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It is essential that you see a rheumatologist, a medical specialist and not just a primary care physician. Early aggressive treatment is needed if you do indeed have rheumatoid disease. Improve your diet and exercise lightly. There is a lot more information available but getting a clear diagnosis is essential and that will involve blood analysis. All the best.View Thread
You are not in a good mental or physical space but things will get under control. You must have a specialist rheumatologist as your doctor if you are severe. I have whole body severe RA and it has taken over two years to stabilize me but now things are much better. There is hope but you need to eat well, take your medications and have gentle exercise every day. All the best.View Thread
I have been down this road and am now on an infusion. Prednisone is a terrible drug and you need to get off or reduce dose within a year or two. I was on 40mg for 85 days and lower doses for 1200 days. Now on 4.5mg but that is still too much. Re diet and Prednisone I suggest you remove all salt and eat little meat. You really need to exercise - walk, swim, ride a few times a week. MTX can encourage eating due to nausea. ask you doctor about injectable MTX. The first two years can be awful but working with a good rheumatologist things will improve. They have for me. I am not fantastic, can't work but am much more stable and comfortable. All the best, MikeView Thread
Actemra is a very complex drug. I am on my 13th month and yes I did have strange ulcers which have now passed after about three months. I am about 50% better with the drug which is wonderful. I also take MTX and other drugs. If your weight is around 70 kilos, your MTX dose is higher than 0.3 injectable then you are probably on a low does re Folate. Better check with your doctor. Try and exercise as much as possible and perhaps consider a diet change .. ByeView Thread
Rheumatoid disease, especially if you are severe, is difficult to handle. There is a direct link between poor sleep - pain - depression. You must address pain adequately with the right combination of drugs. If you are medium to severe forget herbs and spices and go see your doctor and ask for proper sleep and pain management. I did not really sleep for three months, had terrible pain and wondered why I was so depressed!!!!! Things are s much better now, two yards later, but I still address the pain every day. Some other points: eat a low inflammatory diet, get a little exercise every day, always seek distraction just don't sit at home crying. Better to cry with a friend. I found meditation very, very useful. You probably have to address pain and depression for the long haul. All the very best from Australia.View Thread
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I understand exactly how you feel. I am often in that particular boat as well. It just gets too much and the onset of depression is very dangerous. The unending pain is awful. I endorse all the comments made by the others and would add:
- you are the captain of your boat. Navigate the sea.
- go the high tech drug trail. I have and it helps a lot but it does stretch out the suffering due to side effects
- be nice to yourself every day
- when you are down get as much distraction as you can. I find this helps a lot
- consider changing your diet to one that is not inflammatory
- relie on your friends and family
Smile a little and enjoy a good moment whenever you have it. Take care. MikeView Thread
You must address your pain and not let it continue. This is vital for your well being as pain can become a condition in and of itself. May pain is worst at night, upper arm muscles, hands and knees. I often sleep with gloves and socks on. Helps as any cold areas on my body get sore during the night.
All the best. MikeView Thread
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If you haven't met the nice folks at the South Brunswick Island Shrine Club, you're missing out.
Last Thursday members invited me to talk about the way Shrine generosity has impacted my life.
Their clean, brightly lit building on Old Shallotte Road gave welcome to big smiles, handshakes, a good meal and lots of hospitality. Before I knew it I was standing in front of an attentive crowd, feeling humbled to share part of my story.
Last week, State Rep. Bonner Stiller announced he was resigning from his seat in the N.C. House of Representatives due to family and professional obligations.
Now, Brunswick County Commissioner Marty Cooke has announced he won't seek R.C. Soles' seat in the N.C. Senate as he had previously planned, citing similar pressures facing his family.
BOLIVIA—The Brunswick County Board of Education was nearly split last week when deciding if it would enter into an agreement with Communities in Schools of Brunswick County Inc. for a partnership in a $1 million grant application. The grant does not require the school board to match any funds.
Patsy Thrift, CIS program operations officer, said the four-year grant would provide at-risk students at Cedar Grove, Shallotte and Leland middle schools an after-school program using science, health and fitness initiatives.
OCEAN ISLE BEACH—Commissioners approved the town budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, voting not to increase tax rates, water or sewer services in Ocean Isle Beach.
The budget includes a general fund of $4,073,769; a water and sewer fund of $2,531,653; and other funds totaling $2,251,601.
"This was a tough, tough year. A tough budget," commissioner Dean Walters said. "I'm not happy with it."
The N.C. Department of Commerce has awarded Columbus County $500,000 to help provide water for a joint industrial park being planned by Brunswick and Columbus counties.
The International Logistics Park of North Carolina is a 1,280-acre site on the Brunswick-Columbus border at the U.S. 74-76 corridor.
CAROLINA SHORES—Homeowners in Calabash Lakes continue to manage now that Portrait Homes is no longer part of their picture.
Bob Litz, newly elected president of the fledgling community's homeowners association, said the HOA board met June 2 with a representative from Portrait Homes and their management company, Encore Management.
"They have agreed to turn over the HOA to the homeowners, and that's going to occur by the end of the month and then we'll know more after that," Litz said Monday.
BOLIVIA—Less than half of the agencies that serve Brunswick County residents have been recommended to receive any county funding in the upcoming fiscal year budget.
Of those agencies for which funding was recommended, many are slated to receive less than they did in the current fiscal year.
Twenty-four nonprofit agencies requested a total of $885,685, but county manager Marty Lawing recommended only $496,000 in nonprofit contributions in the budget.
SUPPLY—On a recent June afternoon, the farmers' market at Brunswick Community Hospital was abuzz with produce-seeking hospital employees, volunteers and visitors.
Launched April 23, Brunswick Community Hospital plays host to a weekly farmers' market every Thursday, where customers can browse fresh offerings of Indigo Farms without the drive out to Ash.
BOLIVIA—Twenty-five percent of the county's water customers are using 75 percent of the county's water and utilities director Jerry Pierce wants to curb the water waste.
At a county commissioners' budget retreat last week, Pierce presented water conservation rate options to commissioners. If approved, Pierce said the tiered rate structure would be implemented to encourage conservation of one of the county's most precious commodities—water.
A head-on collision less than a mile from her home left Esterlane Ballard with injuries so severe doctors amputated her left leg and were barely able to save the right.
Ballard spent 21 days in the hospital and underwent six surgeries after the wreck. To help with the financial responsibility and to show support to Ballard, her family will host a benefit day from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at Rourk Gardens in Shallotte.
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|This is a great commercial. "this isn't New York City… or the Windy City…" Embraced their own history and the hardships there, to introduce the new car. Really genius I think. I like the shorter 30 second version better than this extended 2 minute version (where it's just Eminem's song and he doesn't appear in the commercial). Love the snow falling, the iron fist, the joggers, the slow motion drive passing by the doorman. Seems to say "Let's get to work. We are proud of that, proud to rise above the challenges". Lot of grit, good values, and great message. http://www.youtube.com/user/chrysler/
|Japan has been under assault by mother nature: 8.9-9.0 magnitude earthquake (one of the largest earthquakes ever on earth) 154 aftershocks (at last count) a tsunami that reached many miles inland Despite the extreme natural disasters that took place in Japan, it knocked out power, backups, and cooling of 2 plants (out of Japan's 50+). One of the reactors was weeks from being turned off, 40 years old. And it doesn't look like an even locally threatening amount of radiation will end up in the atmosphere, despite all of that. The emotional argument will be terrorism in addition to the above. It's irrational to fear these things. The threat of economic troubles because of a poorly chosen energy policy that ignores nuclear power is many orders of magnitude higher than any terrorist attack or a 'perfect storm' natural disaster of a plant located within the Ring of Fire. The USA has had an irresponsible policy towards energy for 40 years, contributing to our huge trade imbalance, and am not optimistic that will change. This was a natural disaster with a death toll that will be in the thousands. Yet people will loudly point to the Japan reactor incident that harmed very few, and caused little damage — which took place in the midst of one of the larger natural disasters in history, and feed off of their own ignorance and fear. Disappointing.
|Class is not in your name, it's not in your hair color or what you wear, it's not what kind of car you drive, nor is it measured by the size of your home or the level of elegance contained within it — a person's class is measured through his or her character. Character's foundation is in your actions and in the choices you make: the way you live your life, the way you treat others. You can't buy it or borrow it but you can improve and cultivate it. Your character is yours from the day you're born until you die, and the decisions you make and how you respond to them from day 1 to your last day are what make you who you are.
|infiniScroll 0.1 Released! Can view a DEMO on my home page where I load my blog posts. the source: infiniScroll on GitHub https://github.com/holtonma/infini_scroll the DEMO: http://MarkHolton.com the jQuery plugin page: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/infiniScroll the GoogleGroup: http://groups.google.com/group/infiniscroll I wanted to enable infinite scrolling in a few places: on my blog, on some sites I work on with a 'leaderboard', on portfolios — anything with a long list. Pagination works in many cases but I find it nice front end optimization to render a small number of results immediately, and then render more results as the user needs them. This front end usability pattern seen on Twitter.com, Facebook.com statuses, 37Signals' Sortfolio (and MarkHolton.com home page now!). Wanted to abstract away most of the code to enable easier re-use! Your server side code will need: example routes.rb route (gist): the JS in the local checkLevel() method passes the "max id" and "num rows to retrieve" as "id" and "n", respectively. So your server side code will need to respond to the root url you set with those parameters to work properly: settings.root_url+"?id="settings.freshest_id"&n="+settings.num, example posts_controller.rb method (gist): example rendered partial from XHR request (gist): once you have that, and include infiniScroll.js, the markup in the page and the JS call (gist): disclaimer: there are some more items I need update to make it friendlier to use with the URL and grabbing the lastID from the DOM after it came from the server — it's just 0.1, but the basics are there if you want to check it out. See the README on the githubz page, take a look at the source, and let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy!
|I believe the success of a person in learning (or in life) is not dictated by the cost nor prestige of the education. These factors in my opinion are almost meaningless. It's more determined by the desire to learn, the attitude, the determination. I don't believe one is guaranteed a better education and certainly not a better life by paying $50k per year for it for 4 years between ages 18-22. Nor is someone limited or even handicapped in the slightest way by a 4 year degree from any of the top 100 schools. I think college and a college degree is a great goal for many reasons. But 4 years time does not define a person or a life. Not even close. Sadly many people think it does. "He's a Harvard man!", etc. Your undergraduate years are small compared to the big picture. A college degree is just one step and is not a guarantee I believe much more in ideas like there's always time to launch your dream. Ideas like this resonate with me. DISCLOSURE: I graduated from Miami University in Oxford, OH, one of the original "Public Ivy's". Since graduation from school with a degree in Engineering Physics with a minor in Aeronautics, I have met many people smarter than I am from "lower ranked" schools or no school at all, and much lazier and less intelligent from "high ranked" schools. It runs the gamut based on the person, not the degree. Value your education, not only in the 4 years you are there, but every month since. Drive towards your goal, and take care of life responsibilities.
|Heroku bought for $212M Great to wake up this morning pull up the news and see that Heroku was bought by SalesForce.com (CRM) for $212M in cash. It's inspiring to see great products and services rewarded. Ever since I started taking Ruby, Rails classes at the UW Extension back in 2007-2008, have played around with Heroku. In the Rails Conferences I have been to, always make a point to seek them out and try and chat for awhile, to say thanks and to pick the engineers brains at the booth for a few minutes. Initially they had a web-based development tool that let you build and run Rails code in the browser. About that time EC2 was coming on board with their cloud offering, and Heroku was innovative in how they were able to use it to make Ruby-based web frameworks so super easy to deploy to 'the cloud'. It's inspiring to watch something like this unfold. All the while the Ruby community has continued to thrive alongside. This is just another validation of some ideas such as: Ruby based web frameworks are popular because they let you focus on doing the work, not syntax — huge productivity gains through developer happiness Ruby based web frameworks can scale OUT when it comes to HTTP requests, and UP with databases the RACK middleware modularity of Ruby based web frameworks like Rails and Sinatra make it easy for folks to experiment, and that experimentation leads to innovation Heroku made scaling OUT with Ruby based web frameworks effectively as simple as a slider bar. They fronted everything with Varnish an HTML accelerator to cache static assets. The Add-on architecture was a win for Developers as well as partners selling their services. A free account can give you a great amount of hardware to play with, but also plant the seed for an app that can potentially thrive. I am just happy to deploy apps to the EC2 cloud through Heroku. Here's a short list of some of my apps deployed via Heroku, and I can't wait to produce more.
|Some reasons I love developing in Rails - rvm enables me to switch to any version of Ruby at any time - rvm enables me to switch to any version of Rails at any time - git branching is near effortless …many more practical reasons, but these are three that bring happiness and convenience to development
|Be careful out there. It's easy to obtain tools that can crack even your WPA2 secured WiFi network. cracks WPA2:Russians release all in one WiFi cracking tool "that the software can automatically locate wireless networks, intercept data packets, and crack WPA/WPA2 PSK passwords" "The software displays all available wireless networks complete with channel numbers, MAC-addresses, SSID, speed, load and encryption parameters. The sniffer connects to a selected Wi-Fi network, and logs wireless traffic complete with "handshake" packets required to start the password recovery attack." "With the increased security requirements found in WPA/WPA2 protected networks, the software utilizes high-performance dictionary-attacks with advanced mutations to allow carrying out password attacks quickly."
|With the increased security requirements found in WPA/WPA2 protected networks, the software utilizes high-performance dictionary-attacks with advanced mutations to allow carrying out password attacks quickly.
|Details a hierarchy of the not necessarily formal but organized groups which commit cybercrimes. http://www.securityweek.com/structure-crybercrime-organization-hackers-have-supply-chains-too


text: The The Luthor Nobody Knows! / Hey, You--with the Glasses--I Don't like your Face! wiki last edited by Darkside_of_the_Sun on 03/17/14 01:24PM View full history Cover by Bob Oksner."The Luthor Nobody Knows!" written by Elliot S. Maggin, penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Bob Oksner. Reprinted in The Best of DC #27 & Superman vs. Lex Luthor #1 - TPB."Hey, You--with the Glasses--I Don't like your Face!" A "The Private Life of Clark Kent" story written by Martin Pasko, penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Allan Milgrom.Note: This issue contains the Hostess Superhero Ad, Shazam! in "Minerva Menace!".


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India's hockey players have a role model within their ranks and should look at play-maker Sardar Singh for inspiration, says coach Michael Nobbs.
Sardar has stood out among the fumbling Indian players, continuously feeding the strikers from his centre-half position and also bolstered the defence that has repeatedly shown signs of crumbling under the slightest of pressure.
"Look at Sardar Singh and the effort he puts on the field. Even when things have gone wrong for the team, he has played his heart out," says Nobbs, facing the enormous task of getting the team spirits up for India's last match which they need to win to avert a bottom place in the 12-team Olympic Games hockey competition.
Nobbs acknowledged that his players had struggled in India's return to the Olympic Games after missing out on the qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The coach said the Indian players had improved their fitness following an extended training programme, but they were unable to produce the game they were capable of.
"Sardar is an exception. Thank God he's in this team and had played the game expected from someone representing his country," Nobbs said.
"If only the other players had been inspired by seeing the effort he has put in," said Nobbs of the star mid—fielder, who made his Olympic Games debut soon after receiving a stinging blow just under his knee during India's tour of Europe before arriving in London.
But he was back on his feet, training for the Olympic Games within a few days, and never allowed that injury to curb his domination of the midfield.
Nobbs accepts that there is a huge difference in Sardar's game and those of several others in the team.
As the team continued to suffer one defeat after another, Sardar made a comment that the Indian players seemed to be having some problem in mental conditioning for tournaments of this level.
"If Sardar says it, he is probably right," said Nobbs, who has also acknowledged that the Indian players did not show the heart for a fight when confronted with rivals who were bigger physically.
Nobbs said he understands Sardar's frustration at the way things have gone.
"When you have a role model like Sardar in the team, the players ought to be inspired by his presence and his game," the coach said.
India finished at the bottom of Pool B after losing all five matches. They were the only team not to have gained a single point and had conceded three or more goals in every match.
Under the rules for positional playoffs at the Olympic Games, there will be a direct encounter between the teams of two pools who do not make the semifinals.
South Africa, India's opponents in the playoff for the 11th and 12th spots on Saturday, were the last-placed team in Pool A. Even South Africa drew one of their five matches to gain a point.
Eight-time gold medallists India's previous lowest position in the Olympic Games, other than not qualifying for the 2008 Olympics, was the No. 8 finish at Atlanta in 1996.


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For Robert Knight, 78, a retired air traffic controller from Elyria, Ohio, reverse total shoulder replacement has relieved excruciating shoulder pain and restored his ability to use his left arm. Knight fell off a ladder in 2006 and severely tore the rotator cuff in his left shoulder. He had arthroscopic surgery and a full open procedure, but doctors still could not restore his rotator cuff.
"I was in constant pain and couldn't move my upper arm," Knight recalls. "I couldn't use my left hand. To put my hand on the table, I had to lift it up with my other hand. I thought I was going to have to live the rest of my life with my shoulder the way it was. I had such terrific pain that I had to do something -- I couldn't take it anymore."
Then a friend saw an article about reverse total shoulder replacement and Knight decided to see if the procedure could help him. He turned out to be a prime candidate.
"Patients with a failed rotator cuff develop shoulder arthritis caused by cartilage rubbing on bone," Dr. Zanotti explains. "Many times, their pain and weakness get to the point where they can't lift their arms at all. These patients typically get cortisone injections, take pain medications for years and have been told, 'That's the way you've got to live.' Not anymore. Reverse total shoulder replacement allows us to fix shoulders like these, so patients' pain is relieved and they can lift their arms again."
"The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint; the rounded portion of the upper arm is the ball and a shallow, dish-shaped structure attached to the shoulder blade is the socket," Dr. Zanotti explains. "A reverse total shoulder replacement reverses the ball and socket -- that is, the ball portion of the replacement joint is attached to the shoulder blade and the cup, or socket, is attached to th
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Skip the sunnies. Surprising, right? A shoddy pair of cheap lenses can end up causing more damage than squinting through the rays does. Most poorly made sun specs have little ultraviolet protection—just darkened shades, which can trick your pupils into dilating and letting in more damaging rays. "Ideally, you want a pair that touts 400 nanometers—meaning 100 percent—of UV protection, which keeps harmful rays from hitting the lens and retina," says Lauren Yeager, M.D., an ophthalmologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. So if those cute cat's-eye sunnies don't have a sticker clearly touting that 400 number, pick up a cheap straw or cotton wide-brimmed hat.


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text: Clinical Trials Search Results Initial search results include only NCI-sponsored clinical trials. To search all trials, click the "REFINE SEARCH" button, scroll down to the Trial ID/Sponsor section and select the "All" check box in the Sponsor of Trial section. View Content for: Patients Health Professionals Display: Title Description with: Locations Eligibility Full Trial Description Custom ? Hide Search Criteria Show Search Criteria Drug: synthetic peptide-based erythropoiesis stimulating agentFind trials that include: Any drugs shownTrial Status: Closed Results 1-2 of 2 for your search: Start Over Select All on Page Sort by: Phase of Trial Title Type of Trial Status of Trial Age Range Sponsor of Trial Protocol IDs Show 10 25 50 100 200 Results per Page 1. Study of Subcutaneously Administered Peginesatide in Anemic Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy Phase: Phase IIType: Supportive careStatus: CompletedAge: 18 to 80Sponsor: Pharmaceutical / IndustryProtocol IDs: AFX01-05, 2005-003354-10, NCT00272662 2. Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Single Intravenous Doses of Peginesatide in Healthy Volunteers Phase: Phase IType: Biomarker/Laboratory analysis, Supportive careStatus: CompletedAge: 18 to 40Sponsor: Pharmaceutical / IndustryProtocol IDs: AFX01-0401, 2004-001655-11, NCT00097747 Select All on Page Start Over


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Complementing Google's Cardboard VR headset and YouTube's support for 360-degree VR video, filmmakers will have a camera array rig for virtual-reality video creation.
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The new update to Doodle Jump adds enough features and content to make revisiting the popular and addictive jumping game worth your while.
With its large lithium ion battery and variety of charging cable adapters, the Bolt Power D28 makes an excellent charging solution for a variety of devices, including laptops, and a must-have for cars with finicky batteries.
The search giant has a low-cost contraption made of cardboard that can turn any smartphone into a virtual reality headset. The goal: mass appeal.
The Bolt Power K3 Mini's high capacity makes it an excellent travel companion, and it's essential to have along if your car's battery is prone to dying.
The robotic cheetah MIT has been working on can now autonomously detect and jump over obstacles while running at 5 miles per hour.
Want to know what your next phone's operating system will look like, how Google wants to manage all your photos or how you'll pay with your Android phone? Look here.
Commentary: Forget the privacy issues -- it was a long list of other shortcomings, social and technical, that doomed Glass. Can Google learn for the next go-round?
The search giant has found a new purpose in all our lives: Bringing together the various products and services we use to work together as easily as possible.
Commentary: My biggest takeaway from Google's Android M announcement was how underwhelmed I was by the new features. But that may well be the new normal for all mobile operating systems.


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McAfee: China The Source Of Oil And Gas Company Hacking
The computer security firm McAfee Inc. said in a report this week that hackers working in China broke into the computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical proprietary information.
The report declined to identify the five known companies that had been hacked and said that another seven or so had also been broken into but could not be identified.
"It … speaks to quite a sad state of our critical infrastructure security. These were not sophisticated attacks … yet they were very successful in achieving their goals," said Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president for threat research.
Hackers broke into the computers either through their public websites or through infected emails sent to company executives.
Alperovitch said during the two years that hackers had access to the computer networks, they focused on financial documents related to oil and gas field exploration and bidding contracts.
They also copied proprietary industrial processes.
"That information is tremendously sensitive and would be worth a huge amount of money to competitors," said Alperovitch.
The hack was traced back to China through a server leasing company in Shandong Province that hosted the malware and to Beijing IP addresses that were active from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
McAfee's report did not identify who was behind the hacking.
"We have no evidence that this is government sponsored in any way," Alperovitch told Reuters.
McAfee provided the data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"This is normal business practice in China. It's not always state sponsored. And they do it to each other," said Jim Lewis, a cyber expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
When asked if Beijing normally agreed to arrest hackers, Lewis responded: "It's not impossible, but it hasn't happened very often."
The Chinese government says their country is also a victim of hacking. However, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters at a press briefing on Thursday in Beijing that he was unaware of this case.
"I really have no grasp of this situation, but we frequently hear about these types of reports," Ma said.
Western governments and companies have been concerned about corporate espionage based on China.
"We are aware of these types of threats, but we can't comment specifically about what's in the Night Dragon report," said FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer.
According to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, Washington believes that two members of the country's ruling body orchestrated hacking attacks on Google Inc. that briefly prompted the company to pull out of China.
The French government is looking into a possible Chinese role in spying on carmaker Renault SA's and Nissan's electric vehicle program.
A Chinese student working at car parts maker Valeo was sentenced to prison in 2007 for obtaining confidential documents for the automaker. A French tribunal stopped short of an industrial espionage verdict, instead finding that she had "abused trust."
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The Register needs your help.
Work is underway on the third in a series of historical books, and the Register is looking for photos of Erie County or the Erie Isles after 1974.
The photos can range from sports teams to school classes, church groups, family gatherings, businesses, transportation, natural disasters, community events and more. The photos will appear in "A Pictorial History 1975-Today: Erie County and The Erie Isles."
"As with the first two books, a big part of every book is those pictures brought in by the general public," said Bill Ney, circulation director.
Those interested can bring their pictures to the Quality Inn (Greentree), Royal Palm Room, 1935 Cleveland Road, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, from 1-4 p.m. Sunday and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday. Those closer to Milan can bring their pictures from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at Milan Library, 19 E. Church St.
People don't have to part with their pictures; photos will be scanned while they wait.
Ney said people can look for upcoming pre-sale ads to order the books in advance at a reduced rate.
"The first two books have been very popular," Ney said. "They've been well received. We just think this would be a nice ending to this particular series."


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continued B'ville did not allow a goal for nearly 10 minutes before Meghan Duffy broke the drought with two goals 39 seconds apart. That, plus Hanna Haven's tally, pulled the Northstars even 4-4 late in the half.
Then it was the Bees' turn to surge, as Gebhardt (twice) and Pollard converted three goals between them in a 48-second span, and though Sarah Bowles also converted for C-NS, the Bees took a 7-5 lead to the break.
They continued to go back and forth early in the second half, C-NS twice cutting the margin to one, and B'ville twice answering with goals from Kennedy Frink and Marjorie Dehm.
Now up 9-7, the Bees found itself in the same situation as in its Class A semifinal win over Liverpool, facing the same strategic choice of holding the ball longer, or attacking and trying to add to its lead.
This time around, B'ville chose the latter course, doubling its margin to four as Gebhardt scored for the fourth time and Marjorie Dehm got her second goal before Klaben struck with 15:13 to play and stretched the Bees' advantage to 12-7.
And the Bees' defense, anchored by Jaclyn Hingre, Amanda Klein and Samantha Ward, made sure that lead stuck, blanking C-NS for nearly 15 minutes as the margin grew to 13-7 thanks to Pollard's third goal with 8:14 left.
Rowe said that his team's patience and success on the offensive end gave confidence to the defense, allowing them to be more aggressive and effective. And he had particular praise for Pollard, saying that she never comes off the field and is strong on both ends.
By the time Bowles broke the Northstars' drought with 6:19 left, B'ville could afford to slow it down - which it did, eating away at the remaining clock and absorbing late goals from Ryan and Haven until it could celebrate a long-awaited championship.
On Saturday, the Bees go to West Genesee High School to play the Section IV champion in the Class A regional final, eyeing a return to the state final four at SUNY-Cortland that also would be 13 years in the making.
"They want to get back to the state championship," said Rowe. "They want to see what that is all about."
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On February 24-25, 2015 in Victoria, British Columbia, Fr. Thomas Rosica addressed the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Western Canada on the themes of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family and on Evangelization and Families. The text of his address on "Evangelization and Families" is found below:
Your Excellencies,
In his homily at the Canonization Mass for Sts. John XXIII and John Paul II last April, Pope Francis described John Paul II with these words:
"In his own service to the People of God, Saint John Paul II was the pope of the family. He himself once said that he wanted to be remembered as the pope of the family. I am particularly happy to point this out as we are in the process of journeying with families towards the Synod on the family. It is surely a journey which, from his place in heaven, he guides and sustains."
Reflecting on the legacy of St. John Paul II, there is no question that he was a preeminent champion of marriage and family life. He believed that the family would play a vital role in the new springtime of evangelization and was much more than mere bystander in the Church's evangelizing mission. He presented a deeply positive and bold view of marriage and family life. He was confident that no ideology, however daunting, can extinguish what God has set in motion. While the family finds itself in the midst of an eroding cultural crisis, facing militant attempts to redefine marriage contrary to reason and the Gospel, John Paul II reoriented our gaze to the truth of Christian marriage as a fruit of the redemption of Christ. How many times did he say: "The future of humanity passes through the family!"
John Paul II's writings on this topic "Original Unity of Man and Woman" "Familiaris Consortio" and "Letter to Families," presented the family as rooted in the economy of salvation: God's act of creating the world and offering salvation through Christ—with an important role to play in the order of redemption. The family, as such, must continue the work of Christ and this work must begin first within itself, within each individual family before flowing outward to the extended community.
John Paul wished for us to understand the truth about ourselves and not settle for reductions of our personhood. Marriage faces the same reductionist onslaught which assails us, and this is the reason, in an era of anthropological confusion—who and what is a man and a woman? – that marriage between the two is under attack. Without a proper understanding of who we are, the purpose and meaning of marriage cannot be understood in its fullness.
The Evangelizing Mission of the Family
The "future of evangelization," insisted St. John Paul, "depends in great part on the Church of the home" (Familiaris Consortio 52). In Redemptor Hominis, he wrote that "the missionary attitude always begins with a feeling of deep esteem for what is in man" (RH 12). In a seemingly radical statement John Paul proclaimed that "Man is the primary and fundamental way for the Church, the way traced out by Christ Himself, the way that leads invariably through the mystery of the Incarnation and Redemption" (RH 14). In his 1994 "Letter to Families", he repeated this theme, stating that "Christ entrusted man to the Church; he entrusted man to her as the way of her mission and ministry.
The lingering question for John Paul II was this: How can the family begin to evangelize and build a civilization of love? He notes that in order for the family to be a sign of Christ's presence in the world and to take up its mission as evangelizing community, each member of the family, particularly the spouses, must end the reign of sin in their lives (cf. FC 63). You cannot bear fruit if you are severed from the vine, you cannot give what you do not have. In order for the family to participate in this task it has to be constantly nourished and sustained at the wellspring of grace in the Liturgy. Furthermore "the little domestic Church, like the greater Church, needs to be constantly and intensely evangelized: hence its duty regarding permanent education in faith" (FC 51).
John Paul II left us with a rich, impressive, profound and lofty theology of marriage and family life. His vision flowed from the inherent dignity of every man and woman, of every human being. Some people may be intimidated by John Paul's reflections, seeing them as daunting, too philosophical and overly academic. Yet, despite the scholarship and depth of his writing, Pope John Paul II had no intention of having his teachings about the human person remain only on the academic level. I think you will agree that his reflections are deeply Christological and Trinitarian, and they are meant to change lives.
Pope Benedict XVI
Throughout his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI turned attention on many occasions to the sacrament of marriage and family life. The transmission of the faith from one generation to the next has always found a natural home in the family. In a May 2009 homily in Nazareth, he suggested that children need the benefits of a "human ecology," need to be raised in "a milieu" where they learn: "To love and to cherish others. To be honest and respectful to all. To practice the virtues of mercy and forgiveness."
At the Milan World Meeting of Families in 2012, Pope Benedict XVI said: "Falling in love is a wonderful thing." However, the pope described falling in love as the start of a couple's journey, not its highest point. Something "more wonderful still" awaits the couple, he said. Responding to a question asked during a June 2, 2012 "evening of witness" in Milan by an engaged couple from Madagascar, the pope said: "I often think of the wedding feast of Cana. The first wine is very fine: This is falling in love. But it does not last until the end: A second wine has to come later, it has to ferment and grow, to mature…The definitive love that can truly become this 'second wine is more wonderful still; it is better than the first wine. And this is what we must seek."
"Discover the greatness and beauty of marriage," Pope Benedict said to young people participating in the March 2010 International Youth Forum south of Rome. In a message to the forum, he wrote: "The relationship between the man and the woman reflects divine love in a quite special way; therefore the conjugal bond acquires an immense dignity."
Because "human beings are made for love," the pope said, "their lives are completely fulfilled only if they are lived in love." He explained that "the vocation to love takes different forms according to the state of life," one being marriage.
Over the years, at different times and speaking from different perspectives, Pope Benedict directed attention both to marriage's "greatness and beauty" and to family life's essential roles. Viewing the family as evangelization's natural home, Pope Benedict began the 2012 Synod on the New Evangelization with the words: "a new evangelization is unthinkable without acknowledging a specific responsibility to proclaim the Gospel to families and to sustain them in their task of education."
In his 2012 Apostolic Exhortation on the Church in the Middle East, he wrote: "Called to live a Christlike love each day, the Christian family is a privileged expression of the church's presence and mission in the world."
The Challenge of Evangelii Gaudium
Let us consider how Pope Francis is opening up the theological vision of his two immediate predecessors. In his first apostolic exhortation, on "The Joy of the Gospel," Pope Francis takes the magnificent theology of John Paul II and Benedict XVI and shows us how to apply it in the trenches, in the peripheries of ordinary, daily life. This application is not without immense challenges. "The process of secularization tends to reduce the faith and the Church to sphere of the private and personal. Furthermore, by completely rejecting the transcendent, it has produced a growing deterioration of ethics, a weakening of the sense of personal and collective sin, and a steady increase in relativism" (64).
66. (EG) The family is experiencing a profound cultural crisis, as are all communities and social bonds. In the case of the family, the weakening of these bonds is particularly serious because the family is the fundamental cell of society, where we learn to live with others despite our differences and to belong to one another; it is also the place where parents pass on the faith to their children. Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.
From the Vatican, February 2, 2014
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Dear families,
I am writing this letter to you on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. The evangelist Luke tells us that the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph, in keeping with the Law of Moses, took the Baby Jesus to the temple to offer him to the Lord, and that an elderly man and woman, Simeon and Anna, moved by the Holy Spirit, went to meet them and acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah (cf. Lk 2:22-38). Simeon took him in his arms and thanked God that he had finally "seen" salvation. Anna, despite her advanced age, found new vigour and began to speak to everyone about the Baby. It is a beautiful image: two young parents and two elderly people, brought together by Jesus. He is the one who brings together and unites generations! He is the inexhaustible font of that love which overcomes every occasion of self-absorption, solitude, and sadness. In your journey as a family, you share so many beautiful moments: meals, rest, housework, leisure, prayer, trips and pilgrimages, and times of mutual support… Nevertheless, if there is no love then there is no joy, and authentic love comes to us from Jesus. He offers us his word, which illuminates our path; he gives us the Bread of life which sustains us on our journey."
In Rio de Janeiro during the mega-World Youth Day of 2013, Francis offered us five key elements of marriage and family life:
- Thursday, July 25 Address to Community of Varginha (Manguinhos): There is neither real promotion of the common good nor real human development when there is ignorance of the fundamental pillars that govern a nation, its non-material goods: life, which is a gift of God, a value always to be protected and promoted; the family, the foundation of coexistence and a remedy against social fragmentation; integral education, which cannot be reduced to the mere transmission of information for the purposes of generating profit; health, which must seek the integral well-being of the person, including the spiritual dimension, essential for human balance and healthy coexistence; security, in the conviction that violence can be overcome only by changing human hearts."
Friday, July 26 Angelus: "How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family."
Saturday, July 27 Interview on Radio Catedral (radio broadcasting station of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro): "Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and it is necessary for the survival of humanity. Without the family, the cultural survival of the human race would be at risk. The family, whether we like it or not, is the foundation."
Sunday, July 28 Address to the World Youth Day Volunteers: "God calls you to make definitive choices, and he has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move forward toward personal fulfillment. God calls each of us to be holy, to live his life, but he has a particular path for each one of us. Some are called to holiness through family life in the sacrament of Marriage. Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion. Is it out of fashion? In a culture of relativism and the ephemeral, many preach the importance of 'enjoying' the moment. They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, 'for ever', because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love. I have confidence in you and I pray for you. Have the courage 'to swim against the tide'. And also have the courage to be happy."
Sunday, July 28 Address to the Bishops of Brazil: "In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it."
Last November 2014, Pope Francis addressed a Colloquium being held at the Vatican on the theme "The Complementarity of Man and Woman in Marriage." Contrary to some thoughts circulating about this meeting, the colloquium was not called to serve as a corrective to October's Synod. Francis began his address by dwelling on the word "complementarity": "a previous word, with multiple meanings." Although complementarity can refer "situations where one of two things adds to, completes, or fulfills a lack in the other" it also means much more than that. Christians, he said, "find its deepest meaning in the first Letter to the Corinthians where Saint Paul tells us that the Spirit has endowed each of us with different gifts so that-just as the human body's members work together for the good of the whole-everyone's gifts can work together for the benefit of each."
"Complementarity is at the root of marriage and family." Although there are tensions in families, the family also provides the framework in which those tensions can be resolved." He said that complementarity should not be confused with a simplistic notion that "all the roles and relations of the sexes are fixed in a single, static pattern." Rather, "complementarity will take many forms as each man and woman brings his or her distinctive contributions to their marriage and to the formation of their children."
Pope Francis said that the crisis in the family has produced a crisis "of human ecology," similar to the crisis that affects the natural environment. "Although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well, slower in our culture, and also in our Catholic Church. It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology and advance it."
To do that, the Pope said, "It is necessary first to promote the fundamental pillars that govern a nation: its non-material goods." He noted that the family is the foundation of society, and that children have the right to grow up in a family with a mother and a father "capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity."
He also called on participants in the Colloquium "to lift up yet another truth about marriage: that permanent commitment to solidarity, fidelity, and fruitful love responds to the deepest longings of the human heart." This is especially important for young people "who represent our future." Finally, Pope Francis said the family is not an ideological concept, but an "anthropological fact." That is, the family is not a "conservative" or a "progressive" notion, but is a reality that transcends ideological labels.
During his recent trip to Manila, Francis held a meeting with 20,000 Filipino families in which he blasted the "ideological colonization" of the family. It refers to the strongly held belief among many Catholics in places such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia that Western governments and NGOs, as well as international bodies such as the United Nations, are using their control over development aid to impose their agendas. That same night in Manila, Francis again departed from his prepared text to offer a strong defense of Pope Paul VI and his controversial 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae that upheld the contraception ban.
"He (Paul VI) had the strength to defend openness to life at a time when many people were worried about population growth."
On the return flight from Manila to Rome, Francis gave a long answer to a question asked of him about the meaning of ideological colonization. He told a story from his time as an Argentinian bishop about a government education minister needing a loan to build schools for the poor, and getting an offer on the condition that textbooks in these schools contain references to "gender theory." This phrase refers to the idea that sexual identity is a social construct, not part of any natural law, and thus all types of sexual orientations and behaviors are perfectly acceptable. Francis described this colonization as an assault on the right of peoples to make their own choices and to preserve their own identity.
Some headlines from that in-flight news conference focused on the pope's green light to limit the size of Catholic families, in part because he served up an irresistible sound-bite: "To be good Catholics, we don't have to breed like rabbits." Yet as insiders parse the pope's words, they'll discover that he was in no way talking about contraception, since he once again praised Paul VI and even said that Pope Paul was trying to ward off a "neo-Malthusian" ideology of population control.
Family as Domestic Church
The family functions as a small "domestic church" that can be a privileged route to evangelization. Cardinal Kasper has spoken and written about the rediscovery of the "gospel of the family," the vision of the family in the Book of Genesis and in God's plan. Kasper reflects on the structures of sin within the family, including family problems, tensions between men and women, and the suffering of women and mothers. But Cardinal Kasper also said that the main purpose of his now well-known address to the cardinals in consistory in February 2014 was to deepen the theological understanding of challenges facing the family, ahead of the first synod on that subject to be held in the Vatican last October. While the Church must remain faithful to its teaching on the indissolubility of the sacrament of marriage, it is vital to "help, support, encourage" those experiencing difficulties in their family life. "The Church has to be close to them, to help, support and encourage them, to find a way between 'rigorism' (strictness) – which cannot be the way of normal Christians – and a pure 'laxism' (leniency) …I think this can be the only approach of the Church today…"
Pope Francis and Cardinal Kasper maintain the full teaching of the Church but the teaching has to be applied to concrete situations, as Jesus did and as Pope Francis does very often. The doctrine of the Church is not an ideology in the clouds. It's about a God who wishes to be present and close to his people. Since the topic of this presentation is about challenges facing marriage and family life. I would like to propose to you several Scripture passages for your consideration. Passages which remind us that though we should strive for the highest ideals, we must also recognize and accept people where they are at.
Emmanuel, the Prayer and the Promise
Matthew's infancy narrative (1:1-25), provides a wide-angle view of the Incarnation event, against a rich, biblical panorama. More than Mark and Luke, Matthew stresses the Jewish origin of Jesus: the genealogy presents him as "son of David, son of Abraham" (1:1) and goes back no further. Matthew is concerned with 14 generations, probably because 14 is the numerical value of the Hebrew letters forming the name of David.
While the genealogy shows the continuity of God's providential plan from Abraham on, discontinuity and irregularity are also present. The women Tamar (1:3), Rahab and Ruth (1:5), and the wife of Uriah, Bathsheba (1:6), bore their sons through unions that were in varying degrees strange and unexpected.
These "irregularities" culminate in the great "irregularity" of the Messiah's birth of a young virgin. Matthew has drawn our attention to the peculiarities of these biblical women of the Old Testament, perhaps in order to warn us that something even stranger is coming, or perhaps to enable us, when the news is announced, to connect it with God's strange way of operating in the past. Our God writes straight with crooked lines, and Jesus' genealogy is living proof of that fact!
From Joseph's perspective
Matthew's story is told from Joseph's point of view, while the more familiar account from Luke is told from the perspective of Mary. Joseph, a righteous man, is presented as a devout observer of the Mosaic Law (1:19). His betrothal to Mary was the first part of the marriage, constituting a man and woman as husband and wife. Subsequent infidelity was considered adultery. Some months after the betrothal, the husband would take his wife into his home, at which time normal married life began. Joseph's decision to divorce Mary is overcome by the heavenly command that he take her into his home and accept the child as his own. The natural genealogical line is broken, but the promises to David are fulfilled; through Joseph's adoption the child belongs to the family of David.
Joseph protected and provided for Jesus and Mary. He named Jesus, taught him how to pray, how to work, how to be a man. While no words or texts are attributed to him, we can be sure that Joseph pronounced two of the most important words that could ever be spoken, when he named his son "Jesus" and called him "Emmanuel." At Christmas Eve each year, it becomes clear to us that the story of the birth of a baby in Bethlehem was no idyllic country folk tale. It was the true fulfillment of the hopes and longings, dreams and desires of the people of ancient Israel.
What do we learn from this powerful story of Jesus' origins? God never abandons humanity, but rather enters into all that frequently makes life on earth so difficult. In the name "Emmanuel," we find the answer to humanity's deepest longings for God throughout the ages. Emmanuel is both a prayer and plea on our behalf, and a promise and declaration on God's. When we pronounce the word, we are really praying and pleading: "God, be with us!" And when God speaks it, the Almighty, Eternal, Omnipresent Creator of the world is telling us: "I am with you" in this Child. The name Emmanuel is also alluded to at the end of Matthew's Gospel where the Risen Jesus assures his disciples of his continued presence: "I am with you always, until the end of the age" (28:20).
The Future of Humanity Passes Through the Family
Reflection on the Holy Family
There is a Gospel story unique to Luke (2:41-52) that relates an incident from Jesus' youth. Luke's infancy narrative, however scarce in details concerning the first part of Jesus' life, mentions that "his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover" (2:41), an indication of their piety, and of their fidelity to the law and to the tradition of Israel.
"When Jesus was 12 years old, they went up according to custom. When they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, without his parents knowing it" (2:42-43). After searching for three days, "they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions" (2:46). Jesus' mysterious words to his parents seem to subdue their joy at finding him: "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" (2:49) The later question can also be translated, "Did you not know that I must be immersed in my Father's work?" In either case, Jesus refers to God as his Father. His divine sonship, and his obedience to his heavenly Father's will, take precedence over his ties to his family.
Apart from this event, the whole period of the infancy and youth of Jesus is passed over in silence in the Gospel. It is the time of his "hidden life," summarized by Luke in two simple statements: Jesus "went down with [Mary and Joseph] and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them" (Luke 2:51); and "He progressed steadily in wisdom and age and grace before God and men" (Luke 2:52). With this episode, the infancy narrative ends just as it began, in the setting of the Jerusalem Temple. We learn from the Gospels that Jesus lived in his own family, in the house of Joseph, who took the place of a father in regard to Mary's Son by assisting and protecting him, and gradually training him in his own trade of carpentry. Indeed, the people of the town of Nazareth regarded him as "the carpenter's son" (Matthew 13:55), asking with surprise: "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?" (Mark 6:3).
Besides his mother, they mentioned also his "brothers" and his "sisters," who lived at Nazareth. It was they who, as the evangelist Mark mentions, sought to dissuade Jesus from his activity of teaching (Mark 3:21). Evidently, they did not find in him anything to justify the beginning of a public ministry. They thought that Jesus was just like any other Israelite, and should remain such.
Does the story sound familiar? The anxiety and misunderstanding experienced by the Holy Family should not be hidden from families today that experience similar situations. We have often presented the Holy Family of Nazareth as the picture perfect snapshot of family life, without any blemish or difficulty. When we connect people with the real, daily life situations of the Holy Family, and allow the utter humanity of Mary, Joseph and Jesus to shine through, contemporary families will look to them for inspiration, intercession and hope.
In the midst of last October's Extraordinary Synod, Peter Manseauoct wrote an article for the New York Times in which he asked the fundamental question: "What is a Catholic Family?" (NYT October 17, 2014), He concluded his article with these words:
"…a woman who conceived a child before she was married, a chaste stepfather who nearly divorced her as a result, and that original sign of contradiction, the human son of God. A church that claims to descend from this most untraditional of domestic arrangements might ask itself: Was any family ever more irregular than that?"
It was through the irregularity at the beginning, ordinary daily living, and daily acts of faithfulness, kindness, generosity and love that surrounded Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Mary, that provided for him a beautiful environment in which to grow and mature. Holiness flows from wholeness and goodness.
School of Nazareth
The moving words of Pope Paul VI spoken in Nazareth on January 5, 1964, are a beautiful reflection on the mystery of Nazareth and of the Holy Family. His words inspire all of us to imitate God's family in their beautiful values of silence, family life, and work. He said:
Nazareth is a kind of school where we may begin to discover what Christ's life was like and even to understand his Gospel. Here we can observe and ponder the simple appeal of the way God's Son came to be known, profound yet full of hidden meaning.
First we learn from its silence. If only we could once again appreciate its great value. We need this wonderful state of mind, beset, as we are, by the cacophony of strident protests and conflicting claims so characteristic of these turbulent times. The silence of Nazareth should teach us how to meditate in peace and quiet, to reflect on the deeply spiritual, and to be open to the voice of God's inner wisdom and the counsel of his true teachers. Nazareth can teach us the value of study and preparation, of meditation, of a well-ordered personal spiritual life, and of silent prayer that is known only to God.
Second, we learn about family life. May Nazareth serve as a model of what the family should be. May it show us the family's holy and enduring character and exemplifying its basic function in society: a community of love and sharing, beautiful for the problems it poses and the rewards it brings – in sum, the perfect setting for rearing children – and for this there is no substitute.
Finally, in Nazareth, the home of a craftsman's son, we learn about work and the discipline it entails. I would especially like to recognize its value – demanding yet redeeming – and to give it proper respect. I would remind everyone that work has its own dignity. On the other hand, it is not an end in itself. Its value and free character, however, derive not only from its place in the economic system, as they say, but rather from the purpose it serves.
Contemporary Challenges for Marriage and Family Life
As bishops, priests and the entire Christian community, and as society in general, we must do more to encourage the committed relationship of man and woman that remains so basic to all civilizations, and has proven to be the best support for the rights and needs of children. The Christian family is no longer capable of singularly transmitting the faith to the next generation, and neither is the parish, even though it continues to be the indispensable structure for the Church's pastoral mission in any given place. As the keystone of society, the family is the most favorable environment in which to welcome children.
We must reflect carefully on the social consequences involved in the redefinition of marriage, examining all that is entailed if society no longer gives a privileged place and fundamental value to the lifelong union of a man and a woman in matrimony. Care must be taken with the language we use to describe these consequences. Parishes, dioceses, and lay movements that do not have creative pastoral strategies and vocational programs about marriage for young people leave the door open to tremendous moral confusion and misunderstanding, misinformation, emptiness.
At the same time, we cannot forget that other bonds of love and interdependency, of commitment and mutual responsibility exist in society. They may be good; they may even be recognized in law. They are not the same as marriage: they are something else. No extension of terminology for legal purposes will change the observable reality that only the committed union of a man and a woman carries not only the bond of interdependency between the two adults, but the inherent capacity to bring forth children.
"The future of humanity passes through the family," as Saint John Paul II would say so often. The foundation of society is the family. And the foundation of the family is marriage. The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman. The family is the most favorable environment in which children can be born and raised. We need young adults to say "I do" with joy, conviction, faith, and hope. They are our future and our hope. Without married people, we cannot build the future of society and the Church. Without committed, married people, our world will not give rise to the holy families of today.
The recently published Directory for Homilies includes two sections on marriage and family life:
From the Directory for Homilies
- The institution of the family faces great challenges in various parts of the world today, and it is entirely appropriate for the homilist to speak about these. However, rather than simply giving a moral exhortation on family values, the preacher should take his cue from the Scripture readings of this day to speak of the Christian family as a school of discipleship. Christ, whose birth we are celebrating, came into the world to do the will of his Father, such an obedience that is docile towards the movements of the Holy Spirit has a place in the life of every Christian family. Joseph obeys the angel and takes the Child and his Mother into Egypt (Year A); Mary and Joseph obey the Law by presenting their Baby in the Temple (Year B) and going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover (Year C); Jesus for his part is obedient to his earthly parents, but his desire to be in his Father's house is even greater (Year C). As Christians, we are also members of another family, which gathers around the family table of the altar to be fed on the sacrifice that came about because Christ was obedient unto death. We should see our own families as a domestic Church in which we put into practice the pattern of self-sacrificing love we encounter in the Eucharist. Thus all Christian families open outward to become part of Jesus' new and larger family: "For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother" (Mk 3:35).
- This understanding of the Christian meaning of family life assists the preacher in speaking about the reading from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians. The Apostle's instruction that wives should be subordinate to their husbands can be disturbing to people of our day; if the homilist does not plan to speak about this directive, it might be more prudent to use the shorter version of the reading. However, the difficult passages of Scripture often have the most to teach us, and this reading provides an opportunity for the homilist to address a theme that may be uncongenial to modern ears, but which in fact does make a valuable and necessary point when properly understood. We can gain insight into the meaning of this text by consulting a similar one, Eph 5:21-6:4. There also Paul is speaking about the mutual responsibilities of family life. The key sentence is this: "Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ" (Eph 5:21). The originality of the Apostle's teaching is not that wives should be submissive to their husbands; that was simply presumed in the culture of his day. What is new, and distinctively Christian, is, first, that such submission should be mutual: if the wife is to obey her husband, the husband in turn should, like Christ, lay down his very life for his wife. Secondly, the motive for this mutual subordination is not simply for the sake of harmony in the family or the good of society: no, it is made out of reverence for Christ. In other words, mutual submission in the family is an expression of Christian discipleship; the family home is, or should be, a place where we manifest our love for God by laying down our lives for one another. The homilist can challenge his hearers to make real in their own relationships that self-sacrificial love which is at the heart of Christ's life and mission, and which we celebrate in our "family meal" of the Eucharist.
We need new strategies, new language, and creative pastoral outreach to encourage young adults to consider sacramental marriage and family life. We must develop better methods of evangelization and catechesis to convince young adults that marriage is good, beautiful and worthwhile! We must discover new avenues of communication and outreach to those recently married. What do we provide for them? How do we thank the thousands of couples who, day in and day out, before our very eyes, lay down their lives for others and serve the Lord and their families with great generosity. And let us never forget those who have loved and lost, and those who have suffered the pain of separation, divorce and alienation. May our field hospitals provide for them healing, consolation and loving welcome.
Pope Francis reminds us each day in word and by his actions of the importance of being close to people and accompanying them along the way. In Evangelii Gaudium, Francis devotes much attention to the homily at mass. I consider this a brilliant pastoral strategy to reach people today and let them know of the beauty of marriage and family life.
"The homily joins the living hearts of the Lord and his people. The people are silent and listen as God speaks."
"The preacher is called to recognize in the people the living water of their faith and culture; where the desire for God is ardent and alive, as well as where the dialogue with God has broken down."
"The Church preaches as a mother. There is trust in children when their mother speaks. Both mother and child listen to each other. Their conversation can lead to learning and correction."
"Our preaching is to be maternal: close to the people, with a warm tone of voice, unpretentious and joyful."
"When Jesus preached he looked beyond the weaknesses and failings of the people. He preached with mercy and kindness. He was filled with the joy of the spirit. He preached the truth with the beauty of images."
"Our challenge as preachers is to communicate the truth of God's love and to encourage the joyful living of good lives."
"Our task is to help our people desire the joy of God's embrace."


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`hello again,the type of fitting is a GU10 lampholder,it also can be wired for low voltage but i do not want low voltage halogen because i think they have avery short life.That is the reason i decided to go for LEDs.the fitting has three terminals ,live neutral and earth.The bulb i am using is a PAR16 GU10 240v led lamp.
sorry i forgot to say this is not a fan kit.i just want to replace an old ceiling rose with three of these LEDs
I see. Is your existing ceiling fan on a 120 volt circuit?
I have seen a few of these lamps and most are rated for 100-240 volts.
Also what brand is this lamp?
Ok, give just a second to look up the specs for this lamp. Thanks
the actual LED bulb is aurora
Ok. All you will have to do is connect the live and the white to the 2 live hot wires on the ceiling fan. There may or may not be a place to connect the ground. The 240 volt confused me for a second until I saw that you where from the UK.
If there is a white wire coming from the ceiling fan connect it to the white on the GU10 base.
i do not have a ceiling fan sparky,all i want to know is can i distribute the power that is at the ceiling rose of the existing light via a junction box to the three 240v LEDs
Oh. I am sorry for the misunderstanding.. Yes you should be able to do that.
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Brazil 1 Germany 7: Match highlights, key battle and what the result means
Published on Jul 9, 2014 6:43 AM
Samba football is well and truly dead and buried on an extraordinary World Cup night in Belo Horizonte when hosts Brazil were utterly humiliated by Germany in a 7-1 semi-final thrashing.
It was the biggest loss in the Selecao's illustrious history and without a doubt, this nightmare will be burned into the memory of any Brazilian who had witnessed the massacre.
Match highlights
- Germany raced to an early lead when David Luiz left Thomas Mueller unmarked to volley home Toni Kroos' 11th minute corner.
- Miroslav Klose slots home at the second attempt in the 23rd min to bag the all-time scoring record at the World Cup finals. He now has 16, one more than retired Brazil legend Ronaldo.
- Kroos then scored twice in two mins (24th and 26th) as the Selecao totally collapsed in defence with Luiz totally inept in marshalling the defence in Thiago Silva's absence.
- It was 5-0 by the 29th min when defensive midfielder Sami Khedira side-foots home with the Brazil defence in a total mess.
- Even though the hosts tried to fight back early in the second period, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was in top form. This inevitably led to substitute Andre Schuerrle, who injected pace into the side, to score two breakaway goals in the 69th and 79th mins.
- Oscar finally notched a consolation in the final minute when he cut in from the left before drilling past Neuer. But the damage was already done in the first 29 mins.
Key battle
David Luiz vs David Luiz
It was meant to be his finest hour in Brazil's canary yellow shirt. After his piledriver free-kick against Colombia in the quarter-finals, Luiz took over the armband for the semis after Silva's suspension.
The centre-back needed to marshal the defence, rally his team and perform heroics against Germany but what we saw was a display that reeked of poor tactical discipline.
Luiz left Mueller all alone when the opener went in. It was a shocking piece of defending in a set-piece situation when it demanded man-to-man marking.
He was also nowhere to be seen when Klose, Kroos, Khedira and Schuerrle scored their goals.
Instead of providing the leadership that Brazil desperately needed, Luiz abandoned ship, running off to play his own game and even appearing on the left wing for a moment.
And he peppered his display with lots of niggly fouls and was engaged in a running battle with Mueller that nearly escalated into a fight.
In the end, Germany didn't even need to take on Luiz. The Brazilian took himself on and defeated himself.
Man of the Match
He is a junior member of the side, the lesser light in a three-man world-class midfield of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Khedira but Kroos did more than most to destroy Brazil.
Apart from demonstrating his finishing skills with a brace of goals, the Bayern Munich man played 71 passes with an accuracy of 93 per cent. More importantly, 25 of those passes were inside Brazilian territory and he registered an outstanding accuracy of 96 per cent, with one of those passes leading to Khedira's goal.
Even with constant harassment and fouling, Brazil struggled to dispossess the 24-year-old, who simply tore the Selecao to pieces and taught the hosts a real lesson in football.
What the result means
For Germany, they steamroll into the final at Maracana Stadium bursting with confidence after such a one-sided victory.
Joachim Loew's team are assured that all three departments - Defence, midfield and attack, are functioning extremely well and they will not fear their next opponent, be it Argentina or the Netherlands.
As for Brazil, this hammering has definitely eclipsed Maracanazo, the ghost of 1950 when they lost 2-1 to Uruguay in the final game as hosts.
Samba football is part of the country's DNA but the Class of 2014 prefers to play the role of the school bully, kicking their way throughout the tournament.
Against a technical and tactical team like Germany, the Selecao were brutally exposed as the European side almost scored at will, passed in neat triangles and ran circles around the hosts.
The mental scars will live long. Brazil mourned for 64 years about that 1950 disaster. The trauma of Belo Horizonte will surely last longer.
RIP samba football.


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how to modify XF86Config in RH 9 after installing NVIDIA driver
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Thanks to anyone who might be able to offer some help. Maybe there is some "HOWTO" available anywhere.
Here's my question:
I installed the nVIDIA driver 1.0-4363 in RedHat 9. I did read the release 40 notes,
but I can't find how to modify XF86Config.
I tried replacing: load "nv" by: load "nvidia". That failed, so I did:
"modprobe" to actually load the driver.
Now, lsmod says:
nvidia 1672480 0 (unused)
I assume the nvidia driver did load, but something still prevents it from running.
What can I do to correct the situation?
PS: 'Attach file' does not allow me to add more than one file to this thread. I also wanted to enclose XF86Config, but then it takes away the XFree86.0.log. I'd be happy to mail additional info later.
well exit outta of X and "su" to root, and type "pico /etc/X11/XF86Config" and scroll down to the spot where it says Load "nv" and change nv to nvidia, and also put a "#" at the beginning of the line that says "load "dri""...press ctrl-x, press yes(y) to save and you will be put back to console, type "exit" to be put back to regular user privileges, and then type startx...
Thanks you for your swift reply.
I pressed 'Ctrl-Alt-F2' to exit X (Hope that's correct)
Here's what I got, when I entered as root:
pico /etc/X11/XF86Config
bash: pico: command not found
So, I used 'vi' for editing XF86Config
In section: "Device" I replaced "nv" -> "nvidia"
Did not find the line: load "dri" though.
(I noticed there is a line that contains: 'glx', should that stay?)
After having replaced "nv" -> "nividia" in XF86Config, it reports:
(EE) NVIDIA (0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(BTW: I run Linux kernel 2.40.20-13.9)
Then the former XF86Config file is restored.
So X starts up the way it used to.
Maybe I'd better forget about 3D acceleration running this kernel?
I figured a way around this and posted it a couple of weeks ago.
Uninstall all nvidia software and drivers.
rpm -V all XFree rpms.
refresh any drivers that have problems, so that ALL XFree rpms are happy.
Install the driver PREVIOUS to 4363 and run the script to make the driver.
Then run nvidia-update and it will load the 4363 and do the build and all works fine that way.
Be sure to run the install file and the update once and only once.
Works fine this way and loads glx.
Thank your for your kind reply.
Unfortunately, I hardly understand what should be done.
I have no idea how to uninstall the NVIDIA stuff.
What's the command(s)? How to check if it has been done the right way?
How should that driver's "refresh" be done? What are the commands?
Which drivers should be happy? How do I know they are?
Sorry for being that ignorant. I have no Linux background.
I can imaging it may take too long to explain step be step. I don't want to steal your time. So if it's too complex, just forget about it. I can live without 3D graphics.
ok first, when you press ctrl-alt-f2 you are not exiting X...that is completly wrong..and the reason why i told you to use pico is because when your installing redhat there is an option to install the package "pine" which is a text based email program, which is packed with pico...its by far the easiest text editor imo, so thats why i suggested you use it, so you must of not installed pine, but anyways...if you dont' see load dri in the modules section then thats cool, thats just one less thing you have to comment out...all you have to do is make sure it doesn't load anyways...
and as to uninstalling nvidia drivers, based on if you using the .run file you would issue a command logged under root:
"sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run -uninstall"
now as of exiting X properly and not how you were doing it, i will just explain the steps that most take and the steps i use...
first open up the console and log in as root, and edit the file /etc/inittab
you will see the line that says id:5:initdefault...change the 5 to a 3 so when you reboot your computer it will boot directly into the console and not into X...then you install the drivers, make the required changes to the xf86config file, and then type exit to get outta root privledges to go back to your basic user, and type startx...if it works, then when in X you can edit the inittab file again and change it back to a 5,so for the next time you reboot you can boot directly back to X, and if don't work then you'll be able to reboot your computer back to text mode, and then you will have to troubleshoot, so we'll hope that doesn't happen :D
if something doesn't make sense, just post back with more question, i am kinda in a hurry so i had to type that quick...GL!
First, I should thank you for your time. Feels really nice to get this kind of support.
Well, I learned how to change runlevels. It's simply: 'telinit 3'. And to startx again: 'telinit 5'. No booting to switch runlevels.
I understand the uninstall command should be: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run --uninstall (that's a double - - after 'run')
It confirmed it really did uninstall. Clear.
Apparantly, I am missing 'kerel-headers' (whatever that is) to istall the nvidia driver for kernel 2.4.20-13.9
So, I rebooted and changed to a previous kernel: 2.4.20-8. (I still had that one sitting in GRUB)
Then I was able to run the NVIDIA installer again. It installed fine and told me to check the XF86Config when it finished.
So I'm back were I started.
Whenever I replace "nv" -> "nvidia", it fails to start-up X and it suggests to automatically reconfigure the old XF86Config for me. Which is quite polite, but it brings me no 3D accelaration.
My problem is solved! I got the NVIDIA driver running just fine!
I must be an idiot. After I did a cold reboot, the NVIDIA screen just flashed !
I guess it was a mistake to boldly remove the line: "load "glx" in XF86Config. If I remember well, I had to do that for the Mandrake distro. Now that does not seem to be the case for Red Hat.
Thanks again for your kind support!
(Anybody nows about a free driver for a soundcard SB Live! 5.1 (OEM model CT0200)?
That's another hurdle to overcome :D
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well i don't know of any distro that needs load "glx" removed...you maybe thinking of load "glcore" or something, but not glx...anyways, your sblive should be automatically detected and in working order...cause the audigy was one of the last of creatives cards to get supported and i am running rh8 and it picked it up fine...your sblive should be even supported in some or all rh7.x...
but if the case be that it is not picked up just go to
SourceForge - Creative OpenSource
and download the emu10k1, you don't need the emutools file, and just download the first one in the list it is a rpm file...you will just double click it and after it is done you should have sound...
the name of it is below.........
Thanks again for your time.
I won't continue about my sound card on this forum, after this reply. This forum is supposed to be dedicated to nVIDIA and I apologize to the members for this abberation.
My sound card is rather different and obscure. It is a so called "OEM" version (model CT0200) The EMU10K1 definately will not drive it, because this card carries a different chip set than the usual SB Live! cards.
There is only one commercially available binary Linux driver that I know about for this card.
It is sold by Opensound.com. I trust this driver will work as soon as I got a missing cable for connecting my CD drive to the sound card. You don't need this cable for Windoze. But you do need it for Linux.
DELL did not bother to install this cable, as they seem to assume the whole world belongs to M$.
Again, thank's for your support and your kind attention.
well i will make my final post towards this post and tell you again about the audigy finally getting supported under the linux environment, and how mine is also OEM, and it picks it up fine...i dont' know what your getting at by saying its OEM so it dont' pick it up, but anyways i am not gonna argue about such a thing, and we'll leave it at that..
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Supporters and opponents turned out in force today to weigh in on a bill that would legalize the use of silencers in Minnesota.
A House panel is considering a bill to lift the ban. The committee recessed at noon. and is expected to take a vote on the measure later today. Members of the House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance Committee passed the bill on a voice vote. It now heads to the House floor for a vote.
During the hearing, Gun rights advocates sported buttons that read "self defense is a human right" while opponents wore large stickers that said "gun injuries and deaths are preventable."
To begin with, supporters of lifting the ban argue that it's unfair to call the devices that muffle the sound of a gun when it's fired from being called a silencer. That's because a rifle with a silencer on it still emits a sound eight times louder than a jackhammer when it's fired. As such, gun rights advocates prefer the term "suppressor."
"Despite what you've seen in the movies or heard on the local news, firearm suppressors don't make a gun silent. What they do is reduce the noise from a rifle or a pistol from instantly damaging to just really, really loud," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Mark Anderson, R-Lake Shore.
Backers of the bill to legalize suppressors argue it's a safety issue because it would protect the hearing of hunters and target range shooters. They also argue it would make target ranges safer because shooters would be better able to hear the instructor. Supporters also made the case Minnesota is an outlier because 39 other states allow the use of silencers.
"The vast majority of the United States has this. I'm not aware of some huge uptick of murders," said Rep. Duane Quam, R-Byron.
Co-sponsors of the bill include Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, and Rep. Jeanne Poppe, DFL-Austin.
The bill's critics argue the reason that there aren't more reports of silencers being used for illegal activity is that they are tightly regulated by the federal government. The concern is that Congress could undue some of those restrictions, making it easier to get suppressors, said Heather Martens, executive director of Protect Minnesota, a nonprofit that supports tougher gun control.
"Silencers are not designed for hearing protection. Silencers were designed to allow people to commit murder and get away with it," Martens said.
Even if the bill passes the committee and heads to the House floor, it still faces tough odds. It would have to win the support of the DFL-led Senate and Gov. Mark Dayton. The governor said today, "I don't think we need changes in Minnesota's gun laws."


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Thom Pain
Editorial Staff • West End • 23 Aug 2004
According to Walpole, life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think. Though Thom Pain is a man who both feels and thinks deeply, he comes down firmly on the side of tragedy. And yet, while the laughter is never comfortable, as we share the fictitious Pain's pain in New York playwright Will Eno's slightly surreal 75-minute monologue, the tragic becomes comic.
The play starts in darkness and only after some fumbling and a confused recitation of a dictionary definition of fear - which itself defines, in far more precise ways, all that follows - do the lights snap on to reveal the man behind the title. With a rigid restraint matched by his outfit of plain black suit, white shirt, black tie and glasses, James Urbaniak's nerdish Pain brings to mind Michael Douglas' psychopathic office worker from the 1993 film Falling Down.
There's the same simmering violence too but, with thankfully no firearms in sight, Pain lashes out with words instead. In a detached and, at times, seemingly unstructured manner, he shares random thoughts, paints disturbing metaphors and, often in the third person, describes key moments from his own life (just the usual story of lost love, "the crippled kid and the electrocuted dog").
It's a rant for sure but one of quite astonishing power and arresting detail – the "taste of mascara", the act of "sharing forks". And Urbaniak delivers it through pregnant pauses, poignant discomfort, and sometimes barely suppressed rage as he struggles to make general and individual connections with the audience. "I have that shirt" he remarks to one man, "You're different. You're lovely" he professes to a young woman, though he doesn't really believe it.
The truth is, Pain hopes, that we are all the same, like him, "obviously flawed", and what's more, that he is "like you, in terrible pain, trying to make sense of my life". If nothing else, there must be some comfort in knowing that we are not alone in our aloneness surely? Cold comfort it may be but comfort nonetheless.
The subtitle of Thom Pain is (based on nothing). Be assured, that subtitle refers to the perceived meaninglessness at the heart of modern life rather than any holes at the heart of this exceptionally tragic and comic monologue.
- Terri Paddock
Reviewed at Edinburgh's Pleasance during the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe festival, Thom Pain transfers to London's Soho Theatre from 3 to 24 September 2004 (See News, 19 Aug 2004).