![]() ![]() In the upper left corner is the pure land, and I believe the figure is Amitabha Buddha. So in a pictorial way, what we’re seeing here is that, encircled by the Lord of Death and the four tragedies of birth, old age, sickness and death, we go through this system of the 12 links, taking one rebirth after another in the six realms, sometimes going up, sometimes going down, depending upon ignorance, anger and attachment. ![]() Wheel of Life (Sanskrit: The bhavacakra Tibetan: srid pa’i ‘khor lo). The pig represents ignorance, and what’s coming from it is attachment and anger- attachment being the bird or the chicken, and anger being the snake. In the very center, you have a pig, and in its mouth, it’s holding a chicken and a snake. This shows that some beings are going to lower realms and some beings are being reborn in upper realms. And then the ring inside of that, you have some beings going down and some beings coming up. The next rim in, you’ll see it’s divided into six sections. The outermost rim is a pictorial representation of the 12 links, and I’ll get into explaining all of those next time. ![]() So it shows we’re really caught in this cyclic existence. The four limbs are birth, sickness, old age and death. Yama’s four limbs and fangs hold a wheel, which represents samsara, the five aggregates of body and mind, this thing of taking one rebirth after the next. This big demon-like figure that we see here is the Lord of Death, Yama. If you see that before going into the prayer room, it gives you some energy to concentrate when you’re doing the prayers. This drawing is really explaining samsara or cyclic existence-death, rebirth, death, rebirth, and all the confusion in the middle. This drawing is called the Wheel of Life, and it often appears on the doors to the prayer rooms in the Tibetan monastery. ![]()
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![]() Version 3.0 was in development for Windows, Linux and macOS since June 2016 and released in February 2018. As of 2016 VLC is the third in the overall download count, and there have been more than 3 billion downloads. Support for Windows RT, Windows Phone and Xbox One were added later. The version for the Windows Store was released on March 13, 2014. Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012. In July 2013 the VLC application could be resubmitted to the iOS App Store under the MPL-2.0. Subsequently, in October 2011 the VLC authors began to relicense the engine parts of VLC from the GPL-2.0-or-later to the LGPL-2.1-or-later to achieve better license compatibility, for instance with the Apple App Store. In January 2011, after VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont's complaint to Apple about the licensing conflict between the VLC's GPLv2 and the App store's policies, the VLC had been withdrawn from the Apple App Store by Apple. In September 2010, a company named "Applidium" developed a VLC port for iOS under GPLv2 with the endorsement of the VLC project, which was accepted by Apple for their App Store. Work began on VLC for Android in 2010 and it has been available for Android devices on the Google Play store since 2011. After 13 years of development, version 1.0.0 of VLC media player was released on July 7, 2009. In 2007 the VLC project decided, for license compatibility reasons, not to upgrade to the just-released GPLv3. The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2005, illustrated by Richard Øiestad. The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by École Centrale's Networking Students' Association. The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client/server infrastructure. The functionality of the server-program, VideoLan Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated. Rewritten from scratch in 1998, it was released under GNU General Public License on February 1, 2001, with authorization from the headmaster of the École Centrale Paris. Originally developed by students at the École Centrale Paris, it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization. It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos from satellite dishes across a campus network. Since VLC is no longer merely a client, that initialism no longer applies. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client" when VLC was a client of the VideoLAN project. 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VLC is also available on digital distribution platforms such as Apple's App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS. VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. GPL-2.0-or-later with some libraries under LGPL-2.1-or-later VLC for iOS (MPLv2.0) Windows, ReactOS, macOS, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, Xbox system software GUI: C++ (with Qt), Objective-C (with Cocoa), Swift, Java ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Keisuke faces a dilemma: which version of Saki will he be with? The choice is yours as the player. Keisuke loves his tender, simple little sister. When she transforms in the moonlight, she makes her seduction! 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Tsukikawa Keisuke had a wet dream about his little sister. Marshmallow, Imouto, Succubus (OVA, 2016) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the details differ greatly, this general sequence applies to all games. This leads to the English phrase "count and capture" sometimes used to describe the gameplay. The game's object is to plant the most seeds in the bank. A turn consists of removing all seeds from a pit, "sowing" the seeds (placing one in each of the following pits in sequence), and capturing based on the state of the board. A player may count their stones to plot the game. Players begin by placing a certain number of seeds, prescribed for the particular game, in each of the pits on the game board. Most mancala games share a common general gameplay. The word mancala ( Arabic: مِنْقَلَة, romanized: minqalah) is a tool noun derived from an Arabic root naqala ( ن-ق-ل) meaning "to move". This distribution has been linked to migration routes, which may go back several hundred years. Recent studies of mancala rules have given insight into the distribution of mancala. Archeologists may have found evidence of the game Mancala played in Nashville, Tennessee at the Hermitage Plantation. The game was played by enslaved Africans to foster community and develop social skills. The game was brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Historians may have found evidence of Mancala in slave communities of the Americas. It is played to this day in Cape Verdean communities in New England. It is played on the Islands and was brought to the United States by Cape Verdean immigrants. In Cape Verde, mancala is known as "ouril". In the United States a traditional mancala game called Warra was still played in Louisiana in the early 20th century, and a commercial version called Kalah became popular in the 1940s. In western Europe, it never caught on but was documented by Oxford University orientalist Thomas Hyde. Two mancala tables from the early 18th century are to be found in Weikersheim Castle in southern Germany. In Estonia, it was once very popular (see " Bohnenspiel"), and likewise in Bosnia (where it is called Ban-Ban and still played today), Serbia, and Greece ("Mandoli", Cyclades). ![]() The games have also existed in Eastern Europe. The game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Geʽez text Mysteries of Heaven and Earth, where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Geʽez to refer to both Gebet'a (mancala) and Sant'araz (modern sent'erazh, Ethiopian chess). ![]() Among other early evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite areas in Matara (in Eritrea) and Yeha (in Ethiopia), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th centuries AD. Evidence of the game has also been uncovered in Kenya, as well as Israel in the city of Gedera in an excavated Roman bathhouse where pottery boards and rock cuts were unearthed dating back to between the 2nd and 3rd century AD. The oldest discovered Mancala boards are in 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan in the floor of a Neolithic dwelling as early as ~5,870 BC. mancala) boards in the base of an Aksumite stele, Axum, Ethiopia A 10th century ivory board from Muslim Spain History Pit marks presumed to be ancient Gebeta (i.e. It is among the oldest known games to still be widely played today. Versions of the game date back past the 3rd century and evidence suggests the game existed in Ancient Egypt. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces. Mancala ( Arabic: منقلة manqalah) refers to a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. 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![]() I don’t know if we would have been prepared if we hadn’t grown up singing in the church. When we got to the studio and they presented us with “ Pinball Number Count”, we looked at each other: “Are you kidding?” That song was really difficult! Gospel, jazz - we had to sing it in parts. When I was a boy in the ’70s, I watched Sesame Street every day, twice a day. The first time my dad was on Sesame Street, I was 3 and very confused on set when Big Bird took off his head. John Carter Cash, Producer Son of Johnny Cash ![]() Old people, young, white, black - everybody was grooving. Stevie Wonder came on in 1973 and did “ Superstition”. Sesame Street was a breakthrough in designing what we call a ‘co-viewing experience’: Children learn best when adults are co-engaged - and celebrities helped bring in those adults. Pete Seeger was so fascinated that he stopped singing, gazed up and said, “I’m working with Big Bird! I can’t believe it.” Big Bird can be a distraction. 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(Raposo died in 1989.)Ĭhristopher Cerf, editor-in-chief of books, records, and toys division?, Children’s Television Workshop (1970-1979) c omposer-songwriter (1973-1999) “ Prince was the only person besides Raposo who could make simple melodies so universal,” says Questlove, who wrote a song for Pharrell Williams’ appearance in 2016. Led by founding musical director Joe Raposo, Sesame Street introduced new standards to the American songbook, including its theme, “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?” the title song for the segment One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others) Kermit the Frog’s signature ballad “Bein’ Green” and Muppet Ernie’s buoyant ditty “Rubber Duckie,” a 1970 Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit. Along with a neighborly cast of adults and Muppets - puppets created by a young visionary named Jim Henson - music was core to the show’s identity, producing more than 2000 original songs and more than 140 LPs over the years. ![]() From its November 1969 debut, Sesame Street sought to reflect the sensibilities of broader American culture: The show’s hour-long premiere included a six-minute Simon & Garfunkel-esque tribute to milk’s suppliers called “ Hey Cow” and a psych-jazz composition featuring the voice of Grace Slick, who’d already notched two Billboard 200 Top 10s with Jefferson Airplane, counting from one to 10. Public reaction to these changes was a sign of just how much Sesame Street is revered by both boomers and millennials, but the show has always evolved with the times. That wasn’t exactly true - and Workshop CEO Jeff Dunn quickly apologized for the “misunderstandings” in a statement, saying the three were still “a key part of the Sesame family.” (Season 47 airs on HBO in January special guests will include James Corden, Sia, Jason Derulo, Tori Ke lly and Little Big Town.) And in July, another controversy arose when veteran cast member Bob McGrath told a fan-convention audience that he, Gordon and Luis (respectively, Roscoe Orman and Emilio Delgado) were “graciously let go” from the show. (New episodes premiere on the pay-cable channel and then, after a nine-month window, re-air on PBS.) The partnership’s symbolic gentrification initially caused an online hullabaloo: A public television series founded expressly to teach inner-city preschoolers the ABCs would now premiere on premium cable. ![]() This month, Sesame Street’s 46th season rolls out on PBS - its first since Sesame Workshop, the show’s educational production nonprofit, announced a five-year deal with HBO. ![]() ![]() You can also use the embed above if you'd like to listen to the the Q4 2021 GME earnings call. Gamestop is a retailer that specializes in selling video games, game consoles, and other related hardware and software.Gamestop also offers a customer loyalty program called Powerup Rewards. They need to call Store Customer Service and ask the. (Example, if Dads name is on the card but you use it, you need Dad with valid ID with you.) 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