NOT HAPPY TO BE A WITCH or THEY HAVE A PLAN – Do You Want To Be A Model?
The fashion week is finished with great results for me. Seven shows all together. First time castings, first Fashion Week ever. I think it is a big success for me, considering that I have no experience at all. The agency says they were expecting success and they are very satisfied. The most important thing is that I am the one who is very happy and proud. And I don't regret coming to Paris.
On the weekend I will rest, write a letter to my mammy and my best friend Nina, repair the blisters on my feet and summarize my impressions. Next week I have a bunch of castings for magazines and editorials. And some tests- a test is when a photographer takes photos of you, but they are not published; they are just printed for your book. And you have to pay for it. But no one tells you that straight away. You find it out when you get your statement and are shocked. There are some free tests too, but it is more likely that the agency will prefer the photos from the paid ones.
I hope I made some money doing shows. On Monday I will go to ask for my statement.
Well, the first try to put my hands on the statement is not happening. The accountant is too busy to talk to me, but one of the bookers is very happy to see me.
All the girls doing shows will have the front part of their hair cut up to the middle of their cheeks!!!
One by one the girls sit on chair placed next to the window. The booker says he needs the light, like a professional. Yes, light is necessary, but he is using scissors meant for paper.
Now it's my turn. I refuse to sit, and my answer creates confusion. All the bookers are around me, and with a gentle tone of voice, all at the same time, they are trying to explain to me how important this is for my career. I will look amazing; it is a sign that we are special girls… blah blah blah. I don't know when and why I gave up refusing. Can I be more stupid? I regret it before I get up from the chair.
The truth is that the new trend looks very good on a few girls, but I look like a witch escaped from a bonfire. And of course I cannot hold it in, I start crying when I look at myself in the mirror. No one tries to soothe me; their job is to make me do it, not to soothe me. So I grab my bag and leave the room running.
The first hair salon I find, I run in like someone is chasing me. Using not understandable language, a mix of English and my native tongue, I try to explain to the hair dresser what happened and what I need him to do. He doesn't really understand, but what he does understand is that I am desperate and he can help me. After giving me a glass of water and sitting me on his chair, he shows me how he can fix things, and says if I agree, he can start straight away. He is doing a great job; he will fix the madness the booker did to me.
I do understand that part of my job is to look like a witch if the client wants that, but I don't want to walk around the city like a witch. I just cannot do that.
The last coin of my savings I give to the hair dresser. He gives me a discount, so it looks like I have enough. He becomes the most positive person for me during my first visit to Paris. He gets my smile back after the tears.
I go to the agency one week after the "cutting the hair" episode. I want to see an accountant; that is all I care about right now.
They are offended and angry because I had my hair fixed. When I say that I really don't care if they are offended because I refused to look like an idiot; and I even don't care if they want to stop working with me, they are shocked by my behavior. I grab my advance money and leave, forgetting to talk to the accountant. After a few stairs I go back to tell them that I want to hear the decision about our cooperation today. I think after I leave they will have an urgent meeting about fast "medicine" for the girl with the bad behavior!
A few hours later they are calling me to explain how hasty my reaction was, that I have to understand that they have the best intentions and the biggest plans for me, blah blah blah.
They are still shocked by my behavior, but they want me to stay and work with them.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I was told I should be a model starting when I was 11 but I was always hesitant to for many reasons. I've tried it a few times and I love the artistic collaboration part but I could never live in New York and go through what you have. You are a brave woman.


The month of July is Pediatric Endocrinology Month. In conjunction with this month's theme, the Society will be hosting a Puberty Twitter Chat to discuss the physical development of a child into an adult.
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Is it possible to put gold coins into an IRA? Yes. It's possible to buy physical gold coins for an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) as well as a 401(k). The IRS allows various types of precious metals in these accounts, including silver and palladium as well.
It's also possible to do a rollover from an existing retirement plan, such as a 401(k), 401(a), 403(b), 457, and even Thrift Savings Plans (TSPs).
It's important to note that putting gold – in any form – in a retirement plan is not a form of "investment." It's a hedge against potential losses due to currency fluctuations in the future. In a sense, purchasing gold coins in 2017 essentially means that you are buying currency to barter for goods in case the major sovereign currency crashes in the near future. Gold does not increase in value like currency investments. Rather, the value of gold rises and decreases inversely in proportion with the value of major world currencies.
While it may not make much sense in the short term, gold hedges are important when you are saving for retirement for 20 or 30 years. Think about what happened with Brexit recently. Britons who have been saving for decades for retirement found overnight that a good percentage of their wealth was gone when the pound fell after Brexit. Had these Britons protected their retirement plans with gold, the losses would have been contained. The same logic follows for your retirement plan as well. It's difficult to predict what the future will bring economically. So, you must have the necessary safeguards to protect your wealth, including having gold in long-term savings plans.
Gold coins and bullions are the most popular form of physical gold in retirement plans. Unlike bars, it's easier and less space-consuming to store coins. It should be noted that not all forms of gold coins are allowed in IRAs.
Collectible gold coins, including rare coins, graded or certified coins are ineligible for IRAs. Also, gold coins in certain currencies, such as Swiss Franc 20, South African Krugerrand and U.S. Buffalo Proof, are not eligible for IRAs either.
Before you choose a type of gold coin for an IRA, it's very important to find out whether that type of coin is considered eligible for the IRA.
While having gold coins in your IRA can be beneficial in many ways, it should be noted that doing so isn't easy. You may encounter problems when you try to include precious metals in your retirement plan.
The biggest issue is finding a trustee or a sponsor for the plan. A self-directed trustee for your precious metal IRA is required by law to perform day-to-day administrative activities, transfer precious metals and handle storage. The trustees do charge fees. It can be a bit difficult finding an affordable and competent trustee because there are only a few who do this job.
You will also have to choose a reputable gold firm for the coins and for the rollover if that's the option you are going with. It can be a pain to set up a gold coin IRA at first, but if you prepare well, the IRA can go ahead with little worry on your part.
I was personally hoping it was a LOT easier to do, and that I could also just literally house them myself in my safe or something, but it looks like that's not exactly an option, haha… I also don't know if it's worth paying a fee to have someone else watch them either – so if I ever do add gold to the mix it'll probably be virtually through a fund instead.
I am surprised that the Krugerrand is not an IRA approved gold coins. They are the OG of gold bullion.


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MLB Trump Says He's Eager for Yankees to Return 'With Obviously Smaller Crowds'
Trump Says He's Eager for Yankees to Return 'With Obviously Smaller Crowds'
By David Caplan , 1010 WINS
You can take the president out of New York City, but you can't take the New York City out of the president.
Case in point? President Trump and the Yankees.
While speaking with reporters at the White House Wednesday afternoon, Trump spoke about his eagerness for professional sports to kick back into gear.
"I hope to see football games and baseball games and basketball. For basketball you're going to have to have a little bit of time, I don't know what they're going to do, maybe they'll be able to play toward the finals or playoffs or whatever they're doing," he said.
Trump then pivoted to baseball -- including his vision of a Yankee stadium partially filled with spectators, as well as his dislike of Major League Baseball's potential plans for a 2020 season.
"I saw baseball is doing something very unusual, I don't know if I agree with it," he said. "I'd like to see the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium. I see they have some ideas for baseball which are very different. I guess I'm a traditionalist."
MLB has not officially announced any plans, but reports this week, citing unnamed sources, said MLB is exploring various options that could allow the season to start over the next couple of months if the state of the coronavirus pandemic allows, including a plan in which the 30 teams might be split into three regional divisions.
Trump continued, "But I think they'd be able to play in Yankee Stadium with obviously smaller crowds and then the crowds would start to build as things get to be a little bit better. I think you're going to see some big things happen. And again, this is going away."
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Westermo helps Anglian Water upgrade its data network infrastructure and improve communication reliability to remote sites
Mission critical systems, such as water purification systems, require secure and reliable data networks to ensure they perform efficiently, effectively and without interruption. At some of Anglian Water's UK sites, there was automation equipment that was installed over 30 years ago. This was problematic, as it did not provide suitable infrastructure for the transition to modern IP based communication networks. For example, replacing the existing programmable logic controllers (PLC), which was required, made them incompatible with the existing data networks and created the need for the entire automation system to be upgraded at the same time. A key benefit of upgrading the system would be an increase in network redundancy and consequently the reliability of their service for customers. It would also provide Anglian Water with holistic monitoring of the system and access to real time data.
Anglian Water wanted to upgrade the data networks for one of their sites and enlisted the help of Westermo. The network connected ten remote pumps back to a main water plant near Kings Lynn using a series of RS485 cables.
Working with Anglian Water engineers, Westermo designed a data network that utilised the existing multiplexer network and RS-485 cables to provide a backbone for Ethernet communication, and added a new 4G cellular network to provide redundancy. With this design, the network could continue to function using the 4G communications and a primary link could be added as they went, allowing commissioning, testing and firewalls to be implemented on a `per site' basis. Once the single-pair high-speed digital subscriber line (SHDSL) was operating, the Westermo Wolverine line extenders would automatically reconfigure the network to operate via the SHDSL.
The network is constructed predominantly of Westermo WeOS devices, which are using the non-propriety open shortest path first (OSPF) routing protocol and support virtual private networks (VPN).
In total, twelve Wolverine DDW-142 and DDW-225 line extenders were installed to enable the existing cables to be reused to create effective Ethernet networks over long distances to the remote sites. The Wolverines use SHDSL technology, which makes it possible to reuse many types of pre-existing copper cables which can lead to considerable financial savings. All Wolverine devices are powered by Westermo's WeOS operating system, which enables complex networking functions to be configured easily.
Ten of Westermo's MRD-455 routers were installed, one at each site, to create the 4G network. As well as forming the 4G network, the cellular routers provide a gateway to the IP network, and a unique method for port forwarding to allow remote support and monitoring. A Westermo RedFox RFI-211-T3G industrial routing switch was installed at the central site, providing the necessary layer 3 functionality required for this type of application. All the Westermo devices were delivered pre-configured to save time and reduce project risk.
Organisations turn to NetOps to prevent network outages caused by infrastructure changes with great success
Nearly half (48%) of senior IT decision-makers globally say that more than quarter of the outages their organisations have suffered over the past two years have been caused by changes to the network infrastructure, according to a recent survey of 500 global IT decision makers commissioned by Opengear, a Digi International company. READ MORE….
Nordac Pro SK 500P: The latest generation of control cabinet inverters
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Pulse Secure expands global education partnerships into ASEAN
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Supermicro expands its portfolio bringing highest density 4U Server with NVIDIA HGX A100s 8-GPU and 8U SuperBlade supporting 20 A100 PCI-E GPUs
Supermicro announces the doubling of GPU capabilities with a new…
DigiCert Names Jason Sabin as CTO
DigiCert, provider of TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions, has named Jason Sabin the company's Chief Technology Officer. Sabin has been serving as Chief Information Officer at DigiCert since 2017 and has held a number of other executive roles at the company, including Chief Security Officer and head of research and development.
"Jason's background and passion are in engineering, and he's proven in numerous roles at DigiCert that he's both a great manager and a great technical leader," said DigiCert CEO John Merrill. "Jason is the right leader to advance DigiCert's technology vision."
VIRTUS Opens LONDON6 in Stockley Park and LONDON10 in Slough, taking its live London portfolio to 97MW
VIRTUS Data Centres, part of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, has announced the opening of its LONDON6 and LONDON10 data centres.
LONDON6, on the VIRTUS Stockley Park campus, and LONDON10, VIRTUS' third data centre on the Slough Trading Estate, are both planned to open in early Q2 2020. These new facilities will provide 23MW over more than 10,000sqm of technical space. They are being built to Uptime Tier III standard and will further expand some of the most advanced campuses in the UK. The data centres will enable customers to future-proof their expansion options for flexible colocation on sites that have the scale to deliver medium to longer term capacity.
Logicmonitor achieves Cisco preferred solution partner status with certified integration for Cisco managed secure SD-WAN
LogicMonitor has announced it has achieved Cisco Compatible status for its Cisco SD-WAN integration. This certification validates that LogicMonitor's innovative cloud-based platform has been fully vetted by Cisco and establishes LogicMonitor as a Cisco preferred monitoring partner for organisations deploying and managing sophisticated networks.
QSAN appoints Hollis technology as reseller partner
QSAN has announced the appointment of Hollis technology as a…
Kao Data Announces Dedicated 'Built-to-Suit' Service for the Hyperscale Community
Kao Data has announced a dedicated 'Built-to-Suit' service for the hyperscale community in the UK. The service enables Kao Data to fund, design, build and operate Open Compute Project (OCP-Ready) data centre capacity, for organisations dependent on scalable, resilient, digital infrastructure. As part of the service, Kao Data's leadership team will oversee all developments, enabling clients to benefit from the guidance, insight and expertise of award-winning industry professionals who are well positioned to manage the challenges of industrial scale data centre construction projects.
Anritsu expands high-frequency components line to address emerging high-speed design test requirements
Anritsu Company has expanded its W1 (1.0 mm) component line with the introduction of bias tees, DC block, and semi-rigid cables that operate to 110 GHz and provide broadband frequency scalability in high-frequency device characterisation and optical networking applications. The addition of the new W1 components provides Anritsu with the broadest millimeter wave (mmWave), coaxial component portfolio in the market, and they can be integrated in test systems, so engineers have greater confidence in their emerging high-speed designs.
Heficed refines IP Address market with new IP health feature
Heficed, a network infrastructure solutions provider, introduced a new feature…
New digital twin technologies from Bloc Digital to reduce time and cost of satellite development lifecycle
Derby-based Bloc Digital has signed up to the national SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business support programme for a major project that will develop digital twinning technology for space applications. The project will be funded by a grant from the £4.8 million SPRINT programme to support the commercial exploitation of space data and technologies.
Draka Releases Guide to Bend Insensitive Fibres
Draka, a brand of Prysmian Group, is pleased to announce the arrival of a comprehensive new technology guide: 'Bend-Insensitive Fibres: a key component of future-proof networks.
TE Connectivity launches Dynamic Series D-2970 Push-In PCB connectors
TE Connectivity (TE) is launching the D-2970 Dynamic Series compact wire-to-board PCB connector with field-installable, time-saving push-in clamp termination.
The new 5mm pitch PCB connector operates at up to 20 amps and 400 volts at a typical ambient application temperature of 55°C without further derating.
Riverbed unified network performance management takes centre stage at global user conference
Riverbed has announced key updates to its Network Performance Management (NPM) portfolio, delivering greater visibility that is crucial to monitoring productivity and performance, as organisations continue to shift toward hybrid-networks and work-from-anywhere models.
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Parker and Claire both got new bikes a while back. Parker had finally decided that he wanted to learn to ride a bike. He is probably a little older than average for learning, but if you know him at all then you know he has to decide for himself. He's very cautious by nature, so it has been a scary thing for him in the past to just let go and try! When he finally decided he was going to do it, he did! Like it was no big deal! Love that sweet boy!
Claire is very adventurous by nature and sure doesn't want her brother doing something that she can't do. However, it's been a bit more challenging for her. She's starting to get the hang of it and will be speeding off on her own with just a little more practice. I'm so proud of both of them for trying and persevering!
Claire was also helping our neighbor ride his bike.
Before long, we had this scene in front of our house!
Lots of kids and lots of great neighbors!
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1. Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter died on July 23, 2011 in London.
2. Influential blues singer/songwriter and legendary guitarist died in 1938, age 27
3. Jimi Hendrix, the greatest electric guitarist in musical history died at age 27.
4. Founding member of the Rolling Stones Bryan Jones died in 1969 at age 27.
5. Blues singer Janis Joplin died in 1970 at age 27..
6. Co-founder and lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison died in 1971 at age 27.
7. Kurt Cobain, the leader singer & guitarist for Nirvana committed suicide at 27.
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Are you a work from home Dad or just an average Joe fed up with your work life? Are you interested in setting up a home based business, or looking for passive income opportunities? Check out our list of top 10 work from home ideas for men and start working from home now.
Time has indeed changed. It is not only mothers who wish for more time with their families. Men also want the same thing, along with independence and the chance to earn more from the comforts of their own home.
With advancements in internet and communications technology, more and more men are planning to give up the corporate world in order to stay at home to start their own home based businesses.
2. Artistic Products: A lot of companies want some artistic items made by people which can be used for their business expansion. If you're really involved in crafts and arts, you are able to approach these businesses through their ads, and sign a contract with them.
3. Insurance Agent: Being a licensed insurance professional may be beneficial, because it is easy to take potential customer calls, arranging meeting clients, explaining them the insurance plan particulars and doing other paper work from home.
4. Catering Business: If you love to cook food and entertain your guests, you can think about opening your catering home-based business. You can take orders for birthday celebration festivities, wedding festivities and to many other special events.
5. Website Content Writing: Individuals are frequently under the misunderstanding that to be professional content writer, you need to be some sort of scholar. This isn't the situation. To have a successful content writing career, you should only have good grammar and punctuation abilities, and also have a good grip on the language. That's actually what you need. You will find many websites which will publish the articles you are writing (and you can write about anything you know), and then they pay you either on per article basis, or will split along with you their earnings from advertisements.
6. IT Services (website design, programming etc): If you have programming, web development or any IT related expertise, it could make for an adequate career. However the way is not easy: You can create your blog, speak at local occasions, and observe others in your area. You should also possess the abilities to accomplish complex projects and personality to impress demanding clients. You can also try freelance websites like Odesk to get IT related work.
7. Sports Coaching: To be able to make a career in sports coaching, you should have right qualifications for that sport you are applying for.
For instance if you want to train swimming you should have a certificate or something like that equivalent. A sports science, sports training or sports and physical education degree could be considered advantageous alongside experience of training children.
8. Small Farm: If you wish to begin a small farm business, you should have appropriate understanding of farming. Reading through an internet-based research are wonderful tools to achieve both fundamental as well as in-depth understanding on many facets of farming, but speaking to individuals that did – and still doing – that which you aspire to do, can't be replicated by reading through books.
9. Real Estate: Starting a Real Estate business from home is not so difficult. You have to have a piece of property to sell, identify potential buyers from local market and ascertain their needs. Then arrange meetings with sellers, as soon as their deal gets mature you will earn a handsome commission depending on the total deal amount. To start trading as the expert inside your area, you will need to be heard in your community (via speaking engagements, business occasions, interviews) an internet-based (via your site, blogs, and social networking).
10. Fitness Trainer: Today's fast way of living, social and financial problems, and the influx of digital media has caused a lot of physical and psychological stress. The growing baby boomer population is keen to invest in longevity and durability. There are concerns over childhood weight problems, post-maternity fitness issues, and sports related fitness issues. These issues require solutions and people are ready to pay good money for that. This makes Fitness Training a lucrative business. You may open up a fitness training facility at your home, go to clients in their houses and use fitness gyms on the contract basis.
Some words of caution. Working from home is not a bed of roses. You need to have the discipline to follow your daily schedule, without a boss (or staff) to remind you. You need an extra dose of dedication to work with all those distractions around you. You need to separate your personal life at home with that of your work life. It is a challenge, but it is possible to accomplish.
If you are a work from home father, you must learn to respond to your family's rhythm. This means you should know which parts of the day you need to focus on your family, and which parts work takes priority.
In the world of online jobs, men and women are equal. One's gender doesn't have a bearing on jobs, as your performance is what matters most.
Hope you get some inspiration from these work from home ideas for men. So, are you ready to work from home?


Hudson Taylor was born in England in the 19th century, he spent over 50 years of his life as a missionary to China, founding the China Inland Mission. But as Taylor began to carry the gospel from the coast of China to the interior of the country, he found that people did not take his message seriously. Because he looked and sounded distinctly European, he was a novelty to the Chinese people.
And so he realized it was necessary to immerse himself in Chinese culture, adopting their lifestyle, even down to the way they dressed and wore their hair. To reach the Chinese, he determined to become Chinese. And as a result, he pioneered a new approach among Protestant missionaries. At one point, as he and his team worked to further the message of Christ, an opportunity presenting itself, which, on one hand, would allow the gospel to reach new people, but, on the other, possessed the potential of great difficulty for the missionaries.
At that time, Taylor reminded the group that there are different ways of working for God. Taylor's own son recorded his father's words. Listen to what Taylor said to the missionary group regarding the choices before them. He said, "One is to make the best plans we can, and carry them out to the best of our ability. This may be better than working without a plan, but it is, by no means, the best way of serving our Master. Or, having carefully laid our plans and determined to carry them through, we may ask God to help us, and to prosper us in connection with them. Yet another way of working is to begin with God; to ask his plans, and to offer ourselves to him to carry out his purposes."Hudson Taylor's words here describe not only how to make plans for spreading the gospel in China; they describe how each of us may approach the way we live our lives.
All of us naturally make detailed plans for our lives based on our own desires. But we learn in the Scriptures that God has made detailed plans for our lives based on his desires. And while His desires are always pure,ours are very often tainted by self-centeredness; while His plans are always wise; ours are often riddled with foolishness or fear. And for those reasons, we should surrender to the Lord's plans for us. But how do we do that? What are the characteristics of a surrendered life? And for that matter, because we know that God looks not only at the outward appearance, but at the heart, what are the characteristics of a surrendered heart? The apostles of Jesus Christ, who laid the foundation of the church in the new covenant era, demonstrated those characteristics as they fulfilled God's special calling on their lives.
And in doing so, they not only joined God as he furthered his kingdom on earth, but also, they showed followers of Jesus how to live a life of kingdom surrender. In this section of Matthew, we see three characteristics of a heart surrendered to God. You can see the outline there on page 6 in your worship guide. A surrendered heart embraces the role God assigns, accepts the provision God supplies, and endures the path God prepares.
Now, this passage of Scripture is not first of all about you and I and our roles in God's kingdom. It is about the apostles, those 12 special disciples of Jesus. Their historical setting was unique. It was first-century Israel, under Roman occupation. And the kings of Israel at that time did not descend from the great king David. First-century Jewish kingship was installed by the Romans. So, they were not legitimate heirs to the throne of David. And they were worldly, sinful leaders, concerned not with following the Word of God, but with pleasing the Roman empire. And the religious leaders of Israel, such as the Pharisees mentioned back in verse 34 of ch. 9, were also worldly and sinful in their leadership.
Because of them, the people of Israel were, as Matthew says in 9:36, "like sheep without a shepherd." That statement was a direct reference to the indictment of Israel's leaders in Ezekiel 34 in the Old Testament. But Jesus says that the people of Israel were ripe to respond to godly leadership. Verse 37 compares their readiness to a plentiful harvest waiting to be gathered. And so, in verse 38, Jesus tells his followers to pray for God to send out gatherers, to send out laborers who would reap the harvest. The harvest comes in as the kingdom comes - as the reign of God increases over the hearts and lives of people who receive Jesus as Lord. In verse 1 of chapter 10, Jesus then commissions the 12 apostles for a special mission. He gives them the authority (or divine ability) to do what he has been doing.
Notice this: in giving this authority to his 12, he was clearly not giving it to the religious leaders of the day. Jesus was wiping out their whole religious leadership structure - not adapting it to the present. Earlier in chapter 9 Jesus commented on this. The old structure could not contain the new era. But the new era is strikingly similar to the old era. How? Well, we see the foundational structures are parallel.
In the Old Covenant era, there was Abraham, then Isaac, and then Jacob, who God renamed Israel. And from Jacob (aka Israel), came 12 sons, who fathered 12 tribes – the 12 tribes of Israel.
In this NC era, we see Jesus, who descends from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and who Matthew shows to be the true and better Israel – the true descendant of Abraham through which the whole world will be blessed. And like Jacob (aka Israel), from Jesus comes these 12 leaders. But Jesus didn't call his 12 leaders from the Jewish religious ranks. He goes wholly outside of that. And in doing so, Jesus shows that he rejects the established leadership and their credentials as leaders in Israel. No wonder they hated him and eventually killed him.
This is comparable to how the leaders in the Protestant Reformation were either put to death or sought out to be executed. Protestant leaders such as Martin Luther as a threat to the Roman Catholic Church leadership structure. Those bad leaders wanted to eliminate the leadership of the new movement. That is what was done to Jesus. We see leaders doing this repeatedly throughout history.
Now, notice verse 6, Jesus says that the people Israel as a nation were like "lost sheep." The shepherds were not shepherding. And so, in agreement with the covenant with Abraham, (part of what I mean by Old Covenant), the apostles' mission began within the nation of Israel; not yet to non-Jews, as verse 5 states. However, the New Covenant is better and it expands on the Old Covenant, which is clear because Jesus himself go outside of ethnic Israel and he instructs the apostles to join him in that worldwide work later on.
But at this point in history, we see a special beginning. There would never be another group like this group, assigned this role of standing in the overlap between the Old Covenant and New Covenant eras. There would never be another group given this kind of authority. Not only would they preside over this mission during Jesus' earthly ministry, but they would preside over the expansion of the church beyond Israel, to the ends of the earth, and they would preside over the recording of God's special revelation in the New Covenant era.
but what we see in them is that by God's grace, they embraced the role God assigned to them. Now, you see in verse 1 and down in verse 8 that the apostles would cast out demons, heal diseases, raise the dead, and cleanse lepers. These were the signs that the kingdom of heaven had come. The Messianic age was dawning.
God was working through these men and so people should listen to them. Jesus was the messiah and these men were his representatives. But they were not to be worshipped or revered. Their role was all grace. And Matthew hints at that in verses 2-4, and he reiterates it later. Matthew lists the 12 apostles. Peter is referred to as "first." We understand Peter not to be above his peers, but rather, to be the first among equals. He was the most outspoken one, but not more powerful or more holy. Certainly, he alone was not the rock on which the church was founded, as some say.
All 12 had this authority and mission. But interestingly, we know very little about most of the apostles. There simply isn't a lot of information available about most of them. But we see a few things here. Matthew mentions again that he was a tax collector, a dirty outsider. Jesus called him, but also, Jesus called a Zealot named Simon. Zealots were revolutionaries who fought against Rome's occupation of Israel. Matthew had embraced Roman occupation; he worked for the enemy. Now Matthew and Simon were on the same team. Sounds like something God would do. Also, we see Judas Iscariot, who would later betray Jesus. The presence of wicked Judas emphasizes that we all have roles assigned to us by God. Peter says in Acts 1 that Judas' betrayal fulfilled Scripture – it fulfilled God's plans. There is something much bigger going on than just our short lives. There are plans much grander and weightier than our temporary plans.
So much research has been done in the area of human personality. People have been observed, data has been collected and examined, and a profound declaration has been made: people are different. Not everyone is wired exactly the same, so to speak. Not everyone has the same natural abilities, same talents, same automatic responses, same set of life experiences and opportunities. Who decides those things?
If you are born again, if you are a true follower of Jesus, you are divinely appointed by God in a special role as he increases his reign over his people. Just like the founding fathers, the apostles, you and I must carry out God's plans in God's way by God's ability and for God's glory. Are you embracing the role God has assigned to you? Do you treasure that role? Are you giving yourself fully to what the Lord has laid before you? What are the roles assigned to you by God and how can you better fulfill them, fulfilling them with a surrendered heart?
Not only does Jesus assign our roles; he also addresses our needs on the mission.
Notice the last part of v.8. He tells the apostles, You received without paying; give without pay. They were not to do these divine works for payment. With these things that the apostles would be doing, there would naturally be people who would want to offer them money for miracles. Jesus makes it clear that you can't buy miracle from God. The apostles' calling was a gift which they didn't buy or earn. And the works they would perform should be free of charge. But it they were not accepting payment, how would their temporal needs be met? Well, Jesus implies that it will be taken care of, because, verse 10, a laborer deserves his food.
The apostle Paul later refers to this as he explains that there will be those in God's kingdom work who earn their living in gospel ministry. 1 Timothy 5, Paul speaks of those who labor in preaching and teaching. He writes,  For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages." God would make a way for the apostles, and he makes for his preachers and teachers, but they must walk by faith and what God provides must be accepted as sufficient. Obviously, Jake and I earn our living serving as pastors of Good Shepherd. And we walk by faith in that. But you also must walk by faith and trust God for your temporal needs. Walking by faith includes being content with what supplies as you follow his will. You may experience great gain, and you may have to go without things others enjoy.
Are you willing to accept the provision God supplies as you obey him? Not that you can't work hard and earn a good living, but is your time and energy devoted to earning money causing you to fail in the roles God has assigned to you? Your role as a church member, as a spouse, as a parent. God assigned these roles to you. We must pray and seek the Lord's wisdom and guidance on these things. The same God assures us who assured the apostles: he makes a way for his people. He provides for our needs as we walk by faith. This was the kind of leadership that Israel needed - leaders who would walk by faith. Leaders who would show the way of a heart surrendered to God roles, his provision, and finally, to his path – however hard it might prove to be.
Notice these final verses. Jesus informs the apostles that they won't always be welcomed on their mission. Not everyone will listen or agree with them.
that come from associating with the apostles. Their "peace," verse 13, is their greeting. Like "Peace be with you." "And also with you." It's a mutual respect and acceptance. The apostles will be rejected sometimes, but when rejected, they must accept it as God's will and move on, because really, it is the Lord Jesus that was being rejected.
The apostles were only ambassadors. They came on his authority or behalf.
And the towns in Israel who would reject them were rejecting the Messiah and deserving of the wrath of God. That's why in verse 15, Jesus says, "Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Sodom and Gomorrah had become a byword or the embodiment of immorality fully deserving of God's wrath. People to whom the apostles would go would have the privilege of seeing and hearing things that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah did not see and hear. Sodom and Gomorrah didn't see divine miracles and hear the preaching of the gospel of Jesus. What happens to those ancient cities, as recorded in Genesis 19, foreshadowed what is to come for those who reject Jesus Christ. And yet, this is the path prepared for the apostles.
In other words, operating from pure motives. The dove is innocent. It lacks guile or craftiness. Jesus tells them not to be naïve. Be smart, but also, be honest and godly. This is essential because when walking by faith, especially in difficulty, the natural response is to take matters into your own hands and try to manipulate the situation to get what you want. A surrendered heart does not do that. A surrendered heart recognizes even the difficulties as part of the providence of God. A surrendered heart trusts that God is at work.
Often you'll see Jeremiah 29:11 quoted in picture frames or on social media. Many folks cite it as their favorite Bible verse. It says,  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. The verse does speak to God's plan to bless his people. But God said it to people who had their country and their freedom taken away. They were sent into exile. There was great suffering and loss. It was a hard path. And those hard things were God's plans also.
Not all of God's path for us is easy. As you endure the hard things on the path God has prepared for you, are you making the daily effort to surrender to his timing and his work in your heart?
In each of these characteristics of a surrendered heart, we fail continually, don't we?We naturally resist the roles God has assigned to us. We naturally grow discontent with his provision. We naturally shrink back from the past he calls us to endure. But we look at the One who called the apostles, and who calls you and I. We look to the Lord Jesus, who fully embraced his role as Lord and Savior. He remained content with the provision supplied to him during his earthly life. And Jesus endured the path prepared by God, enduring it even to death.
And for those reasons, he is a satisfactory Savior and a worthy Lord. True followers of Jesus do not rest in our own sufficiency to display surrendered hearts. We rest in the sufficiency of Jesus and his finished work on the cross. Then we renew our efforts to surrender to God each day. Have you surrendered wholly to Jesus? Can you admit to God that you sin against him? And can you also admit to those around you that you have sinned against them? Can you humble yourself and ask forgiveness, comforted by the sacrifice of Jesus for you? And can you step forward in faith, trusting Jesus alone? Because only in Jesus do we see perfect kingdom surrender.


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Does anyone take elections manifestos seriously? This is pertinent because it is usually understood that parties like to promise all the goodies when going to the voter. But once elected, the language changes to reality where harsher aspects are highlighted and people are asked to make sacrifices for the larger good. While the poor always find themselves at the centre of manifestos, the rich are often blamed and the middle class is given the skip. This is an admission that there are more not-so-rich people in the country!
Does the Congress manifesto have anything new to offer? The answer is probably no, because most of the announcements made are high on the agenda of all parties but articulated in a different style. When one looks at all the good things promised, the first question which comes to mind is whether or not we have the money to pay for it. Here, it is assuring to know that the manifesto has indicated that the party would be on the fiscal path of 3 percent deficit by 2021. This is credible and to make it feasible, all the other promises have to work around this number.
The cash transfer of Rs 72,000 per family per annum is now going to be attained over a period of time i.e., two years and more importantly, will be shared with the states. Hence the full cost of Rs 3.5 lakh crore will be over a period of time and shared with states. This means there is no case of merging existing schemes to accommodate this expenditure. It will require to be seen whether (like the PM's Ayushman scheme) states have to sign up for the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme or whether it would be automatic. More likely, states will have to independently sign on.
The manifesto speaks of creating 10 lakh jobs. Now this number has to be a derived figure based on how the economy progresses and pushes up the demand for labour. It cannot be in the government per se and hence is quite a hypothetical numbers.
This is a mistake which all parties make when they talk of such numbers because if the economy does not perform in five years, they will be in a tight spot when they reach out to the electorate next time.
The bureaucracy is already high with accompanying commitments like pensions which are increasing. In such a situation, both the Central and state governments are going slow on recruitment. Therefore, jobs have to be created in the private space.
Continuing on this track, the party has promised to allow people to set up enterprises without any permission for the first three years. This is easier said than done as there are several state and local laws that have to be adhered to and are outside the purview of the Centre.
In a federal structure, there are limits on what the Centre can take on. Hence, while the idea is good as it makes doing business easier, in practice, the compliance with local laws can still be cumbersome. This is where states need to be more open and liberal and the state rankings initiated by the present government are pertinent.
The party has also spoken about increasing the number of days under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) to 150 days. But, if one looks at the scheme so far, notwithstanding the higher allocation, the number of days actually used by the targeted population has been just about 50 days per household on an average basis. This being the case extending it to 150 may not make a material difference as there is limited access to such jobs for various reasons.
Similarly, the promise on spending more on education is commendable but the output quality is important as often education outlays have been more on quantitative achievement than quality. As a result, there has been a tendency for schools to be set up without teachers or furniture.
Even the more successful Swachh Bharat scheme has run into problems after toilets were constructed but not used due to absence of water supply, lights, doors being stolen, security issues, etc. Therefore, this has to be looked at closely and the programmes must be well-crafted with end-to-end solutions. The governments in the past have taken steps to have more AIIMSs and IITs but the result has not been always positive as there are instances in the former where the students, who become doctors, have never seen patients.
Therefore, most of the content, though admirable, could have been taken from the past and for success requires careful follow-up action. The manifesto also talks about more public sector bank (PSB) mergers which will depend a lot on how the Bank of Baroda-Dena-Vijaya Bank alliance works out as there will be several lessons to be learnt.
The decision to do away with electoral bonds is surprising as this is definitely a cleaner way of approaching the issue of funding of any party. Unless there is a more transparent system that is used as a substitute, there is the lurking fear of black money returning the system.
While the party has been cryptic of the GST, the fact remains that the tax is still evolving and the present government has been very open to addressing all concerns right from the procedures to the rates. This has been also at the cost of revenue collections.
It would be interesting to see what kind of an alternative is brought in its place. Ideally, the system needs to be fine-tuned regularly to ensure that we arrive at the right structure. This was a conscious decision taken by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government for this complex structure in a complex economy. Rather than wait to create the perfect model, it started off modestly and has gone through a transformation continuously so as to move towards a more acceptable structure.
If there is one thing that stands out as unique, it is the idea of an agriculture budget. This makes sense as there are lots of provisions in the budget which relate to the farm sector. Ideally, a rural budget would make more sense as it can address all the issues of the community. This is surely a thought worth munching on.


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Rush: Film Review
Ron Howard returns to his high-speed roots to explore the 1970s Formula One rivalry between Chris Hemsworth's James Hunt and Daniel Bruhl's Niki Lauda.
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Ron Howard returns to the high-speed roots of his directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto (albeit with a budget probably a hundred times bigger), with Rush, an involving Formula One racing drama centered on the nasty mid-'70s rivalry between two drivers who couldn't have been more dissimilar. Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl excel as, respectively, British wild man and hedonist James Hunt and Austrian by-the-books tactician Niki Lauda. Limited American interest in European Formula One means Universal won't be seeing anything resembling Fast & Furious business at the box office, but international returns could be very substantial.
Most modern-era car racing movies, from Grand Prix and Le Mans to Days of Thunder, have been far stronger at portraying the excitement on the track than at developing interesting downtime drama among the characters. But rather the reverse is true with Rush, which offers perfectly coherent racing coverage but devotes far more time to exploring the personalities of two drivers who represented behavioral polar extremes and drove each other to distraction.
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The Bottom Line The lead actors shine in an engaging look at the two fierce rivals who battled it out for the Formula One championship in 1976.
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It's a credit to Peter Morgan's screenplay that one can come to understand and sympathize with both of them, even though there are many reasons one might not easily warm to either one. Just as young ladies threw themselves at the great-looking Hunt literally by the thousands (one line describes his sexual prowess as "immortal"), female viewers might be persuaded to attend a racing film simply because of Chris Hemsworth, who looks fantastic with his long blond locks and ready smile and has finally found a role he can really score with in every sense of the word.
His looks and devil-may-care attitude aside (at one point he ventures that women like race car drivers because of "our closeness to death"), Hunt is the kind of figure who dares you to take him seriously; he stays up all night before races, never abstains from sex and is seen taking swigs of booze right before races. Purists and the more serious-minded are bound to disapprove of this guy, as they did in real life.
Offering a 180-degree contrast is Lauda, who comes from a conservative Viennese background but defies his family by taking up racing. He buys his way on to teams and is meticulous about engine specs and team discipline. An all-work-and-no-play guy, he cares nothing for ingratiating himself with his team members, and his abrupt marriage proposal to the pragmatic and supportive Marlene (Alexandra Maria Lara), formerly a girlfriend of film star Curt Jurgens, feels more like a business venture than a love match.
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Physically, Hunt taunts Lauda as "my ratty little friend," and with a pasty brown face and protruding teeth, the Austrian, awfully well played by Daniel Bruhl, really does resemble a rodent. He's a chilly character, for sure, brusque and reserved; as the guy behind the wheel, he's not asking for love from his Ferrari team, just maximum effort to put him in a position to win the F1 championship, which he does in 1975.
With his former team falling apart, Hunt, who has married high-maintenance blond beauty Suzy Miller (Olivia Wilde), is desperate to do "whatever it takes to beat that prick," ultimately hitching on with McLaren despite their wariness over his erratic reputation. Presenting atmospheric snippets of the 1976 season's early races in Sao Paulo, South Africa, Spain and Monaco, the film creates an impressionistic rather than dramatic picture of a racing season that sees Lauda jump ahead in points.
Morgan develops a dovetailing emotional dynamic between the drivers when, after rubbing it in with Hunt that his wife has left him for actor Richard Burton, Lauda finally marries Marlene, only to find that happiness seems to be a detriment to his driving. By contrast, Hunt's edgy turbulence in the wake of his very public embarrassment motivates him to drive faster.
The turning point comes at the Nurburgring track in Germany, aka The Graveyard, notorious as the most dangerous course on the F1 circuit. The rainy conditions compel Lauda to propose cancelling the race, but Hunt leads the move to vote it down. Sure enough, the meticulous Lauda then has a terrible accident; he's stuck in his burning car for more than a minute and suffers terrible burns to his head and lungs.
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The recovery, shown in more than sufficient detail, is terribly painful; his lungs must be vacuumed, and trying to put a helmet on is purest torture. Lauda both blames Hunt for the accident and credits him for motivating him to get back on the track an amazing 42 days later, but not before Hunt pummels a tasteless journalist who asks Lauda at a press conference if he thinks his wife will stay with him now that he looks so bad.
In Lauda's absence, Hunt has made up a lot of points, but the Austrian puts on an amazing display, so that the championship will be determined in the final race of the season, in Japan within view of Mount Fuji — and in heavy rain.
In the wake of the season, the two men remain at odds — they are far too different and too competitive to ever be friends — but they do understand each other in a way that perhaps only fellow professionals can. We've never gotten particularly close to these very distinct personalities, but they're interesting and lively company for the two hours they're onscreen due to the sharply etched performances of the two leads.
That's more than you can say for anyone else in the film, as Morgan hasn't bothered to add more than one dimension to any of the other characters nor to provide especially memorable dialogue.
The racing footage is serviceable enough, although there are no attempts at the sorts of amazing shots or extended bravura driving sequences that previous filmmakers have sometimes pulled off. Rather than brilliantly clear, Anthony Dod Mantle's cinematography has something of the grubby visual quality of '70s films — particularly of international co-productions of the time, which is sort of amusing.
It's startling to be reminded of how flimsy and delicate the cars of the time looked and of how common it was for drivers to be badly injured or killed. The very fine and successful 2010 documentary feature Senna underlined that fact and may actually have been an impetus for this film's creation.
Venue: Toronto Film Festival
Opens: Sept. 20 (limited); Sept. 27 (wide) (in U.S.) (Universal)
Production: Revolution, Working Title, Imagine Entertainment
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino, David Calder, Natalie Dormer, Stephen Mangan, Christian McKay, Alistair Petrie
Screenwriter: Peter Morgan
Producers: Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Executive producers: Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust, Tim Bevan, Tyler Thompson, Todd Hallowell
Director of photography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Production designer: Mark Digby
Costume designer: Julian Day
Editors: Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
Music: Hans Zimmer
Rated R, 123 minutes
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Die Saure Mehlbach ist ein gut einen Kilometer langer, westlicher und rechter Zufluss des  Mehlbachs auf dem Gebiet der Gemeinde Weilmünster im hessischen Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg.

Verlauf
Die Saure Mehlbach entspringt im Hasselborner Hintertaunus auf einer Höhe von  in einer Wiese in der Flur In der Sauren Mehlbachder Läuseck.

Die Sauern Mehlbach  fließt zunächst östlicher Richtung durch Grünland und dann am Südrande eines kleinen Waldes entlang. Nördlich davon befanden sich früher mehrere Silbergruben. Danach läuft der Bach in der Flur In der Süßen Mehlbach durch einen Grünstreifen, der rechts und links von Wald gesäumt wird.

Er mündet schließlich gut einen Kilometer nordwestlich des Weilmünsterer Ortsteils Rohnstadt auf einer Höhe von etwa  von rechts in den aus dem Nordnordwesten heranziehenden Mehlbach.

Daten
Die Saure Mehlbach  ist ein grobmaterialreicher und silikatischer Mittelgebirgsbach. Sie entwässert über den Mehlbachs, den Bleidenbach, die Weil, die Lahn und den Rhein in die Nordsee. Der Höhenunterschied von seiner Quelle bis zu seiner Mündung beträgt 55 m, was bei einer Lauflänge von 1,3 km einem mittleren Sohlgefälle von etwa 42 ‰ entspricht.

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 Verlauf der Sauren Mehlbachs auf
 Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 139 Frankfurt a. M. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1967. → Online-Karte (PDF; 4,9 MB)

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Gewässer im Taunus
Geographie (Weilmünster)
Gewässer im Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg


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The Greatness of the Rishi tradition in India
A Rishi is one who flows or is in tune with the rhythmic movement of the universe.
June 8, 2018August 26, 2020 | By: Sampadananda Mishra
इदं नम ऋषिभ्यः पूर्वेभ्यः पूर्वजेभ्यः पथिकृद्भ्यः||
|| idaṁ namaḥ ṛṣibhyaḥ pūrvajebhyaḥ pūrvebhyaḥ pathikṛdbhyaḥ || (Rigveda, 10.14.15)
"We offer our obeisance to the Rishis, born of old, the ancients, the path-makers."
India, indeed, is the land of the Rishis. Therefore, the culture of India is often called as the culture of the Rishis. The tradition of the Rishis in India seems to be perennially flowing, like a stream, to enrich the mind and imagination of her common people. So in India the Rishis are revered as supreme personalities. Living a true life was to be learnt from the Rishis.
A Rishi is the one through whom the secret words of the Vedas are revealed,1 the one who has the inner sight to see the Mantra. Therefore, the Rishis are known as the seers of the Mantra –ṛṣayahmantradraṣṭāraḥ.2 Sri Aurobindo says that a Rishi "sees or discovers an inner truth and puts it into self-effective language – the Mantra."3He further elucidates that a Rishi is the seer. He has seen the Mantras (mantradraṣṭā). According to Sri Aurobindo,
"The Rishi was not the individual composer of the hymns but the seer (draṣṭā) of an eternal truth and an impersonal knowledge."4
He does not merely see, he also hears. He possesses a supernatural faculty of hearing. To his inner audience 'the divine word came vibrating out of the Infinite'. So he is called Kavi satyashruta, the hearer of Truth. He is the possessor of great spiritual and occult knowledge, the complete inner knowledge. The Rishis "were seers as well as sages, they were men of vision who saw things in their meditation in images, often symbolic images, which might precede an experience and put it in a concrete form." So it was possible for the Rishis "to see at once the inner experience and in image its symbolic happenings."5 In the words of Yaskacharya, "the Mantra came to the Rishis who were doing tapas, therefore they became Rishis, in that lies the Rishihood of the Rishis." tadenān tapasyamānān brahama svayamabhyanārṣat | tadṛṣayo'bhavan| tadṛṣināṁ ṛṣitvam|6 Elsewhere he observes that the purport of the Mantras has to be reached by tapas alone'7, tasyāstapasāpāramīpsitavyam. Shaunaka supports Yaskacharya's viewpoint when he says in his Brhaddevata, "The Mantra is not perceptible to one who is not a Rishi" 8 na pratyaksamanṛṣḥiṇāmasti mantram. He further declares
"He knows the gods who knows the Riks. The Mantras to be approached through Yoga with self-control and skill, understanding, general knowledge and above all tapasya."9
Rishis are men of vision who during their meditation see images and put these in a concrete form. So, it is possible for the Rishis to experience at the same time the inner Truth as well as see in image its symbolic happenings.
The Rishis, the seers of the Mantra devoted to a life of Spirit, discover a certain line of development beyond the range of sensory perception by means of their strength of self-discipline and achieve a many-sided inner progress.
The word 'Rishi' comes from the root 'Rish' which in Sanskrit means, 'to go', 'to move' and 'to flow'. Thus, a Rishi is the 'one who flows or moves or is in tune with the rhythmic movement of the universe'. He is one with the movement. He vibrates with the vibration of the movement. He knows the truth of the whole, of the movement.
A Rishi is also known as kavi, the poet; satyadraṣṭā, the seer of the truth; satyasrotā, the hearer of the truth; krāntadarṣī, of transcendental vision; mantradraṣṭā, the seer of the Mantra; krāntadarṣī, of transcendental vision. In India, Rishis have always been given the highest reverence. Their words always held an authority greater than those of kings and other leaders of the society. Throughout the ages, India has thrown up a long line of Rishis of various orders and there is hardly any period in her history where there have not been at least a few seers and sages.
In the words of Sri Aurobindo:
"Ours is the eternal land, the eternal people, the eternal religion, whose strength, greatness, holiness may be overclouded but never, even for a moment, utterly cease. The hero, the Rishi, the saint, are the natural fruits of our Indian soil; and there has been no age in which they have not been born… The Rishi is different from the saint. His life may not have been distinguished by superior holiness nor his character by an ideal beauty. He is not great by what he was himself but by what he has expressed. A great and vivifying message had to be given to a nation or to humanity; and God has chosen this mouth on which to shape the words of the message. A momentous vision had to be revealed; and it is his eyes which the Almighty first unseals. The message which he has received, the vision which has been vouchsafed to him, he declares to the world with all the strength that is in him, and in one supreme moment of inspiration expresses it in words which have merely to be uttered to stir men's inmost natures, clarify their minds, seize their hearts and impel them to things which would have been impossible to them in their ordinary moments. Those words are the mantra which he was born to reveal and of that mantra he is the seer." 10
In India, the Rishi was always, recognized, as it is even now, as the real teacher, the guru. He is all-powerful to intervene between the seeker and the highest object of seeking. He knows the right word of instruction and the right mantra of initiation. He himself is the living example of the ideal that he places before the seeker. His power flows directly from within to the innermost being of the seeker.
The Rishis devoted the maximum time of their lives to self-study, to composition of various literary works, imparting knowledge to the disciples, propagating knowledge to the masses and doing tapas for the good of the world. The Rishi is the friend of all and does good to all. His message is oneness in which he lives all the time and he knows nothing of division. In the words of Sri Aurobindo,
"The seer, the freed & illuminated soul hates none, condemns nothing but loves all and helps all; he is sarvabhutahite ratah, his occupation & delight are to do good to all creatures. He is the Self seeing the Self in all, loving the Self in all, enjoying the Self in all, helping the Self in all. That is the ethics & morality of the Vedanta."11
Rishis of the Veda
The Rishis of the Veda were great mystics whose first concern was spiritual – not the spiritual as divorced from the temporal and the secular, but as both the high point and sustaining base of all that is in the universe.
According to Sri Aurobindo, the Rishis, the poet-seers of the Veda, were men '
"…with a great spiritual and occult knowledge not shared by ordinary human beings, men who handed down this knowledge and their powers by a secret initiation to their descendant and chosen disciples." 12
The contributions of the Rishis can be experienced/observed through the verses of the four Vedas, of which the Rig Veda is considered the oldest. The Rigveda has ten mandalas or sections. Out of the ten sections, the first and the last were the contributions of various Rishis. From second to the ninth each section is the contribution of the Rishis of a particular family. In Rigveda, the second Mandala is credited to the family of Bhrigu; the third Mandala is to the family of Vishvamitra; the fourth to the family of Gautama and the fifth to the family of Atri; while the sixth Mandala is by the family of Bharadvaja the seventh is accredited to the family of Vasishtha; the seers of the eighth Mandala belong to the family of Kanva and the ninth Mandala to the family of Angirasas.
It must not be understood that all those who lived in the Vedic age were Rishis, or all the Rishis and common people of that time had attained an all round prosperity – spiritual and material. Rather it has to be understood thus: The Rishis, the seers of the Mantra, devoted to a life of Spirit, discovered a certain line of development beyond the range of sensory perception by means of their strength of self-discipline and achieved a many-sided inner progress. Whatever they achieved by their tapasya, they then cast into a veiled language which they called 'Mantra.
Types of Rishis
These Rishis of Vedic period were of two types: those who perceived the Mantras directly by the power of their tapas and the others who were incapable of direct perception but had an intense aspiration to go deep into the Mantras perceived by the superior Rishis. The first kind of Rishis were called sākṣātkṛtadharmā and the second type of Rishis were called asākṣātkṛtadharmā.13 Later the sense of the term Rishi got expanded and we come across several types of Rishis mentioned in our Shastras: śrutarṣi, kāṇḍarṣi, taparṣi, satyarṣi, devarṣi, maharṣi, paramarṣi, brahmarṣi, rājarṣi, janarṣietc.14 The role of the Rishis as seers is prominent in the Vedic literature, while their role as teachers is emphasized in the epics and Puranas. In the epics we find mention about various categories of these Rishis: the Rishis who were householders (gṛhāśtasramīs), Rishis who had no wives and children or never thought of women (ūrdhvaretās), Rishis who were hermit dwellers (āśramavāsins), Rishis who were continuous wanderers (yāyāvaras), Rishis engaged in priestly duties (purohitas), Rishis constantly engaged in imparting sacred knowledge to the disciples (śāstrādhyāpakas), Rishis engaged in imparting training in warfare (śastrādhyāpakas), Rishis who were constantly engaged in intense tapas (ugratapasvins) etc.
When we look at the lives of these Rishis, we find that the majority of them were householders. They lived in their hermitages with their families, chanted Vedic hymns, imparted sacred knowledge to the disciples, practiced tapas, performed daily rituals and other sacrifices.
Rishikas or the Women Seers
In the Vedas as well as in the other Vedic scriptures we find mention about several women seers. These women seers or Rishikās were mostly the family members of the Rishis, either wives or daughters. In the Rigveda we find mention of about twenty-one Rishikās. During the Vedic period the women were free to live the life of a brahmacharini or sannyasini. We find mention in our scriptures about Shrutavati, a daughter of Rishi Bhardwaj who remained a brahmacharini all her life and entered into deep study of the Vedas; Shrimati, a daughter of Shāndilya, who led a similar life; Sulabhā who was an authority on the Vedas and entered into Vedic arguments with King Janaka; and about many other women who were given entirely to the study of the Vedas.
The wives and daughters of the Rishis were not just Veda learners but many of them were seers of mantras. So, we see Lopāmudrā (Rigveda, 1:179), Romashā (Rigveda, 1:126:7), Aditi (Rigveda, 4:18:7), Nadyā (Rigveda, 3:33), Ghoshā (Rigveda, 10:39), Apālā (Rigveda, 8:91.1 to 7), Visvavārā (Rigveda, 5:28), Indrāni (Rigveda, 10: 86 and 145), Godhā (Rigveda, 10:134:6,7) and few others like Shraddhā, Maitreyi, Urvashi, Vāgambhrini and Gārgi.
We find in the Brihadaranyka Upanishad (Chapter 3, section 6) Gārgi questioning to Yajnyavalkya. This shows the Rishikās were actively participating in various conferences on brahmavidyā. We see Maitreyi's aspiration for attaining immortality. The kings and princes of the Vedic age preferred to marry the daughters of the Rishis in order to bring home the most illumined persons as their spouses. At the same time we see that many princesses, deeply interested to lead a spiritual life, married the Rishis and lived in the Ashrams.
Since time immemorial, we have seen the tradition of Rishis in India. They were creators, educators, guides of men and the life of the Indian people in ancient times was largely developed and directed by their shaping influence.'15 It is important to note that there has always been a continuity of this tradition of Rishis and there has not been any time when they have not taken birth in this land. If India had a glorious past, it was because of the seers and sages and saints of this land. Though engaged primarily in a tapasyä of knowledge and self-discipline, the Rishis always did good to the world. The following words of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, which he wrote in the introduction to his book on the Lives of Saints of India, present the magnanimous nature of the seers, saints and sages of India:
"Saints and sages are a blessing to the world at large. They are the custodians of superior divine wisdom, spiritual powers and inexhaustible spiritual wealth… Their very existence inspires others and goads them to become like them and attain the same state of bliss achieved by them… Their glory is indescribable. Their wisdom is unfathomable. They are deep like the ocean, steady like the Himalayas, pure like the Himalayan snow, effulgent like the sun…To be in their company is the highest education. To love them is the highest happiness. To be near them is real education."
But, instead of merely singing the glories of the past by remembering the names of the Rishis and worshipping them, what is demanded of every human being now is to rise and attain the state of Rishihood. In the words of Swami Vivekananda:
"In ancient times there were, no doubt, many Rishis and Maharshis who came face to face with Truth. But if this recalling of our ancient greatness is to be of real benefit, we too must become Rishis like them. And, not only that, but it is my firm conviction that we shall be even greater Rishis than any that our history presents to us."16
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References / Footnotes
1. tathaivaà vedänåñayastapasä pratipedire (Mahabharata, Shantiparva 155.2)
2. See Nirukta of Yaskacharya Naigamakanda, 2.11
3. The Future Poetry, SABCL, Vol. 9, P. 517
4. The Secret of the Veda, SABCL, Vol. 10, P. 8
5. The Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Vol. 11, P. 12
6. Nirukta of Yaska 2.11
7. Nirukta of Yaska 13.13
8. Brihaddevata of Shaunaka 8.129
9. Brihaddevata of Shaunaka 8.130 yogena däkñyeëa damena buddhyä bähuçrutyena tapasä niyogaiù| upäsyästäù kåtsnaço devatäyä åco ha yo veda sa veda devän |
10. Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, vol.1, pg. 637)
11. Sri Aurobindo, CWSA vol.17, pg 411
12. Sri Aurobindo, CWSA vol.16, pp 6-7
13. Nirukta of Yaskacharya, 1.20
14. Those who received the Mantras from their teachers were called çrutarñis. Those who were experts in different sections of the Vedas were called käëòarñis. Those who performed severe penances were called taparñis. Those who were given to truth and were truthful learners were called satyarñis. Those who were in communion with the Gods were called devarñis. Those who enjoyed a great and exalted position among the Rishis because of their contributions were called maharñis or paramarñis. Those who realized the Brahman, lived the truth of the Brahman and ultimately became the Brahman were called brahmarñis. Those who had attained the Rishihood and at the same time ruled the kingdoms as kings were known as räjarñis. A common man possessing the qualities of a Rishi was called janarñi. (Baudhayana Dharmasutra, 2.9.14)
15. Sri Aurobindo, CWSA Volume 13, pg 525
16. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, pg 371
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About Author: Sampadananda Mishra
Sampadananda Mishra is a Sanskrit scholar from Odisha who is the director of Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture in Pondicherry. He received his MPhil degree in Sanskrit working under V. Kutumba Sastry and his Ph.D. degree from Utkal University in Sanskrit as well as the evolution of human speech. Through the Vande Mataram Library Trust, an open-source and volunteer-driven project, he plans to generate verified, authentic English translations of almost all important scriptures available in Sanskrit. He regularly conducts wokshops, training programmes, and talks for students and teachers of Sanskrit, Mantra, Yoga and Bhagavad Gita while also running a 24-hour Sanskrit-language radio station called Divyavani Sanskrit Radio. He was awarded the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Award for Sanskrit by the President of India in 2012.
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Alūksne es una villa a orillas del lago Alūksne al noreste de Letonia cerca de la frontera con Estonia y Rusia. Es el centro de la municipalidad de Alūksne.

Historia
La región circundante al lago Alūksne fue poblada originalmente por tribus de habla finesa, y durante el periodo comprendido entre el s. VIII al s. XII por latgalianos. La fecha del asentamiento en la ubicación actual de la villa, conocida en aquel momento como Olysta, Alyst, y Volyst, se conoce por las crónicas de la ciudad de Pskov y data del 1284. El posterior nombre de Alūksne proviene de la palabra en latgaliano olūksna.

Los habitantes latgalianos del asentamiento fueron conquistados en 1342 por los cruzados alemanes pertenecientes a la Orden Livona. Construyeron un castillo bautizado como Marienburg (posteriormente María (madre de Jesús)) en una isla ubicada en el lago, que servía de protección a las rutas comerciales entre Riga y Pskov. A la villa que floreció cerca del castillo se le bautizó también como Marienburg.

En 1560, durante la Guerra Livona, Marienburg cayó en manos de las tropas de Iván IV de Rusia. Se anexionó a la República de las Dos Naciones en 1582 y en 1629 formó parte del Imperio sueco.

Ernst Glück (:en:Johann Ernst Glück), un clérigo luterano y el primer traductor de la Biblia al letón, fundó las primeras escuelas en Vidzeme en las que se impartía el idioma letón en 1683 y en honor al cual se creó el actual Museo Alūksne. El ejército ruso liderado por Borís Sheremétev tomó la villa durante la Gran Guerra del Norte en 1702, produciendo serios daños en la zona y deportando a todos los habitantes, incluyendo a Glück y su hija de acogida, Marta Skavronska, quién llegaría a convertirse en la zarina Catalina I de Rusia.

A la isla de la villa se la conoce actualmente como Pils Island (Isla del Castillo) e Isla María. El Castillo de Alūksne se usa a día de hoy como un teatro al aire libre.

Personajes Ilustres
Catalina I de Rusia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Localidades de Letonia
Municipio de Alūksne


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Q: PHP Print Multiple Values From An Array With A Wildcard I am trying to print multiple values, through PHP, from an array that includes a wildcard. I have managed to work out the wildcard element from another question on here, but I am now struggling to print multiple vales from multiple entities. I'm working from (12271 stdClass Object is the wildcard and the first stdClass Object is $order):
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?>

However, if multiple objects are present, such as
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I don't know how to print multiple objects so that it prints out:
'MODEL1 1x' and 'MODEL2 2x'
Any help would be much appreciated. For reference, I am trying to print out values from an Ubercart order in Drupal 7. Thanks

A: Just loop all objects.  I just keep everything as objects (instead of casting to array) for simplicity since there is no need for current():
foreach($order->products as $object) {
    echo $object->model . ' ' . $object->qty . 'x';
}

If you ever need the key such as 12271 then:
foreach($order->products as $key => $object) {
    echo $key;
    echo $object->model . ' ' . $object->qty . 'x';
}

Maybe more readable:
echo "{$object->model} {$object->qty}x";

A: If order of fields is permanent, you can use this
foreach ($order->products as $product) {
    vprintf('%s %ux' . PHP_EOL, $product);
}

else
foreach ($order->products as $p) {
    printf('%s %ux%s', $p->model, $p->qty, PHP_EOL);
}

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This is another story as to how the Sun came to be in Cherokee lands.
Buzzard said, "I will take the Sun myself. I will put it on my head, so that I can see where I am going with it." So he tried to take the Sun too. He flew to the other side of the world, and dived down to snare the Sun in his claws. But it was so hot that it burned all of Buzzard's feathers off of his head.He finally dropped the piece of the Sun He had. To this day, Buzzard's head is bald and ugly. The people discovered the Sun Buzzard dropped, and took it back.


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Q: Laravel validation on two columns I have contacts table with field email and alteranate_email. While adding new contact i want to check email address should not present in either email or alteranate_email.  For Example, There is contact present  with alteranate_email = 'abc@example.com'. When I  tried to add new contact with email = 'abc@example.com', it allows me to add new contact.
I have tried below code but its not working.
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            'email' => ['nullable', 'email',
                 Rule::unique('contacts')->where(function ($query) use ($request) {
                     return $query->where('email', $request->email)->orWhere('alteranate_email', $request->email);
                 }),
            ],

        ]);

A: You try to use two unique instead of making new rule. Try these one line solution below.
'email' => 'nullable|email|unique:contacts,email|unique:contacts,alternate_email'


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Iraq war was illegal, Blair's former deputy Prescott says
'I will live with the decision of going to war and its catastrophic consequences for the rest of my life'
Then-British prime minister Tony Blair (left), with then-deputy prime minister John Prescott in House of Lords in 2006 (AFP)
Published date: 29 July 2016 08:35 UTC | Last update: 3 years 5 months ago
Tony Blair's deputy as prime minister when Britain joined the invasion of Iraq said he believes the war was illegal, days after a long-awaited report excoriated Britain's role in the conflict.
John Prescott, number two in the Labour government when Britain took part in the US-led invasion in 2003, made the remarks in a piece to be published in the Sunday Mirror newspaper.
On Wednesday, the Chilcot report returned a damning verdict on Britain's role in the US-led war, finding it joined the conflict before all peaceful options had been exhausted and that judgments about Iraq's capacities were "presented with a certainty that was not justified".
It also disclosed Blair had written to then US President George W Bush that "I will be with you, whatever," eight months before the invasion.
Prescott, now a member of the House of Lords, wrote: "I will live with the decision of going to war and its catastrophic consequences for the rest of my life.
"In 2004, the UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said that as regime change was the prime aim of the Iraq war, it was illegal.
"With great sadness and anger, I now believe him to be right."
Blair this week voiced "sorrow, regret and apology" over mistakes made in the conflict.
But he insisted the war was right and the world was safer without toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has apologised on behalf of the party for what he called "the disastrous decision" to go to war.
Some 150,000 Iraqi people were killed in the six years after British and American troops invaded, plunging the country into chaos and creating fertile ground for militant groups including the Islamic State.
A total of 179 British troops also died.
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