I am not sure where Servefest started, but if you search for it on the web, you will find more than just what is happening in Monroe and Sultan. There are lots of people and organizations around the country and the world who understand the greatest commandments and want to shine their light before men.
In the Skykomish valley, Servefest 2008 will take place on August 10, 2008. That means that several Christian churches in the Monroe and Sultan area will not be having regular services for their congregations. Instead, those congregations will be doing what Jesus said to do. "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5:16) This is the second year of Servefest in the Skykomish valley communities and it is a growing movement to show Christ's love to all.
The event has grown to about a dozen partnering Christian churches and organizations and several sponsoring entities as well. If you visit the official Servefest website at http://www.servefest.org/ you will see lists of both. You will also see the theme of Servefest 2008: Connecting the dots – people, Christ, community.
The partner organizations are sending their people to serve others, mainly as laborers for diverse projects throughout the community. Among those benefiting from the labor of love are Housing Hope (http://www.housinghope.org/) and Take the Next Step (http://www.thenextstepmonroe.org/), two local organizations that help people to find affordable housing and provide other services to those in need.
Local schools, and the cities of Monroe and Sultan are also benefiting from Servefest labor. But what does it all really mean? Why would churches send their congregations out to pick up litter and paint the Evergreen State Fairgrounds or do other projects around the cities where they meet? Why would the organizations sponsor such an outlandish project? What benefit would any of the sponsoring churches or organizations get from such a project?
The simple answer to all of these questions is really obedience. After all, the sponsoring organizations will get very little publicity from the website, because it is mainly a site where the members of the participating churches and organizations can sign up. The only real benefit that any of them get is the satisfaction that they followed the Lord's direction. They are showing that they understand the greatest commandments, to love the Lord with all their hearts, minds, souls, and strengths, and to love their neighbors as themselves (Mark 12:30-31). And they are showing that they can carry out those commandments in a practical way.
I suppose that there is one other benefit to Servefest. There is a celebration afterward. People who served during the day will be entertained and fed in the evening at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe. No charge. People are being asked to help fill up the Monroe and Sultan food banks, but all they really need to do is sign up to serve and after they are finished, they can be served. I am not sure if the pastors will man the dunk tank like they did last year, but there are sure to be laughs with a comedian and other entertainment. One of the best things, of course, will be people enjoying each others' tales from the day.
If you looking to visit a church in the Skykomish valley communities on August 10, 2008, the churches will not be empty, but you might get put to work. If you are traveling in the area, you are sure to see bunches of people with orangish T-shirts working in the community. If they have smiles on their faces and want to talk about Jesus, they are probably from one of the dozen Christian churches and organizations partnering to make Servefest 2008 a reality. They have left their church buildings in order to shine the light of Jesus on their community. Like the official website says Servefest is "connecting the dots" between people, Christ, and the community. Personally, I hope that Servefest 2008 connects lots of dots.


I am changing the organizational structure of this blog. To this point I have attempted to produce one posting a week. The topics have been primarily related to a nutritional and health perspective without a major theme from week to week. Once a month I have provided a book review. In the coming months I will post my book review early in the month, and subsequent posts will be related to the primary message of the book reviewed. When appropriate, I will seek out a guest blogger to provide a different perspective on the topic of the month. Whenever a month contains 5 Tuesdays, my preferred day to post, I will look at some past stories and provide an update. Since March this year had 5 Tuesdays, I am revisiting the dangers of sugar and the implications of taxing soda. My apology that this post did hit the screen until April!
Dangerous sugars. In early March I reviewed The Case Against Sugar1 by Gary Taubes. In that review I challenged the case for his failure to provide a mechanism explaining how sugar is toxic and the primary cause of obesity and diabetes. I was also skeptical of the author's claims that sugar calories are not a consideration in the onset of obesity. Earlier this month, by a curious coincidence, I picked up and started reading a highly technical book, The Maillard Reaction Reconsidered: Cooking and Eating for Health2 by Jack Losso. This book turns out to be a horror story for anyone who enjoys the flavor and color associated with black and brown food. Losso provides a plausible mechanism for the role of sugar in the development of obesity , diabetes and other Western diseases without discounting the importance of calories from sugar. The proposed mechanism involves the reaction of reducing sugars like glucose and fructose with free-amino groups in proteins to form Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs). This reaction is the beginning of a cascade of steps known as Maillard browning leading to the formation of numerous flavor and color molecules that provide pleasure to the Western palate.
Losso's grand hypothesis is that the formation of these AGEs and their accumulation in our bodies leads to inflammation as part of the overall mechanism of many chronic diseases. If Losso is right about Maillard reactions, then Taubes could be closer to the truth than I gave him credit for but for all the wrong reasons. The idea that Maillard browning could be at the heart of most of America's chronic diseases is enough to frighten any food scientist or chef who sees it as a hallmark of our cuisine. A war on Maillard browning could be the end of American cuisine as we know it. I still remain somewhat skeptical of his anti-Maillard thesis, but I am only halfway through his book. For example, he seems to be exaggerating the impact of fructose in high-fructose corn syrup, and I don't understand why he considers fructose to be so much more dangerous than glucose when both of them have the same capacity as reducing sugars.
Nonetheless, the attention to detail and excellent documentation found in The Maillard Reaction Reconsidered provides a much more convincing case for decreasing our consumption of sugars and other carbohydrates than the The Case Against Sugar. Interestingly enough, Losso thinks that food manufacturers and chefs can reduce the damage due to Maillard browning by swapping out ingredients, such as the use of resistant starches. I have difficulty imagining the reformulated foods having the same quality as those currently available.
Taxing soda. Philadelphia is completing the third month of its soda tax. The battle lines are drawn. Those against the tax—including the beverage industry, supermarket chains and small bodega stores—are claiming that it is costing jobs and driving customers out into the suburbs to seek out cheap soda. Supporters claim that these are scare tactics organized by industry groups and that the benefits the taxes will bring far outweigh any harm. The primary for municipal elections will be held Tuesday, May 16, prior to the general election, Tuesday, November 7. I could find no information about a concerted campaign either for or against the soda tax in the City of Brotherly Love, but city politicians across the country will be watching to see if there is a political cost or benefit to imposing this tax. Look here for reports in May and November.
1 Taubes, G., 2016.The Case Against Sugar New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
2 Losso, J.N., 2016. The Maillard Reaction Reconsidered: Cooking and Eating for Health Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.


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Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 13, 2021 • 28 Comments
Book News, Quantum Physics, Understanding Reality
"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it.
Match the frequency of the reality you want,
and you cannot help but get that reality.
It can be no other way.
This is not philosophy. This is physics."
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), quotation (1948)
The above quotation from Albert Einstein shows a profound understanding of what we now know is true. And for good measure, he also said, "Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter." There is a lot of evidence now that Einstein was right, but still most working physicists would be forced to deny his words because they violate the fundamental scientific dogma of materialism. And the quotation from Einstein that ends this post explains how he was able to achieve his exalted level of understanding! He was a sufficiently revered scientist that he could investigate reality with an open mind without risking his position in the scientific community. So he did just that. And in daring to explore as far as his mind could reach, he found the same basis for reality that afterlife researchers have independently discovered.
It's the same underlying reality, too, that the second-greatest theoretical physicist of the twentieth century also discovered. Max Planck (1858-1947) won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was the father of quantum mechanics, and a deeply brilliant man. In 1931 Planck said, "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." Then in 1944, near the end of his life, he summed up his greatest discovery, and in fact the greatest discovery of the twentieth century. He said, "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." Max Planck discovered what materialist physicists call quantum physics, which is a variant of the consciousness-based physics that underlies all of reality. He found that quantum physics underlies reality in this material universe as well, although this universe has an additional overlay of what we might call Newtonian physics that keeps our minds from messing with the reality around us while we are having these earth-experiences.
So the two greatest physicists in history both independently discovered the same physics underlying all of reality that afterlife researchers also have found! And afterlife researchers have made our discoveries using neither math nor experiments of any kind, but simply by closely studying nearly two hundred years of abundant and consistent afterlife evidence. Here is what Albert Einstein, Max Plank, Craig Hogan, and Roberta Grimes have each discovered:
Nothing is solid. Everything is energy. This fundamental fact of reality is inescapable at this point, and yet it is unknown beyond the scientific community.
The base energy is what we experience as consciousness. Your personal awareness is an aspect of the infinitely powerful potentiality that is all that independently exists, and that gives rise to everything else.
But still, the foolish and clearly erroneous fundamental scientific dogma of materialism persists! It forces scientists trying to earn a living to publish scientific papers that are essentially gibberish; it has physicists still searching pointlessly for a way to unify their two incompatible theories; and it sees the whole scientific community forced to struggle with patently absurd random theories that have been suggested by the results of their nonsensical materialist explorations. Because mainstream scientists are not allowed to consider the most important discovery made by history's two greatest physicists, they must still ignore the base force that underlies reality. So, ultimately, their theories are going to be nonsense. Even when they make what are actually interesting and important discoveries about consciousness, the rules of their profession require that they talk about them in terms of the material brain!
So you and I are positioned to witness a most peculiar situation. The limitations of materialist science are so obvious by now, and their effects on scientific research are so devastating, that it is impossible for us to imagine that any scientific researcher with even a modicum of sense doesn't see them! But they can't buck the gatekeepers. The university departments and the peer-reviewed journals. Academic scientists have families to support, tuitions to fund, and a hope to eventually retire; and any research scientist who even considers investigating the primacy of consciousness will soon find himself flipping burgers for a living. At this point, the entire scientific community is reduced to the position of courtiers forced to exclaim about the beauties of the naked Emperor's imaginary new clothes.
I should mention at this point the leading crusader against all this scientific nonsense, whose next Seek Reality interview will be posted on November 29th. Craig Weiler is a researcher and entrepreneur who has for decades been fighting disinformation with facts. His book, Psi Wars: Ted, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet, is a must-read if this problem interests you. Craig is the very model of patient open-mindedness, but at this point I am finding it a great deal harder than he finds it to continue to suffer fools!
The fact is that mainstream science went off the rails a hundred years ago, when it turned itself into a belief-system. The only way it can right itself now is to renounce materialism and then turn every working scientist loose with instructions to pursue the truth wherever it may lead. To help to give those newly-liberated scientists a head start, here is a caution about some common methods of modern-day scientific inquiry that are very unlikely to work when we venture beyond this material universe:
Mathematics. From what we can tell, mathematical calculations are close to useless in studying the greater reality. Since consciousness there has all the power, it can make anything happen in any way at any time, so there probably are no fixed "laws of physics" to be discovered.
Replicable Experiments. We may eventually work out ways to experiment with a consciousness-based reality. But since the minds of the experimenters are going to affect the results of our experiments, we should assume for now that all experimental results must be considered suspect.
Commercial Research. We have already found that work in electronic communication that is based in a hope for earning wealth will be doomed. The genuine experimenters are the dead experts, they easily can read our motives, and they seem to be unwilling to work with anyone who is in it for material gain.
What we have learned works best when we attempt to study consciousness and the greater reality is for researchers to take a more deferential approach:
Distant Observation. You can learn about the greater reality the way you might study a black hole or a supernova, by staying out of the way and indirectly observing it.
Data Aggregation. When you can't observe something directly without a fear that your own mind will affect your observations, the best way to study it is to collect a lot of testimony from the participants themselves. This is what the early-20th-century accounts through deep-trance mediums have done for afterlife researchers.
Trusted On-Site Observers. As we have come to better understand human life in the greater reality, we have encountered upper-level beings who know a great deal about where they are now, and they are eager to help us get our questions answered.
It will help, too, to have a base understanding of the greater reality already in place against which to test future scientific theories. For example, I have found that what we already know about the greater reality has worked wonderfully in testing what Christianity teaches! For the past twenty years I have been using the testimony of the dead to demolish Christian ideas as varied as judgment, hell, damnation, and the End Times prophesies. When we read the twice-translated Gospel teachings of Jesus in modern English, and we compare them with what the dead have said, what we can learn is especially amazing! It's as if Jesus is Himself explaining and enriching our understandings. And the dead are anxious to help us in any way they can. Some of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century are still actively working today. So perhaps, when the mainstream scientific gatekeepers at last begin to get a clue, dead greats like Albert Einstein and Max Planck can give us guidance and can serve as a kind of Truth Detector for the far more sensible scientific theories that will soon be on the way?
"I want to know how God created this world.
I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon,
in the spectrum of this or that element.
I want to know His thoughts;
the rest are just details."
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Jack H Hiller says:
Just a side note to add about Einstein's objection to quantum mechanics as shaped by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Einstein believed that basic particles, subatomic particles such as electrons or photons, were as real as any objects we normally see with our eyes. But Heisenberg thought that as he was unable to make precise measurements of the status of such particles, he must conclude that an objective scientist had to define particles as naturally hazy statistical objects until actually observed and measured.
Heisenberg had reasoned that as he would attempt to measure both the location and momentum of an electron, as he tweaked his apparatus making use of electromagnetic fields to observe, measure, and record his data, when he would improve one of the measures, the other would invariably lose its precision; for example, if he were to shower an electron with strong light to gain a good shadow of where it was, the energy of the light would substantially affect what had been the particle's momentum; likewise, a highly precise measure for momentum would affect its location. Just as Roberta has outlined that our actions may affect what we observe (also well known in psychology as the Hawthorne Effect), He supposed that his measurement techniques had to interact with the particle to be observed. So he inferred that the measurement problem had not to do with the measurement technology available at that time, but instead reflected an inherent uncertainty in the status of quantum particles. He thus concluded that quantum particles necessarily existed in a random haze, although within an extremely small physical space, at the Planck level. Bohr, his mentor, generalized this idea to declare that particles could not be considered as having a definite, real existence in Nature (e.g., a fixed location and a specific momentum), but existed in a random flux (the so called Copenhagen Interpretation of reality, which Einstein objected to, i.e., the Moon does not exist until observed, silly as that appears to common sense).
Einstein could not prove by any technology available at the time that he was right to hold that God "would not play dice" with what existed, so physics concluded that Heisenberg and Bohr were right, and that is where it stands today.
However, last year I realized that particle measurement technology developed in recent years had actually been observing particles as real entities, just as Einstein believed they were, but because of a dogmatism in physics just as bad as in church religion, the researchers publishing their results failed to realize that their work directly contradicted Heisenberg and Bohr. I published my findings last year in a journal on consciousness that is edited and reviewed by physicists (Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research). In private email, two Nobel laureates in physics agree with my paper, but of course the profession at large continues to honor the fiction, less their house of cards collapse.
Michael Newton says:
Thanks for your article. It helps me to validate the same thought patterns about "reality" that have been percolating for many years. In a nutshell, all potential realities are realized by the attention of consciousness. Is this close to truth? Would you be willing to send a link to you writings?
Michael, My article refuting the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is here ( https://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/934 ): Uncertainty Principle in Light of the "Weak" Measurement Experiments
Jack H. Hiller
Four recent experiments have been published that employed "weak" measurements. The techniques for inferring particle reality by observation were so delicate that the particles were not affected by the energy of observation (except in one experiment), yet the particles were found to have real existence. In this article, the author argues that the results of these contemporary experiments contradict the premise of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
A good review of my published findings and conclusions about the nature of consciousness was posted on the IANDS information website by Kevin Williams ( https://near-death.com/near-death-experience-of-space-time-and-consciousness/ )
Dear Jack, it is courageous of you to be doing this work, and an enjoyable retirement hobby, but I think we both realize that the scientific community will never take either of us seriously. When they are at the pathetic point of doing things like scrubbing Wikipedia in order to hold back the sea of truth awhile longer, why would they listen to any of us? Albert Einstein and Max Planck could appear together in a gigantic worldwide vision and explain the truth in simple terms, and they still would call it hogwash!
My dear Michael, it is probably going to be necessary for us to abandon the materialist perspective altogether if we ever hope to really understand anything. Yes, all potential realities are realized by the attention of consciousness; but it is even more amazing than that. Apparently everything that seems real and solid to you is just a thought in your mind. And no, I don't understand it either! Einstein called this all an illusion, and apparently he was right, but… what the heck??
Mike J-R says:
Roberta, the more I read here—as well as in work by others, including Michael Newton and Craig Hogan—and the more I listen to my beloved Spirit guide, the more I think we are not "in" bodies at all. The expression Arrow likes is "this experience we perceive as incarnation." I don't know, of course, and am not even pretending to know. It is fascinating (but baffling) to contemplate. Materialism is easy!
I don't understand why it would be so terrible if Bohr and Heisenberg were contradicted. Isn't that what science is all about – trial and error, both of which are necessary in order to lead to discovery? If they don't go where the evidence leads them, how do they expect to make any progress? It sounds more like an ego problem to me
Funny how science institutions revere these legends to the point of being terrified that one day they will be disproven, and yet they pay no heed to what they actually thought and said. Sound familiar?
Dear Mike, it is all a gigantic edifice of falsehood at this point. I don't think there is much sentimentality about Heisenberg and Bohr, or any of them, but generations of subsequent physicists have done work that relied on the work of earlier physicists, and if one of those earlier guys is now shown to have gotten it wrong, then that throws all the subsequent work into question. The "fundamental scientific dogma of materialism" is the ultimate hot potato that they have been passing down for the past century, and nobody wants to be the poor sap who gets caught holding it and getting his fingers burned whenever the music finally stops.
Lola, My analysis demonstrated that, as a consequence of the Heisenberg and Bohr mistake, quantum entanglement is also a fiction; quantum entanglement is a term for instantaneous communication across any distance however vast, what Einstein derided as "spooky action at distance."
When two particles are created to test for quantum entanglement (the EPR Paradox Experiment that Einstein described with two colleagues), and testing appears to confirm it, there is actually no spooky signaling between them as inferred to explain why they existed in complementary states, as required to satisfy Conservation of Energy, because they are created with their complementary states intact and maintain them until observed. My explanation is simple, fitting Occam's razor. but the accepted explanation is magical.
Currently, all major governments are sponsoring R&D, along with private industry, e.g., IBM and Google, to engineer quantum computers based on application of quantum entanglement. Big bucks and many careers are involved. However, there is a notorious problem of unreliability they have not been able to eliminate. The computers produce unreliable computations which they attribute to "decoherence," a condition in which the particles working quantum entanglement are supposed to turn from the hazy statistical state, based on the Heisenberg/Bohr idea, to a definite real state. What my analysis shows is that, as intuited by Einstein, particles are always in a definite real state, so quantum computing is impossible.
I have communicated the source of the problem to our government agency funding quantum computer R&D, to DARPA, and to our National Academy of Sciences, but of course they chose to ignore the problem I explained.
If quantum computing is impossible, it would seem that they will eventually have to admit at some point that particles are always in a definite real state . Otherwise, they will be chasing their own tail. I'm kind of disappointed, as living down the street from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute when I was a teenager, the boys from RPI talked about the "spooky action at a distance" theory all the time, and I found it fascinating. Quantum computers would generate big bucks, so I don't think the scientists will give up easily on this one.
Applying for college, I considered RPI, Carnegie Tech, and Cal Tech and chose Carnegie, for ill or good.
All of the quantum computers are using a supercooled Josephson junction for processing, and it is reliable and super fast (Josephson was one of the Nobel Laureates I emailed my paper to). So, they seem at first to get fast calculations that give them hope for eventual success. But if they paid really close attention, none of the calculations are what would be expected from computational processing that takes no time at all, as predicted from quantum entanglement as instantaneous.
Consider that active R&D to apply atomic fusion for power generation has been going on for 70 years ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_nuclear_fusion ), and repeated failure has not stopped the search given the big prize. Well, we may eventually harness fusion, but quantum entanglement is pure fiction.
Dear Jack, all the "quantum weirdness" and "spooky action at a distance" is just consciousness-based physics at work, as I know you realize. It is evidence that there is an underlying base energy that lacks space and time, and that underlies the macro-physics overlay which keeps us from mind-messing with matter.
The truth is all so simple! It's just that they are trying to reason from here, and not stepping back and reasoning objectively. They are looking through the wrong end of the microscope.
Dear Lola, it is ALL an ego problem! (And no, they can't go wherever the evidence leads them. Not for a very long time indeed.) By now, four generations of scientists have spent their entire careers trying to do science under the false edict of materialism, so the entire scientific community has a vast ego-based investment in what is a fundamental lie. A century's worth of scientific inquiry is in fact useless, and it will be seen another hundred years from now to have been flat-out ridiculous. I used to think that the physicist who wins the Nobel Prize in Physics as the father/mother of a consciousness theory of everything was going to be glad to go down in history as the one who finally burst this bubble, but the longer it goes on the less I believe that. Too many careers have been wasted, and these people all have believed these lies at first or they wouldn't have chosen scientific careers. No, all of it is just very, very sad.
My dear Jack, thank you for this. It is in microcosm what has happened to all of mainstream science over the past hundred years. The foundations are all build on the shifting sand of the facts-free core premise of materialism, and the more working scientists in various fields try to contribute further ideas that also are essentially facts-free because they are based on a nonsensical premise, the more unstable it all appears for all to see. Max Planck discovered the consciousness physics which underlies all of reality, and physicists of his day tried to incorporate it into their understanding of the macro-physics that governs just this material universe. When, of course, to be understood at all, his discovery would have needed to be approached from the opposite direction! And many working physicists have some sense of that by now, although it's unlikely that they realize the depth and range of the problem.
This has been going on for 70 years? That's amazing! I'm impressed that Josephson actually agreed with your findings, but they still are not looking into this more critically despite all the many failures they experienced?
Also, the quote from Einstein at the beginning of this blog totally answered one of the greatest questions that I've had for many years. He said everything was energy (which I already knew), but he said if we match the frequency of the reality we want, it would be inevitable that the particular reality we want would manifest – that there was no other choice – it was not philosophy but physics. I wonder if you have any theories or advice on how to actually "match" the frequency of a desired reality i.e. one we would like to experience after we "die"?
Dear Lola, that's an interesting question – whether we can have any reality we want after our deaths – and the answer is that (probably within limits) apparently we can. But in order to do it, we've first got to fully sign out of this level, as it were, and go through the post-death process in our shared afterlife. But there are hundreds, and perhaps thousands of frequencies. And each is apparently another reality as solid as this one but not material, and probably as large as this material universe (to the extent that size means anything).
Ali Mirza says:
By your statement 'another reality as solid as this one but not material' – you mean a reality that does not have the same physics as our current reality, right?
Yes, my dear Ali, and thank you for reminding me that most people here wouldn't know that!
The "matter" in the solid-seeming greater reality is very different from the matter here. It is essentially what you might call solidified thought. As such, it is a bit like alabaster in appearance, in that it is very slightly translucent and even somewhat transparent in some lights. Although apparently if it should be soft, or even warmish, then it is. It contains no atoms or particles of any kind, and it doesn't die or decay, so flowers and leaves seem to be what they represent but they are permanent.
We think that once we achieve a certain level of spiritual growth, then our minds can alter that non-material matter at will, which is why the material universe has an overlay of this artificial reality, one based in a denser physics complete with atoms and so on, that our minds have more trouble messing with.
Lola Hoovler says:
I think there are many 'of them who would like to do consciousness research, but woe to them who ask for funding for it!
OMG 😳 what a wonderful conversation again Roberta, Lola and Mr Jack 😊
Mr Hiller I just clicked onto your paper thru your link (all of this way over my head) and read your bio WOW what a career … it's a privilege to read your comments big courtesy 👑 love to all from bonnie Scotland ❤❤Louise xx
Thanks all for even reading what I dodder at now. Josephson's response to getting my paper was pretty funny. He said that he already knew that Heisenberg made a mistake; as an emeritus prof, he too engages in consciousness research.
NDE reports state that when on the other side, they were told or observed that the world is multidimensional, and one can look down, but not up. It seems to me that we cannot appreciate the nature of consciousness as we operate from our material brain, which is really constructed to permit thought while blocking its true reality, just as Roberta just mentioned.
Consider that our existence as consciousness is eternal, and so our explorations though our eternal journey will be unfathomable and forever creative. I believe that God created us so we all may share this journey with "Him."
Speaking of doddering, here is a bit of doggerel on point:
Told reasons not spoken
Crushed by the news of children slaughtered
witnessing innocent animals bruised to die
before butchered,
and pleading to be told Why
Provoked to despair
over many years
from scenes so unfair
so falling into the pit of tears
Why is such our lowly fate
miseries raining with no reason told
such awful destinies as if from hate
forced from timid to shouting bold — Why
Listening hard to be told
listening even harder
to learn why such murder
But ears would never hear
however hard they listen
however much in despair
why such evil appears to glisten
Tell us why we must die
tell us why life's so hard
And finally was told why
directly in mind by our Bard
Not in my ears told
but in mind so bold
about illusion causing fear
and pain from growing old
All hurts mere provocation
fleeting across time
but illumining by comparison
the whole world's beauty eternally sublime
Oh my dear Jack, do you really mind growing old? I rather like it! I don't actually feel much older either physically or mentally, but at this point I'm one day closer to going home. And meanwhile, I kind of feel more reckless and much freer about actually telling the truth! We can do that now, as we couldn't do it at forty. I frankly love it 🙂
My dear Louise, you always make me smile! We all send big hugs to you in beautiful Scotland, from more or less everywhere else 🙂
Tom Eberhard says:
That quote from Einstein intrigues me. It is actually possible to attain certain realities we seek in this life through mental power. I cannot explain how or why the process works but one of the main ingredients includes faith in the outcome as illustrated in many of the healings performed by Jesus. Others include persistance and a practice known as creative visualization.
Dear Tom, you make a wonderful point! Jesus flat-out said that it was the minds of the people He healed that had effected their own healings. Their minds believed that He had the power to heal them, so when He said, "Be healed!" their minds believed that the healing had happened, and effected that transformation. And when He was in His home village, among people who knew Him as a local kid, they mostly couldn't believe that He was able to heal and therefore His efforts at healing people mostly failed.
He told us that we can do literally anything that we are certain we can do, beyond any doubt: the moving-mountains thing. Our minds are so powerful!
Scott F says:
I love that final quote from Einstein, Roberta. He was more of a mystic than most people realize. Too bad more scientists don't take a bit of that mystical bent and realize that by understanding more about big C Consciousness, we can understand more about our own seemingly separate consciousnesses, and more about the true nature of this so- called reality upon which our eternal minds are currently focused, since it is all part of the same continuum. Hopefully someday scientists will have more freedom to follow that course without fear of repurcussions, and science will make huge strides. Didn't the genius Tesla predict that? I hear he's trying to help advance things from the other side now.
My dear Scott, at this point all the scientific resistance to accepting the primacy of consciousness is almost entirely fear-based. It seems to have begun with a fear of inadvertently finding the Christian God, which was of course all silliness. If there is a Christian God, then let's find Him ASAP! Let's just follow the truth! But no, a century ago there was a struggle for primacy still going on between science and religion. That detour away from open-mindedness and into dogma was a gigantic mistake, and after a century they have wasted so much money on nonsensical theories and fruitless, pointless research! So now they fear the gigantic loss of face to come one day if/when the public that respects them so much now learns the truth and realizes that for more than a century the scientific emperor has been buck-nekkid. Nobody wants to be part of bringing down the whole scientific house! They would rather serve out their careers, keeping quiet. Maybe do some broader-minded research when they retire.
It would all be very sad, if it were not such a monstrous ongoing evil to keep most people in fear of death even as late as today!
And yes, the word is that Nikola Tesla, our lovely friend Albert Einstein, and some of the other most legendary scientists are now working from that end to help to bring the truth to the world….


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Whether its outsourcing certain processes or getting financial help through business grants, we've got to make the most of the help when and where we can. Ultimately, it's these things that will help to improve the business. If we don't harness this help, we're doing our business a disservice. And in many ways, not getting the help can be the equivalent of cutting off our nose to spite our face. Getting the right people on board is a prerequisite because you don't know everything!
We all make mistakes and we can't think that we need to hold onto our business as tightly as possible, so we can ensure every process is perfect from our perspective. We will hit snags now and again and as such, we will need to ask for help. The sooner we get this into our heads, the better. Asking for help means that you are fallible, that you are prepared to make mistakes. And, you will make mistakes, so why don't you get this out of the way now?
It's All About The Business, Not You!
It's not personal, just business. And instead of putting our own ego on the line, we've got to think about everything that is for the benefit of the company. It's much more important than the sum of its parts. And if you think that you are sufficiently linked with the company, and the company cannot function without you, you are hindering its progress. The business is about the right people, the idea, the product, and everything, but also, you are part of this, because you steer the ship. But you're steering the ship of the business, not your own egotistical desires. Lots of people start a business because they want to be in charge of people, and so the ego is fed. But the sooner we get it out of our system that we aren't the most important thing, we can focus on what really matters.
It's not about weakness, asking for help is such an essential component that it gives us perspectives of what we're doing right as well as what we doing wrong. If you're someone that doesn't like to admit you made a mistake, and you'd rather cover it up, you will learn very quickly about what running a business entails. Ultimately, you've got to take this leap of faith, you've got to learn how to make mistakes, but you've also got to learn how to fix them. Running a business isn't about admitting that you're weak at every opportunity, but it's about being the stupidest person in the room. That way, you will always be learning.


72 year old nun from the French Hospital in Jerusalem, has been a volunteer in the rehabilitation medical day care of the ALYN Hospital for the past 13 years.
Anne comes to the daycare twice a week and works with the children with much joy and dedication. Anat Peled, the day care teacher says that in spite of her age, Anne works harder than everyone else. She also brings useful gifts for the children and to the daycare.
Last week, for instance, she brought a Hebrew-English-Italian dictionary, for a new immigrant from Italy who joined the daycare. The children are strongly connected to her. Anne talks about the children with great excitement: "This is a place of happiness, together with the pain there's so much love and miracles here. It is difficult at times, but I always come, give as well as receive from everybody, the children and the staff.
" The 2-3 year old toddlers of the Anat day care are in need of daily medical supervision which is part of the Shachar Rehabilitation Educational Medical Day Care Center of ALYN.


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By STEWART BROWN, United Press Staff Correspondent | February 24, 1933
GENEVA, Feb. 24, 1933 (UP) - The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.
The stunned international conclave, representing almost every nation on earth, sat in silence while the delegation, led by the dapper Yosuke Matsuoka, clad in black, walked from the hall. The crowded galleries broke into mingled hisses and applause.
Japan's formal resignation from the league is expected to be filed later.
"We are not coming back," Matsuoka said simply as he left the hall.
The assembly's report, recommending that Japan withdraw her troops occupying Manchuria and restore the country to Chinese sovereignty, was adopted, 42 to 1, Japan voting against it. Paul Hymans, presiding, announced it was unanimous, since the vote of interested parties does not count.
The session which made history, signifying the final break between the league and one of the world's major powers, was fairly brief and simple.
As the roll was called down the alphabetical list of nations, delegate after delegate voted for the resolution.
When China was called, there was a slight stir of expectancy and W. W. Yen, Chinese delegate, firmly answered:
Japan was called a few moments later. Matsuoka's decisive "no' could be clearly heard in all parts of the hall.
Matsuoka later announced the delegation's withdrawal from the league, the first step in breaking relations with Geneva. Two years is required to make withdrawal final. Japan will be held responsible for fulfillment of her international obligations during that time.
The Japanese delegation stalked from the hall while a translator interpreted Matsuoka's speech.
Matsuoka, usually typifying the placid oriental diplomat, was nervous before he began his speech, and abandoned the text before he finished. He shouted from the rostrum:
"Japan will oppose any attempt at international control of Manchuria. It does not mean that we defy you, because Manchuria belongs to us by right.
"Read your history. We recovered Manchuria from Russia. We made it what it is today."
He referred to Russia, as well as China, as a cause for "deep and anxious concern" for Japan.
"We look into the gloom of the future and can see no certain gleam of light before us," Matsuoka declared.
He reiterated that Manchuria was a matter of life and death for Japan, and than no concession or compromise was possible, saying: "Japan has been and will always be the mainstay of peace, order and progress in the Far East."
In objecting to proposed international control of Manchuria, he asked, "Would the American people agree to such control of the Panama Canal Zone; would the British permit it over Egypt?
"The Japanese people will oppose any such attempt in Manchuria. I beg of this body to realize the facts and see a vision of the future. I earnestly beg of you to deal with us on our terms, to give us your confidence.
"To deny us this appeal will be a mistake. I ask you not to adopt this report," Matsuoka said earnestly.
After the assembly vote had been taken, Matsuoka announced "the Japanese government is obliged to feel that they have now reached the limit of their endeavors to co-operate with the league regarding Sino-Japanese differences.
"It is a source of profound regret and disappointment to the Japanese government that the draft report has now been adopted by this assembly. Japan has been a member of the league since its inception. Our delegates in past conferences participated in the drafting of the league covenant.
"We have been proud to be members, associated with the leading nations of the world in one of the grandest purposes in which humanity could unite. It has always been our sincere wish and pleasure to co-operate with fellow members of the league, attaining the great aims held in common and long cherished by humanity.
"I deeply deplore the situation we are now confronting, for I doubt if the same aims-the desire to see lasting peace established-is animating us all in our deliberations and actions," Matsuoka continued.
"It is a matter of common knowledge that Japan's policy is fundamentally inspired by the genuine desire to guarantee peace in the Far East and to contribute to the maintenance of peace throughout the world.
"Japan, however, finds it impossible to accept the report adopted by the assembly, and she has taken pains to point out that the recommendations in the report cannot be considered such as would secure peace in that part of the world.
"The Japanese government now find themselves compelled to conclude that Japan and other members of the league entertain different views on the manner to achieve peace in the Far East, and the Japanese government feel they have now reached the limit of their endeavors to co-operate with the league with regard to Sino-Japanese differences.
"The Japanese government will, however, make their utmost efforts for the establishment of peace in the Far East and the maintenance and strengthening of cordial relations with other powers.
"I need hardly add that the Japanese government will persist in their desire to contribute to human welfare, and will continue their policy of co-operating in all sincerity in the work dedicated to world peace," Matsuoka concluded.
Matsuoka looked very grim and determined when he left the assembly hall after his speech.
"That means the withdrawal of our delegation from the league," he told the United Press. "We can no longer co-operate on this question."
Matsuoka, his chief assistants, and the Japanese attaches immediately left the league building.
Letters were addressed by the league secretariat to the United States and Soviet governments, asking them to decide "as soon as possible" whether they would participate in an international consultative committee immediately after the league assembly adopted the Manchurian report today.
The committee will comprise the league's Committee of 19, and Holland and Canada, and will be asked to consider the situation created by Japan's rejection of the Manchurian report and continued military operations in Manchuria.
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Weightlifter moves SUV to help rescue pinned driver after rollover crash
Updated Feb 26, 2019; Posted Feb 15, 2019
Two vehicle crash on E Michigan Avenue in Ypsi Township
By Gus Burns | fburns@mlive.com
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI -- Ryan Belcher heard a "big smash" about 4:30 p.m. Thursday and ran outside to see what caused it.
Along Michigan Avenue near Ridge Road in Ypsilanti Township, the professional weightlifter saw plastic, glass, and sections of bumper strewn across the roadway.
A crumpled black Jeep Cherokee lay on its roof in melting snow near a 50 mph speed limit sign. A sedan with front-end damage sat cockeyed in the road about 15 yards away.
Ryan Belcher, 29, and his wife, Vanessa Belcher, of Belleville.
After calling 911, Belcher, 29, of Belleville, and a coworker from Belfor Property Restoration approached the car. A 44-year-old woman, her face bloodied, was injured, but conscious.
Belcher said he turned his attention to the Jeep. About four people were surrounding it trying to help the 36-year-old Ypsilanti man trapped inside.
"He was talking about his legs, how he couldn't feel his legs," Belcher said.
The man was lying halfway out of the smashed driver's side window. He couldn't move and was blocked in by a sign pole.
"From there, I just kind of got tunnel vision," Belcher said. "And then I grabbed the back, where the window was smashed out and lifted up and started pushing."
Belcher is used to moving heavy weight. He said he's squatted 950 pounds, bench-pressed 530 pounds and dead-lifted 800 pounds in competition.
But he's never moved a two-ton SUV.
Belcher leveraged his 350-pound body and shoved with all his might. The Jeep began to move. Belcher estimates he turned the wrecked vehicle about one to three feet. By then, medics had arrived and were able to rescue the man.
"If I could describe it in one word, It would be humbled," Belcher said about his feelings a day after the rescue. "This could have been anybody, it could have been me. And just getting home to my children after that is all I thought about.
" ... I'd hope if it was me in there, somebody would help me the way I did them."
Both victims were transported to the hospital in critical condition, a Huron Valley Ambulance spokesperson said. As of Friday, Feb. 15, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office spokesman Derrick Jackson didn't have updates on their conditions, but said no fatalities had been reported.
"Both drivers suffered significant injuries, but were alert on the scene," Jackson said.
The Jeep was stopped on Michigan Avenue for unknown reasons when it was struck from behind, Jackson said. Emergency personnel from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, Ypsilanti Township Fire Department and Huron Valley Ambulance were on scene.
Deputies shut down a section of Michigan Avenue for nearly four hours to investigate and clear the crash scene.
Investigators haven't determined whether either driver will be cited or charged with any crimes or traffic violations.


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Q: parsing json data into listview in ListFragment I have a problem with parsing JSON data into listFragment.
I tried this with TabBar but im trying to fix it with Fragments ....
this is the class that should get data into a listview :
public class Dieta extends ListFragment {

private ListView getAllPacientiListView;
private JSONArray jsonArray;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // Inflate the layout for this fragment
    View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_a, container, false);

    getAllPacientiListView = (ListView) v.findViewById(android.R.id.list);

    new GetAllPacientiTask().execute(new ApiConnector());

    getAllPacientiListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,int position, long id) {
            try{
                //Get the pacienti which was clicked
                JSONObject pacientiClicked = jsonArray.getJSONObject(position);

                //Send Pacienti ID
                Intent showDetails = new Intent(getActivity().getApplicationContext(),PacientiDetailsActivity.class);
                showDetails.putExtra("PacientiID", pacientiClicked.getInt("pacienti_id"));

                startActivity(showDetails);
            }
            catch(JSONException e ){
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

    });return v;

    }

    public void setListAdapter(JSONArray jsonArray){
    this.jsonArray = jsonArray;
    getAllPacientiListView.setAdapter(new GetAllPacientiListViewAdapter(jsonArray,getActivity()));
    }

    private class GetAllPacientiTask extends AsyncTask<ApiConnector,Long,JSONArray> {
    @Override
    protected JSONArray doInBackground(ApiConnector... params) {

        // it is executed on Background thread
        return  params[0].GetAllPacienti();
    }
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(JSONArray jsonArray){

        setListAdapter(jsonArray);
    }
    }
    }

this is ApiConnector class :
public class ApiConnector {

public JSONArray GetAllPacienti(){

    // URL for getting all costumers

    String url = "http://..../ushtrime1/getAllPacienti.php";

    //Get HTTPResponse Object from URL
    //Get HttpEntity from Http Response Object

    HttpEntity httpEntity = null;

    try{
        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); // Default httpClient
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);

        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

        httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();

    }   catch(ClientProtocolException e){

        e.printStackTrace();

        //Log Errors Here

    } catch(IOException e ){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    //Convert HttpEntity into JSON Array

    JSONArray jsonArray = null;

    if(httpEntity != null){
        try{
            String entityResponse = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

            Log.e("Entity Response : ", entityResponse);
            jsonArray = new JSONArray (entityResponse);

        }catch (JSONException e ){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch (IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
    return jsonArray;
}

public JSONArray GetPacientiDetails(int PacientiID){
// URL for getting all costumers

    String url = "http://...../ushtrime1 /getPacientiDetails.php?PacientiID="+PacientiID;

    //Get HTTPResponse Object from URL
    //Get HttpEntity from Http Response Object

    HttpEntity httpEntity = null;

    try{
        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); // Default httpClient
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);

        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

        httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();

    }   catch(ClientProtocolException e){

        e.printStackTrace();

        //Log Errors Here

    } catch(IOException e ){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    //Convert HttpEntity into JSON Array

    JSONArray jsonArray = null;

    if(httpEntity != null){
        try{
            String entityResponse = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

            Log.e("Entity Response : ", entityResponse);
            jsonArray = new JSONArray (entityResponse);

        }catch (JSONException e ){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch (IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
    return jsonArray;

 }

 }

and this is getAllPacientiListView class :
public class GetAllPacientiListViewAdapter extends BaseAdapter{
private JSONArray dataArray;
private Activity activity;

private static LayoutInflater inflater = null;

public GetAllPacientiListViewAdapter(JSONArray jsonArray, Activity a){
    this.dataArray = jsonArray;
    this.activity = a;

    inflater = (LayoutInflater)   this.activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return this.dataArray.length();
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int position) {
return position;
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
    return position;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    ListCell cell;
    if(convertView == null){
        convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.get_all_pacienti_list_view, null);
        cell = new ListCell();
        cell.FullName = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.pacienti_full_name);

            convertView.setTag(cell);
    }
    else{
        cell = (ListCell) convertView.getTag();
    }

    try {
        JSONObject jsonObject = this.dataArray.getJSONObject(position);
        cell.FullName.setText(jsonObject.getString("emri")+" "+jsonObject.getString("mbiemri"));

    } catch (JSONException je) {

        je.printStackTrace();
    }

    return convertView;
}

private class ListCell {
    private TextView FullName;
}

}

and this is the error :
08-21 16:01:50.970  22616-22616/com.example.blerim.fitnesapp E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.blerim.fitnesapp, PID: 22616
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.example.blerim.fitnesapp.Dieta.onCreateView(Dieta.java:45)
        at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.performCreateView(Fragment.java:1504)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:942)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1121)
        at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.run(BackStackRecord.java:682)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1484)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executePendingTransactions(FragmentManager.java:482)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter.finishUpdate(FragmentPagerAdapter.java:141)
        at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:1073)
        at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:919)
        at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.onMeasure(ViewPager.java:1441)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:17387)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5352)
        at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:17387)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5352)
        at com.android.internal.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.onMeasure(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:391)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:17387)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5352)
        at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.onMeasure(PhoneWindow.java:2533)
        at android.view.View.measure(View.java:17387)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performMeasure(ViewRootImpl.java:2213)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.measureHierarchy(ViewRootImpl.java:1352)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1549)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1236)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6471)
        at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:803)
        at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:603)
        at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:573)
        at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:789)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:157)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1265)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1081)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

and this is fragment_a.xml
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FFCC00"
tools:context="com.example.blerim.fitnesapp.FragmentA">

<!-- TODO: Update blank fragment layout -->

<ListView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:id="@+id/android:list"
    android:layout_gravity="center" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
    android:text="Medium Text"
    android:id="@+id/empty"
    android:layout_gravity="left|bottom" />

 </FrameLayout>

************************* FINAL ****************************************
Ok with the help of 2Dee now its working .
FINAL WORKING CLASS :
public class Dieta extends ListFragment {

private ListView getAllPacientiListView;
private JSONArray jsonArray;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // Inflate the layout for this fragment
    View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_fragment, container, false);

    getAllPacientiListView = (ListView) v.findViewById(android.R.id.list);

    new GetAllPacientiTask().execute(new ApiConnector());
    return v;

}
public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    getAllPacientiListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,int position, long id) {
            try{
                //Get the pacienti which was clicked
                JSONObject pacientiClicked = jsonArray.getJSONObject(position);

                //Send Pacienti ID
                Intent showDetails = new Intent(getActivity().getApplicationContext(),PacientiDetailsActivity.class);
                showDetails.putExtra("PacientiID", pacientiClicked.getInt("pacienti_id"));

                startActivity(showDetails);

            }
            catch(JSONException e ){
                e.printStackTrace();

            }
        }

    });
            }

    public void setListAdapter(JSONArray jsonArray){
    this.jsonArray = jsonArray;
    getAllPacientiListView.setAdapter(new GetAllPacientiListViewAdapter(jsonArray,getActivity()));
    }

    private class GetAllPacientiTask extends AsyncTask<ApiConnector,Long,JSONArray> {
    @Override
    protected JSONArray doInBackground(ApiConnector... params) {

        // it is executed on Background thread
        return  params[0].GetAllPacienti();
    }
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(JSONArray jsonArray){

        setListAdapter(jsonArray);
    }
    }
    }

A: You cannot call getActivity() inside onCreateView as you cannot be sure your Activity is fully created at that point (have a look at this answer).
getActivity() need to be placed inside onActivityCreated, but including the ListView in your Fragment's layout is probably a much better solution, so you could do something like this :
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_list, container, false);
getAllPacientiListView = (ListView) v.findViewById(R.id.list);

Also, it looks like you're inflating your Activity layout in the Fragment :
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_list, container, false);

should be
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.your_fragment_layout, container, false);

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The Friends of Pocklington Arts Centre Committee is reminding its members about the rise in subscriptions after 40 people paid their dues at the old, lower rate.
From Thursday 1 March, any person not paying the appropriate rate after the due date of their membership renewal will not be entitled to membership benefits or have membership rights under the terms of the Friends constitution.
After the 1 March date any payments made at the incorrect rate will be treated as a donation and refunds will not be made unless a person requests one.
A spokesman said: "It is now almost a year since the increase in Friends' membership fees was introduced, but despite several general newsletter reminders and individual reminders, 40 Friends have continued to pay at the old rate on membership renewal.
"Some members have not responded to direct requests to them to pay the difference.
"Therefore, in the interests of fairness, the committee reluctantly decided that it needs to take action to ensure that everyone pays the same rate for the same type of membership.
"Payments made at the incorrect rate will be treated as a donation to the Friends, not as membership renewal.


Fix an assert() in pager.c added by the previous commit. And various problems with test scripts in autovacuum and in-memory journal mode.
# The following tests work with "PRAGMA max_page_count"
# Test specal "PRAGMA journal_mode=PERSIST" test cases.
# page-size remains 1024 bytes.


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Pulling the Trigger on Trigger
The Horseshit Whisperer Rides Again
by Randy Shields / December 10th, 2011
The chief function of American presidents is to "break" unruly working class resistance to American capital whether in Middle Eastern deserts, Latin American jungles or the streets of Oakland and Cincinnati. Eight years of Bush/Cheney fear-training gave way to the current horse shit whisperer-in-chief whose vague soaring Rorschach rhetoric encourages his followers to believe they're getting their own personal nods and winks about what he believes and what he'll do if he just gets a "chance." And, often, when he gets the chance, he's worse than Bush. To wit:
Just in case my liberal Democrat animal-lovin' friends missed it: last week Barack Humane Obama signed a bill legalizing horse slaughter for human consumption in the United States after it was outlawed six years ago, thus betraying his 2008 campaign pledge (yawn) to keep it illegal.
Seventy percent of Americans wanted to keep horses off the menu but, in a flowering of demockracy — genus venus americanus flytrapus — the POTUS and the Congrossest kept their bipartisan unbeaten streak alive: the working class majority must never, ever get anything we want, no matter how tiny. Obama's favorite movie is said to be "The Godfather" and, figuratively, he just put 200,000 horses' heads each year into the beds and nightmares of anyone who cares about them. Hope and change you can tuck into. The particulars of this merciless outrage, including our old friend: private profit/socialized cost, can be found at Our Compass.
( Here's some free advice for you Republican presidential yahoos: if you can put a pole ax in Obama's hand and a thoroughbred horse on the other end of it, you'll win the election. Poster: "Uncle Tom Obama wants YOU to go the knackers!" Remember all the letters congress received several decades ago when the military was gassing beagles? Give it a try, Mitt and Newt — it only requires that, for once, you refrain from out-gooning Obama. You can't excoriate Obama because he didn't waterboard the horses before he killed them.)
Vegan nags like me point out that horses shouldn't be eaten any more than cows, chickens, pigs, fish, deer, whales or humans. Others correctly say that American capitalism's current Death-Mask-In-Chief murders Pakistani, Yemeni and Afghan children on a regular basis so why be surprised when he pulls the trigger on Trigger.
So why is Obama's marching of Mr. Ed into the terror and cruelty of the slaughterhouse any more irritating than numerous other things he does? It probably has to do with the fact that he keeps pretending, just like his liberal supporters keep pretending, that he and they are some kind of superior enlightened humane beings wholly unlike their barbarous right wing opponents who we're supposed to be petrified of. It's the liberals who shop around for both "humane meat" and "humanitarian" "good wars" and other oxymorons — and that grates. The lack of revolutionary class/vegan-consciousness among people on the left — revealing their cowardice, shallowness, hypocrisy and stupidity, and the attachment they have to failure — is one of the biggest impediments to anything positive happening in America. What's true of health is also true of ethics and revolution: you can't buy it, you have to live it.
And now I have a special treat for you, an exclusive draft of a screenplay I'm sending to Pixar called "Barack O'Celery."
White liberal child: Mommy, come quick and look in the refrigerator! The organic Barack O'Celery is spoiled! He's all slimy.
White liberal mom: Oh I know, honey, and we paid so much for him — what a waste. He was so fresh and healthy-looking when we bought him four years ago at the Whole Foods election market.
Child: Can we throw him out?
Mom: No, we'll probably just keep him for another four years.
Child: Mommy, there's some cockroaches having a sit-in on the lower shelf, protesting the Barack O'Celery and he just pepper sprayed them! Everything in the refrigerator is ruined.
Barack O'Celery: Will you two shut up and close the door! I'm trying to build a coalition of carrots, radishes and kohlrabi to attack some bok choy — the security of this entire refrigerator depends on it!
Child (coughing): Mommy, he's making a mess in there and the longer he hangs around, the whiter he gets.
Mom (coughing): God only knows what he'll be like four years from now.
Child: Mommy, can we go riding today?
Mom: No, Barack O'Celery just killed your pony. I don't know how he did it from inside the refrigerator — he had to really go out of his way — but he did it. Sorry, pumpkin.
Child (horrified): Liberal mommy, is that my dead pony wrapped up in the refrigerator?! I don't think I can take four more years of Barack O'Celery! And you need to get the hell up out of here too!
Randy Shields can be reached at music2hi4thehumanear@gmail.com. Read other articles by Randy, or visit Randy's website.
This article was posted on Saturday, December 10th, 2011 at 7:58am and is filed under Disinformation.


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    <string name="app_name">ServiceSide</string>

    <string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>
    <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
    <string name="main">首页</string>
    <string name="bring"> 我的信息</string>
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    <string name="message">联系我们</string>
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Introducing the cream of the Czech Republic's music scene to the English-speaking world
In Czech / Čeština
Tag Archives: Anar
Live Concert Review: MARKÉTA IRGLOVÁ @ Bush Hall, LONDON, Thursday 19th March 2015
March 31, 2015 UncategorizedAnar, Bush Hall, London, Markéta Irglová, Muna, Svavar Knútur, The Swell Seasoninfiniteradar
Born in the Czech Republic, now living in Iceland, MARKÉTA IRGLOVÁ recently completed the British leg of her world tour promoting her latest album MUNA. CzechHarmonies was at her London gig…
Markéta Irglová, London Bush Hall, 19 March 2015
MARKÉTA IRGLOVÁ has come a long way. And I'm not just talking about her seemingly never ending world tour promoting her second solo album, or even the middle-distance hop from her adopted home city of Reykjavik to the metropolitan sprawl of West London for this, the first of her two UK gigs this year. I'm talking about her musical journey, her creative journey, her personal journey.
From Valašské Meziříčí in the Moravian valleys to bustling New York to the Icelandic capital to one of the UK capital's plushest music venues via the Grammy Awards, the Oscars, an episode of The Simpsons, and a clutch of intensely soul-searching album releases – with three love stories thrown in for good measure, the present one culminating in joyful motherhood – is not exactly the shortest distance from A to B.
And on a crisp mid-March evening in Shepherds Bush, a 200-strong capacity audience could almost see and feel Irglová's emotionally vivid life flashing before their eyes as her cultured melodies caressed Bush Hall's chandeliers and hanging glitterball on their way into our ears and hearts.
But tonight was not only Markéta Irglová's evening. Step forward Svavar Knútur, a close friend of Irglová's whom she had personally invited to open the London gig. Although the CzechHarmonies brief is to write about Czech music, it would be impossible to describe the evening without mentioning this Icelandic singer/songwriter and self-styled troubadour, who seems to share the headline act's mission to conquer Britain peacefully with a subtle tug of the heartstrings – in addition to being a catalyst for Irglová's long term relationship with Sturla Mio Thorisson, who produces both artists and was tonight´s sound engineer.
Icelandic singer/songwriter Svavar Knútur, who opened the show.
Like Markéta Irglová, Svavar Knútur is phenomenally gifted. He is also extremely funny. In fact, he could release his between-song banter as a comedy album in its own right. There were audience belly laughs aplenty as this thoroughly likeable 39-year-old bearded man in a natty bow-tie outfit regaled us with chuckle-tastic anecdotes about his historic lack of success with girls, that gig where he conspicuously scratched his nose on the mic, how American reactions to his weighty frame are more two-faced than German reactions, and how EU regulations forbid Icelanders from building igloos more than five storeys high without an elevator with a cooling system. Apparently.
In fact Knútur would be in severe danger of eclipsing his musical gift with his comedy gold, were his compositions not so incontestably brilliant in their design and execution. His adept acoustic folk style – mainly on guitar but occasionally on ukulele – perfectly complemented his endearing narratives and mellow vocals, combining taut wordplay 'Out in the ocean, under a fish, lies a kiss that you once blew to me' (Baby, Would You Marry Me?') with sinewy fingerpicked chords. Svavar Knútur sees himself as taking the audience for a workout because, as he so succinctly put it, "music is better for long term health than sport". Well played, sir!
As Markéta Irglová took her position at the grand piano, sporting tight jeans, a loose fitting pale pastel orange top and a maternity scarf shrouding her stomach in mystery, astute observers might have spotted a bun in the oven. Indeed, eight songs into her set she announced "we have another baby on the way", to empathetic applause. When she thanked her support act for unwittingly playing cupid (Irglová was providing backing vocals on Knútur's Sturla Mio Thorisson-produced latest album when love blossomed for Markéta and Mio), Svavar got yet more laughs by bellowing "You're welcome baby!" from the back of the hall. And he wasn't finished just yet.
By this time, Valašské Meziříčí's finest export had comprehensively got London onside by making us care about her, through both her peerless music and bite-size snippets of her life story told between songs. Of course you can surmise the tone of her life story simply from the timbre of her singing, even without studying the words. At its tenderest, Irglová's voice is so fragile you fear it will shatter at any moment, but somehow it never does. And, like the person it belongs to, what doesn't kill the voice, only makes it stronger.
Although it was no surprise that the Muna album's opener 'Point Of Creation', with its bells, organ, choir and cathedral acoustics, did not feature in this solo show, before we knew it we were into the album's second song 'Time Immemorial', the first of only four tracks tonight taken from Irglová's latest album. In total, her set (including encores) comprised fifteen songs, being drawn also from debut solo album Anar, as well as The Swell Season repertoire – though the band itself was absent tonight. "I have you all to myself," she quietly gloated. There were also a couple of cover versions.
A notable highlight, from the 'Once' film soundtrack collaboration with Glen Hansard, was a movingly desolate version of 'If You Want Me'. The switch from guitars and drums to solo piano opened up a huge vista, into which Irglová seemed to pour every last molecule of her soul, culminating in a swelling wordless vocal that surfed the coda with an imperious yet hushed intensity.
Hearing a song from a blockbuster musical out of its normal context is an intriguing acid test, and Irglová's reading of 'I Don't Know How To Love Him', from Jesus Christ Superstar (preceded by the delightful tale of her childhood crush on the musical's lead actor) gelled surprisingly smoothly with the rest of her set, nestling as it did quite comfortably between 'If You Want Me' and 'Gabriel'.
'This Right Here' might be the Muna album's closer, but here it was at the beating heart of the Bush Hall set list, followed not by silence, but by a sensitive rendition of 'Gently Johnny', from The Wicker Man soundtrack, which turned out to be Irglová's only foray of the evening on acoustic guitar, prematurely abandoned due to a faulty capo.
We were then blessed with a privileged insight into Irglová's creative process as, returning to the piano, she treated us to an untitled work in progress characterised by slow, twinkling arpeggios and a looped chord progression. A few bum notes and hesitations really didn't matter: we were witnessing a rough diamond being freshly hewn from the mine. The finished, polished product can't come soon enough.
If I had never heard of Markéta Irglová but stumbled upon 'Crossroads', I would possibly have guessed, on first hearing, that it might be a classic early Joni Mitchell outtake that had somehow inexplicably failed to make it onto her 'Blue' album of 1971. But subsequent listens mark out this lovingly chiselled sculpture of pianistic magic as pure Irglová through and through. And in Bush Hall it glowed like a candle that will never go out.
"The act of falling in love is so precious, and you never get that time back…but sometimes those feelings come back…I sing this song to remind myself of what I am when I fall in love – to honour the bond." With such an introduction, she could only be talking about 'Let Me Fall In Love', another showstopper from 'Anar'. And what was incredible during this performance – and I don't know if this was by accident or design, and I swear I didn't imagine this – was the illusion, caused by red light reflected off the piano lid onto her eyes, that she was wearing rose-tinted shades. Which was eerily, movingly appropriate for the lines 'When you fall in love, you fall in love with everything, with everyone/ And you look at the world through a new pair of eyes'.
There was only one possible set-ending masterstroke to top this: a duet with the irrepressible Svavar Knútur, who returned to the stage to join Irglová for another Swell Season classic 'Falling Slowly'. First, however, there was the unhappy announcement that both of them had had some possessions stolen earlier in the day. Irglová herself had been so knocked back by this that she had felt like cancelling the gig and going home… "but when I came into the room and felt the energy from you guys I knew I'd made the right decision to stay."
You're not wrong there, Markéta.
There followed two encores: 'The Hill' (Swell Season territory again) swiftly followed by Svavar Knútur again duetting with Irglová on one of his most affecting songs. But not before Knútur had once again pressed the between-song comedy button, telling us how he loves to wind up audiences on his foreign tours with the revelation that "in Iceland we don't have any normal clothes like you, we just wear furs from animals that we kill".
And so on, ad infinitum, while Markéta Irglová – the headline act, need I remind you – sat patiently at the piano, fixing her friend with an ever-intensifying 'have you quite finished upstaging me at my own concert?' stare. Eventually the Icelandic jester took the hint and, after a pause measured out with perfect comic timing, his sheepish "Shall we do the last song?" elicited possibly the biggest laugh of the night. Priceless.
Obviously you can only follow such shenanigans with a 'post-apocalyptic love song', which is exactly what they did. And as Knútur picked the plaintive intro to 'While The World Burns', taken from his latest album 'Way Of Waves', he made it up to Irglová by thanking her sincerely for tonight and declaring touchingly that her life has also affected his life.
This was more than a concert of very special music. This was a window into the lives of two very special people who clearly love each other dearly as friends. And in the light of the unhappy news of that day's theft incident: if there was one thing this gig taught us, it's that material possessions, and the convenience and diversions they afford us, constitute only a tiny fraction of what it is to be a human being. Tonight Markéta Irglová might be several physical possessions lighter thanks to some dipstick's misdemeanour, but she remains one of the spiritually richest – and most creatively talented – individuals on the planet.
And no one can steal that from her.
Markéta Irglová's official website: http://marketairglova.com