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Since June, Byrd Baggett has been a regular guest on the SU faculty teleseminar as he shares a 4 part series called "Going Deep - How to Grow Your Career and Life to the Level of Significance"

The earlier sessions were powerful! Instructive! Emotionally stirring! In short the first two calls were some of the most touching events I have ever been involved in... until now!

If you think this all sounds like hype, I challenge you to discover the power of this message by joining us on Wednesday August 15 at 8pm Central as we continue on this potentially life changing journey.

Byrd Baggett
Wednesday, August 15 at 8pm Central
(512) 225-9483
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Hi Millionaire,

When you are ready to "Go Deep" in your life and you grow to the level of significance, you would be wise indeed to carefully select a guide for your journey. We want to inspire you to celebrate your entrepreneurial spirit and challenge you to be your best.

Byrd Baggett is one of the best people I could ask to guide us to the other side, to that place of freedom, success and happiness. A significant life.

In this session, entitled "Drought Proof" - How to harness the transformational power of perseverance" Byrd Baggett will show us how to incorporate the power of perseverance into our lives. You will learn how to look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

Following are some of the powerful, practical, and applicable insights that will be shared:

How to conquer fear


How to overcome the addiction of perfection


"The Rule of Ten" - You will learn five simple acts of daily disciplinethat will transform your life, both personally and professionally.

Success University listeners will be the first to hear these powerful insights!

Make plans to join us, as Byrd shows us how to grow to the richly rewarding Season of Significance. As participants from Byrd's previous sessions will attest, this promises to be a transformational experience.



Who is Byrd Baggett?

Byrd Baggett's passion and expertise is helping people and teams grow to the level of significance. His presentations are as original and memorable as his name. His mission is to transform people and teams by teaching them the skills essential to developing relationships that stand the tests of time and change.

Byrd is the world's most prolific creator of original quotes and acronyms. He is the author of over 2,500 quotes and acronyms that have been published in thirteen best-selling books, including four on the topic of leadership. These books have sold in excess of one million copies and have been published in nine languages. His quotes and articles on leadership, sales, motivation, and customer service have been featured in many publications, including Reader's Digest, Bits & Pieces, Guide Posts, and Selling Power magazine.

He achieved All American status as a collegiate athlete, had successful careers with two Fortune 500 companies, and built a successful multi-million dollar business. Byrd's powerful words, coupled with his engaging real-life stories, celebrate the winning spirit and challenge people to discover the winner within.



A standing ovation for Byrd Baggett:

I can't remember when I've received 100% positive comments from any company-sponsored event. What you accomplished is beyond the reach of your peers. Your passion for your Mission, your love for people, and your commitment to excellence is a combination that I've not experienced before in my 30 years in the business world. Thanks to you, we at Protective Life have a renewed sense of purpose and a developing vision on what it takes to become effective leaders.
~Dave Keyes, Senior Vice President, Protective Life Corporation

I have been associated with training and development for thirty years and have heard some truly excellent presentations, and yours is as good as it gets! As long as there are individuals like you delivering the powerful message of servant leadership, there is hope for organizations.
~Gary Sullivan, Indian River Community College

I just wanted to thank you for the positive impact you've had on my life. I now have a new enthusiasm about my business and personal life. I have become a better husband, father, friend, and leader of my business from listening to you speak.
~Andy Malone, 2005 Agent of the Year, Farmers Insurance

I would like to highlight several unique characteristics that make your work so specialÉ An incredible ability to connect with people on a personal level, a sincere passion and interest in helping people grow, and the ability to positively impact everyone with several memorable quotes to call upon in times of reflection in our daily lives. I recommend your services to anyone wishing to inspire and expand their capabilities for achieving true success and happiness, both professionally and personally.
~Joel Goode, Gilead Sciences

As a member of Success University you get access to all these faculty calls plus lots more as part of your membership. Has the cost of a cup of coffee a day ever brought you so much?

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One of my programming dreams from long ago has finally come true. When I was a kid, I was really interested in Astronomy. During High School when I experimented with programming, one of the things I wanted to do was enter all the star locations, distances, and brightnesses into a data file and program the view of the sky from anywhere on the Earth at anytime.

I had a 300 page book with all the star information. But with everything else I was doing and with my computer chess work I was doing, I didn't have the time to enter 15,000 stars onto punched cards. They didn't have the Internet then to download the data. Nor did they have scanners to make data entry easy.

They have for awhile had many good sky programs and many of them are Open Source and free. The one I've heard best things about is Celestia, but I've never got to trying it myself. It was only a year ago that I got a computer that would be powerful enough for it.

But now, the company who is making it really happen again is ... you guessed it ... Google. Google Maps is great online, but Google Earth is amazing for its 3-D rendering. So now they have: Google Sky. With the new version 4.2 of Google Earth, you can switch from earth view to sky view and do in sky view what you can do in earth view. The links to images of objects and Wikipedia information makes it a wonderful tool.

But 20 minutes is about all I can spend on it. Behold's current version expires in 9 days so I've got to wrap up my changes quickly and get the new version out fast.

I apologise. Last night when I used my e-mailing program to send out the Behold News, the program timed out twice. Each time I had to restart it and I had never done that before. It was supposed to start up where it left off, but I found that 82 people ended up getting two of my mailings. That wasn't intended and I hope those who got two copies were not too annoyed.

On the download page, in the "how did you find out about Behold" box, I just got an answer that says: "Another person who uses it". Now that's how I would love everyone to find out about it!

On Thursday, I'm going to Vancouver for a cousin's wedding. So I'll probably be away from my e-mail for a few days, but I'll respond to any messages I miss when I get back.

Finally! There are now bookmarks for the spouse and the family information. The bookmarks now internally use the GEDCOM ID number rather than the Behold generated number. The hyperlinks and Forward/Backward functions seem to work as they should. The forward/backward locations will deactivate if they cease to exist after the file is reorganized. And the right-mouse clicks select the person at the cursor correctly. That seems to be done and I've fixed a few related bugs along the way. There may be one or two bugs in the new code that I missed, but I'll rigorously test for them during the upcoming beta.

I really didn't want that to take three weeks, but if I work hard, I still may be able to get the beta out by my self-imposed deadline of the end of October, if I'm lucky.

Next: to clean up the error and warning messages in the log file.

Time for a bit of an interlude. There are a few things I found that don't work exactly right. Any hidden items need the sources they contain to be hidden as well. Hidden items must be numbered differently. References to notes are not being displayed. Concatenated lines used for titles of sources and citations are not being processed correctly.

I could fix each of these individually by adding patches to my code. For the hidden items, that code is already in a dozen places and already has gone through several versions of improvements. That all happened while I was still building my final data structure. Doing the patching would take time and would have to be done case by case checking each one along the way. Rather than doing that, it's probably worth my time right now to rework two important parts of Behold.

The first is to rework my input routine so that the Concatenated lines are pre-concatenated. Then I won't have to check for them everywhere. This would involve pre-reading the next line, and that's a little tougher than it sounds because of the way I've "globalized" that routine. It should only take a day or two.

The second and more important task is to get my five different types of GEDCOM objects that I'm handling combined into just two, and have both of them use a similar data structure, thus merging the separate functions into single ones that will work in all cases. This will "formalize" my implementation of what I call Behold's "Extended GEDCOM" data structure. There are two structures involved: Records and Links. Each can have subordinate data. Records can contain Links. Links always point to Records and can contain other Links. When a Link contains subordinate data, it becomes a citation. Now that may all sound confusing to you, and you need not worry about it, but the exact structure has been eluding me up to last night. It took a bike ride, a 2 a.m. awakening, and a shower for me to finally figure it out.

The nice thing about doing this now is that the beta coming up will be perfect to ensure this improved implementation is all bug free. Nothing on the outside will change because of it. The Everything Report will look the same except some bugs will be fixed. The code will be simplified and generalized, hopefully becoming somewhat faster because of improved data structures. But future changes will be much easier, and Behold will be better prepared for the reading in of data directly from other programs, and later for GEDCOM output and editing.

If all goes well, this all could be done within a week or two. Then back to the show.

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Fr. John shares about the healing of the paralytic in John 5. "Let us endure whatever hardships we may face in this life and accept them as being for our salvation, so that a worse thing will not come upon us. Having been healed of our sins, we may rise up on that final day and enter into Paradise."

"Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda," from Feasts of Christ and the Theotokos and Miracles of the Lord by Spiritual Fragrance Publishing (2012)

Fr. Ted asks whether you will choose to be a person of the light or a person of the darkness.

Fr. Ted reminds us that more important than our sinfulness is the mercy of God.

Fr. Apostolos Hill shares a short homily reflecting on the Gospel theme of the second Bridegroom Matins service.

The White House sides with Israel's ground assault of Lebanon while much of the world calls for a ceasefire. / Al Jazeera

Meanwhile, Iran is said to be preparing to launch a ballistic-missile attack. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

A long profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book criticizes Israel and the corrupting influence of power. "I'm sad, but I was so enraged." / New York Magazine

Things to watch for in tonight's Vance-Walz debate. / Wake Up to Politics

Helene slamming a small town in North Carolina may disrupt the global supply chain for microchips. / NPR

A nuclear plant in Michigan will be the first in US history to restart. / CNBC

Your weekly white paper: "A systematic review about similarities in dog-human dyads." / Science Direct

A fascinating survey of how religious believers are using new technologies in their daily practices. / rest of world

An audio dive into Google's new niche product Notebook, which can turn a bunch of PDFs into a convincing podcast. / The New York Times [+]

See also: Barry C. Lynn on "Liberal democracy's last stand against Big Tech." / Harper's

From July, have you seen the trend of new books using multi-panel illustrations on their covers? They're called "bento books." / I Need a Book Cover

A celebrated new short story collection is about "people who just can't hang." / The New Yorker

Also, have you noticed worse service at restaurants lately? For the sake of society, that might be a good thing. / Economist Writing Every Day

See also: Britain experiences a rise in "zebra striping," where pub patrons alternate between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer. / Semafor

Japan's smaller museums are praised for their elegance. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

Photographs of Japanese forests shimmering with fireflies. / Colossal

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In light of Israel's incursion into southern Lebanon, a look back at its 1982 invasion that became an 18-year occupation. / Politico Magazine

Viewers say last night's vice presidential debate was an even match, and an overwhelming majority felt the tone was positive. / CBS News

Interviews with 10-year-olds about the presidential election: "I wouldn't like someone who committed crimes to be my president." / CNN

A fact-check finds that no, there are not 13,099 illegal immigrant murders roaming free on American streets. / Alex Nowrasteh

See also: Researchers say a second Trump term could add an extra 4 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere by 2030. / Grist

A visit to Michigan and China shows how the US lost the solar power race. In short? Good old capitalism. / Bloomberg

New milk-tea chains in China have an aesthetic known as guochao, meaning "national and hip." / The New Yorker

Geologists make the counterintuitive case that Mount Everest is growing taller thanks to erosion. / Smithsoniian Magazine

DNA testing company 23andMe is sinking quickly, partly because it's run out of customers. / WIRED

Drug developers are developing birth control pills aimed at male Gen Zers and millennials. / axios

A study finds cannabis enhances the enjoyment of music, "confirming what every stoner already knows." / Marijuana Moment

A smartphone in San Francisco's Mission District is broadcasting what songs are currently playing nearby. / Bop Spotter

Video of "a particularly beautiful" murmuration of starlings observed in The Netherlands. / Kottke

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