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Be Healed Inside and Out

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn looks at the healing of the man who was paralyzed. What does it mean for this paralytic and for us to be healed? From what do we need to be healed?




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Consider the Lilies

Fr. Gregory Hallam reminds us that placing our ultimate hope in net gains through life is an exercise in futility, because, in the end, all that we have accomplished, all the disasters we have avoided, will not endure death, and within a century or so will most probably not even be remembered by our descendants.




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Set the World Upside Down




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Upside Down or Right-side Up?




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Storm Outside; Asleep Inside




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Consider Jesus




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Storm Outside; Asleep Inside




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Consider Jesus




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Consider Jesus




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The Other Side

What is our relationship with those who have gone to heaven? Dr. Rossi reflects on this as well as his remembrance of Fr. Thomas Hopko.




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Meet Chick-Fil-A President Tim Tassopoulos

Did you know that the President and COO of the Chick-Fil-A restaurant chain is an Orthodox Christian? Meet Tim Tassopoulos who in 2016 was tapped by the Cathy family to head the day-to-day operations.




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Dr. Donald Jenkins, Vice President of OCAMPR

Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Donald Jenkins, Clinical Professor in the Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center, in San Antonio, TX, and one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming annual conference of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion, or OCAMPR. For more information about the conference and to register, please click here.




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Interview with Fr. Patrick Viscuso, President of the Orthodox Canon Law Society of North America

Bobby Maddox, the Director of Digital Media for Ancient Faith Ministries, interviews Fr.Patrick Viscuso, the president of the brand new Orthodox Canon Law Society of North America. Pleae visit www.oclsna.org to learn more about the Orthodox Canon Law Society of North America




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Both Sides of the Icons

Fr. Pat considers the case for iconoclasm, for the veneration of icons, and the settling of the issue.




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In the Desert, On the Mountain, and By the Waterside

Fr. Pat preaches on the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness as told in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 4.




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Considering the “Benedict Option” with Rod Dreher

Many Orthodox Christians are wondering how to live and raise their families in an increasingly secularized and anti-Christian culture in the U.S. and Western Europe where many believe Christianity has lost the "culture wars." In this episode of Ancient Faith Today, host Kevin Allen speaks with author and journalist Rod Dreher, of The American Conservative, about what he calls "The Benedict Option."




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The Lord turns your life upside down




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Copywriting: the best side hustle for writers in 2023

Copywriting is the best side hustle for writers in 2023. Discover why it may be a good fit for you, plus how to get started.

The post Copywriting: the best side hustle for writers in 2023 appeared first on Coaching and training to scale your copywriting business, plus programs for new copywriters, startups, and marketers.




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Picking Sides

Black lives matter. All lives matter. What should our response be as Christians?




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★ Consider if this decision is permanent or reversible?

Something for if you’re stuck overthinking something: Very few decisions are permanent. Almost all decisions can be reversed, altered, or adjusted.




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'Borthwick's England face battle to keep fans onside'

How Steve Borthwick's England react to another defeat will be critical with world champions South Africa up next, says rugby union correspondent Chris Jones.




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'Rahm sends Ryder Cup reminder as US warm up with Presidents Cup stroll'

Jon Rahm’s play-off defeat in the Spanish Open by the world number 398 shows golf’s enduring capacity to yield upsets - but this trait rarely extends to the Presidents Cup, writes Iain Carter.




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Community garden helps residents through lockdown

St Pauls residents say the garden helps them to "slow down" during the pandemic.




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Residents jumped from balcony to escape flat fire

Ten people were taken to hospital after the blaze at Niddrie Mill Crescent.




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Boohoo considers break-up as sales slide

The online fashion firm is mulling whether to offload its brands as sales remain under pressure.




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Other sites considered for nuclear waste disposal

Nuclear Waste Services says it is undertaking a range of studies in the search area.




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Riots meant 'I didn't go outside with my hijab'

A report on the summer riots shows asylum seekers and refugees were afraid to leave their homes.




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Residential special school could close next year

Wandsworth Council says the proposed closure of the Broadstairs school is for financial reasons.




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Car left lodged in side of house after crash

The car lodged itself in the side of the building on Sunday, but no-one was injured in the crash.




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Hunting Act: Countryside still divided 20 years on

Hunters claim it is a "way of life", but their opponents say they are breaking the law.




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Town residents fear for future of treasured hotel

The Royal Victoria Hotel, which closed in 2015, is due to undergo emergency repairs.




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The EFL sides in danger of an FA Cup upset

Burton Albion and Morecambe are among the EFL sides facing non-league opposition in the FA Cup first round.




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Kingsway residents seek more access roads to reduce congestion

Reporter Duncan Cook has been finding out more.




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Investigation after man found dead inside his home

Police are asking for anyone with doorbell or dashcam footage of the man to come forward.




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Inside an abandoned Essex RAAC school

St Andrew's Junior School in Hatfield Peverel might not be completely rebuilt until 2028.




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World champion Payne aims to boost sidecar profile

World sidecar champion Harry Payne plans to also compete in the British Championship next year to help boost his profile.




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Birmingham residents face 'cruel' price rises

The cost of hundreds of council services will increase in Birmingham ahead of a planned 10 per cent council tax hike.




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Hereford's global grilling megastars go stateside

The Beefy Boys are in the running to be crowned the World's Best Burger!




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The dark side of nursery rhymes

A Coventry teacher has written a play about the attempted murder of Humpty Dumpty.




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Care home residents pose for fundraising calendar

The project's organiser says she wants to show the vibrant lives led by the care home residents.




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LiveSide is retiring, thanks for all your support

All good things must come to an end, and this blog is no exception. When Chris Overd, Matthew Weyer, and Harrison Hoffman founded LiveSide.net back in December of 2005 (LiveSide’s first post was on January 3rd, 2006, …




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Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)

Update: The title of this post was originally a knowing nod to the considered harmful cliché. I thought it might be amusing and get a bit of attention. However it was brought to my attention by a few people I respect that the title as written might be harmful in itself, so I changed it. However I believe that the subtle point I’m trying to make still stands:

When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text? Many places you look nowadays you'll see a variation on:

.prose {
  max-inline-size: 60ch;
}

Is it because of a direct reading of Bringhurst and people (like me) who’ve quoted him:

Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size. The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal. For multiple column work, a better average is 40 to 50 characters.

I get it: there’s all that talk of ’characters’. But that’s not what Bringhurst means literally. I’ll come back to that shortly.

Firstly let’s remind ourselves about the CSS ch unit. While ch sounds like it should equate to a number of characters or a character width, that’s not strictly the case. The ch unit specifically refers to the width of the zero ’0’ character within the selected font, or 0.5em if no ’0’ is present. So unless you have a line made up entirely of zeroes, or are using a monospaced font, a width of 66ch will probably not give you a line containing 66 characters. What’s more, the rendered width of that line will vary with the font design, sometimes significantly.

Two text blocks are set to 34 ch wide, but the use of a condensed font (top) and an expanded font (bottom) makes the rendered width narrower and wider respectively.

The important part of Bringhurst’s guideline is not the ’66-characters’ but the ’satisfactory length’. This is about readability, and readability is affected by the length of a line more so than the number of characters in it.

A consistent finding is that long line lengths on screen are least preferred or judged as least easy to read [my emphasis]

With that in mind, restricting your line length using rem would be a far more appropriate unit to use:

.prose {
  max-inline-size: 30rem;
}

This would give you a line length accessibly tied to text size, but independent of font design.

But is using ch harmful?

Bringhurst’s guideline includes this little caveat: a page set in a serifed text face in a text size. This enables him to equate the number of characters in a line with its length. So if you are using a fairly standard typeface for your text then you’ll probably be fine. However that ’standard typeface’ assumption is implicit anytime you use ch to set the width of a column of text. Using rem removes that assumption and gives you what you are probably really after – a consistent, predictable limit on line length.

It didn’t surprise me to find that Eric Meyer had written about this six years ago. I’ll leave you with an important observation from his post:

If you’re working with multiple typefaces, say one for headlines and another for body copy, be careful about setting ch measures and thinking they’ll be equivalent between the two fonts. The odds are very, very high they won’t be.

So is using ch harmful? At the risk of saying it depends, it might not be harmful, but it could be, and there is a far more reliable and appropriate unit to use by way of the rem when it comes to limiting line length in a column of text.

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Corporate subsidies are out of control

Trying to entice businesses is expensive and ineffective




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Protect Michigan's Presidential Votes

Lawmakers should resist National Popular Vote




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La présidente du Conseil national des barreaux répond aux critiques

INTERVIEW. << J'aurais souhaite une contribution plus prospective et moins desobligeante a l'egard des barreaux de province >>, reagit M e Julie Couturier au rapport du P r Jamin.






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Risk-based operation of plug-in electric vehicles in a microgrid using downside risk constraints method

To achieve the benefits as much as possible, it is required to identify the available PEV capacity and prepare scheduling plans based on that. The analysis revealed that the risk-based scheduling of the microgrid could reduce the financial risk completely from $9.89 to $0.00 and increases the expected operation cost by 24% from $91.38 to $112.94, in turn. This implies that the risk-averse decision-maker tends to spend more money to reduce the expected risk-in-cost by using the proposed downside risk management technique. At the end, by the help of fuzzy satisfying method, the suitable risk-averse strategy is determined for the studied case.




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Encouraging Girls to Consider a Career in ICT: A Review of Strategies




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A prototype for intelligent diet recommendations by considering disease and medical condition of the patient

The patient must follow a good diet to lessen the risk of health conditions. The body needs vitamins, minerals, and nutrients for illness prevention. When the human body does not receive the right amount of nutrients, nutritional disorders can develop, which can cause a number of different health issues. Chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension can be brought on by dietary deficiencies. The human body receives the nutrients from a balanced diet to function properly. This research has a prototype that enables patients to find nutritious food according to their health preferences. It suggests meals based on their preferences for nutrients such as protein, fibre, high-fibre, low-fat, etc., and diseases such as pregnancy and diabetes. The process implements the recommendation based on the patient's profile (content-relied, K-NN), recommendation relied on patients with similar profiles, and recommendation based on the patient's past or recent activity.