make it, but you know.
- Do you know that people who are intoxicated
outperform people who are sleep deprived?
- You're kidding.
- No, well, I shouldn't say that universally.
In one study, they found drunk drivers
outperformed sleep deprived drivers.
- Oh my gosh, that's terrifying.
- Sleep deprivation is a big, big deal.
So getting healthy sleep is gonna support
your emotional and physical well-being for sure.

I can't give you the name, but I probably could
on a different podcast.
But I follow a German doctor who said that women
actually eat more sleep than men.
- I don't know that based on--
- Because of hormones, for hormone support.
- I was gonna say anecdotal evidence,
but we'll do it for hormones for sure.
(laughing)
- Oh really?
Yes, so apparently this guy was saying that most women
would be healthiest having between eight to 10 hours of sleep,
And most men can still be like healthy
and have healthy hormone levels and boba at six.
- Wow.
- So that's, I thought that was interesting.
Yeah, number four.
- Number four would be therapy.
- Yes.
- And there's a wide, you know,
I'll put a lot of things under therapy.
But actually just talking to somebody
about what's going on inside your head
is very, very helpful.
- Sure.
- And we can bear witness to that ourselves.
- Oh yeah, for sure.
So there's tons of different therapeutic approaches,
but just the act of talking about whatever's going on
in your life will help lower your anxiety for sure.
- For sure.
- Number five is prayer.
And we already talked about Psalm 55,
Kesha Burden on the Lord, or 1 Peter 5,
Kesha cares upon him, but what about this?
Philippians 4 verse 6 says,
"Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer
"and supplication and with thanksgiving,
"let your request be made known to God
"and the peace of God which surpasses
all understanding will guard your heart and mind. The precursor to experiencing the peace
that will guard your heart and mind. It's unfathomable, by the way. The precursor to all of that is prayer.
Love it. Isn't that great? And again, I said that earlier, you can't cast in prayer what you're
busy denying in life. Right. You have to acknowledge it. Absolutely have to be present with it.
All right, number six, you taught me this, live in day type compartments.
Yes, but I would have said it differently.
How would you have said it?
Basically, don't borrow trouble.
Yeah, well, that's the exact phrase you taught me.

Tomorrow takes care of itself.
Each day has enough trouble for it.
And I remember one day, very early on in our marriage,
we were talking about something and you said, honey,
I'm going to encourage you, don't borrow trouble.
And I was realizing that in an effort to minimize my anxiety about tomorrow,
I start worrying about tomorrow thinking it was care.
Yeah.
Worry does not equal care today.
Yeah.
And sometimes weary worry is actually just control masquerading as like totally
like I'm just trying to be well planned, you know, whatever.
And it's it's actually worry and control partnering up and yeah.
But be where your feet are.
Yeah.
Ur.
Be where your feet are.
I was number six.
Yes.
I came to my end of my list abruptly.
I didn't know how many I had, but six is it.
There we go.
I think having said all that is probably important for people to know that we are not doctors or
therapists or counselors or whatever. Or psychologists. No. So we're just people that are looking at
the world and looking at the word and seeking wisdom. It's also important to know that anxiety
is on a spectrum. Sure. And so there is a portion of the population who have very severe anxiety and
a list like the six things I've just given might not help. Sure. And I'd encourage you,
if you're in that situation seek help from trained professionals.
Absolutely.
Have no shame about that.
Yeah.
It's not God's will that we would live burdened by anxiety.
Yes.
And anxiety is a feature of life and Scripture tells us how to do.
But sometimes we need support more than the six-up just giving me.
And I think often anxiety is seasonal too.
You know, you can have seasons where it really is, I am now overwhelmed by the amount of negative
information I'm trying to process and I need help in this season and it doesn't
say something about the rest of your life.
Exactly.
Guess what babe?
What's that?
I have a listeners question for you.
Oh you're turning the tables?
Uh huh.
Right.
Give me your question.
Alright I will.
This is my favorite part because you put glasses on and how does the glasses actually
help you because it all it does it makes your eyes look much bigger.
Does it actually help you read that better?
Yeah I can't read it if it doesn't.
It doesn't look like you can read them with them.
I can I'm just trying to look around my mic.
Okay, this is going to be wonderful.
All right, go.
Right in front of my camera.
Read this.
What's your question?
Is it a listeners question from Rebecca?
Okay.
And it says, not sure if you've heard of the beam of podcasts
hosted by Marty Solomon,
but basically he's a messianic Jew
that's going through the podcast with a theology student
like a rabbi would with a disciple.
Anyway, (laughs)
he really unpacks the Western versus Eastern perspective
and understanding of scripture.
So episode one, right at the beginning,
is the proverbial bomb that the creation story
is in fact not a story of how the world was created,
but rather a poetic chiasm, portraying God
to people who already have preconceived ideas
of what God is like.
So it was rather a retelling
of a commonly known fable, but retold in a way that revealed important, separating truths
about who God is and what his character is like.
Okay.
Thoughts?
Oh, that's the question.
Oh, no.
I was like, that is an essay answer.
No, a podcast answer.
Keep going.
Question asked.
Oh my God.
Oh my gosh.
Sorry, I didn't realize it.
- It scrolls. - I admit.
- It scrolls. - It's scrolls.
Yes, it's scrolling. - You can use your thumb.
- Scrolling will help.
Okay, so my question is,
have you ever heard that the creation story
is just a poem concept before?
I know you visited the Ark Encounter at one point.
And what do you think about that?
I'm currently leading a house group
and we are going through this podcast.
And every week we are like, dang,
I'm not sure what to do with this.
I love that.
We are on episode 10 and we've spent all semester
getting through 10 podcasts.
But yeah, I know you guys are great teachers
and I really would love to know what you think.
- Thank you, Rebecca, for sending that question.
What great question.
First thing, I want to try and answer this
in a couple of different ways.
The first thing I would say is that I don't want to offer
a critique on something I haven't listened to.
- Sure.
- I did look up the website of that particular podcast.
the time they had nearly 320 episodes.
And I realized even if I listened to 10% of those,
which I'm not gonna have time to listen to 30 odd episodes.
- Right.
- Still that's just a drop in the ocean
of episodes that they've done.
So I don't necessarily wanna critique that podcast itself,
but let me give you a couple of thoughts,
starting with a 30,000 foot view perspective of scripture.
One of the things that I've come to really, really appreciate
is that before the Bible was ever God's word to us,
it was God's word to a different people group.
- Yes.
- And so one of the things that we've learned,
and there's some great resources out there,
I'd direct you to the Bible project
who I think do an amazing job of this, a textbook.
This is a tone that's quite accessible
called Grasping God's Word, another one,
a famous book called How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth.
All these things, all these resources do a great job
of helping you read the Bible with a perspective
that before it was God's word to you,
it was a God's word to somebody else.
So there's going to be cultural idioms, sayings,
cultural context, political context,
even narrative context, that us in the West
may be reading the Bible without a knowledge of that.
A lot of that will go over our heads.
- Sure.
- So actually having access to people who can explain,
one of the things I loved when we were in Israel
was getting a Jewish perspective on texts
that were so familiar to us in a new light.
- Yeah.
- So I love that from that perspective
of having a rabbi, having somebody who is well-trained
in a different school of thought approaching the scriptures,
love that, I think that's really, really beautiful,
very, very essential and incredibly key
to understanding the text appropriately.
- Sure.
- Let me zoom in a little further
and just maybe kind of repeat myself a little bit.
I've particularly appreciated the Jewish perspective
on scriptures, 'cause again, a lot of the scriptures
written by Jews, two Jews, four Jews for the Jewish people, and me raising Scotland
without any cultural or historical understanding of that.
Decidedly not Jewish.
Decidedly not Jewish as a Gentile. Hugely helpful.
Getting those perspectives on it. And if I zoom in to your specific question, have I heard
that the creation account in Genesis is actually just poetic, it's a poem,
it's not actually be taken literally. Yes, I absolutely have heard that before.
Sure, so have I.
And it's not something I hold to for a couple of reasons.
The first one is I would be very cautious about categorizing parts of Scripture as things
that don't actually mean what they say they mean.
Because if we're free to do that with a creation account, what other parts of Scripture are
we free to do that with?
And if we make the creation account a poem and not actually a literal recording of what
happened, how do we interpret other parts of the Bible?
that reference that.
So if we think about in the beginning,
the word was God, the word was God.
He was in the beginning, yes.
By him, all things are created.
Does that poem now challenge that?
Sure.
Our good friend, David Campbell, says it this way.
He says that if you only believe the part of the Bible
that you do like, and you don't believe the part
of the Bible that you don't like,
then you don't believe the Bible you believe yourself.
And that's the very thing that we wanna get away from.
We want to get away from being able to categorize certain parts of scripture as well.
You know, it's this, therefore this.
I'm a firm believer in the inerrancy of scripture.
I'm a firm believer that the Bible is without error.
I'm a firm believer that yes, we do need to read the Bible in the context that it's in,
but I would be very, very cautious about taking large portions of scripture and saying,
because it's this, that means this.
Right.
with that information then. Like first of all, I love that you're going through this and I love
that you're asking us for a perspective. Thank you for giving us the privilege of speaking into that.
I think it is hugely important to be aware of schools of thoughts regarding scripture,
but I think it's equally important to be aware that we don't have to believe everything we're taught.
Yes. So for example, I am very well versed in a cessationist theology and I could actually
They recite from scripture the main arguments of cessationists.
That's people who don't believe that the gifts of the spirit are for today.
I could talk about the passage they would use.
I could talk about the tricky passages of scripture that would seem to suggest that
they're wrong and I could explain that away.
But in the same way, I can also, and I'm very familiar with the charismatic theology
about why the gifts of the spirit are for today.
Knowing both of those things has actually helped me inform what I do believe.
Right.
I don't believe both of them.
I only believe one of them.
Right.
with the arguments about women in church,
women in ministry, as in all the churches,
women should remain silent, for example.
I've talked about these passages before.
I'm familiar with the arguments that we talk about
why women shouldn't be in ministry.
And I'm familiar with the arguments
about why women should be in ministry.
And even though I know both of them,
I don't believe both of them.
So I don't think there's anything inherently wrong
with knowing how different--
- Other people of you think this.
- Exactly.
I think we have to be careful with what we do with them.
And I love that you're even asking these questions
so you're figuring them out for yourself.
I would not say that the creation account in Genesis
is merely poetic, merely allegoric in nature.
I would say it is a description
of how God created the earth.
And I know one of the things I loved about my father,
my father was a world renowned scientist
and he would get a hassle from the scientific community
for holding to that.
And thankfully, I don't know anything about science.
Like, you know, the whole creation
versus evolution argument is not one I am bothered by.
It's not one I wade into.
It's not one I'm particularly well equipped to defend.
I just love the Bible and I love believing the Bible.
- Yes.
- And I hope that long kind of meandering talk
answers your question a little bit, Rebecca.
Any thoughts, Idya Jones?
- I was wondering why you brought up your dad.
- Well, I'm just thinking about,
like as soon as you say that,
there's gonna be a whole group of people who would say,
"What about this? What about this? What about this?"
And my father with a great pedigree as a scientist
was numerous papers published for him.
He loved all this stuff.
This was his hobby, the whole creation,
versus evolution.
And as a well-educated scientist, he could explain things.
And for me, it's not an argument I go into.
- Oh, I got you.
- Do you know what I mean?
I'm just content to be simple and child-like and go,
"I believe the Bible."
Yeah, but what about this and what about that?
Yeah, yeah, I believe the Bible.
- Love it.
- H.E. Jones, what do the people need to know
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It takes a lot for me to be cold.
- Do you wanna, while we're closing,
do you wanna tell them what happened right before
we came downstairs?

- We're in the bathroom getting ready.
He's like putting on beard oil.

It's not even in a messy bun.
It's in a normal bun, by the way.
And I'm like, do I look pretty?
And you're like, uh, and that's all the time we have for this year.
We'll be back next week.


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Southern Stereotypes
April 5, 2015
Bias is a throughly human characteristic. It influences our perceptions, decisions, and reactions. We see life through a lense of our beliefs, and sometimes those beliefs are negative. A stereotype not only impacts the holder, but also the reciepient. The Stereotype Threat affects the performance and life of those who are being judged. While I have never personally experienced any racial descrimination, I have experienced the stereotypes that people hold against the American South.
I was born and reeared in the Deep South. I was brought up to be, what I believe at least, a fair-minded and non-descriminatory individual. Growing up I had never encountered stereotypes about me, though I did see plenty of bias towards African Americans. For college, I wanted to leave the South to gain a new perspective. Yet, once there I quickly realized that people already held untrue beliefs about where I came from. People believed that I was a bigot. I met many people who assumed that I was a racist just because I grew up in a certain place. There were several times during class that we would discuss issues of race.  I was terrified that they were right. Even after I was reassured by the profesor that I was not, I continued to fear that I was. I was haunted by the ghosts of my cultural past.
It didn't help that people would make horribly bigoted statements around me. Even growing up in the South, there were many racial epithets that I had never heard allowed. Yet, people felt comfortable being racist around because they assumed that I was. This further entrenched my discomfort, and to this day I am still terrified that I will say something to someday prove those people right. That's Stereotype threat for ya.
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h2load(1)¶
SYNOPSIS¶
h2load [OPTIONS]... [URI]...
DESCRIPTION¶
benchmarking tool for HTTP/2 and SPDY server
-
<URI>
Specify URI to access. Multiple URIs can be specified. URIs are used in this order for each client. All URIs are used, then first URI is used and then 2nd URI, and so on. The scheme, host and port in the subsequent URIs, if present, are ignored. Those in the first URI are used solely. Definition of a base URI overrides all scheme, host or port values.
OPTIONS¶
-
-n
,
--requests
=<N>
¶ Number of requests across all clients. If it is used with
--timing-script-file
option, this option specifies the number of requests each client performs rather than the number of requests across all clients.Default:
1
-
-c
,
--clients
=<N>
¶ Number of concurrent clients. With
-r
option, this specifies the maximum number of connections to be made.Default:
1
-
-t
,
--threads
=<N>
¶ Number of native threads.
Default:
1
-
-i
,
--input-file
=<PATH>
¶ Path of a file with multiple URIs are separated by EOLs. This option will disable URIs getting from command-line. If '-' is given as <PATH>, URIs will be read from stdin. URIs are used in this order for each client. All URIs are used, then first URI is used and then 2nd URI, and so on. The scheme, host and port in the subsequent URIs, if present, are ignored. Those in the first URI are used solely. Definition of a base URI overrides all scheme, host or port values.
-
-m
,
--max-concurrent-streams
=<N>
¶ Max concurrent streams to issue per session. When http/1.1 is used, this specifies the number of HTTP pipelining requests in-flight.
Default:
1
-
-w
,
--window-bits
=<N>
¶ Sets the stream level initial window size to (2**<N>)-1. For SPDY, 2**<N> is used instead.
Default:
30
-
-W
,
--connection-window-bits
=<N>
¶ Sets the connection level initial window size to (2**<N>)-1. For SPDY, if <N> is strictly less than 16, this option is ignored. Otherwise 2**<N> is used for SPDY.
Default:
30
-
-H
,
--header
=<HEADER>
¶ Add/Override a header to the requests.
-
--ciphers
=<SUITE>
¶ Set allowed cipher list. The format of the string is described in OpenSSL ciphers(1).
Default:
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
-
-p
,
--no-tls-proto
=<PROTOID>
¶ Specify ALPN identifier of the protocol to be used when accessing http URI without SSL/TLS. Available protocols: h2c and http/1.1
Default:
h2c
-
-d
,
--data
=<PATH>
¶ Post FILE to server. The request method is changed to POST. For http/1.1 connection, if
-d
is used, the maximum number of in-flight pipelined requests is set to 1.
-
-r
,
--rate
=<N>
¶ Specifies the fixed rate at which connections are created. The rate must be a positive integer, representing the number of connections to be made per rate period. The maximum number of connections to be made is given in
-c
option. This rate will be distributed among threads as evenly as possible. For example, with-t
2 and-r
4, each thread gets 2 connections per period. When the rate is 0, the program will run as it normally does, creating connections at whatever variable rate it wants. The default value for this option is 0.
-
--rate-period
=<DURATION>
¶ Specifies the time period between creating connections. The period must be a positive number, representing the length of the period in time. This option is ignored if the rate option is not used. The default value for this option is 1s.
-
-T
,
--connection-active-timeout
=<DURATION>
¶ Specifies the maximum time that h2load is willing to keep a connection open, regardless of the activity on said connection. <DURATION> must be a positive integer, specifying the amount of time to wait. When no timeout value is set (either active or inactive), h2load will keep a connection open indefinitely, waiting for a response.
-
-N
,
--connection-inactivity-timeout
=<DURATION>
¶ Specifies the amount of time that h2load is willing to wait to see activity on a given connection. <DURATION> must be a positive integer, specifying the amount of time to wait. When no timeout value is set (either active or inactive), h2load will keep a connection open indefinitely, waiting for a response.
-
--timing-script-file
=<PATH>
¶ Path of a file containing one or more lines separated by EOLs. Each script line is composed of two tab-separated fields. The first field represents the time offset from the start of execution, expressed as a positive value of milliseconds with microsecond resolution. The second field represents the URI. This option will disable URIs getting from command-line. If '-' is given as <PATH>, script lines will be read from stdin. Script lines are used in order for each client. If
-n
is given, it must be less than or equal to the number of script lines, larger values are clamped to the number of script lines. If-n
is not given, the number of requests will default to the number of script lines. The scheme, host and port defined in the first URI are used solely. Values contained in other URIs, if present, are ignored. Definition of a base URI overrides all scheme, host or port values.
-
-B
,
--base-uri
=(<URI>|unix:<PATH>)
¶ Specify URI from which the scheme, host and port will be used for all requests. The base URI overrides all values defined either at the command line or inside input files. If argument starts with "unix:", then the rest of the argument will be treated as UNIX domain socket path. The connection is made through that path instead of TCP. In this case, scheme is inferred from the first URI appeared in the command line or inside input files as usual.
-
--npn-list
=<LIST>
¶ Comma delimited list of ALPN protocol identifier sorted in the order of preference. That means most desirable protocol comes first. This is used in both ALPN and NPN. The parameter must be delimited by a single comma only and any white spaces are treated as a part of protocol string.
Default:
h2,h2-16,h2-14,http/1.1
-
--h1
¶
Short hand for
--npn-list
=http/1.1--no-tls-proto
=http/1.1, which effectively force http/1.1 for both http and https URI.
-
--header-table-size
=<SIZE>
¶ Specify decoder header table size.
Default:
4K
-
--encoder-header-table-size
=<SIZE>
¶ Specify encoder header table size. The decoder (server) specifies the maximum dynamic table size it accepts. Then the negotiated dynamic table size is the minimum of this option value and the value which server specified.
Default:
4K
-
-v
,
--verbose
¶
Output debug information.
-
--version
¶
Display version information and exit.
-
-h
,
--help
¶
Display this help and exit.
The <SIZE> argument is an integer and an optional unit (e.g., 10K is 10 * 1024). Units are K, M and G (powers of 1024).
The <DURATION> argument is an integer and an optional unit (e.g., 1s is 1 second and 500ms is 500 milliseconds). Units are h, m, s or ms (hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds, respectively). If a unit is omitted, a second is used as unit.
OUTPUT¶
- requests
- total
- The number of requests h2load was instructed to make.
- started
- The number of requests h2load has started.
- done
- The number of requests completed.
- succeeded
- The number of requests completed successfully. Only HTTP status code 2xx or3xx are considered as success.
- failed
- The number of requests failed, including HTTP level failures (non-successful HTTP status code).
- errored
- The number of requests failed, except for HTTP level failures.
This is the subset of the number reported in
failed
and most likely the network level failures or stream was reset by RST_STREAM. - timeout
- The number of requests whose connection timed out before they were
completed. This is the subset of the number reported in
errored
.
- status codes
- The number of status code h2load received.
- traffic
- total
- The number of bytes received from the server "on the wire". If requests were made via TLS, this value is the number of decrypted bytes.
- headers
- The number of response header bytes from the server without
decompression. The
space savings
shows efficiency of header compression. Letdecompressed(headers)
to the number of bytes used for header fields after decompression. Thespace savings
is calculated by (1 -headers
/decompressed(headers)
) * 100. For HTTP/1.1, this is usually 0.00%, since it does not have header compression. For HTTP/2 and SPDY, it shows some insightful numbers. - data
- The number of response body bytes received from the server.
- time for request
- min
- The minimum time taken for request and response.
- max
- The maximum time taken for request and response.
- mean
- The mean time taken for request and response.
- sd
- The standard deviation of the time taken for request and response.
- +/- sd
- The fraction of the number of requests within standard deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of successful requests.
- time for connect
- min
- The minimum time taken to connect to a server.
- max
- The maximum time taken to connect to a server.
- mean
- The mean time taken to connect to a server.
- sd
- The standard deviation of the time taken to connect to a server.
- +/- sd
- The fraction of the number of connections within standard deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of successful connections.
- time for 1st byte (of (decrypted in case of TLS) application data)
- min
- The minimum time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
- max
- The maximum time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
- mean
- The mean time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
- sd
- The standard deviation of the time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
- +/- sd
- The fraction of the number of connections within standard deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of successful connections.
- req/s
- min
- The minimum request per second among all clients.
- max
- The maximum request per second among all clients.
- mean
- The mean request per second among all clients.
- sd
- The standard deviation of request per second among all clients. server.
- +/- sd
- The fraction of the number of connections within standard deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of successful connections.
FLOW CONTROL¶
h2load sets large flow control window by default, and effectively
disables flow control to avoid under utilization of server
performance. To set smaller flow control window, use -w
and
-W
options. For example, use -w16 -W16
to set default
window size described in HTTP/2 and SPDY protocol specification.
SEE ALSO¶
nghttp(1), nghttpd(1), nghttpx(1)


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Here we go again. Version 3.0.0
In my professional career I have had two paths, versions or takes. In each one I have learned things about myself and what I want/need in a professional carrer. The sports industry was v1.0, non-profits v2.0 and now v3.0 as a coader in website development. Thanks to The Iron Yard and my family for making this a possibility.
I earned my bachelors degree in education with an emphasis in sport management from Florida State University in 2001. During that time I was able to intern in the athletics under sports information. While doing research, writing media guides, and providing support during intercollegiate athletic events. I was offered and accepted a position as an equipment manager and home events manager for the soccer, softball and golf teams. While performing these duties in 2002 I earned my Masters degree in Education with and emphasis in Sport Administration. For my last two classes in my Masters program I was accepted in to the inagural session for the Global Sport Managment study abroad program in Paris and London. It was on that trip that I discovered a passion for travel, exploration, and reignitgted my longing for adventure.
Upon my return from Europe I felt the need to give back to my community and accepted an offer with the non-profit Hillel. Over the next twelve years I had the privledge to mentor college students and guide them on personal growth and identity development. I was able to encorporate my love for adventure and travel and intermingled it with my professsional duties. Learning and perforiming almost every role and aspect of the organization was an inspiring and challenging time. It was during these years that I was exposed to HR policies that encourage personal and professional growth and a culture that establishes life priorities putting their organization 3rd on that list behind health and family. After leaving Hillel I was not sure of my next step.
A friend suggested that I work for an Apple store that she was employed at and that it was an innovative, caring , and different. I applied and was welcomed in to the Apple store family in Altamonte. It was a fast six months. During the time I spent surrounded by technology and talented individuals and seeing how they use technology to enhance peoples lives I found my 3.0 direction. Now just to find my path.
Another friend suggested that I come to a weekly gathering of entrepenurs called One Million Cups. It was at their weekly presentations that I learned of The Iron Yard. A boot camp that will train you to become a junior level programmer in just 12 weeks! That was it. After getting buy in from my family and talking to friends in the industry I signed on to the second cohort in Front End Engineering. Just completed my third week and the future looks bright. I still have so much to learn, sleep to catch up on but v3.0.0 is on the horizon.


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Our aim is to utilise data to fuel commercial growth To do this, we educate and engage three key audiences:
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The BERT algorithm was developed by Google, and it is the most productive NLP model available for context matching.
The FuzzyWuzzy method is mostly used for string matching, thus we used it to match job titles.
Here, I looked at a variety of string matching techniques and natural language processing (NLP) models for matching job titles and skills. Eventually in my research, I discovered that BERT and FuzzyWuzzy algorithms were the greatest fit for my needs. I ran both the BERT and FuzzyWuzzy algorithms on a set of samples to about 2000 job titles and skills, manually compared the results, and quantified accuracy using a confusion matrix, and the outcomes prompted us to the concluding that the data needed to be cleaned and normalised to improve the algorithm's accuracy.


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Python package to convert Shapefiles to DXF format.
Python package to convert Shapefiles to DXF format.
Go CLI app to optimize the shape of n polygons for maximizing the resemblance to a any given picture.
Python package to apply a delaunay triangularization to any image and make it available as SVG.
Small Javascript web app to generate plans to cut boxes with hidden joints in CNC machines.
In 2018 I discovered some people were using pen plotters to make computer art. I was fascinated! I decided to build my own pen plotter since I couldn't afford to buy one. I think it turned out great!
It has more than enough precission to use pens with very small tips(0.2 mm or 0.008 in) in a large printing area(12 x 17 in).
For this plotter I used some parts designed for CNC machines, I 3d printed some parts that were not critical and, for some other critical parts, I machined aluminum in a manual Bridgeport to achieve good precission.
Some of the drawings I've made will be posted here somewhere.
Since I really like playing chess, I decided to make my own walnut and maple end grain chessboard. The pieces are a little bit too small for the board, but I plan to upgrade them in the future.
 I built this wooden bar with magnets hidden in the inside to be able to keep papers readily available while not cluttering my desk.
This is pretty much the first plot I made with my plotter. It is a curve related to Lissajous curves. These kinds of curves started to be made with mechanical apparatus called Harmonographs in mid-19th century.
Plotting over nice Bristol paper makes for good looking computer art!
I prefer to keep an air of mystery about me until I know what to say.


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Service dogs are with their owners 24/7 and go every place they go. They learn to watchfully anticipate whatever their human needs through an almost telepathic communication.
Service dogs are donated as puppies to New Leash on Life by Oklahoma breeders. The parents must be certified by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals and the pups are tested for the proper temperament. Labrador and Golden Retrievers are, basically, the breeds we work with because of their natural retrieving ability and their size, which is necessary to pull wheelchairs and help stabilize people who use them to move from a wheelchair to a chair or other location.
Occasionally we will help a person with disabilities to train their own dog. The application process is the same and the dog must meet our criteria. For more
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Software Utility Drivers
Azure SAS
This utility NuGet adds SAS generation used in Azure. See Microsoft Azure tutorial for more info.
Tip
Needed NuGet: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.Azure.SAS
Basic Graphics
BasicGraphics
driver is a simpler alternative that runs on all devices, including small devices without native display support. It contains many useful methods for adding simple graphics,including: SetPixel
, DrawLine
, DrawRectangle
, DrawCircle
, DrawString
, and DrawCharacter
. It also includes support for a micro 5px font through DrawTinyCharacter
and DrawTinyString
.
There are 2 differences between DrawCharacter
and DrawTinyCharacter
, beside the font size! DrawCharacter can accept scaling to enlarge the font, DrawTinyCharacter
does not. Also, DrawCharacter
will only set pixels and does not clear blanks. DrawTinyCharacter
has the same behavior by default but it has a clear
option to set the blanks to 0 (black).
There are two ways to use BasicGraphics, the first one is agnostic of what display is being used and simply works by calling SetPixel
method that must be overridden by the user. The user has 2 options, either send the pixel directly to the display or buffer the pixels in a "Video RAM" working buffer and then flush to the screen when desired. Setting the pixels directly on the screen requires zero memory but it is extremely slow.
In the second way, which is the easier way, BasicGraphics will handle allocating the needed video buffer and handles the SetPixel. It already has 2 pixel options, 16BPP 5:6:5 and 1BPP.
Tip
Needed NuGet: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.BasicGraphics
An example of the first options, that overrides the SetPixel
and Clear
methods. BasicGraphics will not allocate any memory.
public class BasicGraphicsImp : BasicGraphics{
public override void SetPixel(int x, int y, uint color){
// add code to buffer pixels or send directly to display
}
public override void Clear(){
// add optional clear if buffer is used
}
// You may need to add this to send an optional buffer...
public void Flush(){
// ... for example
lcd.DrawBufferNative(this.buffer);
}
}
Now, the Basic Graphics driver can be used.
var basicGfx = new BasicGraphicsImp();
var colorBlue = 0x00FF0000U;
var colorGreen = 0x0000FF00U;
var colorRed = 0x00000FFU;
var colorWhite = 0x00FFFFFFU;
basicGfx.Clear();
basicGfx.DrawString("Hi Insiders!", colorGreen, 15, 15, 2, 1);
basicGfx.DrawString("SITCore", colorBlue, 35, 40, 2, 2);
basicGfx.DrawString("SC13xxx", colorRed, 35, 60, 2, 2);
Random color = new Random();
for (var i = 20; i < 140; i ++)
basicGfx.DrawCircle((uint)color.Next(), i, 100, 15);
basicGfx.Flush();
This example uses the second option where a buffer is allocated automatically. This is the preferred option for using BasicGraphics.
var basicGfx = new BasicGraphics(160, 128, ColorFormat.Rgb565);
var colorBlue = 0x00FF0000U;
var colorGreen = 0x0000FF00U;
var colorRed = 0x00000FFU;
var colorWhite = 0x00FFFFFFU;
basicGfx.Clear()
basicGfx.DrawString("Hi Insiders!", colorGreen, 15, 15, 2, 1);
basicGfx.DrawString("SITCore", colorBlue, 35, 40, 2, 2);
basicGfx.DrawString("SC13xxx", colorRed, 35, 60, 2, 2);
Random color = new Random();
for (var i = 20; i < 140; i ++)
basicGfx.DrawCircle((uint)color.Next(), i, 100, 15);
// now send to display, using the specific display driver.
MyDisplaySendBuffer(basicGfx.Buffer);
Managed File System
This full FAT file system C# implementation includes SD SPI drivers and is made available for systems that do not have a native built in file system support or if using SD cares over SPI is desired.
var dataWrite = new byte[5] { 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 };
var dataRead = new byte[dataWrite.Length];
var spiController = SpiController.FromName(SC13048.SpiBus.Spi1);
var chipselect = GpioController.GetDefault().OpenPin(SC13048.GpioPin.PB2);
var managedFS = new ManagedFileSystem(spiController, chipselect);
managedFS.Mount();
Debug.WriteLine("Volumme: " + managedFS.VolumeLabel);
Debug.WriteLine("Total Size: " + managedFS.TotalSize);
Debug.WriteLine("Free: " + managedFS.TotalFreeSpace);
managedFS.CreateDirectory(@"\TEST1");
var fileWrite =<EMAIL_ADDRESS>FileMode.Write | FileMode.CreateAlways);
managedFS.WriteFile(fileWrite, dataWrite, 0, (uint)dataWrite.Length);
managedFS.FlushFile(fileWrite);
managedFS.CloseFile(fileWrite);
var fileRead =<EMAIL_ADDRESS>FileMode.Read);
managedFS.ReadFile(fileRead, dataRead, 0, (uint)dataRead.Length);
managedFS.CloseFile(fileRead);
IR
Infrared remotes are very common and use multiple standards. NCR is very common and a driver is included. A remote with NCR standard will send an 8bit address and an 8bit command with every key press. A repeat signal will be sent as long as the key is continuously pressed.
Tip
Needed NuGet: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.Infrared.NecIR
static void Main() {
var recievePin = GpioController.GetDefault().OpenPin(SC20260.GpioPin.PH6);
var ir = new NecIRDecoder(recievePin);
ir.OnDataReceivedEvent += Ir_OnDataRecievedEvent;
ir.OnRepeatEvent += Ir_OnRepeatEvent;
}
private static void Ir_OnDataRecievedEvent(byte address, byte command) {
// we have a new key press
}
private static void Ir_OnRepeatEvent() {
// we have repeat
}
Basic Network
Basic Network works with W5500 module.
Tip
Needed NuGets: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.BasicNet, GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.BasicNet.Sockets, GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.WIZnet.W5500
var cs = GpioController.GetDefault().OpenPin(SC13048.GpioPin.PB2);
var reset = GpioController.GetDefault().OpenPin(SC13048.GpioPin.PB15);
var interrupt = GpioController.GetDefault().OpenPin(SC13048.GpioPin.PA0);
var spiController = SpiController.FromName(SC13048.SpiBus.Spi1);
var networkController = new W5500Controller(spiController, cs, reset, interrupt);
var isReady = false;
networkController.NetworkAddressChanged += (a, b) =>
{
isReady = networkController.Address.GetAddressBytes()[0] != 0 && networkController.Address.GetAddressBytes()[1] != 0;
};
NetworkInterfaceSettings networkSettings = new NetworkInterfaceSettings()
{
Address = new IPAddress(new byte[] { 192, 168, 0, 200 }),
SubnetMask = new IPAddress(new byte[] { 255, 255, 255, 0 }),
GatewayAddress = new IPAddress(new byte[] { 192, 168, 0, 1 }),
DnsAddresses = new IPAddress[] { new IPAddress(new byte[] { 75, 75, 75, 75 }), new IPAddress(new byte[] { 75, 75, 75, 76 }) },
MacAddress = new byte[] { your mac },
DhcpEnable = false,
DynamicDnsEnable = false,
};
networkController.SetInterfaceSettings(networkSettings);
networkController.Enable();
while (isReady == false) ; // wait for valid IP addrress.
var dns = new Dns(networkController);
var host = dns.GetHostEntry("www.example.com");
var ep = new IPEndPoint(host.AddressList[0], 80);
// Streaming socket
var socket = new Socket(networkController, AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
socket.Connect(ep);
var content = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.example.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n";
socket.Send(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(content));
var received = socket.Receive(SocketFlags.None);
if (received.Length > 0) {
var recvdContent = new string(Encoding.UTF8.GetChars(received));
Debug.WriteLine("Received : \r\n" + recvdContent);
}
QR Code Generator
This driver converts a string to an image, which can be displays on screen for example.
In the works!
GPS Parser
In the works!


- Assasin - Class in ProjectGameVer3
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- Assasin() - Constructor for class ProjectGameVer3.Assasin
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Default parameters for an Assasin.
- Assasin(int, String, int) - Constructor for class ProjectGameVer3.Assasin
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Initializes an Assasin with an attack power, name and Max Health points.
- Assasin(String) - Constructor for class ProjectGameVer3.Assasin
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Initializes an Assasin with a name and default parameters.
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Beserker
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- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Cleric
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Redefined attack, as the Cleric heals instead of attacking.The function removes all tags,
and all parameters are rest to default state.This function is similar to stage revive but
to make the game more interactive the function has differnt strings to display.
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Hero
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Function Attack of a hero needs to check if they are to skip a turn and also it helps to
un-tag heroes from the "(goo)" tag.
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Monster
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This is a simple function of attack where the poison is checked and the opponent gets attacked.
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Mummy
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- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Orc
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- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Rogue
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The specialty of Rogue is that , a Rogue can poison a monster for 3 turns
i.e set poison to 3 .There are more if statements for better string outputs
to make the story more precise.
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Role
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A default function of attack
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Slime
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This function changes the skip and goo parameter of the victim of Slime.
- attack(Role) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Spider
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The attack of the spider is redefined as the spider can either attack or poison (a 50% chance of each)
When attacked an opponent can retaliate but when poisoned by Spider they can't.
- attackChoice(ArrayList<Monster>, ArrayList<Hero>) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Cleric
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- attackChoice(ArrayList<Monster>, ArrayList<Hero>) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Duelist
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- attackChoice(ArrayList<Monster>, ArrayList<Hero>) - Method in class ProjectGameVer3.Hero
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This function is what displays the choice of monsters for a hero to attack.
- AttackMagnet - Class in ProjectGameVer3
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Attack Magnet potion which makes the drinker have a greater chance of being attacked(82% chance).
- AttackMagnet() - Constructor for class ProjectGameVer3.AttackMagnet
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- AttackMagnet(String) - Constructor for class ProjectGameVer3.AttackMagnet
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We need to give numbers to the CMU catering people and Wednesday dinner restaurant next week. If you haven't filled out the catering form yet, please do so: https://forms.gle/wpibGKt71yxZpoun7
The dinner on Wednesday night will be at the Silk Elephant in Squirrel Hill. It's a ~40 minute walk or ~15 minute bus ride from the hotel.
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What is Surge?
Surge is a great way to host front end only ( static ) websites. It is very easy to get started with surge, and you can deploy your sample front end site in about 5 minutes.
Create production build in react
First thing, make sure to create a `production` build of your react project. In the terminal of your project folder:
npm run build
Installing Surge Globally
In the terminal inside your project folder:
npm install --global surge
Create production build in react
We use the surge command `-p build` to make sure we are only uploading what is inside the build directory. I.e only the files we want to upload to the server from our production build.
surge -p build
If it is your first time, it will prompt you to enter an email and password.
After you have entered your email and password press enter. All the files will then get uploaded and a test domain for you site will be provided.
Your site is now `live`
Listing all my surge sites
To List all your sites, in the terminal type:
surge list
Remove project from Surge
To stop showing your project on Surge, we can simply write
surge teardown <your surge domain>
For more info about surge and how to create a custom domain visit surge.sh
Storing to git repo and github
For version control and keeping track of changes we can use git and github. In your text editor, inside your main/root folder, create a new file called .gitignore and write the following inside it:
node_modules/
The `forward slash` tells git that this is a folder we want to ignore and not track changes made to it. Next we go to the terminal and write:
git init
This initializes a git repo inside the main/root folder of your project.
git add .
This adds all the files in project to be commited, except the ones in .gitignore
git commit -m "first commit"
Commits changes
Now in github create a new repo. Copy and paste the code for `pushing an exisiting repository from the command line`. I.e.
git remote add origin https://github.com/<github username>/<github repo name>.git
git push -u origin master
Your files for the project should now be on github


K-Pop star Goo Hara found dead at her Seoul home
Police said an acquaintance found Goo Hara dead at her home in southern Seoul and reported it to authorities.
by APK-pop star and TV celebrity Goo Hara was found dead at her home in Seoul on Sunday, police said.
Police said an acquaintance found the 28-year-old dead at her home in southern Seoul and reported it to authorities.
The cause of death wasn’t immediately known. Police refused to provide further details.
Goo Hara made her debut in 2008 as a member of the girl group Kara, which had big followings in South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries. She later worked as a solo artiste and appeared on many TV shows.
In May, Goo was reportedly found unconscious at her home and was hospitalized.
She was embroiled last year in public disputes with an ex-boyfriend who claimed to be assaulted by her. Goo accused the man of having threatened to circulate a sex video of her. The case made her the subject of tabloid fodder and malicious online messages.
In October, another K-pop star and actress, Sulli, was found dead at her home near Seoul. The 25-year-old was known for her feminist voice and outspokenness that was rare among female entertainers in deeply conservative South Korea. Before her death, she appeared in a TV show and spoke out against online backlash she received over her lifestyle.


Keeping up with scientific literature and my experience with SciReader.
The march of scientific progress waits for no-one. This is what makes what we do exciting, but also at times overwhelming. It has been rightly noted that keeping up with literature can be a bit of a chore, and even at times disheartening, if we find the exciting ideas we are pursuing have been done before. And yet, my PhD supervisor’s words echo in my head, “an hour in the library could save you a week in the lab.” He has been correct many times.
In order for research to have impact, it must fit its audience, context, and scope. This requires a good understanding of the surrounding scientific literature. Putting aside the fact that reading academic articles is a skill requiring deliberate practice and patient persistence, today’s academic may find themselves deluged by the sheer volume of published research. At the start of medical school, I was told that studying medicine would be like drinking from a fire hydrant. This is doubly true of research, except you cannot be sure when the stream ends or if you are even at the right hydrant. Knowledge and established paradigms become outdated so quickly that they often feel like passing fads.
I’d like to review some methods that I’ve personally tried to stay on top of things. I’ll also go into the latest method I’ve been trying, which makes use of the SciReader recommender engine.
What I’ve tried
In my search to tame the information torrent, I came across the Fraser Lab method at UCSF. In short, they endorse the use of RSS feeds browsed with a central app such as Feedly or InoReader. This method saw me through the last half of my PhD, and often made me the first among my peers to come across relevant new papers. Over a few years, I built up a list of over 600 papers of interest. The downside was the upkeep. Working in an interdisciplinary field, I needed to keep abreast of papers from a wide range of journals, and screening the titles of hundreds of articles for a handful of relevant ones became tedious. I would fall behind whenever deadlines loomed, and after returning to the clinical world, this method fell by the wayside.
What became more useful were the few PubMed search alerts I had set up. This approach has better specificity, but poor sensitivity, which can make it difficulty to discover work in complementary fields. Alternatively, you could use the PubCrawler web service to have matching articles emailed to you.
Do Machine Learning to it
Enter SciReader. As described on the bioRxiv, it is a cloud-based personalized recommender system that uses topic modeling and machine learning. Give it a list of papers or topics of interest and it will return an evolving list of recommended articles. This sounded familiar to me, as I used a similar service called PubChase, which unfortunately closed down a few years ago. But given my struggles, I was willing to give the concept another try.
I created a SciReader account and entered some preliminary information about topics of interest and my own publication list. SciReader takes roughly a day to generate recommendations for you.
SciReader’s parameterization of manuscripts considers article content, metrics of paper quality and relevance, and the activity of other users with similar interests. It performs topic modeling on the complete pubmed corpus by latent dirichlet allocation on the TF-IDF metric with a cosine distance metric. One potential limitation is that it matches based on abstracts only, as full text often sits behind a paywall. This may obscure papers containing findings of interest buried in the results section, but for the most part should suffice for most users.
Detour: Exporting Articles from Feedly
For those wanting a jumpstart, you can export citations from EndNote or Mendeley in BibTeX format and import them. However, as someone who’s changed research fields a few times, and has used these tools to write numerous course papers, I recognized that this would introduce many unrelated topics into the system.
Instead, I turned to my Feedly “Read Later” list, which contained some 700 articles I had specifically flagged as interesting to me. With some javascript magic, I scraped the titles, sources, and URLs of every paper I’d flagged. I filtered these to contain only research articles.
In order to import into Feedly, I needed to convert this data into BibTeX format, which at least requires the author list, year, and journal. Luckily, Google Scholar has the handy ability to find almost any article by its title alone, and helpfully generates citations in BibTeX format. Using a Python Selenium script, I was able to automate the process of pulling down the hundreds of articles in BibTeX format (much to the Google CAPTCHA’s chagrin, but I don’t think I caused any damage). Perhaps someone knows a better way to rapidly convert a set of journal article titles into citations. I then verified that Google Scholar’s resulting articles matched my chosen articles with some fuzzy string matching, using one of my favorite packages FuzzyWuzzy. This gave me a unified BibTeX file to upload into SciReader.
I’ve put the code I used into a GitHub repo. The documentation is admittedly sparse, but it might serve as a launching-off point for someone who wants to do something similar.
The Verdict
SciReader’s engine recommended numerous recent publications clearly linked to my personal area of interest and expertise. It captures results from a wide range of journals. It also does a great job highlighting groundbreaking recent advances in fields adjacent to my own. I suspect this is the combination of topic modeling, quality assessment, and collaborative filtering at work. It might take a little while for me to get a full sense of how well this system works for me, so I will report back down the road.
The site itself can be buggy at times. In particular, I found the “Load more” button (which shows you more recommendations) would sometimes not work, requiring a page reload. Also, during the month of March 2020, the site seemed to be down altogether - I’m not sure who is maintaining it presently.
All in all, this is what I would consider a hacked-together approach to give me one more angle of attack when it comes to dealing with the research literature glut. Whether it translates into actionable insights, I don’t know. But it’s gotten me to think more about how I stay on top of my reading.