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Holy Family Cathedral
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John's–Basseterre is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, covering five English-speaking jurisdictions in the Caribbean.
Antigua Recreation Ground
Recreation area
Antigua Recreation Ground is the national stadium of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua Recreation Ground is situated 660 metres north of Holy Family Cathedral. Photo: Z dead, CC BY 2.0.
Museum of Antigua and Barbuda
The Museum of Antigua and Barbuda is a museum in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Museum of Antigua and Barbuda is situated 1 km northwest of Holy Family Cathedral. Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. John's Cathedral
St. John's Cathedral also known as the St. John the Divine, the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, is an Anglican church perched on a hilltop in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. St. John's Cathedral is situated 1 km northwest of Holy Family Cathedral. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Yasco Sports Complex
Yasco Sports Complex is a multi-use stadium in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Yasco Sports Complex is situated 1 km northeast of Holy Family Cathedral.
St. John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. Photo: MattWade, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Potters Village
Potters Village is a township located on Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda.
Piggotts
Piggotts, also known as St Mark's Village, is a small township in Saint George Parish on Antigua island in Antigua and Barbuda. Piggotts is situated 3½ km east of Holy Family Cathedral.
Type: Church
Description: cathedral in Antigua and Barbuda
Category: cathedral
Location: Antigua and Barbuda, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
17.1166° or 17° 6' 59.6" north
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Egyptian Spoken Arabic: كاتدرائيه العائله المقدسه
English: Holy Family Cathedral (St. John's)
French: Cathédrale de la Sainte-Famille de Saint John's
German: Holy Family Cathedral
Italian: cattedrale della Sacra Famiglia
Spanish: Catedral de la Sagrada Familia
Cattedrale della Sacra Famiglia
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My parents, both long gone, were part of a generation that veteran news broadcaster and journalist Tom Brokaw referred to as The Greatest Generation in his book by that same title.
While today we honor the many millions who lost their lives in World War 1, the children born after that war that ened 100 years ago on November 11, 1918, pretty much spawned The Greatest Generation—a generation that grew up to fight in another war, World War 11.
Those who came home after WW11 returned to a country filled with opportunity and promise— economic opportunity that rewarded anyone willing to work and to save for their futures. And, in many cases, to build an inheritance for their offspring.
You didn't have to be a Vet, or an Ivy League or Big 10 college graduate to partake in the majority of those economic opportunities. Pretty much all a person had to do was to show up for work, work one job and to save for his or her future.
But that was then; this is now. And, over the last 50 years, the odds of Baby Boomer's kids' earning more than their Greatest Generation parents have has been losing ground.
Although it's true that an individual's highest earning years come later in their life, typically after age 50, the odds of your adult children and grandchildren having more money by the time they reach retirement age than you did/have is far from a given.
Today's economy isn't our parent's economy. While there are many who boast about how great the economy is, it really isn't. It's a selective economy that rewards a few and not the majority.
Want your kids, grandkids and their kids to enjoy personal economic opportunities? Teach them to live below their means—if that's possible.
For a change, it was an up week for index returns with gains in the year-to-date as well as the 1-year returns for all of the four major indices followed here.
Below are the weekly and 1-year index performance results for the four major indices—DJIA, S&P 500, NASDAQ and the Russell 2000— including the dates each reached new highs. Data is according to CNBC.com and based on prices at the close of business on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.
–DJIA 5.14% YTD way up from the previous week's return of 2.23%.
The good news is: At the close of business on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, the average total return for funds that fall under the U.S. Diversified Equity Funds heading was 3.33%. That's up from last week's 1.37%, according to Lipper.
So what's up with the performances of the 25 largest equity funds around? Well, y-to-date 10 of the 25 were sporting returns within the 6% range; 7 had returns that fell into minus territory; and the only 1 had a double-digit return. That was the Investco QQ Trust 1—it's return 12.70%.
Please take the time today to recall, re-read or re-educate yourself to what caused World War 1 and then World War 11.
Then, take a moment to think about —and salute–those in your family or circle of friends who lost their lives while serving their country and those serving today. It's the right thing to do.


It's your life. You may not be able to control it, but only you can live it. You were born into a time and place not of your choosing. You were born with a certain set of genes that determined, among other things, your race, your general size and shape, your blood type, even your propensity to certain diseases. You were exposed to acts of cruelty or love, to hurricanes or droughts. And through it all you endured and changed and grew.
The person you are today is a complex blend of inherited traits and environmental influences braided together into the unique individual that you are. Every morning as you rise from your world of dreams and begin your day, you assume once again the burden and the glory of simply being you. Once again, you will smell your own peculiar smell, see the familiar face looking back from the mirror, recall the places and events that have contributed their parts to making you who you are.
And you will go on with your day. You will make decisions about what to eat and how much, about whether to help someone in need or to turn away, whether to express your feelings or to hide them. It is for you to decide. Nobody else can do it for you. It is your right and your obligation. You must decide and act even though you can't always foresee how events will play out.
And tomorrow you will do it again. And the next day also, just like everyone else. It's your life, the only life you have, and only you can live it.
Write a short response to the passage above, especially as it relates to your life right now. Feel free to reject any of the statements above or even the whole premise, but be sure to reflect on how your present life has been, and continues to be, shaped by conscious choices and decisions made by you. Include some examples. Share with a friend or post in your blog.


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Murder in Pleasanton: Tina Faelz and the Search for Justice
By Joshua Suchon
In April 1984, Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. About an hour later, she was found in a ditch, brutally stabbed to death. The murder shook the quiet East Bay suburb of Pleasanton and left investigators baffled. With no witnesses or leads, the case went cold and remained so for nearly thirty years. In 2011, the investigation finally got a break. Improved forensics recovered DNA from a drop of blood found at the scene matching Tina's classmate, Steven Carlson. Through dusty police files, personal interviews, letters and firsthand accounts, journalist Joshua Suchon revisits his childhood home to uncover the story of a disturbing crime and the controversial sentencing that brought long-awaited answers to a city tormented by questions.
Pleasanton native Joshua Suchon was a reporter at the Oakland Tribune for ten years before switching careers to pursue a lifelong dream to become a baseball play-by-play announcer. He's now the radio announcer for the Albuquerque Isotopes, the triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. This is his third book and first true crime publication. He can be reached at www.joshuasuchon.com.

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I´m rendering the beauty pass again with some modifications like, caustics enable for a more accurate color dispersion and wood texture for the two fosil boxes.
I´m not using the physicalSky, I prefer more control and use a more classic ilumination mode with my own background color and intesty from the camera and some sopt lights and area lights for a better control in specular and photons.
I think about the color bleed with the stainedglass in the afternoon was a good way to iluminate and create an athomsfere in the scene.
Slow day at the office, decided to tackle this challenge. This is a very nice model, lots of fun to mess with. Done in Max 2009 and Vray.
I tried to add more contrast, as well as get dramatic shadows from the dinos. A few materials have also been tweaked. All was done in Blender, except for the floor and building textures which are photos I prepared in Photoshop. I also used Photoshop for a few minor corrections. I really love critique and/or comments.
In addition to those changes, there are a few reflections in the glass display now, I added an ambocc pass and I changed the direction of the moonlight. Thank you again for all your help and I look forward to additional critiques.
Are there fabulous cash and prizes for winning? Cartman once said…you cant get anyone to do anything without fabulous prizes. Not that I agree, but Im curious?
Your work look nice too. Maybe some textures and more depht in the camera angle could be better.
I made a final render but hope some comments to take the final retouche, thanks Jeremy.
Mmmmmm punch and pie… That makes this challenge even better!
sorry that I am posting this this late - haven't had any time to play 3d at home this week.
The file is 3ds - I tried importing it in max and the dino objects seemed to come broken - you might have to weld some points on them. Also I rushed and never fixed the more angular lamp - that still has flipped faces and most likely 3ds broke the seams between flipped faces.
Quick explanation of the file: Most pieces are instanced - I did this retarded manual copying off most of the pieces so that they would be instanced. This will be very helpful for any possible UV work and will definitely help in rendering memory usage too. File saving will also be zillion times faster with instanced bits.
Cheers, looks like I might not have time to do the challenge right now but hopefully that is not the case.
One for long shots and one for close-ups?
I am limiting my use of tools to the freely available so I might be way off base here?
New update. More work on the background illumination. Better rim lighting on the dino. Still doing tests for better texturing, and overall look of the image. I'm not using GI, only ambient occlusion and spot lights. Also a bit of post process for adjusting some specular layers and trying the dino to stand out a bit in the image. Dof, lens deformation and dispersion also in postprocess. I see very nice images in the thread… Good work everyone! .
this one also has objects already split on layers. Same as the previous file - all instanced, objects linked to a null so I got the center line moved to origin and scaled to realistic scale (seemed that it has some typical inch/metric system scale issues).
This file might act unpredictably in metric system units computers as the symmetry modifier doesn't change its values when you choose to "scale scene to match system units".
You mean to tell me this is just a learning experience. God@#%$it…I want a hat or something!
i've changed the whole lighting scheme. How do you like the view ?
Hello, great renders here, congrats.
This is my first post to this challenge. I have used Maya for lighting and Shake to comp the image. I tried to give it a dramatic look - something dramatic happening @ a place filled with magic. Not used any textures, as i was not sure dat i'll be able to give justice to dat b4 deadline. So here it is…pls comment and guide.


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The latest data from the American Cancer Society indicates more than 225,000 new cases of breast cancer have been diagnosed in the first eight months of 2013 alone and almost 40,000 people have died this year.
During the month of October, The Ardmoreite did a series focusing on breast cancer. This series highlighted many of the topics patients and family members want and need to know.


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The second of this year's Boyer Lectures (delivered by Professor Sir Michael Marmot) focuses on enabling good health outcomes through preventative approaches, and by starting early... especially with at risk groups. This includes addressing both the positives and negatives of early childhood experience.
According to Professor Marmot.... the positives include nurturing of psychological, linguistic, social, emotional and behavioral development. The negatives that need to be addressed are adverse child experiences. An absence of nurturing and the presence of the harmful are strong contributors to inequalities in health in adult life and there is a great deal we can do to make things better through national policy settings and by supporting families and children.
You can hear the full talk by clicking on this link.


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In another interesting development for the movement to unionize charter schools, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that Teach for America corps members should have been allowed to vote in a Detroit charter union election earlier this year.
Detroit 90/90, a charter management organization for the University Prep charter network, said that Teach for America teachers shouldn't be permitted to vote because they are not professional employees. Instead, they argued, TFA members should be viewed as long-term substitute teachers.
There are roughly 11,000 current TFA teachers and more than 37,000 alumni around the country. About 60 percent of Detroit Teach for America corps members work in charter schools. Nate Walker, AFT-Michigan's K-12 organizer and policy analyst, was a former Detroit TFA-er himself.
It's likely that we'll continue to see more union campaigns launched at charter schools, and more Teach for America members among them. Many TFA-ers are progressive and young, and national surveys find that young Americans are among the country's most ardent union supporters. According to Pew, fully 55 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 held a favorable view of unions, while just 29 percent held unfavorable ones.
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Mathieu Despard
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Mathieu Despard, MSW, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the UNC Center for Community Capital. Before joining the CCC team, Dr. Despard served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, where he conducted research on the financial inclusion and security of low- and moderate-income (LMI) households. Recent projects include the distribution of mainstream and alternative financial services, a large scale tax-time savings experiment, and the impacts of student debt on low- and moderate-income households. He also conducts research on employee financial wellness and the financial health and capacity of nonprofit organizations, and has several years of experience in nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities and graduate-level teaching in nonprofit management, community development, and social policy at the School of Social Work and Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Despard is also a faculty associate with the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
Prior Research
The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk Among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks, Forthcoming.
Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship Among Low-Income Filers, September 2017.
The Role of Parents in Introducing Children to Financial Services: Evidence from Ghana YouthSave, September 2017.
Mapping Financial Opportunity: Final Report & Web Platform, Spring 2017.
Employee Financial Wellness Programs Project: Comprehensive Report of Findings, Summer 2017.
Are Banks' Entry-Level Checking Accounts Safe and Affordable? Comparing a Stratified Random Sample of Banks to Safety and Affordability Guidelines, May 2017.
Employee Financial Wellness Programs: A Review of the Literature and Directions for Future Research, 2017.
Do Metropolitan Areas Have Equal Access to Banking? A Geographic Investigation of Financial Services Availability, February 2017.
Can Post Offices Increase Access to Financial Services? A Geographic Investigation of Financial Services Availability, February 2017.
Navigating Day-to-Day Finances: A Geographic Investigation of Brick-and-Mortar Financial Services and Households' Financial Health, February 2017.
Resilient in the Midst of Financial Change: A Geographic Investigation of Brick-and-Mortar Financial Services and Households' Financial Health, February 2017.
Investing in the Future: A Geographic Investigation of Brick-and-Mortar Financial Services and Households' Financial Health, February 2017.
Financial Insecurity and Risk Experiences of Justice Involved Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses, December 2016.
Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Intervention on Use of Alternative Financial Services Among Lower-Income Households, December 2016.
Do Tax-Time Savings Deposits Improve Financial Outcomes and Reduce Hardship Among Low-Income Filers? A Propensity Score Analysis, October 2016.
Student Debt and Hardship: Evidence from a Large Sample of Low- and Moderate-Income Households, November 2016.
Preventive Policy Strategy for Banking the Unbanked: Savings Accounts for Teenagers?, July 2015.
Online Platforms and Tools to Support Financial Coaching and Counseling, January 2019
The Disparate Impact of Credit Checks in Employment Hiring, October 2018
Housing & Financial Capabilities: Integrating and Enhancing Services for Residents, June 2018
Assessing and Promoting Opportunity in Low- and Moderate-Income Communities, May 2018
The Impact of Low- and Moderate-Wealth Homeownership on Parental Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from the Community Advantage Panel, January 2009


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D CEO Panel Recap: Health System Executives on Leading Amid a Pandemic
This month, D CEO Healthcare hosted a virtual panel discussing health system executives' approaches to managing hospitals during the pandemic. The panel included three local executives who recently discussed the unique challenges, efforts to support their employees, and collaboration across networks to serve communities best.
The panelists were Erol Akdamar, President of Medical City Healthcare; Barclay Berdan, CEO of Texas Health Resources; and James Scoggin Jr., CEO of Methodist Health System.
Continue reading about some of the healthcare leaders' most insightful takeaways below.
Scoggin on the lessons he learned while running a hospital during the pandemic:
"We learned timely, transparent, sincere and earnest communications to our staff. We had to extend a lot of grace in this process, and we had to be extended a lot of grace in this process. It has been really gratifying and impressive to see how the health systems supported each other and collaborated. There was a complete openness about sharing that just shows what a respectful, collegial and supportive relationship we have. Of course, we're competitors at several levels, but, most importantly, we're all here to serve the communities and patients that we serve. It's gratifying to see people rise above all else and just completely support one another."
Berdan on the additional role of nurses and employees with COVID-19 restrictions:
"Because we had patients in hospitals with restrictions on visitors, I was blown away by the commitment of our staff, nurses and other employees who took on the extra role of being the family support while patients were in the hospital, being the caregiver, playing a support role, and essentially being a person who was responsible for keeping the communication between the family and the patient going forward.
Akdamar on the most difficult decision made over the past six months:
"One of the most difficult decisions made was voluntarily suspending our elective inpatient and outpatient surgery for the second time. We've heard a lot about the capacity and availability of beds and ventilators, but for us we struggled with the availability of the staff to surge up to that level of appropriate care. We took a very conservative position out of an abundance of caution. It was a difficult decision because it impacted our patients and their access to care about already being suspended for some period of time."
Scoggin on limiting hospital visitors to mitigate the spread of COVID-19:
"One of the toughest decisions that we had to make placing severe restrictions on family members being able to visit with their loved ones. With respect to our COVID patient population, we had to severely cut back on and even limit in some cases no visitors. I think about the importance of family members in the healing process and the support that our patients need, which families can provide. To have to limit that to the degree that we did was one of the decisions that I lost more sleep over than anything else we had to do.
Berdan on caring for the mental health and stress of employees during the pandemic:
"We offered a variety of support options for employees—childcare, school support resources, hotel rooms and shower facilities. We really concentrated on supporting mental health and well-being, particularly given the prolonged period of time and the stress that people were experiencing both at work and away from work. We have enhanced our virtual employee assistance program, including psychological first aid, counseling, self-care check-ins. They have been so popular that we're going to continue them even post-pandemic. The most important thing is listening to our employees. Through polling, we were able to identify things we could do and create a dialogue of listening to people's concerns, questions, and how we could better explain policy changes."
Akdamar on how Medical City's national network with hospitals across the country impacted operations during the pandemic:
"Being as large as we are, we saw some benefits of the depth of supply chain when we were trying to access PPE and reagents for some of the testing that was scare. We had access to real-time learning and information with 40 different markets. We utilized the ventilator exchange, in which health systems were able to put inventory into an exchange so communities could borrow equipment to address the COVID surges in their community. I think that's an example of the synergy and opportunity of taking the size, the scale, and the leverage of HCA and not just benefiting our own hospitals but our peer hospitals, strengthening those relationships, benefiting our communities and benefiting our patients."
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We had our first stop at the Bahai Temple when we drove up to the northern beaches of Sydney, their towering house of worship is visible along the freeway. It's a lovely place, well landscaped with a background of forested land. Some few caretakers in the compound including those at the information/visitors building met and oriented us, shared brochures regarding their religion and told us what can be found inside the compound. We had some few photos taken here including inside the temple. Their brochures listed that the Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.


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Upcoming and current happenings within the community
Stayton in brief Upcoming and current happenings within the community Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: http://stjr.nl/1qoAwHB
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Gates Fire rehearses for 'Autumn Rhythms'
Gates Fire Department announced that its concert fundraiser, "Autumn Rhythms" will take place with several performances Friday through Sunday, Nov. 21-23.
Concert times will be 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. on Sunday. Word is the chief – and concert director – is enthusiastic about the prospects of this year's performances.
"We've changed the venue this year," Gary Swanson said. "We've moved from the truck bay to the community gathering room upstairs. People will be closer to the performers and sitting at tables will make it feel more like a small nightclub setting."
Cost is $25, and includes hors d'oeuvres and fancy desserts that will be served an hour before the concert and again at intermission. A no-host bar will be available with wine and beer.
"We're offering a great variety in music, including Broadway show numbers, as well as ballads and light jazz. There should be something for everyone," Swanson said.
There are only 64 seats available each night. For information, call Nancy Swanson at (503) 897-3454 or e-mail rtb@wvi.com. Tickets can be paid for by mailing a check to GFDESS, P.O. Box 594, Gates, OR 97346.
Aumsville to dedicate splash park
Aumsville will dedicate the city's new Wildwood Splash Park at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10.
The dedication will include a ribbon cutting and the official opening of the park, located at 700 5th St., followed by a gathering at the Chester Bridges Memorial Community Center downtown.
For information, call Aumsville City Hall, (503) 749-2030.
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The Clash's third album, 1979's London Calling, is where their brilliance comes together in a 19-track tour de force that uses the energy of their punk origins and employs it in a number of new stylistic directions. Reggae-dub underlines "Rudie Can't Fail," "Wrong 'Em Boyo," "Revolution Rock," and bassist Paul Simonon's unnerving "The Guns of Brixton." Rockabilly and surf chase the cover of Vince Taylor's "Brand New Cadillac." Genuine pop melodies support the Mick Jones-led "Spanish Bombs," "Lost In the Supermarket," "I'm Not Down," and the hit-single-in-hiding "Train In Vain" (original copies of the album didn't list it on the album sleeve). The title track remains one of the most ominous songs ever to kick off any album, never mind a double album of such consequence. And we haven't even mentioned the brilliance of "Hateful," "Clampdown," "Death or Glory" or "Koka Kola." Their self-titled debut (in both U.K. and U.S. configurations) stood for punk's raw power and Sandinista! provided the band with enough room for pure experimentation, but London Calling splits the difference and aims for the center line. Quite simply: a masterpiece by any definition.


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William Marquitz »Little Bill« Johnston, ameriški tenisač, * 2. november 1894, San Francisco, ZDA, † 1. maj 1946, San Francisco.

William Johnston je dvakrat osvojil Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA v posamični konkurenci, v letih 1915 in 1919, še šestkrat je zaigral v finalu. Sedemkrat se je v finalu pomeril z Billom Tildenom in ga le enkrat premagal. Leta 1923 je osvojil še Prvenstvo Anglije. V konkurenci moških dvojic je trikrat osvojil Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA, v letih 1915, 1916 in 1920, v konkurenci mešanih dvojic pa leta 1921. V letih 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 in 1926 je bil član zmagovite ameriške reprezentance v tekmovanju International Lawn Tennis Challenge. Leta 1958 je bil sprejet v Mednarodni teniški hram slavnih.

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| 1915 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA ||  Maurice McLoughlin || 1–6, 6–0, 7–5, 10–8
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| 1919 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(2) ||  Bill Tilden || 6–4, 6–4, 6–3
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| 1923 || Prvenstvo Anglije ||  Frank Hunter || 6–0, 6–3, 6–1
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| 1916 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA ||  R. Norris Williams || 6–4, 4–6, 6–0, 2–6, 4–6
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| 1920 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(2) ||  Bill Tilden || 1–6, 6–1, 5–7, 7–5, 3–6
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| 1922 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(3) ||  Bill Tilden || 6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 3–6, 4–6
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| 1923 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(4) ||  Bill Tilden || 4–6, 1–6, 4–6
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| 1924 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(5) ||  Bill Tilden || 1–6, 7–9, 2–6
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| 1925 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(6) ||  Bill Tilden || 6–4, 9–11, 3–6, 6–4, 3–6
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| 1915 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA ||  Clarence Griffin ||  Maurice E. McLoughlin Tom Bundy || 2–6, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
|-bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| 1916 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(2) ||  Clarence Griffin ||  Maurice E. McLoughlin Ward Dawson || 6–4, 6–3, 5–7, 6–3
|-bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| 1920 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA <small>(3) ||  Clarence Griffin ||  Roland Roberts Willis E. Davis || 6–2, 6–2, 6–3
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| 1921 || |Nacionalno prvenstvo ZDA ||  Mary Browne ||  Molla Bjurstedt Mallory Bill Tilden || 3–6, 6–4, 6–3
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Palamuse (historischer deutscher Name St. Bartholomäi) war eine estnische Landgemeinde im Kreis Jõgeva mit einer Fläche von 216 km².

Palamuse wurde erstmals im Jahre 1234 urkundlich erwähnt. Die Landgemeinde hatte 2496 Einwohner (Stand: 1. Januar 2010). Neben dem Hauptort Palamuse (627 Einwohner) umfasste sie die Dörfer Änkküla, Eerikvere, Ehavere, Imukvere, Järvepera, Kaarepere, Kaiavere, Kassivere, Kivimäe, Kudina, Luua, Mullavere, Nava, Pikkjärve, Praaklima, Raadivere, Rahivere, Ronivere, Sudiste, Süvalepa, Toovere, Vaidavere, Vanavälja, Varbevere und Visusti.

1895–1899 ging der estnische Schriftsteller Oskar Luts in Palamuse zur Schule, der später mit romanhaften Schulerinnerungen einer der auflagenstärksten Autoren Estlands wurde. Im ehemaligen Schulgebäude ist seit 1987 ein Museum zu seinem Leben und Werk sowie zum estnischen Schulwesen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts untergebracht. Sehenswert ist außerdem die dem Apostel Bartholomäus geweihte Kirche, eine der ältesten Steinkirchen Estlands, aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Sie wurde im 15. Jahrhundert im gotischen Stil umgebaut. Der Apostel war Namensgeber für die Gemeinde Palamuse.

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 Internetseite von Palamuse (estnisch)
 Oskar Luts Kirchspielmuseum in Palamuse (estnisch)

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Ersterwähnung 1234
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Binance launches its first customer service center in Turkey
HomeAll Posts...Binance launches its first customer service...
Data shows that Turkey accounts for over 7% of the desktop browser access to Binance's primary platform.
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, announced the launch of its customer service center, Cointelegraph Turkey reported.
Binance picked Turkey, where it established a local entity roughly two years ago, as the pilot country for its new service.
A possible reason for Binance to pick Turkey is the high volume of traffic the exchange is getting from the country.
Similarweb data shows that Turkey accounts for over 7% of the desktop browser access to Binance's primary platform.
Binance will provide its Turkish customers with 24/7 customer care support through its app, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph Turkey.
The exchange is preparing to expand the service worldwide provided the pilot test in Turkey becomes successful.
Cointelegraph reached out to Binance for more details, and this article will be updated when more information is available.
Speaking at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao explained that the firm plans to expand its customer support options:
"We provide customer support only via texting, and in the forthcoming period, we aim to roll this service also via phone in all countries."
According to the announcement, Binance will offer customer support in Turkish, and it will be provided only through the app. The exchange explained that this goal is to put an end to fraud cases before they even begin.
With the new service, customers in need of help will be contacted through the application, and a conversation will start when the customer accepts the call.
Related: Binance CEO explains what he's most excited about in 2022
Apart from expanding its services and improving the user experience, the exchange is also looking to grow its presence in traditional markets by investing in companies from each economic sector.
To enhance crypto adoption and diversify its business, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao believes "forcing traditional companies to adopt crypto will put pressure on the slow-movers and increase market competition."
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Q: Using Angular material2 table with an http service I have an http service which retrieves some data:
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

@Injectable()
export class SearchService {

  constructor(private http: Http) { }

  getData(searchterm) {

      return this.http.get('http://localhost:3000/product/' + searchterm).map((res: Response) => res.json());

     }

}

I know would like to populate a table from the material framework with this service using pagination.
Reading the docs at https://material.angular.io/components/table/overview#pagination in the examples they use their own database in the component ts file to generate some hardcoded values. I have tried to modify this code to use my http service but I have been unable to get it to work due to the fact I am not 100% following the flow of the example (e.g do I need the datasource or can I take this out?). I am looking for the most basic example of how to populate a table with a http service which then allows pagination.
What I have tried so far:
import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { FormControl } from '@angular/forms';
import { DataSource } from '@angular/cdk/collections';
import { BehaviorSubject } from 'rxjs/BehaviorSubject';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/of';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/startWith';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/merge';

import { MatPaginator, MatAutocompleteTrigger } from '@angular/material';

import { SearchService } from './../search.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-search',
  templateUrl: './search.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./search.component.css'],
  providers: [WorklistService, SearchService]
})
export class SearchComponent implements OnInit {

  @ViewChild(MatAutocompleteTrigger)
  autoTrigger: MatAutocompleteTrigger;

  displayedColumns = ['id', 'name'];

  dataSource = new ExampleDataSource();

  constructor() { }

  OnSearchEnterPressed(event) {
    this.dataSource.populateTable();
  }

}

export interface Data {

  id: string;

  name: string;
}

var httpdata: any[];

export class ExampleDataSource extends DataSource<any> {

  constructor() {
    super();
  }

  populateTable(searchterm) {
    this.searchService.getData('somevaluetotsendtotheservice').subscribe(data => {
      httpdata = data;
      this.connect();
    });
  }

  connect(): Observable<any[]> {
    return Observable.of(httpdata);
  }

  disconnect() { }
}

A: Check the official material example in GitHub this should help you with the implementation.
Here is the link: table-http


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Woman Sues City After Mistaken Arrests, The Daily Californian
By Conor Dale, Contribution Writer
An Oakland woman mistakenly arrested seven times and who served six stints in jail filed a lawsuit against the city of Berkeley last week, claiming an array of civil rights violations over the past three years.
Stancy Nesby, a 28-year-old mother of four, was arrested seven times in the past 15 months. Nesby's legal troubles began when a woman arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession in 2001 allegedly gave Nesby's name to authorities, prompting police to be on the lookout for Nesby instead of the true suspect, said her attorney, Jivaka Candappa.
When Nesby failed to show up for a court appearance for the arrest, a San Francisco judge issued two bench warrants for her arrest.
She has since been arrested seven times – twice in Berkeley – because of the mistaken identity, Candappa said.
The suit, filed last week in Alameda County Superior Court, seeks unspecified damages for unlawful searches and seizures, violation of due process rights and emotional distress.
The woman pictured in the warrants is 5 inches shorter than Nesby, Candappa said.
"If the police had done any kind of checking, these arrests would not have happened," Candappa said.
The Berkeley Police Department and city attorneys declined to comment on the case or arrests because of pending litigation.
Her first arrest, on Sept. 3 of last year, occurred after a Berkeley police officer pulled Nesby over for an unspecified reason. When she showed the officer her driver's license, she was arrested for the outstanding warrant.
Candappa said there was no merit for stopping his client, who is black. He said it was a case of racial profiling.
The suit also claims that the officer disregarded a letter from a San Francisco judge acknowledging that Nesby was the victim of identity theft.
"The officers tore it up and laughed at her," Candappa said.
Two weeks later, Nesby was arrested again on the same warrant after police found her in the parking lot of a grocery store that had recently been robbed.
Candappa also claims that the San Francisco Police Department has not removed Nesby's name from the statewide warrant database, despite efforts by other law enforcement agencies.
A Shasta County official sent a letter Oct. 30 of last year to the San Francisco Police Department, insisting that Nesby's name be removed from the database.
Candappa also filed suit against San Francisco for failing to drop Nesby from its warrant database. The suit seeks $1 million in damages.
San Francisco officials say Nesby's suit will have little chance of succeeding in court.
"There is no basis for this lawsuit legally or factually," said Matt Dorsey, spokesperson for San Francisco's city attorney. "Our job is to defend the taxpayers' money, and we intend to do that vigorously."
Candappa said he plans to litigate both cases aggressively. "It's a matter that requires some form of justice. I am going to see this to the bitter end," he said.
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Property Location Located in Boise, Safari Inn Downtown is minutes from Boise Center and CenturyLink Arena. This hotel is within close proximity of Basque Museum and Cultural Center and Idaho State Capitol Building. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 103 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and hair dryers. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and desks, as well as direct-dial phones with free local calls and voice mail. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including a spa tub, a sauna, and a 24-hour fitness facility. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in the lobby. Dining A complimentary continental breakfast is included. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include a computer station, business services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Boise? This hotel has facilities measuring 648 square feet (58 square meters), including a meeting/conference room. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary (available on request).
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Miller's Profit From Campaign Loan May Violate State Law
by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal Dec. 12, 2013 4:17 PM
By Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal Dec. 12, 2013
"Miller's Profit From Campaign Loan May Violate State Law" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
A $10,000 loan that Republican candidate for agriculture commissioner Sid Miller made to himself in 2000 — with a 10 percent interest rate that led him to pocket about $34,000 when he finally paid himself back last year — may be a violation of state law.
Miller, a former state representative, has said his actions, first reported by the Dallas Morning News last month, are permissible by Texas law. But Austin-based ethics lawyer Randall "Buck" Wood said that in 2011, state law changed. Senate Bill 1, passed during a special session while Miller was still in the Legislature, prohibited office-seekers who loaned to their own campaigns from collecting back any more money than the original loan amount — effectively banning them from charging interest and profiting off the loan. Miller voted against the bill.
"It may have been legal for him to put interest in it in 2000. It isn't legal anymore," said Wood. Miller paid himself back in 2012 after losing a primary election, 12 years later than the maturity date indicated on the original loan. With compounded interest over time, the amount he was owed amounted to more than three times the loan.
Todd Smith, of Miller's campaign, said the 2011 law wouldn't apply to Miller because he made the loan more than a decade earlier. "You can't have an ex post facto law that is retroactive. That loan was made in 2000," Smith said. "That might apply to future campaign loans, but it would not be applicable to that loan."
Wood disagreed, saying there is a "significant possibility" that the law applies to Miller as much as to anyone else. He added that it was unreasonable for Miller to charge such a high rate of interest for 12 years. In 2000, interest rates were high, but since the 2008 recession they have been at record lows. "He obviously was charging an extremely excessive rate, not a market rate," Wood said.
Mark McCaig, a former member of the State Republican Executive Committee, has submitted an ethics complaint regarding the loan. Smith blasted McCaig's complaint as a distraction from the issues of the race.
"Anybody can file an ethics complaint about anything, regardless of the validity of it," Smith said, calling McCaig a "fallen Republican."
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Miller's Profit From Campaign Loan May Violate State Law By Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal December 12, 2013 A $10,000 loan that Republican candidate for agriculture commissioner Sid Miller made to himself in 2000 — with a 10 percent interest rate that led him to pocket about $34,000 when he finally paid himself back last year — may be a violation of state law. Miller, a former state representative, has said his actions, first reported by the Dallas Morning News last month, are permissible by Texas law. But Austin-based ethics lawyer Randall "Buck" Wood said that in 2011, state law changed. Senate Bill 1, passed during a special session while Miller was still in the Legislature, prohibited office-seekers who loaned to their own campaigns from collecting back any more money than the original loan amount — effectively banning them from charging interest and profiting off the loan. Miller voted against the bill. "It may have been legal for him to put interest in it in 2000. It isn't legal anymore," said Wood. Miller paid himself back in 2012 after losing a primary election, 12 years later than the maturity date indicated on the original loan. With compounded interest over time, the amount he was owed amounted to more than three times the loan. Todd Smith, of Miller's campaign, said the 2011 law wouldn't apply to Miller because he made the loan more than a decade earlier. "You can't have an ex post facto law that is retroactive. That loan was made in 2000," Smith said. "That might apply to future campaign loans, but it would not be applicable to that loan." Wood disagreed, saying there is a "significant possibility" that the law applies to Miller as much as to anyone else. He added that it was unreasonable for Miller to charge such a high rate of interest for 12 years. In 2000, interest rates were high, but since the 2008 recession they have been at record lows. "He obviously was charging an extremely excessive rate, not a market rate," Wood said. Mark McCaig, a former member of the State Republican Executive Committee, has submitted an ethics complaint regarding the loan. Smith blasted McCaig's complaint as a distraction from the issues of the race. "Anybody can file an ethics complaint about anything, regardless of the validity of it," Smith said, calling McCaig a "fallen Republican." Texas Tribune donors or members may be quoted or mentioned in our stories, or may be the subject of them. For a complete list of contributors, click here. "Miller's Profit From Campaign Loan May Violate State Law" was first published at https://www.texastribune.org/2013/12/12/millers-profit-campaign-loan-may-violate-state-law/ by The Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune is proud to celebrate 10 years of exceptional journalism for an exceptional state.
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The Social Metrics Commission's 2018 report highlighted that further work is needed to ensure that its measurement framework can be fully implemented. This included work to develop improved approaches to measuring the extra costs of disability and equivalisation, and capturing survey data on debt and social care costs.
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Montréal, 16 March 2018 - The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has reappointed Dr. Fang Liu of China by acclamation today as Secretary General of the UN Specialized Agency for a second three-year term, beginning 1 August 2018.
"It is my great honour to accept this re-appointment and to continue to drive the transformational changes I have begun across ICAO and its Regional Offices in order to make this a more streamlined and efficient UN specialized agency leading such a dynamic sector," Dr. Liu commented.
Dr. Liu was first appointed to the position on 1 August 2015, becoming the first female Secretary General for the UN specialized agency's Secretariat.
"Looking forward," Dr. Liu remarked, "our foremost challenge is the unprecedented traffic growth along with the rapid advancements in aviation technologies. Our principal standard-making function will need to keep pace with these changes. Meanwhile, the time has come to consider a strengthened role for ICAO in implementation support." She elaborated on a wide range of further aviation safety, security, efficiency and sustainability objectives for the UN agency.
Highlighting further effectiveness and efficiency, she is determined to streamline the structure and activities of the Organization to optimize resources and seek achievements through innovation, automation, simplification and modernization. "My team and I are committed to the organizational culture shift to support this transformation," Dr. Liu concluded. Secretary General Liu's career in civil aviation spans more than 30 years. Prior to her election as ICAO Secretary General, she served as Director of ICAO's Bureau of Administration and Services for seven years. This followed her tenure of over 20 years with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).


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President Maithripala and Prime Minister Ranil Must Jointly Shoulder Responsibility For Squandering The Public Trust Placed In Then in 2015.
Posted by Administrator on 31 March 2018, 11:43 pm
Kishali Pinto Jayawardene
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, now busily wrapping the reformist garb of a changed political persona around him, has had the audacity to complain this week that the underworld is now more active than during his Presidency.
Criminals and the Rajapaksa 'project'
But the truth is that the underworld was 'managed' and 'used' at the time to protect the Rajapaksa political project. Those inconvenient to the family in power were disposed of while 'favorites' were nurtured for use whenever the occasion presented itself. Discomforting details of involvement of senior police officers in the assassinations, assaults and underworld activities fostered with state patronage during the last five years of Rajapaksa rule (2010 – 2014) are now emerging into the harsh light of current-day realities.
These are not casual discoveries that can be shrugged away by a genial smile or hypocritical protestations under the Rajapaksa 'satakaya'. These atrocities were not brought before the public much earlier due to the power games of the (dis) unity 'yahapalanaya' alliance, which have now become the butt of ribald jokes in the popular imagination. Wherever the relativities of the blame may lie for this, President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil must shoulder joint responsibility for squandering the richness of the public trust placed in them in 2015. That much is clear.
Following the departure of the Rajapaksa family from the seat of power in 2105, despicable police excesses are no longer linked to the highest levels of the political command in the Government as once was the case. However, systemic reform of the police establishment and credible leadership of the Sri Lanka Police continue to be lacking, leaving law and order to be increasingly imperiled.
Selective or excessive law enforcement
In its absence, we have the IGP absurdly directing his hapless subordinates to compulsorily engage in meditation classes. When communal violence takes place, law enforcement officers turn the proverbial Nelsonian eye to the instigation of agent provocateurs acting with vested political agendas.Worse, they are oftentimes openly supportive as was seen in the recent violence in the Kandy District.
Thus too, when demonstrators take part in legitimate protests, the police reaction is excessively violent as we saw recently in the case of the Thambuttewegama farmers agitating against the proposed use of water in the Rajanagana reservoir for a drinking water project, despite those resources traditionally being used for paddy cultivation.
As in the past, when the police was deaf, dumb and blind in the face of a (toy) pistol wielding so-called mayoral worship of Hambantota(later to be favored by the 'yahapalanaya' regime), law and order is not enforced when it ought to be enforced or enforced selectively with excessive force in other instances.
Eye of a calamitous storm
On the other hand, police officers cannot work honourably even if they wish to do so, as their superiors override them. Indeed, such law abiding policemen are punished rather than commended with the National Police Commission appearing to be helpless in redressing these injustices.The notion of public service by the police continues to be a cosmetic trapping.
Presidential promises of advisory committees looking into reform of the Police Ordinance also do not serve any purpose. What we face is a politically undermined police establishment resulting in the breakdown of law and order. No citizen is immune even if one minds one's own business and keeps out of trouble as is sometimes (mistakenly) believed.
The politicization of the police service has many shameful godfathers, not limited to the Rajapaksas. Similar to the undermining of the judiciary, no political party can piously wash its hands of responsibility. Then again, those who served at the helm of the police and judicial establishments and the country's 'thinking' (or 'unthinking' as the case may be) community who compromised on principle and acted on political agendas, continuing a disgraceful tradition which was evidenced in 2015 as well must shoulder a large part of the blame.
The Police as political 'playthings'
But in the past at least, a minimal balance of institutional credibility was maintained in regard to the police 'service.'The political leadership of the day realized cannily that such a balance was essential to keep alive, at least the perception of a functional law enforcement system.
Such niceties were however cast to the four winds as civil and ethnic conflict aggravated in the country. In time, the police became a political 'plaything' losing even the semblance of democratic functionality. Its role as a buffer between abusive government power and abused individuals was irreversibly reversed. Now police excess is no longer an aberration explained as justifiable in extraordinary circumstances of 'conflict' or 'emergency.'
Daily reports of police inaction or police complicity in gross abuses are accepted as part of ordinary reality. That acceptance is dangerous by itself. We have come to accept the abnormal as normal. It is exactly for this reason that the proposed Counter-Terror Act, which gave police officers the authority to call for financial information of 'suspects' from banking institutions without judicial warrant, was opposed so vigorously. And the same objection is true of the recent (and now withdrawn) emergency regulations imposed in the wake of recent attacks on Muslim civilians which conferred powers on police officers to issue detention orders. These are certainly not healthy precedents.
The crisis goes far deeper than loss of discipline
Essentially it must be recognized that this is not a 'simple'crisis of police officers being subjected to assaults by political goons when the law is enforced. Such incidents are the natural consequences of lawlessness. But the crisis goes far deeper. The institutional victimization of hapless police officers who try to administer the law without favour, speaks to the gravity of the systemic breakdown very well.
Typically, these are the more junior officers just as (at times) far more courageous decisions asserting the Rule of Law are issued by the lower courts than evidenced at the appellate levels of the judicial institution. Law abiding police officers are penalized at the whim and fancy of their superiors acting on vested agendas. This is highly demoralizing where the basic discipline of the police is concerned.
The establishment of an independent National Police Commission under the 17th Amendment was one small step towards institutional reform.Its undermining under the 18th Amendment was reversed by the (unduly) celebrated 19th Amendment. But is the NPC empowered to work actively and effectively? That is a core question.
Still time for redemption
Decades of political undermining of Sri Lanka's police establishment has resulted in the police becoming part of the very criminality that it is supposed to prevent. This reality must be confronted in all its raw ugliness. This Government must redeem itself in the eyes of its disillusioned voters through ensuring the proper enforcement of the law and the 'independent' working of theNational Police Commission. Even at this late stage, there is still time for political redemption if determined leadership is shown. Veritably, there is no other option.
Courtesy:Sunday Times
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The Buddhist Circuit A Spiritual Pilgrimage
IANS, Wisdom Quarterly, Lama Yeshe Archive, UNESCO, New York Times
KAPILAVASTU, Uttar Pradesh, India (Nepalese border) - The U.P. government may be trying to project itself as a champion of Buddhism, yet the Buddha's original home Kapilavastu, along the India-Nepal border, lies in utter neglect.
[If standard history were to be believed,] back in 563 BCE, Queen Maya Devi comfortably traversed a distance of 6 miles (10 km) from her husband King Suddhodana's kingdom, Kapilavastu, to her parental home [passing through] Lumbini, Nepal [on the way to her parent's home to become a mother according to Indian custom], where she gave birth to Siddhartha, who later became the legendary Buddha Gautama. But that may not be possible today.
Tens of thousands of foreign tourists exploring the "Buddhist circuit" have to take a detour of at least 33 miles (53 km) due to the modern absence of a good road link of 12 miles (20 km) between today's "Kapilvastu" and "Lumbini."
The Humble Road to the Noble Truths in India and Nepal (Ralph Frammolino/NY Times)
* [Sadly, both of these locations are likely not archeologically correct. But they are geo-politically correct. The real sites in India's former Northwest Frontier Province are now war-torn Afghanistan (the real Kapilavastu near Bamiyan) northwest of Kabul (with the real Lumbini likely located in Baluchistan where Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan meet). Of course, setting the exact coordinates is controversial, as Dr. Ranajit Pal well knows and Wisdom Quarterly is finding out.]
"What is worse is that this detour is usually packed with trucks as it is one of the main trade routes between the two countries [India and Nepal]," Shamim Ahmad, a cab driver, told IANS.
"Often, the long wait at the Sonauli border is so disgusting for foreign tourists that they choose to give up one or two places on the Buddhist circuit," he added.
The exact location of Kapilavastu has become a matter of contention, with some regarding Tilaurakot in Nepal's Rupandehi as the site of the ancient kingdom.
Currently UNESCO, with funding from Japan [and a recent massive contribution from China], is conducting a three-year excavation there (with tourist patronage courtesy of Kosai Hotel].
But Nepal has not built a serviceable road from the Indian border at Kakrahwa -- less than a half mile (500 meters) from the Kapilavastu stupa -- to the Buddha's birthplace at Lumbini. Neither have Indian authorities bothered to persuade Kathmandu [capital of Nepal] to facilitate the easy movement of Buddhist pilgrims through the border, many have complained.
It has not struck the Uttar Pradesh state government to build a direct road link between Kapilavastu and Sravasti, both being significant stops along the much talked about Buddhist circuit.
"There is a narrow, dilapidated road connecting Sonauli to Kapilavastu and further down to Sravasti; all that is required to be done is to build it into a proper highway," said Indrajeet Gupta, a local grocer.
* The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage
* The Earth Beneath Your Feet - Sacred Land (California's Harbin Hot Springs)
* "Where the Buddha Walked" (available for much less in Asia)
* Celebrating Bodhi Day (with a Circle of Friends)
* The Buddha walks into a bar... (A Guide To Life for a New Generation)
The Buddha on undertaking a pilgrimage
Disciples, after my passing away, if all the sons and daughters of good family with confidence [in the Buddha's enlightenment, the efficacy of the Buddha-Dhar ma to bring one to enlightenment, and the accomplishment of the Noble Sangha], so long as they live, go to four sacred places, they should go and bear in mind:
* Here at Lumbini the Enlightened One was born.
* Here at Bodhgaya he attained enlightenment.
* Here at Sarnath he set rolling the wheel of wheel of Dharma.
* Here at Kushinagar he entered parinirvana.
Disciple, after my final passing away there will be customary marks of respect such as circumambulation of these places and prostration to them.
Thus it should be told: For those who have confidence in my deeds and awareness of their own will travel to higher states.
After my final passing away, the new monastics who come and ask about the Doctrine should be told of these four places and advised that a pilgrimage [due to focusing on the good and overcoming hardship] to them will help purify [outweigh, frustrate, mitigate, replace] their previously accumulated negative karma, even [it is said] the five heinous actions.
The 8 Places of Pilgrimage
Jeremy Russell (Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive)
* Introduction
* Lumbini-birthplace of the Buddha
* Bodhgaya-site of Buddha's enlightenment
* Sarnath-first turning of the Wheel of Dharma
* Rajgir-second turning of the Wheel of Dharma
* Shravasti-teachings in the Jetavana Grove
* Sankashya-the Buddha descended from Tusita
* Nalanda-site of the great Buddhist university
* Kushinagar-where the Buddha entered nirvana
* Conclusion and Books Consulted
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A Discouraged Meditator And The Buddha
Easing into meditation like an ecstatic whirling dervish (Susykeys/Flickr.com)
A DEVA named Kamada had been trying to follow the Buddha's teachings but found the task too demanding.
He was dispirited, even a little depressed, as human meditators sometimes feel when no apparent "progress" can be seen in our practice and we begin losing sight of the long-term perspective.
Discouraged, Kamada complained to the Buddha about how difficult it is to practice the DHARMA.
The Buddha, taking a positive approach, did not coddle or comfort the "deva." Instead, he praised recluses who leave the household life to work steadfastly towards the goal of happiness and a final end of all suffering:
"O Kamada, they do even what is difficult to do,
The trainees who are well composed in virtue,
Steadfast in their hearts.
For one who has entered the wandering life,
There comes contentment that brings happiness."
Kamada remained disconsolate insisting on the difficulties:
"Blessed One, it is hard to win this serene contentment!"The Buddha emphasized that some beings do it, explaining that they are those "who love to achieve the mastery of the heart, whose minds both day and night, love to meditate."
But many people meditate without becoming enlightened or even coming close to enlightenment.
It is not meditation itself that frees hearts and minds from obstructions. It is meditation on the universal characteristics of change, unsatisfactoriness, and selflessness that leads to the ultimate contentment. Practicing to know-and-see these three universal characteristics leads to detachment from worldly concerns.
Kamada continued to complain, stressing that it is hard to compose the mind.
The Buddha gently agreed that the task of balancing the mind -- as opposed to either straining it or slacking off -- is not easy and added:
"Yet that which is hard to compose, they compose it." And calming their restless minds, they attain the stages of enlightenment, realization, and awakening.
Still the "deva" Kamada complained: "The path is impassable and uneven, Blessed One!" It was as if he were craving some magic to make everything easy.
"Buddhas", unlike magicians, teach in a different way. They point, show, instruct, and rouse listeners to make effort. Happiness is not the goal; happiness is the way! Passing through successive stages of bliss (JHANA), one enters upon the path of insight ("vipassana").
No happiness along the way can match nirvana. But we ourselves -- whether we are light beings or fortunate humans -- must put forth the energy to practice the path. Liberation takes consistent, persistent, diligent effort: not straining, not slacking, but always balancing.
The light being Kamada complained some more because training the mind seemed like an endless task. And the Buddha continued to encourage him:
"Though the path is impassable and uneven,
The noble ones walk along it, Kamada.
The ignoble fall head first,
Fall down on the uneven path.
But the path of the noble ones is even,
For the noble are even amidst the uneven" (KS I, 68-69; SN 2:6).
* BUDDHIST MEDITATION
* Stages of Meditation
The stages of meditation outlined apply to all methods -- breathing, visualization, single image focus, mantra... Meditation is the cornerstone to building a happier, healthier you.
by Wisdom Quarterly and Susan Elbaum Jootla
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Feminist Spirituality
Wicca is known as a magic-based (spelled magick by the Ancients) religion taken from ancient Pagan practices. Wiccan beliefs however vary by region, because there is no orthodox method of Wicca practice.
However, there are numerous published works and teachings that most Wiccans followers adhere to. If you are interested in understanding Wicca spells beliefs and practices, you will want to read on.
The majority of Wiccan followers or Wiccans worship a Goddess and God who they consider to be equal and complimentary beings. Relatively, the deities are represented by the moon and sun. The Triple Goddess is believed to have the aspects of the "Maiden" and the "Mother Crone". And numerous Wiccan worshippers believe that the Goddess had to predate her companion since she is the giver of all life.
Another common belief is that the Goddess and the God both can take form in the Wiccan coven's body during the ceremony or ritual. And although they believe in deities, the afterlife concept is not significantly upheld within the Wiccan religion.
There are numerous texts used in the Wiccan religion, and one such example is the "Wiccan Rede". Basically, this text postulates "and it harms none, do what ye will". This means that so long as someone's actions do not harm other people, they are free to pursue them.
The Law of Three is another common law within the Wicca religion. This concept states that whatever negative and positive actions a person puts out in the world, these actions would be returned to that being in three times.
Performance of the Wicca magic rituals are by practitioners, or a coven. For the ritual to begin, a circle must be casted by invoking the cardinal points: East (air), West (water), North (earth), and South (fire). These four elements represent every being and action in the world.
Once the circle is cast, the practitioners or covens perform the prayers to the Goddess and God, and the spells can be cast. Special rituals can be performed if the ritual is performed on a seasonal holiday. After the ceremony or ritual is completed, the Wiccans then thank the participation of the God and Goddess, and the circle is then closed by the practitioner.
Additionally, there are numerous seasonal observances or holidays in the Wicca religion. It is commonly believed that the Full moon can bring about the Esbat ritual. Additionally, there are the eight Sabbats (four of which are cross quarter days: Samhain, Lammas, Imbolic, and Beltane) which are also seasonal observances by the Wiccan followers. Other celebrated festivals observed by Wiccan followers are the autumn and Spring Equinoxes, and the winter and Summer solstices,
The practices and beliefs of the Wiccan religion are very interesting as we can see. Numerous people today follow these basic practises today as the Wicca practice is no longer viewed with negativity and secrecy. The Wicca religion is a very sacred religion. It is indeed one of the most spiritual religions in conventional society!
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Buddhism In Mexico
The World's Lorne Matalon visits a touring display of ancient Tibetan relics in Mexico City and tells us how Buddhism is gaining popularity in mostly-Catholic Mexico.
BUDDHISM IN ANCIENT MEXICO
Book Reviewer Brian Bruya (Gaia.com)
"If there is a lake, the swans would go there." So said the 16th Karmapa when asked why he visited America in 1976. Of course, the Karmapa wasn't the first swan to go to the lake. In a BOOK of immense scope, Rick Fields surveys the history of Buddhism in America.
From the quasi-legendary Fu-sang in the 6th Century, to Asian immigrant communities, to the latest trends in American Buddhism, Fields goes in depth. Writing as a storyteller as much as a historian, he takes us back to the earliest European contacts with Buddhism.
Most notably, he covers Sir William Jones, who was about to go to America on the recommendation of Ben Franklin when at the last minute he fortunately chose to visit India instead. His work would influence the American Transcendentalists and eventually the great Theosophist and first American convert to Buddhism, Henry Steel Olcott.
A sympathetic writer, Fields is also meticulously inclusive. Besides the obvious transmitters, like Zen pioneers D.T. Suzuki and Roshi Philip Kapleau, Fields traces the forgotten influences of Paul Carus, Ernest Fenollosa, and Dharmapala. One memorable story is of the ex-Navy submarine mechanic Heng Ju, who walked (three steps then a kowtow) from San Francisco all the way to Seattle for a berry pie. Fields has countless stories that make "How the Swans Came to the Lake" a priceless contribution not only to Buddhism in America but to Buddhism itself.
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Філіппінці (тагал. Mga Pilipino) — це люди, які є громадянами Філіппін. Більшість філіппінців сьогодні походять із різних австронезійських етнолінгвістичних груп, усі зазвичай розмовляють тагальською, англійською та іншими мовами Філіппін. Нині на Філіппінах налічується понад 185 етнолінгвістичних груп; кожна зі своєю мовою, самобутністю, культурою та історією.

Релігія
За даними Національного управління статистики (NSO) станом на 2010 рік, понад 92% населення були християнами, з них 80,6% були римо-католиками. Римо-католицька церква була запроваджена іспанцями на початку 1521 року, і під час 300-річної колонізації островів їм вдалося навернути переважну більшість філіппінців, в результаті чого Філіппіни стали найбільшою католицькою країною в Азії. Існують також великі групи протестантських конфесій, які або виросли, або були засновані після ліквідації Католицької церкви під час американського колоніального періоду. Іглесія ні Крісто наразі є найбільшою церквою, штаб-квартира якої знаходиться на Філіппінах, за нею йде Об'єднана церква Христа на Філіппінах. Інші християнські групи, такі як баптисти, Церква Ісуса Христа святих останніх днів, Православ'я та Свідки Єгови, мають помітну присутність у країні.

Другою за величиною релігією в країні є Іслам, який, за оцінками, у 2014 році становив від 5% до 8% населення. Іслам на Філіппінах в основному зосереджений на південному заході острова Мінданао та на архіпелазі Сулу, які, хоча і є частиною Філіппін, дуже близькі до сусідніх ісламських країн Малайзії та Індонезії. Мусульмани називають себе Моро, іспанське слово, яке відноситься до маврів (хоча ці дві групи мають незначний культурний зв'язок, крім ісламу).

Історично стародавні філіппінці сповідували анімістичні релігії, які були під впливом індуїзму та буддизму та були привезені торговцями з сусідніх азійських держав. Ці корінні філіппінські народні релігії продовжують бути присутніми серед населення.

Кухня
Філіппінська кухня складається з кухонь більш ніж сотні різних етнолінгвістичних груп, що зустрічаються по всьому філіппінському архіпелагу. Більшість основних філіппінських страв, які складають філіппінську кухню, походять з традицій харчування різних етнолінгвістичних груп і племен архіпелагу, включаючи ілокано, пангасінан, капампанган, тагаль, біколано, вісайан (себуано, хілігайнон і варай), кавапетно і маранагуіст. групи. Стиль приготування та приготування їжі, а також страви, пов'язані з ними, розвивалися протягом багатьох століть від їх австронезійського походження (загального з малайзійською та індонезійською кухнями) до змішаної кухні з китайським, іспанським та американським впливом, відповідно до основних хвиль. впливу, які збагатили культури архіпелагу, а також інші, адаптовані до місцевих інгредієнтів і місцевого смаку.

Діаспора

Зараз за кордоном проживає понад 10 мільйонів філіппінців. Філіппінці становлять етнічну групу меншини в Америці, Європі, Океанії, Близькому Сході та в інших регіонах світу.

За оцінками, у США проживає чотири мільйони американців філіппінського походження. За даними Бюро перепису населення США, іммігранти з Філіппін становили другу за чисельністю групу після мексиканців, які прагнули возз'єднання сімей.
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