The below article was commissioned by The Empire Project to be included in the catalogue accompanying Erdem Küçükköroğlu's exhibition in December 2011.
Erdem Küçükkoğlu's geometric universe, constituted by basic elements such as color, light, line, stands out with the peculiar images it articulates. The artist's formal world is reminiscent more of a mathematical universe than an artistic construction, interwoven with triangles, circles and other geometric shapes; the artist does not merely project geometry into art, but rather, he subjectively invades the geometric truth in an artistic and painterly manner. In order to understand this territory, it is necessary to understand art and other disciplines, such as mathematics, as equally cultural domains, as articulated by Schneider above. Only this kind of a perception can open up possibilities made available by the slippage between disciplines. It is only through this very perception that the viewers can get over the estrangement triggered by Küçükkoğlu's works. The mental freedom behind the creative process furthers the artist's efforts beyond a mathematician's or geometric painter's approach, as can be observed in the independence of the compositions and tonal expressions.
After three years of color block studies, it is possible to see the linear search in Erdem Küçükkoğlu's paintings that Mehmet Güleryüz had foreshadowed. What is striking in this period and in the artist's overall development as a painter is his development of style, influenced by Ottoman and Far-Eastern calligraphy. In this period, Küçükkoğlu worked with black-and-white compositions for the first time and applied calligraphic lines' two-dimensional relationship to the fore and background to geometric drawings. His drawing was carried on to a subjective realm, similar to the calligraphies that he took as examples, in which depth was defined by movement and gravity of different lanes. Furthermore, his free-hand drawings on paper in 2004 and 2005 become simpler and clearer expressions when compared to the large canvases.
In this context, the most striking aspect of Küçükkoğlu's works to be exhibited in The Empire Project's exhibition space in 2012 is "the personal source of light that describes the geometric truth." The exhibition consisting of 30 works that were applied to canvases from small Japanese album drawings, "Drawings for the geometric sculpture," is a fiction that flies, dissipates and disintegrates. The pieces that seem to have been dispersed by an explosion are mandatorily within the boundaries of the frame. The circular canvases do not contain the images; each frame has a section that extends to the outside. These forms that come from infinity, are caught by our eyes through a hole, right where they meet. Balance, in this universe without gravity, is enabled by dimensional transitions created by the object's positioning within the frame and light games.
In Turkey, when paintings that are not realistic depictions of nature are considered to be taking "risks," Erdem Küçükköroğlu seems to have delineated his own path by insisting on the geometric abstract, consistently. His subjective universe, which is strange to the viewer—almost erroneous—is a potentially apt, truthful reaction against our lives, dominated by perfect geometries and virtual realities.
Erdem Küçükköroğlu was born in 1979, İstanbul. He has a bachelor degree of science in mathematics from İstanbul University (2004). He studied art and painting at the 'Mehmet Güleryüz Studio' between the years 2000 and 2004. He became the member of UPSD, National Comitee of 'Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques' (AIAP) in 2001. His paintings are both in private and museum collections, including Osten Drawings Museum (Skopje) and Davis Museum (Barcelona). Currently, he lives in İstanbul and works as Graphics Designer.
Elif Gül Tirben is a free-lance writer based in İstanbul. Her research interests are Sociology of Art, Contemporary Art and Visual Culture.
Güleryüz, Mehmet. Interview conducted by the author. Video recording. İstanbul, November, 2011.
 Bret Schneider, "No Way In: An Angle on Contemporary Geometric Abstraction," September 16, 2010, http://fourninetyone.com/2010/09/16/no-way-in-an-angle-on-recent-geometric-abstraction/.
 Mehmet Güleryüz, interview conducted by the author, İstanbul, November, 2011.
 The Möbius strip has several curious properties. A line drawn starting from the seam down the middle will meet back at the seam but at the "other side". If continued the line will meet the starting point and will be double the length of the original strip. This single continuous curve demonstrates that the Möbius strip has only one boundary.
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What Does It Mean To Be Hungarian?
By Sion Firew |
The year 1989 marked the fall of communism across Europe. While that historical event resulted in gradual growth and newfound freedom for countries and people that suffered under the oppressive regimes, I've noticed the people of Hungary still seem to carry the weight of communism in their daily lives. This weight has caused a great divide between the younger generation who did not live through communism, and the older generation who have to live with those memories.
Hungary's history is filled with powerful people like St. Stephen I, Maria Theresa and Matthias Corvinus who gave the country an aura of greatness. Although the streets of Budapest pay homage to many of these figures that shaped the country's future, the people themselves, old and young alike, refuse to display any sense of nationalism.
Sándor Gallai, an associate professor of political science at Corvinus University of Budapest, gave a guest lecture to my group during our visit to the House of Terror, an exhibit that displays the horrors of communism. During the lecture, Gallai explained how Hungary's recent history of communism and World War II has made the people wary of expressing their appreciation for their country. He admitted that the people's open disdain for refugees and the lack of diversity seems to be a form of nationalism, but very few people would outwardly claim to be proud of their national identity.
This notion of nationalism without calling it nationalism became an interesting idea to me. But what became even more interesting was the dichotomy between the older generation's view of national identity and the younger generation's view. I'm an Ethiopian-American woman who is proud of my identity and the culture that is associated with it; I know who I am and what that entails. But what does it mean to be Hungarian from the opposite sides of 1989?
Monori Attila, a beekeeper who sells his honey weekly at Szimpla Kert, lived through communism, the fall of communism and the rebuilding of Hungary as it is known today. His translator helped explain how his view of being Hungarian did not come from reminiscing on the country's past transgressions, but rather through the connectedness that comes from a shared culture.
"It's being European, Christian… it's having a culture. It also means a language, and having that deep connection," Attila's translator said on his behalf. He said that the younger generation who will eventually take positions of power need to stay true to the values of kindness and culture even if they make changes to the country.
In many ways, the older generation in Budapest can identify with Attila. He lives a life in which he tends to his business and does his job, while appreciating the homogeneity of his country. He finds his identity in his culture, language and religion but did not use the word Hungarian to describe himself.
Roland Snyehola, the owner of an urban clothing store called PSTR, was 12 years old when communism ended in Hungary. He said he remembers how happy people were after the fall of communism, and how there were new freedoms that came with the end of the regime. However, he said he does not believe that communism was or is the real problem with Hungary today.
"I'm Hungarian, but I don't really like this country," Snyehola said, laughing uncomfortably. "The people don't really open their mind for the world, don't like the foreigner."
Snyehola seemed disappointed as he talked about the propaganda against refugees and people of color in the news, explaining more about the negative impact of Hungary's monolithic culture. Though he said he wants to see change in the country and more openness towards diversity, he is uncertain if there will be any real change that happens.
"It's so complicated. Many young people come to the capital city… bad, bad attitude bring it from parents. They don't want to change. Some, maybe 5,000 [people]… not enough. Not enough."
It was interesting to hear someone who understood life before and after communism, someone who is almost caught in the middle of the generational gap and can see the negatives of both sides. To Snyehola, being Hungarian means understanding how the past shapes the future and being a critic of his own country.
For Dora Gyongosi, a young woman who works at a vintage shop called Ludovika, being Hungarian means appreciating the culture, literature and folk art. Gyongosi has lived in Budapest all her life and said she is proud of the beautiful things that come from Hungary, like the language. However, just like Snyehola, Gyongosi does not see a future that welcomes political openness for the country.
"[The government] is very centralized and very controlled, and I don't think they're heading in a good direction," Gyongosi said. "Most intelligent young people are leaving the country, and there's less and less people remaining here. We're losing the ones that can really do something."
From all three Hungarians, of different ages and stages in life, I noticed their discomfort when asked what it means to be Hungarian. None of them said that they are proud of the country's history, yet none of them see improvement in the near future.
The generational gap may be caused by communism and enforced by the older generation's close-mindedness toward minorities, but after talking to the three Hungarian locals, I realized that neither the older nor younger generation are passionate to see political or social change. For the most part, the people of Budapest are content with minding their business and tending to their lives, and even though there are some major differences between the older and younger generations, this sense of complacency ties them all together.
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The GOP's "Jobs Bill Joke" (and other 2015 LOLs)
Submitted by Bud Meyers on December 18, 2014 - 11:09am
Nine million unemployed Americans and six million others who are "not in the labor force" but also want a job will soon see what the new Congress will propose next year as their first "jobs bill" (Hint: It won't be for government jobs or public infrastructure investment — and it will be the GOP's very first bill).
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Obama Budget Tidbits
Submitted by Robert Oak on March 5, 2014 - 4:46am
The Obama 2015 Budget is finally here with the usual fanfare of a thud, dud, not gonna happen political reality. Earlier we received previews where the Obama administration finally dropped chained CPI from their proposals. The 2015 budget proposed is $3.9 trillion dollars.
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Paul Ryan Wants to Destroy Social Security & Medicare
Submitted by Robert Oak on August 11, 2012 - 6:02pm
The election of Worse and Worser continues. We now know Romney's VP pick, Paul Ryan. Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan managed to get the House Budget Committee chair, and has been on a quest to destroy Social Security and Medicare.
Ryan proudly is the author of the top 11 idiotic ideas to reduce the budget. He also tried to kill Medicare.
Romney has already promised to enact Ryan's right wing social engineering plan in his first 100 days in office.
What a gift to Obama. Face it folks, we're now stuck with Obama for four more years. AARP alone will surely mount their legions to vote against the Galt/Gekko Replication ticket. Most people know election 2012 is the battle of the billionaires, we sure don't have a say. But now the choice has become astounding. We don't think even the Koch Brothers, with their propaganda armies can turn this tide around.
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Ben! Say It Ain't So! America Could Be Like Greece?
Submitted by Robert Oak on February 2, 2012 - 5:28pm
Today Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke testified before the House Budget Committee. The quote which implies America could become Greece is this:
Even the prospect of unsustainable deficits has costs, including an increased possibility of a sudden fiscal crisis. As we have seen in a number of countries recently, interest rates can soar quickly if investors lose confidence in the ability of a government to manage its fiscal policy. Although historical experience and economic theory do not indicate the exact threshold at which the perceived risks associated with the U.S. public debt would increase markedly, we can be sure that, without corrective action, our fiscal trajectory will move the nation ever closer to that point.
Greece? Really? Business Insider calls this plain annoying. The comparison is the wrong country. America really looks like Japan. The dire warning the United States could become like Greece is really about health care costs. Federal outlays for health care are already 5% of GDP and we have apocolyptic projections for meteoric health care costs increases. Here's Bernanke on those:
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Screwing America Under the Cover of Deficit Reductions
Submitted by Robert Oak on July 8, 2011 - 3:44am
The validity of the public debt of the United States... shall not be questioned
Except when one wants to screw over Americans by cutting social safety nets under the guise of a debt ceiling crisis.
After Congress and the Obama administration ranted and raved for months and under the cover of non-stories like Casey Anthony, we have Obama is putting social security, medicare and social safety nets up on the faux pas debt ceiling negotiation block, to be cut and slashed.
After putting controversial cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table in negotiations with congressional Republicans over a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling, President Obama still doesn't have a deal in the works. Emerging from a meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday, Obama said that both sides in the negotiations would find the ultimate outcome "painful." He also explained that the two sides had not yet arrived at an accord, but would reconvene talks on Sunday.
"I want to emphasize that nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to," Obama said, adding that the talks were conducted "in a spirit of compromise" but that the parties "are still far apart on a wide range of issues."
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Saturday Reads Around The Internets - No Public Parks For You Minnesota!
Submitted by Robert Oak on July 2, 2011 - 1:32pm
Welcome to the weekly roundup of great articles, facts and figures. These are the weekly finds that made our eyes pop.
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Fiscal Policy By Dummies: Looking at the Deficit Plans from a Progressive Standpoint
Submitted by StevenAttewell on December 6, 2010 - 2:46pm
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Following the on-going drama of the Deficit Commission - which just adjourned without even voting on its own proposal, and which never came close to getting the necessary votes to trigger an up-or-down vote in the Senate - has been rather painful. Especially in light of the Republican takeover of the House and the ongoing dispute over extending the Bush tax cuts and raising the debt ceiling, the grip of austerity thinking seems paradoxically strong and weak at the same time, pervasive enough to be omnipresent within the media yet not actually persuasive enough to get anyone to vote for anything they dislike.
However, there is one point that needs to be cleared up - behind the banalities of "living within our means" and other balanced-budget platitudes, there is ideology at work. The budget is not just a technical issue, but a moral document - it is a choice between a high road or a low road to the future.
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Creating Budget-Neutral Jobs Policy in an Era of Irrational Austerity
Submitted by StevenAttewell on June 26, 2010 - 12:37pm
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.
Recently, the Senate attempted for the second time to pass a small jobs bill. The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 – which would provide for an extension of Unemployment Insurance, COBRA health insurance subsidies, $24 billion in aid to states' Medicaid programs to prevent deficit-driven layoffs, partially paid for through closing loopholes that benefit the wealthy – already passed the House three months ago, but is stalled in the Senate. The fact that the bill failed with 56 senators voting in the affirmative not only sharpens the ironies of the anti-democratic nature of the Senate, but also shows that we're stuck in the middle of a full-blown austerity craze.
Hence Senator Hatch's call for the unemployed to be drugs tested - for Unemployment Insurance that they have paid for through years and years of contributions – and even supposedly liberal Senators like Dianne Feinstein suggesting that "people just don't go back to work at all" if UI eligibility is extended beyond 99 weeks. On the simplest level, this is insanity – there are about thirty million unemployed (including both official and unofficial) and only three million job openings. Drugs tested or not, the 27 million left over don't have a choice of whether to go back to work.
Unfortunately, to paraphrase Keynes, politics can stay irrational longer than the unemployed can stay solvent. Austerity is in full political swing, and unlikely to improve, except in the improbable scenario that Congress remains Democratic in the midterm elections and the Senate Democratic Caucus follows through on their threats to reform the filibuster. A public policy that can only work in optimal circumstances isn't worth much, though, and there are still ways to move forward on jobs despite being lumbered by irrational budget-neutral burdens.
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International women's cycling race in south
Update: July, 12/2019 - 08:54
The International Women's Cycling Tournament, An Giang Television Cup, will be held on July 13-18. — Photo thethaohcm.vn
HÀ NỘI — The International Women's Cycling Tournament, the An Giang Television Cup, will be held on July 13-18.
The event will feature 70 strong cyclists from Australia, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines as well as nine domestic teams.
With a total length of more than 550km, cyclists will compete in six stages, starting from HCM City and finishing in An Giang.
The overall winner will earn VNĐ50 million (US$2,170).
The event is organised by the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Việt Nam Cycling and Sport Motors Federation.
Vice Chairman of the Việt Nam Cycling and Sport Motors Federation Ngô Quang Vinh said the race aims to help improve the skills of domestic cyclists in preparation for national and international cycling tournaments in 2019. — VNS
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Alzheimer's is defined as a brain disease that causes a slow decline in memory, thinking, and reasoning skills. Symptoms of Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia include memory loss that disrupts daily life.
Below, find the Alzheimer's Association's Top 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's. If you notice any of these symptoms in yourself or your loved one, you should contact your physician.
Memory loss that disrupts daily life One of the most common signs of Alzheimer's is memory loss, especially forgetting recently learned information. Others include forgetting important dates or events; asking for the same information over and over; relying on memory aides (e.g., reminder notes or electronic devices) or family members for things they used to handle on their own.
Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work, or at leisurePeople with Alzheimer's and other forms of memory loss often find it hard to complete daily tasks. Sometimes, people may have trouble driving to a familiar location, managing a budget at work, or remembering the rules of a favorite game.
Confusion with time or placePeople with Alzheimer's can lose track of dates, seasons, and the passage of time. They may have trouble understanding something if it is not happening immediately. Sometimes they may forget where they are or how they got there.
Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationshipsFor some people, having vision problems is a sign of Alzheimer's. They may have difficulty reading, judging distance, and determining color or contrast. In terms of perception, they may pass a mirror and think someone else is in the room. They may not realize they are the person in the mirror.
New problems with words in speaking or writingPeople with Alzheimer's may have trouble following or joining a conversation. They may stop in the middle of a conversation and have no idea how to continue or they may repeat themselves. Memory loss often affects vocabulary; your loved one may have problems finding the right word or call things by the wrong name (e.g., calling a "watch" a "hand-clock").
Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace stepsA person with Alzheimer's disease may put things in unusual places. They may lose things and be unable to go back over their steps to find them again. Sometimes, they may accuse others of stealing when memory loss prevents them from locating a mislaid item. This may occur more frequently over time.
Decreased or poor judgmentPeople with Alzheimer's may experience changes in judgment or decision-making. For example, they may use poor judgment when dealing with money, giving large amounts to telemarketers. They may pay less attention to grooming or keeping themselves clean.
Withdrawal from work or social activitiesA person with Alzheimer's may start to remove themselves from hobbies, social activities, work projects, or sports. They may have trouble keeping up with a favorite sports team or remembering how to complete a favorite hobby. They may also avoid being social because of the changes they have experienced.
Changes in mood and personalityThe mood and personalities of people with Alzheimer's can change. They can become confused, suspicious, depressed, fearful, or anxious. They may be easily upset at home, at work, with friends, or in places where they are out of their comfort zone.
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Who killed the 'gentle giant'?
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:38 AM March 03, 2018
Why would anyone want to kill a doctor—one, moreover, who had heroically volunteered to work in the poorest communities of the country where healthcare resources, as well as financial rewards, are scarce, even nonexistent?
That remains the unanswered question in the case of the slain rural doctor Dreyfuss Perlas, a graduate of Western Visayas State University in Iloilo City who chose to remain in his area of assignment, Sapad in Lanao del Norte, after the end of his contract under the Department of Health's Doctors to the Barrios (DTTB) program. On March 1 last year, he was shot dead in the town of Kapatagan while en route to Sapad on his motorcycle. The bullet entered the left side of his back and pierced his heart; he died at the Lanao del Norte Provincial Hospital in the nearby town of Baroy soon after. He was only 31.
Perlas' death was a crushing blow not only to his family and the DOH but also to the hard-up community to which he devoted his life's work. (It had had no health officer for 12 years before his volunteer stint.) Unlike many of his peers who took off after their two-year DTTB contracts ended, Perlas chose to continue serving Sapad, where by accounts he became a well-loved "people's doctor," traveling solo across long distances to reach remote barrios where he would conduct medical checkups. At 6'3, he towered above many of his patients and fellow Filipinos, and was known as a "gentle giant."
"Superman Doctor is dead," lamented Sapad resident Princess May Sienes as soon as news spread of Perlas' murder. His colleagues in the DOH program condemned the "barbaric act of the assailant." Police would eventually tag four suspects behind the killing—a woman and three men—but only one of them was charged: Nabil Banding, a former security guard said to have been the gunman hired to kill Perlas.
For what earthly purpose? One year later, police are still unable to definitively answer the question of motive—or even arrest any of the suspects. Banding remains at large; a P150,000 cash bounty has been put up for information leading to his, and the three other suspects', apprehension.
In his years of serving his chosen community since 2012, Perlas appeared to have incurred the murderous ire of unknown individuals. His DTTB colleague, Dr. Anjuli May Jaen, said Perlas had been receiving threats to his safety—a scenario all too familiar to Filipinos who remember the case of Dr. Bobby dela Paz during the Marcos dictatorship. While serving as a doctor to the masses in Samar, Dela Paz was labeled a subversive by the military, and shot by an unknown assailant in 1982. He was 29; his case was never solved.
Inquirer columnist Gideon Lasco has written about the hazardous environment that doctors like Dela Paz and Perlas encounter in the still-feudal countryside: "What overwhelms the DTTBs … is the patronage system in which they soon find themselves: a system where the mayor is king, and local officials mostly cater to his wishes. One DTTB made the mistake of not paying a courtesy call on the mayor: He ultimately had to transfer to a different municipality. Another told of a mayor who holds medicines hostage in his office so that he can get the credit for handing them to patients.
"The DTTBs, while mostly respected, are moreover not immune to intrigue. One of them recounted being accused of absconding from a disaster when in fact she herself was a victim but still managed to treat others despite her personal pain. More worrisome, because of their reformist impulses or simply because they happen to be in conflict-riddled places, there are very real threats to their own life."
Perlas' murder testifies to that grim reality. That his case remains unresolved a year later, with not a suspect in detention and no satisfactory investigation of motive and culpability so far, underlines the continuing breakdown of justice and law and order in the land.
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Just a couple of weeks ago, Patricia and I had the opportunity to be at a conference down in Arizona. Where I was speaking, at the time there was another speaker by the name of Steve Saint who gave an amazing testimony. My life with the Saint family goes way, way back to a time when I was a little boy. We were living in the city of Philadelphia and my father, at the time, was an evangelist traveling around the east coast preaching. The Saint family was in our church.
There was Old Man Saint, as he was known, who had a beard down to his waist. There was Mrs. Saint, who was sort of a Bohemian type person before, I guess, her time in our history here in America. They grew a lot of their own food outside a big home that looked like a barn, both outside and inside. He was an artist of world renown. He was the foremost stained glass maker in the world. In fact, the stained glass windows in the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., he made, and many others in cathedrals all over Europe.
Eccentric? Yes. Unique? Yes. But he had some remarkable children. He and Mrs. Saint had a son by the name of Sam. He became a pilot, a commercial pilot, who flew the maiden voyage of the 747 from New York to Los Angeles, inaugural voyage of that airplane. He was the number one pilot for American Airlines in those days. Another son, Phil Saint, an artist of some unique renown, went on in serving the Lord in ministry.
And then there was Nate Saint. He was a missionary to the Auca Indians, and I'm told that if you ever meet an Auca, don't call him an Auca. That's a word that means "naked savage." That's not really the name of the tribe, but that's what they're known as. And then there was a girl named Rachel Saint.
You know about Nate Saint if you remember the massacre of the five young missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador. Our family has been in Ecuador, Patricia and I have been in Ecuador, in the places where the Aucas lived and seen some of them. The story is one of the incredible stories of missionary sacrifice, of course, in the history of the church. It was a huge event because Life magazine put the massacre on its front cover in the 50s when it happened, and the world knows the story. It's rehearsed in a book called Through Gates of Splendor and other things that go back to that event.
What is remarkable about the event and what we were reminded of by Steve Saint as we listened to his testimony was that Steve was three years old when his father was killed, just a little boy. He and his mother and the other wives were not in the jungle where the killing took place. They were somewhere else in contact with their husbands by radio. And, of course, when they lost radio contact, the story began to unfold.
Then the real story began after the death of those five missionaries, massacred at the hands of the Aucas, because the wives felt that they should take up the cause. Some of them went into the jungle along with Rachel Saint, the sister of Nate. They went into the jungle, began to evangelize, and God used them to win the tribe to Christ. Well that's 50-plus years ago and now that tribe is, for the most part, committed to Jesus Christ and they're busy evangelizing the rest of the tribes, planting churches.
It's a great story. It's a story of Christian love. It's a story of kingdom love. How do you love your husband's murderer? How do you love the murderer of your friends' husbands? How do you go in and put your life on the line? How do you love your brother's murderer, as Rachel did? It's an incredible story.
The latest update on the story is that Steve was saying, "That's many years ago now. I have a family of my own. One of my regrets," he said, "in raising my children was they never met their grandfather, my Dad, Nate. He was such a remarkable guy." He was killed, of course, when Steve was three, so obviously he barely knew him, but has filled up his life with the stories of those who did. He said, "I always felt bad that my children could never know my father." He said, "I have some memories of my father, and, of course, they could never have known him." And, of course, they didn't have a grandfather.
Well, as the Lord would have it, through the years Steve, who speaks the language very well, stayed in touch even though he came back to the United States and entered into business. It was a few years ago, however, that Rachel Saint died. She was still with the Auca, still, in a sense, the spiritual leader although she never preached a sermon because she didn't want them to get used to women preachers.
Well, as it turned out, they were down there for a year and a half or more, and they were down there just a few months, I guess, when the children adopted a grandfather, an old man in the tribe that everybody called "Grandfather," and they adopted him, I guess, because of his warmth, and his personality, and his charm, and he became their adopted grandfather. And the amazing part of the story is that he was the very man who killed their real grandfather. He has now become their adopted grandfather.
Recently the youngest boy in the Saint family graduated from high school. And Steve said to him, "What would you like as a present for graduation?" To which he replied, "I want you to bring Grandpa from the jungle to my graduation." That's not easy. These tribal people have no documentation. They have no passport. How do you get them out of there? You can't even identify them. But through some amazing circumstances, they brought him, and his grandfather attended his high school graduation - at least his adopted grandfather, who was the murderer of his real grandfather.
That's a story of kingdom love, isn't it? And it's been going on for 50 years in that family and other families who were affected by that massacre. One of the distinguishing marks, if not the singular distinguishing mark, of Christians is their love. It is the distinguishing mark of those in God's kingdom that they love in an unnatural way, they love in a preternatural way, they love in a supernatural way. And what that boils down to in one simple statement is they love their enemies. They love their enemies.
In fact, that is how Jesus separated true disciples from the rest, by kingdom love, the kind of love that loves enemies. Turn in your Bible to the 6th chapter of Luke. We're hearing Jesus speak here in this sermon He gave on the mountain. And He is speaking in verses 27 to 38 about this kingdom love. The sermon is really about discipleship. It's about who is a true disciple, who really is in the kingdom of God and who is not. And the distinguishing mark of the true disciple is the love of enemies. And that's how it begins in verse 27, "I say to you who hear, love your enemies." He repeats that in verse 35, "But love your enemies." This, then, is a section from 27 to 38 about loving your enemies as a distinguishing mark of being a Christian.
In fact, in verse 35 it says, "If you love your enemies, you will be sons of the Most High." In other words, you will manifestly be sons of the Most High. You will demonstrate that you are a son of the Most High if you love your enemies.
Matthew records this same sermon. In Matthew 5:43, Jesus said, "You have heard that it was said 'you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' I say love your enemies." Verse 45, "In order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven." In other words, it becomes manifest that you are God's when you love the way God loves and God loves His enemies.
Jesus went on to say, "He makes the sun fall on those that are good and those that are evil. He makes the rain come down on those that are righteous and those that are wicked." God is by nature love, 1 John 4:8. "God is love." And God loves enemies. I mean, that should be clear since all of us at one time were enemies of God. All of us as unregenerate sinners were enemies of God. And God loves a world of enemies.
"God so loved the world," John 3:16 says. The apostle Paul talked about God's love for mankind in Titus chapter 3. God loves enemies, and if we love enemies, then we are manifestly the sons of God.
Ephesians 4:32, Paul writes, "Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us." When you love your enemies, you're like God. When you love your enemies and you give up your life for them, you're like Christ.
This then, in the teaching of Jesus, becomes the distinguishing characteristic of kingdom people. This is how we manifest the transformation, regeneration, new birth, salvation; by an unnatural, supernatural love.
Now God, we know, loves the world. God loves mankind. It even says in the Mark 10:21 that when Jesus looked at the rich young ruler who rejected Him, it says, "Having looked at him, He loved him." He loved a rebel. He loved a self-righteous, materialistic, non-repentant, unbelieving rebel. God loves in a general, indiscriminate, unconditional way, and this is a love of compassion that makes God weep, as Jeremiah 13 tells us; that makes Jesus weep, as Luke 19:41 says, "He looked over Jerusalem and He wept over the city." It's a love of compassion. God sees the sadness and the sorrow of that sinner's condition and end, and it's heart-breaking to Him.
It is also the love of warning. It is that love that makes Jesus say, "If you don't repent, you'll also perish." It's the love of goodness. Romans 2:4 talks about the patience and forbearance, endurance of God, who has every right to judge sinners on the spot, but doesn't do that. Paul says, "Do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness?" Then he goes on to talk about the kindness of God to lead you to repentance.
It's the love of compassion. It's the love of warning. It's the love of kindness. It's the love of invitation. "Come unto Me all who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest." "Go out into the highways and byways of the streets and bring everybody into the feast," Matthew 22 says. Bring them all in. It's that love of invitation.
God loves His enemies compassionately. He loves them kindly. He loves them with a warning. He loves them with an invitation. And if we, then, are the sons of God, we should love the way God loves. If we possess the life of God in our souls, if we are partakers of the divine nature, then our love should transcend the love of humanity. And the definitive element of that is loving enemies. That's the singular way to define that love. It's not complex. Supernatural love transcends natural love because it loves enemies.
And we already saw in verses 27 and 28 the commands, or the actions, of that love. "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." The bottom line is these are all enemies. Your enemies are the ones who hate you, curse you, and mistreat you. Love them. Do good to them. Bless them. Pray for them. Love speaks of your attitude towards them. Doing good speaks of your action toward them. Blessing speaks of your speech toward them, speak blessing into their lives. And prayer speaks of your appeal to God on their behalf. And these are actions we take toward our enemies that demonstrate that we belong to God.
We are then, in verse 27, those who hear. In other words, we're the ones who understand, who can take it in, who have the capacity to hear, because our ears have been opened by the transforming power of God. And so, kingdom love has certain actions. It loves. It does good. It blesses and it prays for enemies who hate, curse and mistreat. That's just not the way the world loves.
First were the actions that love initiates, and now the reactions that love takes when evil is initiated. This, again, is transcendent. This is not how people are in the world. They don't have the capacity to love like this. They see it as weakness. So we've seen the actions of love and the reactions of love.
Let's come, then, this morning to the third point in Jesus little message on kingdom love, the principle of kingdom love. Here is the underlying ethic or principle. Verse 31, we know it as the golden rule, "And just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way." Just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way.
Frankly, that sums up the whole idea of loving your enemies. Don't treat them the way they're treating you. The world does that. The world of sinners treats people the way they treat them. You treat people the way you would like them to treat you. We assume they're not treating you that way. They are hating you. They are cursing you. They are mistreating you. They are hitting you on the cheek. They are taking things from you, stealing them, borrowing them. They're already your enemies. They're manifesting that in the way they treat you. This is all abuse, mistreatment.
So what do you do? Well, if you're a normal person, you give them back what they gave you: Vengeance, retaliation, hostility, vindictiveness. And Jesus says that's not the way you do it. Treat them the way you would like them to treat you, even though they're not treating you that way. That's the point. Treat them the way you would like them to treat you.
Now this golden rule is singularly Christian. I know you hear that this is a sort of a universal law of religion, but let me sort of sort that out a little bit for you. Every time you find something like the golden rule that appears in some religion or some philosophical system, it appears in a negative form. What I mean by that is it's don't treat people the way you don't want to be treated. It's a negative. It's reversed or lowered.
Let me give you illustrations. The most famous Jewish rabbi Hillel said, "What is hateful to yourself do not to someone else." What you don't like, don't do to someone else. The book of Tobit in the apocrypha says, "What you yourself hate to no man do." The Jewish scholars of Alexandria who translated the Septuagint advise, "As you wish that no evil befall you, but to be a partaker of all good things, so you should act on the same principle toward your subjects and offenders." Don't do them evil so they don't do you evil. Don't hurt them so they don't hurt you. That's the idea.
And that's the way it goes in all the studies I've done. In every case, the emphasis is negative. Don't do to someone what you don't want them to do to you because there's a universal principle in life. Whatever you do to people, they will do back. You got that? That's how the world works. That's human life. Whatever you do to them, they're going to do back to you. So don't do what you don't want back.
Well, that's a nice thought. I'm not against that. But it sure falls far short of God's standard. Those expressions, however, go as far as sinful man can go, because sinful man is consumed with self protection, self love. I don't want to harm somebody because he might harm me. That's not a golden rule, that's utilitarian, that's self protective. Christian love is the positive rule that says, "You may be harming me, but I'm not going to give you back what you're giving me. I'm going to love you in the way that I would like you to love me." This is something unique.
You see, selfishness acts to prevent its own harm. Selfishness acts to insure its own welfare. But that's not kingdom love. The world's negative version of this principle is the supreme human ethic. And if you hurt me, I will hurt you. And that's the noble virtue of vengeance. But what our Lord is saying is, "When they mistreat you, when they hate you, when they abuse you, when they hit you, when they take what you have, don't give them back what they gave you, give them what you wish they'd give you." And you know what? If you do it consistently enough, eventually they will. And I'll show you that in the text.
This is the principle underlying the command. You treat them not the way they're treating you. You treat them not in a negative sense to prevent them from hurting you, but you treat them in a positive way, the way you would like them to treat you. No matter what they're doing to you, you don't take vengeance, you don't take retaliation as your own personal right, because you are demonstrating a transcendent love. This is the way God loves. God loves His enemies. And only as a last resort does He enact His divine and just vengeance. In the meantime, He loves with compassion, with warning, with kindness, and goodness, and invitation.
Now, there are just a couple of key things here that I want you to notice. First the word "sinner." Sinner is a technical term for an unbeliever. It's a technical term for somebody outside the kingdom, hamartlos. It's a word referring to the wicked. It can refer to the wicked in general. When Paul says, "I am the chief of sinners," he's using the term to define all sinners. It can also be used to speak of people who are particularly and viciously wicked. But it is used both in the Old Testament and the New Testament to define people outside the kingdom, unsaved, unregenerate people, people who don't belong to God.
Now, sinners have a certain kind of love, and here it's laid out. Sinners, verse 32, love those who love them. Sinners, verse 33, do good to those who do good to them. Sinners, verse 34, lend to sinners in order to receive back the same - not the same amount, that's added, I don't know why they added that - but they lend in order that they might receive back. Sinners have a certain kind of reciprocal love. They love the people that love them. They do good to the people that do good to them. And they lend to the people who can lend to them. They never get beyond that. They never get beyond giving back exactly what they get.
But the kind of love that we're talking about is very different than that. In fact, "if you love," verse 32 says, "those who love you, what credit is that to you?" That's the way sinners love. And "if you do good only to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? And if you lend to those who from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you?" What credit is what charis, it's the word for grace. What favor does that bestow upon you? What grace do you demonstrate when you love like sinners love? How does that bring any favor on you? How does that convince anybody that you are God's, that you are a kingdom person, that you've been regenerated and transformed, you're a new creation? That isn't going to convince anybody of that. That's the way sinners love.
To love like sinners love is no gospel witness. We're talking here, by the way, about evangelistic loving, about loving people in a way that lays down a foundation to make the gospel testimony believable. You say you're transformed. I see it because I can't ever experience the kind of love you have. I don't see that. That's not normal. No. It's supernatural. "The love of God has been shed abroad in your hearts," Romans 5:5. "And it's by your love that all men will know you're My disciples," John 13:34-35. To love the way sinners love, that's no test of anything and that's no proof of anything.
And He uses three illustrations. If you love those who love you, so what? Matthew 5 says, "What reward do you have? Even tax collectors do that?" And they were the lowest people, obviously, on the ladder of the despicable. They were at the bottom. They were the scum of society. They were the most unethical people in Israel, who bought Roman tax franchises and extorted taxes from the Jews on behalf of a pagan, idolatrous, oppressing, occupying, conquering nation. A tax collector was despicable, a traitor. Even they operate on this ethic. They love those who love them. So what grace is that? So what favor is that? Sinners do that, tax collectors.
And if you do good for those who do good for you - second illustration - that's a self-serving relationship. Everybody does that. Your goodness is limited to another's goodness. And when someone does evil, then you don't have to do good back, you can do evil back, and get your vengeance, and wreak your havoc. What credit is that to you? None, absolutely none. Sinners do that.
So that even his lending, not with the idea that the guy is going to pay you back, that's a given. Everybody should pay back their debts. Even Romans 13 says, "Owe no man anything. Pay your debts." But the idea is you lend to obligate. You love because you're loved. You do good because good is done to you. And you lend because you want to obligate the guy when you have a need to give you the money. It's all self serving, self aggrandizing. It's just not kingdom love. And if you love like that, He says, so what favor does that bring? What testimony is that to the power of God in your life?
You don't expect love back from your enemy, you don't expect good back from your enemy, and you don't expect your enemy to lend to you, either. You don't expect anything in return. You're simply treating them the way you would like to be treated but you don't expect anything, and you don't have to have anything.
This is not natural. This is not normal. This is not human. But if you do it, verse 35 says, "Your reward will be great." What's that? Is that your eternal reward? No. He mentioned eternal reward back in verse 23. The reward we're going to receive in heaven for suffering persecution - there will be a heavenly reward. But this is in the world of men. You're loving sinners the way sinners are not used to being loved. You're loving those who don't love you. You're loving those who don't do good to you. You're loving those who don't lend to you, and you're asking no love, no goodness, and no loan back. This is unconditional, free, transcendent love. You're just loving them the way they ought to love you, even though they don't. You're showing them a love that they can't experience, doesn't belong to their world, and your reward will be great.
So this is the way we manifest our sonship. No, He's not talking again about divine and eternal blessing, but that will be true, for you to live like this as an act of obedience. For you to live like this, then, will be rewarded in eternity. But that's not the point here. And you'll see that in a moment.
"Most High," by the way, we've already discussed that title for God. It's a New Testament equivalent to the Hebrew El Elyon, God Most High, used many, many times. First of all, in Genesis 14, it's used four times and then El Elyon goes all through the Old Testament referring to God as the sovereign. "Most High" means "You're the sovereign ruler. You're the ultimate one." Here in the Greek hupsistos is "sovereign, the ultimate, supreme ruler." It can refer none other than God Himself. And by the way, Christ is called the "Son of the Most High" in Luke 1:32 and 1:76 and that's where we considered that term in more detail.
So, as Christ manifested that He was God's Son by His loving His enemies, so you can manifest that you, too, are a son of God, a child of God - not God incarnate like Christ, but nonetheless a child of God - who loves the way God loves.
God is kind and God is merciful, kind in verse 35, merciful in verse 36. One is positive. Kind is positive. Merciful is negative. Kind means "I give you what you don't deserve." Merciful means "I withhold what you do." The active love of God is kind. He makes the sun rise on the just and the unjust. He makes the rain fall on them. That's kindness. He's kind toward them with His compassion, His goodness, His patience, forbearance, His invitations. And there's a passive kind of kindness. He's passive in the sense of His mercy. He withholds judgment. He withholds condemnation. He withholds damnation.
As we've been saying, along with this disaster, 6,000 or so people being killed on one day is primarily a demonstration of God's kindness. All sinners deserve to die. Only some do, the rest live. The real question is not why did those people die, but why does anybody live? The real question is not why do bad things happen to good people? The real question is why do good things happen to bad people? Because there are no good people.
The reason good things keep happening to bad people is because God is positively kind and merciful. He gives and He withholds. He gives kindness and blessing, and withholds judgment out of His own compassionate heart. And you see that, even the Old Testament, Exodus 34, God is merciful, showing mercy to thousands. He's compassionate. He's kind. The prophet Joel talks about that. The prophet Jonah saw the kindness and mercy of God toward Nineveh and it irritated him. God has pity over sinners. He grieves over them. He's kind, merciful to them.
So when you are kind, positive good toward your enemies, and merciful, withholding judgment, you are like God. Therefore you are manifestly sons of the Most High. You manifestly are giving evidence that God is your Father. So until the final day when God's judgment does fall on everybody, God Himself is kind and God Himself is merciful. That's His nature. And if you bear His nature and His name, that is how you need to be, as well.
Now He closes in verses 37 and 38 with 4 final commands that lead to the goal of kingdom love, the goal of kingdom love. Nobody is going to get saved by being loved, but the platform will be created in which a relationship can exist to make the gospel believable. Notice how this unfolds.
Four commands that become the goal. "Do not judge and you will not be judged." Now the objective here is to not be judged. "Do not condemn, you will not be condemned. Pardon, you'll be pardoned. Give, it will be given to you." We'll stop at that point.
Four simple things. Don't judge. Don't condemn. Those are negatives. Positively, pardon and give. To whom? To your enemies, to your enemies, to the enemies of the gospel, to the enemies of the cross, to the enemies of Christ. Do not judge them. You say, "Well, wait a minute. Are you saying we shouldn't evaluate?" No, you should. Even in this same passage, verses 42 to 45, we're going to see that. We can assess their spiritual condition. This doesn't forbid law, government, justice, courts. It doesn't forbid discernment, conviction, rightly assessing someone, and confronting their sin. It doesn't forbid that. What it forbids is some kind of harsh, hard, critical, compassionless hostility to enemies.
We've already had a pretty good hint at this when back in verse 28 it says, "Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." That's the idea. That's the idea. Don't become their judge. Don't pronounce judgment on them. Speak blessing into their lives. Don't pass sentence on them. Love them mercifully. Love them kindly.
And the reward for that? You will not be judged by them, because sinners will give you back what you give them, and if you're not judgmental, and harsh, and cold, and condemning, they'll see that and they'll treat you that way because that's how sinners do. They love who they love because they love them. They're good to those who do good to them. They lend to those who lend to them. That's how it works in the world.
So if you, in the midst of being persecuted, and mistreated, and hated, and cursed, will not be their judges, but will love them with kindness, and mercy, and compassion, and goodness, and invitation the way God loves sinners, then what will happen is they will not judge you. They'll ease up on you. You don't want to do something that's going to shut the door of evangelism.
And then He goes a step further, really a synonym, maybe taking it to the end, "Don't condemn others." This would be the final sentence. You don't have the right to fix their damnation, to establish their condemnation. Don't put yourself in the place of the judge. Don't put yourself in the place of the executioner. This can happen. It certainly can happen in our society where Christians feel that their country is going down the proverbial sewer morally, and all of a sudden we identify the people who are leading this parade as the enemy, and we pronounce and pontificate damnation upon their heads.
And then on the positive side, verse 37, He says, "Pardon them, forgive them." That's divine, isn't it? You're never more like God than when you forgive somebody. That's what He does. Forgive them. Hold no grudge. Hold no bitterness. If you're merciful like God, if you're kind like God, and compassionate, tender-hearted, forgiving, you are manifestly Godlike. You're a child of God. You're different. They don't understand this. You don't sit in judgment on them. You don't condemn them. You forgive them.
Like Jesus, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they do." Like Stephen, "Lay not this sin to their charge." Like Stephen Saint, who has brought his father's murderer into his family to take his father's place as grandfather to his own children. This is kingdom love.
And that "they" is the interpretive principle for the whole section, "they." It's the people you do this to. They're going to return it back. You don't judge them, they won't judge you. You don't condemn them, they won't condemn you. And if you forgive them, they will tend to forgive you. And if you give to them, they will tend to give to you. That's how the world works. That's the common human way to love. But for us, it has to start with loving those who hate us before they can be transformed into this.
If you are merciful, and kind, and non-critical, and non-condemning, and non-judgmental, if you are generous, and giving to sinners, holding no grudge, then they'll treat you that way because that's how they work. And the hard thing for them to understand will be, "How can he or she treat me that way when I treated him or her the way I did?" They're going to see your good works and glorify - whom? - your Father who is in heaven, Matthew 5:16.
And it's going to be generous. Look at verse 38. "They're going to give to you good measure-pressed down, shaken together and running over." That's a very vivid picture. Jeremias writing on the history of Jerusalem has a little paragraph that explains this. "The measuring of corn is a process which is carried out according to an established pattern in Israel. The seller crouches on the ground, puts his legs around a huge basket.
"First of all, he fills the measure three-quarters full, and then gives the basket a rotating shake to make the grain settle, and settle, and settle, and settle." You know how important that is. That's like when you bring the cookies home that filled the box and by the time they get home they're all in the bottom and the rest is air. That's to prevent this.
And Jesus said, "If you love people like this, they'll love you back like that." You can actually be loved by sinners. Christians need a good dose of this, don't they? We live in a time when Christians are making enemies out of the mission field. Wouldn't you like sinners to do that? You love them. Love your persecutors. Love sinners and they will love you back the way you love them. That's how sinners love. They love those who love them. They do good to those who do good to them. They lend to those who lend to them. That's the way they work. The problem is, that's all they can do. But you can love your enemies and benefit.
And what is the goal? The goal, then, would be to have sinners not judge you, not condemn you, forgive you for the offense against them, and be generous with you. If that's the case, that would indicate that they have accepted you, and you now have an opportunity to proclaim to them - what? - the gospel.
So take advantage of sinners' limitations. They can't love their enemies, but you can. They do love those who love them, they do give to those who give to them, and they do good to those who do good to them. You do that when they are enemies, and you will lay down a testimony that you are not like them, but you are like God, who loves His enemies compassionately, kindly, mercifully, invitingly, and that becomes the basis of your witness. This is what marks a true disciple.
Our Father, we thank You for the practicality of this Word to us. We thank You for the anticipation that we can love our enemies and validate our citizenship, and then call them to their best and highest, and yet enable them to see the difference that You have wrought in our lives. Give us that fullness of kingdom love, and may people see that love and know it comes alone from You, and gives evidence of the transformation and has been made in our hearts through Christ. These things we ask for His glory. Amen.


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Q: Android Upload Image to Server, write path with text fields to a database and retrieve to list view Images and Text Uploader
Hallo Coders, i am new in Android. i have the above app to upload images to a server and write the image path to a database alongside the user inputted data as seen in the app UI. So far its uploading only one image with the below code and writing the path as appropriate. I am unable to pass the textview data alongside the image path to a mysql DB. I need the following.
1 Upload multiple images to server and write the images path and the other values to a mysql database.
2. Display the images from the server using the state/county select on a listview (Vertically or Horizontally)
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

public static final String UPLOAD_URL = "http://10.0.2.2/PhotoUpload/upload.php";
public static final String UPLOAD_KEY = "image";

private int PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST = 1;

private Button buttonChoose;
private Button buttonUpload;
private Button buttonView;

private ImageView imageView;

private Bitmap bitmap;

private Uri filePath;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    buttonChoose = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonChoose);
    buttonUpload = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonUpload);
    buttonView = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonViewImage);

    imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView);

    buttonChoose.setOnClickListener(this);
    buttonUpload.setOnClickListener(this);
    buttonView.setOnClickListener(this);
}

private void showFileChooser() {
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setType("image/*");
    intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
    startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"), PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST);
}

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

    if (requestCode == PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST && resultCode == RESULT_OK && data != null && data.getData() != null) {

        filePath = data.getData();
        try {
            bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getContentResolver(), filePath);
            imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

public String getStringImage(Bitmap bmp){
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos);
    byte[] imageBytes = baos.toByteArray();
    String encodedImage = Base64.encodeToString(imageBytes, Base64.DEFAULT);
    return encodedImage;
}

private void uploadImage(){
    class UploadImage extends AsyncTask<Bitmap,Void,String>{

        ProgressDialog loading;
        RequestHandler rh = new RequestHandler();

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            loading = ProgressDialog.show(MainActivity.this, "Uploading...", null,true,true);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
            super.onPostExecute(s);
            loading.dismiss();
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),s,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Bitmap... params) {
            Bitmap bitmap = params[0];
            String uploadImage = getStringImage(bitmap);

            HashMap<String,String> data = new HashMap<>();

            data.put(UPLOAD_KEY, uploadImage);
            String result = rh.sendPostRequest(UPLOAD_URL,data);

            return result;
        }
    }

    UploadImage ui = new UploadImage();
    ui.execute(bitmap);
}

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    if (v == buttonChoose) {
        showFileChooser();
    }

    if(v == buttonUpload){
        uploadImage();
    }

    if(v == buttonView){
        viewImage();
    }
}

A: Finally it worked as required by initialising all aspects in the code.

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Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect"
By Aaron Naparstek
Alan Durning, executive director of the Seattle-based Sightline Institute has been doing some great writing on Livable Streets and sustainable transport issues over the last year. If you haven't run across his work, he is writing a pair of ongoing series that I think will be of particular interest to Streetsblog readers.
On Friday, Durning published a piece in Grist about his experiment with a plug-in hybrid-electric car as a part of his Year of Living Carlessly series.
Given that most New York City residents have neither a car nor a reliable parking spot close enough to their house to run an extension cord, Durning's other series will be of more interest. His Bicycle Neglect series examines why most Pacific Northwest cities "don't treat bicycles as transportation,
which communities are doing the best job, and what's at stake," issues that are equally relevant outside the Cascadia region.
In a recent blog post, Durning points us to an outstanding report by University of Washington planner
Alyse Nelson who spent much of last year in Copenhagen learning how that city has transformed itself into a sustainable transport mecca. Urban planners, prepare to geek out on the full range of Copenhagen street and intersection typologies:
She assembled her conclusions in an elegantly illustrated report (pdf)
– a picture book on how to build a cycling city. The gritty particulars
of street designs and diagrams of parking placement will fascinate
specialists, but I think the main lesson of Alyse's booklet is visible
simply by looking at the pictures. Copenhagen treats bicycles with as
much care and attention as it treats cars. Consequently, cycling in
Copenhagen is commonplace: normal, mundane, unremarkable. Sort of like
driving in Cascadia.
Filed Under: Bicycle Infrastructure, Bicycle Parking, Bicycling, Car Culture, Copenhagen, Out of Town, Transportation Policy, Urban Planning
Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform
By Tanya Snyder	| Sep 19, 2013
We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute — where he serves as executive director — about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense. A reader asked in the […]
Alan Durning on the "Ruinous, Vicious Circle" of Underpriced Parking
Many people have been inspired by UCLA Professor Donald Shoup's epic takedown of American parking policy, but few have turned that newfound passion into the kind of scholarship Alan Durning has produced on the issue. The executive director of the Pacific Northwest's sustainability think tank, Sightline Institute, has now published 12 installments in a series […]
What Does a "Bike Friendly" City Look Like?
By Jason Varone	| May 23, 2007
Alan Durning has a lengthy essay discussing the infrastructure and culture that makes a city "bike friendly" in the environmental news blog, Gristmill: Good bicycling infrastructure is something few on this continent have seen. It doesn't mean a "bike route" sign and a white stripe along the arterial. It doesn't mean a meandering trail shared […]
How to Plan Good Cities for Bicycling
By Jan Gehl	| Jun 17, 2011
Editor's note: This is the final installment in our series this week featuring Danish architect and livable streets luminary Jan Gehl. The pieces are excerpts are from his book, "Cities for People," published by Island Press. Donate to Streetsblog and Streetfilms and you'll qualify to win a copy of the book, courtesy of Island Press. […]
Wayback Machine: A Deeper Look at Ed Koch's Livable Streets Legacy
By Ben Fried	| Feb 8, 2013
Our post last Friday about Ed Koch's transportation legacy inspired a flood of Koch-related reader email. From his days as an upstart Democratic district leader in the 1960s through his career in Congress and his early years as NYC mayor, Koch was, in many ways, ahead of his time on transit, bicycling, and reclaiming street […]
Nothing About Public Transportation in Chris Quinn's Transportation Report
By Brad Aaron	| Feb 1, 2012
If you're like most New York commuters, you took a train or bus to get to work today. And like most New Yorkers, you are invisible to the City Council and speaker Christine Quinn. On Tuesday, Quinn issued a letter, co-signed by transportation committee chair James Vacca, bragging about the accomplishments of a council obsessed […]


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Galatasaray are prepared to offer forgotten Liverpool striker Divock Origi a way out of Anfield in the upcoming transfer window.
Turkish-Football report that the Super Lig giants are willing to give the Belgium international a chance at first team football this season, if he joins their side in January.
Since returning to Merseyside, after a one-year loan spell with Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg, Origi has struggled to work his way into Jurgen Klopp's plans.
So far the former Lille striker has found himself way down the pecking order - having yet to feature in the Premier League in 2018/19 - and has had to settle for minutes in the reserves with the Under-23 team.
Origi scored and assisted in his single Premier League 2 fixture, suggesting he's too good (and expensive) to be playing regularly at that level. With Roberto Firmino and Daniel Sturridge, Jurgen Klopp's preferred options in attack, a January move is looking like the only real option for Origi who was unable to find a new home in the summer despite links with a number of Premier League and foreign clubs.
Over in Turkey, Galatasaray have struggled to replace last season's star man Bafetimbi Gomis after losing him in the summer to Saudi club Al-Hilal FC.
Gomis scored an incredible 29 league goals last season, firing his now former team to Süper Lig glory. With first-choice striker Eren Derdiyok out injured, the Turkish champions are desperate for a new forward.
On top of this, Origi's acquisition is all the more alluring as - having missed out on Liverpool's Champions League squad - the Belgian is still be eligible for European competitions.
Galatasaray are said to be keen on getting this deal as soon as possible. The daily Turkish sports paper, Fanatik, claim that the club from Istanbul hope to open talks with Liverpool in the next few days.


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Q: Image with EXTRA_TEXT sharing not working in Facebook sharing intent I share the my news through Intent chooser
In my sharing option I share image (EXTRA_STREAM) & text (EXTRA_TEXT)
This sharing option working fine in all apps.
My problem:
It not working in facebook app. It only share the image. My text content not showing.
My code:
 Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
 i.setType("image/*");
 i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, getLocalBitmapUri(context, bitmap,id));
 i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);
 context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Share News"));

Thanks for your answer & valuable comments

A: There is no requirement for an ACTION_SEND implementation to honor both EXTRA_TEXT and EXTRA_STREAM. Quoting the documentation, with emphasis added:

get*Extra can have either a EXTRA_TEXT or EXTRA_STREAM field, containing the data to be sent.

So, Facebook's app is working correctly. Other apps will behave similarly. Some apps will be generous and will support both of those extras on a single Intent. You should not assume that any app will do so.
Also, replace i.setType("image/*") with the real MIME type, please. You are the one supplying the content; you are the one who knows what the MIME type is.


American business leader, entrepreneur, and noted philanthropist Morton Mandel shares lessons he gleaned from co-founding and leading, along with his brothers Jack and Joe, Premier Industrial Corporation, a major industrial parts and electronic components manufacturer and distributor. Now for readers everywhere who are interested in studying leadership development, It's All About Who describes Mandel's approach to finding, recruiting and cultivating "A" players.
In his book, Mandel shares his fine-tuned set of practices to develop leaders that have proven to deliver dramatically better results. Containing sixteen core sections, "It's All About Who" covers key strategic topics from "Building a Rich, Deep, and Ethical Culture" to "Killing Yourself for Your Customer" to "Using Business Ideas in the Social Sector."
What makes Mandel unique is his selflessness in pursuing a life of purpose. Mandel has lived in two worlds: the world of profit and the world of social impact. Even as chairman and CEO of a New York Stock Exchange company for more than three decades, he spent as much as a third of his time in the social sector.
Mandel has personally founded more than a dozen non-profit organizations. His deep-seated passion is evident in the mission of his Foundation: "To invest in people with the values, ability and passion to change the world."
Morton Mandel is a self-made billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist. With his brothers, Jack and Joseph, he cofounded Premier Industrial Corporation in 1940, eventually merging it with Farnell Electronics in a $3 billion transaction. The brothers established the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, which funds numerous social leadership initiatives all over the world. Mort was named by Peter Drucker as one of three impressive CEOs alongside Jack Welch and Andy Grove. He learned how to start and build enduring institutions from the ground up. His financial success and passion allowed him to partner with non-profits of all kinds with a laser-like focus on developing professional leadership, able to truly transform people's lives. He has personally founded more than a dozen non-profit organizations. His deep-seated passion is evident in the mission of his Foundation: "To invest in people with the values, ability, and passion to change the world." Mort has fine-tuned a set of practices that have been proven to deliver dramatically better results. In his book, It's All About Who..., he shows how important it is to find, recruit, and cultivate "A" players for leadership roles. This can lead to better strategies, better execution, and greater client satisfaction. Further, he believes that personal values matter - honesty, decency, respect, and generosity are essential elements in a life worth living. John A. Byrne, the former executive editor of BusinessWeek and editor in chief of Fast Company magazine, is the author or coauthor of ten other business books, including two New York Times best sellers. With legendary General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch, he wrote Jack: Straight from the Gut, one of the most successful business books in history.


In New York City, the lives of several people intertwine over the course of a New Year's Eve.
"New Year's Eve" is directed by Garry Marshall(Pretty Woman, Nothing in Common), and stars Michelle Pfeiffer(Scarface, Married to the Mob), Zac Efron(Charlie St. Cloud, Hairspray), Ashton Kutcher(The Butterfly Effect, Killers), Robert De Niro(Raging Bull, Casino), Katherine Heigl(Knocked Up, The Ugly Truth), Hilary Swank(Million Dollar Baby, Insomnia), Josh Duhamel(Transformers, Las Vegas), and Jessica Biel(Blade Trinity, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry).
It is scheduled to be released December 9, 2011.


De Heem's still-life paintings initially followed the style of the Haarlem school, but later drew closer to the more lavish Flemish style of large-scale still-lifes. Nevertheless, certain Dutch elements cannot be overlooked. In this painting, they are particularly evident at the points where a "dialectical principle" determines the compositional structure.
A mass of fruit and flowers ranging from ripe chestnuts to blackberries, from columbine to roses, has been arranged on a stone slab. A wide variety of surfaces, each with a different effect in light, with pure or iridescent colours, is spread out before us. Yet snails are already crawling across the vine leaves, the foliage is discoloured and withering and, the ears of grain are curling, the peach has burst its skin, the citrus fruit is half peeled, the white carnation is dried and drooping over the table edge.
At the very point where the image bears an iconographic message of the transience of worldly life in the form of nature's riches, we see these things in their last bloom of beauty. Just as a ruin could represent the picturesque appeal of architecture, so too can a vine leaf riddled with snails seem picturesque in the full and final flowering of its beauty.


The International DHM movement focuses on using the healing and therapeutic properties of dance to tackle the stressors of an urban lifestyle. This festival is a retreat that is designed to heal, refresh and relax you. The festival will be held at the beautiful silvery sands of Arambol beach at the Love Temple wellness resort on February 26,2016 to February 28,2016. This festival will integrate Dance, movement and several other healing and therapeutic modalities to experience a blissful transformation of mind, body and spirit. Take a weekend to work on yourself and lead a healthier, fitter and more fulfilling lifestyle.
The festival will use Dance, Movement & Healing (DMH) and other healing modalities such as Reiki, Energy Healing, Creative (Dance) Movement Therapy, Meditation, Partner Yoga, Biodanza and a lot more to encourage the healing process. The practitioners and participants will build an environment that is conducive to healing. The methodologies are proven to help with anxiety and stress and is a healthier and natural alternative to antidepressants and medication.
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![React Native Web](/app/assets/react-native-web.png "Logo React Native Web")

# React Native for Web Starter

React Native for Web Starter aims at:
- Providing the leanest code base to bootstrap a React Native for Web project.
- Following the standard React Native project structure close so someone becoming familiar with React Native may quickly find its way in a RN4Web project, and vice-versa.
- Benefit from the React community dev-tools, such as Storybook.

## Presentation
You can find a presentation of React Native for Web and this starter here.
[![React Native for Web Starter](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eV4pZ6vv1VE/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV4pZ6vv1VE)

## Getting *quickly* started

As of today, React Native for Web, let's call it RN4Web, is still pretty recent, and could use some more documentations, along with contributions.

This repo is an attempt to make it easier for anyone to launch, experiment and publish a RN4Web App.

### Install
```
git clone https://github.com/grabcode/react-native-web-starter.git projectname
cd projectname
rm -rf .git
npm install
```

### Run
`npm run dev` - your app is accessible at `http://localhost:3000`

You can also enjoy [React Storybook](https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook) running `npm run storybook` and open `http://localhost:9001`

### Build
TODO

## Tools

React Native for Web runs in the browser, hence get out of the box full dev tools supports.

In the future, RN4Web Starter may come with some flavour such as Redux and its amazing [tool suite](https://github.com/gaearon/redux-devtools).

## About React Native for Web

[React Native for Web](https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web) is born from the brilliant mind of a member of the React Native community. Some would say it had to happen, many reasons begging for such project to get started.

React Native tends to unify iOS and Android, and soon Universal Windows developer under one banner, sort of the Wardens of the Native.

Well, following that GoT analogy, React Native for Web is the Wardens of the Web, unifying any React developer under a common set of values.

## License

React Native for Web Starter is [BSD licensed](LICENSE).


Suva – To mark International Human Rights Day today, 10 December 2014, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is partnering with government ministries in the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu, to present individuals and organisations with Human Rights Awards.
'The National Human Rights Awards initiative is aimed at rewarding and celebrating outstanding work in human rights in the Pacific region and also to send a clear message to human rights defenders that the Pacific community is grateful for, and supports, their tireless efforts to promote human rights for all,' the Deputy Director of SPC's Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT), Mark Atterton, said.
'The need to champion gender equality is pivotal to the development and realisation of human rights, and to sustainable development in the region,' said Mark Atterton.
SPC RRRT won the prestigious UNICEF Maurice Pate Award in 1998 for its pioneering work in promoting human rights education for women and children in the Pacific. Since then, SPC RRRT has been offering the Pacific Human Rights Awards to encourage the development of a human rights culture that will protect the rights and promote the well-being of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
Special recognition for advancing the rights of girls in Tonga to be free from domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Special recognition for highlighting the rights of single mothers to education and to be respected with equal opportunity.
Special recognition for highlighting the right to employment and family support in Tonga.
Special Recognition for contribution to advancing the rights of persons with disabilities in Tuvalu.
Special recognition for contribution to advancing the rights of children to education through support to pre-school building construction on the island of Nanumago, Tuvalu.
SPC RRRT works to build a culture of human rights, and assists nation states to commit to, and observe, international human rights standards. SPC RRRT is a programme under the Social Development Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and is funded by the Australian Government.


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