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SATURDAY HOMILY: Voting with a Catholic Conscience
By Fr. G. Peter Irving III
11/3/2012 (4 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
By Fr. G. Peter Irving III
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
11/3/2012 (4 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: Voting, Pro-life, Pro-family, homily, Fr G Peter Irving III, Holy Innocents Long Beach
LONG BEACH, CA (Catholic Online) I wish I could say otherwise, but I must confess that I have been very distracted by the political contest playing out before us, especially in this final stretch before Election Day next Tuesday. I have lived through many elections in my adult life, but this one is without a doubt the most consequential of them all.
The stakes are the highest they have ever been and all issues are on the table. But at the top of the list are three: the sanctity of human life, the sanctity of marriage and religious liberty.
It is no coincidence that those who promote the killing of unborn humans under the deliberately deceptive rubric of "choice" and those who promote the redefinition of marriage under deliberately deceptive rubric of "equality" are the ones who want people of faith to simply shut up and confine their religion to the four walls of their churches.
Some Catholics, I think, prefer it that way. They have an aversion to politics. Politics can be complicated and messy. Hence, Catholics who think this way are quite content to remain completely outside the current of political discourse. They are the ones who say, "Just let me go to Mass and say my prayers, but keep politics out of it."
I agree with this view, to a point. The Church is not a political party. The Church does not exist to get involved in political campaigns. The Church's job, if you will, is to speak about God! But the topic of God is a deep one (infinitely so!) which necessarily impinges upon every aspect of human life, even the political.
Look at Jesus. He was definitely not a politician. He went to great lengths to avoid becoming enmeshed in both political and religious partisanship. When the people wanted to apprehend Him and make Him king, He hid Himself from them. They were looking for an earthly, political Messiah and this He was not.
Jesus came, rather, to teach the Truth; indeed, He is the Truth Incarnate. But for this He ended up being tossed about among the leading "politicians" of His day, both Jewish and pagan, like the proverbial "political football." Finally, He was beaten, tried, convicted and then crucified as a political criminal (remember the Roman governor's placard, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews"), which He was not!
The point I am making is this: when one proclaims the Truth, one will be opposed. St. Simeon said as much about Jesus at His Presentation in the Temple when he spoke those mysterious words to Our Lady: "He will be a sign that will be contradicted" (Luke 2:34).
Abortion is the taking of an innocent human life in each and every circumstance. No exceptions.
Marriage has always been and will always be the exclusive union between a man and a woman for the purpose of engendering new life. Period.
These are not political statements. These are simply truths. They are truths which the Church proclaims for everyone to hear and which everyone can understand.
Indeed, it is the Church's solemn duty as well as the duty of every one of Her members to convey these truths to a culture which is rapidly descending into the throes of death.
No bishop, no priest or deacon, no religious or lay faithful can safely run away from this obligation. Each one of us in his or her own place and with all charity must make these truths known to everyone.
To do this effectively requires that we be humble. In today's Gospel Jesus extolls the great and necessary virtue of humility. We must bow down before the Throne of Mercy and recognize that we are no better than anyone else; that we are card-carrying members of the club of sinful humanity.
We must bow down in humility before the Divine Majesty, admitting that we are nothing and can do nothing without God. We must bow down before the Divine Wisdom enshrined in the Magisterium of the Church and embrace it fully. We must bow down to Christ crucified and be willing to be misunderstood and rejected as He was.
There is no excuse to sit on the sidelines on November 6. "I don't like politics!" No excuse. "I don't like either of the candidates!" No excuse. "I'll just pray about it." Yes, by all means pray, but prayer is no excuse for inaction. Priests for Life and Catholic Vote and EWTN have excellent voter guides. Study them, pray over them and then vote with a Catholic conscience on Election Day. Jesus, Mary and all the Angles and Saints will be watching. Don't let them down!
Father G. Peter Irving III is a priest of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and is pastor of Holy Innocents Church in Long Beach.
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Research Summaries: Empirical identification of the major facets of Conscientiousness
This research summary looks at a paper co-authored by Angela Duckworth, that tries to carve conscientiousness at it joints.
- Conscientiousness is a personality trait that is present in most personality theories and measured by most personality inventories, the most famous of these being the Big Five or OCEAN model and as measured by Big Five Inventory (BFI)/ NEO-PI-R.
- Personality traits structure is supposed to be hierarchical with traits like Conscientiousness comprising of many finer aspects or facets. The NEO-PI-R is structured around 6 facets of conscientiousness, they being competence, order, dutifulness, achievement-striving, self-discipline and deliberation.
- Conscientiousness predicts a number of important life outcomes, however the relationship of different facets with different outcomes is not well established; nor are the number of facets of Conscientiousness agreed upon.
- Thus Angela and colleagues set forth to find out what was the underlying facet level structure of Conscientiousness and which facets predicted which outcomes. For this they used exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis on data obtained from 291 adolescents. Conscientiousness was measured using items present in multiple scales from IPIP (international personality item pool).
- Exploratory factor analysis yielded an eight factor structure which was confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis.
The eight factors were best described by the following construct labels: (a) Industriousness ("I make an effort", "I am always prepared"); (b) Perfectionism ("I want to be the very best", "I demand quality"); (c) Tidiness ("I like to tidy up", "I leave a mess in my room" [reverse-keyed]); (d) Procrastination Refrainment ("I get to work at once", "I am easily distracted" [reverse-keyed]); (e) Control ("I rush into things" [reverse-keyed], "I do unexpected things" [reverse-keyed]); (f) Cautiousness ("I think before I speak", "I make careful choices"); (g) Task Planning ("I follow a schedule", "I work according to a routine"); and (h) Perseverance ("I give up easily" [reverse-keyed], "I am easily discouraged" [reverse-keyed]).
- Multiple outcomes of interest for the students were measured, these included absenteeism, CGPA, high stakes achievement results and teacher ratings of social behavior. All facets except tidiness predicted these outcomes. Perfectionism predicted scores in high stakes test even stronger than Conscientiousness as a whole. Industriousness predicted less absenteeism even strongly than Conscientiousness as a whole.
- Based on when the factors emerged and drawing a parallel with other lesser factor solutions, its apparent that following pairings can be done (my interpretation!) :
- Task planning (ordering tasks and time) and Tidiness (ordering possessions) make one group that can be called organization/orderliness. Task planning seems to be the dutifulness facet of NEO-PI-R.
- Cautiousness (prudence in VIA) and Control of impulses (self-regulation in VIA) make one group that is related to in-the-moment exercise of control, willpower and judgement. Cautiousness seems to be related to deliberation facet of NEO-PI-R.
- Industriousness (hard work {driven by harmonious passion?} where focus is on achieving quantity) and Perfectionism ( drive towards perfection {driven by obsessive passion?} where focus is on achieving quality) seem to make one group that is related to long term focus/ passion. Industriousness looks the same as Achievement-striving as per NEO-PI-R.
- Procrastination refrainment (decisiveness or starting things without waiting) and perseverance (or finishing things that have been started, no matter what) seem to make the final group that is task-oriented. While procrastination refrainment seems like self-discipline of NEO-PI-R, Perseverance is more close to competence.
- To me the above eight factor structure of conscientiousness fits beautifully with my own ABCD model whereby I can see parallels with the Orderliness/organization related to Affect dimension and so forth.
- This research has real world implications. Given the limited time, if at all, allotted by schools for positive education interventions, if one wants to increase odds of better outcomes, its wiser to focus on particular facets of Conscientiousness like industriousness, that are known to be associated with good outcomes, rather than poor predictor facets like tidiness, or even Conscientiousness as a whole.
- Bottom-line appears to be that teaching children tidy habits may be totally irrelevant,, in terms of valued life outcomes, but making them appreciate the value of hard work and effort may really pay off!
if intrigued, here is the original paper.
Research Summaries: The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
Today's research summary is about a paper co-authored by Angela Duckworth, that is at the intersection of psychology and economics. Though I have been following behavioral economics a bit, I still found the paper a bit challenging to read and comprehend and don't claim to understand all the attached jargon, functions and mathematical formulations. The fact that the paper is 88 pages long wasn't of help either 🙂 (the saving grace being that 20 or more pages were filled with references alone), so read the rest of the summary at your own peril!
- The paper aims to throw light on how personality affects (socio)economic outcomes and how concepts from personality psychology can be used in economic equations and modeling.
- To start with, an important socioeconomic outcome is success in life. IQ or cognitive ability is well established as a predictor of success in life/job, and slowly but surely, a case is building up for the predictive power of personality traits like conscientiousness to predict success in life/job.
- Its useful to distinguish cognitive factors like Intelligence/IQ from other 'non-cognitive' factors like personality traits and motivation.
- Perry Preschool study which enriched the environment (an intervention aimed at increasing IQ) of disadvantaged kids with subnormal IQ, found that IQ gains for treatment group (which shot up initially) and control group became equal at age 10 , though the treatment group continued to be much more successful on many socioeconomic outcomes over their life cycle. This can be only explained if we admit that something other than IQ, maybe personality factors, were changed by the intervention.
- Psychologists use personality, motivation and cognitive factors to explain behavior and success of an agent. Economists however use concepts like preferences, constraints, incentives etc to explain choice/decision/ behavior and ultimately success in life.
- Cognitive factors are defined as ''ability to understand complex ideas,to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought''. The various tests like IQ tests that measure cognitive ability have led to identification of a general factor 'g' of intelligence. The factor structure of Intelligence is hierarchical; as per one conceptualization, the second-order factors are 'fluid intelligence' and 'crystallized intelligence".
- IQ test are not a pure measure of maximal intellectual performance; for those getting low scores, appropriate incentives can increase their scores. Similarly test anxiety may affect performance; thus IQ measure is affected by factors like motivation and personality.
- Personality factors also have a hierarchical structure; the most common level contains the Big Five factors, below them are specific facets and above them two super factors of plasticity and stability.
- The personality traits of Big Five have been arrived at using factor analysis and are more descriptive in nature, based around clustering of together of traits, adjectives or behaviors. The same can be said of 'g' which is again more descriptively arrived at. In contrast, economists prefer measures that have been built based around their predictive power in the real word. MMPI, Hogan personality inventory etc were on the other hand built with the specific aim of predicting real world outcomes.
- Economists, try to estimate preferences of agents and thus predict/explain their behavior etc. Some of the typical preferences studied are time preference, risk aversion, preference for leisure and altruism/ social preferences. Estimating these preferences help explain and predict behavior that deviates from a purely self-interested rational agent.
- Time preference is the preference for immediate reward over future reward. This is measured by the phenomenon of time discounting while making decisions. For example, what would you choose 1 $ today or 2 $ tomorrow? 500 $ this week or 1000 $ next month? based on answers to questions like these (and maybe real world behaviors/ decisions too) economists can infer what is the rate at which you discount future utility for present utility. That function is hyperbolic in nature.
- Its seems "time preference is tri-dimensional, comprising three separate underlying motives: impulsivity, the tendency to act spontaneously and without planning; compulsivity, the tendency to stick with plans; and inhibition, the ability to override automatic responses to urges or emotions". Its easy to see how the three components of time preference can be related to personality factors. Also important is to note that a person with low future vision or imagination may be constrained on this time preference dimension.
- Risk aversion is the phenomenon, whereby a sure or less uncertain outcome is preferred over an uncertain outcome. For example, what would you choose 1 $ for sure or a 50 % chance of winning 2.2 $? Based on analyzing such decisions, one can again calculate, how risk averse a person is. This paradigm is however prone to framing effects.
- Those who show little risk aversion, also have poor outcomes like indulging in smoking, stealing and not wearing seat belts. The personality trait of sensation seeking, as developed by Zuckerman, is related to this construct.
- Preference for leisure is the preference to use time for relaxation etc over indulging in work or economic activity. Some people are driven to work hard and personality traits like Conscientiousness are really relevant here.
- Social preferences are preferences like inequality aversion where a monkey would not accept cucumber pieces for the same work, if another monkey is getting grapes instead. Doesn't make sense rationally, but economists can use social preference to get out of this hole!
- The big five as well as IQ are predictive of various life outcomes like leadership, grades, longevity etc
- Most personality traits as well as intelligence measures change with age- they are malleable and follow a pattern. For eg, fluid intelligence decreases while crystallized intelligence increases over the lifespan.
- Environmental factors like parental investment and social roles can be the mechanisms that lead to changes and stability in these traits.
- Preference factors, which are studied by economists, however are not clear as to whether they are stable or change with age and more research needs to be done there.
- The real contribution of this paper is in conceiving psychological traits as constraints under which economic decisions are being made. For eg. low cognitive ability will constrain a person to figure out and get clarity about the issue at hand and he will be forced to choose in uncertainty and his risk aversion maybe causing him to make sub-optimal decisions. The intelligent person has a richer choice set and intelligence is a constrain having real world implications; same is true for personality factors.
- Thus personality traits may be a form of constraints/ preferences and research in either psychology or economics around this shroud inform each other.
- Overall, despite its challenging economics jargon, I found this really useful; as someone interested in personality psychology, this provided a new perspective.
As always, do check out the original paper here.
Research Summaries: Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
Today's research summary is based on this paper which Angela Duckworth co-authored with Chris Peterson and colleagues, and where she first introduced her concept of grit and operationalized it by introducing the Grit Scale.
- One common thread running thorough Angela's research is a (harmonious) obsession with finding out what leads to great achievement. A lot of earlier research in psychology has focused on the role of talent/ intelligence in high achievement, and that role is well established.
- Terman, for example, studied a group of highly gifted children in a famed longitudinal study which found that those who rose to prominence were more likely to exhibit "Perseverance, Self-Confidence, and Integration toward goals", rather than mere high IQ. So, cognitive factors are just a part of the picture, and do not explain the whole picture.
- The other factors that could influence high performance have been variously named as non-cognitive, personality or motivational factors. Among these, the Big Five personality trait of Conscientiousness keeps emerging in research linking personality with high achievement and work outcomes. However, conscientiousness may be multi-faceted with the achievement oriented facets that make one work hard, try to do a good job, and completes the task at hand, be more closely related to job performance than the dependability oriented facets that make one self-controlled and conventional.
- Thus Angela thought it worthwhile to introduce a new concept called Grit. which could explain why some people who have equal or lesser talent succeed over others who might have greater talent/ intelligence. This is how they define Grit:
We define grit as perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Grit entails working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress. The gritty individual approaches achievement as a marathon; his or her advantage is stamina. Whereas disappointment or boredom signals to others that it is time to change trajectory and cut losses, the gritty individual stays the course.
- Grit is different from Conscientiousness, but correlated with the achievement side of Conscientiousness. To me, conscientiousness seems to comprise both Grit and Self-control. Grit is all about staying course driven by long-term super-ordinate goals, while self-control is more about not getting distracted and managing one's impulses and emotions in the service of the currently activated goal. On can think of grit as sustained self-control in the service of a constant non-changing goal. The important thing to note is Grit is different from both self-control and conscientiousness.
- Across six studies Angela found that Grit predicted successful outcomes over and above Intelligence. Point to note that Grit and IQ/ intelligence are typically uncorrelated or even negatively correlated. The latter finding is explained by the fact that people having less IQ/ Talent may need to exercise and develop Grit more fully to achieve good outcomes. Three of these studies were longitudinal and the rest cross-sectional.
- Study 1 & 2 validated a 12 item Grit scale, which contained two orthogonal factors passion ( or consistency of interest) and perseverance of effort. The incremental validity of grit in predicting educational achievements (an outcome variable), over and above, IQ and conscientiousness, in a cross-sectional population was also ascertained. It was also found that older people were more gritty.
- In study 3, they looked at undergrads at UPenn and found that grit predicted overall CGPA and explained variance over and above that explained by SAT scores(proxy for intelligence).
- Study 4 and 5 looked at west point cadets (the analog of NDA cadets in India) and found that Grit predicted who made it through the beast barracks (the first summer training) better than self-control etc. However, for those who stayed, self-control predicted better the CGPA at end of year one and MPS (Military performance score).
- Study 6 looked at National spelling bee participants and found that Grit predicted who will make to which final round. Also the effect of grit was mediated by the study time or hours participants put on weekend preparing for this and number or prior participation in the competition ( the more gritty you are the more likely you are to participate in more prior competitions and the more no. of prior participation, the greater your odds of success)
- Overall, this paper gave direction to a whole new field and established Grit as a valid concept with important outcomes and correlates.
If your interest has been piqued, you can check the full article here.
Research Summaries: Self-Discipline Gives Girls the Edge: Gender in Self-Discipline, Grades, and Achievement Test Scores
Today's post summarizes a paper by Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman, that parses the same set of data, as obtained in their earlier paper (see research summary of that paper here), to come up with new insights about gender differences in self-control and scholastic achievement.
- Girls, typically outperform boys when it comes to getting good grades overall and within each subject. this is true of US; however from what I have seen of Indian board results, the same is true of almost every board exam in India, be it CBSE, ICSE or State Boards.
- The girls however do not outperform boys on achievement tests like SAT or on ability test like IQ tests.
- If one were to assume that achievement and ability test are a better measure and can be used for predicting the grades, then girls grades as predicted by IQ etc fall shorter of what they actually achieve; and boys typically achieve lower actual grades that those predicted on the basis of their IQ. This phenomena is called underprediction and overprediction respectively.
- Traditional accounts of explaining this gender gap focus on how boys are better at achievement tests and are at an advantage. For example, as boys are expected to do better on such tests, girls face 'stereotype threat' which leads to poor performance by girls.
- Angela set out to find whether the undeprediction of grades for girls, and the advantage that girls have over boys when it comes to grades, might be due to gender differences in self-control. Specifically she surmised that girls are more self-controlled than boys and this factor could partially explain the female advantage when it comes to grades.
- I had lamented in my earlier research summary, that Anglea hadn't defined self-control; she does in this paper:
We use the terms self-discipline and self-control interchangeably, defining both as the ability to suppress prepotent responses in the service of a higher goal and further specifying that such a choice is not automatic but rather requires conscious effort. Examples of self-discipline include deliberately modulating one's anger rather than having a temper tantrum, reading test instructions before proceeding to the questions, paying attention to a teacher rather than daydreaming, saving money so that it can accumulate interest in the bank, choosing homework over TV, and persisting on long-term assignments despite boredom and frustration.
- Parsing the data from previous study they found that indeed VIII class girls outperformed boys when it came to grades achieved; that their grades were underpredicted if one looked at achievement test results; girls were more self-controlled than boys and that gender differences in self-control partially mediated the relationship between gender and grades. In study 2, they had administered an IQ test also, and that too underpredicted girls' grades.
- To me, if we put the two papers together, one showing that self-control trumps IQ, and the second showing that girls have an advantage in grades due to self-control over boys, and we club this with the fact that in some IQ tests etc boys show a greater variance than girls on IQ, I think a safe bet for boys, is not to rely too much on IQ, but develop self-control too. Both intelligence and self-control are immensely malleable, and depending on the type of test / grade that my be more meaningful criteria of academic achievement for you, you should develop either or both- but most important do not compromise on your love of learning, curiosity and creativity while being lured by these indices of scholastic achievement- these are way too important in their own way and without being a means to an end.
Research Summaries: Childhood IQ and risk of bipolar disorder in adulthood: prospective birth cohort study
Today's research summary focuses on an article [pdf] that throws some light on the oft debated question of the association between intelligence, creativity and mental illness.
- It has been hypothesized that various mental illnesses like Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia etc persist in the gene pool because they are associated with some positive mechanisms that also confer survival or mating benefits, either to the patients or their close relatives. One such mechanism is thought to be apophenia (ability to see patterns, sometimes when there are none:-) ) , which is related to divergent thinking, imagination and creativity; another such mechanism is thought to be intelligence or the ability to solve complex adaptive problems flexibly.
- One method to settle the debate is correlational in nature. Sweden maintains rich and exhaustive data about its citizens. Mining data form the Swedish population registries, it was found that bipolar patients, as well as their relatives, were more likely to be in creative professions; and that bipolar traits may be associated with leadership qualities.
- Another method is to look at twins, one of which has the bipolar disorder, while the other hasn't; and it was found that the other twin had high scores on sociability and verbal fluency; hinting that these may be linked to the bipolar proband.
- Yet another method is to look at longitudinal studies like the Dunedin studies, which track a child cohort since birth or early age and track them over time. The Dunedin studies found that low childhood IQ was associated with Schizophrenia spectrum disorder, depression an anxiety in adulthood; but high IQ was associated with mania in adulthood.
- The authors of this study used a longitudinal study design, analyzing the results of ALSPAC, a large UK birth cohort. This cohort consist of about 15,500 participation, but after all the dropout etc only about 2000 subjects results were part of the study results.
- This study focused on association of childhood IQ (which is an imperfect measure of true intelligence) with propensity for bipolar disorder in young adulthood. This study did not look at creativity and did not look at actual occurrence of bipolar disorder, thus all the results should not be extrapolated wildly.
- Childhood IQ at age 8 was measured using WISC-III and separate verbal and performance IQ as well as Full IQ scores were used in analysis. Propensity towards bipolar was measured using HCL-32 (hypo-mania checklist) which consist of 32 yes/no answers to statements like 'I am more easily distracted' when in a state of 'high' not associated with drug use. Only 28 items from this checklist were used. This was administered at ages 22-23 years.
- Childhood IQ was indeed associated with higher scores on HCL-32. The scores on HCL-32 were converted into percentile scores. Those subjects, who were in the lowest decile of HCL-32, or alternately had the lowest risk for later bipolar, had IQ scores that were 10 points on average lower than those subjects who were in the highest decile of HCL32 (had the highest bipolar risk).
- The IQ scores were also made categorical. Looking at data from another way, those who had the lowest verbal IQ scores (were in the 'extremely low' of VIQ) had on an average 7.1 points less score on HCL-32 than the 'average' VIQ group. The ' Very superior' VIA group had scores 1.83 points higher than 'average' IQ group.
- As the age at which, HCL-32 was administered, not many people have the first manic/ depressive episode; so it might be capturing risk towards bipolar rather than actual incidence. Verbal fluency seems a more stronger predictor of bipolar risk than intelligence per se.
- As per my views, Bipolar pro-band may have more to do with creativity than intelligence and if future studies could operationalise and measure childhood creativity and look at later risk or occurrence of bipolar disorder, than that will settle the debate to an extent. Also important to remember that intelligence and creativity though correlated are different, with one perhaps requiring a threshold of intelligence to be creative.
- Lastly, if you are intelligent or creative, don't fear, the risks seem to be too small and other factors like stress play a much more important role in triggering an illness. And even when triggered, it can be managed well!
If you liked the study and want to dig deeper, the full text article [pdf] is online.


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Morning In Longji Rice Terrace by Aaron Choi
Morning In Longji Rice Terrace by Aaron Choi
beautiful morning view over tian tou zhai village in longji rice terrace in guangxi province of China. Mountains filled with rice fields covered in shroud of morning fog. For Prints: Fine Arts America For more: firstname.lastname@example.com FB Page Website Google Plus Instagram
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I Photographed Lake Bled On A Fairytale Winter Morning
As you probably all know by now, Bled is one of the most beautiful places in Slovenia that draws about one million visits each year. Most choose to visit Bled in spring or summer, but, in my opinion, the most beautiful time to visit is in winter, on a clear day after the snow.
Unfortunately, days like these were not very frequent in the last few winters. So I was very happy when finally the weather forecast seemed perfect. It was snowing and the next day was supposed to be very cold and clear (with some mist). Perfect conditions to make some beautiful shots of the lake Bled in the winter time.
I arrived very early in the morning as I didn't want to miss anything. The weather was just as predicted and I quickly took a few shots when it was still very dark.
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Church in the first morning sun
Church on the island in soft purple and pink tones
I was slowly walking towards the pier from where you get the best view of the church. The next shot is one of my favorites. I just love the tranquility in this one. Usually the background is very crowded from this perpective with the centre of the town behind the lake. But in this case it's so perfectly hidden, one can only tell the town is there because of the subtle lights.
Early morning at lake Bled
Winter panorama at lake Bled
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Perfect winter scene at lake Bled
Hectic conditions with strong wind
Swan taking a look of what I was doing
My fellow photographers taking images of the church
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Good Morning! Breakfasts Around the 7 Countries of Central America
Breakfast is an important meal to start your day and if you're anywhere in Central America, don't expect yours to be an instant toast and jam affair. Staples for a Central American breakfast often include fried eggs, sausages, fried bread, fried plantains, tortillas, rice, beans, and of course coffee (fruit juices too for those who don't want any dose of caffeine). But then of course, you need to feed your brain and tummy with more details about what kind of breakfast truly represents each of the countries. Read on to know more while you slowly realize you're craving for a taste of each.
1. Belize
A light breakfast in Belize isn't an option for the overwhelming selections of homestyle food that's comfy enough even for a first-timer. The first Belizean food that's friendly for everyone's taste buds is the puffy fry jacks, a bread-like breakfast essential known to need more baking soda than the usual bread to give it a 'poof'. Match the fry jacks with typical Belizean sides like refined beans, bacon, sausage, and eggs.
There's also the biscuit-like Johnny cakes often served with jam. These rolls are made with flour, salt, hot water or milk, and can either be sweetened or unsweetened. You can also see Johnny cakes in Jamaica, the West Indies, and Dominican Republic where most use cornmeal instead of flour.
2. Costa Rica
Two words to remember when eating breakfast in Costa Rica: gallo pinto. Literally translated as "spotted rooster", gallo pinto is Costa Rica's typical breakfast. It consists of rice and beans mixed together with onions, red peppers, cilantro, and a special sauce known as Lizano sauce. You can serve gallo pinto with sides such as fried or scrambled eggs, chopped beef, fried plantains, tortillas, sour cream, and cheese.
Besides gallo pinto, breakfast can start with a different few types of corn cakes, savory bizcocho, and sweet tamales de elote. Don't ever forget about a hot cup of Costa Rican tarrazu coffee.
3. El Salvador
In El Salvador, a light breakfast can consist of scrambled eggs with vegetables that they call huevos picados. If you want more, you can have a típico / desayuno salvadoreño which is composed of sunny-side up eggs with tomatoes, local cheese, frijoles negros (dried black beans boiled and pureed), fried plantains, and tortillas.
Small restaurants in El Salvador called pupuserias serve a local breakfast favorite called pupusas which are similar to tortillas but they are thicker and stuffed with cheese, meat, or beans.
4. Guatemala
Desayuno chapin is Guatemala's king when it comes to a filling breakfast. Desayuno chapin, which literally means "Guatemalan breakfast", is mainly composed of beans cooked in different ways. These beans can be cooked whole, loose, with soup, refried, or pureed. To complete the plate, add scrambled or sunny-side up eggs, fried plantains, local cheese called queso de oja, Guatemalan sausage (longaniza), chirmol sauce, and tortillas.
Another Guatemalan favorite are the local pancakes called panqueques which are crispier than the usual American type of pancakes.
5. Honduras
In Honduras, breakfast is almost the same as its neighbors' but with a bit of extra sides to complete the meal. To create a Honduran desayuno, fill a plate with fried eggs, slices of avocado, fried plantains, a slice of salty cheese, a bowl of crema, and tortillas de maiz.
When a quick breakfast is needed, a serving of corn tamale and a cup of coffee or even a bowl of cereal should do the trick. Other breakfast favorites include carne asada (roasted meat) and Honduran spicy sausages (chorizo).
Breakfast can also be quickly bought from street vendors who sell baleadas. Baleadas are thick, wheat flour tortillas filled with different ingredients, from the simplest mashed fried beans to the super special mixture of avocado, plantain, hot sauce, chismol, bell peppers, hot sauce, onions, hot peppers, and ground pork or beef.
6. Nicaragua
Similar to Costa Rica, Nicaragua also has Gallo Pinto for breakfast . Their gallo pinto is made of red beans mixed with rice, sunny-side up or scrambled eggs, fried plantains, corn tortilla, cheese, and sour cream.
Another good Nicaraguan breakfast is nacatamales similar to Mexican tamales. Nacatamales are composed of a dough made of masa harina mixed with lard, salt, and lime or orange juice. On top of the dough is a filling made of onions, green bell peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, and pork. These are all done on a banana leaf which you wrap around the dough with filling and steamed for hours till cooked.
7. Panama
A breakfast in Panama won't be complete without the salty fried dough called hojaldres (also known as hojaldas) usually served with cheese or salchichas guisadas (sausage stew). Breakfast can also include tortillas, empanadas, fried meat, chicken wings, chorizo, tasajo, bollos (boiled banana leaf-wrapped corn dough) and gallo pinto.
Mystic morning by Martin Krajczy
Mystic morning by Martin Krajczy
At this morning the lower fog on the sea and the first sun light coming through the high fog really created a mystic atmosphere. Being on my own at this place did intensify the mystic and silent atmosphere. The lovely colours of autumn and the dark bridge are a great contrast within this frame. For a short time of period the wind did blow and created the water structure you see in front of the bridge. A great atmosphere at the beginning of this day and totally different to the evening before when i shot the picture "stranger" which you can find in my gallery as well from the backside of the bridge. This beauty is great from both sides with the right conditions. – please watch on the black background –
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White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
The windows of this art gallery in South Korea's Paju district are fritted with a pattern that regulates views of the interior, and creates the illusion of fog around the edges of the building (+ slideshow).
Designed by local architecture firm SsD, White Block Gallery is the largest building in the Heyri Art Village, a museum complex featuring workshops, film studios, bookshops and cafes that is located an hour by car from the South Korean capital, Seoul.
It houses 1,500 square metres of exhibition and cultural spaces dedicated to global contemporary art.
The building is divided into three solid gallery volumes, helping to reduce its overall visual mass. These are connected by transparent surfaces that form interstitial spaces, housing seven additional exhibition platforms.
The varying proportions of these spaces, as well as their varying lighting conditions, present a range of opportunities for displays of sculpture, paintings or multimedia installations.
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"Each solid gallery box is thought of as a pavilion that is either suspended above the landscape or placed on top of it," said the architects. "The solid boxes capture shadows of adjacent trees while the transparent boxes reflect the distant landscape."
A fritted pattern applied to the glass determines which parts of the interior are visible from outside, including a fire stair at one corner that provides views out across the park.
The gradient pattern is designed to resemble mist shrouding the exterior, but also helps to regulate the amount of direct sunlight reaching the interior.
"The fritting pattern takes on more figural volumes to create areas of privacy and publicity," said the project team. "The shapes merge with the patterns of early morning fog."
A concave glazed surface – the centre's only curve – contains the main entrance. The large window on the opposite facade makes it possible to look straight through towards the nearby lake and wetlands.
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Dark wood flooring and a low ceiling give the entry a more intimate feel than the adjacent full-height circulation area.
This central void contains stairs and bridges connecting the various galleries, as well as large windows that provide a further link to the outdoors.
A set of wide steps intersected by a wooden ramp enables the space to also function as a lecture hall or screening room.
"The 'interior ground' is conceived of as a topography that is directly linked to the landscape design," said the architects. "Formal galleries for art are adjacent to informal social spaces."
The irregular arrangement of the solid volumes over three storeys results in exhibition spaces with different heights situated around the void, while the bridges can also be used as galleries.
The supporting framework comprises slender columns arranged around the periphery, which enhances the visibility of the surroundings from inside and removes the need for potentially obstructive elements within the galleries.
Heyri Art Village is a hybrid tourist attraction and colony, populated by hundreds of artists, writers, photographers and designers. It is home to the Álvaro Siza-designed Mimesis Museum, as well as Paju Book City – a huge publishing community that includes buildings by New York's Stan Allen Architects and Korean firm Unsangdong Architects.
Photography is by Chang Kyun Kim.
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Good Morning! Breakfasts Around the 16 Countries of Eastern Europe
When your tummy is making its first noise after deep slumber, the first thing you do in the morning is cook breakfast. No matter when and where, breakfast is going to call you (unless you don't really eat breakfast) to start your day. What's more interesting is getting to know the food that you'll encounter during your travels because it'll surely be a different kind of surprise from what you're used to. Now, let's travel to Eastern Europe and find out what it's been cooking every morning.
1. Russia
In Russia, breakfast is called zavtrak and Russians usually take this meal at about seven or eight in the morning before going to work. A typical zavtrak includes blini (thin pancakes) with red caviar, kasha (porridge), tvorog (a type of cottage cheese), eggs, cold cuts, and cheese, accompanied by coffee or tea.
2. Czech Republic
Snídaně, the Czech word of breakfast, is usually composed of a slice of dark rye bread or rohlik (crescent-shaped yeast roll) with butter, jelly, honey, slice of cheese, slice of salami, or ham. For a sweet breakfast, there is koláč (kolach) which is sweet yeast dough rounds topped with sweet plums, poppy seeds, or cheese.
3. Poland
Hard-boiled eggs with mayo and chives on top, cold cuts, pickled and fresh fruits, cheese, jams, tomatoes and cucumbers are served on the table and you'll just have to get each to layer on top of a slice of rye bread to make open sandwiches called kanapka if you're aiming for a Polish breakfast called śniadanie.
4. Hungary
For a filling reggeli or Hungarian breakfast, you'll have the common servings of cold cuts, cheese, eggs, tomatoes, butter, bread, and a strong shot of espresso. But if it's during workweek and something quick and light is needed, locals usually eat pogácsa (biscuit) or briós (brioche) with coffee.
5. Croatia
Croatia also loves the common big heavy breakfast dishes just like in the first few countries mentioned. But if on the go, locals go for the popular burek, a heavy pastry made of layers of filo dough stuffed with cheese or meat.
6. Latvia
Latvian breakfast or brokastis may include nāc rītā atkal which means "come back tomorrow" because it is a crepe filled with ground mixture of roast beef leftovers. There's also the cheese danish-like biezpienmaizītes and pīrādziņi, an oblong or crescent-shaped baked bread roll filled with chopped bacon and onion.
7. Estonia
Estonian's breakfast, or hommikusöök, is typically light. One of the popular breakfast meals is kohupiimasaiad (curd cheese toast) but besides that they can also go for an open-faced sandwich made of black or white bread topped with butter, cheese, or sausage.
8. Bulgaria
One of the most popular breakfast food in Bulgaria is banitsa, a baked filo pastry filled with cheese, spinach, rice, and meat. Other than that, they also have buhtas (fritters) and mekitsas (deep-fried dough with yogurt) served with marmalade, honey, or kiselo mlyako (Bulgarian yogurt).
9. Ukraine
Breakfast in Ukraine is light and it often includes kovbasa (sausage), cheese blintz (thin pancake), kasha (cooked buckwheat), or steamed buckwheat, barley, or millet with milk.
10. Belarus
A Belarusian breakfast can just consist of a sandwich, rye bread, or draniki (potato pancakes) served with sour cream and paired with coffee or tea.
11. Serbia
For a hearty breakfast, Serbians eat dishes like lepinja sa kajmakom (bread filled with dairy called kaymak similar to clotted cream), proja (cornbread), burek (baked filled filo dough), kačamak (corn porridge), gibanica (soft cheese-filled pie), and the usual bacon, salami, eggs, sausages, butter, yogurt servings.
12. Montenegro
For breakfast in Montenegro, you can eat popara (left-over bread cooked with boiling milk or water), cicvara (stewed cornmeal in skorup – salted and compressed fresh cream), gibanica, burek, or just simply bread with skorup.
13. Bosnia and Herzegovina
The food items you can eat in Bosnia and Herzegovina once you wake up in the morning are börek (burek, baked filo dough) and cevapi which consists of flat bread (like pita), small beef and lamb sausages, and chopped onions.
14. Albania
In Albania, popular breakfast foods include the fried doughnut-like petulla that can be eaten with powdered sugar, feta cheese, or jam. But then, it can be the simpler toast or bread served with omelet, cheese, and cooked meat.
15. Kosovo
Kosovan breakfast is pretty simple. It can be consisted of French toast or bread, cheese, ajvar (a relish made of red bell peppers and garlic), scrambled eggs, and milk. Kosovans also love to have llokuma (deep-fried dough puffs eaten with yogurt and garlic or with honey).
16. Macedonia
To start the day, Macedonians eat kori (flat and long noodles), tarana (similar to couscous), pita pastrmajlija (oval-shaped bread pie with meat cubes on top), or prženi lepčinja (French toast with cheese inside).
Morning View by Johannes Nollmeyer
Morning View by Johannes Nollmeyer
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- $9 for $16 worth of sandwiches, wraps, and paninis
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Frank Street Bakery
The panini wizards of Frank Street Bakery grilled their first hot-pressed Cuban sandwich in 2011, and they haven't looked back since. The Cuban is their signature entrée, but the restaurant boasts fans—even vegan and vegetarian fans—for all its different offerings. Menu items include not only sandwiches but salads, soups, and dessert. Of course, some stop in just for the coffee.


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The authors believe that magic is a fluid medium and that the Abyss is only the construct of the mind to enforce the safety and hiearchy of the status quo. However, ideas become real manifestations that gain power through use and belief. Authors recognize the importance of tradition for this effect--reinforcing the magical meme-- but they also understand the importance of change and invention. Magic is not a pretensious and fallen mystery, but an expression of a dynamic soul. Authors encourage invention and creativity, as their primary skill is expression and craft, and embrace the concept of magic as a controlled chaos. They intend to bring awareness to the sleepwalkers, if not Awakening, returning the Supernal to the Fallen in a unified whole. The first test for an initiate, ]called Gordian's Knot, involves the master providing the initiate with a blank book/canvas. The initiate is told that a Mystery has been planted in his mind and concealed (which it has, in sigil/text form). The initiate must access that concealed mystery, delving deep into his own soul, perhaps showing a series of appropriate signs to Goetic guards, or Pathworking their way back to the soul's memory of the watchtower, or entering a deep, introspective trance to form a boundless calm through which the message must emerge, or rearranging a spatial puzzle of sigils and interlocking them. The methods change. What the initiate does not know is that the book/canvas already has the information stored and concealed on it. Whatever new information (whatever mistakes that the initiate made while accessing the occulted information in his own brain) that the initiate provides is stored on there as well. The master then takes the book and studies the student's mistakes, seeing if any new mystic information can be garnered from them. All new useful information is then stored in that book and used for the next Gordian's Knot.
Parent Path or Order: Mastigos or Free Council/Silver Ladder
Nickname: Weavers
Oblations: Goetic struggles, creating a piece of art, showing/performing a piece of art, lucid dreaming, writing a dramatic ritual.
Primary Arcanum: Mind Conjunctional Arcanum: Fate Synergistic Arcanum: Time
1st attainment: Gnosis 3, Mind2, Fate 1, Expression 2
Unifying the Field: It's important for people to have an open mind, be in touch with their emotions, to understand who they are. As an Author performs, the audience reacts intensely to what the Author is conveying, also feeling as though they are connected in a special way. Besides, then they are more open to suggestions, but an Author would never take advantage of that.... This Attainment acts as a conjunction between the Mind 2 Emotional Urging (p. 207) and the Fate 1 spell Winds of Chance (p. 150) but only affecting the audience's fate 'positively' toward the author. No curses.
2nd Attainment: Trojan Horse
Gnosis 5, Mind 3, Empathy 2
It's important to understand how people view the world, what their lives are like, walk a mile in no shoes. This attainment allows the Mage to do that, 'riding' passively in the body of another person, communicating with him or not. Spells cannot be cast while riding a carrier. Any mage in the vicinity of the carrier will have his Unseen Senses activated.
Optional Arcanum: Fate 3
Sometimes fiction and truth are the same thing. Sometimes to really see something, we have to look at and interpret its abstraction. Art of all kinds is a symbol of the culture, in fact, art manifests the culture. This attainment allows the Author to create a 'lore' around a subject or object, using the rule from Fabricate Fortune (p. 155). The effect is lasting if original piece of art was seen (though not necessarily fully read or realized) prior to the detection of the object. The piece of art could be read or performed by someone else however (a popular author, a dance troupe).
3rd attainment: Severing the Knot
Gnosis 7, Mind 4
Sometimes rewriting history is the best way to create the future social consciousness. At least, it's the easiest way. What is history, but an interpretation, anyway? This attainment behaves in a similar way to Breach the Vault of Memory (p. 214), but, with an exceptional success, or by affecting a really deep memory, the Author can implant an intensely positive or negative memory, lowering the Social or Mental attribute of his choice by 1 dot. (must be in accordance to the nature of the memory changed)
Mind X+2, Fate 2, Time 2
Authors use this attainment to 'hang' mental effects on certain objects (usually a piece of art or a book). They can use this effect to disguise their grimoires, to cause hallucinations (or even orgasmic emotions) when someone sees their art, or to even use their own art as a 'doorway' to the astral. The target can be specified by type (the next politician, the next werewolf). Target specifications remain the same. A permanent Willpower dot must be spent to make the effect permanent. Needless to say, the effect is extremely vulgar, and brings paradox everytime it is triggered. Also, the casting is an act of Hubris (level 4 Wisdom check) the 3rd attainment Severing the Knot could be used to implant a positive memory, adding a dot as well. in the conjunctional 3rd attainment, the original copy must be read or spoken.


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We are looking for an enthusiastic and witty person to fill the position of Trivia Assistant. The Trivia Assistant is part of the Programming department of the SMASH! Family. The Trivia Assistant is responsible for assisting and reporting to the Trivia Coordinator in implementation, coordinating, presenting and hosting Trivia events. Furthermore, you will be mentoring and training volunteers in the process with the support of the team. People aspiring to be Event MCs, TV broadcasters or hosts are encouraged to apply. This will be the perfect opportunity for you to pick up real world skills.
If you believe that you have all the skills, knowledge and attributes to be a part of SMASH! 2017, click 'Apply now!'.
The Trivia team plans and executes relevant and engaging trivia events for the SMASH! Community.
The Trivia Assistant is tasked with assisting the Trivia Coordinator with the following:
- Assisting with the implementation of Trivia events
- Assisting with coordinating with Marketing to promote Trivia events
- Assisting with training of volunteers
- Assisting with presenting and hosting Trivia events at SMASH!
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- Brainstorming new Trivia events and/or improving existing ones
- Submitting event proposals to the Trivia Coordinator for approval
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- Generating a wide variety trivia questions that target all genres of anime, manga and games
- Keeping trivia questions age-appropriate
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- Checking that all the equipment required is at the venue (preferably during set-up day)
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This happened once by accident. My Poineer deck got an error message and next to imput it said stop. My iPhone lit up and I had control of the ipod function. And it played thhrough my car cd player. It was heaven. Is there any way to do this every time?
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