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Hoi An launches an audio guide system to serve tourists
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VOV.VN - Audio guide systems will be installed across the ancient town of Hoi Anat major tourist destinations such as the Cau Pagoda, the Museum of Trade Ceramics, the Sa Huynh Culture Museum and Hoi An Museum in order to improve the quality of the sites for tourists.
The launch is part of a range of activities held to mark the 19th anniversary of UNESCO's recognition of Hoi An's ancient town as a world cultural heritage site and Vietnam's Heritage Day (November 23).
Pham Phu Ngoc, a vice-director of the Hoi An Center for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation, said the launch of the audio guide system at sites across Hoi An will allow visitors to benefit.
Visitors ranging from researchers, local and foreign visitors will be able to gain better insights into the history and culture of Hoi An, as well as discovering the land and people through objects and stories related to the exhibited objects.
The audio guide system will be available in six languages including Vietnamese, English, French, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
This is the first time Hoi An has applied technology as a way of introducing its cultural characteristics and history.
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Q: Gradle sync error in Android Studio I can run other gradle based projects in android studio, but this particular app ( https://github.com/google/iosched ) does not import correctly in Android Studio. I have cloned it from github, and when I import it into android studio using its build.gradle file, the gradle sync error blocks it from running.
"Could not find any version that matches com.google.androis.gms:play-service:3+"
Is there any specific version of gradle needed to run this app in androis studio? I currently have gradle v1.9 installed on my computer.
Please suggest how to get the required gradle fix.

A: There are typo error in android not androis . Also services not service
com.google.androis.gms:play-service:3+

Change it to
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:3+'

You can also use the latest version
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:4.3.23'

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Life Sized Puppet From Tony Awarding Winning Play Makes One-Night Appearance New Cumberland, PA –Meet Joey, star of the "landmark theater event" War Horse on Friday, Oct. 18th. Joey, the life-sized horse puppet who created a sensation on Broadway in War Horse , will make his first appearance in Central Pennsylvania at the 68th Annual Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Joey will appear one night only during the popular ten-day horse show, which will be held October 10th to 19th at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, PA.


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The SecuritySpy network video surveillance software application, developed by Ben Software, is designed to provide network video monitoring and recording software for IP network cameras and video servers from over 35 different network surveillance device manufacturers. In a primarily Windows based industry, the SecuritySpy software provides network video surveillance application support to users of Macintosh based computer systems.
Established in 2000, Ben Software was founded by Ben Bird with the sole purpose of providing high quality, video related software applications for Macintosh computer systems. Ben Software first developed the BTV video capture software before moving on to develop the SecuritySpy network video surveillance software application in 2004. Ben Software is based out of London, UK and provides Macintosh based software applications worldwide.


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One of the new shapes that my sister Joann came up with is big round paper beads 14-16mm in size. One bead is a total of 9 magazine pages spread open and tightly rolled by hand. Even though it's made out of paper the beads feels substantial and weighty. I wish I could show you all the different colors, they truly look like marbles with swirls of different colors.
How do you cut such big pieces of paper? I use heavier paper for the chunky beads, but I don't alway have a lot of it I'd like to glue what I have, but I have problems cutting it.


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Sainsbury's claims to be world's biggest Fairtrade retailer
By Jennifer Creevy2010-02-15T09:30:00+00:00
Sainsbury's has claimed it has become the world's biggest retailer of Fairtrade products after hitting sales of £218m in the past year.
The grocer – which already sells 800 Fairtrade products – will add further ranges this week ahead of Fairtrade Fortnight. It said almost one in every four pounds spent on Fairtrade in the UK is spent at a Sainsbury's store.
Its bananas, own-brand coffee and tea are all Fairtrade. Sainsbury's hopes that its Fairtrade products, along with its RSPCA-approved meats, will help create a "point of difference" among the competition.
Sainsbury's customer director, Gwyn Burr, said: "As the world's largest Fairtrade retailer, and a supporter since it was launched 15 years ago, we are extremely proud of our progress. Despite the current focus on price and great value, shoppers clearly want to know that producers are getting a fair deal too. We believe that Fairtrade is a great way to provide customers with the best of both worlds - ethically sourced products at affordable prices."
Burr added: "We sell over 650 million bananas a year, or 1,200 a minute, which means a total Fairtrade premium to banana suppliers of £3.9m ($6.16m) per year benefiting small farmers, farm workers and farming communities. As we add to the number of Fairtrade products we stock, we continue to make an increased impact on suppliers from poorer countries."
Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, said: "Sainsbury's sells more Fairtrade products than any other retailer in the world and this commitment is helping make Fairtrade part of the nation's everyday shopping habits. They have shown inspirational leadership in the UK and right across Europe with the conversions of their own label bananas, ground and roast coffee, own-label tea, and own label sugar to Fairtrade."
Clothing is also a major feature of Sainsbury's Fairtrade offer, and all its mens and womens standard crew neck t-shirts - the best selling lines in the Tu range - have been converted to Fairtrade cotton, selling on average 250 t-shirts an hour. In addition, 90 tonnes of Fairtrade cotton has gone into this year's Sport Relief t-shirts, socks and wristbands available at Sainsbury's.
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Is French Football Set to Implode After Collapse of £2.5 Billion Mediapro TV Deal?
Ask Jurgen Klopp, and he'll tell you that the TV broadcasters run English football, not the FA or any other organisation.
That's because his side, much in-demand with the likes of Sky Sports and BT Sport, often find themselves playing on a Wednesday evening in the Champions League and then again on Saturday lunchtime in the Premier League.
He may or may not have a point, depending upon your opinion, but the truth is that the media giants do have a considerable say on the domestic football environment – particularly in an age where fans, broadly speaking, are still not allowed back on the terraces.
So you have to feel some sympathy for clubs in France's Ligue 1 who, financially impoverished by coronavirus, thought something of a lifeline was heading their way with the huge broadcast deal signed with Mediapro and BeIN Sports, which would have paid top-flight outfits a cool €3.25 billion over four seasons.
It's the second biggest TV deal in European football, and would have secured the future for many French sides who, unlike PSG, don't have the financial clout of an oil sheikh to call upon.
But now the deal has fallen through, with Mediapro only able to make three months' worth of payments before reneging on the agreement. It has left French football high and dry, seeking an emergency TV deal from Canal Plus that will pay less than the last time the broadcaster held the contract.
A Sorry Tale of Ineptitude
When Mediapro had attempted to sign a similar deal with Serie A a few years ago, the agreement was never agreed as the firm could not offer appropriate guarantees as to their financial viability.
Unfortunately, the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) – which is French football's version of the Football Association – did not ask for a similar guarantee, and that was a scenario that the former Nice President Gauthier Ganaye warned about all the way back in 2018 when talks had just started.
"We could end up in some serious cash situation for some clubs, so that's why I really hope the league took all the guarantees and the executives at the league did their work very diligently, to make sure there is no problem further down the line, because that could cause massive trouble to French football," he said.
Sadly, Ganaye's worst fears were to be realised.
That became evident when Mediapro started charging €25 a month for their subscription service, which would include more than 30 Ligue 1 matches and Champions League and Europa League games.
A more than fair price for the consumer, you might think, but remember that to even turn a profit Mediapro would have to sell at least four million subscriptions. They did not, and soon they unravelled.
The outfit deferred on their second scheduled payment in October, and they desperately tried to renegotiate the deal with a 25% discount given that bars and restaurants were shut in the country – affecting the success of their advertising.
Telefoot, the subscription service, was forced to close, although viewers can still watch games until a new TV deal is agreed.
You may recall that the LFP chose to end the 2019/20 season early, in contrast to other top European leagues which returned after a period of lockdown in the summer. The financial losses will continue to be harshly felt, and they will be hoping that the Canal Plus deal can be signed sooner rather than later to ensure their long term survival.


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Take control of a malware and infiltrate the most sophisticated networks!
Using your tracker, make your way through all kind of systems, but remember one thing : Don't get caught!
In April 2017, we started our first year-end project. The group were designated at random. We were five Game Designers and three Game Programmers. The goal of the project was to make a stealth game, with a top-down camera. We had to make all the assets by ourselves as we didn't work with any Game Artists. We had to make one level for every game designer plus the tutorial (so, six levels). Every level had a two-minute timer. Being spotted by enemies would instantly kill the player and reset the level.
The first thing we did was to make a one-page concept so we could pitch the game concept to our teachers (who managed our projects). I wanted to make a game based on the idea that the player would reveal the level by dispersing particles on the ground. The whole team was excited by the it, and we started working.
I experimented quickly with the unity particle system to see if something was achievable. I knew we would have to switch to a custom particle system (using compute shader).
During the alpha milestone, we showed the development progress of the game to our teachers. After a few particle shots, the game started lagging; reaching 10 to 15 FPS after only five shots. Our teachers gave us a negative review, saying that we had to focus on performances and how we, Game Designers, could make the game rely a lot less on this core feature.
After this, we convinced our programmers to work on a compute shaders to make the particle system we wanted, so it would work efficiently. I knew it was possible and not very hard to do (as there was some example projects available on github). We had one programmer working mainly on this, while another worked on the enemies and the last one worked on the UI.
When they implemented it, the game started looking and feeling a lot better!
The problem we encountered during the development was a lack a motivation and autonomy from the rest of the team. My classmate and friend Paul Muller and I started managing everyone so we could ship a finished game. In our school projects, to prevent people from taking over projects, there is no lead. This choice creates some problems, like taking way too long to decide something because one member of the team is not agreeing. We didn't wanted to take the lead but we had to. Every time we took a decision, the rest of the team agreed without really adding any arguments. Most of the time, it was just Paul and I debating over features of the game. Obviously, we tried to add other member of the team to the conversation, but people ended up agreeing with the last one to talk (it was a bit exhausting at the end of the project, especially because we weren't supposed to but had to).
In addition to making my level and co-managing the rest of the team, I had a lot of fun making the UI from the main menu and most of the ingame VFX. For the menues, we chosed to emulate the look of Apple II computers. This served our story well as it allowed more people to understand that everything was going on inside a PC (you play a malware looking for zero day bugs to exploit the system).
Being on a big Game Designer team allowed me to stay relativly away from writing documents and focusing more on developping the game, which was fine for me (having to write many Game Design Documents in addition to all the things I had to do would've been to much I think). Towards the end of the project, the whole team started getting more and more enthousiast and we stopped step by step to manage them (it was very nice to know that they already did some tasks before we had to tell them to, they acquired lots of autonomy through the project as they regained faith in it).
Looking back, we did a very nice project. I'm proud of the result and even though it was difficult to handle (I'm talking about the managing part), I like working with other people. Now, I still work with the other member of the team (like Valentin Serri on Replicant: The Search) or other school projects.


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Let's eat kangaroo
By Jennifer Marohasy - posted Friday, 23 September 2005 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
The Icelandic Minister for Fisheries, Arni Mathiesen, recently wrote to the Australian Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, indicating that if Australia was going to make a fuss about Iceland killing 40 minke whales for scientific purposes, the Icelandic Government was going to make a fuss about Australia killing millions of kangaroos. Minister Campbell has responded suggesting it is outrageous to equate killing whales with culling kangaroos. But is it?
Most of Iceland is uninhabitable and unsuitable for agriculture. The people of the north Atlantic have traditionally looked to the ocean for food - hunting and eating everything from cod to whales. Whales eat other fish and sometimes other whales. Understanding and managing a fishery will include understanding and managing whale populations.
The traditional inhabitants of Australia didn't grow much food either. Like the people of Iceland they enjoyed a predominately hunter-gatherer lifestyle and kangaroo were a hunted animal.
With the arrival of Europeans in Australia came rabbits, sheep and other domesticated animals. The population of Australia now eats mostly farmed animals. It is interesting that Minister Campbell didn't take the opportunity in his response to the Icelandic Minister to promote kangaroo meat sales to Europe - instead he suggested we only cull kangaroo because they are too numerous. He didn't volunteer that we also eat them.
At the same time the Icelandic Government was complaining about the killing of kangaroos, Queensland's United Game Processors reported that prices for kangaroo meat were running at record levels, of $0.90 a kg (carcass weight) with demand for what was once considered pet food, now increasing for human consumption.
I enjoyed the most magnificent meal of char grilled kangaroo fillets (on a bed of warm potato and horseradish salad with beetroot jus) over looking the Yarra River some weeks ago.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has reported that kangaroo meat is increasingly popular, with the European Union and Russia emerging as most important markets.
But according to Natasha Cica writing in On Line Opinion on Monday, while Russians are now the biggest buyers of kangaroo, to the tune of $11 million last year, its for neither haute cuisine nor pet food but rather "no-name sausage meat [sold] somewhere round Vladivostok, and there are intimations of consumer backlash, maybe even revolution, if the truth gets out".
Every year the National Parks authorities in each Australian state conduct surveys of the kangaroo population by flying over large samples of the rangelands at low levels and counting the roos. After 20 years of monitoring the techniques have been refined and the counts are now accurate indicators of total populations. This census is then used to determine a national quota for the commercial kangaroo harvest. The quota is typically set at 10-20 percent of the total population and over recent years this has equated to a whopping 4 to 7 million quota from a total roo population often in excess of 50 million individuals.
Indeed our environment minister could have boasted to the Icelandic Government that not only is kangaroo meat tasty, free range, low-fat, low-cholesterol, disease-free, high protein but that kangaroos are the most common large wild land mammals on earth.
Instead both the Icelandic and Australian governments are exceedingly coy about the potential for commercial exploitation of their skippies and willies. Yet it makes not only good economic sense but also good environmental policy to commercially harvest wild animals.
Michael Archer, Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales, and journalist Bob Beale, write in their new book Going Native: Living in the Australian environment that:
If the natural world is to have a future, we need to understand that the love of animals based on use and dependence has always led to a commitment to conserve.
Indigenous peoples who remain hunter-gatherers have a love and respect for animals, plants and ecosystems that most of us simply do not understand because they, unlike us, are still an indivisible part of the environments upon which they depend.
... Once we build the fence and climbed over it, we lost the plot and threatened the future. The mindset of animal rights advocates who argue against the value of using animals would seem incomprehensible to hunter-gatherers - as it would to the animals themselves if they were somehow able to conceptualise it. To argue, for example, as some animal rights advocates do, that a koala would rather be starving in an eaten-out forest remnant than sold to become an exhibit in a Japanese zoo strikes us not only as absurd but extraordinarily presumptuous.
Instead of trying to fire shots at each other from all the way around the other side of the earth, Ministers Campbell and Mathiesen should really just sit down together and over a meal of medallions of kangaroo and reindeer (perhaps on a bed of caramelised onion with roast potatoes and steamed spinach) they could discuss how they can both best promote the sustainable harvest of nature's natural bounty.
Jennifer Marohasy is a senior fellow with the Institute for Public Affairs.
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» Intent as the enemy of truth - January 9, 2017
» Unsettled Malcolm Roberts queries United Nation's science - September 16, 2016
All articles by Jennifer Marohasy


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Q: How to build QGIS Server on OpenShift? I was able to run Geoserver. Unfortunately, I doing my projects in the QGIS and styles are encoded in the SLD 1.1. (not supported by GeoServer v. 1.1 only in v. 1.0).
In view of the above I would like to install on OpenShift QGIS Server. But I can not find anywhere instruction "for dummies".

A: Read the part here on creating your own cartridge:
https://developers.openshift.com/get-involved/extend-openshift.html


I'd like my effort to be inspiring to others, so please follow me at: www.50statesin2012.com and get involved by donating to continue the great work of the Hall's Steps Foundation. Your contribution goes directly to help the impoverished to sustain a quality of life that we regard as common.
Kane is working on selecting a charity so you can support 50 States for World Hunger.


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Lauren Kessler is an American author, and immersion journalist who specializes in narrative nonfiction.  She teaches storytelling for social change at the University of Washington and for the Forum of Journalism and Media in Vienna.

Biography
Lauren Kessler's education includes Ph.D., University of Washington, 1980; MS, University of Oregon, 1975; and B.S.J., Northwestern University, 1972.

Kessler is the author of eleven works of narrative nonfiction including Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home" (Sourcebooks, 2022), A Grip of Time: When prison is your life (Red Lightning Books, 2019), Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and  My Midlife Quest to Dance The Nutcracker (Da Capo Press, 2015); Counterclockwise: My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-Aging (Rodale, Inc., Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 2013); and My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence (Penguin Books, 2011).

Her book, Dancing with Rose (renamed Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's in its paperback edition), won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal.  Her Oregon Book Award-winning book, Stubborn Twig, was chosen to be the book all Oregon reads in celebration of the state's 150th birthday.

Kessler is also author of Washington Post best-seller Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era, a biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviator Florence Pancho Barnes.  David Letterman, in playful competition with Oprah, chose The Happy Bottom Riding Club'' as the first (and only) book for "Dave's Book Club."  Kessler appeared on his show twice.

Kessler's journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, O Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Day, Prevention (magazine), newsweek.com, salon.com, The Nation Magazine, Nieman Storyboard, Writer's Digest and farmer-ish. Many of her essays on writing are compiled in The Write Path: Essays on the Art of Writing and the Joy of Reading (Monroe Press, 2015).

She was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame (University of Washington) and the Hall of Achievement (University of Oregon).

References

External links
 Official website of the author
  An extensive 2007 Q&A on her most recent books
 Oregon Art Beat:  Author Lauren Kessler
 Kessler's blogsite

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University of Oregon alumni
Medill School of Journalism alumni
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Q: localhost MAMP with the shared database: Error - "This site can't be reached" I have a copy of MAMP installed on my iMac and on my MacBook Air and they share the same copy of a database through the Dropbox. And all worked fine just until now.
I think I got into my MAMP on one of my computers without waiting for the core files to be synchronized and maybe that causes conflict.
Now if I go to the localhost page I get
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

And if I go to any of my dev domains, for example, example.dev I get this

This site can't be reached
example.dev refused to connect.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Hope that someone who is more experienced in this field could tell me what may have happened and what do I need to tweak to restore it back.
Thankful in advance!

A: The answer was much easier than I was thinking about. The whole point is that Chrome doesn't support dev extensions since the version of Chrome 63 (out since December 2017) that's why this problem occurs.
Found the answers in these threads:
Stack Overflow Similar Question
Chrome 63 forces .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS by Mattias Geniar
Don't Use .dev For Development by Danny Wahl


The property has a lovely entrance hall with an impressive timber and glass stair case to the first floor. A particular feature of the property is the stunning open plan kitchen/dining room, which is fitted with a high quality range of kitchen units with stone worktops and upstands and high quality integrated kitchen appliances. This room enjoys a lovely outlook over the rear garden and has twin casement doors directly onto the patio. The spacious lounge has wood flooring, double sliding pocket doors through to the kitchen/dining room, TV aerial point, under floor heating and UPVC double glazed windows with an outlook to the front. To complete the ground floor is a useful utility room/WC. On the first floor there are three good sized double bedrooms, all with high quality en-suite facilities and with the master bedroom enjoying a separate dressing room. The gardens and grounds have been fully landscaped with the rear garden having been recently turfed and having high level timber fencing providing a good degree of privacy and seclusion. There is an area of textured paved patio adjoining the rear of the property. The front garden has an impressive driveway providing ample off road parking and turning area.


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Raymond Koch
Raymond Koch passed away on Oct. 10, 2020. He was proud to be a veteran. He served in the Army in Vietnam from 1964-1966. He retired from Lewis Bakeries in September, 2001 after 42 years. Ray loved working with his hands, especially woodworking and refinishing antique furniture. All of his friends and family will tell you that he was the first to come and help when needed, even before they realized they needed him. Ray was preceded in death by his parents Mary (Gries) and Lawrence Koch; his brother,Thomas Koch killed in Vietnam 1966 and his daughter, Amy (Koch) Kirsch. His surviving family are his wife, Sylvia (Mayse) Koch; his son, Gary (Stephanie) and their children, Blake and Jake; and his son-in-law Michael Kirsch and Michael & Amy's children, Victoria, Samantha & Nicholas; two brothers, Bob and his wife Carolyn and Jim and his wife Cheryl and nieces and nephews. Friends may visit with the family from 2:00 until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at Pierre Funeral Home, 2601 W. Franklin Street. Masks should be worn by all who attend. Due to the pandemic, the Mass of Christian Burial will be private. Burial will take place in St. Joseph Cemetery, where the Vanderburgh County Retired Veterans Club will conduct military rites. Memorial contributions may be made to Resurrection Catholic Church, 5301 New Harmony Road, Evansville, IN 47720. Condolences may be made online at www.pierrefuneralhome.com.
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Makei: Belarus and Germany are interested in the highest level of relations
MINSK, 14 February (BelTA) – Belarus and Germany are interested in the bilateral relations to be at the highest level, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said to the STV TV Channel commenting on the results of his meeting with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Munich, BelTA informs.
"We have good prospects for cooperation with Germany. It seems to us that Germany understands what role Belarus plays in the current situation. Germany tries to build the corresponding policy in relation to Belarus. We welcome it," Vladimir Makei noted.
In his words, Belarus sees what role Germany plays in Europe, region and the world. "We are interested in the relations between our countries to be at the highest level. The assessment of Belarus is also better than it was last year. It is, I think, because Belarus' motivation of adopting these or those foreign and internal political decisions is better understood today," Vladimir Makei said.
Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei attended the 52nd Munich Security Conference during his working visit to Germany on 12-14 February.


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2002-12-16: The Moons is Always Full
1:22AM Jul 1, 2020
buddha nature
sitting here with all the candles lit in the dark reminded me of what it was like what it is the likes of places in Asia. When a body of practitioners, monks and nuns lay people would gather at a temple or a meditation center. And so often would sit outdoors. And they would sit to meditate to hear Dharma talks have Dharma discussions. And before they electricity or places, you don't have electricity. And people would sit around with little lamps, oil lamps or candles, I suppose. You'd have a sea of little lamps. And these people sitting very peacefully and quietly, in that stillness, net quiet, and there's a very different quality I think in a space in a room. When it's dark and these kind of candles happening. I'm reminded that the Buddha Seemingly was not very interested in metaphysics. And often his biggest interest in metaphysics was to show how metaphysical speculations or theories were not helpful for the process of becoming liberated and awakening, and a little bit different how most people maybe approach spiritual liberation, I think they first have to understand some metaphysical truth. And I'm reminded of that now, because of the palpable sense of the stillness of quiet. The sense of the contrast of light and dark are not metaphysical experiences, but lend themselves to not metaphysical beliefs or ideas, but lend themselves to a certain kind of experience or certain kind of reverence or or quiet or contemplative kind of environment. About a week or so ago, my son's kindergarten had a What I thought was kind of a remarkable little ceremony was Sunday evenings we'd make a special trip to the school and and they tried to get the kids to all dress up nicely. Some kids did. Our son put on his sweatshirt and we were able to come there without we've had a quiet afternoon before coming to the school. So we came to the kids are supposed to come kind of settled and quiet. And then we went to his classroom and all the lights were out. And then a table in the middle of the classroom were four candles that were lit, there was only light in the room. And around the table. We're all little chairs, kindergarten chairs, and all these kids just went in there and they took little chairs and sat down and all the parents stood behind them in a circle around them. And we were waiting for people to still to come so the kids who came early had you sit there and everybody everybody was quiet. And my four year old son almost five sets completely still for 10 minutes he didn't say anything he didn't budge. He didn't kind of get restless. He just sat very still very quiet in this very powerful contemplative space that had been created a quiet space. And then the at some point, the kindergarten teacher said, Okay, let's go. And each kid was given a kid an apple with a candle in it and was not lift yet. And then we had to walk to by to the parent with a child into the other classroom, they've been set up. There was also more or less dark. And there was of chairs all the way around the perimeter of the room, but this size here, the room, and we're all starting from sit in that room. We hadn't really talked much at all. All Quiet. We sat around this big circle. And then the floor, there were these pine branches. They were arranged in a as a spiral pathway going into the very center. And the very center of that was a kind of a stand where there was one candle standing that was lit. Then some person started playing very softly guitar music. In the four kindergarten teachers of that school, were all sitting there kind of in their regal majesty. That kind of holding course kind of just kind of watching very quiet thing kind of very beautiful reverence, feeling. And then the things they started with the oldest kid and he came up with his candle and in the apple, and he had to walk the spiral in front of everybody in his quiet, very silent, contemplative feeling, at the walk this whole spiral
all In to the middle, and then light his or her candle, and then walk out of the spiral. And anywhere the child wanted to someplace in the front leaving going out, put the the, his or her candle down on the floor next to the pine branches. And then to come back and take their seat. And so they did. I mean 12 kids did this. And then all 12 kids had done it. Then the instructions was just please come outside. And the teacher gathered all the candles and handed it to the kids outside. We stood looking at the stars. And we sang a song about then we sent a song about something like
what if all the people lived their lives as if it was a song To sing out light, sunlight, anybody might not know this song, sing out light to providing the stars with few to circle round and round, something like that. It's kind of beautiful song. And then we were just, they were supposed to go, that was it. Almost no talking, it happened virtually none at all. And, and I don't know maybe maybe this is boring for you to tell you the story. But it was very it was very strong reverence feeling it was quite phenomenal. To watch each of us riveted to watch each of these kindergarten kids by themselves in front of all these people walk up in their own way to light the candle and put their candle down. And you got to kind of kind of because each kid was doing exactly the same kind of thing. You could see how different they were kind of highlighted. The difference is really going to send you got a feeling and kind of saw into the into the depth of that particular child's way of burying him or her In the world, their enthusiasm or confidence or lack of it, or joy or hesitation, or just all these different things are playing out, you know, in the kids and it felt like this Reverend kind of attitude and feeling this candle ceremony and had a big impact on my son. I felt like it was kind of I don't know. So then I told my kindergarten teacher last Friday that I was going to give a talk on bowing. And it goes, I was gonna get it yesterday gave a talk because last Monday, some of you here I gave a talk on Boeing. And there were some questions about bowing that stimulated me further thought about it. So I started looking into it then, and asked my kindergarten teacher about bowing in the class because my son has a little verse that he's learned in school that mentions that word bowing in it, it was make this gesture of bowing as part of this little song they sing. They said, What do you got? What are you teaching these kids? By the way, and he didn't really know what to say. didn't have much to say. And he said, Oh, but I've learned this week is that in the founding of this country, there seems to have been a conscious choice. When the institution of the president presidency was created, that Americans were not going to bow a Christian to the president like they did to the king or queen of England, because in America, everybody was equal. And so the kindergarten teacher said, oh, what's interesting, and in this classroom, we have a lot of kings and queens
bound to each other, I guess. So that was very, it was very touching for me to be in that candle ceremony and now we're getting close to the solstice and this time of year is offered a time of year that people bring out the lights. So the dark time of year and they bring out lights and they'd like their houses, some people and they like candles for different reasons. And, and and partly, you know, the candlelight is To create light and dark situation is to dispel the darkness. And then it has a lot of symbolic meaning, the burning of candles of light, the darkest time of the year. And
in Buddhism also has a lot of symbolic value in light, symbols of light, luminosity. The Buddha once said, The mind is luminous, except for the defilements. Then it visited to come and visit. So, somehow in its essence its true nature something the mind is luminous, it's light, but it's color. It's kind of clouded over and colored by greed and hate and ambition and fear and so the mind itself has a quality of light. The enlightenment in Buddhism takes Spiritual Awakening has a long history of being depicted in the form of a moon full moon. And partly it's because I think the full moon and the full moon and the new moon, were time to the Buddhist community would gather. So like gathering like this in the dark, they've gathered the evening at night, they'd be sitting under the full moon, and they would do various communal practices, reminding themselves of their communal life together, asking for forgiveness of each other, at that time, every match every fourth night, you know, asking for forgiveness for how it transgressed in our community. And then they recite the rules, the monastic rules that they would live by. The laypeople would recite the five precepts. And the full moon then they're sitting on the full moon, you know, for 2500 years, the full moon itself has become a very powerful symbol of of enlightenment, the fullness of it, the complete the purity of it. One of the things that I'm touched by is that it's kind of a silly little notion, I suppose. But from our perspective, the human perspective on the earth, we talked about the moon being full, new quarter moon, sliver moon, I don't know different ways of talking about the moon. But for the from the moons perspective, it's always cool. And our enlightenment luminosity of our hearts or minds, the purity of it is always there. But it's the various things that cover it and cause shadows on it. And so we don't see it fully for what it is. As Buddhism developed in Asia, Japanese love to make use of symbolism of the moon, the full moon, and there's a beautiful image of the full moon reflected in the dewdrop dewdrop being one of the most ephemeral things existing on the earth evaporates as soon as the sun comes out, but that even something as small as a dewdrop when the moon is out It's reflected in that dewdrop that somehow the, the, this sacred or their quality of luminous mind of awakening or freedom. Reality is found in even something as ephemeral as a dewdrop every rocks and trees, everything. The full awakening the freedom is found even in the dewdrop. And there's a book called movement in the dewdrop collection of articles, essays by the Zen, Zen master Dogon. And when they're going to come up with a sequel to that book A few years ago, I recommended that they titled The second book, Earth in a teardrop. And I thought that was a wonderful balance of the two, two different positions, the moon in the dewdrop and the tear in the earth and a teardrop because both are true now. suffering of the earth. This world we live in, can be reflected in our teardrops we cry and we see what happens. And, and it's also true at the same time, that there's this luminous sacredness, stillness, a peacefulness that's available, it's here. And the juxtaposition of those that is often quite stark in this life we live so stark that some spiritual people talk about Battle of light and dark. They use very clearly the symbolism black and white, light and dark to reflect the great differences of, you know, the suffering of the world, the evil and violence of the world.
And Buddhism, in the same way talks about the experience of awakening the luminous mind, power of mindfulness, as being like a light that goes on in a dark room, and that we often live in the dark. And I think anybody who practices mindfulness can get some sense of when they've been living in the dark and when they've started to wake and be mindful. It doesn't take much to realize how much of the time of the day we might go through. And we weren't really present when really, really aware of what was going on. And then to wake up to that, and to see it and that appreciate the wakefulness. Appreciate the mind that sees and is awake is, is to see the power of wakefulness and the power of of being blind and asleep and acting from that point of view. One of the fascinating things about wakefulness. We spent a long time maybe being asleep, maybe minutes, meditation, hours, days or whatever, is what happens in that first moment. The very first moment, when the light of awareness the light is turned on. And you see what's been going on. You see that you've been asleep, you see been caught up in some reactivity. That's very first moment is a moment of mine. From this moment of pure mindfulness, what often happens on the heels of it so closely, we often don't see it as being separate from often enough, is our judgments. But what that meant that we were lost judgments about what it meant that we were caught up. And so it's not so uncommon for us to feel, oh, what a terrible person I am, oh, I blew that, oh, that's terrible. I was lost. You know what, you know, I'm not a good person that a good Buddhist or whatever. Or I better, you know, I better shape up here, you know, I'm not really I'm doing it, right. Like, I shape up, I got to be mindful. I got to kind of gear myself up and steal myself or pounce back on the breath that we're following the breath. And, you know, some kind of reaction happens very quickly. But one of the most interesting things here is that one reaction is can be, oh, I'm not doing it. I'm not being mindful. I'm not being aware. And the irony of that is at the moment that you say, I wasn't aware, you had to have been aware enough to be made aware that you weren't there? If all we follow. And the moment you wake up and recognize I've been lost at that moment, you're mindful in that moment, you have all the mindfulness you need for that moment. And then it's it's in some way squashed by getting caught up in the judgment and the reactivity of Oh, what that means. And this is pretty normal. It's part of what we have to work with and kind of face and be honest about and practice and see. And wake up to this spirit is very phenomenal talking about. But there is, in that first moment, the first instant of waking up noticing the first innocent moment of noticing before the judgments come in. There is a luminous quality of the mind. There's a clarity as life has gone on. And it's possible over time as the mind gets stronger and my plans get stronger to appreciate that moment. See that moment, light first goes on, and to celebrate it, to nurture it to prompt it to encourage it. And if you can appreciate it even just so slightly appreciate, that's what's happened on the week. And let that be a little gap before the judgments and reactivity come in. And then rather than doing something with that, awareness, invite your experience to come into your awareness. Like turn on the light, and then let things come in. What comes to you some people who meditate have this idea that they have to, you know, mine's gone away and bring my mind back. As if the mind can be moved around. The area is never seen anybody move their mind. It's kind of a linguistic thing we say the mind goes away and it comes back. We bring it back. You could easily talk But it talks about it other ways. And one way is that the mind is aware. And then we invite experience to come back into the mind. The mind is shut down. Some aspect of the mind, the awareness has been shut off, shut down. There's been it's been cracked open. And now in that crack, we invite things to come back to it and fill it. So turning on the light in a dark room. What is that experience like of being mindful?
One of the cons, one of the areas of exploration for people who do mindfulness is not only to explore what you're mindful of what your experience is, and see it more clearly. But in the times when your mindfulness is most strong or most clear, what's the quality of that mindfulness itself? When you're really there and for giving full presence, your experience? What's that feeling of presence, like? What's the life like when you turn it on? It's not that often that people turn the mirror back and appreciate the light of awareness itself. And often what you'll find is that light of awareness itself has a quality of peacefulness has a quality of stillness or silence of contemplative, perhaps even kind of joy or ease. That can be a guiding light for how we live our lives. So light, the Buddha gave a sermon called the fire sermon. And I read a book once I saw a book in a bookstore of the best speeches of humankind. And I just look through it a little bit and there at the beginning, was the fire sermon of the Buddha. And the way you read it someday, you can maybe imagine he was like a gospel preacher is very forceful, to read and that style, you can maybe get the impact of it, but he goes and says, The world is on fire. The eyes are in fire, the ears are in fire. The nose is on fire the tongues on fire. The body is on fire, the mind is on fire. The world is on fire. site, things we see are on fire things we smell or inspire things we hear. We're on fire, things we taste we're on fire, things we touch on fire. Things we the mind is aware of things. It's on fire, the whole world's on fire. If you can get weary, if you can get disenchanted. If you can get a little bit from that fire. Then the fire of greed the fire of hate will begin delusion will begin to dissipate and you will start experiencing the the feeling the experience of liberation of freedom. And we know you know it's easy enough to see kind of some ways that the fire of hate the fire loss, the fire of greed. The fire of fear for some people has tremendous impact and power on this world that we live in. Buddho said someplace. For though, if we're a world that's on fire, why don't we look for how to to end the fire. One of the interesting things here is that the image of fire, then it comes back in Buddhism, to also be a word that's used for meditation. So the world on fire with all these powers of greed, hate and delusion, but then the meditators mind the word jhana. jhanas means meditative absorption. When you meditate you really absorb new meditation comes from the root to burn. Shariati to burn and and here is absorb mind is on fire. They're also kind of a fire the fire of the mind. But when the mind is on fire in deep meditative absorption, it's kind of like a candle. This is a classic image, a candle flame, which is um, flickering in the windows know when to flicker. So it's completely still. And you look at a flame that maybe there's no wind, and you can maybe can't see that it's moving. But it's you know, it's very dynamic, very balanced, not moving or wavering. So the mind becomes the mind itself in meditation becomes like a steady fire. Maybe that's been turned down in some ways, from the kind of wild agitated forest fire that can sometimes be in our minds. And it's that when the fire of the mind has been steadied, calm, centered. That then it becomes the vantage point from which the most Realistically see the nature of our life itself, who we are, what this world is like, and what's going on kind of in the deep kind of recesses of our minds there to really see deeply into our minds, the mind has set itself has to be very still very quiet, the mind is agitated, they can't see itself very deeply.
So they have this fire to kind of adjust the fire the flame of your mind, the luminous flame of your mind to adjust it, to refine it, so that it becomes an instrument that can see deeply into its own nature.
In talking about light, there's a beautiful analogy I suppose, that the Buddha gave the one of the one of the very important precursors for the arising of the spiritual life This precursor the Buddha said, this is like the dawn. There here is before the sun arises. Here the sun is being sent. Now another form of lights symbolize this kind of maturity, the spiritual life. Before the spiritual life matures, what Creek would call what heralds its appearance. The Buddha said, like the dawn heroes, the appearance of the Sun is good spiritual friendships, having good spiritual friends, having other people we know who are also living values of the heart of the luminous mind freedom, who are no longer motivated by greed, hate and delusion. And I thought about that as I was coming here today, this morning. Another reason why I want to sit together with a candle is that there's something very wonderful and luminous about a community of people that meditate together, and I have tremendous appreciation for coming here. Every time I come to be able to sit together All of you and it's opportunities. And what has happened here in Redwood City now that we have the center, I've the last year I've kind of described it to people sometimes that I feel like I'm so in awe of what's happened here. It's exceeded my expectations or my vision of what would happen. I feel like we have created this bright light in Redwood City that shines out of all this goodness and good intention and good community that we have. The dawn of spiritual maturity is having good spiritual friends. The Buddha wasn't once asked once asked, it's by someone I think was a Nanda who said, seems to me that's having good spiritual friendships is really important. I think it's probably at least half of the spiritual life. And the Buddha said, No, it's the entire spiritual life. Spiritual friendships have been important lays the foundation of spiritual maturation,
another strand of what I was kind of thinking about coming today. Yesterday's talk, we touched briefly on the notion of Buddha nature. And then I had Dharma discussions today with some teacher, friends of mine Buddhist teachers. And one of the interesting controversies in Buddhism, because it's very different, different kind of Buddhist schools. It has to do with in a sense, the nature of being human being What's our nature. And in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, explicitly, but in the tera, vaada tradition in some corners of it. There's a notion of what could be called the Buddha nature. And the Buddha nature that we all have is a complicated theological things, many different definitions of what it means But one aspect of Buddha nature is that there's something sacred or divine or special or enlightening liberating force within us, part of us partakes of Buddhahood. In maybe in Christian terms would say partakes of the Divine. And, but a little bit problematic for Buddhists who say protects the divine, the gods like that. So what are Buddhists saying? So Buddha say, so there's all these theologians in Buddhism that are Buddho, but without Buddha logins, who have different definitions of what's happening Buddha nature, but how I understand Buddha nature teaching has to do with a very positive view of human nature. And that is that, in essence, in our core essence, the luminous mind at the core, there's a self healing momentum or self organizing momentum or self liberating momentum is momentum, the force moving us towards liberation. If we allow it and a lot of practice, then spiritual practice involves getting out of your own way. So that this Buddha nature, the self organizing self healing aspect of the psyche, can have a chance to operate. So it's a very optimistic view about the nature of humans, the human heart, the human nature. And an analogy sometimes I use, it's maybe not so good, but if you cut your finger you have to do some work. You have to keep your mind clean the cut, you have to make a good bandaid on it. And then you're, you know, the body can heal itself. But you can't tell your body No, you know, heal, heal yourself very well. And you can't orchestrate what's going to happen there. It's a very complex little healing process. It's kind of a natural functioning of the mind. That happens almost regardless of your, your will have your conscious abilities to do something in the same way with the inner life. Buddha nature view is that if you create the right conditions with the right band aids on clean the wounds little bit, then that allows for the healing the natural healing power of the psyche to operate. And it's not so comfortable to do that because, as you know, it can hurt quite a bit to try to heat to clean your wounds. But you have to be there with you know, put a bandage over it. The other view that exists in Buddhism, sometimes it doesn't have such an optimistic view of human nature and that way, it's very optimistic in that it sees that we all have the potential of reaching enlightenment, if we cultivate ourselves and develop ourselves. And if we let go of the forces of greed, hate and delusion, but letting go letting go of hidden delusion in itself is not enough. To get us to awakening we have to also cultivating, do something as much more emphasis on action. action and doing in the practice, the nature of practice emphasize a little more relaxing and letting go into this process. The people are this, the more traditional view, doesn't have a kind of some idea of a self organizing self liberating force within the psyche to fall back on. So it always has to do it has to do with your effort, he has to make the effort and effort and effort, make enough effort, the right kind of effort, and just the flame just right, then, you know, the experience of awakening can happen. For the second view, that is not it's not very, doesn't have the same as optimism, of what possibility of enlightenment, but it doesn't have a very optimistic view of the nature of the human psyche, in and of itself, except through our own efforts improved. So we had this discussion today, these Dharma discussion these different Dharma teachers and we've highlighted these two before views that exists in Buddhism. And then the question was which one's right?
And one person pointed out that different personalities and different people with different genes or I don't know what are predisposed to different camps, different views. And who's right. I don't know who's right. But I know I'm predisposed to the Buddha nature school. But I don't know if that's good. But that's that's the case. But I do know that whether either of you the people who practice the people who are engaged in the practice of mindfulness of honesty, of ethics, of compassion and love, are a bright light in a world of darkness, to the degree to which the world is dark to places of the world is dark. The world needs people of light people who bring goodness forth. And whether it's a goodness which is inherently there, or the goodness that we produce and create by acting on good intentions. It doesn't matter that much to me. As long as somehow we tap into that bright light and goodness, that we're all capable of tapping into and touching. We celebrate light in a time of greatest darkness. Partly to remind us that the darkness is always temporary, and the light is coming. Spring and Summer. The full moon is always full
There was a kind of dignity bestowed upon the kindergarten children as they walk that spiral with their candle. Sense of worthiness and value being attended to and seen. And as you sit here in the lights as you sit each of you in your own light of your own heart, their capacity for mindfulness and awareness can each of you be a light unto yourself that offers that you offer yourself dignity, reverence, care, sense of worthiness that you're worthy to be seen and appreciated. One of the last things that Buddha said before he died was BLM onto yourselves.
Turn your light on, adjust the flame so it's not out of control. So it's a calm, steady burn. That lights the room up, lights your heart up as clearly as possible. And then they all the goodness in your heart of time. You give yourself the time to let the goodness in your heart be expressed in the world around you. My hope is that I didn't bring enough candles for everybody. But my hope is that all these candles, find homes tonight. And they go home with someone. And when you feel like it's the right time that you light the candle and remind yourself, the Buddha saying be a light unto yourself and there's not enough candles for everybody. Maybe have your own candle you can light. So happy. So happy, happy Solstice and may you find the light in the darkness. Thank you


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Nigeria's biggest and most prestigious music award show, The Headies, has opened its doors to receive entries for its 13th music award with this year's edition themed 'The Power of A Dream'.
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EWP welcomes UN declaration that clean water and sanitation is a human right
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Brussels, August 2010. The European Water Partnership welcomes the UN General Assembly's declaration that safe and clean drinking water is a human right. On Wednesday, 28th July, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. Presented by Bolivia and 33 other States, the resolution received 122 votes in favour. No countries voted against the text but 41 countries abstained.
The resolution calls on United Nations Member States and international organizations to provide financial resources, build capacity and transfer technology, particularly to developing countries, in scaling up efforts to provide safe, clean, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation for everyone.
According to the text of the resolution an estimated 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and a total of more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. Studies indicate that an absence of clean water or sanitation exacts a huge human toll. About 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of water – and sanitation – related diseases.
Ten years ago, another UN resolution on the "right to development'" had set a precedent by acknowledging the right to food and clean water. In comparison to that, the UN adopted for the first time a resolution particularly committed to the right to water and sanitation. It also goes further than the preceding resolution by proclaiming sanitation as human right and by clarifying the right to water.
"Recognizing water as a human right is a crucial step and positive signal from the international community. It shows joint commitment to tackle global water challenges", says EWP Vice-Chairman Mr. Fritz Barth. By initiating the Water Vision for Europe 2030 two years ago, the EWP set the course for acknowledging "the access to basic water supply and sanitation as a human right" (Water Vision for Europe, Art. 2). Mr. Barth outlines: "The ten articles of the Vision serve as value base for EWP projects, programs and actions. Cooperation on all levels, coordination of initiatives and action in partnership are key mover in order to achieve universal access to modern and safe water supply and sanitation."
http://www.ewp.eu/ewp-welcomes-un-declaration-that-clean-water-and-sanitation-is-a-human-right


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Dutch Uncles - O Shudder - An intricate seduction
Mandi Goodier
Dutch Uncles have been doing the rounds for the last 6 years. Always guaranteed a large crowd live, can this idiosyncratic art-pop fivesome break through with their fourth album O Shudder?
Dutch Uncles - O Shudder
Label: Memphis Industries
Mancunian band Dutch Uncles deliver a solid collection of tunes that deserves wider recognition. Starting as it means to go on with opener "Babymaking", O Shudder is a rich baroque combination of art-pop, intelligent arrangement, 1980s-style anything-goes post-punk and classical influence (Stravinsky in particular). There isn't a single note out of place and the shudder of the album is a seductive one, which slowly slips down the spine to the melody of the piano, intricate bass and androgynous vocals. The album embraces the sounds of harp, xylophone, marimba, string and woodwind driving its sound to an ethereal place, which feels as it's maybe a few inches higher than gravity permits.
The lyrics deliver a strong sense of the anxiety people face as they approach their late-twenties/early thirties; still young enough to get things wrong but with a strong sense that perhaps by this time one should know better. As frontman Duncan Wallis explains: "it felt like a suitable narrative, as we ourselves approach our thirties where a lot of people are expected to feel sure about who they are and where they are going and just don't." It is unfortunate that these strong narratives don't quite manage to break through the lush melodies, but it is something that begins to un-layer itself upon more listens.
This is perhaps their most accomplished album in their six years together, as it never seems to stray. The biggest achievement is the urge it provokes to experience this band live, as it encourages you to move you body to its atypical beat. And you would not be disappointed if you should get the chance, if only to witness the loose hips of frontman Duncan Wallis.
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Key tracks: "In n Out", "Tidal Weight", "Decided Knowledge"
Like this? You may also like:Scritti Politti, Talking Heads, Kavinsky
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CEDAR RAPIDS — In a final flurry of rallies around the state in their attempts to lock down what appears to be an extremely tight race, Gov. Kim Reynolds and challenger Fred Hubbell spent part of the morning before Election Day firing up supporters in Cedar Rapids.
"We've got a big day today. Are you ready to go knock on some doors, get some votes and win this election?" Hubbell asked supporters at the Democratic field office in northeast Cedar Rapids.
"We're going to finish strong," Reynolds told supporters at Signature Flight Support at The Eastern Iowa Airport, where she flew in with a GOP team of U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, Secretary of State Paul Pate, Auditor Mary Mosiman, Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig and acting Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg. They were joined by U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, state Rep. Ashley Hinson and state House candidate Teresa Daubitz.
"Iowa is a state that's getting things done, and this is the Republican team that's getting things done," Reynolds said.
Polls show a neck-and-neck race between Reynolds — who stepped into the role in May 2017 when Gov. Terry Branstad became the ambassador to China — and Hubbell — a retired Des Moines businessman who won the six-way Democratic primary.
The Iowa Poll, released Saturday by the Des Moines Register, showed Hubbell leading Reynolds by just 2 points, 46 to 44 percent, among likely voters. An Emerson College poll also of likely voters, published Friday, showed Reynolds ahead of Hubbell by 4 points, 49 to 45 percent.
Reynolds, traveling by private plane, scheduled nine events Monday from river to river, with stops in Ankeny, Davenport, Waterloo, Clear Lake, Fort Dodge, Council Bluffs, Sioux City and Sioux Center in addition to Cedar Rapids.
Reynolds joked she was relying on her team to make sure she knew where she was before stepping off the plane.
Besides Cedar Rapids, Hubbell also made stops in Iowa City and West Des Moines before holding an election eve rally in Des Moines. Running mate state Sen. Rita Hart made stops in Eldridge, North Liberty and Ottumwa before joining Hubbell in Des Moines.
Voters have a big choice, Hubbell said.
A Hubbell win means the "disaster" of privatized Medicaid can be reversed, he added.
Reynolds framed the choice differently.
"Iowa is moving in the right direction and the facts are undeniable," she said. "Iowa was named the No. 1 state in the country, the budget is balanced and the state has a $127 million surplus, wages are going up and taxes are going down," and Iowa has record low unemployment.
A Hubbell win would mean a return to the administration of Democratic Gov. Chet Culver "that Hubbell was a part of (with) massive spending, debt, growing government. That is not the direction we want to go," Reynolds said.
"If Iowans turn out, I believe with all my heart that we're going to keep Iowa moving in the right direction," she said. "I feel the momentum. I feel the energy. We just have to turn out. And if we do, we'll get good results.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday.


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Home Popular on Crizic 7 TV Shows That Lost Their Ways
7 TV Shows That Lost Their Ways
[dropcap size=small]S[/dropcap]ome TV shows started off really, really well. They were the shows that were supposed to be on the level of Sopranos, The Wire or Seinfeld. But as time passed, they went downhill. Crizic lists the 7 TV shows that lost their ways:
7. Suits:
The tagline 'Two lawyers, one degree' worked wonderfully in the first few episodes. Mike got to use his incredible photographic memory and be smart. Then, near the end of season one, Mike rarely used it, and every few episodes there's a threat of someone finding out Mike hasn't actually got a degree. Of course, at least once a season someone does find out. Sadly, nothing much happens.
They replaced the concept of a smart young guy with an amazing memory working for a cool lawyer with office romances. Pathetic.
6. SpongeBob Squarepants:
We hate to put Spongebob in this list, but, well the show used to be funny and entertaining to everyone regardless of their age. The company changed producers and the new guys started focusing around the animation over drawing and trying to be witty to appeal to older audiences. The innocence with a touch of tongue-in-cheek comedy was what people loved. Now it's just a bunch of gross, cringe-worthy, and unrelated scenes with characters that are over committed to what makes them interesting.
5. Heroes:
Heroes had SO MUCH potential, but it got screwed due to the writers' strike. Well, at least it gave us an awesome first season.
4. How I Met Your Mother:
Season 1-4 were great. 5 had some hilarious episodes, 6-8; some good ones, 9; HORRIBLE. And don't even get us started on that ending. The creators just wanted that twist to suprise everyone, no matter how poorly timed and written it was. We think they'll have trouble getting to make another show again.
3. Prison Break:
Up until the first episode of season 3, it was pretty good. But then? The makers of the show went:
'Ah yes, I have an idea, the villain is now a good guy!
Just kidding, he's bad!
No, no, now he's good!
Psyche, he's bad.
Oh check this out, let's make him good again, that will really blow the audience's mind.'
2. Dexter:
This show became so bad after season 4, that we started wondering if we're watching the same show. This TV show with a finale that was worse than How I Met Your Mother's comes at number 2.
1. Lost:
Can there be any other show here? Set out to become the GREATEST TV show in the history of mankind, Lost ended up as one of the greatest disaster on television, and as number one on the list of TV shows that lost their ways.
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At 4:15 and we melted into our beds – power resting after visiting leaders of the Methodist churches at Thor, Carrefour, and Mellier.
One of my questions: Is it worse for you now than before the earthquake (Jan, 2010)? The answer came back, "Yes." Unemployment is worse now than then; poverty seems greater. I wonder if all the international and church promises of assistance came in the wrong way – came as relief without moving on to educating, training and empowering people to become self-sufficient. Many have told us they want to work. There are no jobs. People live hand to mouth and bribery is rampant. How do you start a business without the assurance of a fair playing field? Where do you get the capital you need to buy inventory. Who's got any money to buy what you offer? I think UMCOR has been trying to help without hurting – to empower. The Methodist Church of Haiti is now including community outreach options along with construction for team projects.
We are discovering the immense magnitude of need, with the church positioned to help – without the resources to do it.
To speak with the teachers with whom we will be sharing our Bible School activities. We are anticipating a certain amount of creative and blessed chaos on this joint bi-lingual adventure. Stay tuned for more.
Now the challenge of getting a blog out to those praying for this team! The electricity went out as we were eating dinner. We switched to the invertor – a battery that had been charging. We had electricity to finish dinner, complete our devotions and team reflections, and prep for tomorrow's Bible School and English lessons.


(TOWN OF MAINE, NY) Broome County Executive Jason Garnar joined Town of Maine and school districts officials today to announce the Town of Maine has applied for funding from the Broome County's Small Community Grant Fund to bring natural gas into the hamlet of Maine.
County Executive Garnar included the Small Community Fund in the 2018 county budget, which was approved unanimously by the Legislature. This fund is designed to help rural communities in Broome County with grant money to spur the economy, business development and create jobs.
County Executive Jason Garnar was joined for this announcement today by Jim Tokos, Town Supervisor, members of the Town Board and Jason Van Fossen, Superintendent of MaineEndwell School District.
According to the Town's submitted application, for over 10 years, the Town and residents have been attempting to bring natural gas into the hamlet of Maine.
New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) is proposing a natural gas line extension into the hamlet of Maine, approximately 11,954 feet long. The extension route would run between Shadowbrook Road and Maine Memorial Elementary School on Route 26. This extension would continue before the school off Rt. 26 to Church Street to Maple Street, onto Lewis Street and to the end of McGregor Road.
The stretch of roadway in the Town of Maine is home to many businesses including retail, restaurants, storage and warehouse locations and Maine Memorial Elementary School, which is a part of the Maine-Endwell School District.
The total project cost is $950,000. The Town is requesting $60,000 from the Small Community Fund. The Town of Maine states in its application that the $60,000 request for grant money will be used to reduce the surcharge for each customer connected to the natural gas line.


Sickness cannot survive in an alkaline environment. Alkalinity is the PH factor in your body. Think of a pool and if its PH is off, it is disgusting and green.
Well it is the same here, yet we don't need chemicals to adjust our PH, on the contrary that is one of the major reasons that the inside of our bodies look like a green swimming pool.
We just do not see it, yet this is the cause of sickness. There is a scale of numbers that tell of alkalinity levels and being acidic (how most humans bodies are), yet the numbers do not matter, and is only information that is not needed.
That is like learning how a carburetor (when there was one) works, when all we need is to put the car key in, and go from one place to another. It is a waste of memory space.
What we need to do is be healthy, and vibrant, and from there we will be joyful and the second part of this article on raising vibrations will be easy.
There are many ways to raise our alkalinity; fruits, vegetables, yet one easiest ways is by drinking pure alkaline water. Think of it, our bodies are at least 70% water. Think it matters if it is green and disgusting inside or sparkling like a perfectly balanced environment?
I was under the impression that drinking bottled water, was good for me. Yet as I was to find out, that was another lie we have been told.
Actually, tap water although not recommended over pure alkaline water, is much better than bottled. On a PH scale, it is twice as good.
Think of it, if you leave a bottle of water in your car in the summer, in no time it becomes rancid and not something you would ever drink. Yet the same water is put into hot plastic as it is being bottled, and never shipped in refrigerated trucks.
So the water is being heated, and then cooled down constantly, before you buy it. This allows the plastic to leach into the water, contaminating it.
The best way is by putting it in glass containers, as they leach nothing. There are many places now that sell alkaline water, just research where they are in your area.
You can also research which fruit or veggies are best for you. Know this, that anything that is raw/ live is better than anything in a package.
They say that 90% of the food in a supermarket is unfit for human consumption. So stay away from anything processed. The best way to think of it, is this; if it comes in a box or package it is processed and off limits.
I know people like their meat, although limit it because it is highly acidic, and causes that green pool in your body. With a sparkling clean one, sickness is impossible.
The first half of this article was about your physical body, now let's move onto your mental body. To back out of 3d is not a simple task, yet it is easy. What is meant by that statement is while the steps may be something you are not used to, and out of your comfort zone, it is relatively easy to attain.
Once you do you will begin to experience a world you never knew existed, yet has been in front of you the whole time. I wrote this in my last article and it proves this point exactly: This was my Twin Flame in the higher realms speaking to me.
I remember one day we were out walking, and the subject of the illusion came up. She said to me "Fred, look up there is something I want you to see".
When I did, I saw the beautiful blue sky, with the white puffy clouds. I now see them and they look as if they were airbrushed in, they are so magnificent. She said "OK, now look to your right".
When I did, I saw dirty clouds and in a hazy sky. This is the same sky I would have seen only a few years ago. I don't understand I said. She told me "it is not so much that your pollution has gotten out of control, it is bad yes… don't get me wrong, although it is more that your vibration that has been lowered.
So most cannot see what is right before their eyes". This is why I experience all I do, whether it be talking to animals, trees, or seeing clearly what others do not.
Like beings mingling all around us, spaceships in the air, floating cities etc. Some of my best friends are a bunch of fairies, who I take everywhere. One of my mentors happens to be one, and we have developed a deep friendship.
Raising your vibration unmasks the illusion. I was told to not watch certain shows on TV. Why do you think they call it programing, I was told?!
What we unknowingly take in, is just as important as our diet… if not more. Horror flicks were obvious, although even simple cop shows or action adventure films, were eventually off limits.
I was to find out anything that raised my heartbeat, and therefore my blood pressure needed to go. So I watched anything funny, and eventually I was told to watch only shows that had to do with nature.
To go out into nature is more therapeutic then one may think, and I was told over and over again, that ascending to the higher dimensions involves getting back in tune with nature. You want to know how the higher dimensions work, observe nature I was told.
I don't even watch nature shows anymore, and go out into the real thing, and it was there my vibration went even higher. Plus I get more energy from the Sun.
I do not read newspapers, or listen to the radio (the commercials are programs) and I definitely do not watch the news. It is a joke, and not real anyway. The death and destruction we see, is purposely put out there to conjure up feelings of fear and dread.
Remember the Law of Attraction (which is universal) says like attracts like. So when they get you to "feel" fear and dread you bring more of it to you. Conversely if you focus on things that make you happy and feel good, you'll attract more of that to you.
Once you begin to make your body healthy, and raise your vibrations by backing out of 3d, the illusion will begin to crumble. We are headed into an awesome existence people, and this is why we have been told repeatedly that this is an exciting time to be alive.
I remember a time once a couple of years back, after my Twin and I were reunited. She reached out to me from the other side of the veil about 30 years after her "passing". I was with her yet in a dream state (this was at night), and we were somewhere in the future. I know this by what someone said to me.
He said as he shook my hand "my God, you were there!" Most do not realize this although we are held in high esteem across the universe for what we are doing now. We are looked at like heroes.
We have taken on the dark and won. We may not realize it, because we are in the middle of it, yet this will go down as the greatest moment in history. Think of the greatest moments we have learned about… do you think the people alive at that time knew they were part of something historical?


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DAILYS
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Chronicles of Crazy, by David Warren
Follow the Science (Except When the Results are Inconvenient), by Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Will Beauty Save the World? by R. Jared Staudt
*Image: King Nebuchadnezzar as a Wild Animal by an unknown artist, c. 1400-1410 [J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA]. The image refers to Daniel 4: 25-35: the prophet tells the king that he will lose his mind and live like a beast for seven years. The illustration is from Rudolf von Ems' Weltchronik or "world chronicle" written in the mid-1200s.
By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Dec. 4, 2020
David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.
Note: The days grow short for this year-end funding drive. To resist the pandemic of craziness that David Warren outlines today we only have each other. So it comes down to the question: Are you with us or not? Click the button. Support TCT in 2021. – Robert Royal
Were there not an alternative explanation, I would have to conclude that a certain lady's theory of the Batflu epidemic is correct.
This is the daughter of an old friend: not, I should mention, a professional epidemiologist. She is left-wing, in a way typical of her "millennial" generation, but like many of the rest not incapable of some independent thought.
Her theory is that the Chinese virus has been misrepresented. Chiefly, it is blamed for respiratory crises among the old with comorbidities, and indeed it seems to have killed more than a million of them, around the world, in the year or so since it was flagged. She doesn't deny a bit of that.
But she parts company from those who suggest that it has little, and frequently no, effect on most below pensionable age. These, to her mind, may be the main victims; whereas the old, with their pre-existing conditions, were going to die soon, anyway. (This may seem a cold-hearted way to look at it, but many cold-hearted analyses are true.) …
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Humility: Between Pride and False Modesty, by Marc Massery
Cong. Louie Gohmert Quotes Pelosi: 'I Don't Even Know Why There Aren't Uprising All Over the Country; Maybe There Will Be'
*Image: Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea (Jésus enseigne le peuple près de la mer) by James J. Tissot, c. 1890 [Brooklyn Museum]
Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Many Sinners Were Sitting with Jesus
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Q: How to add popover template for directive Is there is way to add popover template for a directive. I am building a directive when user clicks on the element bootstrap popover should appear
here is my code
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      title: attrs.title || 'Title'
      content: '... popoverTemplate ...' #this html should get form popoverTemplate
      container: 'body'
      placement: attrs.placement
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is it right way? because popover has a html form.

A: I don't think it's the right way to do it.
I'd have a popover directive which u can use inside your directive's template. That popup directive should support transclusion, since you will pass an html.
In your directive's template:
<pop-over-directive ng-show="isPopupVisible">
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Upon release of his new single, P. Lo Jetson and his team reached out to have a lyric video created. The visual was to be used for online promotion and as a display for live performances.
Using Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop, a mixture of kinetic type and animated illustrations were created and used as key elements in developing the visuals for this video project.


From the 21st of June to the 16th of July, Olympiapark South in Munich hosts this year's Tollwood Summer Festival.
For the next 26 days visitors are invited to enjoy the full variety of theater and performance groups, live concerts and the "Market of Ideas".
There is a lot to discover such as the market stands with handicraft and international gastronomy. In other spaces visitors can be active themselves and ake part in activities. Over 70 percent of all performances - including children's entertainment, are non-ticketed and free.