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Richard Murray Hearth

RIchard Murray Creative Table

Dear Readers,  I tend to enjoy reading various articles on writing , the industry, the concepts, et cetera. parallel to craft articles. These topics can be fun or engaging. As some of you know, I have a controlled electronic footprint, meaning, I don't keep old posts. This blog never had fifteen posts and never will cause I don't like ejunk. But, I realize, aside my posts to what I created and create, I need a post to just chit chat if you will. So this post will serve that function, throug
Richard Murray Interviews

Interview to Jessica Amadi

This is my Q&A to Jessica Amadi , Rivers Angels FC media officer   When did you start as the media officer to Rivers Angels F.C. ? August 28, 2015    Is there any media officer to a sporting team or organization that you admire?  That would be the former media officer of defunct Dolphins, China Acheru   The Nigerian league is the strongest womens league in C.A.F. , what should it emulate from other leagues media-wise to grow?  It should get closer to the communities and always
MARKETING IS A 4-LETTER WORD

HELP WANTED

"No one wants to pay for distraction, but they will pay if it's packaged as help." (me)   How help is defined is tricky. It depends on the client/customer's wants. If your prospective customer wants to escape their environment, then consider if you, the independent author have the skills, resources, and experience packaged in your book to help.    If your book is the solution, then show them how it can get what they want. In this case, adventure, exotic destination, and a
BGE Journal

OPENAI Operator

I read the introduction from OpenAI  I remember learning about browser design and I told my friends a browser that can go into a web page and extract will be very useful. I still think that is true but I also comprehend the level of security problems this leads to.  OpenAI clearly comprehends a lawsuit can hit them so they have started using this through ChatGPT, and show one financial issue as it is only for people who pay for ChatGPT pro.  But they plan to expand to Plus, Team, and E
BGE Arcade

BGEDWS- Black Games Elite Deviantart Watching Search

BGEDWS- Black Games Elite Deviantart Watching Search VERSION 3NOTES: zero means no time bound; greater than zero means number of days old from current time BGEDWS- Black Games Elite Deviantart Watching Search VERSION 2 DYSFUNCTIONAL NOTE: The API  from https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url is blocking its use or the AALBC system is blocking use but that is fine. I can't control those things. But, it is still usable, and I can use it on my own system where it returns more. 
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George M Horton - remembering Juneteenth

First work published in the usa by a black person in 1865 , circa after the thirteenth amendment, by the only person to publish poetry while enslaved in the history of the U.S.A. is attributed to George M Horton.  He published three works while planned four in total, to my knowledge through Wikipedia.   The Hope of Liberty (1829) This was Horton's first true attempt to buy his freedom. Most of the poems in the collection were themed around antislavery either indirect or directly
BGE Journal

Rogue Computer Programs

@Delano asked a question about rogue computer programs. The following is my answer   @Delano The first thing is to define what going rogue means for a computer program?   If a computer program malfunctions is that going rogue? a malfunction from the source code in a computer program is equivalent to a genetic disease in a human. The system has an error but it is natural, it is not induced. a malfunction from code ingested from another program or some faulty el
BGE Journal

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Compiler (ENIAC) is the first computer + first machine to make a weather model to predict the weather, here is how

How? The first successful numerical prediction was performed using the ENIAC digital computer in 1950 by a team led by American meteorologist Jule Charney. The team include Philip Thompson, Larry Gates, and Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft, applied mathematician John von Neumann, and computer programmer Klara Dan von Neumann, M. H. Frankel, Jerome Namias, John C. Freeman Jr., Francis Reichelderfer, George Platzman, and Joseph Smagorinsky.[THE ENIAC FORECASTS A Re-creation ][The Unher
BGE Arcade

BGEDOV- Black Games Elite Deviantart Oembed Viewer

NOTE: works on visual art deviations[stills/gifs/videos], works on literature deviations/journals [anything under 640 characters will be completely outputted; the first image will be presented if the deviation is an image series], works on pdf [emit the cover image of the pdf not content] , works on stash items [relative output if visual art or literature/journal or pdf], doesn't work on status updates or polls  
Richard Murray Hearth

Richard Murray Creative Table 5

MY CREATIVE TABLE Perihelion 2025 , 2024 work list , art vs artist 2024 , Poetic Critique of Luthien and Beren by jjwinters , critmas 2024 , secret santa 2024, Book Review: Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery ,  Story Pitch contest 2025 , synthographers conversations 2024 , Black Romantic Compulsory Figures , Flash Fiction February 2025 , Candace Sulcus of the Sanawoc series , Aeolian Heart Harp,  Around The First Flail , The Fulgurantess , The Vernal Rose , Ume to Sakura
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My Search For SHUFFLE ALONG

I was unable to find the stageplay book. I imagine someone has it somewhere. But if I ever get it I will share it in this work. This isn't the first african american stageplay, my book of old stageplays have many that are older and that were popular. But Shuffle Along did have a sensation especially among whites that is underrated.  Well, enjoy the images.      Shuffle Along (1921) Posted onMarch 16, 2008by contributed by: Anthony Duane Hill Shuffle Along, a musi
BGE Journal

ForTran Automatic Coding System from Backus & Company

The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System J. W. BACKUS?, R. J. BEEBERt, S. BEST$, R. GOLDBERG?, L. M. HAIBTt, H. L. HERRICK?, R. A. NELSON?, D. SAYRE?, P. B. SHERIDAN?, H.STERNt, I. ZILLERt, R. A. HUGHES§, AN^ .. . R. NUTT~   THE FORTRAN project was begun in the sum- mer of 1954. Its purpose was to reduce by a large factor the task of preparing scientific problems for IBM's next large computer, the 704. If it were possible for the 704 to code problems for itself and produce as good prog
BGE Journal

FORTRAN a history from John Backus

ForTran for formula translating system, I think this is a wonderful read. I must admit, while my agenda in Black Games Elite is for a set of Black people to develop games, wit my involvement as one of them. I do think as a maker, a side project of making a computer is not worthless. It will be ideal to make a computer with its machine code and build upwards , if for no other reason than the acute experience of such a thing which this history partially proves.    THE HISTORY OF FORTRAN
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Gutenberg - Black Literature

thank you @umbrarchist for inspiring this. I have known of gutenberg for years and used it but never thought to go through its library for Black literature.    Books in African American Writers (sorted by popularity) https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/6 Books in African American Writers (sorted alphabetically) https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/6?sort_order=title Books in African American Writers (sorted alphabetically by author) https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf
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PERCY JULIAN

The lesson in Percy Julian's story isn't that in the usa whites stop blacks from all things but in the usa whites defer blacks from their true goals. Yes, PErcy Julian became a chemist but by his own words this was a life as a chemist he didn't envision. It was a poisoned deal between getting something remotely similar to what you want because of white power while still holding on and embracing the usa NARRATOR: Looking back in the autobiography he would never finish, Julian offered his own
Work List

Haitian Constitution

THE 1805 CONSTITUTION OF HAITI SECOND CONSTITUTION OF HAITI (HAYTI) MAY 20, 1805. PROMULGATED BY EMPEROR JACQUES I (DESSALINES) The document below was printed in the New York Evening Post, July 15, 1805. It was transcribed into the version below by Bob Corbett on April 4, 1999. I did not translate it, only transcribed. It was printed in 1805 in English. There is no mention in the newspaper who translated it. But, given that Henri Christophe was involved in the publication and
BGE Arcade

DogoKwan of the HDKiriban series

For those that may know I have always said I will honor those who follow me but I have been too busy creating my own work. A few months ago, I realized I wanted/needed to program more and so the HDKiriban series was born and this is the first in the series. DogoKwan is a simple tile game.  You can change the settings , the dimensions or the difficulty.  For my first 25 followers on deviantart I have a dropdown list to display their work. I will continue my HDKiriban series with the sec
BGE Arcade

Rock Paper Scissors project with Angelalita77

A friend of mine inspired this project, this is version 1, more are coming     Version1- Yellow means a draw, blue means computer won, brown means you the user won. R means Rock, P means Paper, S means Scissors. Click start to start the game. Stop to end it. You can click the R, P, or S button to set your value, the computer chooses its own away from your eyes:) but the results will be shown   Version 2- suggestions from angelalita about showing what the computer i
Race and Beyond

Black People and The Democratic Party

Beyond the choice of whether to vote for Biden or Trump its important to put the relationship between Black people and the Democratic Party in perspective. If Biden wins there are things Black people will want. If Trump wins then for many black voters it will come down to supporting Democrats in 2028. Of course that depends on how bad four more years of Trump will be for our politics and democracy.    It's important to not deny Black agency or legitimate claims on the polity. When we d
1964&US!!!

NO*IMMUNITY*CHANGE: JUST*MORE*SPECIFIC… “FOR*OFFICIAL*ACTS”

***NOTHING*DIFFERENT*HAS*CHANGED!!! THE*KEYPREPOSITIONAL*PHRASE*OF*IMMUNITY: IS["FOR*OFFICIAL*ACTS"]!!!THIS-IS:WHY-his: COIVD-GENOCIDE-IMCOMPETENCE-OF------ HAVING-KILLED-MORE-THAN1M-PEOPLE--  [STILL-KILLING]IS*NOT*A*GENCIDE-ACT-OF------ A-CRIME:BUT-his-OFFICIAL-ACT=INCOMPETENCE!  SO*YES*THIS*IS*THE*SAME*CONSTITUTIONAL... U.S.*CLEARANCE*OF*PRESIDENTIAL*IMMUNITY!!! ALSO*THEIR*IS*STILL*THE*POWER...  OF*IMPEACHMENT*WHICH*THE*D.O.J.*SHOULD... BE*APPLYING/CHARGING*UNC

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