1Tim. 4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
1Tim. 4:5 for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.
Rev. 3:15 'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.
Rev. 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
Rev. 3:18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
We might ask how can such a thing even happen in the first place?
How does a group that began with true Christians turn into a group of unbelievers blissfully content to congregate under the banner of Christ?
How are we to recognize these signs as indications of the end?
So how does abstaining from foods come to mark the last days?
1Tim. 4:6 In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.
1Tim. 4:8 for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1Tim. 4:9 It is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance.
Why give the enemy or our flesh any more advantage than they already have?
Confessing sins to one another etc.


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Congratulations on Your Entrance to OU!
2015-4-2(Thu)
On Thursday, April 2, 2015, at an Entrance Ceremony held at Osaka-jo Hall, 6,415 students (3,489 undergraduate and 2,926 graduate) entered into or advanced in Osaka University.
At the ceremony, NAGAYAMA Kotaro (School of Human Sciences) and TORIUMI Wataru (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) were both sworn in as student representatives.
Mr. NAGAYAMA Kotaro
Mr. TORIUMI Wataru
To all students and their families
Entrance Ceremony: Speech by the President can be found here.
A New Step Toward Your Dreams
To all those enrolling in Osaka University, and to all of your families, I offer my sincerest congratulations. I'd like to celebrate this occasion as President of Osaka University, while also extending a hearty welcome to all of you.
The history of Osaka University goes all the way back to 1838, when doctor and scholar of Western Studies OGATA Koan founded the private "place of learning," Tekijuku.
FUKUZAWA Yukichi, NAGAYO Sensai, OMURA Masujiro, SANO Tsunetami, and OTORI Keisuke, all of whom studied at Tekijuku, wrote an important page in the history of the construction of the modern nation during the Meiji Restoration.
SHIBA Ryotaro, in his novel Kashin, wrote that Tekijuku was the "previous incarnation of Osaka University," and thus, in this sense, Osaka University was "founded by OGATA Koan."
And in 1931, through the contributions and devotion of the citizens of Osaka city, the establishment of Osaka Imperial University was realized.
Osaka University, by inheriting OGATA Koan's legacy of "responsible ethics, concern for people, and for society" and the spirit of Tekijuku while establishing the "World Tekijuku" in the 21st century, strives to contribute to the future of human society and the advancement of academic research by implementing its idea of "creating harmonious diversity through scholarship."
FUKUZAWA Yukichi, in his autobiography Fukuo-Jiden, said the following about his life as a student:
"I was at my desk day and night, studying as hard as I possibly could."
I hope that you all, too, will treasure your time and those whom you meet, while leading a meaningful student life and working toward your own dreams.
Osaka University will be there to support you in realizing your dreams to the best of our ability.
We appreciate your continuing support for us.
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The house in which this apartment is located, has a prime location just three minutes' walk from the beach and offers a panoramic view. This building is the first house that was built in Utjeha, and it is therefore for the owner, who lives on the ground floor, of course, associated with many wonderful memories. The small resort Utjeha is between the two cities Bar and Ulcinj and is easily accessible via the Adriatic coastal road.
The 100 square meter apartment with a separate entrance and a sea view on the first floor. It was recently renovated in 2015 and can accommodate eight people. In the three bedrooms you have a double bed (160 x 200 cm) in the first and each two single beds (90 x 200 cm) in the second and third rooms. Two more sleeps offers the sofa bed (140 x 200 cm) in the living room, which is also equipped with air conditioning and satellite TV. The kitchen has a dining area and is furnished with a gas stove, mini oven, refrigerator, microwave, toaster and kettle. The bathroom has a shower, toilet and hair dryer.
The apartment has its own furnished balcony with an unobstructed view of the sea. Before the house there is a small garden with Mediterranean plants and a fig tree. Behind the house there is a free private parking. The garden and the barbecue are shared with the landlord. The property is completely fenced.
The toll-free Wi-Fi connection can also be used on the balcony. 100 meters from the house there is a jetty.
A bakery, a grocery store and a grocery store can be found only 50 meters away from your holiday home. The nearest beach is only 100 meters. The nature in this area is still untouched and intact. The airports Podgorica and Tivat are 50 kilometers away. In Ada Bojana 20 kilometers away there is also a nudist beach.
To make reservation, You should pay in advance 30% via PayPal, the rest in cash upon arriving.
The small vacation resort Utjeha Montenegro is between the two cities Bar and Ulcinj and is easily accessible via the Adriatic coastal road. This is wonderfully, charming, romantic place with crystal, clear, blue sea water. Affordable prices of drinks, food, nightlife are an additional reasons to come and enjoy your vacation time.


We just picked up the first casting of a new Native American bronze sculpture at the foundry. See photos of her in the Native American Sculpture section.
Bronze. Life-size, height 18" x 14" x 12". Limited edition of 35.
A FEW WORDS FROM THE ARTIST: "LOST TRIBES represents all the native american tribes lost to the past. The rich history and tradition of the native peoples of America adds a beautiful layer to this land. Illnesses brought from Europe and warfare sadly caused some of the native tribes to be lost forever. This work of art honors those lost to us. She is strong yet apprensively looking towards the future.
Her jewelry is made of shells and pearls. Wampum shells (the long tubular ones) were used as currency among the tribes. They were made of the inner spiral, or columella of the Channeled whelk shell (white, or from quahog when purple). The oval shaped beads are olivia shells. Pearls from oysters were collected and strung on a string of sinew or leather. The pendant is a shell gorget carved out of the whorl of a conch shell. The cross symbolizes the four winds, it sits within a circle symbolizing the sun/moon. I love to think about how a pearl collected from an oyster in Tampa Bay in Florida might end up at Pikes Peak in Colorado as it could travel great distances while being traded from one hand to the next.


Erskine Hamilton Childers, hereafter cited as Childers, was born on the 11 December 1905 and died during his term as President of Ireland on 17 November 1974. First elected to Dáil Éireann in 1938, Childers successfully contested all subsequent general elections until he resigned his Dáil seat to successfully contest the presidential election in 1973. Childers held the ministerial portfolios of Posts and Telegraphs, Lands Forestry and Fisheries, Transport and Power and Health. He also served as Tánaiste while Minister for Health. Childers represented the constituency of Athlone-Longford, later reconstituted as Longford-Westmeath, from 1938 until 1961 at which time he transferred to Monaghan where he remained until his resignation in 1973. Childers was educated in England but he developed a love for Ireland from a very young age. He was greatly influenced by both his parents, particularly his father, Robert Erskine Childers, who was executed by the Irish Free State in 1922. Childers was totally dedicated to all his portfolios, he was named Minister of the Year in 1970 by Newsweek magazine. This thesis explores Childers political contribution and examines a number of key issues and themes throughout his political career. Such themes include the development and subsequent management of the Irish broadcasting service; the development of natural resources such as land, fisheries and tourism; the evolution of infrastructural services including train services and the Irish post and telecommunications system, and the development of the health system. Childers held responsibilities in all of these areas at different stages in his political career. Other more controversial issues which are examined include Childers decision to return to Ireland in 1931, his place within the Fianna Fáil party, the extent to which Childers ever understood the Irish political system, and the influence of the Catholic Church on his political career.


Lately, exercise has been at the forefront of every conversation about health. No doubt this careful attention is due to the increasing concerns over obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
And it's true that exercise can improve our health by reducing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and the risk of developing diabetes. Did you realize though that exercise also has amazing positive psychological effects?
A great deal of research dating as far back as the 1980s has shown that exercise can effectively reduce cases of mild to moderate depression. Yet, psychiatrists, particularly those in the US, tend to underestimate the benefits of exercise and rarely prescribe it. British physicians, on the other hand, can actually prescribe exercise as a treatment for depression, with the National Health Service subsidizing some or all of the cost. Imagine being given the green light to take a walk at lunch every day by your doctor!
It's clear that there is no real downside to moderate exercise, so let's get to the particulars.
What type of exercise is best? When and where should we exercise?
In the United States we are constantly bombarded with the latest exercise crazes from bootcamps to kettle ball classes. What if exercise in its truest, yet mundane form-a physical action that's an escape from the daily grind-had as meaningful an effect?
A recent 2010 study in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that people who engaged in regular physical activity-even non-sweat inducing mild activity-were less likely to be depressed than their sedentary counterparts. The intensity didn't make a difference! A brisk walk and a long run had the same effect on reducing negative thoughts and feelings.
Surprisingly, only exercise carried out in people's spare time helped relieve depression for those in the study. People who do heavy lifting or extensive walking at work were just as likely to be depressed as those with desk jobs.
Researchers concluded however that the most important factor in lifting depression was the social benefits of exercise-having a walking partner or a tai chi group, for example. A friend is worth a great deal more than any exercise ball!
greater decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression.
But what if you don't have the energy to exercise?
The most common physical symptom of depression is feeling fatigued, weak or simply tired. Although patients may know and want to exercise to relieve their depression, they may find it difficult to overcome their feelings of hopelessness and lack of energy.
We can always find reasons not to exercise: It's raining. It's cold. I'm tired. I have too much work. I forgot my music.
And many people say it's easy to overcome those obstacles: Just go to the gym. Make a commitment to a class. Make it a part of your daily routine.
For someone with depression, it's not that easy. In addition to feelings of hopelessness and lack of energy, low motivation leads to ambivalence about exercise, particularly when it's in a social setting. Being told to just do it will never work.
But what if the motivation necessary for exercise was less about psychological "willpower" and more about physiological roadblocks?
It's clear that the mind and body is connected. When the mind is in balance so is our body.
The lack of motivation, fatigue and weakness that someone with depression is struggling with is related to the body's mitochondria, tiny structures found within every cell of the human body. These mitochondria generate energy for the cell and poor mitochondrial function leads to less energy, fatigue, and weakness.
It seems simple. To deal with the relentless fatigue and other physical symptoms associated with depression, we must support the mitochondria!
Ribose – The sugar ribose, which is found in the body, produces adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which energizes cells. Physicians and researchers have used ribose to improve the energy of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Typically, I recommend 5 grams of ribose taken 3 times per day.
B12 – B12 plays a vital role in energy metabolism, and a shortage of the vitamin can lead to a lack of energy. Indeed, fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of B12 deficiency. Although the normal range for B12 is usually given as 200 – 900 pg/mL (picograms per milliter), I find that levels in the upper end of the range, 800 – 900, lead to more energy.
Carnitine – One of carnitine's key functions is helping to produce energy in the mitochondria. Taking advantage of carnitine's energy boosting powers, many physicians use carnitine to treat chronic fatigue, fatigue related to cancer, and even for weight loss. For patients I typically recommend 1 gram of carnitine before breakfast and another before lunch.
CoQ10 – Carnitine often works well with CoQ10 (coenzyme Q10), a natural, vitamin-like substance found in the energy-producing mitochondria. CoQ10 supplements have been used to treat chronic fatigue syndrome and help improve athletic performance. For the treatment of depression, I recommend at least 200 mg per day. Because these are fat-soluble they should be taken with food that contains some fat.
Exercise is free and the effects on both mind and body are long lasting. It doesn't matter if you train for a marathon or take a walk in the neighborhood, simply carving out time in your day to do something other than work or being sedentary, will positively affect you both physically and mentally. Your endorphins will increase while cortisol decreases, providing you with instant relief.
As summer approaches and the days get longer and warmer, be sure to grab a friend and exercise outdoors (of course with sunscreen on!). If you find yourself lacking energy, consider the supplements that I recommended to give you the boost you need as you become a person living depression free!
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Apple promised that the Lightning cables will deliver durability but as we are witnessing that promise isn't really being delivered. The ends of the Lightning cables attached to the connector get frayed over time giving us some real trouble. Most of this happens because of pulling the charger from the cable rather than the connector. However, even if you take the above precaution, frayed Lightning cables is a notion that you will have to experience anyway. Here are some tips on how to prevent and fix frayed Lightning cables of your precious iPhones and iPads.
Considering that most of the damage is done to the cables by pulling it from the cable rather than the connector, it would be nice if you start pitying the poor cable and giving the pull-out pressure on the connector itself, rather than the sensitive cable.
To avoid twisting of the cable, a simple and yet helpful tip is to use a spring at the end of the connector. Get some spring from any of the used up pens laying around your room and twirl it around the end of the cable. This will ensure that the Lightning cable is not bent for a longer time maximizing its lifetime.
Now to the crucial case of frayed Lightning cables and how to actually fix them. The old wisdom tells us to use some tape around the frayed part of the cable to avoid any more damage. For the better, or rather best, option though go to the Apple Store and get a replacement of your cable. Interwebs tell us that angels manning the Apple Stores don't really ask for any details when you take your Lightning cable and your iPhone / iPad. No warranty checks, nothing. Hope you too get lucky and get a free replacement.
You can also buy a new Lightning cable for $19 from the Apple Store or from Amazon for $10.


When Penny faces financial problems, Sheldon is more than happy to lend her some money. Although Sheldon is a surprisingly reasonable lender, Penny feels uncomfortable owing him money. After Penny explains the source of her money worries to Leonard, he and the guys confront Penny's hulking ex-boyfriend, Kurt.
The title references Penny's financial problems.
Sheldon: There once was a brave lad named Leonard.
With a fi fi fiddle dee dee.
He faced a fearsome giant.
While Raj just wanted to pee.
Raj: If anyone cares, I still have to pee.
Leonard: Sheldon, would you be prepared on a non-presidential basis, to create an emergency ad-hoc slurpee/icee equivalency?
Sheldon: Oh Leonard, you know I can't do that.
Penny: What are you saying? That I'm using my body to get dinner? That I'm some sort of Chinese food prostitute?
Penny rushes into Sheldon's apartment in a bid to hide from the landlord. When Penny explains she's behind on her rent, Sheldon offers to lend her money and explains that she can just pay him back whenever she's able. The next day, Penny snaps at Sheldon when she receives a parcel (a beret she ordered a month ago), even though Sheldon didn't say a word about it. Later that day, Penny feels defensive and snipes at the guys when they comment on her getting free food. Penny reassures Sheldon that she will pay him back soon, though Sheldon did not bring up the issue. When Sheldon offers to lend her more money, Penny leaves in a huff.
Leonard goes over to see what's troubling Penny, who is sitting in the dark as she couldn't pay the electric bill. Leonard mentions to Penny that Sheldon really doesn't care when he gets the money back and that it's one of his few positive idiosyncracicies. When Leonard suggests a few areas that Penny could cut back on, she admits the reason she's so out of pocket is that she paid a fine for her ex-boyfriend Kurt. Leonard tells her she should demand her money back from him.
Leonard returns to the apartment and asks the guys to join him on a quest to get Penny's money back from Kurt. The other guys are understandably nervous about confronting Penny's hulking ex, but Leonard eventually convinces them. When they arrive at Kurt's door, the other guys hide in the background while Leonard confronts Kurt. After Leonard tries a second time - alone - to get Penny's money, he returns with indelible ink on his head detailing Kurt's debt to Penny.
Penny visits Leonard, who is wearing a hat to hide the ink on his forehead, to tell him that Kurt paid the money back, out of the blue. Leonard presses her to see if Kurt mentioned why he decided to pay her back, but Penny thinks he's changed and is going to meet him for dinner. Although Leonard didn't get the bounty he was expecting, Sheldon was proud of him. "There once was a brave lad named Leonard. With a fi-fi fiddle dee-dee. He faced a fearsome giant. While Raj just wanted to pee."


Wales stifled World Cup-bound Mexico to claim a creditable goalless draw at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Some questioned the validity of this fixture at the end of an arduous domestic season, but Wales manager Ryan Giggs will have been pleased with the outcome.
Deprived of his talisman Gareth Bale just days after the Real Madrid forward's Champions League final heroics, Giggs used the occasion to hand several of his youngsters invaluable experience on the international stage.
The only real negative on a warm night in California was a worrying injury to Ashley Williams, which saw the Wales captain forced off in the opening quarter clutching his side.
Giggs had been forced into making changes following their runners-up finish at the China Cup in March.
As well as Bale, James Chester and Joe Allen were unavailable and Declan John dropped to the bench.
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey, Joe Ledley and Tom Lawrence returned, while Brentford defender Chris Mepham - who was playing Sunday League football at North Greenford four years ago - came in for his first start.
Mepham's mature performance belied his tender years, the 20-year-old showing outstanding leadership skills after Williams' departure.
Mexico were quick to establish command and in Jesus Manuel Corona possessed a striker of quick feet and scoring intent.
Corona forced Hennessey into a sixth-minute save and the Wales goalkeeper soon had to be alert again to stop the forward's cross from reaching the lurking Javier Hernandez.
Williams was forced off after challenging Hernandez near the halfway line after 17 minutes.
The Wales captain over-extended his knee as he went for the ball, but he left the field in some pain with what appeared to be a rib injury.
Ramsey was handed the armband and, after Harry Wilson had fired wide after cutting in from the right and on to his left foot, he was hurt in the act of shooting.
He required treatment several minutes later but was able to continue.
Mexico pressed as the first half drew to a close, but Hennessey produced smart stops to prevent Javier Aquino and Hector Herrera from breaking the deadlock.
Giggs shuffled his pack at half-time with the inexperienced trio of John, Connor Roberts and David Brooks sent on and a subtle change in formation.
Brooks and Lawrence linked up in attack as what looked like 4-2-3-1 in the first half became 4-4-2.
But Mexico started to apply serious pressure and Herrera was denied by the legs of Hennessey before the unmarked Oribe Peralta headed wide from a near-post corner.
It turned into attack versus defence in the second half - save for the odd break-out from the sprightly Brooks - but Wales survived a few late scares to deny Mexico in front of a huge crowd of 82,345.
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Magatama – Symbol of the soul
In the spring of 2012 my friend and I were planning to take a short trip out of Tokyo during the Japanese Golden Week (it is a collection of four national holidays within seven days. In combination with well placed weekends, the Golden Week becomes one of Japan's three busiest holiday seasons, besides New Year and the Obon week.). Finally, we decided to travel to Kyoto, the cultural center of Japan.
We spent two days there, visiting the most famous sites, ancient shrines, and museums. We loved how the city had managed to keep its ancient atmosphere and unique charm.
To our biggest surprise, one of our most unforgettable and interesting experiences happened not in any of the most visited tourist attractions, but in a tiny backstreet shrine that we found by accident.
The monks at the shrine were celebrating children's day, teaching parents and their kids ancient customs and games. They were genuinely surprised when two foreign girls showed up at the event, but they welcomed us anyway.
They allowed us to try out all the tools and one of the monks, noticing that we spoke Japanese, kindly offered to be our teacher and revealed an ancient and mystical Japanese tradition.
He sat us down at a table and handed us a stone (maybe it was white agate), a marker and a piece of sandpaper. We were told to draw a symbol on the stone, much like a half of the yin and yang symbol, then to shape it with the sandpaper, and finally, to soak it in water. The result was a magic medallion called a magatama which is believed to be the symbol of the soul (勾玉) in Japan.
We questioned our monk sensei (teacher in Japanese) about the origin of this unusual comma-shaped bead. It turned out that the magatama is one of Three Sacred Treasures of Japan (三種の神器– sanshu no jingi), a mirror, a sword and a magatama jewel.
(My next article will reveal more details about the Three Sacred Treasures.)
According to Japanese legends, the magatama jewel had been a gift to the sun goddess Amaterasu from her father, the supreme deity Izanagi, and together with the sword and mirror, she gave it to her grandson, who came down from the heavens to conquer and rule the islands. It is the only item of the three regalia that has remained in its original form and it is kept safe at the Kashiko-dokoro (賢所), the central shrine of the Three Palace Sanctuaries at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. It is used in the enthronement ceremony of the Emperor of Japan.
The name of the most important magatama is Yasakani no magatama, and it is one of the Imperial Regalia. According to legends, a human soul is locked in the magatama and can be passed on. In other words, the strength, power, and authority of the soul are passed on to the heir. Since the very first magatama was a gift to the sun goddess Amaterasu from her father, the supreme deity Izanagi, and contained Izanagi's own soul, and the goddess passed it on to her own grandson who became the great-grandfather of Japan's first emperor, the power of the emperors are inherited directly from the gods.
The origins of wearing magatama jewels dates from the Jomon period (14,000 BC- 300 BC). The magatama beads have several possible origins. It is believed that they developed from hunters wearing animal parts such as claws, teeth, bones from their game as mementos. Another explanation is that the form represents the waxing moon or a human embryo.
Some of the earliest religious uses of magatama beads were in Japanese shamanic practices. They were used as tools to draw a god's spirit into a shaman, who would serve as a medium between celestial beings and humans.
Today magatama medallions are used to keep evil spirits away, and to bring good luck and fortune to its owner.
If you ever get the chance to visit Japan, I can truly recommend obtaining a magatama talisman for good luck and for a long and happy life.
For the text:
http://japanesereligions.blogspot.hu/2009/04/magatama-beads.html
http://www.magatama-sato.com
http://www.greenshinto.com/wp/2012/05/19/making-a-magatama
+ my own experience
For the pictures:
Pic. 6.: http://blog-imgs-61-origin.fc2.com
Pic. 7.: http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com
I took the others myself.
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Jocelin
Thank you, your research and experience are the most clear and interesting I've read since now.
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THE WORLD'S INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS HAVE LONG FORETOLD THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES WE NOW LIVE IN.
THEY REMEMBER HOW TO LISTEN AND SPEAK TO THE EARTH.
WE WOULD DO WELL TO LISTEN TO THEM
Wisdom Keepers provides a platform for Elders and spiritual leaders from indigenous communities and Wisdom traditions around the world to share their stories and techniques, and to collectively vision a more conscious, peaceful, and sustainable world.
Wisdom Keepers facilitates spontaneous and profound shifts by enabling global audiences to appreciate and understand traditional wisdom ways as holistic, comprehensive and practical worldviews with immediate and relevant application in their own lives and societies.
THE WISDOM KEEPERS
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Kurikindi is a Kichwa Amazonian Shaman. Born in the rainforests of Ecuador and into to an ancient line of shamanic families, Kurikindi has over 36 years of experience immersed in the shamanic way of life sharing its knowledge.
Caretaker of North & South American Traditions, USA
Jyoti has been initiated into and carries ceremonial ways from North and South America and Africa. She is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher who has cultivated projects that honor the Earth and all Peoples. She has devoted her life to bringing unity by facilitating alliances of indigenous culture and traditional medicine ways.
KAZUMI OHISHI
Kaminchu Shaman, Japan
Born in Okinawa, Japan Kazumi is a Kaminchu, who deals with the Gods. They communicate with higher beings, using the physical body to receive messages. The Kaminchu are born psychics and each one carries a different spiritual role.
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Wisdom Keepers is a global initiative that provides a platform for Elders and spiritual leaders from indigenous communities and Wisdom traditions around the world to share their wisdom at an experiential level with audiences at cultural events, to collectively bring about a more conscious, peaceful and sustainable world.
Such cultural events are a natural space for the Wisdom Keepers to come and share the wisdom and insight of their ancient lineages with large numbers of participants, and potentiate shifts in culture in a powerful and progressive way.
Wisdom Keepers facilitates these spontaneous and profound shifts by enabling global audiences to have first hand experience with these traditional wisdom ways, and so come to appreciate and understand them as holistic and comprehensive cosmologies, philosophies and worldviews with immediate and relevant application in their own lives and societies.
Working in partnership with the producers of some of the world's largest and most influential public events, the mission of the Wisdom Keepers project is to seed these practices in the DNA of our shared global culture. Our intention is to continue this work hand in hand with event organisers to co-create powerful programs substantively woven into the fabric of their gatherings to continue the journey of forging:
"A very fruitful marriage between modern festival subcultures at the cutting edge of consciousness exploration and representatives of surviving indigenous traditions which are intact and strong. Both are vital ingredients in the cauldron where the potent imagination that creates the future is brewed." - Eric Maddern, Wisdom Keeper of the Celtic and Druidic Traditions of Northern Europe.
WHY SUPPORT THE WISDOM KEEPERS
Because indigenous Wisdom Keepers the world over are being called to step forward at this time to share their messages and their healing with 'the younger brother'.
To provide a platform for large numbers of people to understand and directly experience the deep wisdom and relevance of indigenous culture for all.
To raise awareness of indigenous cultures threatened by the rapacious growth and needs of modern society.
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To provide powerful healing and connection to large numbers of people suffering from the separation and stressors of modern life.
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Over and above facilitating this interface within the context of public events, as this initiative evolves Wisdom Keepers aims to provide a comprehensive and reciprocal conduit back to communities, and be part of an ecosystem of partnerships with organisations already delivering such work.
Working with trusted partners, these include hosting off-line retreats for different traditions to come together to share, to heal and find collaborative pathways forward; of delivering conscious technologies, resources and knowledge transfer to protect these communities and the ecosystems they have been and are the guardians of; and of philanthropic funding streams to where they are needed most.
These communities represent 4% of the world's population, and are the caretakers of 80% of the world's biodiversity. We need each other !
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The Wisdom Keepers support team has wide and deep connections with indigenous groups world wide through their work in the anthropological, shamanic and campaign spheres. Working in close collaboration with indigenous communities and their spiritual leaders, the team supports these powerful spokespeople to present aspects of their culture to inspire event attendees with both their eloquence and the relevance of their traditional practices to individuals and communities in the modern world. The team also includes professional event producers with extensive experience in the production of conscious gatherings worldwide.
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"Thank you all for this wonderful time and opportunity of such a powerful gathering! I feel it was so important to have these teachings and medicine people from around the world share their traditions. It amplified the experience and grounded me and the people in our true hearts' mission."
"Reflecting on the experience what strikes me is the enthusiastic and open-hearted way in which the capacity and action of prayer was received and welcomed by the crowd. To explain - I was raised in a strongly non-religious western rationalist materialist tradition, as I imagine are most other western Europeans. Prayer is quite simply not part of our lives, or it is something imposed by institutions and rejected in adulthood. Each of the Wisdom Keepers brought their own practice of prayer from their different styles and traditions - well beyond religion - to share with us rational westerners. That it was received so enthusiastically through ceremonies, talks and workshops was a true revelation: for me this feels like a turning point, a sign of hope that human consciousness can evolve beyond the current paradigm, with the help of these kinds of powerful global initiatives." .
"Watching these historically marginalized people create their own spaces and share their sacred histories was both poetically profound and politically resonant."
The Wisdom Keepers team continue to seek aligned partners to seed this work and facilitate its dissemination at events and popular culture at large, as well as reciprocal channels back to indigenous communities around the world. Please get in touch!
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When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, she begins an awakening from the suburban paradise she has been living in.
Strong Serbian Sopranos vibes.. if it was a melodrama from Carmela's perspective and Tony was a war criminal. I'm into it.
There is something that I love about capturing the mundanity of suburbia which I think is where this film shines. The routine that Melina has when she cleans the house is just beyond beautiful.
There are definitive moments when I lost interest and moments when characters could have been fleshed out to give this story some real weight.
A good wife is the one who doesn't ask questions, who doesn't know much, who is not interested to know more, who doesn't challenge her husband and friends.
A bad wife is the one who is interested to know the truth, even when it hurts the most, because she wants her soul to be pure.
This is a very brave and very important film, coming from a director/actor that most likely did have a problem with jingos and ultranationalists from her country, Serbia, who really do not want to know the truth about their own dark past (from the 1990s).
A brave performance and moving personal drama from Serbian writer-actress-director Mirjana.


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Is AMPK a pharmacological target for the prevention of chronic pain?
Most drugs used to treat pain are utilized because they alleviate ongoing pain or hypersensitivity produced by injury. One very common reason people take drugs to alleviate pain is to block the pain produced by a surgical procedure. While analgesics, including opioids, have completely changed the medical management of post-surgical pain over the last century, it is also clear that these post-surgical analgesics are not capable of preventing the development of chronic pain in at least a subset of people who have surgery. Why does this occur and how can we prevent this from happening?
The past decade or more of work on nociceptor signaling and physiology has demonstrated that these are remarkably plastic cells. This plasticity seems to be critical for the development of chronic pain after peripheral injury, such as surgery, and this plasticity may occur even in the presence of strong analgesics that act primarily on the central nervous system. We and others have shown that a key signaling event for nociceptor plasticity is activation of signal transduction that leads to changes in gene expression at the level of translation. Key pathways involved in these events are the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) and mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. Because these are redundant pathways in terms of translation control that converge on the same endpoints, targeting these pathways individually is unlikely to be sufficient to block nociceptor plasticity. Somewhat conveniently, cells have a natural signaling pathway that can negatively regulate mTOR and MAPK and this signaling molecule, called the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), can be targeted with pharmacological activators. We have shown, in a variety of models, that activating AMPK effectively alleviates mechanical hypersensitivity produced by injury. Importantly, activating AMPK also prevents the development of chronic post-surgical pain in hyperalgesic priming models that effectively model long-term nociceptor plasticity. We have recently reviewed this evidence in a review article for a special issue of Neuroscience Letters on Pain Pharmacology here.
We speculate, based on the work we have conducted to this point, that AMPK activators may represent some of the first therapeutics that can be utilized to specifically prevent the development of chronic post-surgical pain. The best-known AMPK activator, metformin, happens to be one of the most widely prescribed and safest drugs in the world. It also costs little more than pennies. Much work is still needed to understand how the drug should be dosed for prevention of post-surgical pain and to determine if the standard prescription amount is sufficient to stimulate this pathway in human peripheral nervous system neurons following injury. Having said that, the established safety and low cost of metformin make this, in our view, an exciting area for further development as a preventative therapeutic for chronic post-surgical pain and potentially other chronic pain disorders.
Ted Price did his Ph.D. at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio working with Chris Flores, Ken Hargreaves and Armen Akopian. He then went onto postdoctoral work at McGill University with Fernando Cervero. He has been at University of Arizona for 6 years and is now an Associate Professor of Pharmacology. His NIH funded lab works on molecular mechanisms driving the development of chronic pain.
Dr. Greg Dussor is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at The University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, USA. Aside from working on AMPK activators in post-surgical pain models, the primary focus of his laboratory is headache disorders such as migraine. His research team is studying the activation and plasticity of the trigeminal system that projects from the cranial meninges to better understand how this pathway may contribute to headache.
Hi, fascinating research. Dr. Dussor, in working with post concussion patients, some have highlighted that big flucuations in blood sugar really aggravate their headaches – I noticed that metformin as an AMPK activator is proposed as an option for treatment for preventing and treating chronic pain. Has this been explored with patients with PCS ? What would be the difference in managing your glucose levels and taking metformin in terms of activating AMPK ? Could you speak to your work on headache management ? Sorry for my ignorance.


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First way: set the y axis maximum:

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Second way: set the padding.top:

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        ],
        labels: true,
        type: 'bar'
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      axis: {
        y: {
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Pay attention to the fact that, in both ways, you'll have extra ticks in the y axis.

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In a galaxy far, far away … are the laws of physics still valid there? How much energy is actually needed to destroy a planet? And what's "force" all about? Professor Concettina Sfienti answered these questions during her entertaining evening lecture on the Star Wars universe and showed that it is possible to discuss about the unknown in a strictly academic manner and at the same time learn about the own universe and its laws.
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Quick Answer: What Date Is Easter Sunday This Year?
Home > Easter > Quick Answer: What Date Is Easter Sunday This Year?
1 Where does Easter fall in 2021?
2 Is Easter early or late in 2021?
3 What day does Easter fall on in the year 2021?
4 What date is Good Friday and Easter Sunday?
6 How long does Easter last for?
8 How does Easter get decided?
9 Why does Easter dates move?
10 Why does Easter change but Christmas doesn t?
11 Is Good Friday and Easter Sunday?
12 Why Good Friday is called Good Friday?
13 Why Good Friday is celebrated?
Where does Easter fall in 2021?
Let's break it down: In 2021, the spring equinox happens on Saturday, March 20. The first full Moon to occur after that date rises on Sunday, March 28. Therefore, Easter will be observed on the subsequent Sunday, which is Sunday, April 4.
Is Easter early or late in 2021?
In 2021, Easter falls on Sunday, April 4, which is considerably earlier than last year (April 12). Something else to note: Easter will take place in April for the next two years!
What day does Easter fall on in the year 2021?
In 2021, Easter Sunday falls on on Sunday 4 April, just over a week earlier than last year's date of 12 April.
What date is Good Friday and Easter Sunday?
This year, Good Friday is on 2 April – it always falls two days before Easter Sunday. Because of this, its position in the calendar changes from year to year, and the holiday can potentially be marked any time between 20 March and 23 April.
You might be interested: Where Does The Easter Bunny Tradition Come From?
How long does Easter last for?
Western Christianity. Eastertide is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, called the "great Lord's Day".
How does Easter get decided?
As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus (Latin for 'computation'). Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (a fixed approximation of the March equinox).
Why does Easter dates move?
Easter's exact date varies so much because it actually depends on the moon. The holiday is set to coincide with the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Because the Jewish calendar is tied to solar and lunar cycles, the dates of Passover and Easter fluctuate each year.
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Is Good Friday and Easter Sunday?
Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, the day on which Christians annually observe the commemoration of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Why Good Friday is called Good Friday?
Etymology. ' Good Friday' comes from the obsolete sense 'pious, holy' of the word "good". Less common examples of expressions based on this obsolete sense of "good" include "the good book" for the Bible, "good tide" for "Christmas" or Shrovetide, and Good Wednesday for the Wednesday in Holy Week.
Why Good Friday is celebrated?
Christians typically celebrate Jesus's resurrection each spring on Easter Sunday. Simply put, Good Friday is set aside for Christians to remember and mourn Jesus's death. It was on this day that religious leaders arrested Jesus for claiming to be the son of God and King of the Jews, as the biblical story goes.


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Start planting spring bulbs in October – why not choose different varieties of daffodils so you have a succession of flowers from February through to May?
Plant out pansies and violas for autumn and winter colour and wallflowers and sweet williams for spring flowering.
Sow broad bean seeds for early pickings next May and June, try varieties such as "aquadulce" or "the sutton".
Plant autumn onion sets and garlic.
Refill hanging baskets and containers with pansies, cyclamen and small winter shrubs as summer ones start to go over – don't forget to under-plant with spring bulbs.
Sow sweet peas now for early flowering next summer, plant in deep growtubes and keep in an unheated greenhouse.
Use autumn lawn feed and mosskiller for strengthening the roots of your grass and killing moss.
Plant shrubs, trees and fruit bushes in the autumn for healthier plants next season, and top dress established plants with bonemeal to strengthen roots and feed during winter.
Use winter wash or wrap the base of fruit tree trunks with grease bands to stop winter moths climbing the trees to lay their eggs.
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MIT to conduct full-scale emergency exercise
"It's important to understand how the process of fluid breakup happens," Lydia Bourouiba says. "What is the physics telling us in terms of droplet size distribution, that we can use downstream to predict range of contamination?"
Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT
This sequence illustrates the evolution of the multiphase turbulence cloud that suspends droplets emitted during a sneeze. Shown here are times ranging from 7 to 340 milliseconds post sneeze onset.
From the paper, "Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of fluid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets," by B. E. Scharfman, A. H. Techet, J. W. M. Bush, L. Bourouiba.
Top and side views of the rapid fragmentation process of mucosalivary fluid occurring during a healthy sneeze. They reflect the sequence of formation of sheets and then filaments, ultimately leading to the formation of respiratory droplets outside of the mouth. These were captured with a camera operating at 6,000 to 8,000 frames per second.
Sneezing produces complex fluid cascade, not a simple spray
High-speed imaging shows how fluid breaks apart in air, may help identify super-spreaders.
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Email: abbya@mit.edu
Here's some incentive to cover your mouth the next time you sneeze: New high-speed videos captured by MIT researchers show that as a person sneezes, they launch a sheet of fluid that balloons, then breaks apart in long filaments that destabilize, and finally disperses as a spray of droplets, similar to paint that is flung through the air.
Using two high-speed cameras, the researchers recorded more than 100 sneezes from healthy human subjects and captured the fraction of a second during which fluid is expelled from the mouth and flung through the air. Almost every sneeze produced the same paint-like pattern of fluid fragmentation, with slight variations: The more elastic the fluid, or saliva, the longer the fluid traveled before breaking into droplets.
This complex pattern of fluid breakup runs counter to what most people expect, which is that a sneeze produces a simple and uniform spray of droplets.
"It's important to understand how the process of fluid breakup, or fluid fragmentation, happens," says Lydia Bourouiba, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and head of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory at MIT. "What is the physics of the breakup telling us in terms of droplet size distribution, and the resulting prediction of the downstream range of contamination?"
Bourouiba says understanding how sneezing disperses droplets can help researchers map the spread of infections through the environment, as well as identify individuals who may be "super spreaders."
"This line of work is opening the way for us to gain insights into the variability between human subjects, and to determine to what extent the breakup process of mucosalivary fluid gives us information on the inner physiology of the host," Bourouiba says.
Bourouiba and her colleagues, including Barry Scharfman, a former MIT graduate student; Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering; and John Bush, professor of mathematics, have published their findings in the journal Experimental Fluids.
The current work builds off research Bourouiba and Bush reported in 2014, in which they showed that coughs and sneezes produce clouds of gas that carry infectious droplets up to 200 times farther than they would have traveled if they were simply disconnected drops.
This time around, Bourouiba focused the high-speed imaging on the distribution of droplets produced from sneezing — a more violent expulsion, compared with coughs.
For their experiments, the researchers positioned each of three human subjects against a black backdrop and other settings, and set up two high-speed monochrome cameras, focused just in front of a subject's mouth. To induce sneezing, they "tickled" the subjects' noses and then recorded as much of the sneeze event as they could — a short window of under 200 milliseconds.
After analyzing more than 100 sneezes, the researchers identified a common pattern: Immediately after exiting the mouth, the exhaled fluid can form a wide sheet that balloons with the simultaneous expelling of air. As it travels through the air, the balloon bursts into thin filaments that eventually separate into individual droplets of various sizes that ultimately fall to the ground or remain suspended in the turbulent cloud.
The team also observed an interesting variation. For subjects with more elastic saliva, the expelled fluid tended to stay in filament form longer, forming beads along the filaments that eventually slid off as droplets.
"What we saw was surprising in many ways," Bourouiba says. "We expected to see droplets coming out fully formed from the respiratory tract. It turns out that's not the case at all. And this gives us a good baseline to expand our mechanistic understanding of violent expirations."
Fluid data
Bourouiba is currently setting up a new lab space at MIT specifically designed to accommodate parallel experiments to understand various modes of disease transmission. This space will also include a smaller, climate-controlled chamber in which she will be able to visualize sneezes, coughs, and other modes of disease transmission, in collaboration with medical partners.
"One of the important goals I have for the lab is to tackle cold and influenza," Bourouiba says. "Sometimes the symptoms are difficult to distinguish. In the coming year, at different cold and influenza seasons, we will be recruiting human subjects whom we can work with to see them in infection and in health."
Bourouiba will be calling for volunteers to the new lab in the near future.
She says that ultimately, hard data on droplet distributions will help better predict and prevent a disease's spread.
"The way transmission routes are being quantified even today still rely on the traditional way that has prevailed for hundreds of years, which is talking to people to survey who they talked to, where did they go, et cetera," Bourouiba says. "There are clear limits to the accuracy of the data acquired via this process, and we are trying to have more precise measures of contamination and ranges to root disease control and prevention strategies in the physical sciences."
This research was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the Reed and Edgerton funds at MIT.
Topics: Health, Health care, Physics, Research, Civil and environmental engineering, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), Disease, Influenza, Fluid dynamics, Public health, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Assistant Prof. Lydia Bourouiba is highlighted in a documentary series that aims to inspire future generations of women in STEM. Producer Emily Driscoll writes in Scientific American that Bourouiba's work studying droplets from sneezes and toilet flushes "could mean new designs for hospitals and our understanding of disease transmission."
In this article and video, Nature reporter Corie Lok spotlights Prof Lydia Bourouiba's work studying the fluid dynamics of coughing and sneezing. Bourouiba explains that her research combines "fluid mechanics to problems that are relevant in health and epidemiology to understand better how pathogens are transmitted."
Tech Insider's Chris Weller reports on a new study by MIT researchers that examines how sneezes travel and spread viruses. The findings could help researchers "predict and prevent disease spread," Weller explains. "If they know how quickly a pathogen spreads via sneeze, then they can learn more about the risks posed by the viruses themselves."
MIT researchers used high-speed cameras to examine how sneezes travel, reports Gillian Mohney for ABC News. The researchers found that "instead of a uniform cloud of droplets, a single sneeze would fragment in the air similar to paint being flung onto a canvas."
Popular Science reporter Alexandra Ossola writes that MIT researchers are examining how drops of fluid from a sneeze travel. Ossola explains that gaining a "better understanding of these drops form and spread could help researchers and engineers stop the spread of disease, especially in enclosed spaces."
MIT researchers have examined how droplets are formed in high-propulsion sneeze clouds, according to CBS Boston. "Droplets are not all already formed and neatly distributed in size at the exit of the mouth, as previously assumed in the literature," explains Prof. Lydia Bourouiba.
Prof. Lydia Bourouiba has modeled how droplets are formed after a person sneezes, reports Jonathan Webb for BBC News. "The process is important to understand because it determines the various sizes of the final droplets - a critical factor in how a sneeze spreads germs," writes Webb.
MIT researchers have found that the high-velocity cloud created by the average human sneeze can contaminate a room in minutes, writes Robert Preidt for U.S. News & World Report. Sneeze droplets "undergo a complex cascading breakup that continues after they leave the lungs, pass over the lips and churn through the air," explains Prof. Lydia Bourouiba.
Paper: "Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of fluid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets"
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Cardinal Dolan Issues Five Decrees
Archdiocesan News, Catholic News, Community, Parish Updates
The decrees were made public to all the faithful on January 1, 2023, through their publication on the archdiocesan website. This announcement is a second notice.
After extensive consultation, Cardinal Dolan issued the following five decrees, two parish mergers and three church relegations:
Merger of the Parishes of Corpus Christi and Notre Dame, North Manhattan (effective immediately)
Merger of the Parishes of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs and Saint Jude, North Manhattan (effective immediately)
Relegation of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, in the Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Saint Bernard and Saint Veronica, South Manhattan (effective immediately)
Relegation of Saint Columba Church, in the Parish of Guardian Angel-Saint Columba, South Manhattan (effective immediately)
Relegation of Immaculate Conception Church, Tompkins Cove, in the Parish of Immaculate Conception, Stony Point – Rockland County (effective immediately)


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Q: Reffering to View from method while using fragments How can I access the Views of my layout from my own method while using Fragments? I have my View set up in Fragment like this:
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            return rootView;
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How to access this whatever TextView field so I could write down something in there using my own method? Just like whatever.setText() but I can not use it as I do not know how to refer to it from outside of the Fragment.
EDIT: My method (it is not inside LeftSectionFragment!) from where I want to refer to TextView looks like this:
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        actionBar.addTab(
                actionBar.newTab()
                        .setText(mAppSectionsPagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i))
                        .setTabListener(this));
    }

    mViewPager.setCurrentItem(1);

}

FragmentPagerAdapter:
public class AppSectionsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

        public AppSectionsPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
            super(fm);
        }

        @Override
        public Fragment getItem(int i) {
            switch (i) {
            case 0:
                return new LeftSectionFragment();

            case 1:
                return new MiddleSectionFragment();

            case 2:
                return new RightSectionFragment();

            default:
                return new MiddleSectionFragment();
            }
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return 3;
        }

        @Override
        public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
            int pos = position;
            switch (pos) {
            case 0:
                return "Left";
            case 1:
                return "Middle";
            case 2:
                return "Right";
            default:
                return "Middle";
            }
        }
    }

Tabs:
@Override
public void onTabUnselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) {
    }

    @Override
public void onTabSelected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) {
        // When the given tab is selected, switch to the corresponding page in the ViewPager.
        mViewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
    }

    @Override
public void onTabReselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction) {
    }

EDIT3: Where print is brought up:
private final Handler mHandler = new Handler() {
    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
        switch (msg.what) {
            case MESSAGE_READ:
            byte[] readBuf = (byte[]) msg.obj;
            // construct a string from the valid bytes in the buffer
            readMessage = new String(readBuf, 0, msg.arg1);
            mConversationArrayAdapter.add(mConnectedDeviceName+":  " + readMessage);
            print(readMessage);
            break;

A: I don't know if I understand correctly your question but I think you want something like that :
public class LeftSectionFragment extends Fragment {

    private TextView mWhatever;

    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        final View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.left, container, false);

        mWhatever = (TextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.whateverR);

        return rootView;
    }

    public void setWhateverText(String text) {
        mWhateverText.setText(text);
    }
}

And in your activity, access it like that :
{
    // init your Fragment
    LeftSectionFragment leftFragment = LeftSectionFragment.initiate();
}

private void print(String msg) {
    String s = msg;
    inc = s.split(",");
    incLength = inc.length;

    //here refer to whatever TextView, similiary to whatever.setText(inc[0])
    leftFragment.setWhateverText(incLength);
}

A: The answer is:
private void print(String msg) {
    String s = msg;
    inc = s.split(",");
    incLength = inc.length;
    LeftSectionFragment.set(inc[0]);
    for(int i = 0; i < incLength; i++)
        Log.i("taguś",inc[i]);
}

Here, we are just making a reference to the LeftSectionFragment where we have a method:
public static void set(String text) {
    valuefixInd.setText(text);
}

And it is all good. Important to do is to define our Fragment class, TextView field and set method to be static: private static TextView whatever & public static class LeftSectionFragment extends Fragment & public static void set.


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This example is meant to show that it's not only possible to use ES6 syntax with Ember, but it's quite easy. Unlike [Ember-CLI](http://www.ember-cli.com/), which only uses the module syntax, this allows all ES6 syntax supported by [this transpiler](https://github.com/termi/es6-transpiler).

## How It Works

This example has 3 main parts, the transpiler, the module loader, and the resolver. Both are fairly simple to write and can be easily integrated into your Ember application.

### The Transpiler

The transpiler used in this project is really just 2 other transpilers combined: a [module transpiler](https://github.com/gordonkristan/es6-module-jstransform) and [transpiler for the rest of the ES6 syntax](https://github.com/termi/es6-transpiler). The module transpiler (originally by andreypopp) uses Facebook's [jstransform](https://github.com/facebook/jstransform) utility to parse and transform the ES6 module syntax _and only the module syntax_. This gives us syntax that can go into the other transpiler and produce ES5 code. And unlike the Traceur compiler, there's no runtime dependency and the output code is quite clean. Wrapping a simple Node script around these transpilers allows your entire app to be compiled into a single file.

### The Module Loader

The module loader is about as simple as it gets. The module transpiler uses a module syntax that looks like AMD combined with CommonJS. The module loader just caches all of the modules and executes them when needed.

### The Resolver

If you're unfamiliar with [Ember's concept of a resolver](http://emberjs.com/api/classes/Ember.DefaultResolver.html), it's really just a way for Ember to find the classes it needs. Ember asks for a specific class (such as `route:index`) and it expects you to find it (for example, `App.IndexRoute`). Ember's default resolver looks for everything on the application's namespace, but we want to avoid that. So similar to Ember App Kit and Ember-CLI, our resolver looks for classes using the module system we defined. The included resolver looks for things in folders corresponding to their hierarchy in the route map. Some examples:

Ember asks for: `route:users.profile.index`

By default Ember uses: `App.UsersProfileIndexRoute`

Our resolver looks for: `routes/users/profile/index.js`

Ember asks for: `controller:users.profile`

By default Ember uses: `App.UsersProfileController`

Our resolver looks for: `controllers/users/profile.js`

Ember asks for: `model:user`

By default Ember uses: `App.User`

Our resolver looks for: `models/user.js`

Ember asks for: `widget:foo.bar.none`

By default Ember uses: `App.FooBarNoneWidget`

Our resolver looks for: `widgets/foo/bar/none.js`

## Caveats

This is a very simplistic approach, so there are a few caveats.

- Circular module dependencies (I don't think Ember-CLI does this either)
- Module and file names can't contain single or double quotes (why would you want to do that anyway?)
- You can't use a function named `require` in the current scope (`window.require()` and `obj.require()` work, but not `require();`)

None of these are unsolvable problems, I just don't think it's worth it to put the effort in to fix them.

## About

This example is written using roughly the same code we use at [greenlight.guru](http://greenlight.guru). I've covered all of the big areas, but I certainly haven't thought of every scenario. If you find something isn't working for you, feel free to let me know or submit a pull request. This is mainly meant to be a proof of concept, but I have no problem expanding upon it if needed.

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The Webber Lake Hotel, located near Jackson Meadow Road and Tahoe NF Road 7 outside Sierraville, California, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2018.

History
Dr. David Gould Webber opened the Webber Lake Hotel in 1860, shortly after Henness Pass Road was opened along the lowest pass through the Sierra Nevada mountains, connecting Camptonville, California (near Marysville) and Verdi, Nevada (near Virginia City). After freight and stagecoach traffic on the road dwindled with the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1868, Webber began advertising the hotel as a health retreat. As a tourist destination, guests included nurse Clara Barton, actor Lola Montez, and painter Thomas Hill.

References

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MandR news
MandR work
CINDY SHERMAN | royal portrait gallery london
Hello the MLE,
I left the exhibition and stopped to watch all the people everywhere, each with their own particular identities, their own particular façades, each looking like a Cindy Sherman character… One of those special moments when you can really feel that art has slightly changed your outlook on the world (as cheesy as that sounds).
I was lucky to catch this major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery here in London, that covered the development of Sherman's work from the mid-1970s to present day. Sherman is famous for her use of make-up, costumes, props and prosthetics to create complex and ambiguous photographic images. She invents fictitious characters, photographing herself in imaginary situations, inhabiting a world of pure appearance.
My sister commented about how she always likes to imagine what the artist behind the work is really like as a person. Would she like to be friends with them? But she had no idea what Cindy Sherman would be like, judging by her art. And that is the point. Her art is "a lesson in throwing followers off a trail, keeping up a legend and putting on a disguise, hiding in plain sight and going undercover."
My favourites were the series called, "Socialites," a series of well, ageing socialites (a few featured here). I found the description particularly funny that it was a bit of a sensitive issue, as these characters could easily resemble some of her art collectors!
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 **Web**

**School** conjuration (creation); **Level** sorcerer/wizard 2

**Casting Time** 1 standard action

**Components** V, S, M (spider web)

**Range** medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)

**Effect** webs in a 20-ft.-radius spread

**Duration** 10 min./level (D)

**Saving Throw** [Reflex](../combat#_reflex) negates; see text; **[Spell Resistance](../glossary#_spell-resistance)** no

_Web _creates a many-layered mass of strong, sticky strands. These strands trap those caught in them. The strands are similar to spiderwebs but far larger and tougher. These masses must be anchored to two or more solid and diametrically opposed points or else the web collapses upon itself and disappears. Creatures caught within a web become [grappled](../glossary#_grappled) by the sticky fibers. Attacking a creature in a web doesn't cause you to become [grappled](../glossary#_grappled).

Anyone in the effect's area when the spell is cast must make a [Reflex](../combat#_reflex) save. If this save succeeds, the creature is inside the web but is otherwise unaffected. If the save fails, the creature gains the [grappled](../glossary#_grappled) condition, but can break free by making a combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check as a standard action against the DC of this spell. The entire area of the web is considered difficult terrain. Anyone moving through the webs must make a combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check as part of their move action, with a DC equal to the spell's DC. Creatures that fail lose their movement and become [grappled](../glossary#_grappled) in the first square of webbing that they enter.

If you have at least 5 feet of web between you and an opponent, it provides cover. If you have at least 20 feet of web between you, it provides total cover.

The strands of a _web _spell are flammable. A _flaming weapon _can slash them away as easily as a hand brushes away cobwebs. Any fire can set the webs alight and burn away one 5-foot square in 1 round. All creatures within flaming webs take 2d4 points of fire damage from the flames.

_Web _can be made permanent with a _ [permanency](permanency#_permanency) _spell. A permanent web that is damaged (but not destroyed) regrows in 10 minutes.