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Ethereum Developers Commence Finalizing Shanghai Upgrade 'Shadow Fork' for Testing and Bug Identification
Ethereum developers have begun finalizing the Shanghai upgrade "shadow fork," according to software engineer Marius van der Wijden. The "shadow fork" will serve as a testing environment for the Shanghai upgrade, allowing developers to identify bugs and any potential issues.
Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade 'Shadow Fork' Launches
As the cryptocurrency community awaits the upcoming Shanghai hard fork, core Ethereum developers have launched a testing environment called a "shadow fork" in order to test the upgrade. This follows the developers' announcement of the launch of a new testnet for the Shanghai upgrade on Jan. 11, 2023. The fork, which will focus on allowing staked withdrawals, is anticipated to occur in March 2023.
According to Marius van der Wijden, an Ethereum Foundation software developer, there were a few issues with the "shadow fork" that began at approximately 6 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday morning. "It started out with a few issues because the config wasn't correctly applied on Geth (we disallow overriding the mainnet config)," van der Wijden wrote on Twitter. The developer added:
For now, the chain is finalizing correctly, let's see if Potuz and I can break it.
The cryptocurrency community has been concerned about the Beacon chain withdrawals, as there are 16,167,527 ETH stored within the validator contract that is currently locked. Only a hard fork can unlock the staked funds and the Shanghai upgrade is meant to pave the way toward that goal. Statistics from Beaconscan.com show that there are 504,765 validators, as the validator count crossed the 500,000 zone this year.
It has been approximately 130 days since The Merge, when Ethereum transitioned from a proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain to a proof-of-stake (PoS) network. The Shanghai upgrade will be the next major hard fork following The Merge. In addition to allowing Beacon chain withdrawals, developers are exploring ways to lower gas costs for the withdrawals as well. The public testnet for the Shanghai upgrade is set to launch in the near future, giving the general public an opportunity to test the new software's features.
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What are your thoughts on the Ethereum developers' use of a "shadow fork" for testing and bug identification prior to the Shanghai upgrade's mainnet release? How do you think the upgrade will impact the Ethereum community and the locked-staked funds? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Jamie Redman
Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.
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Strong Majority of Canadians Support the Objectives of the Official Languages Act
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Infographic: What Canadians think about bilingualism and the Official Languages Act
Gatineau, August 31, 2016—Canadians remain committed to a vision of the country that includes two official languages, according to a recent Nielson survey commissioned by the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages: 88 percent of respondents support the objectives of the Official Languages Act, and 82 percent feel that the 150th anniversary of Confederation next year should serve as an opportunity to promote Canada's official languages.
Commissioner of Official Languages Graham Fraser will present some of the survey results tomorrow at the Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference 2016 at the University of Calgary.
" Canada's gradual acceptance of linguistic duality has made us more open, more inclusive, and readier to welcome others in our society. This puts us in a significantly different place than the United States, Britain and much of Europe, " Fraser said.
The Nielson survey results are clear: 88 percent of the respondents support the objectives of the Official Languages Act throughout Canada. These results, obtained via a telephone survey, are above 80% for every part of Canada:
92 percent in Quebec
91 percent in Atlantic Canada
90 percent in Alberta
87 percent in Ontario
85 percent in British Columbia
83 percent in the Prairies
" This is probably the first time that such a question has been asked in a national survey. The broad support for the objectives of the Official Languages Act shows the extent to which attitudes have evolved, " Fraser explained. Since taking up the position in 2006, the Commissioner has reiterated on numerous occasions the importance of the place of English and French as Canada's languages. Similarly, 86 percent of the survey respondents believe that Canada's prime minister should be bilingual, and 83 percent feel that major national events should be conducted in both languages. The proposal that Ottawa's bilingual status be officially recognized garnered support from 87 percent of respondents.
This telephone survey using probability sampling was conducted in February and March 2016 by Nielsen among 1,000 Canadians over 18 years of age. The margin of error for national data is +/- 3.1 percent, 19 times out of 20.
For more information or to schedule an interview with the Commissioner, please contact:
Robin Cantin
Director, Communications
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
Cellular: 613-220-8396
E-mail: robin.cantin@clo-ocol.gc.ca


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The Story Of Ed Gein — The Killer Who Used Human Body Parts In Strange Ways [PHOTOS]
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Ed Gein's grisly crimes were the inspiration behind many horror characters including Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, and Leatherface.
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It can be argued that every murderer is relatively sadistic, but there is one, in particular, that was so bad he served as the inspiration for some of Hollywood's most sadistic murderers.
Ed Gein, otherwise known as the Butcher of Plainfield, was always a little bit off.
Ed Gein's Early Life And His First Murder
His teachers and classmates at his elementary school recall him being shy but having strange mannerisms, such as bursting out in fits of laughter, apparently at his own internal monologue. His school blamed his mother, who punished him when he tried to make friends. Because of that, for the most part, his childhood was relatively solitary.
Aside from penalizing his social life, his mother would confine Ed, and his brother Henry, to their farm. She would often read to them from the Bible, and preach that the world was inherently evil, that all women were prostitutes, and that drinking and immorality were instruments of the devil.
Frank Scherschel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCuriosity-seekers peer through a window into the house of serial killer Ed Gein, Plainfield, Wisconsin, November 1957. The bright lighting in the side ground floor window is part of the illumination for the on-site crime lab.
When Gein was 38 years old, he and Henry were working in the fields on their farm.
They were burning away marsh vegetation, a common practice, but when the fire got out of hand and spread, the fire department needed to be called. After the firefighters had come and gone, and the fire was dealt with, Ed reported his brother missing.
That night, his body was found face down in the marsh, dead from asphyxiation. At first, the fire was blamed, though authorities soon realized that Henry had been dead before the fire got out of hand and that he had bruises on his head.
Authorities suspected that Ed had killed his brother, though there wasn't sufficient evidence to prove it, so they were forced to accept that his death had been an accident. Later, investigators would claim that there was no doubt that Ed had been the murderer.
Getty ImagesEdward Gein's home, in a state of disrepair.
After his brother's death and his mother's a few years later, Gein renovated his farmhouse. However, rather than turning it into a more useful home for one, he boarded up every room that had been used by his mother and instead moved into a single bedroom off of the kitchen.
While the boarded up parts of the house remained pristine, the rest of the rooms became deteriorated, as Gein was lax about upkeep.
While living in seclusion on his farm, Gein became interested in death-cult magazines, and Nazi-cannibal-adventure stories. However, as decrepit as he had become, he mostly kept to himself.
Then in November of 1957, a local hardware store owner disappeared.
Bernice Worden had last been seen the previous night and had been reported missing after her hardware store remained closed all day. Her son Frank, who happened to be the deputy sheriff, entered the store and discovered the cash register open and blood stains on the floor.
While interviewing Frank, investigators found out that Gein had been in the store the previous night and had told Worden he would be back in the morning for a gallon of antifreeze.
Getty ImagesTrooper Dave Sharkey looks over some of the musical instruments found in the home of Edward Gein, 51, suspected grave robber and murderer. Also found in the house were human skulls, heads, death masks and the newly-butchered corpse of a neighboring woman. January 19, 1957.
Sure enough, the last sale made at the store by Bernice Worden was for a gallon of antifreeze. Investigators headed to Ed Gein's home, arresting him and searching the property.
Grisly Discoveries At Edward Gein's House
They had been prepared to find Bernice Worden's body on the farm. However, nothing could prepare the police for what was inside.
While searching the house, authorities found what would later inspire horror movies such as Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Ed Gein's home was filled with human body parts.
There were countless bones, both whole and fragmented, skulls impaled on his bed posts, and bowls and kitchen utensils made from skulls. Worse than the bones, however, were the household items made from human skin.
Getty ImagesEdward Gein's chair, upholstered in human skin.
Authorities found chairs upholstered in human skin, a wastebasket made of skin, leggings made from human leg skin, masks made from faces, a belt made of nipples, a pair of lips being used as a window shade drawstring, a corset made of a female torso, and a lampshade made from a human face.
Along with the skin items, police found various dismembered body parts, including fingernails, four noses, and the genitals of nine different women.
Bernice Worden's body was found as well, decapitated. Her head had been hung in a burlap sack, and her heart was hanging in a plastic bag near the stove. Her body had been strung up, upside down, and gutted like a deer.
Police also found the remains of another woman, Mary Hogan, equally as dismembered.
When questioned, Ed Gein folded immediately. He told police that he had made at least 40 different visits to the three local graveyards to exhume bodies. He claimed that he had done so in a daze-like state.
Ed Gein's bedroom, filled with boxes of body parts.
In addition to his methods, Gein also revealed his motives. He told authorities that soon after his mother's death, he had begun to create a "woman suit" so that he could literally become his mother, and crawl into her skin.
Though there were parts of countless bodies found in his home, Gein was arraigned on only one count of murder: Bernice Worden's.
Ed Gein plead not guilty by reason of insanity and was declared unfit to stand trial. He was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
He was retried once, after doctors believed he could participate in a trial, but was again declared mentally insane. He was confined to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital, and died as one of history's most disturbing serial killers at the Mendota Mental Health Institute at the age of 77 on July 26, 1984.
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Why 7 Years Of Low Natural Gas Prices Haven't Brought Down Electricity Prices
LOW NATURAL GAS PRICES WOULD BE COMPARABLE TO THE 2ND BIGGEST STIMULUS PACKAGE EVER, HAD THEY BENEFITED ELECTRIC RATEPAYERS
After peaking in 2008, the collapse of natural gas prices theoretically saved Americans nearly $250 billion over 3 years. Had the net savings been a stimulus package, the first year alone would have been the 2nd biggest in history. Seven years of low natural gas prices have resulted in plummeting wholesale power prices (what the utility pays), but few Americans feel like they've seen any benefit, especially on their electric bills.
Although natural gas prices, which are the biggest input into the electric system, have declined by 39% over the last decade, electricity prices have risen by 40%. As the industry saved around $30 billion a year, consumer rates still rose faster than inflation.
This is perhaps the most clear example of the fundamental problem with how electric utilities are paid. Regulated electric utilities make money by building infrastructure and recovering the cost, with interest, through monthly electric bills. The more they build, the more they make. Most are public companies, making them responsible to their investors to build as much transmission and distribution infrastructure as they can get away with. To avoid unnecessary investments, public utilities commissions (PUCs) are supposed to represent the public interest in approving utility investments.
Electric utilities are under a lot of pressure not to raise rates but there's almost no pressure to lower rates when commodity prices decline -David Crane
ABSORBING THE BENEFITS
But electric utilities have successfully funneled the benefits of cheap gas into new projects. They are absorbing the benefit of low commodity prices by using the avoided expense to get projects approved by Public Utility Commissions without raising rates.
Electric utilities have been on a spending spree. The Edison Electric Institute reported an a 151% rise in capital expenditures over the past decade, while electricity prices increased by 39%. Few are arguing that electric utilities don't need to upgrade their infrastructure, it's that there may be better ways to achieve desired outcomes.
After Superstorm Sandy, PSEG announced a plan to mitigate the impacts of future storms by spending $3.9 billion, primarily for hardening substations. From the companies own data, the money spent would result in "a modest improvement in our ability to weather these storms," according to Stefanie Brand, director of the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel.
Electric utilities were given monopolies because a natural monopoly does exists in transmission and distribution. The consumer would not benefit from multiple companies providing power grids. But if you empower people to provide their own electricity, it's beyond the scope of both the utility and state regulator. Competition is entering the market like never before leveraging rooftop solar, demand response, and energy storage.
Aside from the lack of competition, the centralized energy system itself is full of inefficiencies, with room for disruptive competition. Most potential energy fed to the electric system is lost either as waste heat at the generation facility or line loss from transmission.
As complicated as it sounds to coordinate a power network of distributed energy resources, it's already been demonstrated in the real world by CleanSpark and LichtBlick. Smart microgrids can balance themselves, while improving national security and resilience.
Former CEO and current thought leader David Crane sees energy following a similar path of computers. In the 70s and 80s there were just a few massive, centralized supercomputers. Computers were a bulky, centralized systems. Then people found a way to string distributed PCs together, and the supercomputers weren't necessary anymore. The computing power of distributed computers in the cloud surpassed all expectations.
Microgrids, ultimately, will not come from top down but the bottom up, owners of distributed energy resources like solar PV and batteries will realize they have spare capacity, says Crane in an interview with Columbia University's Center For Global Energy Policy. "Whenever there's spare capacity going forward, society is going to find a way to use that spare capacity."
Though Crane admits getting in trouble at NRG for being ahead of the curve, the sharing economy for energy could be closer than we think.
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Thank Benjamin for the Post!
Bob Meinetz on February 13, 2016
Benjamin, the reason electricity prices are multiples of what they were one decade ago has nothing to do with microgrids, inefficiencies, or distributed generation.
It is entirely the result of the 2005 repeal of FDR's Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA). PUHCA's repeal, with one stroke of George W. Bush's fossil-fuel-powered pen, legalized:
Campaign contributions from utilities to political candidates. In California, in the last five years alone, utilities have found it in their hearts to donate $110 million to their most powerful friends in Sacramento. Utility contributions have surpassed those of healthcare to make it the most powerful special interest bloc in the state. Before 2005, campaign contributions by utilities were prohibited.
Lobbying. Before 2005, utilities were prohibited from not only lobbying, but even testifying on their own behalf before filing with the SEC.
Holding companies. If you were a utility, and could force the public to buy your own natural gas at a markup, would you: a) leave efficient nuclear plants providing carbon-free generation online, or b) shut them down, and burn as much natural gas as possible?
Un-reviewed business relationships between utilities and their suppliers. Before 2005, all business relationships were reviewed on an annual basis by the Securities and Exchange Commission for conflicts "not in the public interest".
It was an exemption from PUHCA which made the Enron fiasco not only possible, but legal. Its repeal is the energy equivalent of the end of Glass-Steagall, which enabled the 2007 derivatives meltdown and ensuing recession. Until hippy-dippy renewables advocates realize they've become marketing tools of Big Energy, electricity prices will continue to skyrocket, exactly as they did in the 1920s under utility monopolists like Samuel Insull.
There's nothing wrong with the regulated utility model, the problem is it doesn't exist anymore. Deregulation – The Gift That Keeps On Giving.
Mark Heslep on February 15, 2016
"Regulated electric utilities make money by building infrastructure and recovering the cost, with interest, through monthly electric bills. The more they build, the more they make. "
This assertion applies to well to manufacturing and banking perhaps, but is fundamentally wrong about US power utilities across the board, which has run a different business model for decades. Even superficial attention to their behaviour and statements will show they are loath to build any new infrastructure, which always entails new risk in a business that otherwise has almost no risk if they simply run the fleet they have.
Even in the best of times for utilities. new capacity creates under utilization for period, and this is not the best of times as power demand has been flat for a decade. Utility executives for decades have chanted the same mantra: built nothing new until absolutely necessary, run the existing fleet as hard as possible for as long as possible, slowly raise rates, pay the dividend every quarter.
Underground Power Line Bill Cruises In Florida Senate
Legislators in hurricane-prone Florida seem on track to pass a bill that "would create a new process for utilities to pass along costs to customers for storm-protection projects such as installing underground power lines." As it stands now..
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The cost of decommissioning of the landfill has doubled to about $4 million, and although council has already received $1.4 million for the job, it wants more.
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At its two regular June meetings, Kamsack council dealt with numerous issues, including concerns about rising expenses to decommission the municipal landfill.Devan C. Tasa / Kamsack Times
KAMSACK — At its two regular June meetings, Kamsack council dealt with numerous issues, including concerns about rising expenses to decommission the municipal landfill.
Council instructed its administration to provide additional information on the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) grant for the decommissioning of the municipal landfill.
The cost of decommissioning of the landfill has doubled to about $4 million, and although council has already received $1.4 million for the job, it wants more, Brunt said, adding that the costs include an engineering study, a water study to assure there will be no leaching, and the construction of a transfer station. The work must be completed by 2027.
Told that the 1978 1150 Crawler loader is no longer being used and has been pulled out of the current fleet, council agreed to sell the machine for $18,000.
Councillors Lyle Romaniuk and Darren Kitsch were authorized to attend a Highway 49 road tour in Arran on August 4.
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It was agreed to enter into a one-year agreement with SARCAN for services in regard to the collection of household glass at a cost of $15.75 per pound.
In this agreement, which ends March 31, 2023, council agreed to pay that amount for glass left at SARCAN recycling depot, Brunt explained.
Council proclaimed July 17 to 23 as National Drowning Prevention Week within the community.
Tax abatement bylaws were introduced, given three readings and adopted for H.K. Choi Holdings (Woodlander Hotel) and Bear Electric Ltd.
A leave of absence from the Kamsack Volunteer Fire Department for Mark Forsyth was approved, and council expressed the hope that he soon returns to the department.
Accepting a recommendation of the Kamsack Volunteer Fire Department executive, council appointed Jordan Green to the department.
At the June 27 meeting, after council heard from Ray Unrau of the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, who talked about the fire service minimum standards, Ken Thompson, fire chief, was requested to establish a Service Level of Offensive for the fire department.
Kamsack's gardener was authorized to water the garden at Victoria School during the summer.
A tax abatement of 50 per cent of municipal taxes for King Solomon Lodge was approved.
Don Wright, the town's operations manager, was instructed to work with CWB National Leasing on the leasing of a dump truck to add to the public works fleet.
At its meeting of June 27, council accepted a letter from residents of Davies Towers in Kamsack and the Kamsack Hospital Auxiliary, who had expressed concern over the Kamsack Hospital closures. Council said it is forwarding the letters to Terry Dennis, Canora-Pelly MLA; Paul Merriman, Minister of Health; Everett Hindley, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health, and Premier Scott Moe.
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Hikvision, the world's leading supplier of video surveillance products and solutions, is ensuring safe vehicle flow and helping to improve driving standards in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar (formally Burma), via an intelligent wide-area integrated traffic management solution installed across the entire city.
Spurred on as a result of international economic sanctions on Myanmar being eased in 2011, a rapid build-up of tens of thousands of vehicles were estimated to have moved on to the city's roads and in the years since, Yangon, whose population is over 7 million, has experienced worsening major traffic congestion.
The new phenomena of heavy traffic congestion on Yangon's roads resulted in regular vehicle gridlock on the five main roads running east to west in the downtown city area, and at peak times, pedestrians often moved faster than motor vehicles! What should have taken just 15-minutes to drive from the downtown area to Yangon International Airport, just 16 kilometres away, was often taking as long as 90 minutes. In 2007, there were approximately 180,000 vehicles on the city's streets. By 2014 that number had almost doubled - according to the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC).
As a result of the combination of major traffic jams, severe congestion and poor driving standards, the city experienced 2,100 vehicle collisions and 475 road deaths in 2012. However, in 2013, these figures rose by 6.5 percent, with nearly 3,000 vehicle collisions and 506 related fatalities.
The YCDC also found that the vastly intensified traffic flow had led to increased traffic rule violations, such as jumping red lights and illegal U-turns, with the effect of further increasing congestion and placing the public and vehicle passengers at greater risk of accidents. To address these issues, YCDC decided action should be taken and issued a tender inviting companies to provide an effective technology based solution to address the severe traffic problems.
Based on their vast experience in the design and installation of many large-scale electronic traffic surveillance & control systems deployed within hundreds of cities across China, the winning bid by China Railway 21st Bureau Company Ltd, recommended a total Hikvision based traffic management solution.
Acting on the DICTCS (Design, Installation, Commissioning of Traffic Control System) project as a technical consultant, Hikvision worked closely with both China Railway 21st Bureau Company Ltd and YCDC to detail a traffic control solution that would guarantee the system's performance capability, seamless operation and future-proof expansion.
Field-proven technology
To control the huge city-wide traffic system, Hikvision supplied their field-proven ITS (intelligent Video Management System), designed as an integrated image-processing application platform specifically for traffic management applications. This industry-leading platform integrates vehicle checkpoints, violation detections, video surveillance, illegal parking detection, intersection control, and data integration in to one single management system. The scope of operation for the Hikvision traffic control solution also included a Complete Road Violations Detection System with illegal parking detection.
Central to the traffic management system employed at 154 traffic light controlled junctions, is the Hikvision ITS Comprehensive Control Platform. Located in a purpose-built facility, it consists of data servers servicing Management, Database, streaming, storage, Traffic Event and Traffic Devices – all protected by a secure dedicated firewall.
Ensuring better traffic flow, located at the edges of the system at points across the city, Traffic Signal Controller technology is used to enforce multiple traffic rules. First, the checkpoint system provides key data on traffic flow and violations. When a vehicle in violation passes an ITS-equipped checkpoint, the system then captures a photo and automatically links significant data, including LPR (license number plate recognition) and speed value to the evidential image.
Vehicle speed can be captured by radar or by segmenting road sections. In this case, high-accuracy radar featuring continuous capture reliably records speeding vehicles, while a double-checkpoint segmentation system provides superior performance, compared to a single-checkpoint set-up alone. Furthermore, smooth traffic flow is ensured by the Running Red Light Detection System that utilises Hikvision camera technology, working in conjunction with Traffic Light Signal detection, to provide evidential video of traffic light violations. A traffic video unit captures three images of a vehicle crossing an intersection against a red light and produces evidential data relating to the time & date, location and vehicle license plate number. The three images and a close-up are combined into a single picture to produce evidence for violation notification and prosecution.
Violation detection
Within the subsystem, Hikvision cameras are employed in the city to monitor parking via the Illegal Parking Detection System. Traffic speed dome cameras are used to capture three images of any vehicle illegally parked, and then record the data of when and where the vehicle was, its vehicle registration plate and the specific parking rule contravened.
In addition to the system being able to manage common driving violations such as intersection abuse, wrong-way driving, direction deviations, prohibited lane changes, crossing lanes, traffic counting, and reverse driving detection, it also keeps a watchful-eye on the quality of the city's traffic flow, monitoring it 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
To help relieve traffic congestion hot spots and supply road users with current traffic status, the traffic control system reports traffic flow and displays it on giant roadside Traffic Guidance Display monitors. The data captured by the system includes vehicle counting, average speed, length of queue, type of vehicle, place and time, distance between two adjacent vehicles, interval between two adjacent vehicles, and the level of traffic jam (3 types - Clear, Slowed, or Jammed).
Data drives better behaviour & traffic flow
All data is recorded and supplied to the control room in real-time. This invaluable data allows the traffic management team to adjust the timing of traffic lights to reduce bottle-necks, improve traffic flow and ensure the best road-user travel experience possible through Yangon. Citywide road network camera surveillance is displayed in the control room on a 40 x 47" Hikvision HD LCD video monitor wall.
Since the system was commissioned, traffic violations have been recorded and vehicle drivers automatically issued with a warning letter. This process is educating residents and visitors to become accustomed and aware of the new system's operation, with an aim to improve their driving behavior - before financial prosecutions are brought in to force. Once the initial probation period is over, in the future, the system will be structured to issue prosecution letters and automatic fines to offenders.
"Implementing Hikvision's Design, Installation and Commissioning of the comprehensive Traffic Control System in Yangon Myanmar with Hikvision's integrated subsystem, enables us to have access to live traffic information and the detection of red-light violations," explains Than Win, Vice Chief Secretary of Yangon City Development Committee. "Hikvision's subsystem illustrates the success that can be achieved to control non-compliance with traffic laws.''
"Yangon is the first international city outside of China to use the Hikvision DICTCS Traffic Management Solution, joining hundreds of similar successful systems installed in cities across China," confirmed Tony Xu , Hikvision Project Manager. "Thanks to the innovative total Hikvision solution, the technology now in place is set to ensure that Yangon's vastly improved traffic flow will provide support to YCDC's development objective, to support and sustain the city's economic and industrial growth."
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26 - Boiling the Milk
This episode, I'm going solo talking about boiling the milk. The basic concept here is the importance of taking care of devotees and training them.
Looking after the devotees we have rather than just going out and making new devotees.
Some of the key points I talk about:
8:32 What does boiling the milk mean?
9:03 Where does the expression come from?
9:54 What do we need to focus on?
11:44 "Better to remain as a guest?"
13:22 How should we speak when we preach?
13:55 Are your actions matching what you say?
14:42	How to help devotees think for themselves.
15:47	What are devotees needs?
17:17 How things have changed… new challenges.
20:18 When the real (SB) Srimad Bhagavatam class starts…
21:27 The problem with FB discussions
23:13 Essential factor in future success of our movement.
24:47 Making more devotees in the bedroom
27:08 What about outreach?
27:58 A healthy church
29:30 KC humanitarianism
31:05 "Circle of Awesomeness" the best marketing
32:01 Moons not stars
32:24 Ripe Mango strategy
34:55 Philosophy & Lifestyle
35:55 How to boil the milk?
36:49 Practical lifestyle training
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Krsnendu: But preaching doesn't just mean making new people into devotees. It means cultivating the people that become devotees and really developing them.
It's time to get inspired. Join us as we celebrate devotees success stories. Preaching, business, community development, leadership and personal growth. All from the point of view of Krishna consciousness. Our goal, to help you to make your life successful.
Hare Krishna and welcome to Episode 26 of Successful Vaisnavas. This episode, I'm going solo and we're talking about boiling the milk. The basic concept here is the importance of taking care of devotees and training devotees and looking after the devotees we have rather than just always going out and making new devotees. So yeah, as I said, it's a solo episode today. I've got quite a few things that I'd like to discuss on these podcasts. So I thought instead of always doing interviews, why don't I do a few episodes where I'm just sharing some of my ideas and then I'd love to hear your feedback on them. The easiest way to give the feedback would be to leave a comment on the website of this episode, which would be successfulvaisnavas.com forward slash milk or successfulvaisnavas.com forward slash 26.
And of course the other way is if you go into the Successful Vaisnavas Facebook page, you'll find the post that is advertising this episode, that'd be a great place to discuss as well. So to extend on this, this idea of boiling the milk and really looking after devotees is linking back to another concept, which is the idea of the healthy church, because the idea came from the purpose driven church. It's looking at are we addressing all of the different purposes that our organization is based on. And so my feeling is that we're not taking care enough of the devotees and the children in our society, although we may be doing well in other areas such as festivals or perhaps reaching out to outside people. I think that this is an area we really need to develop, which is practical education and helping devotees to create a good lifestyle that supports their Krishna consciousness.
So that's just a little bit of an intro and I'm planning to do a webinar on this. So depending when you see this episode, it may be too late, but at the time of releasing this podcast, it's just on the Wednesday coming up, which would be, not sure exactly, Wednesday the 27th, I believe, New Zealand time I'll be holding a webinar. If you are seeing this episode at a later date, you can go to successfulvaisnavas.com forward slash class to see what other webinars may be coming up at the time that you check it out. Or else you can just go to successfulvaisnavas.com forward slash milk if you're specifically interested in this topic. Yeah. So the idea is that I'll be sharing this idea of how to care for devotees and have a healthy, balanced temple.
And in future I'm planning to do these regularly, probably once a month. I've already done one training called the Japa Jumpstart. It goes in total for about an hour, but I've also broken it up into different sections if you prefer to study it that way. And what it is is applying the Mayapur Success Formula that I created based on the Nectar of Instruction and applying it to managing our life so that we can chant quality Japa. First of all, to arrange our life to make the time for our sadhana, and then expanding on that to deepen our practice and make it more effective and higher quality. So that's one training that I've already done. Then this training will be the next one about developing a healthy temple, boiling the milk and training devotees.
And then in future, we'll also be looking at how to use the internet to preach and also expanding on the Japa Jumpstart with some new ideas that I've been exposed to recently about how to develop good habits, which is really important in Krishna consciousness. So that's just a preview of what's ahead. So please come and check out the training that we're doing. Whenever you listen first, you'll be able to find the most recent training at successfulvaisnavas.com forward slash class. So for now, let's move into the episode.
It's actually a podcast live that I did, but I know that not everybody may have seen it. And so that for the benefit of podcast listeners, I'm reposting it here and I'm planning to do that as well. Looking at some of the Facebook lives I've done in the past that may be particularly relevant for devotees in general. And I'll also add them to the podcast to make them easy to find. So with that said, let's go and boil the milk.
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Hare Krishna. Today we're going to be talking about boiling the milk. Why it's important to look after the members that we have, even more important than making new devotees. So let's go. I'm just getting to the temple for a meeting about the food festival and the colors, the Holi festival. So I thought I'd just talk while I'm driving and hopefully it'll make sense to you. Hopefully you can hear me. Just have to excuse me every now and then I'll have to make a few turns and I might even say, Whoa, okay, now we're looking at the wrong way.
Okay. How do I switch it back. Okay. My phone holder is not the strongest in the world as you can see. All right. So I was listening to the podcast of Namarasa, he was interviewing Gopikakanta devi dasi and she wrote an article recently, which was about the second generation and how devotees who have been born in the movement, they need to at some point make the conscious choice that yes, I want to follow Krishna consciousness. This is my path. And she was talking about ways that we can try to bridge that gap and help the children to connect with Krishna consciousness and give them the opportunity or to encourage them to take up Krishna consciousness with their own initiative. And in that conversation, the expression was brought up to boil the milk. So what does boil the milk mean?
Well, in a few words, that means it's an expression that Prabhupada used to say that we should concentrate more on the devotees we have and to increase the Krishna consciousness and the quality of those devotees more than we should focus on outreach. So the background to those particular statements of boiling the milk is a series of letters that Prabhupada wrote. He wrote them in May and June 1972. There's four letters that I found, been able to have a look at. Now because I'm driving, I can't read it out to you. Maybe when I stop in a minute, I might be able to read some of them with quotes directly from there. But the essence is like with milk, you start off with milk and there's two things you can do to milk. One is you can add water and it becomes less and less like milk until finally, it's basically only water.
And the other thing that you can do is you can boil it. And what happens then is that it evaporates the water and it condenses the milk. It makes it more and more thick. It makes it more sweet. And this is what Prabhupada was saying in these letters. He was saying that we have enough devotees, we have enough centers. What we need to focus on now is making those devotees spiritually strong, helping them to become really Krishna conscious. And so this conversation or this topic was mentioned in the podcast with Namarasa and it occurred to me that one of the important elements of this, which was not really, it's actually mentioned in one of the letters, is focusing on children. In one of Prabhupada's letters, Prabhupada is writing to a devotee in Dallas and saying that "Yes, I agree that you should follow your proposal of focusing more on training the devotees that you already have and the children more than trying to preach to the outside people in Dallas.
So yeah, this is the point. It's training the devotees who are joining as adults, as well as training the devotee's children who are growing up in our movement. So now you may wonder, well, why am I bringing up this topic? Well, the reason is that I think that this is an area that still really has not been given the proper attention that it deserves. I feel that there's still much more focus on bringing new people in disproportionately, and not enough emphasis on helping to cultivate the devotees that we have. So that's my key concern here. For example, Radhanath Swami, he tells one story about how he went to a temple and there was this man, he'd been coming to the temple for years and years and years and Radhanath Swami said, "Why did you not ever get initiated or why did you never join the temple or..." Whatever.
Basically, to take it more seriously. And this person says, "Well, I observed the way devotees treat new people and I observed the ways that the devotees treated each other. And based on my observation, I felt that it was a better if I remain a guest". And, you know, I've seen this also myself. Sometimes there's irony in the way that devotees preach, for example, sometimes one devotee will stand up in front of everyone and go "Devotees, go into the back of the line. Guests first!" And the way that they do it is in such a harsh way that you sort of think to yourself, "Ok maybe it's better to be a guest", rather than thinking, "Oh wow, these people treat each other so nicely". It was actually the opposite experience, which is more of the feeling that, "Ah, yeah, I don't really like the way these people treat each other".
So that the irony is they're trying to make the guests feel special and welcome, but in the way that they're treating the devotees they're actually giving them the opposite message. Another example of some of the ironies that I hear is that recently, my wife asked someone, a senior devotee, how they should speak when they preach and distribute books. And the answer was a really great answer. It was that you should listen to the person, try to find out about that person and then try to relate with that person so that when you present the book, they'll be able to relate to it. It'll be done with an understanding of that person.
So the irony that I found in this particular conversation is that the person that was speaking was basically telling everyone this is how things should be done. But the whole time that he spoke and that we were with him, this senior devotee, I found very rarely did he try to understand where the devotees were coming from or to ask them about their opinion or their experience. It was more about, okay, look, I'm here to tell you how it is. And another irony is that this devotee is also someone who tells that "Devotees you should think for yourself" and then he proceeds to go and tell the devotees just how they should think rather than thinking, "Okay, so we want devotees to think for themselves". It seems to me, just from my point of view that if you want devotees to think for themselves, we should really be asking devotees "So what do you think? What are your thoughts? What's your idea?"
So sometimes we may speak about an idea as a good idea, but in our actions we're presenting something else. Like, we're saying you should try to understand other people and get to know them. But all we do is speak and we don't listen. Or alternatively, we say you should think for yourself. But then we tell the devotees that this is how things are and if you don't agree with me, then you're a fool, which is kind of interesting. So anyway, these different ironies that we observe and it just highlights to me that we haven't really developed the culture where we're really learning to find out the needs of the devotees and address them. Just like if we want to preach to outside people, what do we do? We try to think what are their concerns, what are the things that they're interested in or how can we present something that will attract people to become interested so that we can present Krishna consciousness as a solution for that problem.
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So we use that idea sometimes when we go to market Krishna consciousness or at least we've spoken about it and applied by some people. You know like for example, when you distribute books, you go to someone and say, "Oh, do you ever feel stressed? This book is going to be really good for you because this book will help you to get free from stress". Something that people can relate to. But how often do we see devotees in the temple, or in our Hare Krishna community trying to find out what are the needs that devotees have in the community?
How often do we find devotees saying what's going on for you? What are your challenges? What are your issues and what can we do to try to help address them in a Krishna conscious way? And related to this is I think that perhaps it was not as necessary in the earlier days from the point of view that everybody was living in the temple. The people that lived outside the temple were the exception. The devotees lived in the temple, they worked in the temple. Everybody ate together, they did service together. So there was a lot of opportunity to just naturally discuss with each other, develop the friendship, develop the community, talk about Krishna consciousness and just sort of discuss what challenges we might be facing and discuss with each other ideas about how we can preach or how we can help ourselves in our spiritual life personally.
I'm just going to pull in here so I can just concentrate a little bit as I'm nearly at the temple. Whoa. This is a very busy cafe or supermarket I just pulled into, seems to be so many cars. Anyhow, let's just pull over here.
Stop here for a second. I must get myself a watch. Let's have a look at the time, I guess a little bit of time. Yeah. So I've just got a few notes too that I wanted to refer to so let me just find a better position. All right, so I've covered a few of the points here abut how times have changed. Yeah. Devotees used to live in the temple, but now they don't, and so the needs that devotees have are different also. Previously, the life was very simple, but now devotees have got different lifestyles, excuse me. Yeah. Devotees might be working and their challenge is how can I share Krishna consciousness with my workmates? Or, how can I practice my sadhana properly when I have to go off to work early in the morning or what should I do when I've been invited to a work function and they're going to be serving meals, and how will I explain it to them and what should I do? Should I bring my own food or should I eat the food they offer?
These are some of the challenges that were not as common in the earlier days when everybody lived in the temples. So I think it's very important as a society now that we take stock and inventory, what are the needs that devotees have these days. And of course it's going to be different in different places and different people. But the key factor here is finding out the needs of devotees and seeing how we can address them. And one of the key elements here is, as I mentioned earlier, when everyone lived in the temple, we would sit down and eat together. Now when you sit down and eat, it's natural that you'll converse with each other and discuss things. In fact, I often say that the real Bhagavatam class often starts at prasadam afterwards. Because in the Bhagavatam class, the communication is mostly in one way flow that the person on the Vyasasana is speaking, giving the ideas.
But then the really interesting part comes when the questions come and the different ideas come backwards and forwards. So some devotees that give Bhagavatam class, they interact more with the audience. But whether that's the case or not, we often find that a stimulating Bhagavatam class leads to very interesting discussions at prasadam time. So when devotees are not living in a temple, they're missing out on that experience of that communal eating and post-discussions that will naturally take place. Or if devotees are working together, they can continue those discussions about the points that were raised in the Bhagavatam class.
Of course we have Facebook and so there's a kind of a communication, but it tends to be of a different nature. I find that when we are discussing in person, there tends to be a little bit more authenticity, a little bit more, what's the word? We're just kind of speaking from our own experience. Transparency, maybe is the word. And it's more based on trying to understand. Whereas I find that often in discussions in social media, it's more of a battle, more of a argument that ah, okay, I disagree with his point. You know, when you're on social media, people sometimes won't post unless they feel they have something new to add and often or if they feel strongly about something, they're "Oh, this is the point that I disagree with, so I'm going to make my comment" or "Yeah, I totally agree with that statement. I'm going to support it". And it leads to this natural kind of duality and this disagreeing kind of mood on social media. But in person I find that it's a lot more relationship building and a lot more about trying to understand the truth and understand each other and get to know each other. So this is something that we're missing out on these days now that devotees don't live at the temple, don't live together.
Yeah. So these are some of the things why I think that there's a need for us to really put our focus on boiling the milk in the sense just very basically of helping devotees to understand Krishna consciousness better and to practice it more, to practice it better. I've already mentioned about the next generation, but I just wanted to make another point that one devotee was bringing up this point recently, that if we really want to effectively preach, we want to do outreach, then we need to have a strong second generation. Of course we can preach no matter what, but just think about it, that if we are preaching to new people, become devotees, join Krishna consciousness, it's the best philosophy, the best lifestyle, best everything. And if all of our kids are leaving the movement, it's obviously something's not quite right.
Now, I wouldn't say that's a situation. But the more that we can take care of our second generation or our next generation, and that we can provide for them both materially and spiritually, the stronger our movement will be and the more effective our preaching will be. Because when people take an interest in Krishna consciousness or any spiritual movement like this, they're gonna look and think, "Hmm, what are the children like? How are they growing up? Are they practicing this or not? And if they're not, why not? How are the children being treated? These are things that people will look at and notice. And if the children are not really being trained nicely and they're not growing up in a well-supported way, it's gonna turn people off. So I think it's very important. I remember, this friend of mine, devotee made this point that it's really important that we look after our next generation, especially that they become well situated in their life in terms of professions and mentally that they feel very secure and so on.
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Then a sarcastic comment was made back then "Oh yeah. So basically your idea is that we just don't bother about preaching. We just make the new devotees in the bedroom", which is a bit out of line. But from one point of view, yeah, it's a good strategy. You look at the Muslims, fastest growing religion in the world, how are they doing it? It's not really by conversion. They're just having big families. On another podcast with Namarasa, Kripamoya Prabhu was talking about how having big families is good if you're a devotee because we need more devotees. And it is a great way to make devotees because from the very beginning of life we can cultivate someone to be Krishna conscious.
And so I think that to criticize that philosophy of spreading the movement by having families and making our next generation strong is missing actually one of the best strategies for strengthening our movement and making devotees. I mean, you just think about it like this. If you can cultivate someone from birth and develop them to become Krishna conscious, how much easier do you think that will be compared to finding someone out in the world who comes from a totally different culture and has a whole lot of bad habits and things like that and then they have to unlearn that and then become a devotee.
If we can really put our emphasis on creating a society and creating an education system that cultivates our children and our youth, that is really powerful way to make our movement strong, to make more devotees just from those kids that had been born. And then from that position, our movement will be so attractive for outside people.
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So these are some of the reasons that I think it's really important for us to think about this issue of boiling the milk. Of course we don't need to give up our outreach. Outreach itself is a form of personal development. It's a form of surrender and it's a form of Krishna conscious lifestyle and expression. When we practice Krishna consciousness, we develop mercy. And mercy means that we try to share this with others. It's generosity, abundance mentality. So many reasons why preaching is a fundamental part of our Krishna conscious philosophy. But preaching doesn't just mean making new people into devotees. It means cultivating the people that become devotees and really developing them.
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And this is why I've many times talked about the purpose driven church. Because the purpose driven church is a very holistic approach. One of the things I really like about the purpose driven church, which is confirmed by Prabhupada is that they say that it's not about getting a big church. Now, the purpose driven church is the story of the Saddleback Church. It's huge. Many, many people joined that church. It's known as a mega church. But really early on in that book, it makes the point that it's not about creating a mega church. It's not about numbers you can have. It's about having a healthy church.
And they make the point that if you want a child to grow, you can't force it. But if the child is healthy, it will grow. It's a natural consequence. Now you can artificially get a child to grow I suppose through steroids and things, but that would not be healthy. And that's not what we're looking for. We're looking for a society that's healthy and that health will naturally mean that it expands. Just like I was saying, if we look after our children and the next generation, it's natural that the society will grow. But our emphasis should be that when someone new joins our movement or whoever's already part of our movement, our focus should be on really caring for those devotees. And this is a point that Jayadvaita Swami made also in his series of lectures called Food for Death. Those lectures were talking about how we have to be careful not to think that mundane charity is equal to Krishna consciousness or that it's our main mission.
And he said that if you have a desire to do charity, like to feed someone or clothe someone or give a donation, direct that towards serving the devotees. And when that happens, then naturally this movement will be very attractive. So there's more to say on that topic but I won't go down that. That may be another time we can talk about that. It's really interesting series of lectures and it got me thinking in some interesting ways about the relationship between looking after our devotees and preaching. So anyway, just quickly talk about just extract some of the quotes from Prabuhpada's teachings. And just before I do that, there's one other point I didn't mention. In marketing, they say it is like 7 or 10 times easier to keep an existing customer than it is to make a new one.
So why is it any different in Krishna consciousness? Let's do whatever we can to really look after the devotees we have, so that when someone comes, there's no question that they'll leave and it'll just also make it much easier to bring in new customers. Another business mentor that I follow, his name is Stu Mclaren and he has this what he calls the circle of awesomeness. And the idea is that if you want to have a successful business, you find one or two people that you can work with, you create positive results with those people and share their stories. That is the best marketing, rather than trying to convince people through logic and reason that, oh, this is the best product, or whatever. You showthat look, these people have put into practice these ideas and got success.
Why can't you do it too?
So in Krishna consciousness, doesn't it make sense that we should do the same thing? That we really help devotees to be successful and then we share their stories. And so that was one of the points. I will just take a few of these quotes, Srila Prabhupada says that "One moon is better than many stars". So instead of having a huge number of people, let's really focus on developing one or two. People that have taken up Krishna consciousness, let's give our energy to really helping them to become the best that they can be. There was a devotee who was part of the Harinam preaching group and they have what they call the ripe mango approach to preaching. So what that means is that when they're doing Harinam and they find that there's a person who's particularly interested, they give a lot of energy to cultivate that person.
Because they're reciprocated. And that's the person that when they put the energy in, they're likely to get a better result. And I think that this philosophy makes sense as well. When you see someone who's showing interest in Krishna consciousness, to put your energy and really cultivate that person. It makes a big difference because just one person who's really serious can become a great preacher. They can influence others, they can bring their friends along. This is much more effective of focusing your energy on the people who are the most favorable and the most qualified than it is to kind of try to preach to a random as many people as possible. So I just thought I'd mentioned that, that we're trying to create moons not many stars. Prabhupada was saying that why do we want to be careful about expanding too fast. It's because otherwise we might have devotees who do not understand and practice the real principles.
I've had experience recently where I was listening to a devotee speaking and they showed that they didn't actually understand some really basic points. I'll probably bring up some of those points in future, it's not for now. But devotees often can practice Krishna consciousness for many years and not have the right understanding philosophically or perhaps in their practice, their understanding of what the standards are maybe not fully developed. They may be missing out in certain things. And that's why it's really important for us to train our devotees to understand what the proper standards are so that it doesn't become more and more watered down as generations go by.
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All right. Time is getting short. I'm supposed to be at the meeting already. So let me quickly bring out some of the other Prabhupada quotes. Prabhupada said that "Preaching work should be directed towards the children and devotees and not so much the Dallas public".
That was the quote I referred to earlier. Prahupada is saying that what does it mean to train devotees or to boil the milk. It means to train them in the philosophy and the lifestyle of Krishna consciousness. I think this is really important, especially now that devotees have different kinds of lifestyles. It's really important to help devotees understand how they can live their life and understand the proper standards and the proper way of living. Not just the philosophy. The culture and the lifestyle is also really important. And it said that "Unless students become fixed up in their spiritual progress, what is the use of trying to expand so much?" And this is a really interesting one. You are the leader. You are very, very responsible for the spiritual well-being of all students. And I think that we all need to take up this understanding that if we have been a devotee for some time, it's our responsibility, our very, very important responsibility to help the other's spiritual well-being.
And then Prabhupada said, "If we expand too much, we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will be lost". So these are the points to emphasize why it's important to boil the milk and how do we boil the milk. How do we train the devotees? Well, as I say, time is short. So let me just give a few quick ideas and I think I'll expand in another podcast, in another Facebook live. First of all, we need to try to understand what the devotees needs are and then address them. How do we address those needs? We can do it through structured courses just like Prabhupada wanted the Bhakti Shastri courses, particularly to understand the philosophy of Bhagavad Gita. In addition to that, I think that it's really important to have small group meetings. This is one of the key points in the purpose driven church.
And from my experience, I can see that it really helps to fill in that gap now that devotees are not living together and having prasadam together. We need to give practical lifestyle training as Prabhupada had mentioned here. Things like financial literacy, how to deal with relationships, how to align our life so that when we have our job or what the work that we do, that it's compatible and favorable for our Krishna consciousness. Training in business, training in how to be a good parent, training so that parents and children can work together to become Krishna conscious. The children will only become Krishna conscious through their relationship with someone and particularly their parents. So I think it's really important to train parents and children how to work together to be Krishna conscious. Apprenticeships, mentorships, and having coaches who can be a life coach for devotees that they can help them to design their lifestyle.
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And even business coaches and mentors to help devotees get into businesses that will be favorable for their own Krishna consciousness. To employ devotees and also spread Krishna consciousness. And finally, it's really important to develop gurukulas and educational systems for training devotees from the very beginning of life. So I really rushed through those sort of practical suggestions. Today's talk was mostly about the need of understanding devotee's needs and boiling them up in the sense of training devotees in the philosophy and lifestyle of Krishna consciousness.
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So, please leave your comments. If you are watching on Facebook, please put the comment underneath the video. If you listen to the podcast, then you can leave a comment on the website. It'll be successfulvaisnavas.com forward slash milk. And let's just keep this in mind. What can we do individually and as a society to help boil the milk? To help out devotees to become stronger in the philosophy and in the practice of Krishna consciousness.
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Jagattarini Mataji: Just give this life to Krishna.
Akrura Prabhu: We know that they have much more potential than they are presently using.
Urmila Mataji: I went to a place of relishing the activity and letting go of the results completely.
Srila Prabhupada: You just associate with pure devotees, then you shall be able to cross over the ocean of nescience.
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"Zombieland" has a sequel coming our way.
The official Twitter account sent out an image Tuesday afternoon featuring the original cast of Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin.
Other than that, there aren't a ton of details at all for the second movie.
I really can't wait to see what we get in the second movie. The original one was so good. Harrelson and Eisenberg were outstanding on screen together.
Something is seriously wrong with you if you weren't a fan of the original. It was so good.
If I had to guess, it won't be out until 2020. It seems a bit soon with news just breaking for it to come out in 2019. I just don't see it happening.
It should be a lot fun whenever it does!