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This Colonel Dyer figure was released in a battle pack in the fall of 2009's The Legacy Collection. The battle pack contained a total of 3 figures, which besides Colonel Dyer included a Luke Skywalker in Endor Gear, and an Ewok Warok figure. Colonel Dyer can be seen in The Return Of The Jedi, when Han Solo and friends are trying to set the charges inside the bunker. Colonel Dyer by the way was played by Star Wars sound editor Ben Burtt.
The figure has 10 joints, including swivel arms, swivel elbows, swivel wrists and waist. The only ball-joint is in the neck, and there is no articulation to be found below the waist. The figure's stance is fairly wide, which helps to balance the figure out despite the lack of knee and ankle joints. The only weapon included with Colonel Dyer was a blaster, which is a good fit for both of his hands.
Colonel Dyer's paint application is very basic, with an all black uniform and some silver accents on the belt buckle, the hat and the upper left chest. All in all, this Imperial Officer is very average. Most disappointing are the lack of ball-joints, and the limited pose ability. This is quite unusual for a Star Wars figure released in 2009. However, since the head sculpt is different from previously released Imperial Officers, it might make it worth getting. At least it'll add some variety to your Imperial Army.

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In a special edition of AXEL-IN-CHARGE, Marvel's E-i-C looks back at his early triumphs with the House of Ideas from "Amazing Spider-Man" to "X-Statix" to "Truth," sharing how that work has impacted modern Marvel.
Full article here.
In a special edition of AXEL-IN-CHARGE, Marvel's E-i-C looks back at his early triumphs with the House of Ideas from "Amazing Spider-Man" to "X-Statix" to "Truth," sharing how that work has impacted modern Marvel.
Full article here.
2011 is Elektra's Year!!!
*2,000,000th X-Books Forum post goes to...Yours truly Vivica Kang*
And swiftly replace it with a new x-book.Uhm. There's a question in there somewhere. Maybe it's, why do you publish so many X-Men books? Well, the market decides how many X-Men books more than we do, havok1977. When readers don't support an X-Book, we usually cancel it. What we try to do is give each X-Men book a clear identity and mission statement and make it as best we can.
Tom Brevoort sometimes talks about how important it is not to overexpand the Avengers line and I often wish that the same policy was applied to the X-Men line. I don't get it. Clearly the Avengers are the franchise book but Marvel are still drowning readers in x-books. If too many Avengers books is a bad thing why do we have so many X-Men books?
Perceived inaccessibility has got to be scaring away potential readers. Regenesis would have been a great opportunity to really prune the books down to the essentials and attempt to reach a much wider audience. Books like X-Men and Astonishing X-Men are completely superfluous and only serve to bloat the line.
They should seriously at least try to tie up Chamber's connections to Apocalyspe at least in a way that would make the character seem useful to the current modern-day X-men.
Still, I would love to see some more Elektra in the future of Marvel.
But if you look at it, and this is what I'm hopping for, many of those books are secondary, meaning that after Regenesis they won't feature the same four characters every time. Uncanny and Wolverine & the X-men are getting some strong directions, which I always love to see, same with X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants, Generation Hope, and X-Men Legacy. They all either had or are going to have new and solid directions from here on out, which I admire and had hoped for.
Someone else on the boards asked me about Regenesis and I said that it'll probably be very easy to get into the flagship books like WATXM or UXM.
I love, love, love that he's focusing on the leser known properties. Elektra getting some love? Nice (and I knew Avenging Spider-Man was going to be a new Marvel Team-Up! Why can't they name it that? Don't answer that).
So far we have Nova, Defenders, Iron Fist, Ant-Man, Destroyers, Six Guns, Fantastic Four/FF, Legion of Monsters, and so many others. It's cool to see these popping up. The more the merrier.
Yeah, let' s have overexploited characters pop up in every comics, that will sure let room for the underexploited ones.
I think you are correct, to a degree. Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men and, hopefully, X-Men Legacy will probably feature three different and distinct casts. If every x-book was like that I wouldn't care how many of them there were. But what about X-Men and Astonishing X-Men? The stated aim of X-Men is to be the book where they interact with the Marvel Universe. Well, if readers want that shouldn't it be happening in Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine and the X-Men? If you want to have the X-Men interact with the Marvel universe then just make it happen, there's no need to create a book to do that. Astonishing X-Men? Hopefully the new creative team will be better but over the last six months or so the quality of this book has been very poor, especially at $3.99.
I could be wrong but I believe that if Marvel significantly trimmed the line they would make up any lost sales by increasing how many people would read the books. So many people avoid the X-Men because of the sheer number of books.
Alonso's imapact on Marvel has been pretty much how you can hate superheroes, be a dreadful X-editor and end up as EIC.
X-Statix. The one thing he did that worked. So theres nobody out there more worthy of running Marvel?
I'm pretty sure DEFENDERS will housing a lot of B-Listers, and I loved the part of the interview about mavericks projects like TRUTH, RAWHIDE KID and X-STATIX. I think we're coming back to this with projects like VENGEANCE, SIX GUNS, LEGION OF MONSTERS as it had been pointed, or the up-coming mini about Doom' youth..Stories that are happening in the margins of the Marvel Big History, elder versions of iconic characters, I like that a lot.
Hope to see more of TRUE BELIEVERS, which has a very nice concept, or a new sci-fi title like say, THE FUTURIANS
" Things are going to slide in all directions "
Leonard Cohen - The Future
I agree at the low quality and also agree that they could easily trim lots of books, X-Men or otherwise. If I were running the place, I would cancel Astonishing at issue #50, cancel X-Men and integrate it into some kind of mass Marvel team up book, and reevaluate all of the solo Wolverine & family titles.
As for the Regenesis titles, other than X-Men, there aren't any in there that aren't unique or diverse.


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Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, was the 265th Pope Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected April 19, 2005 to succeed Pope John Paul II and retired on February 28, 2013.
- 1 On Europe and the Church
- 2 On Other Belief-Systems
- 3 Sex Abuse Scandals
- 4 Auschwitz
- 5 Marriage and parenthood
- 6 Homosexuality
- 7 On his papacy
- 8 On popular culture
- 9 On relativism
- 10 World Youth Day 2008, held in Australia
- 10.1 Young Pilgrims (13/07/08)
- 10.2 Government House Ceremony (16/07/08)
- 10.3 Inter-religious Meeting (17/07/08)
- 10.4 Papal Welcome (17/07/08)
- 10.5 Disadvantaged Youth (18/07/08)
- 10.6 Mass with the Clergy (18/07/08)
- 10.7 Youth Day Vigil (19/07/08)
- 10.8 Closing Mass (19/07/08)
- 10.9 Angelus following the Closing Mass (19/07/08)
- 11 Various
- 12 Quotes about Benedict XVI
- 13 External links
On Europe and the Church[edit]
- When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together.
- Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)
- In the hour of its greatest success, Europe seems to have become empty inside, paralyzed by a life-threatening crisis to its health and dependent on transplants.
- Values in Times of Upheaval (2005)
- The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
- from Zenit.org (11 April 2005)
- It is impossible to interpret Jesus as a violent person. Violence is contrary to the Kingdom of God, it is a tool of the Antichrist. Violence never serves humanity, but dehumanizes.
On Other Belief-Systems[edit]
- It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.
- from "Ratzinger denies Christianity 'superior' to Islam," Zenit.org via Catholic News, March 6, 2002.
- That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.
- from Ratzinger's book, God and the World, published October 2000, as reported by National Catholic Reporter.
- Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
- from God and the World, published October 2000, as reported by National Catholic Reporter.
- Deeper understanding of the matter is bound to recognize that the Temple, as well as the synagogue, entered into Christian liturgy.
- The Spirit of the Liturgy, 2000
- I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?
- The Public Square, by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things 1996
- Certainly, the contradiction of tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied. However, is it not also the case that often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society?
Sex Abuse Scandals[edit]
- How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.
- At a Good Friday Mass in 2005, seen by many as a statement about the clergy sex abuse scandal
- In the Church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.
- In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1 percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.
- from "Cardinal Ratzinger Sees a Media Campaign Against Church," Zenit.org, December 3, 2002.
- I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.
- from an interview with EWTN news director Raymond Arroyo in August 2003 as reported by Zenit.org, Aug. 24, 2003.
- How many questions arise in this place! Constantly the question comes up: Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil? . . . We must continue to cry out humbly yet insistently to God: Rouse yourself! Do not forget mankind, your creature!
- These were the words of Pope Benedict XVI, who visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, on May 28, 2006. Quoted in The Watchtower magazine, in the article: "Why, Lord, Did You Remain Silent?", May 15, 2007.
Marriage and parenthood[edit]
- We have such difficulty understanding this renunciation today because the relationship to marriage and children has clearly shifted. To have to die without children was once synonymous with a useless life: The echoes of my own life die away, and I am completely dead. If I have children, then I continue to live in them; it's a sort of immortality through posterity. ...
- The renunciation of marriage and family is thus to be understood in terms of this vision: I renounce what, humanly speaking, is not only the most normal but also the most important thing. I forgo bringing forth further life on the tree of life, and I live in the faith that my land is really God - and so I make it easier for others, also, to believe that there is a kingdom of heaven. I bear witness to Jesus Christ, to the Gospel, not only with words, but also with this specific mode of existence, and I place my life in this form at his disposal.
- from "Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the end of the Millennium: An interview with Peter Seewald," by Ratzinger, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997.
- ... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
- from "Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the end of the Millennium: An interview with Peter Seewald," by Ratzinger, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997.
- The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences on a variety of levels. This theory of the human person, intended to promote prospects for equality of women through liberation from biological determinism, has in reality inspired ideologies which, for example, call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality.
- Among the fundamental values linked to women's actual lives is what has been called a 'capacity for the other.' Although a certain type of feminist rhetoric makes demands 'for ourselves,' women preserve the deep intuition of the goodness in their lives of those actions which elicit life, and contribute to the growth and protection of the other. . . . But, in the final analysis, every human being, man or woman, is destined to be 'for the other.' . . . Therefore, the promotion of women within society must be understood and desired as a humanization accomplished through those values, rediscovered thanks to women. Every outlook which presents itself as a conflict between the sexes is only an illusion and a danger; it would end in segregation and competition between men and women, and would promote a solipsism nourished by a false conception of freedom.
- Doctrinal document On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World, July 31, 2004
- ...According to the teaching of the Church, men and women with homosexual tendencies 'must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided'. They are called, like other Christians, to live the virtue of chastity. The homosexual inclination is however 'objectively disordered' and homosexual practices are 'sins gravely contrary to chastity'.
- In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection.
- Doctrinal document Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons, July 31, 2003
Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," 1986, as reported by National Catholic Reporter
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
- It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.
"Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics," Zenit.org, Nov. 19, 2004:
- ...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity — not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
- Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
- Because God loves us, because He wants us to grow into truth, He must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us
On his papacy[edit]
- I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
- Explaining to the cardinals his choice of name after Pope Benedict XV who worked against World War I.
- After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. In order to govern the bark of St. Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary — strengths which in the last few months, have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.
- Pope's statement announcing his resignation, as quoted by ABCNews, 'Pope Benedict to Resign, Vatican Says', February 11, 2013.
On popular culture[edit]
- "Rock" [music]... is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.
- The Spirit of the Liturgy, 2000
On relativism[edit]
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. ... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
- We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.
- At a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals
Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph RATZINGER, Dean of the College of Cardinals, Vatican Basilica, Monday 18 April 2005
World Youth Day 2008, held in Australia[edit]
Young Pilgrims (13/07/08)[edit]
- Many people today lack hope. They are perplexed by the questions that present themselves ever more urgently in a confusing world, and they are often uncertain which way to turn for answers. They see poverty and injustice and they long to find solutions. They are challenged by the arguments of those who deny the existence of God and they wonder how to respond.. Where can we look for answers? The Spirit points us towards the way that leads to life, to love and to truth. The Spirit points us towards Jesus Christ. In him we find the answers we are seeking.
Government House Ceremony (16/07/08)[edit]
- Through the Spirit's action may the young people gathered here have the courage to become saints! This is what the world needs more than anything else.
Inter-religious Meeting (17/07/08)[edit]
- A harmonious relationship between religion and public life is all the more important at a time when some people have come to consider religion a cause of division rather than a force for unity. In a world threatened by sinister and indiscriminate forms of violence, the unified voice of religious people urges nations and communities to resolve conflicts through peaceful means and with full regard for human dignity.
- The religious sense planted within the human heart leads us to meet the needs of others and to search for concrete ways to contribute to the common good. Religion has a special role in this regard, for it teaches people that authentic service requires sacrifice and self-discipline, which in turn must be cultivated through self-denial, temperance and a moderate use of the world's goods.
- By reminding us of human finitude and weakness, religion also enjoins us not to place our ultimate hope in this passing world.
- The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.
- You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.
Papal Welcome (17/07/08)[edit]
- There is something sinister that stems from the fact that freedom and tolerance are so often separated from truth. This is fuelled by the notion, widely held today, that there are no absolute truths to guide our lives. Relativism, by indiscriminately giving value to practically everything, has made 'experience' all-important.
- Life is not governed by chance; it is not random. Your very existence has been willed by God, blessed and given a purpose! Life is not just a succession of events or experiences. It is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom; it is in this - in truth, in goodness, and in beauty - that we find happiness and joy.
- Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.
- Christ offers more! Indeed he offers everything! Only he who is the Truth can be the Way and hence also the Life.
Disadvantaged Youth (18/07/08)[edit]
- Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, we make of our possessions a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.
- Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs. How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality into human relationships! This is worship of a false god; instead of bringing life, it brings death.
- All through the Gospels, it was those who had taken wrong turns who were particularly loved by Jesus because once they recognized their mistake, they were all the more open to his healing message. It was those who were willing to rebuild their lives who were most ready to listen to Jesus and become his disciples. You can follow in their footsteps; you too can grow particularly close to Jesus because you have chosen to return to him.
Mass with the Clergy (18/07/08)[edit]
- We can be tempted to make the life of faith a matter of mere sentiment, thus blunting its power to inspire a consistent vision of the world and a rigorous dialogue with the many other visions competing for the minds and hearts of our contemporaries.
- Walk in Christ's light daily through fidelity to personal and liturgical prayer, nourished by meditation on the inspired word of God.. Make the daily celebration of the Eucharist the center of your life.
- Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom means embracing a life completely devoted to love, a love that enables you to commit yourselves fully to God's service and to be totally present to your brothers and sisters, especially those in need.
Youth Day Vigil (19/07/08)[edit]
- Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony.
- The Holy Spirit! This is the Spirit's role: to bring Christ's work to fulfillment. Enriched with the Spirit's gifts, you will have the power to move beyond the piecemeal, the hollow utopia, the fleeting, to offer the consistency and certainty of Christian witness!
- Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit offers our world love that dispels uncertainty; love that overcomes the fear of betrayal; love that carries eternity within; the true love that draws us into a unity that abides!
- The Holy Spirit is God eternally giving himself; like a never-ending spring he pours forth nothing less than himself. In view of this ceaseless gift, we come to see the limitations of all that perishes, the folly of the consumerist mindset. We begin to understand why the quest for novelty leaves us unsatisfied and wanting. Are we not looking for an eternal gift? For the spring that will never run dry?
- Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!
- You are called to exercise the Spirit's gifts amidst the ups and downs of your daily life. Let your faith mature through your studies, work, sports, music and art. Let it be sustained by prayer and nurtured by the sacraments.
- To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!
Closing Mass (19/07/08)[edit]
- As the source of our new life in Christ, the Holy Spirit is also, in a very real way, the soul of the Church, the love that binds us to the Lord and to one another, and the light that opens our eyes to see all around us the wonders of God's grace.
- We have to let God's love break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age. Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires. That is why prayer is so important: daily prayer, private prayer in the quiet of our hearts and before the Blessed Sacrament, and liturgical prayer in the heart of the Church.
- Dear young people: What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations? Are you living in a way that opens a space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the 'power' that the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you?
- A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty - a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.
- Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.
- The world needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading interior emptiness, unnamed fears, a quiet sense of despair. How many of our contemporaries have built broken and empty cisterns in a desperate search for meaning - the ultimate meaning that only love can give?....The Church also needs this renewal! She needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit!
- Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness, and using all your talents in the service of others!
- "There is more joy in giving than in receiving." Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.
Angelus following the Closing Mass (19/07/08)[edit]
- For [the Virgin] Mary there were many struggles ahead as she lived out the consequences of the 'yes' she had given to the Lord. Simeon prophesied that a sword would pierce her heart. When Jesus was twelve she experienced every parent's worst nightmare when for three days the child was missing. And after his public ministry she suffered the agony of witnessing his crucifixion and death. Throughout her trials she remained faithful to her promise, sustained by the Spirit of fortitude. And she was generously rewarded.
- We too must remain faithful to the 'yes' we have given to the Lord's offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit. Mary accepted the Lord's' proposal' in our name. So let us turn to her and ask her to guide us as we struggle to remain faithful to the life-giving relationship God has established with each one of us.
- The time has come for me to say good-bye-or better, 'arrivederci!'. World Youth Day 2011 will take place in Madrid, Spain. Until then, let us continue to pray for one another, and let us joyfully bear witness to Christ before the world.
- We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
- unidentified source
- If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '... If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage'.
- Letter to bishops, Sept. 14, 1994
- Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church.
- During interview by Niels Christian Hvidt in 1999
- After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith, and that also applies to the liturgy. It is not "manufactured" by the authorities. Even the pope can only be a humble servant of its lawful development and abiding integrity and identity.... The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition... . The greatness of the liturgy depends - we shall have to repeat this frequently — on its unspontaneity.
- The Spirit of the Liturgy, 2000
- Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.
- The Spirit of the Liturgy, 2000
- When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together.
- The Spirit of the Liturgy, 2000
- Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.
- The Spirit of the Liturgy, 2000
- The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.
- Dominus Jesus declaration, 2000
- A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.
- 2004 memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C.
- We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees us and blesses us. Yes, bless us, Holy Father. We entrust your dear soul to the Mother of God, your Mother, who guided you each day and who will now guide you to the glory of her son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
- Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
- Homily during the Requiem Mass of the funeral of [Pope John Paul II], on April 8, 2005.
- There really is an ideological, secular aggressiveness that gives cause to worry. Recently in Sweden a Protestant parson was put into jail for one month because - referring to biblical texts - he preached about homosexuality. Laicism is not any longer that element of neutrality that opens fields of freedom for everybody. It's now turning into an ideology, which – with the help of politics – forces itself into the public and leaves no space for the Christian and Catholic conception – thereby turning it into a merely private and essentially mutilated concern. In this sense a fight has really begun in which we have to defend the religious freedom against the pretension of an ideology, that acts as if it were the only voice of reason – whereas it is only the expression of "a certain" rationalism.... A society that is not at all concerned with God destroys itself. We saw that in the totalitarian experiments of the last century.
- in an interview in the German newspaper Die Welt, April 20, 2005
- Dear brothers and sisters after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. In the joy of the resurrected Lord, we go on with his help. He is going to help us and Mary will be on our side. Thank you.
- Full text of his first public speech as pope, upon his presentation as Pope Benedict XVI
- As the trend in the ballots slowly made me realize that — in a manner of speaking the guillotine would fall on me — I started to feel quite dizzy. I thought that I had done my life's work and could now hope to live out my days in peace. I told the Lord with deep conviction, 'Don't do this to me. You have younger and better (candidates) who could take up this great task with a totally different energy and with different strength.' Evidently, this time he didn't listen to me.
- Comments on his election during his first audience with German pilgrims, original comments given in German.
- The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.
- Comments during his first audience with German pilgrims
- Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.
- Inauguration homily, April 24, 2005
- Currently, I see in Germany, but also in the United States, a somewhat fierce debate raging between so-called "creationism" and evolutionism, presented as though they were mutually exclusive alternatives: those who believe in the Creator would not be able to conceive of evolution, and those who instead support evolution would have to exclude God. This antithesis is absurd because, on the one hand, there are so many scientific proofs in favour of evolution which appears to be a reality we can see and which enriches our knowledge of life and being as such. But on the other, the doctrine of evolution does not answer every query, especially the great philosophical question: where does everything come from? And how did everything start which ultimately led to man?
- remarks at Auronzo di Cadore, 24 July 2007
- [The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
- Expressing the views of atheism in the Encyclical Letter SPE SALVI of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women Religious and All the Lay Faithful On Christian Hope, 30 November 2007
Quotes about Benedict XVI[edit]
- The pope understands this eternal truth: Societies cannot endure for long without a belief in God and a submission to His will. We are ignoring him at our peril.
- Jeffrey T. Kuhner, real conservative vision,"Washington Times", August 9, 2009
- He has the intelligence of 12 professors and is as pious as a child on the day of his first communion.
- Cardinal Joachim Meisner
- The Roman Catholic Church is headed by a mediocre Bavarian bureaucrat once tasked with the concealment of the foulest iniquity, whose ineptitude in that job now shows him to us as a man personally and professionally responsible for enabling a filthy wave of crime. Ratzinger himself may be banal, but his whole career has the stench of evil—a clinging and systematic evil that is beyond the power of exorcism to dispel. What is needed is not medieval incantation but the application of justice—and speedily at that.
- Christopher Hitchens, The Great Catholic Cover-Up "The Slate", March 15, 2010
External links[edit]
- The Holy See official Vatican web site
- Open Directory Project - Benedict XVI Directory category.
- The New Pope, in His Own Words from the Washington Post
- Quotes by Cardinal Ratzinger, the New Pope from the Washington Post


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Oz chap blows his own Google Glass
A 20 year old Australian tech support chap named Nathan Myers has built his own version of Google Glass. Dubbed "FLASS", a contraction of "fake Google Glass", the device uses a screen pinched from a MyVu Crystal 701, a short-lived late noughties gadget that tried to convince the world to watch video in a pair of glasses whose …
You'd never want to store a book on it.
Its not for nothing theres thst old adage: People in Flass houses shouldnt stow tomes
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Until someone comes up with a way to implant this technology into my eyeball and develop mind control technology to work it I will never ever be seen in a pair of geeky glasses talking to myself while risking the distraction of walking into a lamp post.
Re: You'd never want to store a book on it.
"...People in Flass houses shouldnt stow tomes..."
[*Groan out loud]
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People already walk into lamp posts... and fall off bridges... All because they are so glued to their phones.
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...ah but you see, Glass must have a collision avoidance / human-direction-control system! This is why they've been doing all this is playing about with robotic cars.
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You have watched too much Futurama as you have just described Mom's Eye Phone!
The bag it is open;
The cat is no longer inside.
(All this needs is a 3D printer angle~ all else is 'open, freedom, etc'.)
Still, good work!
Do they come with a remote?
Can you imagine travelling on public transport with several people talking to such devices all at once.....
Re: Do they come with a remote?
In the big open plan office ...
"Jimmy! How do you format your disk?"
--"Format C:" he shouts
"Are you sure?"
With "How do I do a factory Reset?"
Unless you are on your own (or some sort of disability) voice control is nearly as bad as the "Heart of Gold" gesture controls.
Re: Do they come with a remote?
I don't need to imagine it, I can already see people talking to bluetooth headsets.
I can't be that different
The over complication of a simple action.
All this faffing around and shouting at your phone to read an email or check on Facebook. It is just making simple gestures more complicated than necessary.
Just pick up and look at your phone.
Re: The over complication of a simple action.
Why add a whole layer of phone complexity to it all when you can just shout to the monkey in the next tree?
He's taken a wearable display and turned it into a wearable display?
Christ, I built better wearables in 2008- stereoscopic 3D overlay and all (eMagin z800, a couple of cameras, a spare Laptop and a stack of VB.Net... Admittedly bulky and underpowered by modern standards). And they were still crap. Speech rec doesnt work properly in the real world, and until your glasses also include a camera and world-recognition software this sort of thing will always suck outside of very specific usage scenarios.
Theres another generation to go before they become powerful enough.
Is it just me...
"If I want to access my emails I hold down the button on my earpiece and it will announce 'I'm listening', to which I reply with 'Open Facebook'"
Isn't "Open Facebook" an odd command to use to access email?
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Certainly is the wrong command. Should be "Open Faecebook".
Alternatively "Enable Shitter".
Which makes me think about customising commands so other people won't override what you want by imitating you. Maybe
"Phasers to Stun" = power on
"Lookit the norks on that!" = take photo
""Windows 8" = Shutdown
You get the idea. Any more offerings?
But... But... But...
Does it not index your email keywords, monitor your contacts and report the content to various government agencies? I mean, where is the full service that Google provides?
Why is this news?
Using off the shelf stuff to get a crappy experience,
To avoid lugging around heaps of adapters, charger's n stuff he'd need Zeiss Cinimizer's but $800? Ik!
Mind you With utter and tasker you can do a lot on your android phone :-) Its still quite rough though. You need your phone running and unlocked, and then to click on the utter command icon to activate the thing. You can install nova launcher to enable long press on menu to fire off utter. Much better experience, but you still have to unlock your phone first. You could use a NFC tag to fire off utter, but to enable it while the phone is locked would expose your phone to all NFC all the time (No thanks)
Just too awkward, and clunky with android at the moment. Will the ubuntu phone concept push the wearable computer over the line? It may be enough for me.... What this guy has done? No.
"FLASS", a contraction of "fake Google Glass"
Wouldn't it be a contraction of 'fake glass'? (f'lass)


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Well, with Ebay and VMK, there's always that chance of getting or not getting the card. That's why I don't do it.
Well, with Ebay and VMK, there's always that chance of getting or not getting the card. That's why I don't do it.
There is only a market for this if people are willing to pay. I can only hope people don't start buying stuff on ebay or if they do, vmk starts giving out the same prize 2 at a time for signing in floods the site with items that people were paying money, really money for. This is crazy! People, this is make- believe!
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Adult daycare for the kid inside you.
I have no problem with vmk auctions, except for the fact that peeps are profiting off this free game Disney is providing. These people, buyers and sellers alike, may very well be the few that spoil it for everyone.
This thread needs to close I'm sorry, the last thing we want is for sellers to spam up Lou's boards with their covert auctions.
"Hey look at this crazy auction.." is a prime example.
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Are you working to ditch processed foods and put more real food on the table? This month we're running a series called Real Food Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide to Eating Better. Our goal is to answer the questions you might have and make the transition a whole lot easier!
Up until a few years ago, I'd always been rather naive when it came to ingredients in packaged foods. "Surely," I thought, "they wouldn't use anything that wasn't actually an ingredient." But as my family and I started our real food journey and I started reading labels, I realized I was sorely mistaken. It can be overwhelming to sort through the myriad dietary options we have, especially when life is busy, so here's a quick list of seven items to avoid on your own real food journey.
A word of grace here. This is just a list of information - guidelines, if you will. Know that all of us - yes, all of us - don't always follow them either. Don't feel frustrated if you don't keep this list "perfectly" - do what you can and at the end of each day, be joyful and satisfied that you are taking any steps at all toward healthier living.
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Refined Sugar
In 1800, the average American ate about 4 pounds of sugar each year (source). In 2011, the average per person was closer to 150 pounds. Obviously, something has changed. The big deal with sugar is that most of the sugar we're exposed to is highly refined. In its purest forms (think honey and maple syrup), sugar also includes beneficial minerals, vitamins, and the enzymes necessary to digest the sugar. But in our modern versions (yes, white table sugar and corn syrup, I'm looking at you), all those beneficial elements have been stripped away. Thus, our bodies get the load of sugar without receiving any benefits of the trace minerals.
A Wiser Choice:
- Use minimally refined sugars such as honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar, sucanat, or evaporated cane sugar.
- Read "21 Ways to Eat Less Sugar" as well as "Sweeteners: How they Affect You, Which Ones are Best and How to Use Them."
- Also, remember that a sweetener doesn't have to be sugar to be sweet. Using spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger or plant extracts such as stevia, mint, and lavender can give the sensation of a sweet treat without the overload of sugar.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Yes, we already mentioned sugar, but high fructose corn syrup is a particularly insipid refined sugar worth mentioning all on its own. At first glance, HFCS may seem rather innocuous - after all, it's a natural sweetener because it's made of corn, right? Not so much. Most corn grown in the US is genetically modified (nasty stuff). And along with that, HFCS helps you overeat, makes your liver pretend you're a raging alcoholic, causes memory loss, interrupts your ability to process emotion, and helps you gain fat, especially around the belly. Lovely.
A Wiser Choice:
- Buy foods that only list minimally refined sugars (like the ones listed above) and skip high fructose corn syrup and its refined cousin, agave nectar, entirely.
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Food Dyes
Did you know that modern food dyes are made from petroleum? They're known for causing hyperactivity and allergic reactions like welts and hives, and the only reason they're used in food is to mimic the vivid colors of nature- after all, typically the more colorful the food, the more nutrient-dense it is: think leafy greens, beets, and bell peppers.
A Wiser Choice:
- When buying packaged products, look for those with vegetable-based colors, such as "annatto," "paprika extract," or "beetroot red."
- When needing to use food dyes at home, make your own dyes. (See how beet juice, for example, makes gorgeous pink frosting in these dark chocolate cupcakes with pretty pink buttercream or how turmeric makes a perfect yellow mustard.)
It's ironic that preservatives – which are intended to preserve food – do anything but preserve your health. Preservatives lurk in pretty much every boxed food out there. Even plain ingredients can be suspect, like most all-purpose flours, which have potassium bromate and chlorine bleach in order to keep them from oxidizing. The problem is, most industrial preservatives are known carcinogens and can cause a host of digestive issues.
A Wiser Choice:
- Buy fresh foods (be sure to wash fruits and vegetables).
- Buy organically-grown foods.
- Look for preservatives that are slightly more "natural," usually listed as "tocopherols" or anything that sounds like a vitamin, like "ascorbic acid," or "beta carotene."
- For flour, look for products that say, "unbromated" or "no additive."
- There's a really helpful list of preservatives - the good, the bad, and the ugly - at The Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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MSG: "A Rose by Any Other Name..."
Ah... MSG. We've all heard of it - but what is it, really? Basically, monosodium glutamate is an amino acid, one of those "good guys" who help our bodies function. However, MSG's job is to trigger messages to the brain, which means that if you've got extra glutamate floating around, it's like an overactive two-year-old on sugar trying to get your attention. Total overstimulation of the brain, which is why over time exposure to MSG tends to cause things like migraines and hives. MSG also tends to cover up non-ingredients and pass them off as real ingredients. The message that your brain receives when it tastes MSG is that it's getting protein and therefore food manufacturers can add in wood pulp (no, I'm not kidding), throw in some MSG, and our brains will still think we're getting a nutritious meal. Now, the most slippery thing about MSG is that it has about 40 different names, so it's darn difficult to avoid. You can see the entire list at TruthInLabeling.org, but basically, if the words "hydrolyzed," "amino acid," "protein," "enzyme," "yeast extract," "flavoring," or any long, chemical name appear on the label, it's likely got MSG.
A Wiser Choice:
- Buy fresh foods and foods that list "sea salt" as a flavor additive.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Ingredients)
Today, more than 80% of all processed food includes genetically modified ingredients - and that means that most of us are eating them and don't even know it. But what's so bad about GMOs? After all, we eat foods that have been cross-bred all the time. The difference is that cross-breeding involves the same species - i.e. a hardy tomato and a juicy tomato cross-breed to create a hardy-juicy tomato. Genetic engineering injects genes from an entirely different species, say an arctic fish into a tomato, to create a new type of tomato (in that case, it was an experiment to see if it would make the tomato resistant to cold). Now, none of us have purchased a fish-tomato, and most GMOs we encounter in our food supply are there just to make the plant resistant to certain pesticides and herbicides. But that also means that our food is extra-laden with those chemicals when we purchase them. However, there has been almost NO testing done on the safety of GMOs. If no testing is allowed for food safety, then we're basically using ourselves as human guinea pigs, and I, for one, would prefer not to, thankyouverymuch. Foods using GMO ingredients are also not required to be labeled in the U.S. or Canada, despite the fact that nearly every other developed nation in the world already requires labeling. So, suffice it to say, GMOs lurk around nearly every corner, pose potentially numerous health risks, but there's no way to know whether they're safe or not.I, for one, would rather be safe than sorry.
A Wiser Choice:
- Buy organic (which isn't allowed to include GMO ingredients).
- Buy as much of your diet from the local farmer's market as possible and ask the farmer if they used GMO seed or feed.
- Keep this list of likely GMO foods in your back pocket when you go shopping.
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Here's a scary thought: packages can legally emblazon "0 g of trans-fats!" on their packaging as long as it has less than 0.5 g per serving. So, by decreasing the size of the serving they list on their ingredient label, they can still include trans-fats AND tell you that there aren't any trans-fats. No wonder we moms get headaches at the store. Sigh. But what are they? Basically, any oil that should be liquid at room temperature but is chemically changed in order to be solid at room temperature is a trans-fat.Margarine and vegetable shortening are good examples, although anything with "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated" on the label is a trans-fat.
A Wiser Choice:
- Use fats that are naturally solid at room temperature, such as butter, coconut oil, and lard, for cooking, baking, and spreading.
- Use fats that are naturally liquid at room temperature, such as olive oil, for salad dressings and dips.


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He said Hedrick told him the Kanawha Valley's chemical industry "would be very interested in taking a substantial amount of the stuff that we could make, because transportation costs would be so much lower."
Neely said he believes declining coal production makes it necessary to get more fuels from other sources, especially natural gas, to generate electric power.
On Friday, he cited a report in The Wall Street Journal that said "only 44 percent of all U.S. electrical energy is generated by coal today." In 2003, coal generated 51 percent of the nation's electric power.
A typical cracking plant, Neely said, will refine natural gas from Marcellus Shale reserves so it can be used in power plants, as well as generating other chemical products.
In another cracker-related development, Aither Chemicals, based in South Charleston, announced Friday that it has received a $200,000 investment from the Fairmont-based INNOVA Commercialization Group to continue research into cracker technology.
Aither has focused on converting ethane, a component of natural gas, into ethylene, a raw material used in plastics and other products.
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Maple Leafs 3, Red Wings 2 (SO): Tyler Bozak scored in the third period before netting the decisive tally in the third round of the shootout as visiting Toronto won the Winter Classic before an announced record crowd of 105,591 at Michigan Stadium.With the temperature teetering at 13 degrees and continuous snowfall hampering conditions on the ice, the Original Six rivals had difficulty moving the puck and maintaining any offensive consistency. Mother Nature briefly let up and the teams traded goals in both the second and third periods before Bozak ended the wild affair by snapping a low shot past United States Olympic goaltender Jimmy Howard and inside the left post.James van Riemsdyk, who joined teammate Phil Kessel on the U.S. roster, scored while playing in his third Winter Classic and Jonathan Bernier made 41 saves for the Maple Leafs, who have won three in a row and improved 4-0-2 in their last six games. Captain Dion Phaneuf notched a pair of assists, one day after signing a seven-year, $49 million contract extension.Daniel Alfredsson scored in his return from back spasms and former Michigan State star Justin Abdelkader backhanded home a centering feed to forge a tie with 5:32 remaining in the third period. Defenseman Brendan Smith set up both tallies and Howard turned aside 24 shots for the Red Wings, who have dropped nine of its their last 12 (3-6-3).Detroit drew first blood by converting a 2-on-1 rush with 6:46 remaining in the second period as captain Henrik Zetterberg breezed in and wristed a centering feed that caromed off the right heel of Alfredsson and into the net. Van Riemsdyk answered from the right doorstep by batting the puck out of the air with 37 seconds left in the session before Bozak deflected Phaneuf's soft wrist shot from the left point to give Toronto as 2-1 lead at 4:41 of the third.GAME NOTEBOOK: Officials from Guinness World Records were on hand to verify that the contest surpassed the current mark of the 104,173 who attended the "Big House" when Michigan cruised to a 5-0 triumph over rival Michigan State on Dec. 11, 2010. The largest crowd to witness an NHL game was 71,217, which occurred during the 2008 Winter Classic at the home stadium of the Buffalo Bills. ... Prior to the game, Toronto traded Ds John-Michael Liles and Dennis Robertson to Carolina for veteran D Tim Gleason. Liles was a healthy scratch for the Winter Classic. ... Alfredsson's goal was his 11th of the season and 437th career, tying Hall of Famer Pavel Bure for 64th all-time in NHL history. ... Actor Matthew Perry was in attendance for this game and plans to witness Anaheim face Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium on Jan. 25.


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Molecular and Mesoscale Mechanisms of Osteogenesis Imperfecta Disease in Collagen Fibrils Biophysical Journal, Volume 97, Issue 3, 5 August 2009, Pages 857-865 Alfonso Gautieri, Sebastien Uzel, Simone Vesentini, Alberto Redaelli and Markus J. Buehler Abstract Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder in collagen characterized by mechanically weakened tendon, fragile bones, skeletal deformities, and in severe cases, prenatal death. Although many studies have attempted to associate specific mutation types with phenotypic severity, the molecular and mesoscale mechanisms by which a single point mutation influences the mechanical behavior of tissues at multiple length scales remain unknown. We show by a hierarchy of full atomistic and mesoscale simulation that OI mutations severely compromise the mechanical properties of collagenous tissues at multiple scales, from single molecules to collagen fibrils. Mutations that lead to the most severe OI phenotype correlate with the strongest effects, leading to weakened intermolecular adhesion, increased intermolecular spacing, reduced stiffness, as well as a reduced failure strength of collagen fibrils. We find that these molecular-level changes lead to an alteration of the stress distribution in mutated collagen fibrils, causing the formation of stress concentrations that induce material failure via intermolecular slip. We believe that our findings provide insight into the microscopic mechanisms of this disease and lead to explanations of characteristic OI tissue features such as reduced mechanical strength and a lower cross-link density. Our study explains how single point mutations can control the breakdown of tissue at much larger length scales, a question of great relevance for a broad class of genetic diseases. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (590 kb) |
Tuning the Elastic Modulus of Hydrated Collagen Fibrils Biophysical Journal, Volume 97, Issue 11, 2 December 2009, Pages 2985-2992 Colin A. Grant, David J. Brockwell, Sheena E. Radford and Neil H. Thomson Abstract Systematic variation of solution conditions reveals that the elastic modulus (E) of individual collagen fibrils can be varied over a range of 2–200 MPa. Nanoindentation of reconstituted bovine Achilles tendon fibrils by atomic force microscopy (AFM) under different aqueous and ethanol environments was carried out. Titration of monovalent salts up to a concentration of 1 M at pH 7 causes E to increase from 2 to 5 MPa. This stiffening effect is more pronounced at lower pH where, at pH 5, e.g., there is an ∼7-fold increase in modulus on addition of 1 M KCl. An even larger increase in modulus, up to ∼200 MPa, can be achieved by using increasing concentrations of ethanol. Taken together, these results indicate that there are a number of intermolecular forces between tropocollagen monomers that govern the elastic response. These include hydration forces and hydrogen bonding, ion pairs, and possibly the hydrophobic effect. Tuning of the relative strengths of these forces allows rational tuning of the elastic modulus of the fibrils. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (869 kb) |
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We report molecular modeling of stretching single molecules of tropocollagen, the building block of collagen fibrils and fibers that provide mechanical support in connective tissues. For small deformation, we observe a dominance of entropic elasticity. At larger deformation, we find a transition to energetic elasticity, which is characterized by first stretching and breaking of hydrogen bonds, followed by deformation of covalent bonds in the protein backbone, eventually leading to molecular fracture. Our force-displacement curves at small forces show excellent quantitative agreement with optical tweezer experiments. Our model predicts a persistence length ξp ≈ 16nm, confirming experimental results suggesting that tropocollagen molecules are very flexible elastic entities. We demonstrate that assembly of single tropocollagen molecules into fibrils significantly decreases their bending flexibility, leading to decreased contributions of entropic effects during deformation. The molecular simulation results are used to develop a simple continuum model capable of describing an entire deformation range of tropocollagen molecules. Our molecular model is capable of describing different regimes of elastic and permanent deformation, without relying on empirical parameters, including a transition from entropic to energetic elasticity.


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Android Viewers (here without subscription) for Google Play Store, do not retain the folio file when downloaded. As long as the app is active (even as background task), there is no problem. But as soon as you kill the background task and relaunch the App, the folio file is missing and the download button shows again. I tested with two different apps.
I use the the following tools:
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The App is a v21 Android Viewer for Google Play Store without subscription
My Test Tablet is an Acer IconiaTab A510 with Android 4.0.3
Developer Mode (USB Debugging, etc.) is off
Has anyone the same behaviour?
Hi, I have the same problem: Android viewers do not retain the folio file when downloaded. While app is in background all works fine but when close and relaunch folios must be downloaded again.
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Dear Bob,
do you have already a solution.
I've just tried with an updated v22 App.
The bug still exists and the folio will not be saved and retained after quitting the App.
This needs a fast hotfix now!!!!!
(3 new bugs and 1 old bug for this morning now is to much. We have other things to do as to check with every new release of the DPS Tools what new and old features are not working (anymore). You have to integrate better testing workflows at Adobe before you release new versions. You can't continue like that).
The DPS Bug Fix Release Notes for v22 show (http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/release-note/dps-bug-f ix-release-notes.html):
Adobe, thats not true. The Bug is still there!
Dear Himanshu,
maybe the download Issue has been fixed, but it has been replaced with an even uglier bug.
The App freezes with the startup screen. I have an Acer A510 with Android 4.0.3 to test.
I thought I had already seen a thread with this problem from another person. However, I have not found this post back.
We need a more urgent fix now!
Dear colleagues,
I am not sure, that the problems were solved. Today i created the V22 App, uploaded it to Google and also i updated the App. It had erased all previously downloaded folios!!! Our users stated the same issue too. We were among beta-testers starting Drop 6, but now it looks like we are back to that times. So, why do you charge for such kind of service?


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THE POSTMAN is set sixteen years after a cataclysmic event (presumably a nuclear war although there is room for speculation that it may have been some other disaster such as a large comet hitting the earth) has plunged the world to the brink of a dark age. Trying to survive in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, Gordon Krantz happens upon a run-down United States Postal Service jeep while trying to find a warm place to sleep and spends the night. Taking the leather jacket and cap off the skeleton of his unfortunate bunk-mate, with the full regalia of the U.S. Postal Service as accoutrements, and a sack full of old mail, Gordon sets off to hunt supplies. Thus begins Gordon's almost unconscious generation of a false legend.
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In his lifetime, the late Rev. Jerry Falwell had no shortage of critics, both in the offline and online worlds--and over the years, some in the latter category found themselves caught in his legal crosshairs over domain names resembling his own.
One of the higher-profile Web spats involved Christopher Lamparello, a thirtysomething gay man in New York. Since 1999, Lamparello has owned the Fallwell.com Web site, which housed articles aimed at contradicting the televangelist's antigay views. A few years ago, Falwell sued him, claiming the domain name's spelling was too close to that of his official Web … Read more


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While the Nike LeBron X Elite represents the pinnacle of performance for the Nike LeBron line, the Nike LeBron X Low sort of orients things in the other direction with its more casual cut-down look. That notion is sort of exemplified by the fact that we've never seen Bron himself don a pair on the NBA court. They should still be suitable for the sneakerhead set though, a group who is a lot less likely to break a sweat in their favorite pair. Still around the corner, hopefully, is this colorway which uses university red most prominently. Continue reading to see more of the Nike LeBron X Low "University Red" after the jump.
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William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACRDr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. In this Article
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A growing program in Chicago that builds interest in science and technology among African American and Latino seeks to duplicate the success of a mature pre-college math and science curriculum in Detroit. One engineer's vision got both off the ground.
Now that Labor Day is past and school is back in session, another program will be starting again in Chicago that seeks to draw children from educationally underserved communities into a learning track that will result in a new generation of engineers.
This program is the Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program, or ChiS&E. It began in early 2008, appropriately enough, with kindergartners, as "Little Civil Engineers." With each new school year, those kids moved to the next level. With the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, those kindergartners are now fifth-graders and the program goes on building each year. The kids in this program are 60% African American and 40% Latino and come from communities that aren't exactly known for strong educational opportunities.
The idea of creating an extracurricular program on Saturdays and summers to learn the basics of math and science is largely the brainchild of Kenneth Hill and reflects the program he helped launch in Detroit almost 40 years ago. DAPCEP (Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program) is now a thriving organization (watch the video above) that sends dozens of well-prepared new engineering students to University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and other partner schools every year.
Hill started his career working for a pipeline company in Detroit, but soon realized his calling was teaching. It didn't take long for him to recognize that students coming out of public schools at the time were utterly unprepared for the kind of math that a college engineering curriculum demands. When the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation launched a national effort to increase the number of minorities in engineering, Hill saw the opportunity and DAPCEP was born.
Recreating that success in Chicago will take many years, but Hill is convinced that trying to bring in older students and start them mid-program isn't nearly as effective. "It is based on the belief that the earlier you introduce concepts of math, science, and technology to young people, the greater the likelihood they will develop an interest and desire to pursue those disciplines as career options," he says. "I also believe that the most successful model for learning is triangular—student, teacher, and parent. Thus, our program also educates parents so that they can be successful partners with teachers in the education of their children."
These programs deserve the support of the larger engineering community, if for no other reason than they help ensure the next generation of our professions. The fact that they draw from underserved communities is one additional benefit that should not be ignored. The respective websites offer ways to contact the organizations, and they would like to hear from you.
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