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Superhumanoids: "Geri"
Mar 25, 2013 Mar 21, 2013 by Art Levy
"I hope our music is something that people can put on at a party, but also when they're alone and feeling introspective," says Cameron Parkins, singer for Superhumanoids. "I think it's really important for us to hit that broad emotional pallet." The L.A. outfit has had a lot of time developing this approach. The three members all met in 2011 while playing with other projects and decided to form their own band. Good response from their local shows prompted Superhumanoids to put their songs to tape, and the group has spent the past two years perfecting their debut album, Exhibitionists, due out June 11. The LP is a completely DIY entity, recorded and produced by the band at an unhurried pace, which allowed for more experimentation with song structures and sounds.
The band still uses the road as something of a musical laboratory. Preceding the sessions, Superhumanoids undertook a lengthy national tour that helped bring the band members closer together, both musically and socially. The early months of 2013 have seen them opening for Local Natives and Cold War Kids, all of which will culminate in a slot at this year's Coachella Music Festival. Superhumanoids are also coming off a productive SXSW, earning nods from Paste, Billboard, and Yahoo for their electric live shows.
That party/introspective dynamic is due to the band's own inventive use of dynamics. The first taste from Exhibitionists is "Geri," wherein Parkins and co-lead singer Sarah Chernoff split vocal duties, mirroring the song's dual point-of-view. The group takes its cues from both hip-hop and R&B production techniques–everything sounds big and brash–but there's just a hint of sadness undercutting the atmosphere.
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The great South African leader Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) died late yesterday (South African time), aged 95. Some around me have canceled other activities, preferring to watch - often in tears - the television reports coming through. One of our number asked a fourteen year old boy to sit and watch, saying: "This is a super special day in historical memo […]
In yesterday's article - Shattered International Sathya Sai Organization Faces Dead Guru's 2013 Birthday Celebrations - I said that early in our exposure of the Sathya Sai cult, my closest and immensely trusted collaborator the late Glen Meloy dearly wished that we could find a widely-respected Vedic pundit. He wrote to me saying that it was valuable to […]
Subscribe to Call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba Suddenly and shockingly, almost overnight, many Sai devotees demonized those who, for decades, were highly regarded in the Sai Baba fold, once they spoke out. As I was to learn from others well beyond this cult who have exposed corruption and betrayal in […]
.... Robert Priddy says that, after his repeated sharing with Haraldsson important and highly credible data (including television footage from the BBC and India's national broadcaster Doordarshan) that e.g., showed Sai Baba faking of miracles, he felt that Haraldsson's continued suppression of his real views (which have long had a readership of man […]
The British Crown Prosecution Service has just announced that it is satisfied it has sufficient evidence for likely successful pedophilia charges against Rolf Harris, the famous ex-patriot Australian entertainer. Harris has long been identified devotion to Sathya Sai Baba. See news reports, below. In 2012, according to British traditions of justice, some med […]
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Subscribe to Call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba Yet another scandal has erupted in the Sathya Sai Baba camp, again involving the Sathya Sai Central Trust, whose exceptional dishonesty became, particularly following Sai Baba's death in April 2011, only too clear as it came under increasing media attention. Contestants fought public […]
Yesterday's news story in The Australian (see below) about the 'Respect, Understanding, Acceptance' (RUA) project among some schools in Sydney, Australia, is inspiring. The newspaper reports:
After all the years of betrayal, and only since the inception of a high-powered Royal Commission set up to investigate institutional sexual abuse, Cardinal Pell, Australia's foremost Roman Catholic official, now admits long years of Church silence and cover-up.
Just like corporate spin doctors in other areas, Managements of artists faced with scandals tailor-make concerts, public appearances, interviews, etc., that will defuse the scandal as much as possible. This can be viewed from several different angles - e.g., 'the show must go on', 'toughing it out', 'old news is stale news and the pu […]
Perhaps, in regard to accusations against any individual, there is a cautionary tale in the story below. A second Australian woman has come forward on national television and in a mass-circulation magazine Womans Day with sexual abuse testimony against the now 83 years old Rolf Harris, the famous Australian entertainer (long associated with devotion to Sathy […]
Barry Pittard, March 2013 The famous Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is, in the true sense, a household name in Australia and the UK. His name, like that of his friend, the major jazz and blues singer Dana Gillespie, has long been associated with Sathya Sai Baba. As an indirect outcrop of the history-making British police Operation Yewtree - set up in the […]
We continue to learn from reliable sources that the Puttaparthi ashram struggles to keep going. In the next couple of days, we shall be able to see from press and other reports whether any significant VVIP's or crowds of any size turned up. From one very conversant with the Telegu language, checking the Indian press and with reliable informants, and who […]
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'Marriage Mart' – Are Known Sex Abusees Disadvantaged?
Posted by Barry Pittard on June 30, 2007
Witnesses Speaking Out On Sex abuse. Opportunities? Obstacles?
Getting those of Sai Baba's ex college boys and staff, with whom we have had contact over time, to speak out publicly has proven difficult.
Indeed, in our own movement of exposure, except around 2000, encouraging Sai Baba's abuse survivors, no matter what their country or culture, has been hard. At this time, there was unusually intense effort to bring allegations against Sai Baba and his organization to world attention. There were also high hopes – terribly idealistic, in retrospect – that simply getting the major media to investigate, and informing governments, law enforcement agencies, the general public and as many remaining devotees as possible would effect transformation.
Caution In the Primary Witness Process Essential
Of key significance in obtaining cooperation of those making primary allegations circa 2000 was that one of the former devotees was an Indian, with many contacts within Sai Baba circles in India – but added to this fact were his own distinctive qualities. For he was an enormously energetic campaigner, matched outside India by another extraordinary activist, now deceased, who was non-Indian.
The issue of charismatic ability of some activists to inspire abuse survivors to come forth – has been been re-raised by recent developments. These will not be made public yet – but of which more, trustfully, in the next year or so. However, with the utmost emphasis, I wish to suggest a caution. As in the example given above, a highly energetic, articulate, personable individual may indeed have unusual success in obtaining cooperation with abused individuals – e.g., getting sworn testimony, undertakings to travel as court witnesses, sharing of abuse experiences with leading media, law enforcement agencies, governments, UNESCO, academic researchers, etc.
However, my view is that, under a regimen of caution and great sensitivity, it is essential to have well-qualified, experienced abuse professionals involved – as well as those with other professional skills, such as lawyers, social workers, financial advisors, etc. With such constraints, there will, I should think, be some falling away in the numbers ready to testify. When all is said and done, those who are inwardly crumbling may not make the best witnesses, anyway. However, the issue is an ethical one, and should not be up for grabs! Although activists may have the very best intentions, and be far from exercising any coercion, there are nonetheless serious dangers to be avoided. Badly traumatized human beings can be like ticking bombs, where the approach must be made with a great care and skill not possessed by most of us.
Is There A 'Damaged Goods' Problem Within India Marriage 'Markets'?
Indian boys with sexual molestation accounts have shared with networked former Sai Baba devotees a number of difficulties facing them. These relate to the conduct of Sai Baba and some of his personnel such as certain of his teaching staff and students. Suppose Indian abuse survivors were to go public. Are we able to imagine the ramifications within that extraordinarily complex institution – the joint family?
Ex-students and staff of Sai Baba's institutions who are cooperating with us are acutely aware, for example, that members of their own families are strong devotees of Sai Baba. Some of these live in his ashrams, and are vitally dependent on his largesse, and anxious lest his officials find any fault, real or imagined, which could lead to their casting out. If ex-students and other young male devotees who have come to grief with Sai Baba, or are friends of those who have, were to speak out, what would be their fate, and that of those they love?
Joint Family A Great Institution. Like Any, It Has Its Stresses, Strains
A great many marriages in India are still arranged, where a boy or girl does not, in certain respects, so much marry an individual but rather a complex set of family alliances.
To spend considerable time – as I have had the great fortune to have done in the case of India – in any other culture is often a humbling experience. Customs which vastly differ from one's own can, on closer inspection, enshrine a great deal of commonsense, adaptive capacity and profundity – all too easily missed by superficial judgement. Therefore, it is not the topic in general of arranged marriages that I allude to in this piece, but a facet of the tradition which can pose – unless those in the culture itself find creative ways around it – a difficulty for many Indian sexual abuse survivors.
Creative Indian Solutions Needed
All round the world, there are those who wish, of course, that ex students and ex staff of Sai Baba's institutions would go public with what they know to be true, tragic as it is. (I do not say that they will not do so, eventually). However, such an event needs a uniquely Indo-centric approach – with Indian legal, spiritual, emotional and other support systems well in place. Where well-wishers in other countries may be able to assist is in contact with governments to smoothe the path for those Indian individuals or families who, for their own safety and well-being may wish to relocate.
Many who have been abused have real issues of reintegration, of "moving on" (which is a phrase they themselves often use), and living with a sense of betrayal – especially acute in the face of their experience of a guru they supremely loved and trusted.
Legal Situation Can Be Problem-fraught
Any abuse survivors looking for legal remedies need to ensure that they obtain the most competent and sensitive advocacy. To win a monetary settlement and yet lose peace of mind is not worth it – unless an individual is very strong and believes that his sufferings will obtain tangible reforms for other abuse survivors, including the eduction of the wider public, and the breaking down of taboos against speaking out.
Related Reading at: https://barrypittard.wordpress.com
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Police Killings Related to Sai Baba Sex Abuse Says Dr Bhatia
Posted by Barry Pittard on April 17, 2007
Mick Brown, British journalist and author of several books, extensively researched some of the scandals that continue to erupt for Sathya Sai Baba and his exceptionally powerful and wealthy worldwide organization. Members of the Sai Baba cult – including a great many otherwise educated members from an astonishing array of professions – believe that they are his workers in bringing about the greatest spiritual revolution in mankind's history.
In a long article researched on both sides of the Atlantic, 'The Divine Downfall', Mick Brown of The Telegraph (U.K.), November 12, 2000, wrote:
"For all the allegations laid against him over the years, Sai Baba has never been charged with any crime, sexual or otherwise. And his exalted position in India has until now kept him safely insulated from any kind of public inquiry.
In June 1993 he was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt when five young men broke into his private residence. Two of his personal attendants were stabbed to death and four of the assailants were shot dead by police 'in self-defence'. Sai Baba allegedly escaped by rushing out of his room and activating an alarm system. In a subsequent discourse, he said the attack was caused by 'jealousy'. Dr Bhatia told me he believed the attack was linked to Baba's sexual activities. The guru was never interrogated by police over the attack. The Indian press raised the obvious question: if Sai Baba is omniscient, why couldn't he see it coming?"
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(Renuka, in blue sari, and close business friend)
In the last hours, the BBC and other news services have reported on a major study of child abuse in India. See:
https://barrypittard.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/child-abuse-landmark-indian-government-study/
The BBC report says,
"Two out of every three children in India are physically abused, according to a landmark Indian government study"
The Manmohan Singh government of India Minister responsible for the release of the report is Renuka Choudhury (also spelt Chowdhury). Before she became Minister for Women and Child Development, Ms Choudhury was Minister for Tourism who worked hard at driving tourism to Sai Baba and Puttaparthi, where he has his main ashram. She comes from Andhra Pradesh, the same state of India as Sai Baba. Among many other serious accusations, Sai Baba faces worldwide allegations of sexual abuse of boys and young men, implication in police killings in his bedroom on June 6, 1993, and, along with his ashram officials and the Congress Party government of the time (the present Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Party), is accused of a massive cover-up of the scandal.
One of our Indian workers reports dealing closely with Ms Choudhury and briefing her in detail about compelling evidence against Sai Baba. He said that she went to real effort to personally photocopy vital documents our group shared with her and, still further, to go around to the then Opposition leader Mrs Sonia Gandhi's residence to brief her on them. The rest was silence – which, of course, is the very essence of deep compromise and cover-up.
In her Tourism portfolio, Renuka Chaudhury, in all practical effect, drove large numbers of boys and young males to Sai Baba. This was even though she was in possession of extremely revealing documents (too sensitive to reveal on the Internet) that, among other terrible matters, evidenced years of large-scale, serial sexual molestation by Sai Baba.
How, then, after all, can Mrs Chaudhuri act to rid India of a sexual abuse scourge that implicates such powerful figures as Sathya Sai Baba? Manmohan Singh and so many members of his political party – and indeed the President of India, Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam – are deeply implicated with Sai Baba.
Sai Baba is arguably the most powerful and influential guru in India's history. How could Renuka Chaudhury and her Ministry of Women and Child Development possibly prevail against one who is so incredibly powerful, and one who the BBC has named 'The Secret Swami'?
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Sai Baba Promised to Transform India. But Child Abuse Rampant
Children vulnerable to abuse during travel, weddings
Apr 10, 2007 – 3:49:12 PM
The survey is expected to develop a dependable and comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of child abuse.
By IANS, [RxPG] New Delhi, April 10 – Almost 50 percent of India's children aged between 5 and 12 are prone to sexual abuse such as forcible kissing and being made to exhibit their private parts during travel, marriage and other family ceremonies, says the national study on child abuse.The figure reduces to half as soon as they cross into their teens, points out a study conducted by ministry of women and child development, UNICEF and two NGOs,Save the Child and Prayas.The survey among 15,000 children in 13 sample states has come up with disturbing data.While 41.17 percent of children in the 5-12 age group complained of being forcibly kissed, the figure came down to 25.73 percent for the 13-14 years category. Similarly, around 25.86 percent of teenagers reported being forced to exhibit their private parts, but the relevant figure for those below 12 was 35.86 percent.
Around 37.25 percent of the younger age group and 27.61 percent of teenagers were sexually abused during travel. As much as 41.33 percent in the 5-12 category and 25.29 in the 13-14 category reported abuse during marriages and other ceremonies in the family.
According to the study, 53.22 percent of the children surveyed faced one or more forms of sexual abuse while 21.9 percent of them faced severe forms of sexual abuse and 50.76 percent other forms of sexual abuse.
What is worse, the report said, 'around 70 percent of abused children have never reported the matter to anyone'.
While Assam – topped the list of states where children faced sexual abuse, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi followed closely at 72.83 percent and 72.26 percent. Rajasthan reported the lowest complaints with only 29.36 percent.
The percentage of sexually abused young adults – is also high in Assam at 77.5 percent, followed by Delhi at 69.11 percent. Goa reported the least complaints – 23.01 percent.
'Every second child reported facing emotional abuse,' says the report. While 68.26 percent of children in Assam reported being emotionally abused through humiliation, the figure was 58.32 percent for Delhi and 55.67 percent for Madhya Pradesh.
'It will also facilitate the formulation of appropriate policy and programmes meant to effectively curb and control the menace,' Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Choudhury said.
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British Labour and Tory Whips Suppressed Motion On Sai Baba
Posted by Barry Pittard on April 9, 2007
British House of Commons: "Sai Baba and sexual abuse of children" Early Day Motion No. 886 November 2000
In November 2000, a petition signed by over fifty cross party Members of Parliament, was made by Hon. Tony Colman, (then) MP for Putney (Labour):
"That this House, mindful of the many accounts and witness statements of the sexual abuse of the male children of devotees by the Indian guru, Sai Baba, calls upon the Foreign Secretary to use the Travel Advice for India page of the Foreign Office Website to issue guidance to British families intending to visit the Ashram of Sai Baba about the possible danger to their male children of individual audiences with the guru."
For information about how this Motion was suppressed (primary sources of which can be revealed to responsible media, academic investigators, etc), see my article: 'Flag Follows Trade. Abetting Indian Government Corruption'
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Sai Baba Head Michael Goldstein's Extreme Statement on 9/11
During the making of the television documentary The Secret Swami, the BBC confirmed but did not use (amid 80+ hours of its investigative film footage, a significant amount shot in the USA) the document in which Sai Baba's U.S. head – who is now world Chairman of the Sathya Sai Organization, Dr Michael Goldstein of Corvina, southern California – in an email to devotees, made the following statements about 9/11:
"A number of reports have been received from (Sai Baba) devotees indicating that our Beloved Swami prevented many of his devotees from being injured or killed in the World Trade Center where they are employed or had meetings scheduled. His Miraculous Intervention on behalf of His devotees is clearly evident… They were either late or never arrived…"
In a public meeting in Buenos Aires, attended by some 1500 Sai Baba devotees, October 20, 2001, Goldstein also said:
"There are many (Sai Baba) devotees that worked in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon… And none of them went to work that day, or they arrived late…all the New York and Washington devotees are safe…"
Too bad for the thousands of non-devotees of Sai Baba who were killed or maimed in those catastrophes, and all who were left behind to grieve – Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, and those of other faiths and of none)!
The English translation from Spanish of "Gatapado" journal article by a top Argentinean investigative journalist and Azul TV presenter Alejandro Agostinelli is at:
http://www.saiguru.net/english/media/020201divine_sin.htm
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Sai Baba. IHEU Presentation to United Nations
International Humanist and Ethical Union Presentation to United Nations
Extract from statement by Mr Roy BROWN, Tuesday 6th April 2004,
Commission on Human Rights: 60th session. Chair: Mike Smith (15 March – 23 April 2004), Item 13. Rights of the Child. Abuse of Children in the name of Religion.
Source: http://www.iheu.org/node/1305
…"We are equally appalled that even though widely reported allegations of paedophilia against the highly successful and powerful Indian god man Satya Sai Baba have led UNESCO to withdraw in 2000 from a proposed joint event with the Institute for Satya Sai Education (see UNESCO Media advisory below), despite the matter being raised in the UK Parliament (early day motion by MP Tony Coleman), and despite the issuing by the US State Department of a Travel advisory in 2001 (see US State Department Travel Advisory below), the disturbing allegations have not received the appropriate attention of the Government of India which is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are hopeful that international attention, scrutiny and pressure will lead to a full scale investigation into the activities of this so-called god man and ensure the protection of children who come into contact with him."
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"Vivekananda has come again; he is growing up in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He will come to Me and join in My task." Sathyam, Shivam, Sundaram, Part II, p. 130. 1960-61. Professor N. Kasturi, official biographer of Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
On Wednesday April 13,1998, I flew from South India to Sri Lanka. Among other matters, I wished to locate the young man, Nalin Sedera. According to major Sai Baba-approved writers N.Kasturi and Howard Murphet, Sai Baba had told Sedera he was
Swami Vivekananda in his last life.
I had encountered personally (and India is the place of all places to encounter them!) similar stories, sometimes in relation to Sai Baba but also cases where, muchto their surprise, individuals from various countries had found their names cited in one or more of the palm leaf traditions in India, supposedly written or dictated by ancient Indian rishis (seer, sages, spiritual masters) called Nadis.
In common with devotees from many countries, I had heard various reliable reports that Sai Baba had informed certain individuals of who they were in some past life. For example, disclosing their identity when (as he claims) he 'came' as God manifest in Rama, Krishna, and Shirdi Sai Baba (circa 1838-1918).
Many devotees relate that Sai Baba has said that Paramahansa Yogananda(1893-1952), another earlier Indian swami who went to the West and became famous worldwide, was now a child growing up in a Greek family of Sai Baba devotees. I wondered what would be the case if Nalin were to undergo one of these readings (nadis, naadis, granthas, granthams) scattered about India in which I had taken an interest – e.g., Brighu (in North India), Agasthya (Agasthiar),Suka,Sukha, Siva, etc., (South India).
What was this mention of a "task" in the Professor Kasturi quotation? Sai Baba has many times stated that he will bring, before he dies (not that he uses the word 'dies') the entire world into an era of truth, right conduct, peace, love and non-violence, before leaving the planet, aged 95 or 96? (The one year differential depends on which calendar one uses, Gregorian or Indian).
Many years ago, Sathya Sai Baba said that Ramakrishna, Vivekananda's illustrious guru, had but one Vivekananda and one Brahmananda, whereas he, Sai Baba had hundreds of great yogic souls among his devotees through whom he will perform global transformations on a scale never witnessed in mankind's history. Could it, I (then) thought, be possible to locate some of these great souls; and might they, sensing the seriousness of my nadi study, grant permission to submit a thumbprint or any other initial information required by nadi custodians by which to gradually reticulate to an individual's given reading? If I located Nalin, would he in any way resemble Swami Vivekananda? Would any reading for him in any of the nadis confirm what Sai Baba had foretold?
As I waited in the queue awaiting to see Sai Baba at Kodai Kanal, a gorgeous hill station in the Nilgiris of the state of Tamil Nadu where Sai Baba has a villa, two gentlemen asked me about my work – at that time, editing a Sai Baba related magazine, Spiritual Impressions, and books by some devotees of Sathya Sai Baba. I noticed a man intently listening in, and welcomed him into the conversation. He soon said he was from Sri Lanka. More than that, he and his family personally knew Nalin. After the darshan (viewing of a person deemed holy), he gave me contact details.
In that morning's darshan of Sai Baba, I found myself against considerable odds in a second row. Sai Baba came right up. I handed him a small card on which I had written the name: Nalin. He moved the card little by little several times gently along the palm of my hand towards Him. This was in a similar manner to which he had stroked my hand in the darshan of morning before. Then, as though to create an emphasis, Sai Baba snapped the card deftly towards his chest. He then put the card among the letters in his left hand, and moved a few paces towards the centre of the pathway, turning to the rows of men sitting opposite. Unexpectedly, he turned right round and, looking towards me with what I took to be great love, made a deep bowing movement with his head. Keeping the steady heart-melting gaze all the while, he smiled very sweetly, then raised His hand in blessing me for quite some moments. From my then devotee perspective, not without various extraordinary experiences I had had, thinking him to have omniscience, I felt very strongly that he was bowing to, and blessing, the intention that had formed in my mind: to seek out Nalin.
On Sunday April 19th, 1998, I had planned for a quiet evening in my room at the Ramakrishna Mission in Columbo, the capital of Sri Lanka. I had arranged with Nalin's brother, Ajitha, to go to their home on the Monday. He told me that Nalin had been spending a few days meditating in a temple at the southern tip of his country – at Karthirkamagiri, long a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists and Hindus alike. Until a month before, I had never heard of it. However, it was mentioned in a Chapter (Kandam) in one of my Agasthya nadis at Vaithishwarankoil in Tamil Nadu (where it stated that I was associated with this place in a former life as a doctor).
At 6.15 p.m., as I made my way up Ramakrishna Road for a quiet cup of Horlicks, a tall, slender, striking young Singhalese man around thirty years called across to me, "Are you the Australian gentleman staying at the Ramakrishna Mission?" It was Nalin accompanied by his brother, Ajitha. He explained that they thought they would find me more easily than I them. A few minutes later, as we sat ourselves down at the table of the crowded vegetarian restaurant, I sat facing a tall, lithe, well built young man, clean shaven, dressed very neatly, wearing denim, his dark red shirt smart. He blended in with middle class Sri Lankans. His face had a fine-boned, sculptured look, and a bright, golden brown that had an inner lustre. His voice was rich and resonant, as though coming from a cavern. Was there anything about his physical appearance which resembled Vivekananda? Yes, I thought – the lips: delicate, fine-etched, contoured. I sensed strong character, and he he displayed spontaneous, sincere good manners. He was direct, with a controlled but passionate intensity about things that mattered to him.
"They are trying to take my life"
Even before we sat down, I had asked him whether the attention he had received had affected his life. His distaste for those who mobbed him was immediate, unmistakable. "They are trying to take my life." It was an odd sentence. I asked Nalin, "When you say,'They are trying to take my life,' do you mean that your life is actually in danger from anyone?" With burning intensity, and a mix of smile and leer that reminded me of Humphrey Bogart, he replied, "They would be writing their last will and testament if they tried!"Here, I did not sense a Vivekananda-like commitment to ahimsa (non-violence). Nalin's occasional intensities became one of my abiding impressions of him.
As we sat down, he referred to crowds that gathered round him after word travelled bushfire-like that Sathya Sai Baba had said that Nalin, in his previous life, was Swami Vivekananda. He said:
"My mind didn't go. But I lost a lot – my liberty, my freedom."
I checked with him, just to be sure I understood his exact meaning. By "my life", he meant a broad leeway to be himself. I asked Nalin if he related to books? Again, the intensity.
"I want to have experience. It is all that matters. Not read about anyone else's. Books are a waste of time."
I mentioned the book by the Australian writer Howard Murphet's book. Nalin said that he felt very let down by the people who had informed the author of his story (he referred to them as Tamilians – i.e., belonging to or originating from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu).
"I had asked them to allow nothing to be published without my permission. They went ahead without consulting me".
As he began to unfold his experiences, he said:
"I've had a lot of troubles. I am a normal person, whatever people may think. Whatever may have been the case in my last life, I am living in this life! I have no idea what happened in my last life. When Swami made the revelation – or call it a pronouncement – I had no idea of who Swami Vivekananda was. This is this life. It's all I'm interested in. Now, as a result of all the attention, I've lost what is most precious to me – my liberty, my freedom. At the ashram after Swami had spoken, there were hundreds of people milling all round me. And hundreds of people here in Sri Lanka."
What did the mobs ask?
"They asked funny questions. Do I remember my previous birth? They regard me as some kind of alien. Some of them say I should be wearing a robe like a sadhu (ed., spiritual renunciate). Why should I do that? I want to wear my denims. Some have even said that, at a certain time, I'll get up in darshan and take over Puttaparthi."
Typically, after reflection, usually following a question of mine, he would return with a perfectly crystalised reply, like a pearl slipping out of the oyster shell when, after inner effort, it opens at last. His voice struck flint; a small spark lit his eye. "I don't like that!" The tone was very emphatic. Again the spurt of intensity. I sensed a deep indignity, a smouldering anguish from which he had somewhat distanced himself. Embers still glowed hot.
He spoke of his anger at the time of Sai Baba's 'revelation' or 'pronouncement.' The interview in which this was made occurred, he said, at Puttaparthi, March 23, 1987. Two more interviews followed – on the 24th and 26th. He was then nineteen years. He said that the Sri Lankan group of which Nalin was a member was led by Mrs Ganhewa. He was baffled to know how the news got out. "Swami took me into a private room next to the interview room. I cannot see how others in the interview could have heard what Swami said. I certainly didn't say anything about it."
I have since asked a number of others their opinion as to the audibility or otherwise of what is said, from the standpoint of someone in the outer room. Some say the speech is too muffled to be understood. Others say that sometimes one can hear what is being said. In an interview on July 24,1998, I noted this: a curtain separates the two rooms, as it has long done. I was in a group of seven Australians. However, a Canadian husband and wife briefly preceded us into the inner room. Later, Sai Baba also saw the three ladies in our group separately to the men. In both cases, a few drift words of speech could be understood; much could not be, because he and the Canadians and, separately, he and the Australian women spoke quite quietly.
Nalin told me that he returned to Puttaparthi in August 1987. Sai Baba called him and his group for interview. He said that Sai Baba asked the group leader, referring to Nalin's parents, "Are his parents happy?" Nalin relates that she replied yes, they were very happy when they heard the news, but
"Swami replied, 'No, no, no, they are not happy but they are worried about that boy. Look at him, he's just a boy. Just leave him alone and don't disturb him, because if anything happens, you must be responsible for that"'.
Nalin says
"Swami turned to me and said, 'A lot of people are angry with you and jealous of you, here and there. Don't go to any bhajan places. You just stay at your home, and do your work'"
I asked Nalin what work did he do?
"Not ordinary work. A friend of my age and I have been working among the poorer classes. At one time, we got involved in an eye camp."
(These were organised clinics designed to bring medical aid to the poor. For example, combating eye diseases such as glaucoma).
Nalin continued,
"Swami then said, 'You are angry with me. Why are you angry with me?' I said, 'You know why I am angry with you.' Baba said, 'Yes, I know.'"
Nalin relates that it was only on his return home that he discovered from his parents that they had been in fact worried at the extraordinary revelation about their son. Not wanting to trouble their family, they had kept their concern to themselves.
He said that, in two or three months, he would like to visit Sai Baba wherever he was stationed at the time. A lot would depend on how Nalin's father managed with a shortly upcoming by-pass operation in Chennai. He wondered whether it would be possible to get Sri Lankan Sai devotees to leave him alone – perhaps via a note printed in Sanathana Sarathi, the official magazine of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. Considering the essential purpose of the publication (to publish Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Discourses, a small few articles by contributors, Sathya Sai Organization news), I rather doubted his chances, but suggested he call on the Editor, Sri V.K. Narasimhan, whom I regarded as a good, decent man and a warm friend. With distinction and courage, V.K.N. had formerly edited major Indian newspapers – the Indian Express, Hindustan Times and Deccan Herald– and he and I had a warm friendship and were in fairly regular contact. From V.K.N. I soon after found that Nalin had, while I was absent, called on him, a visit I had already told V.K.N that Nalin may make. When we later spoke, V.K.N smiled wryly and admitted defeat in observing any similarities to Swami Vivekananda.
Since so many of Sathya Sai Baba's predictions large and small have proved false, one may fail to see how the one about Nalin could come true. Trustfully, given the fickleness of the madding crowd, Nalin's botherers will have long given up their bothering of him.
If Nalin ever takes over Puttaparthi, I shall personally 'come again'. Reborn there as a service volunteer. And eat my hat!
Resources:Manisha Rathore
http://sify.com/astrology/fullstory.php?id=13624255
Robert Priddy, former Norwegian leader and a founder member of the Norwegian Sathya Sai Organization: 'Requiem To A Kindly Spirit. Celebrated Indian journalist V.K. Narasimhan
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/VKN2.htm
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Here are some of the accolades we've received from happy catering customers.
Healthy organic food is important to me, but so is taste. For the past four years, Mimi has been cooking wonderfully delicious and beautifully presented meals for me. As someone who loves to cook myself, I especially appreciate the way Mimi and I work so well together, coordinating and planning holiday menus and meals for special occasions. Mimi is a pleasure to work with and I always look forward to her food arriving, especially her delicious lentil soup. I know she will have great success with her business.
Mimi has been an amazing addition to our family functions over the years. She has cooked many wonderful Thanksgiving dinners as well as providing complete catering services for our childrens christening. Mimi also cooked for us when we celebrated the renewal of our wedding vows. She is considered a friend of the family and we look forward to the success of her store. We just hope she doesn't get so busy that she can't continue to cook for us!!
Thank you so much for catering Blue Rock School's 1st Art Auction. The food was amazing and many people commented how good it was. Beautifully presented, as well.
The event was a major success so I think it'll become a biennial event.
We appreciate your generosity, Mimi!
Thank you so much for the most delicious sandwiches, salads, and awesome brownies. Everyone raved about the food. The special cupcakes of lemon was delicious and my grandson loved them!
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Thank you so much for making our wedding so special. Every step of the way you helped us feel confident and excited about the event. And what is truly amazing is that you exceeded our expectations! Your food was incredible. We (and all of our guests) are still talking about it. Our one regret is that we couldn't eat everything that day,but thanks to your wonderful staff we were so well taken care of and definitely did not leave hungry, Not only were they lovely and professional, but our friends were sure we had runway models to staff the event!
Thank you again. We wish we lived right around the corner so we could pop in more frequently! All the best to you and your family in 2014.
On October 24, we hosted a group of 21 community leader for Environment Day – a program of Leadership Rockland. As part of a nine-month training program, these community leaders joined us to learn about environmental issues in Rockland County. We explored topics such as green-building, sustainability, land use, solid waste, farming, water resources and pollution.
During the course of the day, we offered a full lunch provided by your company. We just wanted to thank you … and to let your know that the participants were thrill with your delicious food! The sandwiches were very tasty and the salads and desserts were a bit hit Many of the participants asked who prepared it, so we told them about you and Mimi's Plate … and we suspect that some of them may be calling you to cater their events. So, on behalf of the 30+ people who enjoyed your cuisine, we should like to thank you for a delicious experience!
Thank you and have an enjoyable autumn!
The Commissioners, officers and members of the Orangeburg Volunteer Fire department would like to thank you for the support you provided our organization during the brush fire on Clausland Mountain this November.
At the height of our nine day operation, more than 300 volunteer firefighters from five counties and three states responded to Orangeburg and fought the stubborn flames with us until the fire was extinguished.
During this time your donation, support, and prayers did not go unnoticed. Your contributions kept us stedfast and focussed, and in no small part drove us to the success of containing and putting out this ornery fire.
We are grateful to share a community with people like you. People, who stand at the ready to help their neighbors, often perfect strangers. Orangetown is a wonderful place to live because of you and our volunteers.
Gregg and I wanted to take a moment to tell you how magical the food was at our wedding last night and how wonderful your staff was to make it a perfect night.
Surrounded by our family and our closest friends, we had the opportunity to enjoy a perfect menu of all of my favorite flavors and combinations, and also had the opportunity to actually enjoy the evening. And the coconut lemon cake was beautiful as well as incredible! The staff was warm and wonderful, and made the evening look effortless. And they were so nice! I think they had fun too.
We just wanted to tell you how fabulous everything was. We will definitely tell everyone we know about your wonderful food.
Thank you again for everything!! It was perfect.
I just want to thank you you for assisting my mother and supplying the catering for my niece's party in New Milford about 2 weeks ago…………..the food, as always, was quite the highlight. In addition, the staff that were there were so professional and courteous. It really made quite the impression on all of those who attended.
In addition, thank you for putting something together today so quickly for our co worker Ree Hartwell in Closter. She's already sending us notes on how delicious the food is.
I just wanted to reach out and say thank you on both occasions………when asked for catering recommendations, the first place that always comes to mind is Mimi's in Tappan NY……..


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Two men jailed for Golders Green smash-and-grab robbery
Jailed: Kane Franzese - Credit: Archant
Two men were jailed after being caught red-handed committing a smash-and-grab robbery.
Jailed: Michael Edgar - Credit: Archant
Kane Franzese, 24, of Hendon, and Michael Edgar, 25, of Finchley, were both sentenced to three years in jail for handling stolen goods, driving-related offences, and attempted robbery of Wagonmark pawnbrokers in North End Road, Golders Green.
Barnet police officers in an unmarked car watched as two men mounted the pavement on a stolen motorbike and smashed the front door of the pawnbrokers on February 18. The officers ran over and arrested both men after a violent struggle that saw one officer elbowed in the face.
Sgt Pete Dearden said: "This sentence reflects the seriousness of the offence – the officers involved recognised the severity of what was unfolding, reacting immediately without fear."


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'La maternal' depicts the (harsh) reality of teen pregnancies that we tend to avoid
By Bárbara Padilla
Seeing a girl who is pregnant at the tender age of 14 certainly makes an impact. No doubt if you saw her on the street, you might wonder (with some concern) about the circumstances that led to her situation. You might wonder how the system (education, family, and society) failed her such that instead of continuing to spend her time studying or hanging out with her friends, she is about to embark on motherhood. Fortunately, it's not something you encounter every day, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. The film, La maternal (The Maternal), by Barcelona-based Aragonese director Pilar Palomero, who won a Goya for Schoolgirls, is about a group of adolescent girls who, due to a range of different life circumstances, have become pregnant and are staying at a center for teenage mothers called La Maternal. It focuses on the story of one of them, Carla, who arrives at the center at the age of 14 in order to give birth to and start raising her son, whose life she conceived – without initially realizing it – together with her friend Efraín.
One of the strong points of the film is the portrayal of Carla by young Catalan actress Carla Quílez, who went on to win the Silver Shell Best Actress award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, becoming its youngest winner to date. And she's not even an actress, she's a dancer who, furthermore, made her acting debut without first having read the script. The filmmakers had reached out to her via Instagram to invite her to audition. You'll understand why when you see how natural she appears on-screen, with her spontaneous reactions, uncontrived gestures and a convincingly sad demeanor. You have the sense of observing a girl in real life, as if looking on through the lens of a pinhole camera. There's no preparation, no rehearsal, no premeditation. Carla simply acts and responds in an impromptu way, just as she would in real life. And one of the film's best examples of this is when she bursts into tears in the center for teenage mothers after hearing the other girls introduce themselves.
If you were told La Maternal is a documentary about teenage pregnancy, it wouldn't be hard to believe it. It gives you a window into childhoods cut short and lets you follow events from a distance. And the fact is that many of the characters are sharing true stories. For example, Jamila Bengharda, now 23, is among the supporting cast members who play themselves. At the age of 16, she found herself pregnant and, having been physically abused by her partner, she decided to go through with the birth on her own. They are difficult stories that hit you hard, and, although there are beautiful moments, like when you see the love these very young mothers end up feeling for their babies, they also show just how incompatible being a teenager and raising a child are. Adolescence is a stage in which you're still maturing, you lack experience in just about everything, you don't even know what you want to be when you grow up, what you want to study or what job you want to do (sometimes you don't even know when you're an adult). How could you possibly take care of someone else?
Carla Quílez in 'La maternal'.
Although the film shows how tenderly these mothers look after their children, it also shows the chain of errors that led to pregnancy. In the case of the central character Carla, her mother – played by actress Ángela Cervantes – was not really looking out for her daughter and Carla did not receive adequate sex education. There was clearly a lack of both attention and information. (After all, how can you go five months without realizing you're pregnant?). And this is at the heart of it all. If those who are going to start having sexual relations know that, if they use protection, they can avoid inadvertently creating another life, the problem is averted (unless the contraceptive fails). It's vital that all of us are aware of the need to provide ample education, and at an early age, as a means of prevention. And how to achieve that? With education at home, with sex education in schools, with a society that is more conscious of the possible consequences of unprotected sex. It's a shame we need a movie like La maternal to remind us of this.
Bárbara Padilla. Collaborator in the Series section of La Vanguardia. News editor and presenter on RAC1. Barcelona-based journalist since 2007. An amateur movie buff since she was old enough to know right from wrong and of series since the Netflix boom.
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Emilio Estevez's movie Bobby is to headline the Dubai International Film Festival.
It is the latest accolade for the film which received a seven-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Bobby is headlining Dubai film festival
The movie focuses on the final hours of Senator Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968. It was a long labour of love for writer and director Estevez.
Its ensemble cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, Demi Moore, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Emilio himself, and his real-life father, Martin Sheen.
The Festival, which runs from December 10-17, will also showcase Ken Loach's Palme D'Or winner, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy, and the world premiere of Khaled Youssef's Justified Cheating, according to Variety.
Festival chairman Abdulhamid Juma said: "As we prepare to roll out the red carpet this year, it is a matter of pride that DIFF is increasingly reckoned as a destination festival for internationally acclaimed cinema."
The prize money at the festival will be £325,000, the biggest in the Middle East.
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If you follow the news, you've seen large-scale harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Florida this summer. They are present in Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee (CE) and St. Lucie (SLE) estuaries and rivers, and they're wreaking havoc on summer recreation and even the health of local residents.
Dr. Brian Lapointe of Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch has been researching HABs for decades. The Lapointe HAB Lab site features his ongoing work, and Dr. Lapointe took the time to speak with EM about the HABs and his work studying them.
The "seeds" for these blooms were sown long before now, with the heavy rainfall that accompanied extreme weather events of the past.
Reading much of the news coverage of the 2018 algal blooms, you might be tempted to believe that the growing population of the state isn't much of a factor and that industrial and agricultural pollution are the main driving forces behind the HABs in the area. However, Dr. Lapointe's research reveals that development and population growth are playing a crucial role in the pollution that feeds the HABs.
Why is Lapointe so certain that agriculture and industry aren't the real problems?
Dr. Lapointe refers to case studies in Florida, particularly in Tampa Bay, that prove the utility of taking a scientific approach to cleaning up sewage in urbanizing areas.
The HABs are nothing new in Florida—but they are a growing problem. This summer, Florida Governor Rick Scott authorized emergency measures that will be taken to counter the blooms. According to Dr. Lapointe, whether or not those emergency measures will be effective will depend largely upon whether they will be based on scientific evidence.
The area north of the lake, surrounding Orlando, is one of the fastest growing areas in Florida—a state that's already one of the fastest growing in the US.
During the many extreme weather and even during "normal" but heavy rainfall events, a rush of water enters the Kissimmee River. That river was "channelized" or straightened by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) so it could drain more quickly into Lake Okeechobee—but this also destroyed the river's natural filtration process. The USACE is now restoring part of the Kissimmee to provide more dynamic storage, but because 95 percent of the nutrient-rich water causing the blue-green algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee is coming from north of the lake, restoring the river alone won't solve the problem.
In other words, source reduction is really what works most effectively—unless you get lucky.
"I think we're at a critical time here in the state of Florida, where to really get on top of this problem we really have to use sound science and not politics as usual which unfortunately has gotten us to where we are today," adds Dr. Lapointe.
2018 may be a year of relative respite in terms of extreme weather events, but that isn't going to make a long-term difference for the state's HAB problem.
According to Dr. Lapointe, the increase in extreme rain events alone in the years to come is going to increase nitrogen loading in the water by 20 percent. Mitigating that 20 percent will require a reduction of the human nitrogen footprint by about 30 percent.
The way to do this is to sever the head of the septic snake.
Septic sewer programs replace septic systems with municipal sewers and divert sewage to treatment plants. Treatment reduces nitrogen in the effluent from an average of 65 milligrams per liter to one milligram per liter.
Cost may be another reason some Floridians resist the idea of septic pollution as a driving force behind HABs.
However, failure to deal with the HABs is really not an option; parts of the state are currently uninhabitable for some people, especially those with respiratory issues, and property values are in jeopardy.
While some people may be starting to understand why environmental regulations exist and how to generate better results over the long run, there is also a lot of free-floating frustration about the process—and time is running out.


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I would have remained blissful if I didn't start receiving congratulations.
Every now and then, people could not resist mentioning that I was on the council. And my phone started ringing a little more than usual. It now mattered whether I had received documents in good time, whether I had found somewhere to park my car, and whether I had eaten lunch. I then remembered how I felt when I was appointed head of department 5 years ago. All around, people were congratulating me, but my heart sank, because as my adviser told me, the appointment would kill my academic career.
And my adviser has been proved right. I had planned to have a book hot off the press by now. I haven't even started writing. I had a target of presenting papers at two academic conferences a year. I'm lucky when I present at even one a year. I badly, badly would like to supervise creative graduate work that is socially conscious, in the style of scholars like WEB Dubois, Lewis R. Gordon and Tiyambe Zeleza who write knowing how much the thinking by African peoples actually matters. Instead, I "examine" theses that have limited social consciousness, and seem more about passing and getting a certificate and probably becoming prestigious, or getting a ticket to teach university classes part-time.
So I became equally ambivalent about this council nomination, and shared my feelings on facebook, expecting some consolation my friends, and especially given that I had ended with the words: I don't want congratulations.
The congratulations still came in.
The reason why I'm bothered about the celebration is because I still haven't accomplished my goal, which was to establish a respect for the arts, receive more students in the languages and music so as to pull the programs out of the shadow of being called unviable, and to increase the number of students and faculty who attend our public lectures from our current average of 10. Also, what I value most is not the administrative positions but being part of the great things accomplished by my colleagues, students and friends. I am so proud of my Ajenda Afrika family, of Muoki Mbunga, whom I met as an undergraduate student, and who has become one of the sharpest scholars I know. I am excited to see Brenda Wambua take charge of our Writing and Speech Center where students get help with their public speaking and writing, and who is now developing great insights into how social media works as a teaching tool. Larry Ndivo's rise as our youngest PhD holder, a writer and literary critic with a blog serialized in The People Newspaper is a dream come true. I am thrilled by Laka Nyaga's growth as a musician and an artist, and by Ras Mengesha's blossoming as a creative writer. My smile is very wide whenever I read David Karani's blog posts, or Margaret Muthee's poems published in the Amka collection when she was an undergraduate student. These and many other stars that have lit my path are what I am proud of, not of my administrative positions.
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But for me, the most important difference between leadership and administration is freedom. As this article explains, leaders emerge. Administrators are appointed. That means leaders are free because they are driven by conscience and conviction, while administrators are driven by loyalty to whoever appointed them.
So to all my friends who said this could be an opportunity to make a difference (cliché notwithstanding), I say God bless you, but I still beg to disagree. You may be forgetting how many Kenyans have championed freedoms outside government, only to join government and become hate mongers and greedy people who believe they deserve to be paid handsomely by taxpayers. We know too well how government positions have changed heroes into monsters overnight. Yet we continue to encourage social heroes to join politics because we think that elective politics is the epitome of leadership.
Elective politics is not the epitome of leadership; it is the epitome of administration. That's why the top people in Obama's government are called the Obama Administration, not the Obama Leadership. And we Kenyans must recognize the difference, and celebrate our leaders while calling our public administrators the pigs that they are. And that starts at the local level by celebrating each other more when we lead, and less when we're promoted.


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JAY-Z is doing what he can to ensure the release of rapper 21 Savage, calling his arrest "an absolute travesty" and hiring an attorney to help with his case.
"In addition to being a successful recording artist, 21 deserves to be reunited with his children immediately," he said in a statement posted to his Facebook page Wednesday.
Roc Nation, JAY-Z's entertainment company, confirmed to the Daily News they hired attorney Alex Spiro to assist 21 Savage's legal team following his detainment by ICE.
"You've got a young person who is successful, who takes care of his children and supports a lot of people that work for him and is a productive member of society," Spiro, a New York-based lawyer, told the Daily News.
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The rapper arrived legally in the United States at the age of 7 and remained here until 2005, when he was a teenager, according to his lawyers.
In his appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" days before his arrest, he performed his new song "A Lot" with an added line.
"Been through some things, but I couldn't imagine my kids stuck at the border (Straight up)," he rapped.
"We are unaware of why ICE apparently targeted Mr. Abraham-Joseph, but we will do everything possible to legally seek his release and pursue his available relief in immigration court," the letter concluded.


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Margrave Alexander of Meissen and Margravine Gisela of Meissen support Spanish-German cultural project
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(Photo: Margravine Gisela of Meissen and Margrave Alexander of Meissen during the visit of the studio of Manuel Sanz Mora M.A. in the Heinrich Schütz Residence.)
The Spanish artist Manuel Mora Sanz M.A. presented a special kind of cultural project on 1 August 2013.
With his works, Manuel Sanz Mora (www.manuelsanz.es) considers interesting and new city views of Dresden in a modern and unconventional way. Not the usual tourist sights have inspired the artist, it were rather the daily excerpts from the everyday culture that inspire him. Manuel Sanz Mora works in both acrylic and oil as well as drawings.
The acrylic and oil paintings by the Spanish artist show people and their everyday interaction. His drawings focus city views of Dresden: "The Town of Dresden is for me a place of everyday beauty and the culture of everyday life, it is authentic, so authentic as life in the Neustadt of Dresden. I feel the spirit and vitality of young people in their city – all this reminds me of my second home Valencia and so I immediately felt at home in Dresden, "said Manuel Sanz Mora about his motivation.
The art-works by Manuel Sanz Mora M.A. are from 24 October 2013 shown every day from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the atrium of Heinrich Schütz Residence. The artist is already looking forward to visitors at his studio in the Heinrich Schütz Residence, Neumarkt 12, 01067 Dresden, Germany. Visitors are invited to apply by e-mail: info@heinrich-schuetz-residenz.de or call 0351-26 35 96 0.
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The Markgrave of Meissen visits the state school "Gymnasium" St. Afra in Meissen, Saxony
Friends of the Green Vault present a Portrait of Elector Frederick Augustus II as a donation of Fraunhofer president Reimund Neugebauer to the Dresden State Museums
H.H. Pope Francis received Prince Alexander and Princess Gisela in the Palazzo Apostolico May 28th 2015
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Q: Android call Activity specific function from Widget I've following code in my AppWidgetProvider class :
@Override
    public void onUpdate(
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  Intent mainIntent = new Intent(ctxt, MainActivity.class);
        mainIntent.putExtra("testExtra",true);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctxt, 0, mainIntent, 0);
        widget.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.buttonAddwidget, pendingIntent);

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this code will launch just main Activity, but I want to call test() function from main activity.
How can I do it?
I'm trying to use getExtra but it's not working.

A: Why not add some data to the event using putExtra- perhaps a boolean flag or something.
Then in onCreate() you can check for the presence of the data in the intent (which you can access using getIntent()), and call a function if it's there.
EDIT
Using the updated code (with the extra) that you've provided above, you then need to something like the following in your onResume function within MainActivity.class.
if (getIntent().getBooleanExtra("textExtra"))
    doSomeFunction();

getIntent() should give you the calling intent. If this doesn't work it's probably to do with your activity's launchMode setting, and you may have to override the onNewIntent() method to get the intent.
EDIT 2
Try adding the following code to your activity. What it does is handles the times when the activity is not created by the intent, so getIntent() would return the intent used to first create the activity and not the new one (containing the extras). It sets the intent to the new one, so that in onResume() you're able to access that extra.
 @Override
 protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
     //called when the activity is relaunched by a new intent
     setIntent(intent);
     super.onNewIntent(intent);
 }

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Hampi is a very touristy place and more than likely you will see two kind of tourists there. First group "I want to see everything in one day" – tourists that stay in Goa for 2-3 weeks and buy Hampi tours from travel agencies. They comie here on night train, do sightseeing during a day and come back to Goa on night train again. They travel over 430 miles in total in uncomfortable train. We do not recommend that, you will be knackered after journey and then visiting Hampi in the middle of the day is a little nightmare too. In hot season temperatures rise above 40 C. Second group of tourists are "long term travellers" that stay in Hampi for weeks or even months. We were there one week and this is absolute minimum to feel a litttle bit of Hampi and see surrounding areas.
We travelled from Munnar to Hampi in 8 days. Places worth to see on the way we described here: Things to see between Munnar and Hampi.
Hampi is the place in an old capital of Vijayanagar Empire. It was established in 1336 by the Tungabhadra river. After muslim invasions and their looting nothing left but some temple ruins and few buildings. Some buildings survived in good condition, some others were rebuilt. From 1986 Hampi is on the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites, but it is not about the ruins only. Village spread across hilly lands with huge monolith rocks. Place brought back memories of our stay in Tafraoute in Morocco. Hampi is totally different comparing with rest of India, calm and quiet, very romantic! Vehicles has no access to the village, so we could rest a little bit off noise of klaxons overused by locals.
View at Hampi from the other side of the river.
DC and Virupaksha Temple in the background.
DC with huge rocks - Hampi it's well known for it!
Hampi is the place, where we've seen the best sunsets so far!
Virupaksha Temple in the sunset.
The best to be on the move in the village and around is to do it on foot or by push-bike. Ruins cover over 26sq km, but there are two main parts: Hampi itself and 2 miles south from the river. First days we spent on morning and late evening walks around rocks and ruins near village. We had to do it in the early mornings or late evenings, because temperatures in the middle of the day weren't possible to cope. 45C in the sun with no wind at all to cool you down! 37.4C is the highest-ever temperature in Britain that has been recorded, try to imagine 45C… Our friends we met in Munnar advised us to buy umbrella to have shadow with us all the time. During the afternoons we were hidding in our room cooling ourself under a warm shower (no cold water in the tap!).
Panorama of pool nearby the temples.
One of our last days we wanted to see ruins further away, so we took bikes. Old and heavy, seemed like bikes were made out of cast iron, but still fun and better than rickshaw.
It was boiling hot, but Chev didn't care about it and climbed on all stones in Hampi!
We wanted to cool down inside temples. Cycling in a scorching hot weather was quite big challenge for us!
Lombok or Gili Air? – male's intuition rocks!


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Q: Noether second theorem calculus of variation formalization Noether's first theorem as a statement about the action of a finite dimensional lie group $ G_{\rho} $ dependent upon $\rho $ parameters $  \varepsilon_{i}$ with $i = 1, \dots, \rho $; can be formalized in a proper functional space with the Gateaux Derivative formalism as the action of the lie group/lie algebra can be represented by a set of parameters:
$$\tag{1} \phi^{'\alpha}_{\varepsilon}~=~ F^{\alpha}(\varepsilon , \phi^{\alpha})
\approx \phi^{\alpha} + F^{\alpha,\mu} \varepsilon $$
Where I omitted the index $ i$ on the parameters. Now the invariance of an action functional $S$ implies the invariance of its variation. My concern is in formalizing the concept of variation $\delta S $. I only know that in some functional space, the Gateaux Derivative is well defined and so I can put:
$$\tag{2} \delta S = \frac{d}{d \varepsilon}|_{\varepsilon = 0} ~~S[ \phi^{'\alpha}_{\varepsilon}] $$
where the variation is to be done with respect to each parameter if I have more than one.
Now in Noether's second theorem if I have an infinite dimensional Lie Group/Algebra $ G^{\infty}_{\rho} $ dependent upon $\rho $ functions $  p_{i}(x)$ with $i = 1, \dots, \rho $  I have the following transformation:
$$\tag{3} \phi^{'\alpha}_{p}~=~ F^{\alpha}(\phi^{\alpha}(x) , p_{i}(x), p^{(1)}_{i}(x), \dots, p^{(N)}_{i}(x) ) $$
where we can have the dependence on the parameters and their derivatives up to order $N$.
For simplicity we can consider no dependence upon the derivatives of the parameters.
My question is how can I use a similar formalism such as Gateaux derivative to formalize the notion of variation of the action $ \delta S $ ? Where can I find some reference where the proof of the theorems are formalized in the language of functional analysis?

A: There are a number of different approaches one can find to the calculus of variations, so here I will only mention the approach which make the most sense to me, which goes by the name "covariant phase space." The idea is to call the space of classical solutions to the equations of motion the phase space (up to subtleties involving gauge transformations and a symplectic quotient) and assume that this space has a manifold structure. I know that sounds a little strange, but it works out really well. Essentially, one can formalize things in terms of jet bundles, but the end result insofar as I have ever found is that the end result of the jet bundle formalism is to tell us that it's okay to think about the space of solutions as having a manifold structure.
Describing this approach would, I think, be too much for a post here, but let me share some references which I found particularly helpful thinking about these things.

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*First and foremost, though it has nothing to do with the formalism I am thinking about here, I absolutely suggest going and reading Emmy Noether's original paper. It's not too long (about ~20 pages) and an absolute pleasure to read. Her writing was exceptionally clear and extremely general. There's an English translation on the arXiv as well.

*This paper (the pdf is there too) by Crnkovic and Witten in 1986 contains a very nice description of this formalism along with some worked examples, though the language is not as modern as one might want these days.

*These lecture notes by Compere and Fiorucci can also be helpful. They give some light reference to the jet space formalism that I mentioned and also explicitly discuss the consequences of Noether's second theorem as it pertains to gauge transformations in this formalism. Their focus is mostly on diffeomorphisms, but that's to be expected in some GR lectures.

*This paper by Harlow and Wu again focuses mainly upon diffeomorphisms, but has a chapter at the end on more general symmetries. I think the notation in this paper is the easiest to follow if you're comfortable working with differentials and Lie derivatives in coordinate-independent notation. They also work a number of examples and have a fairly nice description of the symplectic quotienting procedure I mentioned earlier.

*If you want something more formal on this last point in particular, there is this paper (pdf not freely available as far as I know) by Lee and Wald. It discusses a number of points a little more formally than some of the other sources I've listed (the notation is also heavier) and also does some examples. The thing I remember most from it though is the description of how we mod out the gauge transformations. They are much more careful about how they describe this than Harlow and Wu are (it wasn't a main focus there, so it's understandable).
Anyway, these are things I found helpful, and hopefully you will find them helpful as well.