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Guest Sermon by Pastor Helen Beth Kuhens
Based on Zechariah 9:9-12, Psalm 145:8-14, and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
And now for the children's sermon I want help from the younger ones gathered at home. I want help in remembering a story I first heard... oh so many years ago: the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. In this case there was a mama bear and a daddy bear and baby bear. Goldilocks happened by their lovely little cottage one morning as they had gone for a walk waiting for their porridge to cool a bit. Goldilocks was hungry and so she tried papa bear's porridge, but it was still too hot. Then she tried mamma bear's porridge, but it had cooled off too much. Then she took a bite of baby bear's porridge and it was just right! Next, she tried the chairs. Papa bear's chair was too big. Mamma bear's chair was too rocky, but baby bear's chair was just right! Then she decided she needed a morning nap. Papa bear's bed was too hard. Mamma bear's bed was too soft, but baby bear's bed was just right! And if you want you can draw a picture of Goldilocks asleep and the three bears with great looks of surprise to see her there!
But mostly I want us to remember the JUST RIGHT part of the story.
Perhaps you have seen pictures from pioneer days--long before tractors -- when two oxen are yoked together in a kind of harness so they can share in carrying heavy loads. And it's important that the harness or yoke fit--Just Right--to make it easier to carry the load.
In the Gospel lesson for today you will hear Jesus talk about a harness or yoke that fits--JUST RIGHT.
Last Sunday's gospel text focused on the wondrous gift of "Welcome" -- and Jesus' encouragement that we be a welcoming community. The closing verses of today's gospel text shorten that word "Welcome" to simply "Come"...
We hear Jesus' welcoming word of gracious invitation: "Come.... Come to me all you that are weary, all you that are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." That little word "rest" in the Hebrew tradition is far more than a " little catnap" or a slight "pause that refreshes"..... though the idea of true refreshment comes close -- Jesus' promise of REST certainly includes --refreshment and renewal . . . I wish to explore with you this morning how the first part of our traditional liturgy.... what we call "The Confession and Forgiveness" is, in a sense, an acting out of our response to Jesus' invitation in today's Gospel: "Come to me and I will give you rest". Jesus' invitation to come to him with our weariness and burdens... to come to him for true and full REST is , indeed, what happens in and through our first act of worship... what in short hand we call "The Confession" To see more fully the connection between Jesus' invitation in today's gospel reading and our traditional confession in the liturgy, I first call attention to what I think is an inadvertant leaving out of essential aspects of what happens in this portion of the liturgy. To speak of it in its entirety, it could be called not only Confession, or Confession & Forgiveness, but -- in addition-- renewal and call to discipleship as well.
With that in mind I encourage you to go back in your bulletin to the beginning of today's worship as we look more deeply at the confession, forgiveness, renewal and call to discipleship in which we have already participated... but to look at it again in light of Jesus call to Rest from Matthew's gospel.
First -- what is called "Confession of Sin", I will re-title: Confession, Forgiveness, Renewal & Calling.
Next, we have the naming of the God who invites us: Blessed be the Holy Trinity. Then, a description of this One God who is full of compassion... and if that isn't enough ... full of both compassion and mercy. In times of confession -- when we, perhaps, feel ourselves the least presentable, we are, rather, to put all fears aside for we are presented to one who is full of compassion, full of compassion AND mercy. The description continues: full of compassion and mercy AND ABOUNDING in STEADFAST LOVE. Yes, this is the nature of the God who invites us: One full of compassion and mercy, abounding in steadfast love! Steadfast love that will not let us go! If we could take in even a portion of the fullness of that description -- we could well stop right here . . . for it is enough to ponder for a life-time! AMEN
BUT, We continue:
Seeking reconciliation with God and our neighbor, let us remember the gift of baptism as we confess our sin.
Remembering the gift of baptism reminds us that even as we name our sins and in need of forgiveness, we are claimed, claimed as God's beloved children. and as we seek reconciliation, wholeness restored, we come to the One whose very nature it is to reconcile... And we continue...
Reconciling God.
We confess that we have sinned against you, against one another, and against the earth entrusted to our care. We are worried and distracted by many things. We fear difference and do not welcome others as you have welcomed us. We are silent in the face of racism and all that separates us from our human siblings.
Thus, we made our confession and then we prayed: So, For the sake of Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. . . .For the sake of Jesus Christ... Jesus...This is the Jesus with outstretched welcoming arms in today's gospel saying: Come. Come to me...
Jesus asks of us three things in this passage: Come. Take my yoke. Learn from me.
And each of these with further explanation: Come. Why? Because I know what troubles you, I know you are ever so weary... and though others may not know the heaviness of your burdens, I do. I know your particular need of my shalom, my peace, my rest.
Come. Take my yoke.
Take my yoke upon you, it fits well your life, your days and your circumstances. It is not "one size fits all!" yoke. No, it is perfectly fashioned with you in mind. It is meant for you in particular with your gifts and your needs, and, thus, it fits you well. It is not too big, nor too small.... No, it is Just Right. Just Right for you. And it's intended to make all your burdens light. But most of all, we can hear Jesus say --most of all remember: I am yoked with you. You do not carry your burden alone.
Yes, Come. Take my yoke. And Learn from me.
Why? because I am a gentle and humble teacher. I come to you right where you are ... in all the messiness & beauty, in all the confusion and wonder of your days and together we go on from there to do the healing and reconciling work your heart, your home, your community, your world cry out for.
And dear Friends, that is what we asked for, is it not when we prayed: Forgive us. Renew us. And lead us that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways ... Perhaps we can hear the intent of forgiveness, renewal and leading if we add one little word: so...so that...Forgive us. Renew us and lead us (yoke with us) SO THAT we may delight in your will and walk in your ways!
"Seeds of Grace"
Based on Matthew 13:1-9 (reading at the end of the sermon)
Once upon a time, there was an elderly Chinese woman who had two large pots. Each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. Every morning, the old woman walked with the two pots balanced on her shoulders to a stream about an hour from her home to collect the water she needed for cooking and cleaning.
There she filled the two pots. One of the pots was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. But the other pot had a small crack that slowly leaked. So, by the time the woman arrived back home, the cracked pot was only half full. And the women ended up with just one and a half pots of water.
Of course, the perfect pot was quite proud of its work. But the cracked pot was embarrassed by its own imperfection, and unhappy that it could do only half as much as the other pot.
One day, after months of what felt like bitter failure, the cracked pot spoke to the woman. "I am ashamed of myself," the pot said, "because this crack of mine causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The old woman smiled and said to the pot, "Haven't you noticed that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I've always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.
"For the past months," the woman shared, "I've been able to pick beautiful flowers to decorate my dinner table each day. Without you being just the way you are, I wouldn't have this beauty to grace my house. So, little pot, don't be ashamed of your crack. Your imperfection has brought me great joy."
This story reminds me that none of us is perfect. And that despite and sometimes even because of our personal flaws, weaknesses, and failures, goodness can grow out of our imperfections. That what you and I see as personal, ugly cracks can give strength and happiness to others.
When I read the parable in today's Gospel lesson, I see a similar message. Though that's not how this parable traditionally has been interpreted. Many pastors see this story of the sower and the seeds as an allegory for Christian belief versus doubt.
To them, the seeds that land on the path and snatched up by hungry birds represent believers who let the devil take away their faith. The seeds that fall on the rocky soil or among thorns are those who initially believe, but when trouble comes along, they're overcome by doubt. The seeds that end up in the good soil are the true believers, whom God will bless a hundredfold with earthly success and eternal life.
In fact, that is exactly the interpretation the writer of Matthew gives us in the verses after this reading. Which are assigned to be read with this parable, but I intentionally left out. I left them out, because some biblical scholars suggest they were added by the Gospel writer in light of persecution that early Christians faced towards the end of the first century AD.
Those scholars suggest that Jesus probably had something different in mind when he first told this parable. Though today it's difficult to see that original meaning through the fog of hundreds of years of Christian history and theology.
When Jesus told this story, he was talking about the Kingdom of God—or the Kingdom of Heaven (as Matthew calls it, because Matthew was seeing things from a Jewish perspective, and Jews avoided using names for God in their writings.)
So, even though Matthew's version uses the word "heaven," I don't believe Jesus was thinking about the Kingdom of Heaven only as a promise for life after death.
For Jesus, the Kingdom of Heaven—the Kingdom of God—was something that happens now in the hearts and lives of those who follow Jesus. The Kingdom of God was not a binary system that rewarded good people and punished bad people. Even though a lot of us grew up in churches where preachers told us exactly that.
One step to start seeing this parable in a new way, is to think about the sower in this story. In Jesus' time, farmers sowed their seeds by hand. Many were poor. Few owned their own farms. There were no fancy tractors or combines or fertilizer or irrigation systems. Just the planting of seeds and manual labor. You were at the mercy of weather and luck.
But what happened to those seeds had nothing to do with their goodness or badness. Nothing to do with morality or ethics. Nothing to do with genetics or environment. And everything to do with undeserved grace.
At this Thursday's pandemic art show that our church did in front of the Temple Beth El Synagogue, I noticed that a quilted table runner sewn by Naomi (one of our members) had the words, "To plant a seed is a hopeful deed." Farmers know the truth of that saying. For sometimes, somehow, a crop's yield far exceeds a farmer's wildest expectations.
And grace is like that. Grace brings surprise when you least expect it. Grace overcomes the greatest barriers with resilience. Grace defies our self-doubts and fear with courage.
That same grace can open our eyes to see things we never saw before in our lives or society. Like white privilege and unjust systems for people of color. And high rates of suicide among queer youth.
Grace is what moves us toward change. Grace makes the Kingdom of Heaven grow in our world today.
A little over a decade ago, the Catholic monk Thomas Merton reflected about today's parable in his book, New Seeds of Contemplation,* where he writes:
"Every moment and every event of every person's life on earth plants something in [their] soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of [individuals.] Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, for such seeds… cannot spring up anywhere except in the… soil of freedom, spontaneity and love."
Merton is inviting us to consider that Jesus' parable of the Sower is not just about the occasional moment when a preacher sows a seed about God. Rather, everything at every moment of our lives is a seed infused with God's life-giving grace.
Grace happens because seeds of experience are always being sown around us and within us. Despite our narrow visions, or awkward mistakes, or the cracks that are part of all of our lives. Grace happens despite all that.
Like hope in the face of disease and death. Like love in the face of racism and homophobia. Live gentle kindness in the face of hatred and condemnation.
Seeds of grace that bring the Kingdom of Heaven where it's least expected. Even when we feel unworthy. And weary in our daily journey.
And all we have to do is plant and watch and wait. To see what grows in our hearts, and along our pathways in this world. Amen.
* Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions Publishing, 2007).
GOSPEL READING: Matthew 13:1-9
1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. 6But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. 7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9Let anyone with ears listen!"
"Pesky Weeds"
Based on Matthew 13:24-30 (reading at the end of the sermon)
I hate weeds. Despise them. Detest them. If you're a gardener, you probably do, too.
Last Monday morning on my day off, I decided to do some weeding. My husband Charlie is off work this summer, so he's done a lot of that. So, I assumed there wouldn't be much for me to do.
Wrong! We have a big backyard, so I started by my rain garden along the east fence. And spent the next three hours pulling up seed trees, yanking out quack grass and hoeing other pesky weeds.
Many gardeners use chemicals to kill weeds. Farmers use herbicides and genetically modified corn and soybeans that keep invasive species at bay. But Roundup and similar products also kill things like milkweed and other native plants that serve as food for butterflies and bees.
Charlie and I don't use many chemicals on our grass. So, unlike many of our neighbors manicured lawns, each spring our yard produces a crop of beautiful yellow dandelions. We do this because years ago, our next-door neighbor in Minneapolis sent out an email asking people not to use pesticides. Therese's little boy Josh died of a rare cancer. And she was convinced that lawn chemicals have negative health effects on humans and pets.
So, Charlie and I battle our pesky weeds mostly with our hands and backs and sweat.
Today's Gospel lesson is another story about pesky weeds. It's often called the parable of the wheat and the tares. Tares are a weed called darnel—a weed that looks exactly like wheat in its early stages.
Modern agricultural techniques have almost eliminated darnel but it still hides among crops in some areas. One study found it made up ten percent of a wheat harvest in Ethiopia.
So, the story Jesus tells was a familiar one for the people of that time. Darnel was the curse of any wheat farmer.
Most preachers interpret this parable as an allegory about Christians and non-Christians. In fact, that's exactly the interpretation given by the writer of Matthew in the verses after this reading. Which are assigned to be read with this parable, but I left them out, just like I did last week.
I think letting this parable stand alone without any interpretation helps us hear it just as a story. Just like the original people heard Jesus tell it. Of course, no matter how we try, we can't see it exactly the way they did.
Like many of Jesus's parables, this one has a surprising twist. With a couple points missed by most Christians today. First, the farmer who sows the seed is not God or Jesus. The farmer is a wealthy landowner. Back then, wheat was the crop of the rich. Poor people raised barley—a less nutritious grain worth half the price of wheat. So, the farm workers weren't raising food for themselves or their hungry children.
Secondly, the farmer was a slave owner. The original Greek text for this passage makes it clear the laborers are slaves.
During the time of Jesus, many Jews lost their farms due to the Roman empire and its taxation. Peasants and their families often became indentured servants, forced to raise crops for their oppressors. The owner here might have been a wealthy politician who benefited from the current situation.
Of course, we white Christians like to ignore the socio-economic details of this parable. We think this story is about good wheat versus pesky weeds. About believers versus nonbelievers.
Not about rich versus poor. Not about the oppressor versus the enslaved. Not about the powerful versus the disenfranchised. Not about white versus black.
But the people of Jesus's day hear a different story. For them, this parable carries a subversive message not obvious to those in power. I can imagine a Galilean peasant crowd listening to this parable who immediately understood what Jesus was talking about. Chuckling together at the wealthy master's dilemma.
The slaves let the owner believe that an enemy planted the pesky weeds. But the listeners knew the true culprit. That the slaves themselves must have planted those seeds.
Sabotage is not an uncommon tactic for those living within systems of oppression. When you can't openly confront your oppressor, you can still find ways to passively resist.
Remember the 2011 movie "The Help"? Where Minny (played by Octavia Spencer) is a black maid in the civil-rights-era South. In one unforgettable scene, Minny exacts her revenge or being unjustly fired by serving her former boss, Miss Hilly, a special version of her famous chocolate pie with one very unappetizing ingredient. And when Minny says, "Eat my sh*t!", Miss Hilly realizes in horror that she has just done exactly that.
A prank that brought Minny great joy. A brief moment of liberation. Laughing in the face of powerlessness.
So, is that the true meaning of Jesus's parable? That the Kingdom of God—or the "Kingdom of Heaven" as Matthew calls it—is like slaves who secretly defy their oppressor? Putting a spoke in the wheels of power, leading to unpredictable results.
Like a seed sown in the dark of night. Like an immigrant who moves into a "good neighborhood." Like a woman who shatters the glass ceiling. Like a Native American elected to political office. Pesky weeds with deep roots.
Is that what this parable is about? That Jesus is telling us to look beyond how most people see this story. And to see how the Kingdom of God is so radical, so inclusive, so invasive, that it might even disrupt systems that have held power for decades and centuries.
For the past couple weeks, I've been participating in an anti-racism book club started by Kylie Oversen. About 250 local people are reading the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. My small group meets on Tuesdays on Zoom.
In chapter 2 of her book, DiAngelo talks about the pervasiveness of racism in our society, much of which seems invisible to most of us white people. She refers to the metaphor of a birdcage to describe the interconnecting forces of oppression. She writes:
"If you stand close to a birdcage…, your perception of the bars will disappear and you will have an almost unobstructed view of the bird…. If your understanding of the cage is based on this myopic view, you may not understand why the bird doesn't just… fly away. You might even assume that the bird liked or chose its place in the cage. But if you stepped back and took a wider view, you… see that the wires come together in an interlocking pattern—a pattern that works to hold the bird firmly in place. It now becomes clear that a network of systematically related barriers surrounds the bird. Taken individually, none of these barriers would be that difficult for the bird to get around, but because they interlock with each other, they thoroughly restrict the bird. While some birds may escape from the cage, most will not." *
The birdcage metaphor is meant to help us understand why racism is so hard to see. For we have a distorted view. We miss the wires.
Today, I believe Jesus is calling us as Christians—especially us white Christians—to do much more to see and change the pervasive evil of racism in our Church, society and government.
To become pesky weeds that rise up. To challenge beliefs of so much of what's growing around us. We do this because we believe that every single seed—even the pesky weed—is a beloved child of God.
And we, in love, seek to set all people free. Amen.
* Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Boston, Beacon Press, 2018); p. 23.
GOSPEL READING: Matthew 13:24-30
Jesus put before the crowds another parable: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field. But while everybody was asleep, [someone] came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?' He answered, 'An enemy has done this.' The slaves said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he replied, 'No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest. And at harvest time I will tell the reapers, 'Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
"The Leaven Lady"
Based on Matthew 13:31-33, 44-46 (reading at the end of the sermon)
When I was in high school, I worked in a grocery store in my hometown of Dassel. One of my coworkers was a woman named Violet. Violet loved to chat and laugh.
From the moment she arrived at the store until she left, Violet never stopped talking. Which for a shy kid like me, helped to fill the quiet gaps in conversation.
Like many teenagers, I viewed anyone over the age of 40 as old. Violet was in her 70s. Which in my youthful eyes seemed ancient.
But Violet was still working. In fact, she had two jobs. Violet only worked at the grocery store on Saturdays. Her weekday job was at what everybody called the yeast factory, located on the northern edge of town. I always assumed they only made yeast there. We sold little packets of yeast at the grocery store.
Years later, I was surprised to learn how the yeast factory also did something else. Back in the 1930s, a Dassel businessman named Lester Peel was the factory manager. The yeast they manufactured was used as an additive in animal feed.
Lester discovered that local farmers were discarding ergot-infested grain to avoid contaminating their products. Ergot is a plant disease caused by a fungus that infects developing grain. It becomes visible when ergot bodies are formed in place of kernels—looking like dark purple heads on the wheat.
Years before, scientists had discovered that drugs produced from ergot stop bleeding in patients and reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Two major issues affecting soldiers in battle.
Before World War II, The United States imported ergot from Europe, where children gathered it in fields. But, as the war raged on, that source went away.
And that's when Lester realized there was a new market for ergot. So, he created a business called Universal Laboratories to fill that void. It operated out of the yeast factory.
Dassel farmers brought their contaminated wheat to the factory, where it was loaded onto conveyor belts. There female employees sat for hours picking out the good grain by hand, leaving the ergot kernels on the belt.
Women did the work because of their manual dexterity. My coworker Violet was one of a dozen ladies employed by the factory. It was a great job for her. Violet, the great talker, enjoyed chatting all day with her friends while they worked side by side.
And even though I used to think she was just making yeast, Violet was more than a leaven lady. Surprisingly, what she was doing much more significant. She was helping to save lives.
Today's Gospel lesson includes another yeast story. At first glance, it looks like just a story about a woman who mixes together yeast and flour to bake bread for her family. An everyday activity for women at the time of Jesus.
But like many of Jesus's parables, there's something here that most people miss. Something that puts a little twist in the story. Something surprising.
Most preachers interpret this parable similar to how they interpret the parable of the mustard seed in this passage. That the Kingdom of God—or "Kingdom of Heaven" as Matthew calls it—starts out small, but grows exponentially. A parable often applied to evangelism and church growth.
But I think that Jesus's parables often have a more radical and sometimes even subversive meaning. That often Jesus is seeking to challenge the religious status quo. That often Jesus is saying to us, "God is not what you think."
I believe this seemingly simple story about baking bread would have raised questions for those who heard it originally.
First, the Jewish community to which Jesus belonged would have been surprised by his use of yeast and rising bread as a metaphor for the Kingdom of God.
Each year, during preparations for Passover or "Pesach" in Hebrew, Jewish woman cleaned their kitchens and homes from top to bottom to make sure no "chametz" or leavened products remained.
During Passover, many Jews eat only unleavened bread—the bread that the Jewish people baked the night before Moses led them out of bondage in Egypt. Unleavened bread is a symbol of what God did for them.
Leaven, on the other hand, is sometimes used in Hebrew scripture as well as rabbinic writings to represent human evil and corruption. Something undesired that spreads out of control, like an invasive cancer or COVID-19.
The second surprising element of Jesus' parable is the woman herself. For while women in first-century Jewish society were probably better off than in other cultures of the ancient world, they were still considered second-rate citizens, subject to the will of their father or husband. Added to that is the fact that she would have been a Middle Eastern, Jewish woman of color.
Throughout the gospels, Jesus treats women with extraordinary respect and compassion. But this parable goes ones step further. For when Jesus depicts this woman as the symbol of God's kingdom, many of his listeners would have a hard time seeing beyond their preconceived biases about her.
For the past few weeks, I've been participating in an anti-racism book club that's reading White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo. This week, my small group talked about "implicit bias," which is defined as the unconscious bias against people of color that permeates our society. DiAngelo talks about how the mainstream definition of a racist person is always an individual who consciously doesn't like people based on race and intentionally seeks to hurt them.
Which, as she says, leads to the belief that "you [cannot] be a good person and participate in racism; only bad people [are] racist." * Because of that assumption, we as white Christians are hesitant to admit our own implicit biases, which makes it easier to deny the realities of racism.
Today, Jesus' parable calls us to open our eyes to see our personal and societal preconceptions. To be a church that strives to see beyond our white culture and unspoken beliefs about people. To talk with one another openly about these issues.
The last thing I want to point out about this parable is also the thing that's most surprising. A detail most Christians overlook. Jesus tells us the woman takes three "measures" of flour. The original Greek says three "strata," which today would be just over a bushel, or a 40-pound bag.
If you're a bread baker, you know that's a lot of flour. It would require a 100-quart Hobart mixer with a giant dough hook to prepare it. After several hours of baking, your kitchen would be filled with 50 loaves of bread. Enough to make 400 sandwiches.
In other words, this woman was baking an enormous quantity of bread. A loving mother who wants to do more than just feed her family. A leaven lady ready to serve her entire village.
I believe Jesus is telling us that the Kingdom of God is like a woman who wants to feed a hungry world. The meal and its leftovers are for everyone. All are welcome at God's great feast.
A story of grace that's so incredible, so surprising, so inclusive, so beyond what we imagine, that it shatters our lowered expectations. And defies our limited vision.
To make us see that the Kingdom of God is the greatest gift we can receive. And the most gracious gift we can give. Amen.
* Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Boston, Beacon Press, 2018), p. 71.
GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 13:31-33,44-46
Jesus put before the crowds another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; On finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it."
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Few days back, I went to Kuala Selangor just to eat seafood. The initial plan was to Sekinchan but since not enough time, changed the plan to Kuala Selangor.
It took around 1 hour 10 minutes drive from Klang to Kuala Selangor. So, left around 4pm and reached there around 5.30pm. Since the lunch was skipped and I only had coffee with four pieces of wheat germ crackers for breakfast, I was starving.
Once reached there, there was a parking right in front of the restaurant. Parked the car and found a table facing the river. The restaurant was less people because it was past lunch hour and not dinner time yet. The day was just nice. It was windy and very relaxing.
The waitress came once sat at the table and gave the menu. All the items looked delicious on the menu. Since came with the intention to eat crabs, so first ordered sweet sour crabs. Then added on sizzling oyster, dry chilli mantis prawn and kangkung belacan. While waiting for the food, I noticed many malays also eating there. So very sure this restaurant famous for its fresh seafood.
The food arrived after some time. First came the dry chilli mantis prawn. It was nice and crispy but I did not like its fishy taste. I don't know why it has the fishy taste.
Then came the kangkung belacan. It was really yummy. I always did not get to order this during family dinners because my brother hates it. So, today I ordered it because he was not there. The kangkung belacan was really yummy with its belacan taste and lots of dried shrimps. I liked it a lot.
Next was sizzling oyster. It came on a hot plate looked very yummy. When put that oyster in the mouth, can feel its freshness. They put lot of bird eye's chillis in it and it was very spicy and I loved it.
Finally came the main item, the sweet sour crabs. Ordered only 1kg and the waitress said only 3 crabs for 1kg. I was doubting initially whether three crabs enough. But, when the item arrived, it was more than enough. They are really big fat crabs and full of meat. Every part of the crab had lot of meat. It was simply delicious. When I was busy hitting my crab with hammer to break its shell, a small stood beside me and looked at me weirdly. She must have thought I am cruel lady killing the crab with hammer...lol.
The portion was a lot for small size. So, struggled a bit to finish everything. I was very satisfied with the food. The total bill was around RM170. Then, left that restaurant with full and contended stomach and started the drive back home.
You can find the restaurant in waze. Just search River View Seafood Restaurant Kuala Selangor.


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During a career standing with working families, I've seen the devastating effects of shuttered businesses and communities damaged by events like extreme weather. After a life of working to build a family and a home, many of these families saw everything turned upside down by Superstorm Sandy, which climate change making storms like that more likely and more severe.
When extreme weather events hit, they can tear apart lives and leave them under water. But it's the weeks and months after, the time before people can go back to work and businesses can reopen, that leave many of the hardest-working people in our communities most vulnerable.
Communities often don't have the resources to insulate and protect themselves from the severity of this emerging crisis. When a working family goes without power for a week from a freak snowstorm, they aren't going to a hotel, no matter how cold it may be. When a dangerous heat wave hits, a retiree may not have the luxury of cranking the air conditioner. We can no longer watch as the effects of climate change further put our economy and our health at risk.
The good news is that addressing climate change isn't just reactionary; it can spur growth and revitalization right here in Connecticut.
A focus on energy efficiency and clean energy translates into jobs for the building trades, displaced workers and the young people who may have had to leave to look for work elsewhere. We don't need to look any further than Bridgeport as a shining example of this success.
The resulting policies and programs from Mayor Bill Finch's BGreen 2020 initiative have helped address climate change on the local level, save residents money and bring jobs into town. The new Eco-Technology Park is becoming a job-creating hub of green businesses that are leading the way in transforming waste into useful products and generating energy that is powering our region.
By taking on climate change, not only are we engaging in an essential battle for our future, but we are opening opportunities that could revive our state and national economy.
Thankfully we have the strong leadership of Gov. Dannel Malloy, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and the countless other elected officials who have taken note of the responsibility we have to our children and future generations to address climate change.
The president has also followed their lead with his recently unveiled Climate Action Plan, which includes the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants along with measures to strengthen our nation's infrastructure against the effects of climate change, and new investments in clean energy and energy efficiency.
The president's plan is a major step forward in protecting public health, spurring innovation in clean energy technologies that will create jobs, and reducing the extreme weather impacts of climate change on Bridgeport and other communities.
Along with many states in our region, our state has made major strides in addressing our own contributions to climate change and is beginning to see the economic benefits of our action. But it will take national action to really address the dangerous carbon pollution that causes climate change and many loud voices from communities like ours to make it happen.
John Harrity is president of the Connecticut State Council of Machinists.


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Office Depot Recalls Desks Due To Shock Hazard (Recall Alert)
SKU 358370	SKU 216230 "Espresso"	"Cherry"
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Name of product:
Realspace® Magellan Performance Electric Height-Adjustable Desks
Hazard:
The desk's control box has an electrical issue resulting in reverse polarity, which could pose a shock hazard.
Recall date:
About 19,000
Consumer Contact:
Office Depot at 800-949-9974 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit the firm's website at www.officedepot.com and click on Recall Notices at the bottom of the page for more information.
This recall involves Realspace Magellan Performance-Electric Height-Adjustable Desks. They were sold in espresso or cherry colors. The desks have the Office Depot SKU number 358370 (espresso) or 216230 (cherry) printed on a label located underneath the desk top. The desk's control box is located under the desk on the right side and controls the desk's upward and downward movements.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled desks and contact Office Depot to receive a free replacement control box with installation instructions. Office Depot is notifying purchasers directly.
Incidents/Injuries:
None reported.
Sold At:
Office Depot stores in the United States and Puerto Rico and online at officedepot.com from April 1, 2017 through February 22, 2019 for about $500.
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Office Depot, Inc., of Boca Raton, Fla.
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To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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Mrs May is due to give a statement to the House of Commons on Thursday morning.
They fear it could leave the UK tied to EU rules for years.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the threat of cabinet resignations remains live and that the prime minister could yet face a challenge to her leadership on Thursday.
The withdrawal agreement covers so-called "divorce" issues. It includes a commitment to protect the rights of EU nationals in the UK and Britons in the EU to continue living, working and studying.
There is also a planned 21-month transition period after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, and a "financial settlement" from the UK, thought to be between £35bn and £39bn.
The most contentious part of the negotiations has been the "backstop", which aims to guarantee that physical checks will not be reintroduced at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, whatever long-term arrangements are agreed further down the line.
The temporary single customs territory set out in the agreement would require some goods being brought to Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK to be subject to new checks and controls.
But prominent Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has written to MPs urging them to oppose the proposals, told BBC Radio 5 Live it was "a pretty rotten deal", keeping the UK in the EU's customs union and "splitting up" the UK.
The threat of resignations is still live.
Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, seems the most likely to go, followed by the International Development Secretary, Penny Mordaunt. And there is silence tonight and a lot of chatter about the position of the Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab.
One might not be a problem for the PM. The departure of either Mordaunt or Raab or both, both of whom harbour ambitions for the top job, would be very dangerous for No 10.
Just as immediately – Brexiteer backbenchers are furious, just like the DUP.
And it is possible that the Parliamentary postman will be extremely busy on Thursday with letters that might trigger a challenge to Mrs May.
One senior Tory told me on Wednesday night there is likely to be a move against the prime minister in the next 24 hours. Another said they would be amazed if enough objections to start a contest hadn't emerged by lunchtime.
In fact, he spoke so warmly about the deal – how hard EU and UK negotiators had worked on it, how successful they had been in protecting citizens' rights, the Irish border and the constitutional integrity of the UK – that one colleague commented to me it was as if Mr Barnier, known for his suave French manner, believed they had managed to conjure an exquisitely designed Faberge egg out of the complex Brexit process.
No wonder then that he didn't want to engage in the possibility of that egg getting smashed.


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Q: Count frequency of a value per column, displaying results for all columns with blanks filled I have a large SQL database which looks like this:
For a single column, I would count frequency with the command:
SELECT col1,count(1) FROM tbl GROUP BY col1;

to give something which looks like this:
But ideally, I would want a command which ran the above over all specified columns, matching on the Value column, and filling the blanks out with 0. Is this possible in any SQL implementation? Im currently using SQLite, but we're in a fairly open relationship.
This is my 'desired' output:

A: Here's one option using a subquery with union all:
select col, count(1)
from (
  select col1 col from yourtable
  union all
  select col2 from yourtable
  union all
  select col3 from yourtable
  ) t
group by col

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Given your desired results, perhaps this is what you're looking for instead using an outer join with conditional aggregation:
select col,
  sum(case when t1.col1 = col then 1 else 0 end ) as Col1Count,
  sum(case when t1.col2 = col then 1 else 0 end) as Col2Count,
  sum(case when t1.col3 = col then 1 else 0 end) as Col3Count
from (
  select col1 col from yourtable
  union
  select col2 from yourtable
  union
  select col3 from yourtable
  ) t
  left join yourtable t1 on t.col in (t1.col1, t1.col2, t1.col3)
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STAMFORD -- Who said Monday nights were for football?
The Cardinals of Greenwich were ready for some volleyball, dominating west division rival Stamford, 3-0.
A lot was on the line for both squads. Greenwich (6-2) was coming off its second loss of the to a tough Fairfield Ludlowe, and Stamford (3-4) was riding a three-game winning streak after losing its first three.
"Coming off Ludlowe, we were a little shaken up," Greenwich coach Steve Lapham. "We knew coming in that (Stamford) would get its team ready for us. It's always a good match between Greenwich and Stamford. I actually enjoy this one, and they're in our division. We got the girls pumped up, and we were certainly mentally ready."
The Cardinals were fired up and came out stromg, easily winning the first game 25-11. Stamford head coach Mike Smerglio and company could not find any rhythm, especially on the service side of the net.
"They took us out of our game, but we made a lot of mistakes," Smerglio said. "Part of it was them making us make mistakes."
Frustration was visible on the bench as Stamford failed to find its serve and watched Greenwich capitalize.
"Tonight, they (Stamford) struggled with the serve," Lapham said. "They gave us a lot of freebies. But we were playing a much cleaner game as far as passing balls up to the net where we could do something with it."
Cardinals Kate Centofanti and Carly Shapiro knew what to do with it and did it, holding off comeback attempts by Stanford in the next two games.
The closest Stamford came to winning was the third game. The Black Knights showed their first signs of life in the serve as they came out 4-0 thanks to junior Lindsey Yanicky. The Cardinals soared back and led by no less than three points, winning the third game 25-21 and sealing the shutout.
"We couldn't put them in a bad position," Smerglio said. "They're a really good passing team."
Lapham had to be happy with that praise because his Cardinals had struggled in that area coming into the match.
"We've seen our weaknesses," Lapham said. "We've struggled with the pass, and we've struggled with offense."
Greenwich didn't seem to be struggling with offense or passing Monday.
Kate Centofanti had 18 kills while Kristina Pflug had three blocks and four kills. Carly Shapiro added to the offense with 12 points and nine assists.
"We get going and we get our rhythm going, and keep our confidence, the girls can play pretty good ball," Lapham said. "The best part of our game is picking the tempo up and try to speed things up a little bit instead of playing balls up in the roof."
For Stamford, Catie Cribbin had 16 digs and four service points while Laurie Pochette had 12 digs.
The road doesn't get easier for either team. Greenwich plays powerhouse Ridgefield while Stamford plays a tough Staples squad.


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Interview with The Edge
CMJ by Colin Helms (1998-10-30)
"The college stations were crucial to U2 becoming known in the American radio world. We were really delighted to discover that there was this network of underground stations that had been playing a lot of music from the U.K. and from Ireland and that people knew about our records through college stations. I think that was a turning point for us. You have some of the most progressive, most interesting radio in the world in the form of college and public stations. To see it as a commercial world is only to see one side of it." — The Edge
In November, 1998, Island Records released U2: The Best Of 1980-1990, the first hits collection from one of the most popular rock 'n' roll bands in the world. But before U2 became an international pop sensation, the Irish quartet was considered one of the seminal post-punk bands of the '80s, establishing a place for itself in the history of college radio with such classic recordings as Boy, October, War, Under A Blood Red Sky and The Unforgettable Fire. Fueled by the group's politically charged ideology and equally incendiary rock sound, the band created anthems such as "I Will Follow," "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" that inarguably helped shape the face of modern music. In an exclusive interview, U2's guitarist The Edge speaks with CMJ about the new double-disc collection, his thoughts on non-commercial radio and his favorite U2 era so far.
How involved were you in selecting tracks for the best-of record?
When we first started talking about doing a best-of, really the question in our mind was "Should we do one at all?," and that took up quite a lot of time. In the end, we realized that a lot of people out there probably don't have the early records; we thought that it would be a good thing to have a definitive collection of the first 10 years. In fact, I think within a half hour we pretty much decided what we wanted to put on the record. There were one or two tracks that we considered early on that we eventually didn't put on — a live version of "11 O'Clock Tick Tock," our first single, and "Bullet The Blue Sky." But we just thought [the collection] was starting to get a little too long. We wanted to keep it fairly condensed.
Were you involved in the sequencing of the tracks?
I ended up doing quite a lot of work on that. We decided early on that we weren't going to do it in any chronological order because we wanted just a great record, we didn't really want it to be any sort of history book. We wanted it to be a record that people would just enjoy playing at home. So that was our first consideration, and that's why also we ended up choosing, in some cases, the original 7" edit of some of the songs. We felt that they made more sense in a collection like this.
How did you choose the B-side tracks for the collection?
We had quite a few to choose from, but we thought we chose the best B-sides from the '80s. There were at least another 10 that we could have put on that we felt were not quite up to it. That was more difficult than the A-sides really, because the B-sides are quite diverse and the variation in the sound quality is vast. Some of them are very lo-fi, and some of them could have made the album they were recorded during. I was actually quite blown away by some of them. Just the freshness of them was something that I really found appealing. In most cases, these tunes were produced and recorded very quickly, [so] there's no sense of them being belabored, there's no double-thinking.
Why was "Sweetest Thing" never chosen as a single?
It was a combination of not having time to finish it and also because when that was first written, it was a tune that Bono wrote as a gift for [his wife] Ali. I think it was her birthday, since he couldn't think of something or hadn't had time to buy her something. [He decided] he would just give her 24 hours of his inspiration and he wrote this song. When we decided that we'd try it as a B-side, even at that stage, it was like, "Well, can we do that? Is Ali into that?" It's her song in a way. When we had finished it and had a chance to think about it we realized that we had actually turned in a really good version of it. What's nice is that it's now getting the recognition that it could have had at that time. Ali still owns that song, and I wouldn't be surprised if [the money generated by it] doesn't go towards some very good causes.
Why did you decide to re-do "Sweetest Thing" for a 1998 single?
We'd always wanted to have another go at it, and this opportunity presented itself. When we were thinking about what we were going to put on the collection, this seemed liked the obvious time to try and finish it off [and] give Bono a chance to re-sing it, because he was always upset about his vocal. The day he originally sang it he had lost his voice and it was quite an unusual vocal. Listening back to parts and sounds that you used in the mid-'80s there was a bit of nostalgia in hearing what we were doing then. I think having a bit of distance and some objectivity gave us a fresh insight as to where to go with the song that we may not have had at the time.
Did you consider doing a kind of "greatest hits" tour to support the album?
No, that never actually came up. I don't think we would want to put so much time right now into the best-of record, when we're, at the moment, starting to write some songs and consider going into the studio for our next studio album.
What can you tell us about the new songs? Any new direction or sound you're trying out?
Well, I don't know yet, because a lot of our records take shape during the recording process. It's kind of impossible to crystal ball gaze at this point as to how it's going to sound. But I do know that going into the last record we unfortunately didn't have Larry [Mullen, Jr.] there at the beginning, because he was out of action with a bit of a back problem. Thankfully, at the beginning of this record, everyone is fighting fit. We're not going to be writing songs and then trying to do band arrangements, we're going to be writing all together and working in a kind of rehearsal room approach. So hopefully the songs will come out of band performances as opposed to the other way around. I think we're going to be using Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois as producers. It's fun for us to work with them again. It'll be our fourth record with them as a team and the other three records have been really successful creatively for us, we've really enjoyed the process.
Is there any U2 era or record that stands out as your favorite?
I'm very proud of the whole collection, but if I were to single out any one era, I'd have to say [that] The Unforgettable Fire through The Joshua Tree was the most creatively satisfying for us. We really had set our sights on achieving certain goals as a band, creatively in terms of songwriting, in terms of production and sonic experimentation, and took quite a few risks. People at the time of The Unforgettable Fire really thought that we had made a major commercial mistake. Everybody was telling us that we were poised, ready to conquer the world with the U2 sound of the War album. What on earth are we doing running off with Brian Eno, this sort of art-terrorist who was going to ruin our sound? We put up with a lot of flak at the time, and I remember when the album came out it was not reviewed very well. Looking back on it now, we really managed to create a sort of special record with Brian and Danny. That same sort of spirit carried through to The Joshua Tree, by which time I think people were starting to give us a little more respect for knowing what might be right for us as a band, so I think The Joshua Tree was given a bit more initial credit and the reviews were more favorable. Rattle And Hum, weirdly enough, I think there are more songs from that album than any other on this collection. As odd a record as it is, being a mix of studio and live and hi-fi and lo-fi recordings. The new songs that we wrote and recorded for that album have really stood up very well. Even in some ways, as they're U2 experimenting with roots music forms, I still feel like we've kind of made them our own. I don't think we've lost our identity completely [by] experimenting with forms like the blues and more folk styles.
Looking back over that period, was there anything embarrassing?
I think allowing Paramount Pictures to airbrush my stubble out of the promotional pictures for Rattle And Hum. That was actually the moment when I realized things might be going a little too far [laughs].
Talk about the early days, experiencing American college radio for the first time in 1980. What were your impressions during that first tour?
Coming from Dublin there was no commercial radio [in Ireland], so there was really only one station that was playing rock 'n' roll. It was a national station, so everybody could get it. But that meant that if you got your song on the prime time show, you got the entire nation tuning into you. Cut to us taking a look across the water to America and how daunting that was, realizing what a vast country it was. And radio in America at that point seemed completely impenetrable to a young band [that] had never toured in America and were really just starting out. So when we did manage to get over and start to do our first-ever shows, they were in these tiny clubs and bars around the East Coast — some of them, in fact, were support gigs for other groups. So, when we got there, we were astonished to find that in some towns, people knew about us. We were really delighted to discover that there was this network of underground and college stations that had been playing a lot of music from the U.K. and from Ireland, and that people knew about our records through college stations. I think that was a turning point for us. That gave us the foothold and the will to really put our shoulders to the door and persevere. The college stations were crucial to U2 becoming known in the American radio world and in general. We could actually look up the cities that had a college radio station that was playing our album and be able to predict what it would be like in that town. We could really make a distinction between those venues in those towns and the other ones where, for whatever reason, there was no college station or we weren't getting played.
When you were touring across the States, did you have any opportunity to listen to college radio?
We did whenever we could, which was a fair amount of the time. I was blown away by college radio, having heard that American radio was very commercially-driven and that to get on American radio you had to sound like REO Speedwagon, at that time. To discover that this whole other subculture existed was very exciting and gratifying, and was probably the insight that we got that a lot of other English groups never got. I remember at the time talking to bands like Echo & The Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes, and their attitude about the States was really negative and I think they had missed this whole thing, the fact that America does operate on different levels. You might get the ultra commercial level, but that you also have, albeit on an underground level, some of the most progressive, most interesting radio in the world in the form of college stations and the public stations. To see it as a commercial world is only to see one side of it.
Were you aware at that time how popular you were on college stations and how much that helped build your audience during the early day
We certainly weren't aware of it until we went to America, but when we did go there for the first time we loved the college stations and were really delighted that they were so into our record. I think we developed a close alliance with a lot of the stations and particular DJs that we got to know. I remember that we used to call ourselves "the biggest cult group in the world," and that's because we've never really been in step with the mainstream, we've never really — except for maybe that one moment when The Joshua Tree had two number one singles in America — apart from that time, we've never really been in the commercial mainstream either. We've never sounded like any other band at the top of the charts, and we've always done our own thing. The success of the group and the size of our following is because we've had that kind of grassroots support, which is what college radio was all about. It wasn't about playing the commercial records, it was about playing things that were of interest, but not necessarily the obvious things. We fit very well into that frame and our audience grew from a very grassroots level out of that kind of support.
You thanked college radio when you won the Grammy for The Joshua Tree. Why?
It was really to acknowledge the importance of college radio, on our own success and on the success of many bands. We came to realize that the engine of change, and the new music coming through America is college radio, and to that extent a very vital part of the regeneration of music. In that sense college radio is 10 steps ahead of commercial radio in introducing really important new things to the country and we benefitted greatly from it, and long may it continue. I think, without college radio stations doing what they're doing, American radio would be in deep shit, because I don't think commercial stations are interested in searching out new acts and new music. So there would be a big problem in terms of where those new bands would come from and how they would make any impression.
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The main hall known as The Queen Elizabeth is a large space with capacity for 120 standing or seated making the room perfect for large gatherings such a weddings, birthdays, anniversary parties and so on. There is a stage complete with lighting a fully equipped kitchen and a small bar. Professionally decorated and maintained The Queen Elizabeth Hall can also be used for concerts, plays, exhibitions, large training events, the list is endless.


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Asylum seekers in food protest over delays
Portlaoise parish priest compares institution to an open prison
Fri, Sep 12, 2014, 01:00
Carl O'Brien
Waiting: asylum seekers at the Montague Hotel, in Emo, Co Laois, where many have been living for years under the direct provision system. Some residents began refusing food this week in protest about delays to their asylum applications and the conditions in which they live. Photograph: Alan Betson
Asylum seekers at an accommodation centre in the midlands have begun refusing food in protest over living conditions and delays in processing their applications.
It is the third centre in as many weeks where people seeking refugee status have held protests against the direct provision system.
The Montague Hotel, in Emo, Co Laois, which accommodates about 160 asylum seekers, including dozens of children, is operated by a commercial contractor on behalf of the State. Under the direct provision system, residents receive full board, accommodation and a weekly allowance of €19.10.
Residents who spoke to The Irish Times said they have been refusing food and plan to continue their protests until the weekend. Many said their frustration was not directed at the management of the hotel itself, but at the system, which has left many waiting up to a decade or more for their applications to be resolved.
"We wonder is the system designed to break or destroy us. We are human. We need to be able to get on with our lives," said Patricia, who declined to give her full name.
Another resident, who has lived at the hotel for seven years, said many were being prescribed antidepressants to help them cope. "I have been sharing a single room with my children for years. There is no space, no privacy," she said.
The protest has drawn support from some local clergy. Msgr John Byrne, priest of Portlaoise parish, said there was little awareness of the conditions in which people lived.
"Children are growing up in an institution that in some ways is like an open prison," he said. "I see young people who aren't able to be involved in any recreation or activity outside school. People are isolated and they're caught in a limbo. It's inhumane to treat people this way for years on end."
Msgr Byrne said he planned to raise the issue at Mass this weekend and will seek community support for the plight of asylum seekers.
In a statement, the Reception and Integration Agency, the State body responsible for direct provision, said it was aware that some residents at the centre had announced a protest. It claimed that some residents told management they had no difficulty with staff or services but the protest was at the length of time people were spending in the system. By Tuesday, it said, the "vast majority" of residents were taking meals, while a "small number" were not accepting food. This was disputed yesterday by residents involved in the protest.
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The voice of the social worker is as silenced and oppressed as that of the asylum seeker
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TIFF 2019: "Jojo Rabbit" Review
Ashley Menzel September 8, 2019
Jojo Rabbit is the much-anticipated film by Taika Waititi starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, and Taika Waititi. Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a ten-year-old boy growing up in Nazi Germany with his mother, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson). Jojo is a young and indoctrinated youth of Hitler's Germany and is more than excited to go to a camp where his instructor, Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell), will teach him all about being the best soldier he can be. He shares his excitement with his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi). As Jojo discovers more about himself, the world, and even his mother, he is faced with some real decisions about what he believes in and what is right and wrong. Through his interactions with a young Jewish girl named Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie), Jojo begins to understand that life is not so black and white.
Directed, written by and starring Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit combines the absurd and hilarious to bring us a poignant message about acceptance, love, and learning from our past mistakes. What makes it work so well is the balance between humor and the very serious topic on which the film is based. Starting from the very beginning of the film, Taika Waititi sets up exactly what type of film it is. We get a version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" sung in German with images from Nazi German of the Heil Hitler salute. There are moments in the film where I laughed out loud and one of them involves a metal collection day and cardboard boxes.
The performances in the film are spectacular, especially from our young actors, Thomasin McKenzie and Roman Griffin Davis. Much of the film relies on their abilities to make the audience feel powerful emotions and they handle it with such ease. Taika Waititi plays and overly exaggerated and somewhat childish version of Hitler that Jojo has imagined in his mind. The exchange between Taika and Roman are some of the best moments of the film and provide a great deal of humor. The film is so funny and quick-witted that you miss some of the lines because you're still laughing at the previous joke. Scarlett Johansson's character's relationship with Jojo is at the heart of the film as well. She may be a clown and joke a lot with Jojo, but she is being the best mother she knows how to be. She is protecting her son from all that she can, while still trying to keep him innocent.
The message that permeates from the film is a message of remembrance and of hope that we can still strive to become better than we were without forgetting the past. Cloaked in hilarious jokes about Hitler, Nazis, and Jews is the message that we can't allow anything like this to ever happen again and that human life, all human life, is truly sacred. Jojo Rabbit is hilarious with a weighty message that resonates with audiences today and begs us to remember the past.
Ashley Menzel
Ashley Menzel is an avid film lover and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She loves foreign films and dramas and reading books that have film adaptations. Her favorite movie of all time is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. She loves Doctor Who, Supernatural, iZombie, and Grimm.
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TIFF 2019: "Jojo Rabbit" Review Jojo Rabbit is the much-anticipated film by Taika Waititi starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, and Taika Waititi. Jojo (Roman Griffi...


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Q: Intervention package make method over http not https? I'm using the Intervention image manipulation package and Laravel to upload and crop some pictures. My entire site is served over SSL, and it appears that the make method (used to open a file) only works over HTTP, not HTTPS.  Is this expected behavior?  If so, yuk.
use Intervention\Image\ImageManager;

// fails when I open over https
//$image_url = "https://mysite.app/avatars/a6-7edaf.jpg";

// works when I open over http
//$image_url = "http://mysite.app/avatars/a6-7edaf.jpg";

$manager = new ImageManager();
$image = $manager->make($image_url)->encode('jpg');

Error message when attempting to make/open over https:
NotReadableException in AbstractDecoder.php line 68:
Unable to init from given url (https://mysite.app/avatars/a6-7edaf.jpg).

I can open the image just fine when I directly browse to it, I just can't read/make the file from within Intervention when I pass the https URL.


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# Official Sentry Command Line Interface

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This is a Sentry command line client for some generic tasks. Right now this is
primarily used to upload debug symbols to Sentry if you are not using the
fastlane tools.

* Downloads can be found under
  [Releases](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cli/releases/)
* Documentation can be found [here](https://docs.sentry.io/hosted/learn/cli/)

## Installation

If you are on OS X or Linux, you can use the automated downloader which will fetch the latest release version for you and install it:

    curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | bash

We do however, encourage you to pin the specific version of the CLI, so your builds are always reproducible.
To do that, you can use the exact same method, with an additional version specifier:

    curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | SENTRY_CLI_VERSION=2.0.4 bash

This will automatically download the correct version of `sentry-cli` for your operating system and install it. If necessary, it will prompt for your admin password for `sudo`. For a different installation location or for systems without `sudo` (like Windows), you can `export INSTALL_DIR=/custom/installation/path` before running this command.

If you are using `sentry-cli` on Windows environments, [Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist) is required.

To verify it's installed correctly you can bring up the help:

    sentry-cli --help

### Node

Additionally you can also install this binary via npm:

    npm install @sentry/cli

When installing globally, make sure to have set
[correct permissions on the global node_modules directory](https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions).
If this is not possible in your environment or still produces an EACCESS error,
install as root:

    sudo npm install -g @sentry/cli --unsafe-perm

By default, this package will download sentry-cli from the CDN managed by [Fastly](https://www.fastly.com/).
To use a custom CDN, set the npm config property `sentrycli_cdnurl`. The downloader will append
`"/<version>/sentry-cli-<dist>"`.

```sh
npm install @sentry/cli --sentrycli_cdnurl=https://mymirror.local/path
```

Or add property into your `.npmrc` file (https://www.npmjs.org/doc/files/npmrc.html)

```rc
sentrycli_cdnurl=https://mymirror.local/path
```

Another option is to use the environment variable `SENTRYCLI_CDNURL`.

```sh
SENTRYCLI_CDNURL=https://mymirror.local/path npm install @sentry/cli
```

If you're installing the CLI with NPM from behind a proxy, the install script will
use either NPM's configured HTTPS proxy server, or the value from your `HTTPS_PROXY`
environment variable.

### Homebrew

A homebrew recipe is provided in the `getsentry/tools` tap:

    brew install getsentry/tools/sentry-cli

### Docker

As of version _1.25.0_, there is an official Docker image that comes with
`sentry-cli` preinstalled. If you prefer a specific version, specify it as tag.
The latest development version is published under the `edge` tag. In production,
we recommend you to use the `latest` tag. To use it, run:

```sh
docker pull getsentry/sentry-cli
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work getsentry/sentry-cli --help
```

Starting version _`2.8.0`_, in case you see `"error: config value 'safe.directory' was not found;"` message,
you also need to correctly set UID and GID of mounted volumes like so:

```sh
docker run --rm -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $(pwd):/work getsentry/sentry-cli --help
```

This is required due to security issue in older `git` implementations. See [here](https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-announced/) for more details.

## Compiling

In case you want to compile this yourself, you need to install at minimum the
following dependencies:

* Rust stable and Cargo
* Make, CMake and a C compiler

Use cargo to compile:

    $ cargo build

Also, there is a Dockerfile that builds an Alpine-based Docker image with
`sentry-cli` in the PATH. To build and use it, run:

```sh
docker build -t sentry-cli .
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work sentry-cli --help
```


We gathered up Over 40 of the BEST Halloween Treat ideas to share with you today! So many adorable (or should i say frightening) ideas that are perfect for Halloween parties.
I am so happy right now ! Love all the ideas.
These ALL look amazing……great job!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing all these awesome! and fun! ideas, I know my grandchildren are going to have fun! help making these.
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Vickie Timbrell: Woman who sparked outrage when She grabbed player's shirt from little boy – Entertainment Express
Woman who grabbed player's shirt from boy, 8, named as Vickie Timbrell
But the 31-year-old from Manchester, who works at a mental health hospital, has claimed it was all a 'misunderstanding' and said she actually knows the child and his family.
Ms Timbrell was caught on camera as she appeared to wrestle Jermaine Beckford's jersey from schoolboy Ted Dockray at Wembley Stadium.
The Preston star striker had thrown his shirt into the crowd after scoring a hat-trick during Sunday's play-off final against Swindon.
But football fans watched in horror as Ms Timbrell, who was wearing a pink top, took the shirt from the boy and started smiling.
Today she said: 'People have made me out to be an absolute idiot. I will be speaking to the family, I actually know them, they're friends.'
She also wrote on Facebook: 'Can I just say thank you to everyone for all the support and texts.
'I'm not commenting on the c*** they've written because I'm taking this further. It's all wrong and twisted.
'My side of the story will soon come out.'
Yesterday evening, the shirt was placed for sale on Gumtree £1,500, but the advert has since been removed.
Beckford, a Jamaica international, has called for the woman to return the shirt to the eight-year-old boy.
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Q: Zurb Foundation 6 not working on Codeigniter I am currently running Foundation 5 on Codeigniter, and it works. Now i'm trying to install Foundation 6 (the CSS version) which doesn't want to work.
I've set up a simple page called prova-foundation and here is the code (as illustrated here):
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    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
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I've updated my A320 Professional to the last version by Updater, but appears a strange font on FCU.
Could you help to solve?
Have you reboot your PC after update?
It appears the fonts didn't install, and the Experimental Update did change all the fonts. Because of where the fonts install to, you need to turn off computer security and run the installer "As Administrator" for the fonts to install properly.
Can you retry the install?


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//
//   Copyright 2016  Cityzen Data
//
//   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
//   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
//   You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
//   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
//   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
//   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
//   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
//   limitations under the License.
//

package io.warp10.script.fwt;

/**
 * Base class for describing wavelets. This code is inspired by that of JWave.
 *
 * @see https://github.com/cscheiblich/JWave
 *
 * The Wavelet_XXX classes which extend this base class are generated by the
 * shell script below.
 *
 * The coefficients are scraped from http://wavelets.pybytes.com/.
 *
 * The script is called using:
 *
 * cat wavelets |while read f h; do curl "http://wavelets.pybytes.com/wavelet/$f/"|sh extract $f 2>/dev/null; done
 *
 * Where wavelets contains the name of each wavelet to generate (part of the URI Path, see above).
 *
 */
//#!/bin/sh
//
//FULLNAME=$1
//NAME=`echo $1|sed -e 's,\\.,,'`
//
//cat > $$.tmp
//
//FAMILY=`grep 'Family: ' $$.tmp|sed -e 's,.*/family/,,' -e 's/Properties: //' -e 's/.*(//' -e 's/).*//'`
//
//SCALINGDECOM=`cat $$.tmp|tr '\n' ' '|sed -e 's/copy/copy#/g'|tr '#' '\n'|grep cols=\"24\"|sed -e 's/.*\"24\">//' -e 's/<.*//' -e 's/ /, /g'|head -n 1`
//WAVELETDECOM=`cat $$.tmp|tr '\n' ' '|sed -e 's/copy/copy#/g'|tr '#' '\n'|grep cols=\"24\"|sed -e 's/.*\"24\">//' -e 's/<.*//' -e 's/ /, /g'|tail -n 2|head -n 1`
//SCALINGRECON=`cat $$.tmp|tr '\n' ' '|sed -e 's/copy/copy#/g'|tr '#' '\n'|grep cols=\"24\"|sed -e 's/.*\"24\">//' -e 's/<.*//' -e 's/ /, /g'|head -n 2|tail -n 1`
//WAVELETRECON=`cat $$.tmp|tr '\n' ' '|sed -e 's/copy/copy#/g'|tr '#' '\n'|grep cols=\"24\"|sed -e 's/.*\"24\">//' -e 's/<.*//' -e 's/ /, /g'|tail -n 1`
//
//rm $$.tmp
//
//echo "  register(\"${FULLNAME}\", new Wavelet_${NAME}());"
//
//cat <<EOF > Wavelet_${NAME}.java
//package io.warp10.script.fwt.wavelets;
//
//import io.warp10.script.fwt.Wavelet;
//
//public class Wavelet_${NAME} extends Wavelet {
//
//  private static final int transformWavelength = 2;
//
//  private static final double[] scalingDeComposition = new double[] { $SCALINGDECOM };
//  private static final double[] waveletDeComposition = new double[] { $WAVELETDECOM };
//
//  private static final double[] scalingReConstruction = new double[] { $SCALINGRECON };
//  private static final double[] waveletReConstruction = new double[] { $WAVELETRECON };
//
//  static {
//    //
//    // Reverse the arrays as we do convolutions
//    //
//    reverse(scalingDeComposition);
//    reverse(waveletDeComposition);
//  }
//
//  private static final void reverse(double[] array) {
//    int i = 0;
//    int j = array.length - 1;
//
//    while (i < j) {
//      double tmp = array[i];
//      array[i] = array[j];
//      array[j] = tmp;
//      i++;
//      j--;
//    }
//  }
//
//  public int getTransformWavelength() {
//    return transformWavelength;
//  }
//
//  public int getMotherWavelength() {
//    return waveletReConstruction.length;
//  }
//
//  public double[] getScalingDeComposition() {
//    return scalingDeComposition;
//  }
//
//  public double[] getWaveletDeComposition() {
//    return waveletDeComposition;
//  }
//
//  public double[] getScalingReConstruction() {
//    return scalingReConstruction;
//  }
//
//  public double[] getWaveletReConstruction() {
//    return waveletReConstruction;
//  }
//}
//
//EOF

public abstract class Wavelet {

  public double[] forward(double[] input, int len) {

    double[] scalingDeComposition = getScalingDeComposition();
    double[] waveletDeComposition = getWaveletDeComposition();
    int motherWavelength = getMotherWavelength();

    double[] output = new double[len];

    int h = output.length >> 1; // .. -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 .. shrinks in each step by half wavelength

    for(int i = 0; i < h; i++) {

      //output[i] = output[i + h] = 0.0D; // set to zero before sum up

      for( int j = 0; j < motherWavelength; j++ ) {

        int k = (i * 2) + j; // int k = ( i << 1 ) + j;

        while( k >= output.length ) {
          k -= output.length; // circulate over arrays if scaling and wavelet are are larger
        }

        output[i] += input[k] * scalingDeComposition[j]; // low pass filter for the energy (approximation)
        output[i + h] += input[k] * waveletDeComposition[j]; // high pass filter for the details

      } // Sorting each step in patterns of: { scaling coefficients | wavelet coefficients }

    } // h = 2^(p-1) | p = { 1, 2, .., N } .. shrinks in each step by half wavelength

    return output;
  }

  public double[] reverse(double[] input, int len) {

    double[] scalingReConstruction = getScalingReConstruction();
    double[] waveletReConstruction = getWaveletReConstruction();
    int motherWavelength = getMotherWavelength();

    double[] output = new double[len];

    int h = output.length >> 1; // .. -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 .. shrinks in each step by half wavelength

    for(int i = 0; i < h; i++) {

      for(int j = 0; j < motherWavelength; j++) {

        int k = ( i * 2) + j; // int k = ( i << 1 ) + j;

        while( k >= output.length ) {
          k -= output.length; // circulate over arrays if scaling and wavelet are larger
        }

        // adding up energy from low pass (approximation) and details from high pass filter
        output[ k ] += (input[ i ] * scalingReConstruction[j]) + (input[i + h] * waveletReConstruction[j]);
      } // Reconstruction from patterns of: { scaling coefficients | wavelet coefficients }

    } // h = 2^(p-1) | p = { 1, 2, .., N } .. shrink in each step by half wavelength

    return output;
  }

  public abstract int getMotherWavelength();
  public abstract int getTransformWavelength();
  public abstract double[] getScalingDeComposition();
  public abstract double[] getWaveletDeComposition();
  public abstract double[] getScalingReConstruction();
  public abstract double[] getWaveletReConstruction();
}


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