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There have been professing Christians who have given testimonies, over time, about visiting Hell.    The few that I heard have told of satan’s (and other devils) power in Hell to torment and hurt those in Hell, as though satan is the chief angel in Hell, ruling and giving orders and hurting all who are doomed to this eternal place of torment.

But since I have left the Charismatic Movement, in 2012, I have been reading and re-reading the entire Bible in context, weighing all previous thoughts, doctrines, and teachings that I received, against the Word of God.

And so I wanted to post Scriptures today which tell of satan’s time in Hell, to see if indeed satan will be “ruling Hell” as a dictator and lord or if he will actually be in for a time of eternal torment, to help others learn what Scripture actually says about this event.

Isaiah 14

7 – The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
they break forth into singing.

8 – The cypresses rejoice at you,
the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.’

9 – Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.

10 – All of them will answer
and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!’
Isaiah 14:10 shows us that satan will be WEAK and not powerful in Hell!  He may have power to deceive and trouble people during this present age, but he will not be leading, or deceiving, or troubling anyone once he is confined to Hell!
Reading further in Isaiah 14, we read:

11 – Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
and worms are your covers.

Isaiah 14:11 shows us that satan will also have no pomp or glory or position of authority in Hell!  He

will be covered with worms and maggots, the same as every disobedient person who will end up in Hell (Mark 9:43-49).

 Isaiah 14 continues:
12 – “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!

13 – You said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;c

14 – I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’

15 – But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.

16 – Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,

17 – who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who did not let his prisoners go home?’

18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb;d

19 – but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.

20 – You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
Here, Isaiah 14:16 shows us that there will be no one who will be afraid of satan once he is over-thrown by the Lord Jesus Christ.   He will be thrown into Hell (vs 15) and people will be astonished that such a weak creature ever had any ability to deceive and torment the Earth’s inhabitants at all.  Note: I have no idea if only the people alive on earth will see satan in his weak state, as described in Isaiah 14:16, or if the people in Hell will be able to see this as well, but one thing is for sure, and that is that satan will be weak and without authority even in hell! (Isaiah 14:11).
And then there are the Scriptures found in Ezekiel 28 which support these statements, as we read:
11 – Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me:
12 – “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God:
“You were the signet of perfection,a
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty
13 – You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone was your covering,
sardius, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire,b emerald, and carbuncle;
and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings.c
On the day that you were created they were prepared.
14 – You were an anointed guardian cherub.
I placed you;d you were on the holy mountain of God;
in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
15 – You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created,
till unrighteousness was found in you.
16 – In the abundance of your trade
you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you,e O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I exposed you before kings,
to feast their eyes on you.
18 – By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your trade
you profaned your sanctuaries;
so I brought fire out from your midst;
it consumed you,  and I turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all who saw you.
19 – All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you;
you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.”

 Ezekiel 28 confirms what Isaiah 14 taught, which is that satan will be a weak, despised, and lowly creature, with no authority or management position in Hell.   He will be “turned to ashes” (Ezekiel 28:18) even on the Earth in the sight of the people who will still be alive at the End of the Wrath of God, and all the peoples will be appalled at satan’s weak and dreadful (or “horrible” – NIV or “terrible” NLT) end!
And below is another thought … Isaiah 66 says:

22 – “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.
23 – From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord.
24 – “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled
against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns
them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

Isaiah 66 teaches that those alive in the Millennium will be able to actually see into Hell and see the dead covered in worms that do not die, and covered in fire that never stops burning.   I believe they will also see satan at this time, and again, they will be “appalled” by satan, amazed that the great deceiver has come to such a pitiful and weak end (Ezekiel 28:19 and Isaiah 14:16).

Question:  Where will this opening into Hell be, so that all the inhabitants of the Earth can look upon those who are dead?
The Bible does not say, but every year all of the inhabitants of the Earth who are alive during the Millennium, must go before the Lord yearly, to worship. (This teaching is found in Zechariah 14:16-21.)
Will it be somewhere around that geographical region, that an opening into Hell will be seen, where the people going up to worship the King of all the Earth, can look down into Hell to see the torment of the dead?
And think of this:  At the end of the Millennium, satan will be released from his torment in Hell to once again deceive the inhabitants of the Earth.  (This teaching is found in Revelation 20:3 and in Revelation 20:7-10)
What person in their right mind could go yearly past an opening into Hell, and see and hear the torment of those held captive in Hell for all eternity, and then when given the opportunity at the End of the Thousand Year Millennium, rebel against the King of kings and Lord of lord, the Lord Jesus Christ?
Now that is some powerful deception that satan has over man-kind!  And that is some huge hatred against God and some wickedly sinful hearts that people have, who will turn against a King Who brings peace to Earth!!
It is absolutely mind-boggling to me.
And to me, the whole scene shows the mercy of God Who will give people a visual of Hell for 1,000 years in order to try to convince them to stay away from the eternal torment of Hell by staying away from the great deceiver, satan, when he is released at the end of the Thousand Years.
And people, the mercy of God is speaking today too, trying to warn us all to stay away from the great deceiver, whose end will be in a weakened state, in an eternal Hell of fire and torment.
I pray that all who read this post will indeed stay away from false doctrines of devils (by weighing all teachings against the Word of God!) and stay away from the sin which so easily entangles us!
Please people, cling to Jesus Christ and His Word in order to save yourselves from the Wrath of God which is soon to come and from eternal Hell.
Are you ready for Christ’s Return?

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#LambOfGod   #Revelation   #satan
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How to be Happy

1-Be your self:

You may wonder: everybody is saying that…what’s the point?what does it mean!?…..well,being your self means to accept who you are…respect your interests. Be natural and spontaneous, just don’t be fake and don’t try to copy others “you were born original… Don’t die a copy
2-Feed your soul:

Someone who is far from God,will never feel happy. Because sinful person always feel guilty and not comfortable.”Allah”is your way for happiness .So,just be good,treat others right and don’t break your relashionship with God.
3-Find new hobbies:

Find new hobbies that suit your personality… Ex: drawing, yoga,singing…..will surely help you to feel better.
4-Avoid negative people:

-Try to hangout with optimistic and positive people.

-Avoid people who do criticize you …like all day long.

-Choose your friends.

-Hangout with people who treat you right.
5-Avoid stress:

Be organized,use planners to organize your work.Also,take breaks and why not practice yoga.

I Hope that you will find these tips effective.

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What is in a name?

My name is rather common and plain. It is not one you would mispronounce unless you are seeking do so with purpose. In my travels, work life, and friendship circles, I have met and married and associated and navigated relationships with many folk. Some with hard to pronounce names and others with exceedingly easy for my tongue to recall.
The thing that has irked me the most are people I meet from far away shores who live near me here in America who have absolutely lovely names. Names that their parents almost certainly thought long and hard about. Perhaps discussed long into the night. Prayed over. Had ceremonies to imbue the name. But as soon as an American mispronounced the name, they would alter its pronunciation simply to ease tensions, calm prejudices, or worse ‘Americanize’ the name. Whatever that means. I met a young man who enjoys Chinese heritage. He was introduced to me as Lee. Upon further discussion I learned it’s spelled Le. So I asked him, “Is your name Lee or Le?” He replied Le, but everyone pronounces it Lee. I asked why that was so when that was not his given name? He supposed that “… It was easier for Americans to call him that.” I was saddened that a man would lose his identity and nationality. Le is Chinese. Lee is typically Japanese. I had never yet called him Lee and do not intend to start.

Then my mind wandered, as it often does, to the bible. I began to wonder why is the name of the persons in the sixty six books so important? Their lineage. Their surnames. Their heralding comes from their name. Someone is always named something son of someone or somebody daughter of something. More than that, the name is rarely Americanized. Beersheba.  Malachi. Uzziah. Gershom. Abram. All are uniquely biblical but are not so complex that they defy repetition. But others are complex and clearly without much amusement from its original pronunciation. Aminadab. Naasson. Obed. (Matthew 1:4,5) Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai (Numbers 1:6)
But then the is Mary and Joseph. Mary? Joseph? I’m pretty sure these names are not common in the days leading up to the birth of Jesus. So what we’re their names? I looked.

Mary was Maria Mariam pronunced mar-ee’-ah mar-ee-am’ or mirjam.

Joseph was Iōsēph pronounced ee-oh-safe’

Honestly I like their original names better. They speak more to their namesake and heritage and direction in life. The appropriation of their names for the palatability of the masses is of little interest to me. I hope that in time I will slowly replace their common speak names with the names spoken by Γαβριήλ, or as we pronounce it, Gabriel an angel of the LORD.

It is my prayer that we seek to know one another better. To seek relationship with one another as human to human. Heart to heart. And it starts with a name. Our real name.


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Short of G.G. Allin, it would be hard to name a punk rock band that went further to establish a bad reputation than the Dwarves. Playing deliberately crude, high-speed punk rock dripping with bad attitude, the Dwarves -- led by vocalist Blag Dahlia and guitarist He Who Cannot Be Named -- matched their music with lyrics that celebrated all sorts of bad behavior, and their album covers almost invariably featured full frontal nudity. Add in the band's live shows, which often lasted less than 20 minutes and occasionally included a physical assault on the audience, and you have a recipe for infamy, which the Dwarves rode to a lasting cult following.

The Dwarves began in Chicago as a teen garage rock outfit called the Suburban Nightmare, and the garage/psych sound was partially carried over into the first Dwarves release, 1986's Horror Stories. After the first album, the Dwarves relocated to San Francisco and evolved into a faster and sleazier punk rock outfit, as documented on the 1988 EP Lucifer's Crank. In 1990, the Dwarves signed with Sub Pop Records and released their most notorious album, Blood Guts & Pussy, a ten-song, 13-minute assault packaged in a sleeve that featured two naked women covered in blood and a nude dwarf covering his midsection with a rabbit. Blood, Guts & Pussy became the talk of the underground music press, and the Dwarves blazed across the country on tour, leaving a trail of blood from their own self-inflicted gashes, a bagful of drug stories (according to popular myth, bassist XXXXX disappeared in Detroit on a crack binge during a 1992 tour, never to be heard from again), a litany of bizarre stage-show sex acts, and the wreckage of numerous 15-minute-long live shows.

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As a werewolf liaison to the Council of Preternaturals, Tori Joseph is used to straddling the world between humans and immortals. She plays by the rules and always delivers justice, no matter the cost. But after a string of increasingly brutal attacks results in humans turning into werewolves, Tori doesn't reveal her horrifying suspicion: Someone very close to her might be responsible.

Investigating the paranormal violence, no-nonsense detective Dante MacMillan believes Tori is hiding something. His search for the truth draws him into greater danger as he gets closer to the dark realm of the immortals-and to the sexy werewolf who stirs his primal lust. Now with evil closing in around them, Dante must convince Tori to trust him . . . before her deadly secret destroys them both.

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Nonpher: computational method for design of hard-to-synthesize structures

Journal of Cheminformatics20179:20

Received: 13 December 2016

Accepted: 11 March 2017

Published: 20 March 2017

In cheminformatics, machine learning methods are typically used to classify chemical compounds into distinctive classes such as active/nonactive or toxic/nontoxic. To train a classifier, a training data set must consist of examples from both positive and negative classes. While a biological activity or toxicity can be experimentally measured, another important molecular property, a synthetic feasibility, is a more abstract feature that can’t be easily assessed. In the present paper, we introduce Nonpher, a computational method for the construction of a hard-to-synthesize virtual library. Nonpher is based on a molecular morphing algorithm in which new structures are iteratively generated by simple structural changes, such as the addition or removal of an atom or a bond. In Nonpher, molecular morphing was optimized so that it yields structures not overly complex, but just right hard-to-synthesize. Nonpher results were compared with SAscore and dense region (DR), other two methods for the generation of hard-to-synthesize compounds. Random forest classifier trained on Nonpher data achieves better results than models obtained using SAscore and DR data.

Synthetic feasibility Molecular complexity Molecular morphing

Virtual screening is a well-established approach in which possible biologically active molecules are searched in the large collections of available screening compounds [1, 2]. However, virtual screening generates structures mostly similar to known ones. If new chemotypes are to be identified, virtual compounds can be assembled from scratch using de novo design [3] that, typically, generates thousands of potentially novel compounds. Because it is unrealistic to synthesize and test so many compounds [4], their synthetic accessibility is assessed and compounds difficult to synthesize are removed from the virtual library. The assessment of compound synthetic feasibility can be done either manually, or computationally. But, due to a large number of structures, a manual examination is usually impractical. In addition, it has been demonstrated that medicinal chemists are not very consistent in identifying synthetically unfeasible compounds [57]. Thus, computational methods were developed as an alternative means for compound synthetic feasibility assessment [8]. These can be roughly divided into two groups [9]. In a retrosynthetic approach [1013], a target molecule is decomposed to starting materials by breaking bonds that can be easily created by known chemical reactions. The retrosynthetic approach requires the databases of both starting materials and reactions annotated with yields and reaction conditions. Not only that keeping these databases up-to-date is a difficult task, but retrosynthetic methods are also, due to their high computational demands, not suitable for large-scale predictions. Another approach of synthetic accessibility assessment is based on the complexity of a structure itself. An assumption behind this approach is that more complex structures are harder to synthesize. However, due to the ambiguous and context dependent definition of molecular complexity [14], its evaluation is not an easy task. Simple and commonly used complexity metrics is a molecular weight. More sophisticated complexity measures (e.g., Bertz [15], Whitlock [16], BC [17], or SMCM [18] indices) are calculated from a number of atoms, bonds, rings, and/or hard-to-synthesize motifs, such as chiral centers or uncommon ring fusions. While a complexity approach is fast enough for primary screening, it has also its limitation: it removes complex molecules that can be actually synthesized from already existing complex precursors. To overcome this problem, Ertl suggested [9] an SAscore prediction model based on the occurrence of molecular circular fragments [19] in the database of synthetically accessible compounds.

Another way how to assess synthetic accessibility is to use supervised machine learning approaches [20], such as support vector machines, artificial neural networks or random forests (RF). To train a binary classifier requires a training data set consisting of both positive (i.e., easy-to-synthesize) and negative (i.e., hard-to-synthesize) examples. While positive examples can be selected from the database of existing compounds, such as PubChem [21] or ZINC [22], no equivalent database is available for negative examples. Nevertheless, as negative examples can be used compounds with SAscore higher than 6 [9]. Alternatively, in a dense region (DR) approach [20], easy-to-synthesize compounds are identified as these coming from the dense and hard-to-synthesize compounds from the sparse regions of chemical space. For a given compound, chemical space density is evaluated by calculating the number of its nearest neighbors. However, both SAscore and DR methods assess already existing structures a majority of which is, in principle, amenable to synthesis. Thus we developed Nonpher, a method for the construction of hard-to-synthesize virtual compounds which is based on a previously published molecular morphing approach [23]. Using Nonpher, a virtual library of 1,706,950 hard-to-synthesize compounds was constructed (Additional file 1). This library was then used to build a random forest classification model. The quality of this model was verified by predicting the synthetic accessibility of 40 hard-to-synthesize compounds collected carefully from literature. In addition, this model outperformed similar models trained on data constructed by SAscore [9] and DR [20] approaches.

Nonpher description

Nonpher is a methodology for the generation of hard-to-synthesize structures. The input to Nonpher is an existing structure, further referred to as a starting structure that gradually undergoes simple structural variations, such as the addition/removal/change of an atom or a bond. This process is called molecular morphing [23] and structures that form a morphing path are called morphs. In Nonpher, any structure can be used as a starting structure. A new morph is generated from the starting structure by a random choice of a structural variation (e.g., atom deletion) and by a random choice of a place in the starting structure where this variation is applied. The process is stochastic and generates, in a stepwise manner, linear paths from a starting structure. With the lengthening of a morphing path, morphs get more complex and after a certain number of steps they can be considered as synthetically unfeasible. However, if morphing is terminated too late, morphs get excessively complex (Fig. 1; Additional file 2: Figure S1). Thus, the number of morphing steps must be optimized so that structural variations that lead to a change in a synthetic accessibility are captured just after they appear. In Nonpher, the optimum number of morphing steps is obtained for each morphing path by monitoring morph complexity using the Bertz [15], Whitlock [16], BC [17], and SMCM [18] complexity indices as implemented in the RDKit cheminformatics toolkit [24], version Q1 2014.
Fig. 1

The example of the generation of a hard-to-synthesize compound. In molecular morphing, a path of molecules (morphs) that differ only by small structural perturbations is constructed. The compound in a red rectangle was identified as hard-to-synthesize, compounds beyond this point become overly complex

Construction of training set

To train a binary classifier, the training data set \( S_{train} \) must consist of both positive (i.e., compounds that are relatively easy to synthesize) and negative (i.e., compounds that are hard to synthesize) examples. These subsets will be further denoted as \( S_{train}^{ + } \) and \( S_{train}^{ - } \), respectively. In the Nonpher approach, the \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data set was generated by molecular morphing [23] as described in the previous section. The \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data set was formed by compounds randomly chosen from the ZINC12 database [22]. ZINC12 contains over 30 million commercially available compounds and represents, after the exclusion of natural products, a reliable source of structures that can be prepared by current organic synthesis methods.

Construction of test set

The performance of a binary classifier is assessed using a test set \( S_{test} \) that consists of both positive (\( S_{test}^{ + } \)) and negative (\( S_{test}^{ - } \)) samples not used for model building [25]. To evaluate Nonpher performance, \( S_{test}^{ - } \) compounds were obtained by the analysis of 296 published structures which ease of synthesis was assessed by experienced medicinal chemists. 12 compounds came from the SYLVIA paper [12], 100 structures from the RASA paper [11], 40 structures from the SAscore paper [9], and 144 molecules were randomly selected [26] from the KEGG DRUG database [27, 28]. Based both on original chemists’ scores, as well as on scores given by the SAscore [9], FA4 [26], SYLVIA [12] and RASA [11] methods, the final \( S_{test}^{ - } \) data set of 40 hard-to-synthesize was assembled. A complementary \( S_{test}^{ + } \) data set consists of 20 structures that were identified as easy-to-synthesize in the SAscore paper [9] enriched by 100 randomly selected ZINC12 structures. The test set is available in the SMILES format as Additional file 3.

Construction of SAscore and DR sets

The quality of the Nonpher \( S_{train}^{ - } \) library was compared with the \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data sets constructed using the SAscore [9] and dense region (DR) [20] approaches. SAscore was calculated for the whole ZINC12 database (22,723,223 compounds) and 54,750 structures that exceeded the recommended threshold of 6 [9] formed the \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data set. The same number of \( S_{train}^{ + } \) structures were randomly selected from ZINC12 compounds with the SAscore lower than 4 (Additional file 4). This threshold was chosen to ensure that \( S_{train}^{ + } \) and \( S_{train}^{ - } \) sets contain compounds with markedly different complexities.

DR approach [20] is based on the assumption that synthetically feasible compound lies in rather dense part of chemical space (i.e., it has many structurally similar neighbors), while unfeasible compound occupies a sparse chemical space region. The \( S_{train}^{ + } \) and \( S_{train}^{ - } \) DR data sets were constructed from the Molecular Libraries Small Molecule Repository (MLSMR) downloaded from PubChem [21] on 15. 7. 2015. As recommended by the authors, \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data set consists of MLSMR compounds with 20 or more nearest neighbors and \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data set of MLSMR compounds with up to one neighbor [20]. To identify structurally similar neighbors, compounds were represented by 512-bit Morgan fingerprints with the radius of 2 (RDKit equivalent to widely adopted ECFP4 fingerprint [19]) and their similarity was assessed by the Tanimoto coefficient, threshold of which was set to 0.6. The \( S_{train}^{ + } \) DR data set contains 113,176 structures and the \( S_{train}^{ - } \) DR data set contains 50,345 structures (Additional file 5).

Random forest classifier

The classification was performed by a random forest (RF), a method proven in various chemoinformatics applications [2931]. In a random forest, the ensemble of decision trees using random subsets of features is generated from the bootstrapped sample of compounds. The advantage of a random forest is that no feature selection is required to achieve high classification accuracy and that predictions are rather robust to changes in model parameters. For classification purposes, all structures were encoded as 512-bit Morgan fingerprints with radius 2 and random forest classifier consisting of 100 trees implemented in Scikit-learn [32] was used.

The quality of proposed libraries of hard-to-synthesize structures was assessed by evaluating the performance of RF models that were built using individual \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data sets augmented with corresponding \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data sets. To assess RF model performance, overall classification accuracy Acc, a sensitivity SN, specificity SP and an area under a ROC curve AUC was calculated for a test set. A classification accuracy Acc gives the percentage of correctly classified samples regardless their class. Though Acc is a commonly used performance measure, it is less suitable for imbalanced data. A trivial classifier that assigns every data point into a majority class can still achieve a high accuracy. For imbalanced data, a classification accuracy can be calculated both for positive and negative classes independently. The percentage of a correctly predicted positive class is known as sensitivity (SN) and the percentage of a correctly predicted negative class is known as specificity (SP).
$$ {\text{Accuracy}}\, \left( {Acc} \right) = \frac{TP + TN}{TP + FN + FP + TN} $$
$$ {\text{Sensitivity}}\, \left( {\text{SN}} \right) = \frac{TP}{TP + FN} $$
$$ {\text{Specificity}}\, \left( {SP} \right) = \frac{TN}{TN + FP}. $$

These entities are defined using the following quantities: true positives (TP) are easy-to-synthesize structures predicted to be easy-to-synthesize, true negatives (TN) are hard-to-synthesize structures predicted to be hard-to-synthesize, false positives (FP) are hard-to-synthesize structures predicted to be easy-to-synthesize and false negatives (FN) are easy-to-synthesize structures predicted to be hard-to-synthesize.

SN and SP can be combined to create a two-dimensional receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve that is the graphical representation of the trade-off between true positive rate (given as SN) and false positive rate (given as 1 − SP) over all possible thresholds. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) is the quantitative measure of the performance of a classifier and is equal to the probability that a classifier will rank a randomly chosen positive instance higher than a randomly chosen negative example. A random classifier has the AUC of 0.5, while the AUC for a perfect classifier is equal to 1.

Results and discussion

To generate the Nonpher library of synthetically unfeasible structures, 500,000 compounds were randomly selected from the ZINC12 database [22]. These compounds served as starting structures for molecular morphing. For performance reasons, molecular morphing was terminated after 30 steps. \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data set was formed by morphs complexity indices of which exceeded their thresholds within these 30 steps. In the present study, the following complexity indices were used: Bertz [15], Whitlock [16], BC [17], and SMCM [18] index. Their thresholds, used to distinguish between easy- and hard-to-synthesize structures, were determined by the analysis of the complexity distribution of 22,723,223 commercially available compounds from the ZINC12 database [22]. Because complexities are correlated with molecular weight (MW) [18], ZINC12 structures were binned by their MW into eleven intervals, each 50 Da wide. As expected, the medians of individual complexity indices increase with increasing MW (Additional file 2: Figure S2). For each bin and for each complexity index, its maximum number (i.e., all ZINC12 structures have lower complexity than a maximum), 999th permille (i.e., 99.9% ZINC12 structures have lower complexity then 999th permille) and 99th percentile (i.e., 99% ZINC12 structures have lower complexity than 99th percentile) were identified (Additional file 2: Table S1). The structures exceeding these limits are considered to be hard-to-synthesize. In addition to three possible complexity thresholds, also the number (1, 2, 3 or 4) of complexity indices that exceed these thresholds must be established. To select an optimal stop condition, twelve \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data sets covering all possible combinations of up to four complexity indices (Bertz, Whitlock, BC, SMCM) exceeding each of three possible complexity thresholds (max, 999th permille and 99th percentile) were constructed. Each of the \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data sets was augmented with the \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data set consisting of corresponding starting structures. Thus, each \( S_{train} \) data set contains the same number of positive and negative examples, but they differ in size. For each \( S_{train} \) data set, a random forest was trained and its accuracy was assessed on the test set \( S_{test} \). The highest classification accuracy (89.4%) and reasonably low and well balanced numbers of false negatives (9) and false positives (8) were obtained for structures that violate the 999th permille criterion for at least one complexity index (Additional file 2: Table S2). To make sure that the classification accuracy was not achieved by the fortunate selection of random structures, additional four \( S_{train}^{ - } \) sets were generated from different randomly chosen ZINC12 structures (i.e., from different \( S_{train}^{ + } \) sets). RF models trained on these data show comparable results (Additional file 2: Table S3) demonstrating the validity of suggested stopping criteria.

Similarly to the Nonpher database, ZINC and MLSMR \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data sets were also sampled five times. In the case of the ZINC database, \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data set is formed by 54,750 structures that exceed the SAscore threshold of 6. Five different \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data sets were formed by random sampling of 54,750 structures from the ZINC12 database with the SAscore lower than 4. In DR method, 113,176 structures were identified as easy-to-synthesize and 50,345 structures as hard-to-synthesize. 50,345 hard-to-synthesize structures formed the \( S_{train}^{ - } \) data set and five different \( S_{train}^{ + } \) data sets of the same size were randomly sampled from 113,176 easy-to-synthesize DR structures. The average classifier performance for Nonpher, SAscore and DR methods is summarized in Table 1, performance measures of individual samples and their corresponding confusion matrices are available in Additional file 2: Tables S3–S5.
Table 1

Test set performances of random forest models trained on data generated by Nonpher, SAscore and DR approaches

Acc (%)

SN (%)

SP (%)

An accuracy (Acc), sensitivity (SN), specificity (SP) and an area under a ROC curve (AUC) are calculated as average values from five different random samples of the \( S_{train} \) data set

Of all three approaches, Nonpher produces hard-to-synthesize library with the highest classification accuracy of 89.6% and the best balance between a sensitivity and specificity (Table 1). The RF model trained on molecules selected according to their SAscore achieved the accuracy of 82.5% (AUC 0.89) and training data created by the DR method lead only to the accuracy of 46.0% (AUC 0.60). While SN and SP are reasonably balanced for the Nonpher data set, SAscore data yields a model with low SP and DR data with low SN. Thus, both SAscore and DR methods are deficient in obtaining too many false predictions. While SAscore model tends to predict more compounds as easy-to-synthesize, DR model labels a majority of compounds as hard-to-synthesize. Worse performance of DR model is also apparent from its lower AUC (Table 1) as well as from its ROC curve (Fig. 2). The inspection of ROC curves of Nonpher and SAscore models reveals that although SAscore model produces better ROC values for higher thresholds, Nonpher model is better at distinguishing hard-to-synthesize from easy-to-synthesize structures.
Fig. 2

ROC curves (for a test set) of random forest models trained on data produced by Nonpher, SAscore and DR approaches

Nonpher, our approach for the in silico generation of hard-to-synthesize structures, provides an important addition to existing tools for a computer-aided molecular design. In Nonpher, molecular morphing [23], that systematically alters a given structure by small structural changes (e.g., add or remove atom or bond), is used to construct hard-to-synthesize structures. The length of molecular morphing was optimized so that generated structures are hard-to-synthesize, although not overly complex. The quality of the Nonpher library was assessed by building a random forest (RF) classifier using a training set consisting of the Nonpher library augmented with synthetically accessible compounds randomly selected from the ZINC12 database [22]. The quality of RF model was verified by predicting the synthetic accessibility of 40 compounds that were carefully collected from the literature and were considered to be hard-to-synthesize by experienced medicinal and organic chemists [9, 11, 12, 26]. Nonpher was compared with SAscore [9] and DR [20] approaches, two alternative methods for the construction of hard-to-synthesize compounds. Nonpher yielded data of higher quality than both SAscore and DR methods, as demonstrated by a lower amount of false predictions and by better balance between sensitivity and specificity of Nonpher model. The Nonpher library of hard-to-synthesize compounds contains 1,706,950 structures and is available for download (Additional file 1). Similarly, test set consisting of 40 manually curated hard-to-synthesize compounds augmented with 120 easy-to-synthesize structures is also available (Additional file 3). By providing both training and test data sets we believe that our method will further boost research in the automatic prediction of molecular synthetic feasibility.

random forest

true positives

true negatives

false positives

false negatives

receiver operating characteristic

area under receiver operating characteristic

dense region

Barone and Chanon complexity index

synthetic and molecular complexity metric

Molecular Libraries Small Molecule Repository

molecular weight

Authors’ contributions

DS and MV conceptualized the problem. MV was responsible for method development, implementation and validation. DS supervised the study and prepared the manuscript with the active participation of MV. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.

The authors acknowledge Ivan Čmelo for a technical help and David Hoksza for the modifications of molecular morphing algorithm. Computational resources were provided by the CESNET LM2015042 and the CERIT Scientific Cloud LM2015085, provided under the programme “Projects of Large Research, Development, and Innovations Infrastructures”.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

This work was supported from the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (NPU I- LO1220 and LM2015063). MV research was further supported by a specific university research (MSMT No. 20/2015).

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Authors’ Affiliations

CZ-OPENSCREEN: National Infrastructure for Chemical Biology, Laboratory of Informatics and Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
CZ-OPENSCREEN: National Infrastructure for Chemical Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics, AS CR v.v.i.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Is a Family Member’s Clutter Driving You Crazy?

I've raved about Naomi Seldin's Simpler Living blog many times before, and the guest post she wrote here was very popular with readers.

Naomi kindly offered me a chance to write a guest post on her blog - so go there to read strategies for dealing with someone else's clutter.

Simpler Living said...

Jeri, thanks for contributing such a thoughtful post to my blog. I find your suggestions practical, and I hope my readers find them helpful, too.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm. I'm thinking about my very cluttered husband. And that leads to a tangent. Could you do a post on ways to display skis? He's a heli ski guide and has multiple pairs of skis (as do I and the kids). He wants to find a way to hang all the skis in the living room, or otherwise display the beloved arsinol. Any ideas?


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hey girlfriends!

I’m gonna be mega busy this week so i might not update as much as i’d love to. but to kick start monday, here are some steals! it’s a mix of pre-loved and brand new items :)

if the item is crossed out, it’s been sold.

must have : the boyfriend blazer

only wore this blazer once, selling it cos i’ve got a total for 3 boyfriend blazers now! one too many!

navy blue kimono-style dress (brand new)

this dress will best fit medium to large sizes. it’s super comfy! :)

another staple in every wardrobe, this LBD features a pretty floral lace back :)

starry tankthis starry tank is great for parties! has slight side runching details as well button details on the back

prices include regular mail, add $2.24 if opting for registered mail. just leave me a comment or drop me an email at jeanine@jeaninegabrielle.com if interested! :)

love, jean

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Tag Archives: cathedral village arts festival street fair

In my studio…

I’m back in my studio after sale day at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair.   I actually sold well and had lots of inquiries, but the wind was gusting so badly in the afternoon we had to close up shop early.  Product was hitting the ground.  That was not cool.  So we packed it in and came home.

I’ll have to rethink my plans for next year.  I’m thinking of doing another sale later in the year, after all the inclement weather we seem to get at the CVAF Street Fair.  But we shall see.  The cost of the other sales are quite high…over $200 for a small booth 10’x10’…  I don’t know…  Hubby and I are thinking of alternatives.

Meanwhile, if you were at the sale and planning to pick something up the last hour or so of it, you can contact me through email <jo6865@gmail.com> or phone: 306-737-9950.  If you’re from outside of Canada it’s best to contact me by email.  We can arrange appointments for viewing rug hooking, and purchasing supplies, and materials.  If you are interested in signing up for classes you can check out my classes page here on the website and send me a note through the contact form at the bottom.

I managed to start “Escapees”, my nasturtium wall hanging, at the Street Fair, but honestly the wind was so bad I spent most of my time holding up the display, especially in the afternoon.  Still, I have some of it picked out and ready to go.  I’m nailing down more colours right now.

After coming home and putting away sale stuff, I decided a good cleaning out of the studio was in order.  I’ve spent the last two days on that.  I have a huge garbage bag of stuff to get rid of either by selling or donating, but the bulk of it is done.  I don’t know.  I use a lot of fibre and sell a fair bit, but it seems like the stuff multiplies!  My shelves are full to bursting!

This week I’ll be cleaning more, and finishing up some odds and ends in the studio.  I have a few wall hangings that need hanging sleeves, price tags, and to be uploaded to the website.  I have some narrow strips that need to be cut and put into my extra stripettes bin for future hooking or sale.

I have company arriving the end of the week, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are the annual multicultural festival days in town – Mosaic.  I hope to enjoy both. 🙂

Ready to go!

I’m all ready to go to the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair  on 13th Ave. tomorrow.  I’ll be with my friend, Anne, between Athol and Montague Streets in the shade on the south side.

I will be starting my wall hanging called “Escapees”.  Come see the pattern and fibres! I’ll be selling greeting cards for $5 each and ornaments and wall hangings from $25 up.

If anyone is interested in buying supplies or fibre for hooking you can either do so on this website in the shop area, or stop by the booth and we’ll make an appointment for you to come by the house, or take an order and mail it out to you.

I am currently charging $20/half pound of wool (approximately a half yard of wool yardage).  It will be irregular shapes. If you want it cut, it will be another $5 on top of that.  I only cut #6 width.

If you want silk and wool yarns and fibre it will be $25 uncut, and $30 cut. Again these are half pound bags.

Hope to see people at the Fair. It’s supposed to rain, so bring your umbrellas and rain coats!

Welcome to May!

What a beautiful May day we have here.  It’s overcast, just the way I like it.  Don’t get me wrong.  I like the sun.  But sometimes the prairie sky can be too bright for me.  It’s so intense in colour and brightness.

Yesterday Hubby and I had a delightful walk around Wascana Lake in the heart of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.  You wouldn’t know that out in the middle of the Canadian prairies lay this jewel of a park that houses the lake.  We watched all kinds of ducks and geese coming and going about their business.  It was a magical time.

This past week I’ve been focusing on getting back to a normal sleep schedule and organizing 1500+ photos of South Korea.  I’m still working on both.  I want to get the photos organized so I can get started on my next wall hanging/rug.  I’m debating whether this one will be a floor mat or not.  I want to use my leftover worms for it.  We shall see.  It depends how the design works out.  So this week is photo week, sketch week, and possibly design week.

Just a few reminders…

My work is currently in a group show at the Art Gallery of Regina until Friday.

Also, I am planning to take part in the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair again this year on May 27th from 10 AM – 4 PM.  I received notification of where my booth will be located.  For people looking for me, I will be at the far end of the Fair between Montague and Athol streets on the south side of the street.  Maybe start walking the Fair from the Elphinstone Street end if you want to still have money and energy by the time you reach my booth!

In other news…I am being published for real this time.  The information has gone to press.  Stay tuned for further information.  I’ll believe it when I see the article in the magazine!

Inspiration Monday – Wascana Creek

We live near a creek beside which the City has kindly placed a walking and biking path.  Every now and then we go out to enjoy it.  Yesterday afternoon was one of those times.  We went on an hour and twenty minutes long walk.  The Creek is a great place to people watch, as well as bird watch.  I took plenty of photos and narrowed it down to this slideshow for my readers to view.

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I told Hubby we need to go on more walks the next few weeks.  I’m trying to get in shape for South Korea.  I hear there will be a lot of walking.  Lots to see and do!  And I could use the exercise.

In the meantime, Saturday was the last From Start to Finish class.  I had an excellent student who wasn’t afraid to ask questions and gave quality feedback when I asked.  I really appreciated everything she had to say.  I have revised some areas of the course based on her experiences, and mine.

I cleaned up the dining room and put everything back where it belongs.  My dining room is looking more like a dining room than a rug hooking studio.  It will stay that way until May, when a new set of classes will begin.  Feel free to check out my classes and contact me if you are interested in taking any.

I am still hooking on “Moss”.

My current event is the exhibit at the Art Gallery of Regina Salon Show and Sale.  I have two pieces on exhibit: “Dancing Tree” and “Blue-eyed Grass”.

The last Saturday in May, the 27th, will be the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair.   It runs from 10 am – 5 pm.  I will be demonstrating and selling work.  I hope to see people there!

In my studio…and out – the Mackenzie Art Gallery

Inuit tapestry weaving on display at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, SK until April 30th, 2017.

Yesterday Hubby and I headed out for a little inspiration and a bit of a break.  We headed to the Mackenzie Art Gallery here in Regina, SK.  There was a wonderful exhibit of Indigenous Peoples artwork on display!  It is the collection of Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.  If you are in the area I highly recommend going to see it.  There are a lot of different media types represented, including fiber art.  Lots of new and interesting ideas.  Check it out!

Good news!  I was up to pay my entry fee into the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair on Friday.  We are IN!  The Street Fair is the last Saturday in May, so I have adjusted my class schedule for that weekend.  I will hold the Onion Skin Dyeing class another weekend.  Looking forward to another fun day at the Fair!

I’m gearing up for my Curves rug hooking class this weekend.  I plan on having a fun time teaching.  I love teaching, though I have been told that I tend to overwhelm at times.  I am concerned my students feel they get what they paid for!  I’d rather give too much information than not enough.  Still, I do have to slow my pace for new rug hookers.  After all, I want them to enjoy rug hooking and come back for more lessons!

Current reading…still working on my business plan, and some online courses.  The courses finish this week and then next week I’ll write the finals for them.  After that I’m taking a break and spending more time rug hooking!  I will finish “Moss” yet!  I am hoping to have it done before we leave for South Korea in April.  Then it would be ready for display at the CVAF Street Fair.

In my studio…

I had a great time at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair.  I met many friends, neighbors, and new people.  I demonstrated to a lot of people.  However some rain later in the day dampened spirits a bit.  My canopy roof decided it had enough and one of the supports broke.  I will definitely need a new canopy if I do anymore outdoor sales.

Back to my regular work week this week.  I am taking time today to do some planning for the rest of the summer.

I am hoping this week to hook some more on a scrappy floor rug.  Yes, you heard that correctly!  I am hooking my first floor rug in years.  Because of that I’m sticking to silk and wool fibres.  I am just not sure how well the others will clean up if it gets dirty. My plan is to put it in my bedroom…if I don’t chicken out and hang it on the wall.   People wear outdoor shoes indoors in my house, and that, plus the dirt it tracks in, is hard on rugs.

I will also be working more on sorting through my email.  It is multiplying on its own!

Weekly Review

Patterns - 2

“Escapee”…ignore the toes! 🙂  I might add some more to this drawing.  We’ll see.

A busy week with company and online classes.

I did manage to finish organizing the booth display for Saturday at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair.  If you’re in Regina, SK that day, stop on by the booth and say ‘hi!’

I prepared three patterns on backing this week – one to hook at the Street Fair.

That’s all I managed this week folks.  Just too much going on.  I was feeling a bit under the weather at the beginning of the week, but all is well now.  I’m all set to go for Saturday. 🙂

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“Northern Exposure” – you’ll see what it is when I finish hooking it! 🙂

In my studio…

Sorry folks. No photo today. I’m on the road already.  It’s the beginning of the Cathedral Village Arts Festival and Hubby and I are taking in the festivities.  I’ll add photos throughout the week.

This week I will finish labeling and making hang tags for Dancing Tree and Beauty.  I did not have time to do that on Friday.

I will finalize my booth design as well.

And I need to design a quick scrappy rug/wall hanging to demonstrate on at the Street Fair.

Inspiration Wednesday

Hi everyone!  Things are looking up.  I am finished hooking Dancing Tree, and will work on blocking, hemming, and finishing for sale…hopefully be the CVAF Street Fair on May 28th.

I was out wandering around the neighborhood the other day and found some beauties.  I love taking photos of plants.  They give me a lot of inspiration.

Enjoy! 🙂

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Lamium in bloom

Garden - 5

Radishes are up!

Garden - 4

Chives are about to burst into bloom!

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Bergenia is blooming.

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Weeds, like dandelions, have been up for awhile now.

In my studio…

This week I will be finalizing my display and preparation for the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair.  The Festival itself starts this coming weekend and lasts an entire week.  There are music, theatre, and art performances throughout the week…all for free.  It culminates in the Street Fair on May 28th from 10 AM – 4 PM.  An average of 10,000 people go to the Street Fair.  I’ll be busy.

I’m actually hoping to work more on Dancing Tree this week.  I have picked up my studio sufficiently that I can get in there again and do some work.

Aside from that I have two online courses starting this week, so I expect my time will be taken up there as well.

Hope everyone has a great day! 🙂


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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Waiting for Ghosts & Goblins

In just a few short hours the sounds of "Trick or Treat" will be ringing through the neighbourhood.  Back in Montreal where I grew up, we rang the doorbell.  The tradition is different in the west.  They holler as they come up the path.  You can hear them through the door and closed windows.  I quite like it!

I think we are ready.  The blow up pumpkin has been erected on the front lawn.  We finally gave into this kitchy kind of decor.  A last minute purchase that had us buying the floor model at Wal-Mart.  I have to say that it looks pretty awesome when it is all lit up at night and the cat's head even rotates back and forth.

Tacky window clings have been applied to the front door at the perfect eye level of little trick or treaters.

Goody bags are ready for fast and efficient passing out.

A box of chips is on stand by incase we get more visitors than we anticipate.  It is warm and mild despite a strong and somewhat spooky howling wind.

And... a last minute trip to Michael's found a huge 80% off sale which allowed me to pick up all of these goodies for under $7!

What kid doesn't want a pair of freaky glasses, or a monster finger puppet?

The witch fingers are my favourite!

All that's left to do is plug in the plastic pumpkin.  Yes, my pumpkin carving days are over.  I seem to have gotten lazy.  ;)  Most importantly, this year I'm going to try to hand out all of the treats solo.  I usually jam out about three trips to the door in,  so this year it's my turn and the Big Guy gets to relax in his recliner.

I'll leave you with a few photos of Little Tom enjoying the Halloween goodies I sent home with his mom and dad.  Tonight he is Spiderman!  :)

Wishing you all a Happy Halloween!!

  1. Oh my gosh!! What happened to the baby?? He grew up!!! Your trick or treaters will love visiting your place!! :) We are like the Krank's this year, in Christmas with the Kranks. Instead of skipping Christmas, we are skipping Halloween. LOL Too much going on!!! Ben has a cold and it is drizzly and cold out. He doesn't need to go out.

  2. That is a huge stash of treats :-)

  3. I wish I was a kid in your neighbourhood! I'm sure they had loads of fun! :)

  4. This looks like sooo much fun! How I wish we would do this too!

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Is it possible?

 Today's question of the day is

is it possible to keep the saturation of color the fabric has when wet

once it has dried?

Of course, this is the question that I ask pretty much every time a piece of rusted fabric is drying. Most of the photos on this blog are taken while the fabric is still wet, having just been unwrapped, unfolded and spread on my work table. I do edit the photos in Photoshop so that they look nice via cyberspace, but still...

How to keep the lovely strength of the colors once dry? Not that the dried version of circles #8 is horrible, but the wet version was scrumptious. Such is my dilemma.

If you'd care to a few more artsy type shots of circles #8, come tumble with me.

  1. I'm drawn to the repeated pattern in this fabric. Yes, I did like the intensity of colour when it was wet...but I like it like this too.
    A subtle beauty.
    Do you plan to stitch it? That would enhance the contrast perhaps.

    1. Hi Judy,
      Like you, I'm drawn to repeat patterns...especially circles. Always have been so it helps that the rusty gears are all circular.

      I've been drying the pieces in the studio with a fan on them. This morning's piece to dry was left to simply air dry and it seems to have retained more color and more of the hard edges. Seems fan drying encourages bleeding of color in the fabric. I'll give it another try tomorrow and see what happens.

      As for stitching...yes. There will be hand stitching...maybe just around portions of circles. Haven't given it a lot of thought yet. Too much else to do right now. Enjoy!

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  3. Like you I like the clarity of the wet image; but in the end I think the dry pieces have a sense of wear and age that is quite beautiful. I really like the soft greys that appear.

    1. I agree about the sense of wear and age. Playing off of that feeling offers lots of possibilities for how to continue with the pieces. And the soft gray really is quite nice. It's just that I fall in love with them when they're still wet and vibrant. Need to fall in love with them all over again once dried.

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My Guilty Pleasures

This is why my yearly resolution to lose weight always fails.

brownies May I present just two of the naughty things I have consumed this week: godiva chocolate cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory, and homemade dark chocolate brownies with mint and chocolate chips.

I love chocolate, I love ice cream, and I love eating. I often eat too much, even when I try not to. In my defense, I do not cook desserts that often (just ask my husband how often I make Angelfood Cake–he’ll say “not often enough.”) just for that reason. But I’d been reading a book where the main characters makes brownies and cookies when she’s stressed, and I’d been craving chocolate . . . so I finally broke down and made brownies. They’re all gone now. 😦

Sometimes I have to wonder why God even created chocolate. Doesn’t He know just how many people (mostly women) get themselves into trouble just because of that little bean? If chocolate didn’t exist we’d all be in healthier shape, but the world would be a sadder place for it. How can we avoid our favorite foods if it is everywhere? Advice anyone?

Another question: when did the eye of Sauron invade the Cheesecake Factory?

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Oh, I know why Sauron would take over the Cheesecake Factory perfectly well. The cheesecake over at the Cheesecake Factory is AMAZING. But which came first–the Lord of the Rings movies, or the Cheesecake Factory’s design scheme? And if it was the movies, was the designer a Tolkien fan? If not, what was he/she thinking? Don’t get me wrong, the lighting looks great, but I couldn’t help but giggle and gaze good-naturally over my shoulder at the invading army of hungry, hungry customers.

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“Over centuries, a persistent drop of water will drill holes in the hardest of rocks. In the same way, a persistent, consistent approach to your problem will slowly yield progress over time.” – HEXAGRAM  57*

“Sometimes allowing a collapse is the only way to move ahead.” –  HEXAGRAM 23*

Where in your life is impatience sabotaging your best efforts?

Where are you so uncomfortable that you’re more focused on escaping your situation through daydreams or addictions than on making incremental but lasting improvements?

And where have you given all you can give until you can’t give any more?

One of the things I love most about my work is being able to observe eternal principles of change and transformation play themselves out in my own and my clients’ lives.

Persistence is one such principle.

Without it, we give up too soon . Without it, we may prematurely declare defeat. Without persistence, the impossible remains just that. There is nothing worth doing, that does not demand some degree of persistence.

And yet sometimes it seems wisest – feels most expedient – to let go.

So when do we know the difference? When is it time for Hexagram 57 and when is it time to throw in the towel?

It is during such moments of choice that divination can be most valuable. Sometimes you have to know whether this is the end of the line or just a bump in the road – and free yourself from the anxiety of not knowing if you’re even on the right path anymore.

*I Ching for Beginners – Mark McElroy


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I found this really good information that gives some light into how Jesus labored day to day for His earthly father, Joseph, and after Josephs’ death before His ministry began.   His work was truly hard labor!   the website I gathered this article from is found at:   http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2010570#h=8

Knowledge, Strength, and Skill Required A carpenter needed to know the characteristics of the wood he worked with. He could choose from locally grown timber, such as cypress, oak, cedar, sycamore, and olive. However, a first-century carpenter could not visit a lumber yard or a building supply store and pick up lumber cut to his specifications. Rather, he would travel to the forest, select the appropriate trees, fell them, and then haul the heavy logs back to his workshop.

What would a carpenter produce from the lumber he gathered? He might spend many hours outdoors, helping to build houses. He would mill rafters for the roof, manufacture stairs for the interior, and make doors, windows, and frames for the walls.

A carpenter would also produce furniture. The accompanying illustrations show some of these products—storage cabinets with drawers, shelves, or doors;  stools , chairs, and tables  of various sizes and shapes; and cradles for daytime infant care. To decorate some furniture, he might inlay it with attractive wood carved to form intricate patterns. To protect and beautify the items, he might coat them with beeswax, varnish, or oil.

A carpenter also made products for the local farmers—yokes  shaped from heavy wood as well as forks, rakes, and shovels.  The plows  he made had to be sturdy, for their iron points would be gouging furrows through rocky soil. He made wooden carts and wagons and crafted the solid or spoked wheels upon which those vehicles rode. His occupation might also include repairing and maintaining the furniture, tools, and vehicles he made.

Can you imagine how Jesus’ work as a carpenter influenced his appearance? Think of Jesus’ skin bronzed by the Middle Eastern sun, his muscles strengthened by years of physical labor, and his hands hardened from gripping rough wood and wielding axes, hammers, and saws.

A Source of Illustrations Jesus masterfully used simple, familiar objects to teach deep spiritual truths. Did he draw on his background as a carpenter for some of his illustrations? Consider a few possibilities. “Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the rafter in your own eye?” he told one crowd. A carpenter would know how massive a rafter was. (Matthew 7:3) Later, Jesus said to another group: “No man that has put his hand to a plow and looks at the things behind is well fitted for the kingdom of God.” He would also likely have made his share of plows. (Luke 9:62) One of Jesus’ warmest invitations involved a piece of equipment manufactured by a carpenter. “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,” said Jesus. “My yoke is kindly and my load is light.” (Matthew 11:29, 30) Jesus no doubt knew how to make a yoke that did not chafe but was “kindly,” or well-fitted.

Jesus’ opposers might disparagingly have referred to him as “the carpenter’s son.” Even so, as in the first century, Christians today consider it an honor to follow this humble former carpenter.

The Carpenter’s Toolbox:

A first-century carpenter like Jesus would need to know how to handle the tools depicted here. His saw (1) consisted of a wooden frame holding an iron blade with teeth set in a way that would cut on the pull stroke. He would use a square   to lay out his work and a plumb  to line up vertical surfaces. Also in his toolbox were a level , a rule stick, a plane with its sharp, adjustable iron blade for smoothing rough lumber , and an ax  for cutting down trees.

The carpenter’s bow lathe  and gouge   were used for cutting and shaping spindles. On the toolbox lid, you can see a wooden mallet  used for pounding dowels into joints or for driving chisels. Also shown are a small handsaw, a drawknife   for shaping, and some nails.  In front of the toolbox is an iron hammer  and an adze  for roughing out timber. On the lid is a knife   as well as chisels   of various widths. A bow drill   leans against the toolbox.

An artisan, craftsman, or worker in wood. The Hebrew term cha·rashʹ is the general designation for a “craftsman,” “worker,” or “builder,” who would use various materials such as wood, metal, or stone. (2Ki  The Greek equivalent is teʹkton, translated “carpenter” in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3.

Noah and his three sons had much carpentry work to do in building the huge ark, according to the pattern given by Jehovah.—Ge 6:14-16.

The carpenter in Israel would be employed in constructing houses and, in later times, structures such as synagogues. Although buildings were for the most part made of stone or earth, some wood was used, for example, in beams and doors. The things constructed by the carpenter in Bible times included furniture, such as tables, stools, and benches. Many implements such as plows and threshing sledges were partly or entirely made of wood. (2Sa 24:22) In the construction of the tabernacle and its furnishings, Bezalel and Oholiab were especially guided by Jehovah God. His spirit accentuated their ability to do the finest work in wood, as well as other materials. (Ex 31:2-11) Skilled workers in wood were brought from Tyre for the building of David’s house. (2Sa 5:11) Zerubbabel used carpenters in building the second temple in Jerusalem.—Ezr 3:7.

Jesus was called not only “the carpenter’s son” (Mt 13:55) but “the carpenter” as well. (Mr 6:3) Since the Hebrew father usually taught his son his trade, Jesus no doubt learned carpentry from his adoptive father Joseph


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Homecoming banners 101

Alright. So, I fancy myself quite the homecoming banner maker. I love making them and I love making them well.

I've been asked several times how I do it, so I figure I could go ahead and just share my secrets.

There's really not much to it. And it's really not much of a secret since I've seen other banners that can easily hang next to mine with pride, but for those of you looking for some guidance... I'm here!

The first things I make sure I have are a full sized flat sheet, metal grommets, and acrylic paint. A full flat sheet is the perfect size for fences and I usually get a black one because the colors stand out better than on a white one.

The grommets can be purchased at JoAnn's or Michaels and probably at any crafting store. They look like this...

If it's your first time buying the grommets, you'll need the tool that seals them. I have this one.

The plier is supposed to cut a little hole in the fabric as well, but I find that snipping a tiny hole with scissors is MUCH easier.

Next, make sure you have your paint. Acrylic works the best as it shows up brighter and better than anything else and won't run in the rain. You can even wash it when it comes down. When you live somewhere as dusty as 29, this is important. There are also a multitude of colors available. As you can see, I've acquired quite the collection.

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Now that you have all your supplies, it's time to get cracking on the banner.

Since I use black sheets, I always lay down a layer of white paint first. I've done 4 banners (I usually do two per homecoming so he has a better shot of seeing at least one of them as they drive on base. Plus they're fun... I doubt I'll do two the next time, however). Three out of the four were free-hand and I draw my letters with a white sewing pencil before I commit with the paint. The fourth one, I printed the letters off on cardstock and made stencils. I'll go over that later... Back to the white paint...

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After I do my entire banner in just white paint, I go over it very carefully with the color paint. Luckily, if you're kind of sloppy (like I am when I get tired), the color paint won't really show too well anywhere that there isn't a white primer down. It just kind of seeps into the fabric which is another reason I like the black sheet, it gives you a little wiggle room.

Now on to the stencils. Since I decided to do a second banner (I was originally going to only do one for his second deployment, but I found a much better "saying" and decided to go for it) so close to his actual homecoming, I needed a way to make it quick. I was in school full time during that time as well, so I really didn't have a lot of time to sit and do it by hand. The Husband bought me an awesome printer for Christmas a few years ago and I decided to take advantage of it.

I printed up the letters I needed in the fonts I wanted and made stencils. This is a lot easier than it sounds. All you need to do is enlarge the font size enough to fit the page (On a full sheet, that's the perfect letter size) and change the font to "outline". When you print it out, you cut out the inside of the letters. That's the most time consuming part, but if you re-use certain letters, you actually cut a lot of time.

After that is finished, you line up your letters and go at them with the white paint. Treat your stencils well because you'll want to keep them for the color paint.

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On the above banner, I decided that I wanted to use glitter. It was cute, but oh my word... I'm still finding glitter, so be aware of that.

Once my banners are dry (which doesn't take long at all with the acrylic paint. Maybe about 10-20 minutes), I'll cut little slits throughout the banner. You can't see them when it's hanging, but 29 Palms can get really windy, and those little cuts help keep the banner from becoming a kite. That is totally optional though, and probably not even necessary unless you are stationed somewhere with daily sandstorms.

After that, I fold them up and wait for banner hanging day! A group of the wives usually goes together so we can help one another and take pictures.

Here's a couple of the finished ones...

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I used stencils for this one.

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I did this one free hand.

So that's my handy-dandy banner tutorial. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! I would also love to hear your secrets and see your finished products.

  1. I was always so proud of how cool your banners turned out! Gorgeous!

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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Do you feel guilty when you write code without tests, without test-driven-design? Are you shamed when only you can read your code, only you understand how a feature is implemented? Do you have a nagging feeling as you over-engineer a solution, when you find yourself writing a framework?

Or do you feel contented when you implement a feature with clean code, peaceful when you refactor the smelly? Are you quietly happy when your team finds it easy to read and extend your work, when you’re an anti-hero?

These feelings are driven by Developer Conscience, an inner feeling of right and wrong that drives our work.

Conscience derives from the latin word conscientia which means “with knowledge”. Religions typically believe that the “conscience [is]…linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity”. Seculars believe that our conscience is part of our genetic make-up, imprinted within us as part of our culture.

In Hindu, conscience is the…knowledge and understanding a soul aquires as a consequence of completion of karma over many lifetimes.

Buddha links…conscience to a pure heart and a calm, well-directed mind

As developers we can’t look towards divinity for direction, our conscience isn’t part of our DNA. Instead we read the books, blogs and tweets of people we respect. We attend community events where we talk to our peers. If we’re lucky we get to work with them.

Confucianism indicates that conscience….assists humans to follow The Way (Tao)…a mode of life for goodness and harmony

In Catholicism conscience is “a judgement of reason which at the appropriate moment enjoins [a person] to do good and to avoid evil”

Through continuous improvement we form principles, values and practices that are the basis of our professionalism and integrity. They help us write code, interact with our users, delivery value to our customers.


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Forget about learning to code—to get rich in tech, become an accountant

A Better Version of Myself

Who am I?  Who do I want to be?

I want to be happy.  Don’t we all?  But what is the source of happiness?  Ancient philosophers tell us that happiness comes from learning and practising virtuous character strengths.  As we grew up our elders have constantly been telling us that character matters – “if wealth is lost, nothing is lost; if health is lost, something is lost; but if character is lost, everything is lost”.

What determines our character? Can character be developed? What are my top 5 strengths?  Can I shape other people’s character? What is the key to human relationships? Who do I admire? Can character strengths be learned and developed? What strengths can help me become what I want to be? How can character strengths be used to improve life around me?  These are questions posed by the narrator (and writer) of a brilliant visual essay, ‘The Science of Character’.  It ends by asking “if you can be a better version of yourself, how do you want to be?”

Watch the 8 minute video on YouTube:

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Motion Sickness

“I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.”

-Sir Isaac Newton

“If he had not been traumatized by this loss [loss of his investments in the South Sea Bubble], Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.”

– Warren Buffett

Run by an Idiot!

“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”

– Warren Buffett

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Style Arrangement – The Way To Show YOU!

I always feel inspirational & excited when I see these style photo arrangement.

Firstly, It show his owned fashion styles in different way with usually – People with outfits!

Secondly, It show his personalities and maybe his work, his lifestyle with accessories, gadgets or other items beside his clothes.

And last but not least, It proves that these guys not only have good taste in styles but also so good in artwork to arrange all these things nicely & attractively in one theme.

Just go through all photos below for your rẻference and take your owned experiences! 😉

The last 3 piks are my friend’s composing – Kelvin Vu Nguyen, Luffy Piece & Chae Tae Hee. Those are very cool & smart and of course good taste in style !

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Btw, who has your owned style arrangement, please feel free to send it to me, leave your information to let me bring you guys on stage to be imfluencers ! 😉

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