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There may be benefits that have not yet been proven through research.
Glycine may help with ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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Re: sum question
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- Subject: [mg91242] Re: sum question
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:06:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Kopp, Philip F wrote: > Hi, I am trying to work with a rather large sum(>200 terms) in Mathematica , but the program displays some odd behavior. > When I multiply each term in the sum by 1, I get 1 for the answer. When I change 1 to 1.0, I get an incredibly large number for the answer. > There seems to be some problem with using decimal numbers in this large sum. I tried Rationalize[1.0], and it works. What I am really trying to do is multiply each term by a different number(all less than one) that I calculated in another program. These numbers are in decimal form, so I run into the same problem. When I try rationalize here, it doen't fix the problem. Any other suggestions? > I think you will have to post some actual code in order to obtain a useful reply. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


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News of the gruesome deaths drew a stern reaction from Iraq's prominent Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who criticised the stoning of the young men as 'an act of terrorism.'
It's not the religion that I'm fed up with, but the act committed rather.
Colpy is unable to grasp the concept that the religion and the society are not one and the same. It really does confuse him when one brings up Kosovo, Albania or Kazakhstan because it doesn't seem to fit with his ideology.
The act springs from the religion, pure and simple.
ISLAM means submission, and it brooks no violation......nor any variation.
That's like saying Christianity doesn't have a range of members from fundies to idealists. Sorry, but there's a wide range of beliefs in Islamists.
NTM that not all of them are particularly fond of Sharia either.
You are completely and utterly wrong but you are far to stupid to be educated on the matter. As I have said before, Kosovo would not be what it is today if you were right nor would Turkey for that matter.
Once again...
When was the last time a Baptist (even a hard-core whacko fundamentalist Baptist from Westboro) stoned a group of boys to death....or flew an airplane into a building.......or hanged a homosexual...or threw acid in the face of a schoolgirl.......or butchered their own daughters for having a boyfriend.......or blew themselves up in a public area for no discernable reason......or rioted and killed over the burning of a bible.....or rioted and killed over a cartoon.......or condemned an author to death over his writing.........or tried to murder a cartoonist........or entered a holy building with bombs and guns and shot and killed the congregation.......or indulged in FGM........or kidnapped a girl of another religion and forced her into marriage and conversion....or stoned to death a rape victim.......or executed someone for witchcraft...........or or or
Well, you get the idea.
Yes, because in a truly secular country, we don't take marching orders from religious leaders. The government makes laws that make practices such as those you mentioned unlawful. They'll go to jail here.
It is society. Uganda, over 85% of whom are Christian, a Christian country. They were set to pass a bill that would make homosexuality a crime worthy of the death penalty until the global condemnation. And not just the law, in society at large newspapers published pictures of known homosexuals with captions calling for their death. Homosexuals have been attacked and murdered by bigots, just like your news story from Iraq.
I don't know about Baptists, but ......
Christian warrior charged with firebombing Oregon mosque*|*Raw Replay
Christian Terrorists Leave IED Outside Abortion Clinic
Christian Terror and Aggression in India
Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims...Except the 99.6% that Aren't | loonwatch.com
Christian extremist allegedly behind Oslo shootings | GlobalPost
The point being is that not all Moslems are fundies just as not all Christians are idealists. Not all Moslems follow Sharia. If you want to call them bad Moslems, that's fine but that does not change the fact that a lot of them are peaceful and tolerant.
Sorry....complete FAIL.
The guy in Oregon has not been convicted, no one was hurt, and it was a property crime.
Nobody convicted in Texas, no one was hurt, and it was a property crime. (although this is the closest you come, there have been acts of violence by anti-abortion activists.......to prevent what they see as murder)
Terror and aggression in India???? From an obviously incredibly anti-Christian source???? Which lists mere suspicion of one murder, and accusations of child molestation by Christian perverts?? Really???
Breivik denied his Christianity in his lunatic "manifesto". Right from the horse's mouth.
Oh, here is the last TWO DAYS of Islamic actions..
2012.03.09 ( Yala, Thailand ) - Muslim 'rebels' kidnap two local soldiers from their post, tie them up and then execute them. 2012.03.08 ( Ashaka, Nigeria ) - Civilians are among seven dead when Boko Haram cadres attack two banks and a police station. 2012.03.08 ( Sokoto, Nigeria ) - Fundamentalists murder two European engineers in captivity. 2012.03.07 ( Baghdad, Iraq ) - Two young women are murdered on suspicion of being lesbians. 2012.03.07 ( Karachi, Pakistan ) - An Ahmadi is gunned down in a targeted attack at a market. 2012.03.07 ( Peshawar, Pakistan ) - A Taliban bomb planted in a sewer takes out a 9-year-old child.
Besides the Emo killings.....


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Atlanta, GA -- The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), has filed suit against the U.S. Navy over its plans to build a $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR) 50 miles east of the Jacksonville, Florida coast. The plans involve the construction of a 500 square nautical mile range and the operation of over 400 Navy war game exercises every year.
The USWTR has the potential to affect millions of marine animals including whales, dolphins, sea turtles and manatees, and the planned site lies adjacent to the only known calving grounds of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
AWI is being represented by the non-profit public interest law firm Earthjustice in the suit which includes 12 other groups. The suit alleges the Navy and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which has authorized the project, did not properly analyze the environmental impacts of operating the range before deciding to construct it. The Navy acknowledges that more work is needed to assess the environmental impacts but it chose to proceed nevertheless.
"It is shocking that despite the concerns expressed by scientists, conservation and animal welfare groups, fishermen and the states of Georgia and Florida, the Navy decided to go ahead with the project without comprehensive impact assessments," said Cathy Liss, President of AWI. "Scientists tell us that if a single female right whale is struck and killed, the species could go extinct. Extreme precaution is the only way to proceed when faced with such risks" she added.
The range will include the laying of cables on the sea bed to track the 470 war games exercises that will take place each year. Each exercise will include up to three Navy vessels, and two aircraft deploying exercise torpedoes, parachutes and sonobuoys. Debris from the exercises will be abandoned, posing entanglement and other hazards to marine animals. Active sonar will be used during the exercises and has been proven to harm and kill wildlife by disturbing essential behaviors such as nursing, feeding and breeding, causing physical injury and even causing animals to strand and die. Navy vessels - exempt from speed restrictions imposed on other vessels to avoid right whale collisions - will expose animals to the risk of being struck and maimed or killed.
"The number and severity of threats this range poses to the marine life of the lower Eastern Seaboard is incredible," said Susan Millward, Executive Director of AWI and marine animal program manager. "The Navy has an obligation to ensure its actions do not threaten the environment and by allowing the Navy to proceed, NMFS is betraying the public's trust in it to protect these animals."
The challenge was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia by the Animal Welfare Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, The Humane Society of the United States, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for a Sustainable Coast, Florida Wildlife Federation, North Carolina Wildlife Federation, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Ocean Mammal Institute, Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats and Cetacean Society International. The groups are represented by attorneys from Southern Environmental Law Center, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice and Natural Resources Defense Council.


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Reham you asked me the following:
> Thanks for your help....I tried your code and it works fine
> but I need to ask you ....If I made macros in the VBA
> and I would like to assign it to a menu in word automatically and make
> the
> process of setup to be run automatically instead of importng it
> from(file....import macro)..so all the macro will be in the default
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> Is it possible to do it?
> Thank you once again
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My solution:
For installing you could either use the autorun commands but you can also
create a new normal template which also contains the toolbar and the macro
For Excel there are a few autorun events, for word I don't know which are
available but they could be the same also.
User opens the workbook containing the procedure
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User installs the add-in that contains the procedure, or the Installed property
of the add-in is set to True.
User removes the add-in that contains the procedure or the Installed property
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You could use the AutoOpen like this for instance:
Sub Auto_Open()
cmdbarName = "Enter the commandbar name here..."
' The next line s check if the commandbar already exists else it is created
For i = 1 To CommandBar.Count
If CommandBar.Name = cmdbarName Then
Exit For
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Next i
End Sub
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Nokia 16161 display light solution with help of diagram easy solution. Make sure lcd is ok and lcd strip not damage, Then check points on motherboard with multimeter and apply jumpers like diagram below diagram.
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While trying to install pagekite on OS X Snow Leopard using the following command:
$ pagekite.py --signup
I got:
-bash: $: command not found
I am a noob with the terminal but after reading a bit I understand that it is a problem with my PATH
echo $PATH
Can anybody spot the problem? If you ask me -without knowing a thing about it- I suspect the MacGPG2 (MacGnuPrivcacyGuard2) is out of place?
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December 21 is approaching--and with that, speculation over what will happen to the world is going into overdrive. That date is when the Mayan calendar ends, according to some, though others have begun to question that interpretation.
In any case, December 21 has become shorthand for "apocalyptic end of the world scenarios."
People around the world have reacted to the impending date of doom with seriousness. So here are 5 hysterical reactions to the Mayan calendar ending--"hysterical" in both senses of the word.
1. Luxurious Bunkers
King-sized beds, a television and a library--what more could you ask for? Those amenities are included in villas in Vals, Switzerland, as the New York Daily News points out, and would be a good spot to hole up until life comes back. Another luxurious bunker for riding out the end of the world is located in the Adirondacks, in New York. The Daily News notes that the "Adirondack Missile Silo" is beneath a log cabin in the mountains. "The underground former missile silo boasts a 2,000 pound steel blast door, a re-furbished multi-storey living space and enormously thick concrete walls and a recently fitted bathroom, should things get a little hairy there is even an escape hatch. The bunker was chosen by The Daily Mail as one of the best bunkers for surviving doomsday," the Daily News writes.
2. Fretting About Unrelated Asteroids
The International Business Times wants to assure you that "there is no reason to be alarmed" at a 3-mile long asteroid that recently came near Planet Earth. But its headline screams: "Mayan Calendar End of the World? 8 Things to Know About 3-Mile-Long Asteroid 4179 Toutatis."
Never mind the fact that "the Mayan calendar end of the world 2012 predictions does not mention asteroid Toutatis," as the publication itself points out. It just wants you to know that you should be thinking about how an asteroid is coming close to the Earth at the same time that the world is supposed to end.
3. NASA Responds
The nation's government agency responsible for all things space felt the need to clarify to everyone that the world isn't really going to end on December 21, 2012. NBC affiliate WPTV reports that "earlier this month, NASA posted a list of frequently asked questions about why the world won't end in 2012, like some believe the Mayans calendar indicates. The post explained that Earth has been getting along fine for the last 4 billion years and there is no threat to our planet this year."
NASA also takes a couple of shots at those who claim that life-altering scientific events are predicted to happen when the Mayan calendar ends. "For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012," the government agency said in a blog post.
4. Boxing Match Predicts the World Ending?
The International Business Times has another doozy: boxing watchers were relieved that former Welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao lost his match last Saturday. The reason? Some believe that whenever Pacquiao wins, a catastrophic event happens. "It is believed that Pacquiao's wins are associated of the '13th day jinx', wherein unfortunate events happen 13 days after his victory. In the Philippines where the eight-division world boxer resides, his triumphs are associated with some of the greatest accidents in the country," the publication explains.
His boxing match occurred on December 8, 2012--13 days before December 21, when the Mayan calendar ends, according to some. But now that he lost, boxing fans who believe in this theory have no reason to worry.
5. Obama Victory Means No End of the World
A New Jersey councilman had some reassuring words for his constituents: the world is not going to end because Barack Obama won reelection. Edison Town Councilman Sudhanshu Prasad said those words at the end of a recent work day.
"Prasad, a Democrat, said that he wanted to make sure that nobody did anything rash with the end of the world allegedly coming up. He said that scholars who deciphered ancient Mayan calendars neglected to see the asterisk noting that if President Obama won re-election, the world wouldn't end," reports NJ.com. (Of course, there is no asterisk in reality, but who's paying attention?)
Prasad added: "So I just want everyone to understand that the news is out, that 12/21/12 is not valid anymore."


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Parks and Recreation is getting back into the business of, well, parks and recreation.
On Thursday's episode, the infamous Lot 48, which was once the pit that Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) had been so desperate to turn into a park, will return. But it's not Leslie leading the charge this time: April (Aubrey Plaza) wants to turn it into a dog park!
Parks and Recreation Exclusive: Megan Mullally returning as Tammy 2!
The lot's return, however, won't be the only pain in Leslie's side as she begins to plan for her wedding to Ben (Adam Scott). To find out what a Leslie Knope wedding would look like, TVGuide.com turned to executive producer Mike Schur, who also dished on Joe Biden's appearance, Tom's (Aziz Ansari) new business venture and Andy's (Chris Pratt) future as a police officer. Check it out:
What does a Knope wedding look like?
Mike Schur: The idea that we have had in our heads about the character from the beginning — and certainly her wedding planning would be no different — is that it's not just about her. She's a very community-oriented person and she would want her wedding to symbolize not just her, but everyone she cares about. I'm not going to get into when it's going to happen or what the circumstances are, but the basic idea that we are thinking about is that it would be something that she would want to have be as just a celebration of the town.
What can you tell us about her bachelorette party?
Schur: Well, there is a bachelor/bachelorette party episode that will air in January and it's hard to discuss it without giving something away, but she cares about two things in her life, basically, which is her job and her friends, and there are moments when sometimes it's hard to separate those two parts of her life. I think the bachelorette party would count as one of those times. In order to try to make it Leslie-specific, they do hire a Leslie-specific male stripper, but it's a family show and nothing untoward happens at the bachelorette party that would make people afraid to watch it.
How did the Joe Biden appearance come about? And did the Vice President already know about Leslie Knope's big crush?
Schur: Yes. They were aware of it and their office had let us know that they thought it was really funny. So, when we wanted to shoot in D.C., we felt like, well, in addition to trying to get some U.S. Senators and fancy people to be in the premiere, we ought to try to shoot something with Biden, if we possibly could, that we could air later in the year after the election is over. It came together really easily. It was, obviously, subject to his incredibly busy schedule, being the second most important man on the face of the earth. We wrote the script and sent it to him and they thought it was great and we went and shot it. He was a fan of the show and the people who work in his office are big fans of the show and needless to say they thought it was amusing that there was a TV character, played by a young, attractive, blond-haired lady who had an almost oppressive crush on Joe Biden. I think that really appealed to them, for obvious reasons.
Joe Biden makes Leslie Knope's dreams come true on Parks and Recreation
Was this something that Leslie needed to do before she got married, to meet Joe Biden?
Schur: Well, I think that's part of the fun of it. It's Ben's engagement present to her. That is the way that it's brought up. He's a good boyfriend and a fiancé and knows exactly how important it is to her to meet [Biden] someday and so he had the opportunity and he made it happen. So maybe you could think of it as a character rite of passage or something. She needs to get it off her plate.
Lot 48 is finally coming back!
Schur: Yes. That's a big plot development that is starting [Thursday]. There's a renewed interest in the lot behind Ann's (Rashida Jones) house. The episode that airs this week is about April having another idea for what to do with the lot and trying to blow past Leslie and disregard her years of work. The two of them have a little bit of a battle over the lot and then, there's some variables and wild cards thrown in for good measure, but it does kick off an arc where the idea of how to transform that empty lot into something that the community can use begins anew.
Will this be the season-long arc similar to the Harvest Festival or Leslie's Election — or the lot in Season 1?
Schur: Yeah. It is for a while. It's not going to be for the rest of the season by any stretch, but there's a chunk of episodes between this week and the end of January or early February that are about this project. They have an enemy that they're racing, a common enemy, which is also revealed on Thursday. It's like a mini arc, but it is an arc, where they're trying to figure out whether they can capitalize on this thing that kicked off the whole series.
So April is really stepping up in the Parks Department?
Schur: Yeah. Well, at the very least, I think the point is that she went to D.C. and she had some nice experiences of being part of something that was a little bit more professional than what she's used to and she is still the same person. She's not going to suddenly go and work at a consulting firm or something, but she has a little bit more ambition than maybe she did before and a little bit more of a taste for achieving things. This story line is capitalizing on that newfound excitement about actually doing something with her life, instead of just sitting around reading magazines. Again, that's something that's a slow burn that's playing out over a very long period of time, but it definitely starts this week.
How will Leslie continue the struggle with city politics and the decisions she makes?
Schur: The idea is this is her first year in this job and part of the long-term story for her is going to be figuring out how it all works and some of that is through trial and error, and some of it is through getting you're a-- kicked by other city counselors, and some of it is just by poking around and seeing how you do things. So there's a season-long education of Leslie Knope arc that we're playing where she is really settling into this new job and figuring out what to do and what not to do and this lot is part of that. The new emphasis on this project and how she can get it through or not get it through plays on that story, basically, of her trying to navigate her way through her new job.
Now that Ben's not going to be working with Jen, what will he do in Pawnee? Is he able to actually get back into city government?
Schur: Well, I believe the next episode actually deals with that exact issue. It deals with him saying, "Okay, I'm getting married now and I need to figure out what my career is going to be." He has a come-to-Jesus moment about what the rest of his life is going to be like professionally. There's a fun story line that's involved with that.
Parks and Rec Video: Ron finds love with someone not named Tammy in Lucy Lawless
And Ben's getting pulled into Tom's new business venture this week, which seems to actually have a chance to be successful.
Schur: Yeah. I think there's every chance that it could work. He's a guy who's had a lot of really bad ideas and he also just naturally is a very consumerist-minded person, who spends a ton of his money and even sometimes money he doesn't have on fancy clothes and hats and cravats and scarves and shoes and stuff. We wanted to design a business for him that would be something that would be completely organic of who the character already is and something that wouldn't require him to buy a bunch of stuff. He's going to get a storefront and he's going to open a store and we're going to track the business, as it goes along, and see all the ups and downs of him being a small business owner on the side. The point of it was to say Entertainment 720 was nothing. That was just like we want to be rich and famous and drink champagne and have hot ladies walking around. It was not an actual business idea, but the point of this one is supposed to be that it is an actual business idea. I think that that will be reflected in the way it plays out.
And what about Andy and his quest to join the police force?
Schur: Yes. There are episodes that are leading up to that. The test, the official cop exam is sometime in January. You're going to see him prepare for it and then, actually, take the test and the results will unveil themselves at that time.
Stay tuned for more scoop on the return of Tammy, Ann's surprising new adventure and the introduction of Jerry's wife. Plus: Will there be Treat Yo Self Part 2?
Check out an exclusive first look at Thursday's episode, which airs at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.


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FX503E and NX503E by Clarion: two high-quality gifts for a well-connected car!
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Engineers Build Speech Algorithm To Detect Parkinson's [VIDEO]
Parkinson's is a neurological disease that spreads quickly and is difficult to diagnose. About 6 million people worldwide are affected by the incurable disease. A sophisticated test to diagnose Parkinson's in patients early could lead to better treatment and an eventual cure. A team of engineers are betting on a voice-based test for Parkinson's — built to be as accurate as clinical tests.
This week, TED Fellow and mathematician Max Little announced the launch of Parkinson's Voice Initiative at TEDGlobal 2012.
Currently, the team of mathematicians and engineers are asking residents of seven countries to make anonymous three-minute phone calls to a voice bank (see dial-in numbers at right). They're collecting voice recordings from patients with Parkinson's and those without. The algorithm will scour out "biomarkers" for the disease — symptoms that show up in how people speak.
The samples will refine the algorithm, so it can "learn how to separate out the true symptoms of the disease from other factors," Little explains.
The end goal is to create a high-speed, voice-based test that individuals can administer easily. Remote speech testing will cut out the need for clinic visits. Those with Parkinson's Disease can take the test remotely and often. Doctors can optimize dosage and timing for medication.
The Parkinson's Voice Initiative is more than 25% complete after Monday's TED announcement. A TED Blog update states the project received about 1,500 samples within the first 24 hours. Little and his team hope to collect around 10,000 voice samples globally.
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ART AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: FROM THE PANEL: Hartney/Monk/Knowles/Ehn, Montano: Moderator, Marranca. 2002
Natural Voice: I must admit that I think that I have been chosen for this panel because I've performed and dressed up as a mother superior, a saint, a guru, a mystic, a priest, a martyr, a swami, and a healer for thirty years and called that play, Art. As Shakespeare, Annie Sprinkle, and others have said, "Dresseth liketh undt nuneth, duth noteth undt sainteth maketh!"
Saint Voice (as Theresa of Avila): "The first thing that we have to do, and that at once, is to rid ourselves of love for this body of ours."
Natural Voice: Art once done has a life of its own. It's our baby, a child, and as good and loyal parents we're responsible to that baby. So I'm here to be as honest as possible.
Saint Voice: "It is when I possess least that I have fewest worries and the Lord knows that I am more afflicted when there is excess of anything than when there is a lack of it."
Question: DESCRIBE YOUR EARLY SPIRITUAL LIFE (I'm using a self-imposed interview).
Natural Voice: I was enculturated early into strict Roman Catholicism in an upstate New York village right out of a storybook. Mom: Irish/Yankee/convert from Episcopalianism, was a comedienne, painter, questioner of authority in a subtle way. Dad: pious/creative/silent/focused; his parents, non-English speaking from Campobasso, both devout, silent, hard-working.
Question: WHAT WAS YOUR EARLY CHILDHOOD SPIRITUAL ENCUL TURATION?
Saint Voice: "There are two kinds of love, one is purely spiritual and has nothing to do with sensuality or the tenderness of nature. The other is family love."
Question: WHAT DID YOUR ENCULTURATION LOOK LIKE LATER ON IN YOUR WORK? WE ALL IMITATE OUR CHILDHOODS AND EARLY ISSUES. THAT'S A GIVEN. DID YOUR WORK LOOK ROMAN CATHOLIC?
Natural Voice: My answer is in the form of two lists.
Question: THAT IS CERTAINLY AN IDEALIZED LOOK AT RELIGION, MISS MONTANO. YOU ARE LOOKING WITHOUT THE POLITICS,
Natural Voice: It was only logical that this intense early training eventuated in a desire for sanctity and, in 1960, I entered a missionary convent. For two years:
I talked only one hour a day and that was "in common" (a room with all nuns present).
I left, eighty-two pounds, anorexic and hungry for something that only art gave me. Mother art became my trauma catcher, my therapy, my confidant, my best friend, my guide, my confessor, my salvation. Art became religion. And in separating from Catholicism, I married art.
Natural Voice: I sculpted/welded the Visitation (Mary embracing Elizabeth, both pregnant), made crucifixes, and eventually presented live chickens as art for the MFA in Sculpture I earned in graduate school. I later invented performance for myself. That necessity was a fascination with the energy of aliveness. When I performed I got so much attention from others, which helped me attend to myself. When I attended to me, I discovered that the three billion cells in the body, when properly treated, can produce 1/2 watt of electricity in all three billion cells. WOW!!! Also, I could oscillate my brain waves at a frequency that produced addictively pleasing endorphine states of consciousness. The brain waves are:
Beta, normal, thinking, 13-35 oscillations.
By aesthetically purging subconscious material via public actions, via exposition of excesses of power, via exploration of autobiography as art … the brain empties of obscurations, guilts, fears, shames, and goes into modes of consciousness curried by nuns, contemplatives, and all seekers of samadhi.
Natural Voice: Exactly.
Saint Voice: "We must shorten our time of prayer, however much joy it gives us, if we see our bodily strength waning or find that our head aches; discretion is most necessary in everything."
Question: WHY DIDN'T YOU REMAIN CATHOLIC?
Natural Voice: It wasn't cool to be a Catholic artist in the 60s and I regret that I followed that legend. But, I did study with my meditation teacher, Dr. R. S. Mishra, and lived in his yoga ashram and a Zen center. In the early 90s, I came crawling back on my hands and knees, broken, having taught seven years at a university, and asked for re-entry, abashed for having left my early enculturation and deeply engrained patterns. Is there a spiritual materialism at work here? Recently, I've been able to collage together the tolerance and beauty and warmth of yoga and all of the other lineages we ALL experience and include in our art. This is currently not a detriment to my (again) strict practice of Catholicism.
Saint Voice: "His mercy is so great that He has forbidden none to strive to come and drink of this fountain of life."
Question: WHAT IS YOUR ART NOW?
Natural Voice: I'm back in life school performing and learning from my father in a performance I call Blood Family Art or Dad Art. I'm my 89-year-old dad's primary caretaker and I do this as art. It took me two years to call it art-it was very life-like. Calling it art makes it interesting and sacred. Especially, as two senior citizens, father and daughter, get to cross between the two worlds of the surreal and the real on a daily basis. He's playing with death and teaches me about that. I'm playing with aging and have not taught anyone about that yet.
Saint Voice: "Cease as I have said to have fear where there is no fear."
Question: DOES IT BOTHER YOU THAT A UCSD PROFESSOR, V. RAMA CHANDRAN, POSITS THAT SPIRITUAL ECSTASY/HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SAMADHI YOU TALKED ABOUT IS THE RESULT OF MISFIRINGS FROM THE BRAIN'S TEMPORAL LOBE WHEN IT GOES INTO SEIZURES? IS GOD A G-SPOT IN THE BRAIN?
Natural Voice: That kind of information makes me very nervous. But, it adds to my faith and doesn't shake it because even now I am practicing blind obedience. Obedience is a must. Before I was obedient only to my art muse.
Saint Voice: "The soul is like an infant still at its mother's breast."
Question: WHAT IS THE WORK LIKE NOW, GIVEN 9/11?
Natural Voice: The trauma of 9/11 has forced the entire universe into a monastic state of THETA brain wave oscillations. Trauma elicits THETA. We are all at 4-8 oscillations, like newborns, like adults sleeping, death on our left shoulder. Artists will not be muzzled or silenced forever but we are taking our time to co-feel the ecstasy of impermanence, with everyone leveled by tragedy. As mystics of matter, we will soon know when to sing again.
Question: HOW DO WE CREATE A NEW SONG?
Saint Voice: Remember how Saint Augustine tells us about his seeking God in many places and eventually finding Him within himself?
[All quotations of St. Theresa of Avila taken from The Interior Castle


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Am I to judge a mentor and friend only by his greatest sin?
A death in the family is often an occasion of mixed emotions—sadness and gratitude, maybe even a little regret. I felt all that and more when I heard of the death of my former bishop, Anthony J. O'Connell, the first bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, who welcomed me as a seminarian in 1993 and was a fixture in my life for many years after. He moved to the Diocese of West Palm Beach, Florida in 1998, where his past caught up with him. When news of his abuse of a high school seminarian in the 1970s came to light in 2002, he resigned and spent the rest of his life in a monastery in South Carolina.
When I got the news of my bishop's resignation, I remember feeling both disbelief and shock. How could the man we called "OC"—my mentor—have been an abuser who admitted to lying naked with and fondling a teenage student multiple times over several years as rector of St. Thomas Seminary, a now-closed high school seminary in Hannibal, Missouri?
On my way to college seminary I had actually met O'Connell's victim, then a priest of the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, who was then a teacher at St. Thomas. I also encountered O'Connell's successor as rector, who later was also accused of abuse. And I met Jefferson City's vocation director, who, it turned out, was in an abusive relationship with the 21-year-old president of our seminary college student body. That "relationship" had been going on for at least six years and would continue for three more before the whole thing finally blew up.
I was horrified, but deeply conflicted as well. I cared about Bishop O'Connell a great deal. He was a stellar bishop to our little Tennessee diocese: positive and energetic, encouraging, compassionate, friendly to conservative and liberal alike, pastoral, kind, a real servant-leader. There seemed to be no hard edge in him, and he admitted his own struggles with the church as readily as he confessed how much it meant to him. Everyone loved him, and many still did even after his sins came to light.
He was also unfailingly encouraging to me. "Don't worry, Bryan," he once said to me in his signature Irish brogue after a particularly difficult and disappointing year of seminary. "You are worth more to God than a whole flock of sparrows."
It seemed to be just what I needed to hear. But now I ask myself: Was he just "grooming" me, as so many abusers do? Was he just "grooming" everyone? Was he a complete and total fraud?
As much as I may hate to admit it, OC always keeps the sex abuse crisis complicated for me. It's so easy to imagine all offenders as monstrous child rapists—and what OC did was monstrously wrong and sinful, an unconscionable betrayal of trust. As his victim tells it—and I must believe him—OC ruined his life. I shudder to think how many other victims may have suffered at that seminary.
Yet I also knew Bishop O'Connell to be a gifted leader and a kind and compassionate pastor—I'd even say a marvelous human being, though with a terrible secret flaw through which he brought great harm to his victims, to the church, even to me.
I've become progressively and obstinately angrier about clerical child sexual abuse as time has passed—the addition of a niece and nephew to my own family has probably hardened me further, for which I do not apologize. But OC always reminds me that even an abuser is still a human being, a child of God, no matter how great his sinfulness.
As death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean has said, we are all more than the worst thing we have ever done. I'd like to think OC spent what was left of his ministry trying to make amends, knowing full well that he couldn't.
And there is no making amends for it—not this side of heaven anyway. But OC was still my friend, and I'll still be praying for his eternal rest and his share of the resurrection. I must hope that, in the eternal grace and mercy of God, even this terrible breach can be healed.
This article appeared in the July 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 7, page 8).


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The Government Pension Offset (GPO) reduces public employees' Social Security spousal or survivor benefits by an amount equal to two-thirds of their public pension. Spousal and survivor benefits are normally available to any person whose retired or deceased spouse worked at a job in which he or she earned Social Security benefits. The GPO reduces or eliminates these benefits.
Who does the GPO affect?
The GPO affects individuals who worked as federal, state or local government employees, including as educators, police officers and firefighters, if the job was not covered by Social Security.
How does the GPO work?
The GPO reduces Social Security spousal or widow(er) benefits by two-thirds of the amount of an individual's public pension. For example:
Jane — a widowed, retired educator receives a public pension of $600 a month. Her job in the public school system was not covered by Social Security. Her deceased husband, however, earned Social Security benefits from his job in the private sector. An amount equal to two-thirds of Jane's public pension — or $400 — will be cut from her Social Security widow's benefits. This means that if she were eligible for $500 in survivor benefits, the GPO would reduce her benefits to $100 ($500 - $400 = $100).
What's the impact of the GPO?
Estimates indicate that nine out of 10 public employees affected by the GPO lose their entire spousal benefit, even though their deceased spouse paid Social Security taxes for many years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the GPO reduces benefits for some 300,000 individuals by more than $3,600 a year. The GPO has the harshest impact on those who can least afford the loss: lower-income women.
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Congress can pass legislation to repeal the GPO. For example, Representatives McKeon (R-CA) and Berman (D-CA) have introduced a bill (H.R. 147) to repeal the GPO.


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A group of hackers has captured the fingerprints of the German Interior Minister as a protest against plans to use biometric data in e-passports. The latest edition of their magazine, Die Datenschleuder, contains a plastic foil that reproduces the whorls and swirls of Wolfgang Schauble's digit, meaning there are 4,000 copies of the politician's prints just waiting to be attached to someone's finger. More below.
The CCC got its hands on Schauble's prints thanks to a sympathiser, who scarpered with a glass used by the minister during a panel discussion and handed it over to the hackers. Dirk Engling, a spokesman for CCC, defended the group's actions, claiming it was a warning shot, and that fingerprints "certainly [did] not [belong] in the e-Pass."
Along with Minister Schauble's fingerprint, the group also published a wish-list of other politicians whose biometric data they'd like to get their mitts on—including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Guenther Beckstein—as well as a guide on how to capture someone's fingerprints from a glass successfully.
The lawyer hired by the CCC sees it like this: "If journalists and citizens were to do what the government is doing—that is, the collection and use of biometric data—then the prosecutor would be knocking at their doors." Meanwhile, a po-faced spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry, refused to rule out legal action against the fingerprint-stealing hackers. [Heise online via Slashdot]


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JPSO: First homicide victim in Jefferson Parish was on military leave for holidays
Victim identified as Sgt. Joseph Anderson
Authorities in Jefferson Parish said the victim in Wednesday night's killing was a member of the military on leave for the holidays.
The victim, 31-year-old Sgt. Joseph Anderson, was shot to death in the driveway of his in-laws' home moments after saying goodbye to his children for the night, deputies said.
Anderson's mother, Kathleen, said she never expected to lose her son to violence at home.
"I always feared when he was overseas that I would get that call from the military telling me my son had been killed in action. Never did I imagine that after three tours he would be killed here at home," she said.
The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 6100 block of Ray Street in Marrero.
Deputies had said they believed someone shot Anderson in the head as he was leaving the home and then took off in his green Toyota 4-Runner.
Deputies found the vehicle early Thursday morning after someone living in the Lincolnshire subdivision reported it parked near the corner of Rue Louis Philippe and Tuskegee Drive.
The vehicle will be towed to the JPSO Crime Lab for processing. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Crimestoppers at 822-1111.
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International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests
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Head of Programme Co-ordinating Centre: Mr. Kai Schwärzel
The International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests) was launched in 1985 in response to wide public and political concern over extensive forest damage that had been observed in Europe in the beginning of the 1980s. The objectives of ICP Forests are to monitor effects of anthropogenic (in particular air pollution) and natural stress factors on the condition and development of forest ecosystems in Europe, and to contribute to a better understanding of cause-effect relationships in forest ecosystem functioning in various parts of Europe.
Since 1986, ICP Forests has conducted an annual transnational survey of forest condition in Europe, from 1991 in close cooperation with the European Commission (EC). This transnational survey aims to document the development of forest condition at the European level rather than at the national scale. This is accomplished by means of annual large-scale monitoring of tree vitality (6,000 sample plots with about 130,000 sample trees) and a number of site parameters on a uniform 16 km x 16 km transnational grid of sample plots (known as "level I" monitoring). In addition to tree vitality surveys, soil and foliar analyses are performed on parts of these level I plots. In order to contribute to a better understanding of air pollution and other factors which may influence forest ecosystems, a programme for intensive and continuous monitoring of forest ecosystems (level II) has been implemented. For this purpose, 860 permanent observation plots for intensive monitoring of forest ecosystems have been established across Europe. The intensive monitoring includes the assessment of crown condition, increment and chemical composition of foliage and soils on all plots. The data from the level II intensive monitoring plots are currently stored and maintained at the Programme Coordinating Centre.
The programme is planned and coordinated by a Task Force under the leadership of Germany, with the cooperation of a Programme Coordinating Centre (at the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products, in Hamburg, Germany). There are currently 42 countries participating in the work.
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I'd like to share a fascinating ancestral history gem I discovered at Google Books this week.
It involves early Texas heroes, and the essence of it has now been digitally lineage-linked in the Family Forest® to a more recent national hero from Texas. Literally millions of people, including probably you (I know I am one of them), relate to this story through their own family ties.
Audie Murphy was a national hero from Texas, the most decorated American soldier in World War II. His biography, No Name on the Bullet, mentions that his family tree included such men as one of his great-grandfathers, John Berry, but gives no identifying details about John Berry or what he did. So I turned to Google Books in search of answers.
I found more than I was hoping for. It was hidden in a book from 1900 by A. W. Sowell titled Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas.
Within a six-page section about John Berry's wife (titled Mrs. Hannah Berry) are details about who he was, what he did, and in particular the noteworthy service he performed for Davy Crockett shortly before the Alamo. But it was a statement about his wife, also an ancestor of Audie Murphy, which caught my attention.
While she was still alive, Grandma Berry is said to have had "seventy-four grandchildren that she knows of, and one hundred and twenty-four great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren."
We now know what the author A. W. Sowell could not know; a half century later, Grandma Berry would become an ancestor of at least one Hollywood actor, the most decorated American soldier in World War II.
How many thousands (tens of thousands?) of living descendants might Grandma Berry have now, a full century after she finished her historically eventful and productive life in Texas at the age of 91? How many of her descendants do not yet know of their own family ties to her, the Alamo, and Audie Murphy?
The National Treasure Hunt begins in Texas. See for yourself.


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From Hamburger Hill to VA commissioner: Linda Schwartz aims to help
ROCKY HILL -- Linda Spoonster Schwartz learned all she needed to know about military spirit and unity during the 1969 battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
She was stationed at a medical staging area in Japan as a nurse when the casualties flooded in, including men with chest wounds who trudged in on foot because there were others hurt more seriously on stretchers -- men who had such awful wounds that you could stick your hand in one side of them and out the other, said Schwartz, now commissioner of the state Department of Veterans Affairs.
Based at the State Veterans Home and Hospital complex in Rocky Hill, Schwartz, 68, earned her master's degree at the Yale School of Nursing in the 1980s. Her toughest battle today is caring for needy veterans and trying to prevent suicides in the veterans population. She can identify with injured military.
In 1983 as a Reservist, she was nearly sucked out of a C-141 aircraft in-flight when a hatch blew off. Her resulting injuries -- similar to a stroke or "the bends" -- left her unable to work for a few years and left her involuntarily discharged from the service (a low point in her life, she says).
"When you have a traumatic brain injury, that (suicide) is one of the first things you think of doing," Schwartz said. "Sometimes the depression is overwhelming."
Not suicidal back then but unable to remember her phone number from the injury, she received great help from a naval medical unit and mentors at Yale. She worries today about troubled military folks, especially with the complexity of the system managing veterans benefits.
"At that time ... they were trying to get me to prove how disabled I was, which was not what I wanted," she said. The situation is better now, but the challenges over determining benefits continues. And the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs often comes up short.
A man who lost his arm was told he had to come back in six months for a checkup or he would lose his benefits. "He said, 'Did you expect my arm to grow back?'" Schwartz said.
The federal VA was not designed to function with challenges like today's long deployments in two wars. There aren't yet integrated computer systems to process claims quickly and medical help, she said. The VA wasn't designed and built from the ground up "like a fighter jet." It has emerged with layers of functions and processes, saddled by paper rules and records.
"It's not that people there don't know what to do. It's how do you get a system (to work smoothly) that cares for ... 22 million people and tries to provide" help for various disabilities? Schwartz said. She has heard the waiting period on a disability claim is more than 250 days.
It's a frustrating thing for those who have deployed and then come home to no job, a busted relationship or a bureaucratic VA.
"Here are war fighters and heroes and warriors and they come home, and they can't even get to square one with the VA? ... So for them, they feel like people aren't doing their job."
She said about 21,000 veterans in the state are getting some disability benefits, and the state moved last year to expand its Military Support Program to deployed Army and Air Force personnel instead of just Guard and Reserve. But two simultaneous wars have spiked medical and psychiatric needs and suicide totals.
The 349 suicides in 2012, confirmed last week by a Department of Defense spokeswoman, marks the highest number since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001.
Schwartz thinks they're even higher, given deaths that aren't listed as such for personal, religious or insurance reasons, and she was "shocked" that the Defense Department admitted to 349.
It's a complex thing to try to count recent suicides of veterans from many decades and wars, said Maureen Pasko of the VA's suicide-prevention program. "Not all veterans come to the VA, and not all veterans are exposed to the VA, so there's lots I think we don't know."
Schwartz speaks in measured tones but her words are sometimes blunt: "You can't do war on the cheap," Schwartz said of Iraq, "and that is what (former Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld tried to do."
The gated and guarded Rocky Hill state veterans facility, separate from federal VA facilities in West Haven and Newington, includes a residential program for vets facing homelessness and a 75-bed medical facility (mostly for substance abuse) that Schwartz ushered into existence four years ago.
With a varied nursing and service career that made her a bit of a pioneer for women in the military, Schwartz has testified before Congress many times about helping military women and Vietnam vets.
"I cannot relate to all that is going on with Iraq and Afghanistan, but I can tell you that because of Vietnam, I think everybody is doing a lot more to really try to be responsive to (returning soldiers') needs."
State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services official Jim Tackett also referenced Vietnam recently, saying, "We had a whole generation come home symptomatic as hell, nobody knowing what was going on. We know too much about what goes on now, and certainly during demobilization the discussion begins."
Schwartz said she has made the state Veterans Affairs unit more veteran-focused, trying to deal with the "cumbersome nature of claims today," helping vets with paperwork through service offices in Milford, among other places.
She is asked about success stories, and talks about a Silver Star recipient.
"We had a young man; he was very brave," Schwartz said. "And he had facial injuries that were very extensive. And when he came home, his wife left him. So he tried to regroup his life and he lived with his mother. And his mother died. So he had to move to another place."
Schwartz heard about him and called him.
"And it was a rainy day. And he was sitting in his apartment, and he said, 'I was wondering what's gonna happen to me. How am I gonna live?' He sounded so depressed. So we were able to get one of our service officers who was in a town nearby to go over and buy him a cup of coffee. He got connected to other veterans in the community, and he's doing OK."
Call Joe Amarante at 203-789-5675.