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The Truth About the 9-Star American Flag on Government Websites

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If you’ve visited a U.S. government website, you may have noticed a small American flag in the top corner (here is an example on State.gov). Some people have pointed out that this flag appears to have only nine stars, and, as expected, conspiracy theories have followed. But before you get caught up in the clickbait, let’s clear things up.

Why Does the Flag Look Like That?

The flag in question is only 16 x 11 pixels—an incredibly small size. At this resolution, trying to fit all 50 stars would make the flag look like an unrecognizable blur. To make it visually clear that this is, in fact, the U.S. flag, designers simplify it by using fewer, larger stars. It’s purely a design choice to maintain clarity at such a small size.

Here is an example of a the full US Flag with 50 stars at 16 X 11 pixels.

Here is the exact version of a the full US Flag with 9 stars at 16 X 11 pixels.

See how hard to top one is to see the stars?

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AI PREP and Resources

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This is a living blog post that will continued to be updated as I learn more. Here is a link to the slides from my presentation at World Harvest. This is intended as tool for my friends, family, followers and myself to be able to reference at anytime with updated information on Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it continues to progress rapidly.

What is AI or Artificial Intelligence?

I actually asked the AI tool MarketingBlocks what its definition of Artificial Intelligence was and it said

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. These tasks include speech recognition, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, and understanding natural language. AI systems are designed to analyze and interpret vast amounts of data, recognize patterns, and make decisions or take actions based on that analysis. They can be classified into two main types: narrow AI, which is designed for specific tasks, and general AI, which aims to possess the same level of intelligence as a human across a wide range of tasks.”

I then asked it to re-write this definition to explain to an eight year old since this is one of my children’s ages and AI rewrote the definition to say.

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I asked AI about the Bible and the book of Revelation

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So we use some Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and I decided to asked it about the Holy Bible and specifically the book of Revelation.

Here is a video of what it said:

To clarify what I wanted I asked the following setup question and below is the exact responses that AI gave me.

My 1st question: Has the Holy Bible been added to your model?

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How to create all tickets view in Zendesk

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Recently I moved from FreshDesk to Zendesk. The reason we moved over was because Zendesk is Fedramp certified and we need a bit higher security requirements for our clients.

As I got into the Zendesk platform I realized I could not find how to create a view that had all of our trouble tickets submitted so I did a bit of googling and figured it out.

Here are the steps to create a view that has all tickets in the view:

Step 1) Login to your Zendesk support account and go to settings:

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Crash landing on Shark’s Tooth Golf Course

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Ten years ago today I crash landed an airplane on Shark’s Tooth Golf Course in Florida. It’s amazing to think it has already been ten years since this happened. The story behind this life-changing event has a great testimony of Faith, Unity, Love and Life (FULL) and I thought I would share. It is interesting that these four things spell the word FULL, because full is what the life of everyone involved in the crash has become. I know most don’t like reading really long blog posts, so I will try my best to make this as short as I can. If you just want to read the news story about the crash landing, you can read it here.

Justin and Rose Langham

This testimony begins with Justin and Rose Langham. You see, I met Justin and Rose at the same time they both met; our first week of college at Oklahoma Christian University. Justin and Rose fell in love and were married just 6 months prior to my wife and me. Tragically, on Valentine’s Day 2010, Rose passed away suddenly from a brain aneurysm. During this trial, Justin was in the Air Force and stationed in Florida as well–just a few short miles away from where I was stationed–but neither of us knew this. We soon got in contact and began to spend a lot of time together. My wife was away finishing her final semester of nursing school, and Justin was going through the hardest trial of his life, so as any good friend would do, I just tried to spend quality time with him doing things that made him smile. One of the things he always wanted to do was fly an airplane, so that’s what we did. Justin and I would rent planes from the Destin airport and fly up and down the beach or maybe do a lunch-and-back to Dauphin Island airport.

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We got egged!

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So a few nights ago as we were putting the kids down for bed when the doorbell rang. Now it wasn’t a normal type of ring it was one of those rings where they push the button as fast as they can over and over. I just happened to be standing close to the front door.

I opened the door pretty quickly just in time to see these little feet running away squealing loudly that I had seen them. They ran as fast as they could and got into their parents car and drove off.

We had been egged!

Now this wasn’t a bad egging it was very good. There posted on our door was a sign that read:

Our kids loved searching through the yard for the 12 eggs with the neat treasures inside along with one empty representing Jesus raising from the dead.

With all the upheaval in this world this was such a fun, loving and thoughtful idea that we decided to pay it forward to a few friends of ours and we egged their houses as well.

Many of them have egged us back and it’s been really fun since we can’t all hang out together right now.

With COVID-19 many people are stuck inside and this was a fun thing that kept our social distancing that we were able to do with our family.

Maybe you are looking to do something fun like this with your family. Well thanks to HappyHomeFairy.com here is a free easter egging template they have created that you can download and print out and then go egg your friends house.

Happy egging…

Giving Back to Enid, OK

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Dear citizens of Enid, Oklahoma (And anyone else reading)

I’ve already received messages about people losing their jobs and some are in panic mode and I want to take a few minutes and give you hope. As a matter of fact before you get done watching our live stream from 21 March through EnidBuzz.com you could have actually already made money if you listened to what I said.

Step 1) Get a free stock by going here (That’s correct when you signup you get a free stock could be Apple, Google, NetFlix, Facebook but you will get it for free) Please post which stock you got in the comments below.

Step 2) If you are doing okay financially and want to help employ citizens of Enid Click here to donate

Step 3) I will be sending out how to courses for specific local businesses and how to setup an online store and accept food orders for deliveries if you want those updates signup here

Step 4) If you want to learn about how to make money online even further Ryan Deiss one of the top internet marketers in the world is giving access to all of his trainings through March 31st. This is worth millions to be honest. Click here to get those classes for free

Step 5) If you are out of work and live in Enid, Oklahoma please signup for my updates and I will send work you way the best I can. Click here to signup

Please check back with this page soon. I will be updating it as we move forward. We can do this Enid! God bless you!