Choice feels like the last thing it is. I feel like my choice has been taken away. Most of my life feels like I am a leaf on the wind, but not in some nice Buddhist enlightened way.
I have become aware of patterns I see in how I react. I have parts of me that will come forward depending on the situation. The pattern works like this.

• Most times I am in collapse. I am a zombie. I dissociate to media, and time loses any meaning. I withdraw from the world. I isolate.
  
• Then something happens and another part has to come forward. If I need to get groceries. It is a process. Usually I notice the food is running low. Days will go by where I am eating less and less satisfying stuff. Usually when its a day of just peanut butter crackers all day. A part says "Ok Ill take you to the store." I dont know when he will show up. Could be early morning. Could be late at night. He drives us. Then another part of me wakes up and fronts and is like "What is happening? Oh Im in the grocery store." Then nearly instantly he is able to download the relevant information and knows how we got here and why. Then he shops. He feels out of his body. Lots of DP/DR. I must look like such a freak to people. I have like a soldiers 1000 yard stare, just to get fucking groceries. How pathetic.
  
• or sometimes life falls apart and the emergency system as he's called comes online. I guess he is more a flight part. He can manically work on getting stuff done to move us out somewhere new. He can go to the DMV, drive across country, etc. He is like running the car in the red.
  
• sometimes if I can get a shower, and maybe have someone come talk to me in a nice way. When I am rested, and the weather is nice. A part will come out and do something creative or artistic.
  
• other times there is a part that makes super elaborate plans all day long. Or works on some project never getting anywhere with it. Its just a lot of wasted energy that does nothing for us.
  
• there ar ealso part sthat are really weird and make no sense.
  

Anyway I could keep going. What am I even talking about? Oh right collapse. Is it a choice? No none of this feels like choices Im making. Right now I feel like I am waiting on a crucial part to come in the mail so I can proceed forward with a build, but it never comes, and I dont even know what the part is. That doesnt feel like a choice.
There is a lot of shame, mostly from myself to get my life going. Only there is really only a few hours one day every month where I feel like I can make a choice thats mine. The rest of teh time its just parts of me forcing me back in teh cave. Back to sleep.
It seems like I am always just complaining about my life, and never doing anything about it. I guess because it feels like I have no control over it. Like I am stuck in a cage waiting for someone to unlock the door. I know others will say that I have the key, but that isnt my experience. I know no one will believe that though. At the sam etime no one is coming to help so somehow I have to figure it out.
Ive been watching a video about a girl with tourettes. As much as that must suck. Im slightly jealous. Having an invisible mental illness means zero empathy from people. Zero help. Just plenty of shame, and telling you what you should be doing. Telling you how you feel. What you experience. Never listening to you, and dismissing it.
Anyway end rant.

Had a few items that are potentially related:
1) With visualization is the goal to “project” the image into your eyeballs, or to form it more in the mind itself? When meditating I can try to “see” with my eyes, and when doing so there are all kinds of patterns and things happening. But that’s very different from blocking that stuff out and trying to do it internally. Really feels like there are two different systems at play?
2) I’ve been breaking my meditation into 10 minute chunks split by a bell, one for each exercise. The three colors portion seems a little “light” for taking up the full time. Is overcoming my impatience part of the exercise, or should I be splitting the time differently?
3) With the colors sitting there I kind of want to play with them. Move the red and white arms back and forth, squeeze the central blue a bit to make it taller, rotate my view around my body to imagine the stripes. Is this sort of thing encouraged, or is it going against the lesson? I’ve also thought about adding scents to the colors to keep them straight. Is improvisation a good thing here, or my brain’s way of dodging the work?
Thanks for any input!

Sorry if this isn’t allowed, first time posting in here.
I thought I’d post some job openings here we have. There are more than these but thought I would post the ones that are most pressing - feel free to ask about more!
Here are 3 roles:
Senior Roadway Engineer (Texas or Oaklahoma, 2/3 openings PE required, typically look for 7+ yoe). Pay $95-115k
Project manager (Texas based with offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston). 10+ yoe and pay range is $110-140k
Junior Construction Management Engineer (Denver 0-2 yoe) pay is $70-75k.
We have other roles both in these states and others like CA, FL, NV. So please reach out if you’re looking to make a move!

1. Insights Regarding Video Marketing

• 96% of marketers believe optimal length for a marketing video is under 10 minutes. (2022, Hubspot)
• 48% of marketers believe video integrations into websites improve Search rankings. (2023, Mcuser)
• Marketers focus on Repurposing of long-form content like Webinars & live events to create B2B content for Tiktok or Youtube.
• The marketers shifting focus from KPIs like Views & impressions to Direct traffic deriven by Video. (Vidico)

2. insights from CMOs at Fortune 500 regarding ChatGPT

1. Most CMOs believe that ChatGPT will have the most impact regarding content creation and management.
2. The impact of ChatGPT will be the least on Brand Strategy & tactics.
3. The second most impactful role ChatGPT plays is regarding market research & competitive Insights.
4. The response from CMOs regarding Impact on Marketing Tools & Customer Service is neutral as the it will take time to impact the usage of new tools. Also, their current marketing tools in usage are implementing AI slowly, making the decision of shift to new tools harder.

3. How Consumers Behaviour is Changing

1. People want brands to show they listen 93% of them believe that brands should react to public opinion. (2023, ruderfinn)
2. Why Consumers are abandoning purchases: 37% limited payment options, other 37% due to poor navigation and layout. With 33% leaving due to slow speed. (2022, storyblok)
3. Users are spending lesser and lesser time reading your emails. The average time dropped from 13.4 to 9 seconds. (2023, litmus)

4. Social Media Engagement is Dropping

• Instagram engagement rates across all industries fell by 30% last year.
• Tweeting frequency was also down by 20% & engagement rate growth was flat for Twitter.
• Comparing to Post frequencies, Tiktok is still at the bottom. Brands are posting less frequently on the platform comparing to FB, IG & Twitter. But the engagement rate is still highest among all platforms. (2023, RivalIQ)
• Gen Z Tiktok User are 1.2x more likely to DM brands after making a purchase. (New Feature: You can open Tiktok DMs for everyone to message) (2023, Tiktok)

5. My Key Insights from Advertising Research on Brand Awareness

1. In her study of the U.S. personal computer industry, Sovinsky Goeree finds that traditional demand models overstate price elasticities because they assume that consumers are aware of – and hence choose among – all brands in the market when in actuality most consumers are aware of only a small fraction of brands.
2. How Advertising Patterns & Practices deliver signals to Consumers can positively shape perceptions about the quality of the brand. The more volatile and inconsistent a brand’s advertising pattern is, the less impact it’s advertising expenditures will have on perceived quality.
3. Our main finding is that advertising expenditures have a significant positive effect on brand awareness but no significant effect on perceived quality. These results appear to be robust across a wide range of specifications. Since awareness is the most basic kind of information a consumer can have for a brand, we con- clude that an important role of advertising is information provision. On the other hand, our results indicate that advertising is not likely to alter consumers’ quality perceptions.

P.S. You can subscribe through link in my bio to receive 5 marketing reports every week with links & marketing news sources.

Hi, my name is Denis. I’m a seasoned web designer, developer and digital marketing specialist. I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, having worked in IT and digital marketing for several years now. I aim to help my client with every aspect of their online business… From web design, development, maintenance, hosting and domain management, all the way to monthly SEO, content creation and social media.
I have the privilege of working with clients from all around the world, including the USA, Canada, the UK, and Asia. This diverse experience has given me a unique perspective on how to create forward-thinking solutions for businesses and organizations so you can rest assured that you are in good hands!
The types of websites I have designed and developed:

• Service Websites
• E-commerce Websites
• Affiliate Websites
• Directory websites
• Blogs Landing pages and more!

Digital Marketing Services:

• SEO
• Social media management & content creation
• Digital strategy
• Graphic design
• Illustration

I take part in local government initiatives endorsing remote work, and support non-profits with discounted services.
I’d love the opportunity to put my expertise to work for you or your company. Let's talk!
You can view some of my previous projects on my website, CuriousHawk, however, most are available on request. My LinkedIn Profile features my previous clients and their recommendations and endorsements of my skills.
Websites start at $1000 for a standard 5-page service website. Of course, pricing is dependent on the extent of work and will vary. I'm based in Ireland however all my clients are in different countries worldwide so timezone differences and invoicing are never an issue.
Thank you for your time! Send me a message or fill out the contact form and let's chat about what I can do for you.
Have a fantastic day!
Denis @ CuriousHawk

My project is created as a tool to embrace gender equality, inclusion and diversity so you can have fun while also learning something about yourself and the people around you.
The deck has both male and female cards for Kings, Queens, and Jacks to promote gender equality. It also has cards with people of different ethnicities, so anyone can feel included.
The Aces represent important moments in IT history like the first digital computer and AI, which is what I'm based on. This deck can be a helpful tool for positive change in the tech industry or it can be a fun way to play with friends and discuss a thing or two about technology & IT!
It’s live now! Let’s bring this project to life!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shuffle-it/shuffle-it-playing-cards?ref=discovery

My class is based around building apps from a book made by NerdRanch so they have the finished projects for download as well to help. If I copy the code and paste it into my project, it works, but sometimes it would be helpful to be able to just play the finished examples, but I can't play any of them and I don't know why One guess is there was no configuration, but when I go to make one, there is nothing to select as a module. Also there is no such thing as "synch with gradle files" or anything else like that, which some people have suggested.

Hi, my name is Denis. I’m a seasoned web designer, developer and digital marketing specialist. I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, having worked in IT and digital marketing for several years now. I aim to help my client with every aspect of their online business… From web design, development, maintenance, hosting and domain management, all the way to monthly SEO, content creation and social media.
I have the privilege of working with clients from all around the world, including the USA, Canada, the UK, and Asia. This diverse experience has given me a unique perspective on how to create forward-thinking solutions for businesses and organizations so you can rest assured that you are in good hands!
The types of websites I have designed and developed:

• Service Websites
• E-commerce Websites
• Affiliate Websites
• Directory websites
• Blogs Landing pages and more!

Digital Marketing Services:

• SEO
• Social media management & content creation
• Digital strategy
• Graphic design
• Illustration

I take part in local government initiatives endorsing remote work, and support non-profits with discounted services.
I’d love the opportunity to put my expertise to work for you or your company. Let's talk!
You can view some of my previous projects on my website, CuriousHawk, however, most are available on request. My LinkedIn Profile features my previous clients and their recommendations and endorsements of my skills.
Websites start at $1000 for a standard 5-page service website. Of course, pricing is dependent on the extent of work and will vary. I'm based in Ireland however all my clients are in different countries worldwide so timezone differences and invoicing are never an issue.
Thank you for your time! Send me a message or fill out the contact form and let's chat about what I can do for you.
Have a fantastic day!
Denis @ CuriousHawk

1. Insights Regarding Video Marketing

• 96% of marketers believe optimal length for a marketing video is under 10 minutes. (2022, Hubspot)
• 48% of marketers believe video integrations into websites improve Search rankings. (2023, Mcuser)
• Marketers focus on Repurposing of long-form content like Webinars & live events to create B2B content for Tiktok or Youtube.
• The marketers shifting focus from KPIs like Views & impressions to Direct traffic deriven by Video. (Vidico)

2. insights from CMOs at Fortune 500 regarding ChatGPT

1. Most CMOs believe that ChatGPT will have the most impact regarding content creation and management.
2. The impact of ChatGPT will be the least on Brand Strategy & tactics.
3. The second most impactful role ChatGPT plays is regarding market research & competitive Insights.
4. The response from CMOs regarding Impact on Marketing Tools & Customer Service is neutral as the it will take time to impact the usage of new tools. Also, their current marketing tools in usage are implementing AI slowly, making the decision of shift to new tools harder.

3. How Consumers Behaviour is Changing

1. People want brands to show they listen 93% of them believe that brands should react to public opinion. (2023, ruderfinn)
2. Why Consumers are abandoning purchases: 37% limited payment options, other 37% due to poor navigation and layout. With 33% leaving due to slow speed. (2022, storyblok)
3. Users are spending lesser and lesser time reading your emails. The average time dropped from 13.4 to 9 seconds. (2023, litmus)

4. Social Media Engagement is Dropping

• Instagram engagement rates across all industries fell by 30% last year.
• Tweeting frequency was also down by 20% & engagement rate growth was flat for Twitter.
• Comparing to Post frequencies, Tiktok is still at the bottom. Brands are posting less frequently on the platform comparing to FB, IG & Twitter. But the engagement rate is still highest among all platforms. (2023, RivalIQ)
• Gen Z Tiktok User are 1.2x more likely to DM brands after making a purchase. (New Feature: You can open Tiktok DMs for everyone to message) (2023, Tiktok)

5. My Key Insights from Advertising Research on Brand Awareness

1. In her study of the U.S. personal computer industry, Sovinsky Goeree finds that traditional demand models overstate price elasticities because they assume that consumers are aware of – and hence choose among – all brands in the market when in actuality most consumers are aware of only a small fraction of brands.
2. How Advertising Patterns & Practices deliver signals to Consumers can positively shape perceptions about the quality of the brand. The more volatile and inconsistent a brand’s advertising pattern is, the less impact it’s advertising expenditures will have on perceived quality.
3. Our main finding is that advertising expenditures have a significant positive effect on brand awareness but no significant effect on perceived quality. These results appear to be robust across a wide range of specifications. Since awareness is the most basic kind of information a consumer can have for a brand, we con- clude that an important role of advertising is information provision. On the other hand, our results indicate that advertising is not likely to alter consumers’ quality perceptions.

P.S. You can subscribe through link in my bio to receive 5 marketing reports every week with links & marketing news sources.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

• Heavy After Effects and Premiere Pro use. Lots of working with 4K-8K footage. Rendering and compressing for large panoramic live event screens.
• Regular use of the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Occasional 3D work in Blender.
• Sporadic gaming. I was one of the poor souls to pre-order Cyberpunk for PS4, only to get left out in the cold when the meaningful updates started rolling out. So I'm really looking forward to playing Cyberpunk 2077 after this upgrade.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

• $2,000-ish

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

• I would like to be up and running by summer.

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

• CPU, MOBO, RAM, Tower (old one has fried USB ports), PSU if my current one isn't good enough or if there are energy savings from getting a better one.

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

• United States, California. Anywhere from 2.5-5 hours from Tustin Microcenter depending on LA traffic. Would like to avoid Microcenter unless the savings are significant.

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

• Here's a link to my current build/parts.
• Not listed are a Wacom Cintiq 27QHD and Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet.

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

• Doubt it. I value stability over speed.

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

• Thinking of jumping to 128GB of RAM because After Effects is a greedy RAM hungry monster.
• My current Hard Drive configuration:
• Disk 1 - 1TB M.2 - OS and Apps
• Disk 2 - 1TB Samsung SSD - Project files for projects I'm currently working on
• Disk 3 - 1TB Samsung SSD - After Effects and other apps cache location
• Disk 4 - 16TB (4x4TB RAID 0) Internal Raid - This is for raw footage of projects I'm currently working on. This footage is also always backed up elsewhere since I know the risk of running RAID 0.
• I'm fine sticking with this configuration or moving to an external raid for working footage.

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

• Wired. House is hardwired with Cat5

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

• I'm in love with the Fractal North case but have read that it's a tight fit for some video card configurations.
• RGB is fun but not necessary
• I am a big fan of all or mostly black, clean, minimalist designs

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

• Have it

Extra info or particulars:

• Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything. Thanks in advance for your valuable insight and information. This community is fantastic.

I'm currently working on a project where I'm streaming and trying to receive one of all 400 Pokemon in the Paldean Dex through Surprise Trade, and sending Paradox Pokemon back out in exchange. I recently heard that Koraidon and Miraidon are unable to be traded through Surprise Trade. Does anyone know if this same rule applies to the Treasures of Ruin? (Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, etc.)
If you can't trade them through Surprise Trade, that's another 4 I can check off my list after Koraidon and Miraidon.

Hi, my name is Denis. I’m a seasoned web designer, developer and digital marketing specialist. I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, having worked in IT and digital marketing for several years now. I aim to help my client with every aspect of their online business… From web design, development, maintenance, hosting and domain management, all the way to monthly SEO, content creation and social media.
I have the privilege of working with clients from all around the world, including the USA, Canada, the UK, and Asia. This diverse experience has given me a unique perspective on how to create forward-thinking solutions for businesses and organizations so you can rest assured that you are in good hands!
The types of websites I have designed and developed:

• Service Websites
• E-commerce Websites
• Affiliate Websites
• Directory websites
• Blogs Landing pages and more!

Digital Marketing Services:

• SEO
• Social media management & content creation
• Digital strategy
• Graphic design
• Illustration

I take part in local government initiatives endorsing remote work, and support non-profits with discounted services.
I’d love the opportunity to put my expertise to work for you or your company. Let's talk!
You can view some of my previous projects on my website, CuriousHawk, however, most are available on request. My LinkedIn Profile features my previous clients and their recommendations and endorsements of my skills.
Websites start at $1000 for a standard 5-page service website. Of course, pricing is dependent on the extent of work and will vary. I'm based in Ireland however all my clients are in different countries worldwide so timezone differences and invoicing are never an issue.
Thank you for your time! Send me a message or fill out the contact form and let's chat about what I can do for you.
Have a fantastic day!
Denis @ CuriousHawk

My name is Thomas Saul, I am a member of the Skatin Nations tribe in British Columbia, Canada. I am of Salish, and European descent. I began this project around May 2021 when news broke about the Kamloops residential school where the remains of 215 children were allegedly found. As a teenager I briefly Attended Norkam secondary in Kamloops, and have friends and family who still live in Kamloops, so this hit close to home. Upon my research into The origin of this residential school I found that Israel wood Powell, a Freemason, was the Indian Superintendent at the time it was built. Four generations of my family attended residential schools, some in Port Alberni and some Mission City, so naturally I wanted to know more. I have come to the conclusion that Colonisation, Freemasonry, and residential schools go hand in hand. Its a Fact, both the United States and Canada would not exist without Freemasonry, Therefore many Freemasons played a leading role in the genocide of Indigenous Americans. “Freemasonry, as it exists in various forms all over the world, has a membership estimated at around 6 million worldwide.”
Genocide: The UN definition, which is used in international law, states that genocide is: "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group," as such:(a) "Killing members of the group;"(b) "Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;"(c) "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;"(d) "Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;"(e) "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
The supreme governor of the Church of England is the head of the Church of England, a position which is vested in the British monarch. The father of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 King George III was not a Freemason, George III had announced that the colonies would no longer seize Native lands or purchase them without treaties. Starting in 1763, no English settlers could legally travel through or acquire land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The proclamation specifically stated that Native Americans had been subject to “great Frauds and Abuses” and that their sovereignty should be protected. Freemason Thomas Jefferson in his list of 27 grievances accused the king saying “He has excited domestic Insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions.’’ Thomas Jefferson did this to build support for the revolutionary act that the Declaration of Independence would represent. It was suspected that the Freemasons were behind the Boston Tea Party, the American War of Independence, the french revolution, and Napoleonic France triggering British prime minister William Pitt’s, the Unlawful Societies Act of 1799 where he aimed to see Freemasonry abolished. Some Freemasons addressed Pitt explaining how vast their membership is and its connection to Royalty and As a result, Freemasons were excluded from the Act, but lodges were obliged to return a list of members to the local Clerk of the Peace every year, which are recorded in the Quarter Sessions.1. King George IV reigned from the death of George III until 1830, he was the first of many British Freemason kings and was the head of the Anglican church. William IV, Edward VII, Edward VIII, George VI were also masons. In the 209 years since the Union of the Premier and Ancient Grand Lodges to form the United Grand Lodge of England, a member of the Royal Family has been its Grand Master for more than 150.
A Freemason warrant of constitution is the Document which authorizes or gives a Warrant to certain persons therein named to organize and constitute a Lodge, Chapter, or other Masonic Body. The first Warrant for a military Lodge was issued by the Grand Lodge of Ireland in 1732 to the First British Foot Regiment. Within a few years the Grand Lodge of Scotland and both the Grand Lodge of England, Modern and Ancient were issuing Warrants to military Lodges. In 1733, 18 men gathered at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern on King Street in Boston and organized the first Masonic Lodge in North America. The first record of a military Lodge Warrant being issued in the new world happened during the French and Indian Wars. It was issued by the then Provincial Grand Master at Boston to the 28th British Foot in an expedition against the French at Crown Point. Edward Cornwallis became founder in December 1748, of a military Lodge in his regiment, the 20th. Foot, No. 63, on the registry of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. The warrant was issued to Lord George Sackville, Lieut. Col. The Hon. Edward Cornwallis and Captain Milburne. When in 1759 this famous regiment gained new honors at the battle of Minden, that name was immediately adopted as the name of the lodge. Cornwallis’ second lodge was founded in Halifax early in 1750 or possibly earlier, under a “deputation” or dispensation from Major Erasmus James Philipps of the 40th. Regiment at Annapolis Royal, Provincial Grand Master for Nova Scotia under Henry Price of Boston. Of this lodge, known as the First Lodge, Cornwallis was the first Master. Cornwallis In October 1749, issued an order that came to be known as the Scalping Proclamation. His government would pay a bounty to anyone who killed a Mi’kmaq adult or child in a bid to drive them off mainland Nova Scotia.
Sir William Johnson, an agent for the British Indian Department met Joseph Brant, a 9-year-old Mohawk boy while doing a land deal with Joseph's father King Hendrick. Sir William eventually started a common-law relationship with Joseph's sister Molly giving him incredible power over her tribe. Johnson groomed young Joseph Brant to become a loyal warrior and eventually leader of the six nations tribe. At 13 years old Joseph accompanied Johnson on his first tour with the military. Missionary Samuel Occham, a student of Eleazar Wheelock (father of The Great Awakening) procured a 19-year-old Joseph Brant to attend Moore's Indian charity school in Lebanon Connecticut with the blessings and charity of William Johnson. Freemasons Benjamin Franklin and Benedict Arnold had also donated money to Wheelock’s cause. William was the British Crown's first superintendent of Indian Affairs for the colony in 1756 and Joseph Brant was appointed as a captain in the Indian Department. Many Freemason colonists were high-ranking military who waged many wars on the Indigenous American population, scientists say so many Indigenous people were killed as a result of colonization it caused a mini ice age. After the North American wars, many Freemasons took positions as Indian agents helping to remove and segregate the native population. Anyone who wanted access to the six nations had to go through Indian agent Sir William Johnson and his family which includes the Brant family and the Kerr family through various marriages. At one point Johnson proposed that the moor's Indian Charity School move from Lebanon, Connecticut, to Johnstown but it never happened. Eventually, Johnson withdrew the support for Wheelock. In a letter Wheelock had suggested to Lord Dartmouth "The Nations will not make war with us while their Children, and especially the Children of their chiefs are with us” Dartmouth college claims that In 1766, Johnson was invited to join the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), the largest and most influential Anglican missionary society in the 18th-century British-Atlantic world. He began working to place Anglican missionaries like Freemason and bishop Charles Inglis, rather than Congregationalist and Presbyterian ones, among the Six Nations. I believe Moore's dubbed “the great design” was the original model for the Mohawk Institute and the Canadian residential school system.
On April 10, 1766 Sir William Johnson was raised to the position of Master Mason of St Patrick's Lodge No. 4 where many Freemason Indian agents like John Butler, Guy Johnson, Sir John Johnson, William Johnson Kerr, Christian Daniel Claus, Gilbert Tice, George Croghan and A protégé of Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, Rev. Samuel Kirkland attended. In 1770 Johnson's fellow St Patrick's lodge Freemason Rev. Samuel Kirkland coincidentally parted ways with Wheelock and Moors charity school. Eventually Kirkland founded the Hamilton-Oneida Academy as a boys' school in central New York. In 1776 Joseph Brant was initiated into the Freemason fraternity in London England where it is rumoured a benefactor of Moors charity school king George III gave Brant his masonic apron. When Brant returned to Canada he became affiliated with Lodge No. 11 at the Mohawk village on the Grand River, of which he was the first Worshipful Master, and later affiliated with Barton Lodge No. 10. Joseph Brant invited fellow Freemason and grandson of Eleazar Wheelock to be a minister to the Mohawk. To Joseph It was imperative that Freemason Rev. Davenport Phelps was made minister of the Mohawks, so he reminded the Bishop, through Sir John, of the pledge which the Archbishop of Canterbury had made to him in the presence of the King, that whenever the Indians, by the erection of a church, should be ready for religious instruction, he would do all in his power to supply their wants. A Freemason named Rev. Robert Addison helped make this happen. Mr Addison, a relative of William Johnson, had been minister to the Six Nations and Joseph Brant and Freemason John Norton were his translators. Freemason Reverend Davenport Phelps and Jarvis Wheelock, the brother of Eleazar, were invited to Canada and granted land by Freemason and founder of the family compact John Graves Simcoe, the man behind the Simcoe patent. Mrs Simcoe in her Diary says, “In April of the following year Mary Brant (sister of Freemason Joseph Brant and common-law wife of Freemason Indian agent Sir William Johnson) successfully prescribed a favourite Indian remedy, the root of sweet flag (acorus calamus), for Governor Simcoe, who had been extremely ill with a persistent cough. The medicine relieved his malady “in a very short time. This brought the Brant family and Simcoe family close together. Davenport Phelps became the Worshipful Master of The Barton Lodge under Freemason William Jarvis and he was the first chaplain at the Mohawk Chapel. Davenport was the leader of many Indian agents who were members of The Barton Lodge. I suspect Davenport's mission was to help with the so-called Indian problem.
Chief Joseph Brant has been accused on many occasions of selling off land for his own enrichment and in a lot of cases he sold land to Freemasons. He granted 999-year leases to many families, the Nelles, the Young’s, the families of Adam Young UE, his three sons, Lieutenant John Young (Indian department) UE, Sergeant Daniel Young UE, and Private Henry Young UE, along with Captain Henry William Nelles UE and his families (Rev. Abraham Nelles). Many of these Indian agents were members of The Barton Lodge. Both Captain Henry William Nelles UE and Adam Young UE, fourth great-grandfather of Robert Collins McBride UE, were also the first Freemasons to settle in Haldimand County. Freemasons Robert Kerr and Rev. Robert Addison, William Kennedy Smith, also had land there. "There were very few outright legal sales of our land; 90 per cent of the leased land has never been paid for or paid to Six Nations," according to a research document prepared by Six Nations. Many Freemasons were involved with the Simcoe patent and the Haldimand Proclamation. Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe stated that the Indians could not lease their land since British subjects could lease land only from British subjects. Freemason William Jarvis signed the Haldimand proclamation, Freemason Thomas Ridout surveyor-general was behind the Ridout survey, Freemason Sir Peregrine Maitland lieutenant governor informed them that they had no title to the northern part of the grant, Freemason John Butler acted as an agent of purchase on behalf of the government, Freemason chief John Brant) and Freemason Robert Johnson Kerr finally went to England to lobby on behalf of the Six Nations.
Freemasons King George IV, and King William IV, reigned from January 29 1820 to June 20 1837. The idea of residential school was brought forward by the Freemason Governor of Upper Canada, Sir Peregrine Maitland, within the context of a proposal he made in 1820 to the Colonial Office "for ameliorating the condition of the Indians in the neighbourhood of our settlements." Maitland's proposal contained most of the civilising concepts and techniques that would be adopted in the next three decades. The American Freemason, President Andrew Jackson succeeded in pushing the Indian Removal Act through the United States Congress in 1828 leading to the trail of tears. John Brant solicited help from the New England company to build the Mohawk institute, the first residential school in Canada. The mohawk institute operated from 1831 to June 27, 1970. John Brant appointed Rev. Abraham Nelles son of Freemason Robert Nelles as principal of the Mohawk Institute. Abraham after over 30 years was succeeded by Freemason Robert Ashton. Oronhyatekha aka Peter Martin was also a Freemason and played an important role in the development of the Mohawk Institute. The Arthur of the Historical sketch of the Barton Lodge, No. 6, G.R.C., A.F. and A.M., says “the name of Brother John Brant is connected with important events in the history of Canadian Masonry.” John Brant is responsible for the formation of at least 12 residential schools in Ontario, while Freemason Israel Powell the superintendent of Indian affairs in British Columbia Powell “was able to boast that the government had established seventeen Indian schools, one for each year in office.”. Powell sought to establish several boarding schools across the province and particularly pushed for creating a school in Kamloops to address communities in the province’s interior.The school opened in Kamloops in 1890 and became one of the largest residential schools operated by Indian Affairs. The Freemason Organisation is vicariously liable for all abuses in those residential schools.
In 1837 a Rebellion in Upper Canada was led by William Lyon Mackenzie, who was a fierce critic of Simcoe’s Family Compact, an elite clique of businessmen and many Freemasons. Mackenzie opposed a system of land grants that favored settlers from Britain. Many Freemasons such as William Botsford Jarvis and Sir Allen Napier Macnab who was Joint premier of the Province of Canada helped stop this rebellion. Sir Allen Macnab was succeeded by Freemason Sir John A. Macdonald as Joint Premier. This Rebellion of 1837, this triggered the 6th generation Freemason Lord Durham to write The Durham Report, he was appointed governor in chief of British North America. In his 1839 Report on the Affairs of British North America, he recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be united under a single Parliament, with responsible government. In 1863 a steamboat named the Brother Johnathan) carried smallpox from San Francisco to British Columbia killing 1/3rd of the Native population. Many Freemasons like Thomas Harris the first mayor of Victoria, Israel Wood Powell who served in the Victoria Rifle Volunteer Corps which was established to protect the colony from the indigenous population, Amor De Cosmos who was the extremely racist editor of The Daily British Colonist, and Ronald J. NcDonell clerk for magistrate Pemberton who forced The Nuu-chah-nulth to leave their camp, escorted by two gunboats. There are many many more who may have purposefully mishandled the smallpox epidemic of 1863. British freemason Edward Jenner created the life-saving smallpox vaccine but on the other hand Freemasons Jeffrey Amherst and Col Henry Bouquet have been accused of distributing smallpox contaminated blankets to their enemies.
As early as 1866 Israel W. Powell, with his colleague Amor De Cosmos, had proposed confederation with the Canadian colonies. Israel Wood Powell, Superintendent of Indian affairs also outlawed potlatching an indigenous ceremony In British Columbia. Following the Lord Durham’s report, Freemason Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon proposed The British North America Act, 1867 Under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, the federal government has exclusive legislative authority for "Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians." Of the 36 Fathers of the Canadian confederation, 11 were Freemasons. One being Freemason Sir John A. Macdonald, He was named by the United Grand Lodge of England as their Grand Representative near to the Grand Lodge of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald took a page from American Freemason Andrew Jackson's book by removing the Indigenous people from their land. He was proud that he was able to subdue the Indigenous people with less blood shed than his American brethren. One Of Macdonald's Legacies is the Canadian Pacific Railway which displaced many tribes across Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald's campaign promise in the 1870s was that he would have a railway built that would link the country from coast to coast. Freemasons Richard Marpole, Sir Sandford Fleming, Sir George J.A. Bury And the Chinese Freemasons of Vancouver and Alberta made Macdonald’s promise come true. As quickly as the railroad was laid Freemason lodges were erected. Louis Riel a Métis hero, led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its Freemason Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald. Riel sought to defend Métis rights and identity. The Wolseley expedition was a military force authorized by Sir John A. Macdonald to confront Louis Riel and had been dispatched to Red River under Freemason Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley. Another of Mcdonald's legacies is the North West Mounted Police. Macdonald established the N.W.M.P in 1873 which boasted 750 Freemason members in its time. He claimed that “it was intended to have a body of mounted rifles to protect the people from the chance of an Indian war.’’ Meanwhile, The Pacific Scandal, the first major post-Confederation political scandal in Canada, Sir John Macdonald and senior members of his Conservative Cabinet were accused of accepting election funds for the contract to build the C.P rail.
The near completion of the railway allowed troops from eastern Canada to quickly arrive in the territory causing Riel to surrender to Canadian forces. The NWMP barracks was where Louis Riel was detained after his arrest in 1885 for leading the North-West Rebellion. Many Freemasons were involved in the defeat of Louis Riel. The RCMP museum had a display of the noose which hung Riel. Macdonald said this about Riel "He shall die though every dog in Quebec barks in his favor." John A. Macdonald is also one of the fathers of the Canadian Indian act First passed in 1876. In 1879 Freemason Nicholas Flood Davin wrote the Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds, otherwise known as The Davin Report. An amendment to the Indian Act in 1894 under Freemason Prime Minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell, made attendance at day schools, industrial schools, or residential schools compulsory for First Nations children, resulting in over 100000 Indigenous children being forcefully removed from their families by Indian agents and the RCMP. From 1740 to 1896 The Mexican government's response to the various uprisings of the Yaqui tribe have been likened to genocide particularly under Freemason Porfirio Diaz. Due to slavery and massacre, the population of the Yaqui tribe in Mexico was reduced from 30,000 to 7,000 under Diaz's rule. One source estimates at least 20,000 out of these Yaquis were victims of state murders in Sonora. It was during this period of the conflict that the United States Army fought the last battle of the American Indian Wars, the final battle being the Wounded Knee Massacre December 29, 1890, and in the subsequent Drexel Mission Fight the next day. In recent history the statues of Freemason John A. Macdonald, Freemason Edward Cornwallis, Freemason George Washington, Freemason Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Freemason Robert E. Lee and Andrew Jackson have all been vandalized but no mention of their affiliation to the Freemasons in the news. We can't point fingers at the church or government without first confirming whether or not the accused are Freemasons. The Order of the Eastern Star, Job's Daughters, and Rainbow Girls are masonic fraternities for women such as the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a Master Mason. All masons will cry out that Freemasonry has nothing to do with what an individual member has done, yet they all praise these men and prop them up as heroes. Freemasons claim to have superior morality compared to the average person, that they are the most honorable men on the planet, yet they refuse to acknowledge their members role in the genocide of the Indigenous Americans.
You may believe Freemasons are irrelevant nowadays but that is far from true. Winston Churchill is regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. Churchill was initiated into Studholme Lodge No. 1591 on 24 May 1901. He said of the Pashtun people “all who resist will be killed without quarter,” Pashtun territory was occupied by the British in 1848 and divided into two areas. Winston Churchill's policies caused a famine that claimed more than 3 million Indian lives during the The Bengal famine of 1943. President Harry Truman, known as one of the most dedicated men to have joined Masonry on the morning of August 6, 1945, ordered an American B-29 bomber to drop two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. John Edgar Hoover, more commonly referred to as J. Edgar Hoover, was an American attorney and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hoover was raised on November 9th 1920 in Federal Lodge No. 1 in Washington D.C. In 1919 Hoover became the head of the Bureau of Investigation's (predecessor of the FBI) new General Intelligence Division. The division was also called the Radical Division because it was the task of the division to find radical elements in American society to monitor and disrupt their activities. The Duke of Kent was initiated as a Freemason in Royal Alpha Lodge No. 16 in London on 16 December 1963. The Duke of Kent, is now UGLE’s longest-serving Grand Master. The Duke’s brother, Prince Michael of Kent, is also a Freemason and is Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, and Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Middlesex. On 6 March 1953, HRH Prince Philip progressed to the Second Degree of Freemasonry, before advancing to the Third Degree on 4 May 1953.
I encourage those who have been affected by the actions of Freemasons to begin a class action lawsuit against this organization in what ever country, state or province you live in and hold Freemasonry accountable for genocide. The first thing a Freemason will say when presented with this evidence is you don't know how masonry operates, that the lodge is not responsible for individual members actions. That is exactly what the Catholic church said before the Canadian Court of Appeal on July 28, 2020 had found the Archdiocese vicariously liable for abuses committed by a civilian employee. I witnessed countless people stand up against the Catholic Church for what they have done and the Pope came to Canada and apologized. Now it's time to turn your sight toward Freemasonry. You must understand that all Freemasons on the American contenent have greatly benefited from the genocide of Indigenous Americans.
“ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's acceptance of an inquiry's finding that Canada committed genocide against Indigenous people could have tremendous legal impact if a court ever weighs Ottawa's responsibility for crimes against humanity, experts say.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trudeau-s-acknowledgment-of-indigenous-genocide-could-have-legal-impacts-experts-1.5457668
"I didn't use the word genocide because it didn't come to mind but I described genocide," Pope Francis told reporters on the papal flight from Iqaluit to Rome on Friday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/pope-francis-residential-schools-genocide-1.6537203
“The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.”
― President John F. Kennedy
“President Kennedy issued an Executive Order prohibiting use of facilities on military bases by groups not integrated. The result was to bar Masonic lodges from using the bases.” Masonic Parallels with History - A Chronology of General and Masonic History by Alphonse Cerza. themasonictrowel
THE MILITARY AND FREEMASONRY
Freemasonry in Nova Scotia
Freemasonry at the Two Sieges of Louisbourg 1745 and 1758
Freemasonry in Quebec
Sir William Johnson, the Brant family, the Kerr family and the British Indian Department
MOOR’S INDIAN CHARITY SCHOOL
Mohawk Institute (Mush Hole)
The rebellion of 1837
Manitoba Freemasons
Saskatchewan Freemasons
North-West Rebellion
Provincial Premiers Alberta masons
The Canadian Pacific Railway
Smallpox epidemic of 1862
British Columbia Freemasons
Freemason Prime Ministers
American Freemasons and the genocide of the
Indigenous peoples.
Spanish Freemasons
Royal Freemasons
300 Years of Freemasonry Celebrated at Royal Albert Hall Global Event
Freemasonry according to Masons.
The Fourth Council of Toledo Canon 60 and Indian Residential Schools
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I have a project in mind where I want to create an ai model from scratch (if possible) where it will take an Image of a car and just tell me the car model in the picture and I want to learn how to do it. Instructions online about how to make a model are so unclear and don't make sense... I don't know where to start or with what software to start. Can anyone help me out with this just so I can get a starting point, because I'm ready to put in the hours to teach the model I just don't know where to begin the process of making the model and the process of teaching the model

Hello,
I (26 M) went through some challenging experiences as a teenager, that I am now reflecting on. Perhaps some of you can give me new perspectives.
TLDR: Moved to a foreign country at 14. Got targeted my a sadistic emotional abuser. I internalized the abuse. I feel like I have lost my identity. How can I recover it? How can I understand the abusers behavior?
When I was 14 I moved to another country with my family. When I started in the new school, I knew the local language just enough to understand, but I was unable to speak. A few weeks after I was approaced by this class mate, let´s call him John. John bacame totally obsessed with me, and gradually started to abuse me emotionally. The very first time we spoke together, he asked me oddly specific questions about my family, where I lived, and if I had any friends at the school. I was very naive and answered all of his quesitons, thinking it was his way to make friends. The next thing I remember is that he started to tell everybody around me that he hated me, and a bunch of fake rumours. He eventually got others to join him. They would surround me and yell that they were going to destroy my life, that I was worthless, and other things to damage my confidence. I felt totally disempowered and shocked. This emotional abuse went on every day for two years, and got me to a very dark place. During this time, I was never able to get my anger out on them, I just repressed everything.
Eventually, two years of daily emotional abuse damaged confidence. I internalized the things they said about me: that I was worthless, that nobody liked me, that I had no friends ecc. I also did not know who I was anymore.
I often wondered about why John was so obsessed with me. As I understand it, he was projecting his problems on me. So it probably is not as personal as I thought it was.
My question is, what can I do now to recover my identity?

From some of the reddit Upwork threads I’m trying to get a big picture view.
One of the key elements missing is the actual details/data on the CustomeClient experience.
Several threads talk about blow back with connect bidding on the Upwork Contractor and its impact, and the point was “What is the actual data on bidding positions and effectiveness”.
As I understand it no data has been offered or shown.
Then there is the other side of Upwork.
What is the details/data on the CustomeClient experience and satisfaction with the Upwork bidding system.
I do not see Customers/Clients communicating at the same level on reddit, and Upwork on this.
There’s some, but not enough to get good data, if any.
I do see the Upwork Contractor communicating at a high level on the Upwork bidding service.
In my experience, even with an offer in place, the client can be rejected in the end.
My point is that to try for a good outcome with an Upwork project, winning the job is only one step.
If the process is providing a high number of Upwork projects offers to bidders, how are the Customers/Clients satisfaction and experience levels.
If they’re not, then more than likely their gone, lost to Upwork and Upwork Contractors.
Not sure anyone knows.
There are also threads with highly rated Upwork Contractors that they are experiencing the reverse, fall off with Upwork, increase with outside projects.
Again, no actual data.
If your Contractor experiences have taught you that it’s rarely easy, then what is the CustomeClient experiencing.
If this persist, then it may point to the long term outcome, and practicality in using the service from both CustomeClient, and Contractor.
In many threads there is data and explanations with the Upwork SEC fillings when they were published.
One small (Huge) item listed in the fillings was “Upwork is looking to retain and focus on their current customers/clients”.
Is this corporate speak for “we are going to throttle back down our advertising”?
Is this also causing a reduction in jobs/projects?
As was pointed out in threads, and in Upwork notice, that there will be a $5.00 fee added to CustomeClient billing when offer is accepted.
I’m not fully sure I understand if this is accurate, but if so, bet the Contractor will have to explain this to the client. May not be a big deal for big projects, but maybe for smaller ones.
My question is what is the near and long term affect with all these changes with the CustomeClient, and also the internet feedback on the Upwork service?
How bad is to much, so far only anecdotal information is to be had, and most is from the Contractor side.
Would like to have actual details/data to base near and future activity on the Upwork service.
One other note.
As was reported, the long term $10,000 5% fee will only be grandfathered in until “the end of 2023 “, then back to 10%.
I assume from threads that the Upwork Contract fee will then go to 15%, and possible price increase with connects.
If so, this will also require consideration with all that has occurred.

Usually when building with incremental compilation, I would expect at most a small performance decrease in the resulting binary. However I have a project where if i enable incremental builds in config.toml, it increases the performance by 50-60%!
I have used a lot of time trying to figure out why this is the case, but I have had little luck. Is there any logical reason for this to happen?
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This is a multifaceted and intellectually demanding book that really requires a longer review than this. I confine myself to critiquing the author's feminism and rationalism. Hampson has abandoned Christianity and formulated her own gender-neutral theism. She suggests that the male doctrine of the Trinity involves a specifically male spirituality predicated on the nature of male genitality (the trinity of penis and two testicles (p. xxi)). She argues that the myth of Christianity has done harm to women, by the misogyny embedded within it. Its function has been to legitimize patriarchy to men. Thus, the dominant male has become the norm for humanity (pp. xvff).
Facts are that women instinctually long for the strong and dominant male. A young woman is like a Jane looking for her Tarzan. At bottom we are really this primitive (cf. Marie-Louise von Franz). Among indigenous peoples we see the same pattern: men acquire the more important positions in society. It was not the male patriarchy that established this order, as Hampson thinks—it was Mother Nature. In fact, if women had not preferred men with a drive for accomplishment, such as gaining power and riches, then the male species would have evolved into drones, and civilization could not have survived.
Lust for power, riches and glory is called original sin. Christianity aimed at ameliorating its damaging effects, e.g., the way in which men tend to see women as second rate humans. But Christianity held no hope of eradicating original sin. After all, we could not sustain our lives in this "fallen" world without being sinful. Human nature cannot be negated. Women will always continue looking for the "strong man" and men will try and live up to this ideal.
We think in terms of Father Heaven and Mother Earth, not in order to oppress women but chiefly to satisfy women's (and men's) longing for male authority. Or else they would only look for this authority in earthly men, who are always corrupt. So this is part of the reason why we still have male pronouns to denote the Divine. It has the opposite function than Hampson thinks. She says:

Male egoism has indeed frequently been at the expense of women, as men have seen women only in relation to themselves and not as having their own subjectivity and independence. (p. 114)

Indeed, this is the man women are longing for, in their right brain hemisphere. However, in their left hemisphere, which is more analytical, they are feminists. Women are very conflicted, today. She continues:

[T]he paradigms of Christian theology reflect the hopes and aspirations, the needs and the fears of men. Its modes conform to structures typical of the male psyche. (p. 119)
Western religion must be understood as that over-arching framework through which men have projected their understanding of reality. (p. 169)

I'm inclined to agree. On the other hand, had it been designed by women, then it would have had no structure at all. It seems to me that women require rigid male structures more than men do, because they have a pronounced tendency to become extatic about the latest trend, exemplified by Beatlemania and Hitler cult.
Hampson critiques the myths of Christianity, such as incarnation, virgin birth and resurrection, thinking that such beliefs cannot be sustained in our scientific age. But faith must have as object that which transcends the worldly and the rational, or else it cannot emancipate the believers from the material world, which serves to make them truly human. We ought to be "fools for Christ", as Paul says. This is a well-known theme in comparative religion (cf. Mircea Eliade).
Hampson's new theism involves a dialogical relation with God, envisaged as a mindlike or spiritual dimension of reality, responsible for "the presence of power and love in the world" (p. 113). The spirit, which is always near, allows mental and physical healing (p. 226). It seems to me that she only lifts away the theological framework and introduces nothing new. But religion without (foolish) myth cannot work.
The author makes a valuable critique of certain modern theologians, showing that they aren't truly Christian. Certain of them don't even have a Christology proper. Hampson is a good theologian. Her other book, Christian Contradictions, is a masterpiece. But she relies too much on inferior theologians and intellectually bankrupt feminism. Despite all, the book is worthy of a read. I give it three stars.

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