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This melody is contemplative and peaceful in nature and has a beautiful lyrical line. The work is suitable in any setting but is especially appropriate as an offertory, a call to prayer, a response, or a wonderful contrast piece in concert settings.
Voicing: 3, 4, or 5 octaves handbells with optional 3 or 5 octaves handchimes
Composer: Frederick C. Atkinson
Arranger: Valerie W. Stephenson
Tune: "Morecambe"
Level: 2
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Install—and tweak—Google's iOS apps
Let's start with the apps, because Google makes more of them for iOS than you might have realised. We've got Gmail and Google Maps and Chrome, all of which you may have already, then there's Google Drive and Docs, Sheets and Slides ready to replace Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
Get Google Keep for your notes, Google Play Movies & TV for your movies and shows, and YouTube Music for your tunes. Ditch Apple News and use the recently revamped Google News instead. Google Voice can handle your calls and messaging and if you've signed up for YouTube TV there's an app for that too. You'll also want to install the main YouTube app, if you haven't already.
Google Photos does a fine job of backing up all your photos and videos to the cloud, and will do so free of charge if you can handle your photos getting resized down to 16MP and your videos getting encoded down to 1080p. If you want to go even further, you can use Google Home to manage smart home devices and Google Pay to, well, pay for stuff—though it can't replace Apple Pay as the NFC payment method on your iPhone.
There is one gaping hole here and that's messaging (especially if you don't use Google Voice). Hangouts is an app we like a lot, although it's supposed to shutdown in mid-2020. You might have to revert to good old text messaging (or a more secure alternative like Signal).
Don't forget Google Duo so you can avoid FaceTime, Google Calendar for planning out your schedule, and Google Translate for keeping you out of trouble while abroad.
Finally, use Gboard as an iOS keyboard replacement (General then Keyboard in Settings), which gives you one-tap access to Google search as and when you need it. There's no Google Fit for iOS, but you can use Wear OS on iOS, and then Google Fit on a Wear OS smartwatch (and the web).
Apple doesn't let you change any of the iOS default apps—so web links always open in Safari, and so on—yet the Google apps can form a little walled garden of their own. Head into Settings from the Gmail app menu, then choose Default apps, and you can make sure maps links from Gmail open in Google Maps and web links from Gmail open in the Chrome browser. Similar settings can be found in Google Calendar and Google Photos.
Embrace the Google Assistant
If you want to go even further in the Google takeover of your Apple device, install the main Google app for iOS as well as the Google Assistant. The Google app first and foremost gives you access to Google search, but you also get the Discover feed available on Android (with recommends content from the web), and access to Google Lens image search.
Should you need to search with a voice command, you can tap the microphone icon in the search box. You can even use the "OK Google" hotword, but only when the Google app is open — tap the cog icon (top left) then Voice Search and turn on the 'OK Google' hotword toggle switch.
Dig into the notification settings for the Google app and it starts to get even smarter: You can enable alerts for sports games you're interested in, flights that are referenced in your Gmail account, weather updates, and traffic on your regular commute to work. It's another level of Google-ness on your iPhone.
The Google Assistant works along similar lines (they may well merge in the future) but goes even further. Tap the Add to Siri button on the opening screen to add an "OK Google" command to Siri—it's not quite as easy as using Google Assistant on Android, because you still have to say "hey Siri" first or press the side button, but it'll just about do.
Elsewhere in the Assistant app, you can tap the top left Assistant icon or just say "hey Google" to ask all the usual Assistant questions: What the weather's going to do, when Shakespeare was born, the flights you have coming up (mined from your Gmail account), and so on. Tap the keyboard icon to type your requests too.
The Google Assistant on iOS can control your smart home devices too, assuming you've added them in the Google Home app — no need to use HomeKit. Assign a bunch of smart lights to a bedroom, for example, and you can say "turn off the lights in the bedroom" to do just that.
Add your Google account to Apple's apps
If you'd rather use Apple's default apps for emails, contacts, and calendars, but have Google data underpinning them, that's also possible on iOS. From Settings, tap Passwords & Accounts, then Add Account. Choose Google from the list and sign in with your Google account credentials.
The final screen lets you choose which emails, contacts, calendars, and notes get synced across. In the case of notes, this adds a new Gmail folder in the Notes app, with any notes inside it then synced to your Gmail account with a Notes label. When you've made your syncing choices, tap Save.
All the data from Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts then shows up inside Mail, Calendar, and Contacts on your iPhone. Any edits you make get synced back to Google's servers and sent out to all the other devices you're logged into Google on, so you can use Apple's apps with your Google data more or less as normal.
There's another way to add some extra Google to your iPhone, and that's through widgets. Assuming you've already added a bunch of Google apps to your iPhone, swipe to the Today View, scroll down, and tap Edit under the widgets. Options like Chrome, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, and Google Directions appear.

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The Guy I Thought I Was Dating Ghosted Me And Here's What Happened
I once was ghosted by a guy I thought I was dating. Undoubtedly, I had no clue that our relationship was never a relationship to begin with. Awkward. Ultimately, the guy I thought I was dating ghosted me and here's what happened.
1. How We Met
On a random Thursday night, some friends and I went to the local bar. I met a guy, we hit it off immediately and so, we exchanged phone numbers. He took the liberty of offering to buy me a drink. Out of curiosity I accepted his offer.
He was funny, cute, and a GOT fan, I was sold. I was sure this meeting might blossom into something much more.
2. Our Growing Relationship
The following days were quite pleasant. We texted each other throughout the day, nothing too serious though. After our first initial meeting we met for breakfast the next day. We shared our aspirations, and hopes for the future.
Again, I was sold. I wasn't looking for a long-term relationship, but I was open to it. Our messages eventually became more flirtatious, and intimate. At this point, I never expected that he could've ghosted me.
3. Radio-silence
One night I was craving affection, and decided to send a quick, "hey, want to come over." I'm not sure what happened, but I never received a response. Triple-checking my phone to make sure it went through I waited, and still nothing.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt and waited until the following evening to send a follow-up text. Still nothing, what gives?
4. Acceptance
A week and a half went by and I slowly came to the realization that he ghosted me. It was unexpectedly sudden. We never had awkward debates, or silences during our get-together's, so why would he have ghosted me?
My mind was racing. Was I too pushy? Maybe, asking for too much? These thoughts were repeating like a broken record.
5. We Ran Into Each Other
Two weeks later, I headed down to a quaint little coffee shop early in the morning. As I finished my order, I turned around to see him heading right behind me in line. He greeted me as if he hadn't ghosted me. I played along at first, then blatantly asked him what his problem was.
Come to find out, he only viewed me as a friend and considered our casual meetings to be nothing more than that. As far as ghosting me, he was really busy.
6. Afterwards
Although he ghosted me, we still remain good friends. The lack of communication played a huge part. Downtown San Diego helped me learn a lot about myself, dating, and the fact that my love life is almost non-existent. Being ghosted totally sucks.
Advice I'd give to myself: keep being you. If someone doesn't like you in a romantic way, don't get sad about it. Just keep living life.


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'A great weekend' were the words of Billy Sharp as he reflected on United's promotion back to the Premier League.
The skipper says the events over a memorable weekend will prove to be unforgettable in years to come.
He remarked: "It was a great weekend, it seems strange seeing the stadium empty now, but the emotions and scenes from Saturday onwards has been brilliant to see.
"It was hard having won our game on Saturday, but we couldn't celebrate too hard, despite knowing we'd got the job done.
"It's just nice we had that opportunity to do what we did and with Leeds only getting a draw against Villa it saw our promotion back to the Premier League confirmed.
"We were always going to get together to watch the Leeds game and it was nice that staff from the club were there to celebrate with us."
Sharp added: "John Egan is telling me he is a songwriter now! But it's gone down well with the boys and it's a big reason to why we've succeeded this season.
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Kaushal Yuva Samwaad is being organized across all Skill India training centres, namely, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKK), Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), Polytechnics, Institutes under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), Jan Shikshan Sansthans, DDU-GKY Centres and other fee-based training centres across the country. As per the mandate, each training centre must invite a minimum of 20 candidates to participate in the dialogue. Post the dialogue, the recommendations from the Kaushal Yuva Samwaad are to be submitted to the Ministry via a portal https://www.nsdcindia.org/kys/
Announcing the launch of Kaushal Yuva Samwaad, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship said, "Over the last 5 years, the Government has been able to successfully create the foundation for skill development in the country. We have more than one crore youth joining the mission annually. It is equally imperative for us to understand the perspective of our youth who are our biggest target group. Kaushal Yuva Samvaad will be the platform to discuss potential issues and solutions from the candidates' perspective and will give us the perspective to match aspirations of the youth with the offerings of Skill India."
Selected candidates will be invited to participate in an open dialogue with the Ministers of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship on July 15, 2019 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. Kaushal Yuva Samwaad aims to create a dialogue between the youth and the Ministry. It is intended to identify and rectify the gaps so that all skill development programs are aligned to the current demands and help in creating a skilled workforce for the future.
To raise awareness about the importance of investing in youth skills development, the United Nations General Assembly commemorates July 15th every year, as World Youth Skills Day (WYSD). This UN designated day seeks to generate greater awareness of and discussion on the importance of technical, vocational education, and training and development of marketable skills relevant to both local and global economies.
The National Skill Development Mission (Skill India Mission), launched on July 15, 2015 under the esteemed guidance of Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has been steadily making progress. Nearly One Crore youth are being presently imparted skills training annually under various programs of the Government through Skill India Mission. The mission also envisages convergence, coordination and harmonization of the fragmented skilling efforts of various Ministries in Government of India and other key stakeholders like State Government, Industry, Training ecosystem etc. through the instruments of Common norms, implementation of National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), data integrations through the Skill India Portal and quality assurance through the SMART (Skill Management and Accreditation of Training Centre) portal. India is a young nation and a skilled workforce will be able to cater to not only the market demand within the country but also the global market.


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Dates Announced for 10th Annual CE Week
The consumer technology community's mid-summer tech trade show, CE Week, has its official date. NAPCO Media, the company behind the event (and this here website), announced that CE Week 2016 will return to the Metropolitan Pavilion and Altman Buildings in New York City from June 21-23.
Entering its tenth year, CE Week serves as the summer tech industry event where companies can get their fall product lineups unveiled to the tech community. Last year's event attracted more than 3,000 qualified market influencers, including trade affiliates, buyers, tech influencers, bloggers, investors, educators, and more.
And on top of the product unveils, CE Week packs a busy events schedule with 200 exhibits, networking events, conference sessions, and press conferences. The show creates "an open tent for exhibitors and speakers to showcase in a variety of engaging formats," NAPCO Media explained in a statement.
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Outside and Inside Killer BeesBook - 2004
Whether it's fear or fascination, most people have strong feelings about bees. While everyone knows that honeybees are nature's helpers, who doesn't get goose bumps at the thought of being attacked by "killer bees"? How can a person tell if the honeybee he or she encounters is a European honeybee or a more aggressive killer bee? And what is being done to stop the spread of killer bee colonies? This newest addition to Sandra Markle's award-winning Outside and Inside series combines riveting, close-up photos with clear explanations, helping young readers to recognize and understand the impact of killer bees.
- Kids love insects, especially ones as frightening and fascinating as killer bees.
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The Ambedkar-Congress Relationship
Mani Shankar Aiyar
The Sangh Parivar passionately cherishes our Hindu heritage as the foundation of India's nationhood. Ambedkar, on the other hand, was of the firm conviction that it was precisely that heritage which was the ruin of the nation.
"You must tell the Hindus," he said, "that what is wrong with them is their religion." Caste divisions and the caste hierarchy were woven into the warp and woof of the Hindu way of life. In consequence, "the ideal Hindu must be like a rat living in his own hole". What is more, "Hindus observe caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed" but precisely because "they are deeply religious." He, therefore, had "no hesitation in saying that such a religion must be destroyed". (These quotations are from his most celebrated tract, Annihilation of Caste).
He loathed Hindutva and all it stood for. He more seriously engaged with Gandhi. The two profoundly disagreed. Where Gandhi held that the reform of Hindu society was both possible and necessary, Ambedkar, quoting chapter and verse from the Hindu shastras, held that such reform was not feasible as it was the Hindu religion that had "inculcated this notion of caste."
He patiently explained: "Reformers working for the removal of Untouchability, including Mahatma Gandhi, do not seem to realize that the acts of people are merely the result of their beliefs, inculcated in their minds by the shastras, and that people will not change their conduct until they cease to believe in the sanctity of the shastras on which their conduct is founded." Therefore, concluded Ambedkar, "You must not only discard the shastras, you must deny their authority".
Holding the diametrically contrary view that "caste has nothing to do with religion," Gandhi, in his response to Annihilation of Caste, asserted that caste "is harmful both to spiritual and national growth". But while they disagreed fundamentally on whether Hindu society could or could not be reformed, and whether caste was indeed integral to Hindu religious conviction, they were also similar in many ways. Most importantly, both believed profoundly in the importance of religion and spirituality. They shared none of the agnosticism of Nehru. Yet, if there was a spiritual tradition that Nehru found appealing, it was the same as Ambedkar's: Buddhism.
To therefore limit the Ambedkar-Gandhi, or, more broadly, the Ambedkar-Congress relationship, to a simple binary of mutual dislike is to miss the democratic dialectic that enabled us to become a democracy at the dawn of Independence and to sustain that democracy over seven decades of fierce political disputation. Where, in other countries, charismatic leaders single-handedly led unitary independence movements and one-party rule on the morrow of victory became the norm, often in the shape of vicious dictatorships, it was only because our freedom movement saw endless disagreement between those otherwise united on the goal of national liberation from the colonial yoke that we have survived as the Republic of Argumentative Indians.
Not only Gandhi-Ambedkar, throughout his life as India's unchallenged leader, Gandhi was entangled in deep public and well-publicized controversies with his closest associates - Nehru; Patel; Rajaji; Subhas Chandra Bose, to name just a very few. It is, therefore, no surprise that Gandhi should have insisted on the inclusion of Babasaheb Ambedkar in Nehru's first cabinet or Nehru's unequivocal acceptance of the suggestion. Both agreed that despite Ambedkar's impassioned anti-Congressism that Ambedkar had never sought to hide, it was he who was best qualified to so draft the Constitution as to promote a thoroughgoing social revolution by legislation without resort to violence. And when the exercise was over, Ambedkar paid generous tribute to the constructive cooperation he had received from dyed-in-the-wool Congressmen with whom he had worked in committee and the Constituent Assembly, successfully promoting to majority opinion, and often unanimous endorsement, his initially minority views.
The first test of the efficaciousness of the new Ambedkar-drafted Constitution for root-and-branch social reform came with the Hindu Code Bill, tabled in 1951 but under preparation ever since Ambedkar became Law Minister in 1947. For Ambedkar, not the Constitution but this legislation was the touchstone for determining whether the law could bring justice to the oppressed millions. The immediate and vocal opposition to the proposed legislation, both within and outside the House, persuaded Ambedkar that reforming Hinduism by law was a chimera. The Hindu would not change.
Nothing proved this more than the 79 meetings held by the RSS in a single year, 1949, "where" to quote Ramachandra Guha, "effigies of Nehru and Ambedkar were burnt, and where the new bill was denounced as an attack on Hindu culture and tradition". Guha adds that "there were also some respectable opponents of the new Code, who included Rajendra Prasad" and although "in 1950 and 1951 several attempts were made to get the Bill passed...the opposition was so intense that it had to be dropped." Ambedkar resigned "in disgust" saying Nehru lacked the "earnestness and determination" to push the Bill through. This parting of ways between Ambedkar and Nehru is generally regarded as the definitive proof that Ambedkar and Nehru were not on the same page, that if the Ambedkar-Gandhi differences are well-documented, the much less-documented Ambedkar-Nehru differences are no less decisive.
This, however, is not true. Nehru, in 1950-51, was faced with a virtually British-nominated assembly to which elections of a sort had been held, but on extremely limited franchise hedged in by numerous segmentations. It had a large feudal, conservative and even reactionary component, quite unprepared for radical change, especially when it came to their religion-based customs and usages. Ambedkar decided that this cross-section was representative of the Hindus and, therefore, incapable of being brought to their senses. Nehru, on the other hand, recognizing realistically and pragmatically his lack of influence as a religious skeptic on those who passionately upheld hallowed tradition, however cruel and unjust, believed his voice would count for much more in a legislature elected on the basis of full adult franchise, untrammeled by no social restrictions other than reservations for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, which he welcomed.
Nehru was right. In the first truly democratic elections held in India in 1952, a few months after Ambedkar walked out of Nehru's cabinet, Nehru so routed the Hindu Mahasabha, the newly-formed Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the political forces representing the RSS, that he was able to also overcome the large and influential conservative element among Congress MPs. Splitting the original singular Hindu Code Bill into five sets of legislation, by 1956 he pushed through the most thoroughgoing revolution in Hindu personal law.
Meanwhile, Ambedkar, with an estimated four lakh of his followers. quit the Hindu fold and became votaries of a new school of Buddhism that Ambedkar described as Navayana (to distinguish his new school of Buddhist thought from both the Mahayana and the Hinayana and the two other schools of Buddhist theology). He passed away a few months later.
Nehru, a religious skeptic unlike Ambedkar, was, however, like Ambedkar, much repelled by much of contemporary Hindu practice and much attracted to the philosophy of the Buddha. He gave eloquent expression to this in his monumental work, The Discovery of India, written while in incarceration in Ahmednagar Fort jail, and published in 1946 on the eve of Independence.
He describes Buddhism as a "rational ethical doctrine" and evokes the Buddha's voice urging us "not to run away from the struggle but, calm-eyed, to face it, and to see in life ever greater opportunities for growth and advancement." Nehru adds, "a person who has impressed himself on the thought of mankind as the Buddha has, must have been a wonderful man." Praising the Buddha for having "had the courage to attack popular religion, superstition, ceremonial, and priestcraft", Nehru was unconsciously aligning himself with Ambedkar whose life was a similar saga against all these evils. The Buddha's "appeal was to logic, reason and experience; his emphasis was on ethics". Ambedkar, I believe, would have agreed. Perhaps he would also have agreed with Nehru that by "Buddhism, not adapting itself to caste, and more independent in thought and outlook, (it) ultimately passes away from India". Thus, Nehru implicitly endorses Ambedkar's view that Hinduism and castelessness could not co-exist.
Of enduring academic and practical interest is Nehru in a footnote on the same page, 125, quoting Gandhi as saying "quite recently": "The caste system, as we know, is an anachronism. It must go if both Hinduism and India are to live and grow from day to day."
The Hegelian dialectic holds that the clash of "thesis" and "anti-thesis" eventually resolves itself in "synthesis". That is what appears, in the light of an objective reading of the evolution of Gandhi's thinking, to have happened at the end of Gandhi's epic ideological battles with Ambedkar, battles in which Nehru was always closer to Ambedkar than to his own mentor, Gandhi. This is what justifies the Congress adopting Ambedkar as a national icon, "a scholar of comparative religions...far more systematic than Gandhi, far more thorough than Nehru as an amateur historian of India, far more imaginative and conflicted than the talented Tagores." (Ananya Vajpeyi, Righteous Republic, Harvard, 2012, p. 209)
What is bewildering is Modi and his cohort attempting to do the same. There never was, and never can be, any synthesis between Hindutva, the avowed philosophy of the Sangh Parivar, and the sophisticated, subtle thought processes of Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar who detested the traditions they celebrate and the socio-political agenda of a Hindu Rashtra that they so eulogise. Modi's utterances are no more than vulgar vote-bank politics.
(Mani Shankar Aiyar is former Congress MP, Rajya Sabha.)


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