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So, here's the thing. I'm supporting Barack Obama, which should be a surprise to exactly none of you. But I really want to tell you why, even though you can read everyone else's why on everyone else's blogs. I want to tell you my why.
I want to be someone who surrounds myself with people who challenge and inspire me, in the hopes that I can learn to challenge and inspire others. I want to be the kind of person who accomplishes great things through vision and persistence and creativity and integrity, and I want to learn to be that kind of leader by following others who already have all those qualities.
I've never truly been excited about a candidate for any political office before, though I have been pretty consistently voting for Democrats. I voted for Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and John Kerry and Jim Webb. I liked them all well enough. I hoped they would win. I thought they'd all do a good job. Of the four, Mark Warner comes closest to exciting me, and I really do think he'll make a fine President one day, should he choose that route. But I am really, really excited about the possibilities of a country led by Barack Obama.
Throughout my life I've frequently found myself to be the youngest or least experienced member of the crowd. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome in my career so far is my age. I used to get really frustrated when I'd hear that people really thought I was great but just wished I were a few years older. Though I get down on myself an awful lot, especially lately, I know logically that I have accomplished far more in my 28 years than some others have in their lives, and I'd like to believe my best is still to come. So age and experience? Feh. They mean something, but they don't mean everything.
The leader I'll follow does not have to be the most senior in the room, either by age or experience. The leader I'll follow has to be wise and resourceful enough to look to experience where he is lacking, and to be open and willing to learn. At the very tippity top of the ladder, I believe the very best leaders know how to motivate those under them to be their best, and they surround themselves with experience where it's needed.
Barack Obama makes me feel hopeful about my own future and the future of my country in a way I haven't felt for a very long time. I truly believe that our circumstances can improve, that it's entirely possible for us to look back on these years later and say, "Those were really good years." I believe that we can do more than we thought possible, and that the right person will guide us to do exactly that. I don't feel anything of the sort when I think about a country led by John McCain. I'm not afraid or horrified at the thought, but I just think, "…oh."
In 1961, John F. Kennedy emerged from his greatest public failure to make a bold statement: that we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. People thought he was nuts. Even though he wouldn't live to see it happen, we made it happen because he said we could. He was not a perfect man by any stretch of the imagination, and he wasn't a perfect President. But he challenged and inspired us, and we're better off for it.
The people we respect and love the most through history are the ones who dream big, who take risks, who are willing to fall on their faces in pursuit of an ideal. Those are the people who make great things happen. I believe Barack Obama can be one of those people, and I want to see him try. Really, what do we have to lose?


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Pathways' Picks November 9: US Midterms, EU Gatherings, and More to Watch
In this week's roundup: Some early medtech-related outcomes and things to watch from the US midterm elections; upcoming European regulatory policy meetings targeting the MDR and IVDR; and updates from UK NICE, China NMPA and US FDA.
US Midterms Picks
Some early election observations as control of Congress remains too close to call:
[Update: The first Pick has been revised to note that Sen. Murray is expected to take the leadership post on the Appropriations Committee and Sen. Sanders is likely to be the top Democrat at HELP]
Who will head HELP? Either Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) or Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are expected to be the next chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which oversees FDA and other health legislative policy issues, depending on which party wins control of the Senate. (As of Wednesday morning, this will be decided based outcomes in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada.) Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who decisively won reelection (despite a surprisingly stiff challenge) for her sixth term in the Senate, has held the top post at HELP,. But Murray is expected to become the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee next session. And Paul will step up as Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the outgoing top Republican on HELP, retires this year. Both Sanders and Paul would direct the committee toward different, but more challenging position for FDA and HHS broadly compared to the status quo. Sanders tends to favor more substantial FDA safety oversight and government health care coverage, relative to Murray. And Paul is primed to investigate the Biden administration's handling of COVID-19 and, specifically, Anthony Fauci. The other key Senate committee for medtech is Finance, where Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), will retain leadership posts.
China Looks Ahead on AI Medtech With New Guidelines, Collaboration
House vs. Senate vs. Senate: FDA Bills Diverge
EU: How Can We Streamline MDR/IVDR? Let Us Count the Ways
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Credit Card Showdown: American Express Gold Rewards Card vs Scotibank Gold American Express Card.
I have been asked by a few people and reminded by a few to provide a comparison of two very good credit cards in Canada, the American Express Gold Rewards Card and the Scotibank Gold American Express Card. Well I have finally got around to it and spent a lot of time determining how to articulate the comparison of the two cards without writing a novel. I am writing this piece with the intent that the reader has at least some knowledge of how travel rewards work and how credit card reward programs work. You don't have to be an expert but if you are new to the travel rewards game some of this may not make sense to you.
In the straight line comparison below the Scotiabank Amex looks to be better but the American Express Gold Card has its annual fee waived in the first year, so technically speaking, the Amex Gold Rewards Card saves you money on annual fees in the first year. Once in the second year the cards equal out seeing that the Scotiabank Amex's sign up bonus is worth $50 more than the Gold Rewards Card. However if you add in one supplementary card for either card the cost of ownership nod goes to the Gold Rewards Card since the first card is free but is eroded if you add more than one.
Seeing as the American Express Gold Rewards Card is a charge card where the balance needs to be paid off every month, the interest rate is a lot higher if you miss paying your full balance. The Scotiabank card it the winner here if you carry a balance.
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The Scotiabank American Express comes out on top once again as this category also earns 4x points versus the GRC's 1 point per dollar.
In this category, only the American Express Gold Rewards Card offers a bonus, 2x points on all travel purchases worldwide (not just within Canada like all the other category bonuses from both cards) while the Scotiabank American Express Gold Card only earns 1 points per dollar.
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With either card, you need an exit strategy: What happens when you're done with the card after a year or two.
Most users will have earned some oddball number of points on your spending. What do you do if you have, say, 28,647 points on either card, and you're ready to cancel the card?
Membership Rewards points seem more portable to me. I think I'd rather be carrying the Amex Gold Rewards Card at that point.
Even though this post is from just over two years ago, it proved very helpful. I ended up applying for the Amex Gold Rewards card due to the points exchange option (my husband and I are just shy of Aeroplan miles for a free trip for two to Japan so the signup bonus of 25,000 points will get us there). We already have the BMO World Elite MC which offers excellent insurance benefits so the Scotiabank offerings weren't a consideration (plus we get four free lounge passes a year through BMO World Elite). Thanks for a great site which offers comprehensive comparisons relevant to the Canadian market.
Thank you for visiting the site! Glad to hear you will now have enough miles to get to Japan!


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Interjectional Exercises, Rowland Hill. Commissioned for Manifest Arts Festival.Image: John Lynch
Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill is an artist based in Manchester. She was awarded the 2017 Clare Winsten Memorial Award from The Slade, where she recently graduated with a Masters in Fine Art. In the past year she has received funding from a-n to learn British Sign Language and exhibited / performed at Raven Row, and The Bomb Factory , London; Organon, Denmark; The Holden Gallery, Manchester; and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LA.
Her work explores how power operates on the body through gestural and choreographic regimes. Outcomes are playful, project dependent and take hybrid forms across installation, live performance, video, audio, and text.
Rowland's Jerwood Bursary will support a period of research and professional consultancy towards the making of an artist book (print and digital), which is an adaptation of a pre-existing solo performance entitled Interjectional Exercises which incorporates BSL, English and historical phonetic systems.
rowland-hill.com


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Q: Set fill color in placemark from KML file in Android I want set fill color to placemark in GoogleMap, But it does not work. I use KML from fill polygons in google map/earth
and my result is:
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My code is:
KmlLayer kmlLayer = new KmlLayer(googleMap,R.raw.test,getActivity().getApplication());
kmlLayer.addLayerToMap();

KML file is:
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A: Did you go through this list of supported elements? https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlelementsinmaps
I see that you are using some unsupported elements (e.g. altitudeMode). In theory it is supposed to fail silently if you do that, but it seems that it may affect overall result (see the answer to this issue).
I also think that's why the answer from @JeremyA1 may not work, since StyleMap is also not supported.
In any case, please, let us know how you solved it, as it would be very helpful.

A: First you need the  tag which you're missing. Try this updated code
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A: Remove colorMode,fill and outline from this code :
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Home social Narendra Modi Biography
Narendra Modi Biography
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Narendra Damodardas Modi – The name has a beat to it. Born on 17th September 1950 to parents Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi at Vadnagar, Modi was a person who believed in serving the nation with a right purpose.
His Earlier Days:
Though people mock him many times as a tea-seller, this lad at the age of eight joined RSS (Rashtriya Swayamseva Sangha) beginning his long association with the organization. After his duties in The RSS, the organization assigned him to the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in the year 1985 after the emergency was imposed in the country, due to which he was forced to go into hiding.
He held several positions in the party, from a party man to an activist to a staunch worker because of which he was promoted to the rank of General Secretary of the party in 2001.
Rise as Chief Minister of Gujarat:
Due to Keshubhai Patel the then Chief Minister of Gujarat coming under the scanner for a poor public image and worsening health conditions, Modi was appointed as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in the following year. A Chief Minister career spanning nearly 13 long years Modi was not even defeated once by the opposition.
Though his administrative capabilities have come under the scanner following the Gujarat riots in 2002, the love of people on him never altered as he was unanimously elected for the next 3 elections. Gujarat improved in many dimensions under the administration of Narendra Modi.
The Prime Minister of India:
After losing to Congress badly in the 2009 Loksabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party desperately needed a face to showcase as the Next Prime Minister of the country. Due to the factor of incumbency, the Congress party had already fallen behind but due to lack of a prominent face in the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress still had its hold in the upcoming elections.
Due to his governance in Gujarat, Narendra Modi had already become a household name and he was also the longest-serving chief minister for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the State. These factors led the BJP to escalate Narendra Modi as a prominent face for the Prime Minister in the upcoming elections. True to their instincts the people of India especially the youth impressed by his abilities elected the Bharatiya Janata Party with a record number of seats decimating the Congress Party totally.
The media back then called it the "NAMO Wave" some people even referring to it the tsunami. He was elected as the Prime Minister and in history, it was the first time that a prime minister bowed down towards his office before taking charge of it.
Achievements under His Tenure:
The Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Digital India, Make in India, LPG Subsidy, Bhim UPI, Jan Dhan Account. Goods and Service Tax are some of the major achievements in his tenure. Surgical Strike on Pakistan showed the other nations what the Indian soldiers are capable of doing. Security of the Nation is so mesmerizing that not even a single blast has happened anywhere in these 5 years.
The word corruption is out of search among his cabinet of ministers. His strategy of diplomacy and administration is worth praising. Though some of his works have come under the radar of being a total disappointment even the Great Alexander had failed sometimes.
People may have wrong opinions on Goods and Service Tax as well as Demonetization, but today the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India has increased to a very good level. The Economic growth of the country is constantly improving. Today Indian Railways have become such a good network that just by a tweet the action will be taken by officials in minutes.
Today the trains in Railways are maintained so neat and tidy that it seems like every day a new train is arriving. People still cry a lot about the Statue of Unity, but less do these people know that because of this monumental structure many people have got employment in the nearby areas as shop workers and also as maintenance workers for this place.
Why He Is Still The Best In The Business:
When America has a Statue of Liberty why cannot we have a Statue of Unity dedicated to a person because of whom we are able to travel to various parts of India without any troubles? We Indians are such diplomats that we celebrate the achievements of other countries, but when it comes to our country we criticize it.
Show me a news channel whichever criticized Obama in America, But I will show you many of them who criticize Narendra Modi in India. This is a clear cut example of Right to Speech being utilized in a bad way. Show me any Prime Minister before who celebrated Diwali with the soldiers in the border.
Yes, Modi has some negatives as no man is perfect but each and every Indian knows that he is still the hope for this country. Give me a single valid reason why are all the parties coming together to defeat a single person.
Is it because Modi is corrupt? Or is it to serve the Nation? If Modi is corrupt then why didn't they come together in 2014? If it is about serving the nation then why couldn't they join the hands 10 years ago? Something is fishy right? Why each and every person in India is speaking only about Modi? Didn't any other politician exist before him? Show me a PM who speaks to the nation once in a month?
Show me a PM who speaks to students and motivates them during their exams? If someone calls this a publicity stunt to gain votes then why didn't they try it before? Where they scared that people will get motivated and do not vote them? Yes, Modi does a lot of publicity. But if he doesn't let his works known to the people then how will they even know?
Nothing comes free of cost and even Modi knows it. Is there any leader in this country who is mature enough to handle the whole heat of the country? Or do you people think that a bunch of people coming together will do something good for this country? Four years they will be quarreling within themselves for cabinet posts and last year they will again showcase some fake promises.
It is tough to be Narendra Modi and trust me the nation still believes this man will take the country forward. I am not a staunch follower of Modi, but I do trust that he has the capabilities which others lack. And he definitely deserves another chance because Even Rome was not built in a single day.
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CHAPTER IX. CUDGELS TO THE FRONT.
Van Curter did not intend to give up without a struggle. The attempt to take the officers prisoners was made at the instigation of Captain Van Zandt, who argued that they were to the garrison at Windsor what the head is to the body, and that the head once off the body is useless. How poorly they succeeded has been seen. Still at their posts within the fort, Holmes knew that they were gathering to attack him. He passed the word to the men to fight steadily.
Van Curter's men advanced from four sides, bearing ladders hastily constructed, with which to scale the walls. Even now Holmes did not like to use his rifles on them, and called on them to stay. They only answered by yells of defiance, and quickened their pace. Holmes reluctantly gave the order to fire.
The balls whistled about the ears of the Dutch. Several of them were wounded, but none killed. The injured were hurried to the rear, and the rest planted their ladders and begun the ascent. Holmes, who did not like to kill any of them, ordered his men to throw down the ladders as fast as they were placed. As there were generally two or three men on each ladder when they fell, bruises and broken ribs resulted.
"Cudgels to the front!" cried out a laughing voice at this juncture.
The men turned. Boston Bainbridge was just coming out of the cabin, carrying an armful of stout oak cudgels, which he had been smoothing so as to fit the hand. These he distributed to the men, who received them with lusty cheers.
The gates were flung open with a will, and the eighteen men of the garrison found themselves opposed by about twenty-five Dutchmen, the rest having been placed hors de combat in various ways. But, they were not the men to yield tamely, and catching up clubs and stones, they met the sortié bravely. Foremost among the party from the stockade, Boston Bainbridge came—not the Boston who sold his wares in Good Hope, but an active forester, eager for a fray. Carl Anselm, with his bruised and distorted face, looking fiendlike under the glare of the fires, rushed at him with a knife in his hand. But he went down at once like an ox under the ax of the butcher. The Dutch tried in vain to stand up before the men of Windsor. They were driven from the field, and made their way back to camp, dragging their wounded with them.
Next day they went back to Good Hope. They wanted to be as far as possible from the long-armed men of Windsor. With curses both loud and deep, Van Curter led his men home, closed his gates, and sat down to think.
"Who is Boston Bainbridge?" he asked of Captain Van Zandt.
"The devil himself," replied that worthy.
Van Curter pointed to the door of the next room. The young man rose, pushed open the door, and entered. Theresa sat at a table, engaged in some household duty. She looked up with an odd sort of smile as he entered.
"Have you no welcome for me, Theresa?" he asked, in a tone of passionate entreaty.
"When did I become so hateful to you?" he asked, in a low tone.
"This was decided some time since," she returned, quietly gathering up some things from the table, and placing them in a box at her side.
The door closed behind him, and Theresa was alone. Once rid of his presence, and the firmness which had sustained her through the interview gave way; she dropped her head upon the table, and gave way to a flood of tears.
The night came, dark and gloomy, and Theresa retired early. The men of Good Hope, tired by their fruitless expedition, sunk into repose. There was no rain, though the clouds covered the whole face of the sky. Theresa could not sleep; she rose, threw on a light wrapper, and sat at the latticed casement, the place where Willie had so often come.
A dark figure rose outside the window, and a scream rose to her lips, which was hushed by a low "hist" from the stranger. She threw open the casement with care. It was Willie.
With these words he was gone, and she sat in breathless expectation. An hour dragged by, when, all at once, there rose upon the still night air the shouts of men in combat. The Windsor men had turned the tables and attacked Good Hope!
Cheers and execrations mingled upon the sultry air. Dark forms flitted to and fro in the gloom. The Windsor men had followed close upon the trail of the men of Good Hope, and attacked them at the hour when the senses of all but the guards were locked in slumber. Indeed, some of the men yet lingered in the works before the assault came.
In a very short space the outer work was won, and the Dutch driven into the houses within the works. These they barricaded, and prepared to make a vigorous resistance.
At the first alarm, Van Zandt and Van Curter were upon their feet and seized their weapons. In the melée outside, they were separated in some way, and were driven into different houses. The one in which the captain took refuge was that of the commandant. Carl was with him.


Aviva Helena Neff and Caroline Hill each recieved a 2018 Sallie Bingham Grant to apply to their directing projects, which were part of a single evening and a larger celebration in Columbus, Ohio of the Harlem Renaissance. Here is Part 1 of Aviva's account of the experience!
The mountainous task of casting was the first obstacle for Caroline, my co-director and me to summit. It is always daunting to work with the shifting schedules of college students in order to find a free evening or two that can be spent in a windowless rehearsal space in the basement of a forty-year old building. Caroline and I sent emails to various departments across the Ohio State University in the hopes of attracting a wide pool of interested people; some originating from theatre backgrounds, others from gender studies, history, or African-American studies.
After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, we started hearing from hopeful actors. Heaps of emails, texts, and word-of-mouth scheduling commenced, and as luck would have it, the "right" person came to audition for each part. During our auditions, we asked actors to read a little bit from each script, and after evaluating how they worked with the difficult dialect in a cold reading, we asked them a series of questions regarding the topic of the plays, the characters, and the difficult emotional labor of mounting a production. Because A Sunday Morning in the South, confronts the topic of lynching, it was important to me that each of our actors understood the heavy historical context as well as how the play relates to contemporary politics. As an educator and historian, I love working with actors who think beyond learning lines and finding their light, and about the socio-political contexts of the play and its author.
It took very little bargaining or fussing with our cast lists before finding the perfect fit for each character—in short, it was a quick and blessed process. Despite rarely having the full cast at rehearsals, I still managed to squeeze in time to do character work alongside the daunting task of practicing a Southern dialect. The actors dove into the work enthusiastically, finding time to laugh, practice, and most importantly PLAY! One of the most memorable rehearsals involved using gesture to communicate character secrets, fears, and alliances. My group of "nonactors" took risks on par with professional performers.
There is no such thing as a "long enough" rehearsal process, but this was undoubtedly one of the most fun and invigorating experiences I have ever had as a director. In the hours we spent in our little basement studio, I witnessed a wonderful transformation in the people we cast, from a group of strangers, to a family.


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Disease and everyday life in Ancient Egypt: the contribution of modern science
A lunchtime lecture by Professor Rosalie David OBE, Director of the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester
In earlier centuries the unwrapping of a mummy was usually a social event, producing very little scientific evidence that could contribute to knowledge of one of the world's earliest civilisations.
Today however, scientific and biomedical techniques are used to examine mummies and provide new insight into disease, diet, medical treatments and religious customs in ancient Egypt.
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Last season, South Dakota State came within a victory of playing for its first-ever national championship in football. So it makes perfect sense that the Jackrabbits would be just off the top spot of the 2018 FCS pre-season poll.
SDSU is third in the STATS FCS pre-season rankings.
The Jackrabbits 11-3 mark last season was the best in school history and ended in a semifinal loss at James Madison. The Dukes, who went on to lose the FCS title game to North Dakota State are second to the Bison to start the season.
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This last Thursday night was a night of personal growth. Some of you know that I've plagued myself with fear and anxiety over stage performance for a couple decades.
There's been this deep longing to be able to share what I do without fear. To just connect with people over experiences. To show someone without hope that there is some. Even just a deep longing to be myself without restraint. I have had and do have many mountains to face but this was a big one.
While things have gotten better over the years there were days I'd tank because I was just uncontrollably tense. My thoughts would get out of hand. My voice would wear out quickly because I couldn't relax.
As a vocalist this is terrible… Everything shows up in our voice. Fatigue, sickness, nerves, insecurity… I'd literally get sick from the days of anxiety I had leading up to a show. My trust in my ability to deliver was diminishing and that also increased anxiety.
This week I honed my thoughts and kept them positive. I took them captive. I actually have had to practice what I preach in a real way.
I built myself up. I told myself the truth. I chose peace. I took a zillion deep breaths. I called a group of friends to pray for me. I kept Serenity Essential Oil blend handy and often applied it to the back of my neck. (This has a direct effect on the vocal cords.) For five days leading up to the show I was really intentional.
Because last night I started my first song in peace instead of turmoil. I played for fun instead of pushing through angst. This was literally the first time in my life I have EVER done that. This opens up a world to me that I often doubted I could enter. It's hope.
What a great moment! I'm so grateful.
I'd often tell anyone, literally anyone, to go after who they are and live THAT… all the way. I'd say, love, what you do. Do what you love. Yet I struggled to do just that. So instead of struggling from bed… I struggled in the climb. I kept moving forward.
What is it that you need to face? What mountain do you need to climb? What is holding you back? There's no greater joy than just being who you are without restraint. Following after your true design. Finding fulfillment in the moments when your life aligns with who you are on the inside.
I know the universe will rise up and say "prove it." So I'll be challenged to do it again… but now I have ammo. Armed and Ready.
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"For fourteen years (1860 to 1875) Madame Blavatsky was an avowed Spiritualist, controlled by a spirit called 'John King' . . . She attended many séances, &c."With the exception that I attended many séances,–– but this would hardly prove any one to be a Spiritualist—all these assertions are entirely false. I say the word and underline it, for the facts in them are distorted, and made to fit a preconceived and very erroneous notion, started first by the Spiritualists, whose interest it is to advocate "spirits" pure and simple, and to kill—if they can, which is rather doubtful—belief in the wisdom, if not in the very existence, of our revered masters.
by, it is I who control the so-called spirits, he is yet made to say by Mr. Lillie, who refers the public to Colonel Olcott's book, that it is I who was controlled! Is this a misstatement and a misquotation, I ask, or is it not?
Again, it is stated by Mr. Lillie that I conversed with this "spirit" (John King) during fourteen years, "constantly, in India and elsewhere." To begin with, I here assert that I had never heard the name of "John King" before 1873. True it is, I had told Colonel Olcott and many others that the form of a man, with a dark pale face, black beard, and white flowing garments and fettah, that some of them had met about the house and my rooms, was that of a "John King." I had given him that name for reasons that will be fully explained very soon, and I laughed heartily at the easy way the astral body of a living man could be mistaken for, and accepted as, a spirit. And I had told them that I had known that "John King" since 1860; for it was the form of an Eastern adept, who has since gone for his final initiation, passing through and visiting us in his living body on his way, at Bombay. Whether Messrs. Lillie and Co. believe the statement or not, I care very little, as Colonel Olcott and other friends know it now to be the true one. I have known and conversed with many a "John King" in my life—a generic name for more than one spook—but thank heaven, I was never yet "controlled" by one! My mediumship has been crushed out of me a quarter of a century or more; and I defy loudly all the "spirits" of the Kama-loka to approach—let alone to control me now. Surely it is Mr. Arthur Lillie who must be "controlled" by someone to make untruthful statements, which can be so easily refuted as this one.
to cross-examine me? But since he chooses to take such liberties with my name, I will tell him plainly that he himself knows nothing, not only of initiations and Tibet, but even of exoteric—let alone esoteric—Buddhism. What he pretends to know about Lamaism he has picked up from the hazy information of travellers, who, having forced themselves into the borderland of Tibet, pretend on that account to know all that is within the country closed for centuries to the average traveller. Even Csoma de Körös knew very little of the real gelukpas and Esoteric Lamaism, except what he was permitted to know; for he never went beyond Zanskar, and the lamasery of Phag-dal—erroneously spelt by those who pretend to know all about Tibet, Pugdal, which is incorrect, just because there are no meaningless names in Tibet, as Mr. Lillie has been taught to say. And I will tell him also that I have lived at different periods in Little Tibet as in Great Tibet, and that these combined periods form more than seven years. Yet, I have never stated either verbally or over my signature that I had passed seven consecutive years in a convent. What I have said, and repeat now, is, that I have stopped in Lamaistic convents; that I have visited Tzi-gadze, the Tashi-Lhünpo territory and its neighbourhood, and that I have been further in, and in such places of Tibet as have never been visited by any other European, and that he can ever hope to visit.
left the train half way, was met by friends with a conveyance, and passed with them into the territory of Sikkim, where I found my Master and Mahatma Koot Hoomi. Thence five miles across the old borderland of Tibet.
no Mahatma Koot Hoomi at all, the idea alone is absurd. He will have to dispose, before he does anything more, of a certain lady in Russia, whose truthfulness and impartiality no one who knows her would ever presume to question, who received a letter from that Master so far back as 1870.* Perchance, a forgery, also? As to my having been in Tibet, at Mahatma Koot Hoomi's house, I have better proof in store––when I believe it needed—than Mr. Lillie's rancorous ingenuity will ever be able to make away with.
If the teachings of Mr. Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism are considered atheistic, then I am an atheist too. And yet, I would not deny what I wrote in Isis as quoted by Mr.
This passage, translated from the original French letter, can be found in the Report of the Result of an Investigation into the Charges against Madame Blavatsky, p. 94, a Document published in 1885 by the General Council of The Theosophical Society, at Adyar.
15 cm. x 121/2 cm., and the writing of both envelope and slip appears to be in ink.
"Les nobles parents de Mad. H. Blavatsky n'ont aucune cause de se désoler. Leur fille et nièce n'a point quitté ce monde. Elle vit et désire faire savoir à ceux qu'elle aime, qu'elle se porte bien et se sent fort heureuse dans la retraite lointaine et inconnue qu'elle s'est choisie. Elle a été bien malade, mais, ne l'est plus: car grâce à la protection du Seigneur Sang-gyas elle a trouvé des amis dévoués qui en prennent soin physiquement et spirituellement. Que les dames de sa maison se tranquillisent donc. Avant que 18 lunes nouvelles se lèvent—elle sera revenue dans sa famille.
"The noble relatives of Mad. H. Blavatsky have no cause whatsoever for grief. Their daughter and niece has not left this world at all. She is living and desires to make known to those whom she loves that she is well and feels very happy in the distant and unknown retreat she has selected for herself. She has been very ill, but is so no longer; for owing to the protection of the Lord Sanggyas she has found devoted friends who take care of her physically and spiritually. Let the ladies of her house, therefore, remain calm. Before 18 new moons shall have risen––she will have returned to her family.
Row's" solitary head then in dozens of heads of "Orientalists" about London, we know of. The same with regard to the Master's name. If Mr. Lillie tells us that "Koot Hoomi" is not a Tibetan name, we answer that we never claimed it to be one. Every one knows that the Master is a Puñjabi whose family was settled for years in Kashmir. But if he tells us that an "expert at the British Museum ransacked the Tibetan dictionary" for the words "Koot" and "Hoomi," and found no such words, then I say, "buy a better dictionary" or "replace the expert by a more expert one." Let Mr. Lillie try the glossaries of the Moravian Brothers, and their alphabets. I am afraid he is ruining terribly his reputation as an Orientalist. Indeed, before this controversy is settled, he may leave in it the last shreds of his supposed Oriental learning.
following: "Received at Odessa November 7, about Lelin'ka....probably from Tibet—November 11, 1870. Nadyezhda F." The blank in the above indicates an undecipherable word; Lelin'ka is the Russian diminutive of Yelena (Russian equivalent for Helen). The gaps which are evident in Miss de Fadeyeff's handwriting are due to the fact that the envelope has been partly eaten by the destructive insects common to tropical countries, as is explained! by C. Jinarâjadâsa. Lord Sang-gyas (also Sang-gyäs) is the Tibetan title for the Lord Buddha.
there, or found myself there by accident, are questions that pertain to my private life, with which, it appears to me, Mr. Lillie has no concern. But this is on a par with his, other ways of dealing with his opponents.
General Kanzler. The French had 3,000 under General Failly, with excellent artillery. Garibaldi was wounded and taken prisoner during the retreat. He lost some 600 men. In 1877 a monument was erected on the battlefield in memory of the Garibaldian dead.
collect every vile rumour and idle gossip about me, its editor, and allying himself with some of our enemies he sailed out with his very weak pamphlet, in which he unveiled really no one but himself. Why does he not show, to begin with, that his reviewer was wrong? Why does he not, by contradicting our statements, firmly establish his own authority as an Orientalist; showing, first of all, that he is a genuine scholar, who knows the subject he is talking about, before he allows himself to deny and contradict other people's statements in matters which he knows still less about? He does nothing of the kind, however; not a word, not a mention of the scourging criticism that he is unable to refute. Instead of that, we find the offended author trying to throw ridicule on his reviewers, so as to lessen probably the value of what they have to say of his own book. This is a clever, very clever strategy. Whether it is an honourable one remains, withal, an open question.
if this volume in turn were examined with the care almost undeservedly devoted to the first, and if it were referred to the authority of such real Oriental scholars and Sanskritists as Mr. R. T. H. Griffith, for instance, I think it would be found that the aggregate blundering of the two books put together might excite even as much amusement as the singular complacency with which the author betrays himself to the public.


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1 It was before Passover, and Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and to return to the Father. He had always loved his followers in this world, and he loved them to the very end.
n 13.2 Iscariot: See the note at 6.71.
8 "You will never wash my feet!" Peter replied.
12 After Jesus had washed his disciples' feet and had put his outer garment back on, he sat down again.
o 13.12 sat down again: On special occasions the Jewish people followed the Greek and Roman custom of lying down on their left side and leaning on their left elbow, while eating with their right hand.
Do you understand what I have done? 13 You call me your teacher and Lord, and you should, because that is who I am. 14 And if your Lord and teacher has washed your feet, you should do the same for each other. 15 I have set the example, and you should do for each other exactly what I have done for you. 16 I tell you for certain that servants are not greater than their master, and messengers are not greater than the one who sent them.
13.16 Mt 10.24; Lk 6.40; Jn 15.20.
17 You know these things, and God will bless you, if you do them.
19 I am telling you this before it all happens. Then when it does happen, you will believe who I am.
p 13.19 I am: See the note at 8.24.
20 I tell you for certain that anyone who welcomes my messengers also welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
13.20 Mt 10.40; Mk 9.37; Lk 9.48; 10.16.
21 After Jesus had said these things, he was deeply troubled and told his disciples, "I tell you for certain that one of you will betray me." 22 They were confused about what he meant. And they just stared at each other.
Then Jesus dipped the bread and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
q 13.26 Iscariot: See the note at 6.71.
27 Right then Satan took control of Judas.
Jesus said, "Judas, go quickly and do what you have to do." 28 No one at the meal understood what Jesus meant. 29 But because Judas was in charge of the money, some of them thought that Jesus had told him to buy something they needed for the festival. Others thought that Jesus had told him to give some money to the poor. 30 Judas took the piece of bread and went out.
Now the Son of Man will be given glory, and he will bring glory to God. 32 Then, after God is given glory because of him, God will bring glory to him, and God will do it very soon.
34 But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you.
35 If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples.
1 Jesus said to his disciples, "Don't be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me.
6 "I am the way, the truth, and the life!" Jesus answered. "Without me, no one can go to the Father.
Philip, I have been with you for a long time. Don't you know who I am? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. How can you ask me to show you the Father? 10 Don't you believe that I am one with the Father and that the Father is one with me? What I say isn't said on my own. The Father who lives in me does these things.
you and always be with you. 17 The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you.
18 I won't leave you like orphans. I will come back to you. 19 In a little while the people of this world won't be able to see me, but you will see me. And because I live, you will live. 20 Then you will know that I am one with the Father. You will know that you are one with me, and I am one with you. 21 If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.
t 14.22 Iscariot: See the note at 6.71.
If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them. 24 But anyone who doesn't love me, won't obey me. What they have heard me say doesn't really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.
u 14.26 help: See the note at 14.16.
you, because the Father will send the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everything and will remind you of what I said while I was with you.
27 I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn't like the peace that this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.
28 You have already heard me say that I am going and that I will also come back to you. If you really love me, you should be glad that I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.
29 I am telling you this before I leave, so that when it does happen, you will have faith in me. 30 I cannot speak with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. But he has no power over me. 31 I obey my Father, so that everyone in the world might know that I love him.
It is time for us to go now.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of what I have said to you.
4 Stay joined to me, and I will stay joined to you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me. 5 I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I stay joined to you, then you will produce lots of fruit. But you cannot do anything without me. 6 If you don't stay joined to me, you will be thrown away. You will be like dry branches that are gathered up and burned in a fire.
7 Stay joined to me and let my teachings become part of you. Then you can pray for whatever you want, and your prayer will be answered. 8 When you become fruitful disciples of mine, my Father will be honored. 9 I have loved you, just as my Father has loved me. So remain faithful to my love for you. 10 If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him.
11 I have told you this to make you as completely happy as I am. 12 Now I tell you to love each other, as I have loved you.
15.12 Jn 13.34; 15.17; 1Jn 3.23; 2Jn 5.
13 The greatest way to show love for friends is to die for them. 14 And you are my friends, if you obey me. 15 Servants don't know what their master is doing, and so I don't speak to you as my servants. I speak to you as my friends, and I have told you everything that my Father has told me.
16 You did not choose me. I chose you and sent you out to produce fruit, the kind of fruit that will last. Then my Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name.
17 So I command you to love each other.
w 15.18 world: See the note at 12.31.
hate you, just remember that they hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, its people would love you. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you to leave the world behind, and that is why its people hate you. 20 Remember how I told you that servants are not greater than their master. So if people mistreat me, they will mistreat you. If they do what I say, they will do what you say.
15.20 Mt 10.24; Lk 6.40; Jn 13.16.
21 People will do to you exactly what they did to me. They will do it because you belong to me, and they don't know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
x 15.26; 16.7 help: See the note at 14.16.
you and will tell you about me. 27 Then you will also tell others about me, because you have been with me from the beginning.
1 I am telling you this to keep you from being afraid. 2 You will be chased out of the Jewish meeting places. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favor. 3 They will do these things because they don't know either the Father or me. 4 I am saying this to you now, so that when the time comes, you will remember what I have said.
you until I leave. But after I am gone, I will send the Spirit to you.
8 The Spirit will come and show the people of this world the truth about sin and God's justice and the judgment. 9 The Spirit will show them that they are wrong about sin, because they didn't have faith in me. 10 They are wrong about God's justice, because I am going to the Father, and you won't see me again. 11 And they are wrong about the judgment, because God has already judged the ruler of this world.
12 I have much more to say to you, but right now it would be more than you could understand. 13 The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know what is going to happen.
14 The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and telling it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I have said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you.
You are wondering what I meant when I said that for a little while you won't see me, but after a while you will see me. 20 I tell you for certain that you will cry and be sad, but the world will be happy. You will be sad, but later you will be happy.
21 When a woman is about to give birth, she is in great pain. But after it is all over, she forgets the pain and is happy, because she has brought a child into the world. 22 You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel. 23 When that time comes, you won't have to ask me about anything. I tell you for certain that the Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name. 24 You have not asked for anything in this way before, but now you must ask in my name.
Then it will be given to you, so that you will be completely happy.
and I won't have to ask him for you. 27 God the Father loves you because you love me, and you believe that I have come from him. 28 I came from the Father into the world, but I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.
Do you really believe me? 32 The time will come and is already here when all of you will be scattered. Each of you will go back home and leave me by myself. But the Father will be with me, and I won't be alone. 33 I have told you this, so that you might have peace in your hearts because of me. While you are in the world, you will have to suffer. But cheer up! I have defeated the world.
a 16.33; 17.9 world: See the note at 12.31.
Father, the time has come for you to bring glory to your Son, in order that he may bring glory to you. 2 And you gave him power over all people, so that he would give eternal life to everyone you give him. 3 Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.
4 I have brought glory to you here on earth by doing everything you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, give me back the glory that I had with you before the world was created.
6 You have given me some followers from this world, and I have shown them what you are like. They were yours, but you gave them to me, and they have obeyed you. 7 They know that you gave me everything I have. 8 I told my followers what you told me, and they accepted it. They know that I came from you, and they believe that you are the one who sent me. 9 I am praying for them, but not for those who belong to this world.
My followers belong to you, and I am praying for them. 10 All that I have is yours, and all that you have is mine, and they will bring glory to me.
17.12 Ps 41.9; Jn 13.18.
13 I am on my way to you. But I say these things while I am still in the world, so that my followers will have the same complete joy that I do. 14 I have told them your message. But the people of this world hate them, because they don't belong to this world, just as I don't.
15 Father, I don't ask you to take my followers out of the world, but keep them safe from the evil one. 16 They don't belong to this world, and neither do I. 17 Your word is the truth. So let this truth make them completely yours. 18 I am sending them into the world, just as you sent me. 19 I have given myself completely for their sake, so that they may belong completely to the truth.
20 I am not praying just for these followers. I am also praying for everyone else who will have faith because of what my followers will say about me. 21 I want all of them to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me.
22 I have honored my followers in the same way that you honored me, in order that they may be one with each other, just as we are one. 23 I am one with them, and you are one with me, so that they may become completely one. Then this world's people will know that you sent me. They will know that you love my followers as much as you love me.
24 Father, I want everyone you have given me to be with me, wherever I am. Then they will see the glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the world was created. 25 Good Father, the people of this world don't know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me. 26 I told them what you are like, and I will tell them even more. Then the love that you have for me will become part of them, and I will be one with them.