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My husband and I are both 24, and healthy to our knowledge. We have 2 children that we easily conceived. I tried hormonal birth control for the first time after having my youngest child May 2021-October 2021 and just decided it wasn’t worth it because my husband and I wanted more children. I really thought I would conceive easily but it’s been really hard emotionally getting so many negative tests every month. My husband and I practice the deed every 2-3 days, I feel like my body may not be ovulating for us to be trying so frequently for so long and no positive? I also have never seen a positive on ovulation test strips. My periods are fairly regular but I have missed 2 periods within the past year. Could my body still be affected by my birth control use in 2021? I’m open to any and all advice at this point.
I know I’m beyond blessed to even have 2 children but I’m just heartbroken and seeking advice. Also, I’m new to Reddit and this is my first post and it’s so vulnerable (kinda nervous, lol).

This sub was crucial for days when I could not find the motivation to study or needed to hear some encouraging words.
My journey : I started with the A+ in June of last year. Signed up for the Network + in December but got Covid and was not able to cancel my test. This made me sour for losing money on the Network + so I started studying for the Security+ and passed in February. Now I just passed the Network+ this week. All of this with a full time job and other responsibilities.
I used messer and the dion practice tests on udemy but also took notes and wrote flash cards for anything I was getting wrong on the practice tests before retaking them.
So for anyone who needs the encouragement, keep at it you got this!

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If I’m making between 70 and 85% on the BARBRI practice tests, is that good? Are they actually similar to the real MPRE, or are they easier than the real thing. For my jurisdiction, I just need a scaled score of 80 to pass.

I apologize in advance for this being so long. A TL;DR is at the end. If this kind of post is not allowed, I apologize as well.
I was wondering if anybody had any advice regarding whether it is worth seeking out a diagnosis, as I think that I might potentially have ADHD. However, at the same time, I don't really know if I do. I could just be lazy. I'm going to list some examples of things that I do that maybe could be caused by ADHD, and if anybody has insight that would be incredibly helpful. I am a minor so I would need to talk to or ask my parents about getting a diagnosis, but they are kinda judgy and are sort of the type of people that believe ADHD is just a label for problem kids and not something that could ever possibly impact their child.
I do tend to lose/misplace things reasonably often, though not super often.
I do tend to lose my train of thought more than I feel I should.
When I was younger, I apparently made disruptive noises in class and the teacher told my parent that they considered sending me to the principal's office (they didn't actually though). However, I got a new glasses prescription and apparently that caused me to stop being disruptive? However, in that same grade the school admin also created a special plan for what to do with me when I finished all my work early because I am "gifted" (gifted is in quotes because I feel like half the people I know are designated "gifted") and would finish all my work in half the time. So maybe it wasn't ADHD but just a bored gifted kid acting out.
I used to interrupt people quite a bit when they were talking. I have been working on not interrupting people over the past few months and think I have made very significant improvements and don't really interrupt people anymore. If this is something I have been able to mostly resolve myself, then maybe I don't really have ADHD?
I have mentioned my concerns somewhat to my mom in the past (in passing, I didn't want to deal with her judgement if I actually said that I thought I might have ADHD) and she expressed the sentiment that "all smart people are like that -- our brains just can't work at such high levels all the time" (I'm paraphrasing) and expressed the sentiment that she somewhat felt the same way. I know ADHD runs in families, so either we're both normal, or maybe we both have ADHD and my never-diagnosed mom is now dismissing me because she thinks it's normal?
***The biggest problem I have is a complete and utter inability to force myself to sit down and work most of the time, i.e. do homework or study. I used to LOVE school as a younger kid but have always hated homework. I had very little homework in elementary school, so this was never a problem, but since middle school I have been steadily getting more homework. Something that happened today is that I came home with a plan to get a ton of homework done (I created a whole list of what assignments I was going to do when this weekend -- I often create lists of what I need to do and when I should do it) and instead I wasted the last 9 hours doing absolutely, positively nothing productive. I could have just gotten 9 hours of homework done, and I didn't. I feel extremely guilty. The same thing happened over spring break. I had grand plans to be super productive, and I got next to nothing done despite having ample time and having made a plan. I just didn't follow the plan. And I feel guilty. I know one of the common signs of ADHD is bad grades, but my grades are actually still great. I have straight A's, quite a few AP classes, and am ranked near the top of my class. I got 99th percentile scores on both the ACT and SAT without really trying (I did a couple free online practice tests, but that was it). The problem is that I don't have very much time for extracurriculars or fun things because I waste time on random unproductive things I don't even care about, making it so that my little remaining time has to be spent on homework, and I don't have much time to do fun things. This sort of procrastination has been a problem for at least the past 3 or 4 years (I know ADHD is present from birth, but it's possible I just didn't have enough responsibilities/things going on for it to be problematic before then -- if ADHD is even what I have), and I feel like I've wasted my high school experience because of it. HOWEVER, (barring distracting people talking while I'm trying to focus, etc.) I tend to have to trouble focusing in class (unless it's boring, but most people zone out a little when it's boring). If I can focus in class but not at home maybe I am just lazy. Or maybe the pressure to appear like a good student to my teachers (gotta love seeking external validation) outweighs the ADHD? A lot of my teachers think I'm the bee's knees (giftedness outweighs the lack of studying) and I don't want to disappoint them. Anyways, I hate how much time I waste and the guilt I feel for knowing I'm capable of more, but just being unable to force myself to do anything about it.
I generally work far better with strict time limits, i.e. the test proctor says we have 60 mins to complete the section and I know that I actually only have 60 mins. Saying "I will finish this worksheet in the next 30 minutes" does me no good.
Sometimes I sit on chairs weird. Like, I'll sit criss-cross apple sauce on chairs.
I am largely unable to filter out external noise/other people talking, making people talking while I'm trying to work extremely distracting. I also don't like complete silence.
I've gone though some phases of being obsessed with double-checking/making sure all my assignments are perfect. I don't know if this is an ADHD thing or if it's a result of being a gifted kid that teachers expect lots from. I feel like ADHD generally (?) results in more sloppiness and mistakes, so IDK. I feel like my "giftedness" and related factors might mask/modify a lot of traditional ADHD symptoms.
Once when I was pretty little I saved a cookie all day because I wanted to eat it at the beach when we got to the beach. I feel like this is contrary to ADHD's supposed lack of impulse control. But maybe early maturity due to giftedness outweighed the ADHD?
Edit: I also just remembered that when I was little (I don't really do it much anymore) I used to flap my arms really fast by rotating them at the elbow and letting my wrist be lax. I don't really think I ever did it at school though because kids would probably think I'm weird. So IDK if it counts as stimming if I could shut if off at school. Also, I used to (and sort of still do) rub my palms with my thumbs sometimes. IDK why/haven't specifically noticed any correlation.
TL;DR: Read the paragraph marked ***

Gotta tell you guys...the test that I took today was NOTHING like any of the practice work that I have done. Here are the resources I used:

1. Philips Udemy Course - this was decent and gave a nice foundation, but as others mentioned...a little dry.
2. PocketPrep: 780 Question Version - one of the better resources out there for sure. I recommend this one!
3. Landini Practice Quizzes - bought the kindle version. This was a pretty good resource as well and also had a link for online test simulations.
4. This sheet here of notes that was shared on the PMP board.
5. Vargas and Alvin the PM Youtube videos for ITTOs practice.
6. PMP ITTOs Game

That being said, NONE of these were relatively close to how the exam was structured. I have read from people on this board that ITTOs do not need to be studied, etc. but that is not true and I'm glad I still studied them.
My test had probably 20+ questions on ITTOs, 20+ questions on Agile, maybe 2 formula questions that were SUPER easy, and 1 Critical Path Method questions. Questions were super convoluted and had so many really ridiculous nuances to them that it was frustrating.
I came in to this with a 98% average on PocketPrep quizzes, a 94.5% average on the Landini practice tests, and 5 years of project management experience. I was definitely prepared and I'm confident in saying that this test made me feel like I had no idea what I was talking about. I may have gotten a bad bunch of questions for this test, but I'd recommend to STUDY UP PEOPLE!
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Legit loved dentistry and learning about it dental school has crushed all desire to learn and what little self worth I have. And then there the fucking cdca of course no matter how good my practice is no matter how well I'm doing in clinic failing these test is a fucking soul crush ego destroying moment. The feedback is shit, and advice from examiner and faculty is fucking usless. Not to mention the bull shit three strike rule. O you failed one part three time go fuck yourself and take the whole 5 part exam again regardless of you passing every other fucking section and don't for get to fucking pay in full another fucking 2500.
I'm just done

Usually just a lurker but I've been seeing a lot of complaints about the manhwa being shallow or 'too light' compared to the dark gritty light novel. This opinion was held by a portion of the fanbase 1-2 years ago when this sub was more active as well, recent complaints are coming from a certain user whose username rhymes with 'basleep bassion 3829.'
I would like to preface this is NOT a targeted attack on anyone's preferences, especially not Basleep Bassion's. Nor am I criticizing anyone's direct character or intelligence for holding those preferences. This is a genuine response that simply aims to convey why I disagree with said preferences. Basleep Bassion or anyone who agrees with them is free to respond and support their stance in kind, just make sure to keep the civility obviously.
Also this will be VERY LONG. Don't read if you're more of a casual reader and don't care that much for the difference. or do, I've got nothing against that. I have a lot of love for the manhwa, and I took quite a bit of time to make my argument as objective as possible, to legitimize and express how passionate I am, how admiring I am at the risks that the creators of the manhwa took. If you don't want to read this much but still want to know my conclusion:
TLDR: I think the manhwa is vastly superior in writing to the light novel, made many significant improvements overall, and does not deserve to be considered a faulty adaptation or anything of the like. It is a splendid rendering of the original story in a more visually appealing and more importantly, a more dramatically interesting version.
If anyone is super curious about how much of either I've read, I am caught up with the manhwa translation by leviatanscans, and read to about chapter 160ish about 2-3 years ago (I checked today on novelupdates it seems the site for the novel is dead sadge). When I dropped the novel the events were actually pretty close in chronology to the manhwa with the dragons and stuff but anyone who knows the difference between the two works also understands that these two are basically two different stories by this point.
I also want to start off by shooting down some counterpoints that I personally find super cheap and indicative of someone who doesn't actually want to discuss the main point and instead just wants to flex their intellectual bicep on a cheap philosophical high horse. Again, not saying that you can't have these opinions, but I'm stating here that I'm not really interested in debating these topics since they are EITHER irrelevant to the argument I'm making, OR circular rabbit holes that dismiss the point of comparing the two versions on equal grounds.1."manhwas are adaptations, and therefore should stick firmly and strictly to the source material"

• Change isn't 100% bad. Past that basic rebuttal, adaptations drastically deviating from the source material has never been the worst thing that happened to a story. The most immediately recognizeable example I can think of right now is Iron Man and The Guardians of the Galaxy, two stories which were basically completely reconstructed and saw absolute critical acclaim. Adaptations should be allowed to adapt the story to better fit the context it is being transitioned into, not shiny knock-offs.

1. "you're delusional/stupid/compensating/snowflake/overreacting/L+ratio/KEKW"

• ur mom.

1. "Sword King SHOULD be like so and so on."

• This is something I am uncertain about the answer to, and falls into the circular loop of whether critics should have authority in how an creator's vision ought to unfold. Regardless of the true answer, the distinction between this topic and my main stance is that I am comparing the craftmanship of two pieces of art as they currently are, not what they should or should not be.

Alright, now that I've gotten that out of the way, those reading this far probably care enough to read the whole thing. First some hard facts:

1. the art is really nice. say what you want about any visual design choices or I also know some are a bit peeved about lots of cute kivye wholesome fanservice shots, but among the korean webtoon scene, we were lucky to get a studio this good.
2. The studio has taken lots of liberties with both the chronology and the characterization. Whole arcs have been either reconstructed, scrapped, or order shifted. Characters like Zang Luxin have been flipped complete 180 in personality while others like Barolt were built from scratch since in the novel barolt is dead and buried before the squad even reach him.
3. the manhwa has also shifted significantly in tone, embracing a lot of comedy tropes common in other fantasy/system webtoons. This has resulted in the mood being much brighter.

These last two points I want to defend; it is my claim and opinion that the drastic changes to the plot, characters, and tone made in the manhwa are not only fine, but result in a SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER story than the light novel. With TWO SPECIFIC EXCEPTIONS, I find ALL of the changes and edits made to the original plot structure to be absolute SMASH HITS in terms of writing skill and reading enjoyment.
I am working off of memory here, so I don't remember very very specific details, but every major difference I list here I am quite confident in the accuracy of, mostly because the changes are quite memorable and distinctive.From now on, MH and LN stand for ManHwa and Light Novel respectively, so for example MH Bin is manhwa Bin, and LN Bin is Light Novel Bin.
The two exceptions I have are:
MH Laude Roud is completely relegated to comic relief so far. LN roud is not exactly more important, but I consider the comedy angle on Roud to lean more towards cringe. His monsterification element has potential, but is poorly developed as of now in MH. As a whole, the Buckman Roarpool gang is also unnecesary. I don't even need to label them MH or LN because they don't exist in the novel. MH Bin would have been completely the same off without this package of pure quips and funny panels.
The whole gun thing with Atisse is kind of weird. I'm reading a fantasy story, I don't need to add guns because I want to see swords and magic. If I wanted to see guns, I wouldn't be here.

1. LN Barolt is the toxic juiced fitness influencer trying to pass off as natty, MH Barolt is the healthy father figure that teaches you to always strive for self-improvement.

• I guess I'll start with Barolt. LN Barolt is the most basic of battle junkies; he lives to fight, grow stronger, fight again, survival of the strongest, all that jazz. Now remember, MH Barolt also has these qualities; in fact, MH Barolt is revealed to have been that stuck-up, must fight to be strongest ape in the past, with the key change being that he has matured out of that phase which allowed him to attain divinity through his own efforts. LN Barolt fights the divine beast and succumbs to his wound, largely in part due to his de facto sidekick/healer being a spy for Zenovia all along. MH Barolt killed the Beast long ago and is alive for long enough to guide Bin and inspire hope by contesting Garhan.
• LN Barolt is simple because his role is simple: from his corpse, Kivye is able to channel her domain as goddess of death and obtain his special sword-king training and techniques. LN Han Bin then proceeds to use these to qualitatively change his aura usage (which btw he learned how to consciously control much earlier in LN compared to MH). Because LN Barolt is practically just a class upgrade loot chest by the time the squad reaches his corpse, he lacks any depth: just a berserker-type challenging impossible odds and surviving by the skin of his teeth. LN Barolt has no personality, just an inclination for violence.
• MH Barolt, on the other hand, is given the role of a teacher, a friend, and a symbol of hope. He is no glorified loot box, instead he serves as not only teacher to MH Bin, but also a role model. He teaches MH Bin how to manipulate aura by pushing absolute limits, with a reveal that made my heart race when I first read it. For those who need a little memory jog, this was the test to fight the angel arm stuck in the portal and MH Bin needed to exhaust his aura reserves in order to detect the other 3 energies since his disgusting amount was smothering his senses.
• That is just one example on the expansive nature of this character change. LN Barolt is a disappointment to LN Bin when they hear of how his personality really was (kind of a piece of shit). MH Barolt is probably the first genuine role model to Bin, someone who inspires him in both strength and nature.

1. Speaking of which, a major complaint I have of the LN is that none of the 4 heroes are remotely decent people. The theme here is the familiar trope of heroes actually being villains, a common subversion of expectations writing pattern that asks important questions about the nature of heroes and of corruption by power and authority.

• The trope is good, but the LN execution is rather uninspiring. Zenovia and Garhan are the megalomaniac greeders for power, which is fine, but LN Hollian is essentially Zenovia 2.0 in personality and LN Barolt is a loot box. So we have three greedy and spiteful characters plus an underdeveloped gorilla. Lots of variety here to be sure...
• In contrast, the LN decides to branch out with Hollian and Barolt. MH Barolt I have supported above as the one true hero amongst his compatriots, but even Hollian is given a much more unique and interesting character role. LN Hollian is in on the plan, and is the rear guard and villain in Rath'na while Zenovia and Garhan conquer the divine domain. LN Hollian is nigh indistinguishable from the personality of Zenovia, being similarly spiteful and arrogant, feeling entitled to greater rewards for being the hero. Since Zenovia already fills that role, MH Hollian is more sensibly relegated to a tragic saint trope where she means perfectly well but is being deceived by her compatriots. Overall, this grants a more balanced dynamic within the 4 heroes cohort, with two being bad and 2 being good; furthermore, MH Hollian is perfect for juicy drama of a 'are we the bad guys' redemption arc.

1. MH Zang Luxin is actually his own character, LN Luxin is a cheap throwaway.

• LN Luxin spawns in a town Bin and gang are staying in, and is caught and chased as an invader, which reveals some serious savior complex as he whines about not being treated as the protagonist he 'rightly' deserves to be, subsequently losing himself to the O blessing, becoming a similar monster as in the MH. Difference is, LN Luxin is killed by Bin a couple chapters after he is introduced.
• This is what I consider to be the best change. LN Luxin was the most boring one-off mirror villain to me. He is intended to reflect to LN Bin the horrors that Earthlings could be to the Rath'nians, and serves as a dark mirror. The problem is that LN Luxin is a really cheap dark mirror, and offers no actual interesting discourse since his personality was problematic and childish from the start, leaving no doubt that he was not a good person and would thus abuse the system.
• In contrast, MH Luxin portrays the evil of the Guideline to its max: MH Luxin is extremely kind and forgiving, to the point of naive idiocy, and is the textbook plucky hero with not a bad bone in his body. He is genuinely a good person and genuinely wishes to help the world he has been sent to conquer, which makes it absolutely gut-wrenching for him to do the opposite against his control by the guideline and O blessing. He starts out annoying to Bin but grows on us, and is still being utilized in the background of MH. Overall a vast improvement on a villain of week.

1. Atisse, Leonhart, and Ephyr are upgraded super

• LN Atisse and Ephyr are quite literally useless at this stage: LN Bin is essentially the sole combatant capable of taking on each new threat since anyone who is remotely dangerous to him absolutely outclasses the rest of the gang. I love the actual agency they get in MH: while still vastly outleveled, MH Atisse and Ephyr are able to outwit their opponents in clutch scenarios, and I'm excited for how they'll continue to be relevant.
• LN Leonhart fights Bin to a close loss, then is basically irrelevant for the rest of the time. He is strong, but not strong enough to contend with anyone remotely higher tier, again to highlight Bin and his solo job. I will say this here: solo power fantasies aren't that interesting. It gets super old seeing the mc solo everything and the side characters being cheerleaders. I want development for my supporting cast too mate. MH Leonhart is honestly a treat; he is a powerhouse without taking away from Bin's spotlight as his strength lies in his unorthodox combat style. Stuff that Bin can't do MH Leonhart does with is super cool, like creating prana structures and beams to attack enemies bluntly instead of sharp sword aura.

1. Hot take: the comedy is actually overall good for the series.

• I have conceded that the comedy in earlier chapters is rough. Roud, buckman, etc are all pretty cheap laughs. But despite all that, the dialogue for MH really picked it up later. I hardly find myself cringing at the lighthearted banter anymore, because it has become sparser and much improved. I find myself enjoying the humor more and more as time goes on
• Here's my take that I don't think is so hot: the LN is super dry to read. There is no engaging dialogue, everything either talks about exposition or is combat taunts. They're all friends, but don't joke or talk shop with each other. I have no sense that the LN squad is an actual cohort, with lovable personalities and unique characters. The comedy in MH has also included a lot of background character development (the types of jokes different characters make speak to their character type). MH characters are so much more alive than LN, which feels bland and dry (to me).

1. the plot sequence changes are overall positive, and create more seamless character and story development

• so this is the point I have the least support for, mostly because I can't remember what exact order the LN was originally. All I remember is that the dragon's nest energy absorption arc was much later in LN and much less important. In LN Bin crushes the blue haired Earthling on the squad's walk out in the sun in a simple 1v1, with the dragon's nest thing being practically an afterthought.
• The broodmother arc in the elven domain was also different, but my memory is hazy so I won't speak too much on it.

1. Snow and Rondelle are so much better.

• You think MH Rondelle is bratty, LN Rondelle is 10 magnitudes more snotty, incompetent, and arrogant. I'm not MH rondelle's biggest fan, but I'll take him over a literal incel.
• in LN Snow doesn't really exist, this child angel that wants a family. Instead LN is the broodmother which drives Bin into his first real hard fight that ends up awakening his aura. MH gives a more interesting event structure than a straight up fight, I quite enjoyed the thriller and non-combative nature of the memory manipulation family thing.

Anybody else experiencing never-ending technical difficulties with the PEN-100 and PEN-200 courses? Ever since I purchased the Learn One subscription in December, I was never once able to connect to the PEN-100 lab environments via their provided VPN on my VirtualBox VM, or using their provided VMWare Player VM. I was only able to use the Web VM. When I first started the PEN-100 course, nearly every single day I would experience at least one technical issue. Sometimes it would resolve itself, but the majority of the time I was completely unable to do the course and I would have to reach out to technical support.
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I have just recently started the PEN-200 course, and with this major new update, I was expecting things to change. But nope!! Still experiencing the same BS!!! It's just problem after problem, almost every single fcking day! I'm so fed up!! I can't believe how many technical problems I have run into that are completely out of my control. The lab machines often times just don't start, and the technical support sometimes takes over a day to respond. This is extremely frustrating!! They preach all this nonsense about "tRy HaRdErrrRRrr!!!!" and their own course if FULL of technical issues!! Not to mention some of the practice questions are straight up incorrect, or ask you to connect to non-existent machines. I have never experienced any of these issues on THM, HTB, or even pwn.college for that matter. What the heck is the deal?!?!! I am losing my mind. I can't believe THIS cert and course is setting the standard right now in the penetration testing field. It's absolutely laughable. I have spent hours upon hours just trying to fix stupid little technical problems that are completely out of my control. And they're trying to tell me to try harder?? Fix your sh*t!!!!! This is unbelievable!!!

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts (2 Peter 3:3)
There are many studies with differing findings on masturbation. Some say it is good for health, others say abstaining from it is good for health.
This post is a Biblical perspective, and includes my testimony of the purely positive effects not masturbating has had on my life, as well as how to go about stopping altogether.
Don’t you know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. (1 Cor 3:16-17)
Masturbating to pornography is idolatry. Masturbating without pornography is in most cases still idolatry. Masturbation is always a desecration of the LORD’s temple. Satan convinces men to pervert their God-given procreation ability, waste their life-giving seed, and look ridiculous in doing so.
I masturbated almost every day from the age of 16 to 25. Back then I had severe anxiety around females, and erectile disfunction. Once I stopped masturbating, both of those problems went way in a matter of months. Of course, these are not reasons to replace masturbation with fornication. Wait for a righteous wife, and in the meantime pursue the LORD’s righteousness yourself.
When a man is engaging in filthy acts, he is going to attract a filthy woman. Likewise, a man who works to clean up his life will attract a similarly clean woman. A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a godly woman is given to him that fears the Lord. (Ecc 26:23)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (Gal 6:7-8)
Also, women are very spiritual and intuitive beings. Most can sense a man's filth just from being in his presence or observing his countenance.
A lot of us began masturbating before we were even men. I strongly encourage you to test yourself and see what life is like without this perversion. Observe the powerful effects of not masturbating. These effects include increased confidence around women, a brightening of countenance, and increased energy. The longer you abstain, the greater the results. Your wife, present or future, will thank you.
You have never been tempted to sin in any different way than other people. God is faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted more than you can take. But when you are tempted, He will make a way for you to keep from falling into sin. (1 Cor 10:13)
Breaking free of strongholds is easier said than done, but always possible with the LORD’s help. The ultimate key is truly desiring to do God’s will. We must fully desire to increase in holiness and become fully obedient to Him. We must be willing to reject the ways of the world, and commit ourselves to an ever-developing prayer-life and study of His word. What is impossible with man is possible with God (Luke 18:27)
When we truly desire God’s righteousness, we will be willing to utilize the control we have over our eyes. We might see a physically attractive woman on the street, but we can choose to not stare at her. If we were to stare at her features, we’d be strongly tempted to have dirty imaginations. If left unregulated, dirty imaginations are keen to escalate into fornication or masturbation down the line. Control of the eyes is especially important in this world of screens. We need to avoid using forms of social media and following pages that we know are going to have tempting images. The same goes for movies and TV. Still, even when an unexpected image appears, we always have the ability to divert our eyes. This ability can be trained and sharpened, but requires a willingness. Diverting the eyes is one of the most effortless actions the LORD has given us, yet most are not willing to do it, because most love the world. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.(1 John 2:15)
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. (Psalm 101:3)
Sometimes lustful thoughts enter the mind without a visual stimulus. Understand though, lustful thoughts occur much less frequently when the eyes are being guarded vigilantly.
When a lustful thought emerges, we must not entertain it. We must “nip it in the bud” by quickly bringing our attention to the LORD and His Word. Often, we must get away from the cellphone and computer, and begin praying, reading the Bible or meditating on it. We must practice keeping our attention in the present moment. Being present offers the opportunity shift our focus to God.
Regardless of how deep we are into a thought or imagination, we always have time to shift our attention to God and avoid physically sinning. Our minds can only focus on one thing at a time. With the awareness to focus our minds on God at the onset of a lustful thought, we can prevent it from escalating into physical sin. This “nipping in the bud” via the shifting of focus applies to all unworthy thoughts, such as those of a prideful and vain nature. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (2 Cor 10:5)
This is much easier when we already meditate on God habitually. Furthermore, we need to keep God on our minds as much as possible, praying to Him and studying His word. This brings us closer to Him. The closer we are to God, the easier it is to instantly bring our attention to Him and call Him for help. Turn to me, says the LORD, and I will turn to you. (Zech 1:3)
When we truly desire to please God and become fully obedient to Him, when we are willing to put effort into works, when we are willing to make difficult changes, when we are willing to leave unhealthy relationships, when we are willing to reject the ways of the world, when we truly love God with our whole hearts, minds and souls, only then does avoiding sin become simple. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you will meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8)
The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. (Psalm 34:17)
You keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you. (Isaiah 26:3)
Keeping our attention in the present moment allows us to consider the fruits of entertaining a certain thought or taking a certain action. We constantly need to ask ourselves: Are these thoughts and actions serving our own wills, flesh, pride and pointless curiosities, or are they serving the Almighty Father who gives us life?
As always, when pursuing righteousness, expect Satan to enter the mind with clever lies and blasphemy to try to confuse, deter and deject. Rest assured, putting forth real effort into make lasting changes for the sake of avoiding sin is very pleasing to God, who gives us the strength to do all things.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7)

I was reviewing my BP FL 3 and noticed that so many of the questions I got wrong, I actually already knew how to figure out. It just makes me wonder why I didn’t notice while I was actually taking my practice test. Does anyone have any tips on how to improve in this aspect?

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I am currently at clinic for med check to extend my B2 drivers license. I am 42 and this is my 2nd time extending license. Was wondering if you guys have such practice in your country, I used to ride a motorcycle in Melbourne and didn't have to apply for medical check. In Vietnam I have to have general examination, blood, piss tests to identify my alcohol level and drugs. The cost is around 640k VND. I think this practice is to purely rip off car owners, and the government probably has never studied effect of drivers health and safety, I mean in order to be safe on VN roads you have to be in Abram tanks probably.

My 38 year old wife was diagnosed with Stage IIb Breast Cancer, ER+ with no evidence of lymph node involvement. Tumor is t3 5.7 mm. The goal of her treatment is to first shrink the tumor down through Chemo (DDAC+T I think? I don't have the paper with me). She will have surgery, lumpectomy or mastectomy depending on how much it shrinks, or double if her genetic test comes back with BRCA, and radiation last regardless of situation. Both of her parents have gone through cancer in the OBX, where the hospital does things like intravenous b12/b6 vitamins during chemo and offers cold caps. Today we talked to the chemo doctor and looked at me like I was an idiot after asking about those things. VCI has cold caps as standard practice. And if a rinky dink hospital in the OBX can offer that why can't Virginia Oncology associates? Little things to just help my wife get through absolute hell. Am I wrong to want to try to talk to a different doctor? We are in Hampton Roads and are currently being seen at Sentara hospitals. Are we at a good place or should we seek better options? I know they say trust the doctors, and so far everyone has been great. This last one just rubbed me the wrong way, starting with trying to make me sign a document for a 20% cost share when I have Tricare (in network doctors is a 30 dollar copay for outpatient visits, that person also looked at me like I was an idiot and fighty). What kind of cancer treatment centers should we look for w/ something like this?? Should I call her care coordinator and ask to see if there any other doctors we can work with for the chemo portion of her treatment?

What is it and Why make it?

Xline is a distributed KV storage for data management on Curp protocol. Existing distributed KV storage mostly uses the Raft consensus protocol, which requires two round-trip times (RTTs) to complete a request. When deployed in a single data center, the latency between nodes is low and therefore does not have a large impact on performance.However, when deployed across data centers, the latency between nodes can be tens or hundreds of milliseconds, at which point the Raft protocol will become a performance bottleneck. The Curp protocol is designed to solve this problem. It can reduce one RTT without conflicting commands, thus improving performance. Xline aims to achieve high-performance data access and strong consistency across data center scenarios.

How can it be used as a key-value store for metadata management?

This project aims to realize a multi-datacenter metadata management solution with high performance and strong data consistency, which is critical for businesses with geo-distributed and multi-active deployment requirements. Xline makes it possible to manage metadata, such as indexes, permissions, and configurations across multiple clusters. It provides a KV interface, and multi-version concurrency control, and is compatible with ETCD.

What's new?

The major change in this release is about the introduction of a persistence layer. The improvements in this new version include the following:

Features:

• Implement a persistent storage layer to enable durability, including:
  • Implement a storage engine layer to abstract the concrete storage engine, like rocksdb , and enable upper layer storage function (#185, #187)
  • Enable recover logic for curp and xline (#194, #184)

Fix Bugs:

• Fix concurrent cmd order bug (#197)

Since storage was previously done in memory, if the process crashes, data recovery will take a long time. Thus, Xline now introduces a persistence layer that stores data on disk. We received a question concerning whether the performance test based on memory is convincing. After careful consideration, we decided to do a benchmark on this basis, and the results are expected to be released in v0.3.1.

Want to contribute?

There are currently some tasks that do not require an in-depth understanding of Curp protocol or this project, but only the APIs and Rust languages. It is friendly for those who want to get started and use Rust in an open-source database project. Welcome to contribute to Xline, and the community will provide guidance and assistance for sure

Relevant Links：

• GitHub: https://github.com/datenlord/Xline
• Paper of Curp :https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi19-park.pdf
• Article of Curp: https://medium.com/@datenlord/curp-revisit-the-consensus-protocol-384464be1600
• Xline Website：www.xline.cloud