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Of less importance than what Randy Moss might do after scoring a touchdown today is whether he will score one at all.
At least the Minnesota Vikings will have Moss. The Eagles go into the NFC semifinal in Philadelphia without their own mercurial star receiver, Terrell Owens, who is out with a broken leg until at least the Super Bowl.
"They are going to go down as two of the best receivers to have played the game," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "They are unique characters in that they are both big and fast and strong and skilled."
And, some might add, a bit self-indulgent. Moss was fined pocket change, $10,000, for his pretend mooning of Green Bay fans after scoring a touchdown in the Vikings' 31-17 first-round victory at Green Bay last Sunday.
As a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Owens once celebrated a touchdown by dancing on the Cowboys' star at midfield, among other attention-grabbing deeds.
The Eagles signed Owens and defensive end Jevon Kearse to get to a Super Bowl after three straight defeats in the NFC title game. Kearse, who had 7 1/2 sacks, will be on hand today. But Owens was injured in the last game the NFC East champion Eagles played that mattered, a 12-7 home victory over Dallas that clinched home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs.
After Owens's injury, it shouldn't have come as a surprise that Reid rested his key players in the final two games, which the Eagles lost to St. Louis and Cincinnati to finish 13-3. The Eagles believe they will be rested, not rusty.
"We really haven't been out that long," quarterback Donovan McNabb insisted. "We practiced; we just had Sundays off. I played against St. Louis, I didn't play against Cincinnati. We still practiced and we practiced with a tempo that would prepare us for the game."
Without Owens, the Eagles' offense should revolve around running back Brian Westbrook, a weapon as both a runner and receiver who was injured for the Eagles' 14-3 home loss to Carolina in last year's NFC title game.
Westbrook, who didn't play in the last two games, led the Eagles with 812 yards rushing and averaged 4.6 per carry. His 73 receptions are second only to Owens's 77. Westbrook scored 10 touchdowns, four rushing and six receiving.
"I think everything goes through [Westbrook] with Terrell Owens out and probably went through him even before that," Vikings coach Mike Tice said. "They're going to do a lot of catch-and-run things and we have to be able to tackle very well."
Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper figures to look for Moss, who missed some practice time this week with a sore ankle. In a Sept. 20 game, also at Philadelphia, Moss caught a touchdown pass in a 27-16 Minnesota loss. But his eight catches gained only 69 yards -- his 8.6 average was his second lowest of the season.
Culpepper and Moss will face a secondary that has grown in confidence since then and features three Pro Bowl starters: safeties Brian Dawkins and Michael Lewis, and cornerback Lito Sheppard.
By winning at Green Bay, the Vikings showed they can win outdoors. But can the Vikings make it two in a row, this time against the NFC's best team? "The weather should never be a factor to me as far as going out and playing," Culpepper said. "Now your focus has to be extremely sharp."
Vikings injury report: DOUBTFUL: S Corey Chavous (elbow). QUESTIONABLE: RB Moe Williams (ankle). PROBABLE: WR Moss (ankle); LB Mike Nattiel (knee); CB Antoine Winfield (ankle).
Eagles injury report: OUT: WR Terrell Owens (ankle). DOUBTFUL: LB Mark Simoneau (ankle). PROBABLE: DE Derrick Burgess (sternal separation); S Dawkins (illness); TE Chad Lewis (triceps); G Jermane Mayberry (triceps); S Quintin Mikell (shoulder); WR Todd Pinkston (knee); LB Ike Reese (knee); TE L.J. Smith (back); DT Hollis Thomas (elbow); LB Nate Wayne (hamstring).


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My family had to go to Hanover, ON for a few days for a family funeral, and since the family is a bit large and my Oma's house can only fit so many people, my crew had to stay at a motel.
Hanover is a small town (7,000) so there was only a choice of two motels to stay in. Luckily, the one we chose was pet friendly, since my parent's dog Max came along for the trip.
Travellers Inn, Hanover
Max found the room adequate. Everything was clean and comfortable. We were worried the pet friendly rooms would be scratched up, smelly and carpetless.
There was lots of room to set up his travel crate.
Sure the view wasn't that impressive
But it got the Ottawa hockey game and had free wifi, so it was a step up from my parent's house ;).
Eleanor is a 4 year old mini dachshund who lives a spoiled life in Ottawa Canada. This blog will be about the dachshund good life.

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Prisoner X caused imprisonment of Israeli informants
German magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X, was jailed by Israeli authorities because he unwittingly gave away information to Hezbollah which led to two Israeli informants in Lebanon being jailed.
Source: Lateline | Duration: 3min 3sec
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, israel
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: The man known as Prisoner X Ben Zygier may well have been a better spy against Israel than for it. That's the latest suggestion being discussed about the Israeli-Australian Mossad agent who committed suicide in a maximum security cell in 2010.
German magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that Mr Zygier was jailed by Israeli authorities because he unwittingly gave away information to that nation's sworn enemy, Hezbollah. That information is said to have been responsible for the jailing of two Israeli informants in Lebanon.
Michael Vincent reports.
MICHAEL VINCENT, REPORTER: Ben Zygier is not being called a traitor, but dangerously incompetent.
RONEN BERGMAN, DER SPIEGEL CONTRIBUTOR: This is not a story of treachery. This is a story of someone - an avid Zionist who wanted to fulfil his dream.
MICHAEL VINCENT: But Der Spiegel now reports Zygier's dream turned sour when he failed as a Mossad field agent and was demoted to a desk job. He then attempted a rogue operation to prove himself to his Mossad bosses when he tried to turn a European-based Hezbollah informant.
RONEN BERGMAN: He was so eager that lost control and did something very wrong that led to this huge botched operation.
MICHAEL VINCENT: Things went so wrong to the point that Zygier was reportedly fooled into giving up the names of two Lebanese men who'd been supplying Israel with information.
PAUL MONK, INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: To do what he is at least alleged to have done was foolish and it's not surprising that he was unwittingly turned and used.
MICHAEL VINCENT: And questions are being raised about how Zygier at his desk job had access to such sensitive information which allowed him to launch the rogue operation.
FELIX PATRIKEEFF, INT'L STUDIES, ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY: I would find that even more improbable. I just don't get the feeling that that sort of person would be allowed access to very privileged information.
MICHAEL VINCENT: But others disagree about his access.
GIL MEROM, GOVT AND INT'L RELATIONS, SYDNEY UNIVERSITY: As a Mossad agent, he travels throughout the Middle East and countries that are enemies of Israel then he could have been in even minor capacity interacting with informants of Israel.
MICHAEL VINCENT: So do you think it's possible then that he could have had access to these people because he was a courier of intelligence or money?
GIL MEROM: He could have been a couriers of money, information or any other thing - equipment.
MICHAEL VINCENT: Every report on Zygier seems to bring with it more questions. There may be more answers next month.
GIL MEROM: 11 April the prosecution in Israel is about to make a decision whether to prosecute anybody in matters of negligence in terms of his suicide.
MICHAEL VINCENT: Given the central role of Mossad in this saga, what information emerges from any court case will be determined by the Israeli state's close control of every matter related to security.
Michael Vincent, Lateline.


text: I visited Mt. Hope cemetery, and I went around evening, hence the darkness in the picture. I was wandering around the cemetery, and it is spooky when it gets dark. This headstone immediately got my attention out of all. The last name is Gillette and that was the only writing on the headstone. In the Hess article, it states "When a memorial (or any other text) appears on the landscape, it is thereby deemed – at least by some, at least for the moment – attention-worthy (Blair, 1999: 35-6). There were a several headstones that were beautifully designed and it made you think about that person's life. It is an odd way of getting you to think about life and death. You ask all kinds of questions, and It is interesting to see the headstones that make you think like that. There weren't any dates on this headstone, so I was curious how long that has been in the cemetery. Hess stated that the messages produced in granite are unique forms of communications in that they are meant to be long-standing and cross-generational. I think this headstone has been there for a long amount of time, and it allows the family members and loved ones to visit the grave site and grieve.


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Pizem Requests Relocation to Remote Judean Hills Community
Marie-Charlotte Pizem, accused of murdering her 4-year-old daughter Rose, is to remain in custody, the Petah Tikva District Court ruled yesterday. However, the judge did not rule out the possibility of a suitable alternative location to hold her, if it can be found.
Pizem's attorneys have requested that she be sent to an isolated location in the Judean Hills. The fenced off site serves a small community that lives there. It is locked at night, has a strict daily routine and only one telephone for the entire community, the use of which is regulated.
Judge Meir Yifrach wrote in his verdict that the site does not correspond to the strict conditions required for the detainment of murder suspects. These conditions include 24-hours guards, electronic tags, restrictions from leaving the country, and more.
The residents of the site offered to supervise Pizem in the daytime only, and warned that if she doesn't fit into the routine of the community she would have to leave. The judge wrote that there are risks in choosing a remote site, the residents of which have no experience of guarding prisoners. He added that the attorneys did not propose strict enough conditions for the alternative custody.
Yifrach went on to say that Pizem's case was "exceptionally exceptional," and therefore deserved special considerations. He said she was of no further risk to society and there was no fear that she might escape. Considering this, he said, any further request for alternative custody will be separately considered.
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Subject: Re: UK First Edition Silmarillion Dust Wrapper Colours
by Elwë on 2008/3/28 10:56:23
I think that the topic of Silmarillion variants, though subtle and somewhat subjective, is an important and under-discussed topic. So many copies of the first impression were printed that collectors will ultimatley favor the true first state (Clowes Variant 1). I personally have 3 Clowes and 2 Billings copies of the first edition / first printing. I have one copy of the first variant Clowes and two copies of the second variant. My copy of the first variant (containing headband, blue topstain, and cloth boards) has a very dark blue dustwrapper, nearly black. The two copies of the second variant have a noticably lighter, but still navy blue wrapper. My copies of the domestic (Billings) edition are very close to the second variant Clowes wrapper. It is much easier for me to see the difference between the two Clowes variants, than between the Clowes second variant and the Billings copies. The subtle differences might be very important to those who are trying to acquire all possible variants. However, for the purpose of valuation, I think that the Clowes first variant is most important, and fortunately, most easily distinguishable.
My real reason for this post, however, is to see if anyone knows of textual variation between the first and second variant Clowes editions. On Tolkienbooks.net, it is stated,
"Minor textual differences indicate that Variant 1 was printed before Variant 2."
I have no idea what these differences may be, but would be very interested in knowing. This could come into play if ever trying to identify re-bound copies that might have been stripped of the headband, topstain, and cloth boards. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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The Buffalo City Council, at their last meeting, passed the appropriations bill, or annual budget, on first reading.
Mayor Randy Dyess gave some highlights on Ordinance No. 1371.
Rounding off, the General City account will receive $864,000; protective services will get $1.9 million; streets will get $1.2 million; and the city has allocated $9.4 million towards capital construction.
City full-time employees will receive a 1% raise this year and hourly employees will get a 3% pay increase.
There is also a required retirment increase of .75% that employees will share 50% of the costs.
Severance tax money, set for the city by the state at $184,000 annually, is re-allocated to outside agencies such as CASA, the Buffalo Trails Board and the Chamber of Commerce.
The council allocated roughly $157,000 to the various agencies.
Optional one-percent funds were earmarked for agencies like the library, senior center and Buffalo Downtown Association, with the largest chunks going to the Boys and Girls Club at $50,000; the Buffalo/Johnson County Recyling Center at $40,000; and the YMCA at just under $34,000.
The council passed Ordinance No. 1371 on first reading, and will need to pass it on two more readings before it takes effect.
We will have a more in-depth look at the city's preliminary budget this weekend on sheridanmedia.com


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Sheriff's deputies are giving Ramona schools additional patrol time after a high school student reported that a man tried to lure her into his car as she walked home from cheer practice last Wednesday.
The incident occurred near Keyser Road and Hanson Lane about 4:15 p.m., said sheriff's Detective Barb Crozier at the Ramona Substation.
The student told the sheriff's department that a man in a four-door black sedan told her to get in the car, that he would give her a ride home. She described him as white, heavy set, in his 20s, with crooked teeth and wearing a black shirt and thick-rimmed oval-shaped dark sunglasses.
When she told him no, he continued to follow her and tell her to get in the car, said Crozier. Afraid, the girl went to a nearby house and pretended she was talking to people she knew. No one was home.
When she left the house, he was waiting for her, and she told him, "I'm going to call the police," said Crozier. The man left.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Crozier at the Ramona Substation, 760-789-9157.
After learning of the incident, school officials alerted school employees, including bus drivers, and Ramona High School Principal Tony Newman delivered an "all-call" phone message to parents, telling them a man tried to persuade a girl to get in his car. He outlined what had happened, including that more police cars are patrolling the school area, and he encouraged parents to talk to their children and tell them to be aware of their surroundings.
Merit Whitney, school district transportation supervisor, said bus drivers have been told of the incident and they continue to stay alert.
"Drivers are always on the lookout for suspicious things," she said.


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Friend of Doug digs deep against SoccerCity
Mission Valley developers pour cash into San Diego State measure
Matt Potter 6 p.m., Nov. 21
I am not in the least little bit interested in getting into a debate over Rick Santorum's famous statement that "In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing."
I do, however, think it's pretty clear that 2010's The Kids are All Right put forward the idea that, whatever the history of every society had to say on the matter, modern America's notion of marriage and family had stretched to include homosexuality.
All that said, I'm still not sure this was the best idea:
From the producers of The Kids Are All Right. Goats. Tagline: "You can't choose your family...or can you?" And then a picture of hillbilly David Duchovny (looking like there might be a llama somwhere in his family tree) standing behind a young man who is clutching a a goat to his bosom.
Your move, Santorum.


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SAINTS midfielder Steven Davis came agonisingly close to captaining Northern Ireland to a famous World Cup win in Portugal last night.
But the Irish still managed to ruin Cristiano Ronaldo's 100th international appearance, securing a magnificent 1-1 draw in Porto.
For most of the night they threatened to leave with all three points.
The visitors took a shock 30th-minute lead through Niall McGinn and held it until the 79th minute, when Helder Postiga finally broke Irish hearts following Nani's pass.
Davis nearly netted a spectacular own goal as the Portugese dominated the second half, slicing an attempted clearance just over Roy Carroll's crossbar.
But for the most part he was excellent, leading his side's heroic resistance after McGinn's excellent finish from a sublime Kyle Lafferty pass had stunned the Portugese.
Portugal's dominance was eventually rewarded with Postiga's equaliser, but the Irish were understandably delighted with a point


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ATLANTA -- Tucked away in 55 wooded acres on the outskirts of Atlanta, the scattered, low-slung buildings of Georgia State University's Language Research Center are a stark contrast to the high-rise concrete jungle of the main downtown campus 25 miles away.
A winding, shaded road leads from a busy street in southern DeKalb County -- just a mile or so from Interstate 285 -- through a century-old forest to the main building, where the shrieks of apes pierce the air.
Since 1971, researchers at the Language Research Center have been studying three types of apes -- chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans -- and monkeys in the hopes of understanding what language is, how it is learned and used, and whether it exists in non-human animals.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her husband, Duane Rumbaugh, both psychologists, run the center and live in a mobile home just a three-minute walk from the main building.
Savage-Rumbaugh, who heads up the language acquisition research, is convinced that language does exist in other species.
''It's very important that we keep our minds open to the possibility, to the fact that very complex cognitive and social behavior can exist in other creatures,'' she said.
She began years ago by training chimpanzees and bonobos to use a simple keyboard to communicate with their caretakers. After a few years of only limited success with chimps, she focused on bonobos.
Bonobos are similar to chimpanzees -- so much so that they were not recognized as a distinct species until 1929 -- but appear to be more adept at learning rudimentary language skills.
Eight bonobos -- including two newborns -- live at the Georgia State center in fenced outdoor spaces and in rooms that resemble a day-care center, littered with blankets, toys and climbing structures.
Savage-Rumbaugh's most famous pupils are Kanzi and Panbanisha, who have been taught to communicate with their caretakers by pressing lexigrams, or symbols, on a keyboard. The 384 symbols correspond to things, people, places, actions or abstract concepts such as ''good'' or ''yesterday.''
By pressing the lexigrams, Panbanisha, 14, and Kanzi, 19, form subject-verb and subject-verb-object sentences or respond to questions from researchers.
Many linguists and anthropologists have expressed doubts about whether the bonobos' interchanges with humans really constitute language. But Savage-Rumbaugh insists that Kanzi and Panbanisha are not simply mimicking humans or showing conditioned responses to stimuli.
''We have always seen other species as bound by instinct so we label their language as a cry or a call,'' she said. ''But it's as linked to their culture as our language is to ours.''
In another project at the center, anthropologist Charles Menzel studies memory in chimpanzees. Menzel works mostly with Panzee, a 14-year-old common chimp, and a keyboard that includes a subset of the symbols used by Savage-Rumbaugh.
Menzel lets Panzee watch as he hides an object in a wooded area near her enclosure. Then he waits to see if and when Panzee will ''tell'' her caretaker -- who doesn't know a test is being conducted -- that something is hidden outside.
''From the very first time I tried this, she got the person's attention by vocalizing and moving to the keyboard,'' Menzel said.
Panzee touches the lexigram that corresponds to the object she saw Menzel hide outdoors and then points down the tunnel that leads to her outdoor enclosure. Through gestures, panting and bouncing in place, Panzee guides the trainer to the hidden item.
As many as 16 hours sometimes pass between the time Panzee watches Menzel hide something and the arrival in her area of a caretaker whom she can tell. This shows she is retrieving the information from memory, Menzel said.
Psychologist David Washburn studies the intelligence of rhesus monkeys for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is interested in the effects of space flight conditions on brain performance.
Washburn, who has been at the center for 16 years, worked with two rhesus monkeys that took part in a Russian space mission in 1997.
He said the monkeys, a type of macaque, are capable of many things once considered impossible for them, such as understanding the cause-and-effect relationship between moving a joystick and the images that appear on a computer screen several feet away.
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It will rise again!... The Mass...will rise again! ...The bier -- and shall we renounce thus to believe and to act, to cry hopelessly about that which we loved so? It was thus, next to the bier, that the Naimite widow cried for her only son who was dead. But Jesus saw her and those tears moved Him, He got close to it, He touched the bier, and the dead man arose and sat up; and then he began to speak and [Jesus] restored him to his mother.
Thus Jesus -- for Whom there are no irremovable nails -- will restore to our Mother, the Church, the object of so much of His and our love: the Mass... for which the martyrs died... .
Young man, I say to thee: Arise!
15 comments:
- Legion of Mary said...
How did you hear of him?
- 20 September, 2006 01:09
- Jon said...
I hope this good man has lived long enough to see the corpse begin to stir.
Is he still with us?
- 20 September, 2006 11:06
- Iosephus said...
Who is this fellow? I had not heard of him before.
- 20 September, 2006 11:19
- New Catholic said...
I believe Tito Casini (1897-1987) had few books translated into English: "The Torn Tunic" is probably the one which became better known in English-speaking countries.
The text itself was translated by me from his book "Nel fumo di Satana" ("In the smoke of Satan"), published exactly 30 years ago, and which caused great commotion in Italy and in Traditionalist circles throughout the world.
His writings (all of them, not only the ones written after the sad days of 1969 liturgical disaster, as the great "Il Pane sotto la neve", written in the 1930s) deserve to be known in our days, the days of new hope.
Casini's biography is available in Italian here: http://www.ilfilo.net/casini1.html .
- 20 September, 2006 16:42
- With Peter said...
Casini played a big role in painting the picture of Annibale Bugnini as an implanted freemason, the villainous mastermind of the liturgical reform, who played poor trusting Paul VI like a piano. I say this as a point of fact neither in support for nor in defense against Casini's accusation. I'd rather not open that can of worms.
- 20 September, 2006 20:40
- New Catholic said...
...of THE 1969 liturgical disaster...
- 20 September, 2006 21:16
- With Peter said...
New Catholic, do you have conclusive evidence that Bugnini was in fact a freemason? Or do you think this accusation amounts to unfounded hearsay?
My own opinion is that he was not a mastermind, but a somewhat bumbling bureaucrat who was not fully aware of the implications of his work. I also think he was a bit smug, frequently pretending to know more than he actually did and writing off opposing opinions without giving the full consideration that these opinions merited.
I don't take special issue with your calling the implementation of the Missal a disaster, but the jingoistic way you said it seems unworthy of you, New Catholic. Let me ask you openly and honestly: Do you think Casini sometimes went to far in the acidity of his rhetoric?
- 20 September, 2006 22:35
- With Peter said...
Didn't Casini also coin the term "smoke of Satan"?
New Catholic, do you have a copy of the speech in which Paul VI is supposed to have used the phrase? I've never been able to find one and have thought that this is a "Michael Davies (RIP) myth," but I thought you might have better resources than I.
- 20 September, 2006 22:40
- New Catholic said...
Jingoistic? What?...
It is not unworthy of me, With Peter, it was unworthy of Holy Mother Church...
I certainly do not wish the great Casini to be identified with this one pathetic event, since he was not even the only one to mention it.
- 20 September, 2006 22:50
- Daniel Pinheiro said...
Actually, the year is 1972....
Another interesting "myth" from Paul VI is the speech of December 7, 1968: the self demolition of the Church after the Council.
- 21 September, 2006 00:57
- New Catholic said...
Yes, "the smoke of Satan" is a Traditionalist myth, like the Sasquatch...
Paul VI knew why he dismissed Bugnini and sent him to Tehran.
Paul VI knew why he identified "the smoke of Satan entering the temple of God" (Homily of June 29, 1972, easily available in the Holy See website).
With Peter, please, do not make me erase all your impertinent remarks.
- 21 September, 2006 08:19
- With Peter said...
New Catholic, I certainly don't mind you erasing my remarks if you deem them inappropriate, but I do appreciate if you could explain it to me. If you have knowledge of which you find me ignorant, I ask you to instruct me as you rebuke me.
My understanding of Casini was that his criticisms were often inflammatory, exaggerated and conspiracy oriented. Have I been misinformed?
I must admit that my Italian is very weak, but it seems that the "smoke of Satan" mentioned in the homily that you directed me to (thank you, btw) was describing those who have abused the Church's magnanimity in order to criticise and dissent to her teaching and practices, undermining her authority.
Certainly Paul VI knew what he was doing when he dismissed Bugnini and sent him to Tehran, just as Benedict XVI knew what he was doing when he sacked Fitzgerald, but this doesn't mean that either of these bishops were freemasons implanted to destroy the Church. It doesn't represent a nullification of the validity of magisterial acts carried out by their curial agencies.
My knowledge of Casini is limited. I am telling you what I thought I knew about him in order for it to be confirmed, challenged or corrected by someone who knows quite a bit more about him than I. Is this impertinent?
Am I to understand that you believe that in lieu of the situation of the late 60s and early 70s, Casini may have sometimes gone too far in his rhetoric, but this shouldn't be held against him? That it doesn't detract from his greatness? Is this a correct interpretation of your opinion?
- 21 September, 2006 21:13
- New Catholic said...
I believe my opinion is simple, it does not demand complex interpretations: Tito Casini was a great man in an age of many mediocre Catholics.
- 21 September, 2006 21:39
- With Peter said...
I respect what you are saying, and I think I might be able to agree with you, but do you think he sometimes went too far in the acidity of his criticism of the liturgical acts of Paul VI?
Maybe you just want to give a "no comment" to that one?
This might be too big a favor to ask of you New Catholic, but I don't suppose you could translate and post that homily from 1972? I think you'd be doing a great service to traditionalism by providing the complete context of a text that usually gets quoted only for its sound-byte value. I'd do it myself, but my Italian is terrible.
- 21 September, 2006 22:53
- With Peter said...
I just wanted to say, in clarification, that given the problems of the late 60s and early 70s, I think it'd be pretty hard to come out spotless. If Casini said a few vicious things, I don't think it should be held too harshly against him. His most significant book--"The Torn Tunic"--had a preface written by the great Cardinal Antonio Bacci.
Ironically, a part of this preface is quoted by Bugnini in his own memoirs. Bugnini quotes Bacci speaking about Casini's book: "In my opinion, these pages, which remind us of the even more fearless writings of St. Catherine of Sienna, may lead to the correction of some ideas and thus do good."
- 23 September, 2006 17:10


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Some Man Versus Robert Phillips
A sequel to the episode: Robert Phillips versus The Man, season 2 episode 5
Officer Eve Whitfield clicked smartly into the office on high heels looking particularly chic from the confection of feather and fabric on top of her carefully controlled golden curls down to the smart white court shoes on her feet.
Between she was clad in a perfectly tailored coat dress in peacock blue tussore silk with severe but stylish white trim. The hat was a perfect match and featured real peacock feathers and had probably been made by the same modiste. It was not a costume she could have bought on a policewoman's salary.
"All right boys, if you have a bet on with Miss Whitfield you may as well pay up" said Ironside. "I noticed the hat. IF you can call that ridiculous fluff of dead canary on her head a hat."
Eve chose to ignore that insult and held out her hand while Ed and Mark passed her bills.
"Even the chief wears a hat for a wedding" she said smugly.
"Don't count on it" said Ironside
He and Ed and Mark were all smartly dressed, though Mark was wearing a scarlet shirt not a white one, with a tie that he liked to describe as exuberant and Ironside had called garish when they had an argument about it.
"You can bet I'm the only one who's going to fit in" said Mark "You can take the black man off the streets but you can't take the street out of the black man."
"But if you dress the white man like a black man that's an insult" said Ironside "All right, I hate the tie; but Mr Phillips' friends at least will probably approve. Are we actually going to this wedding or are you lot going to stand around all day gossiping?" and he wheeled himself towards the ramp as Mark hurried to catch up and give an assist on the handles of the wheelchair. The three had exchanged a half exasperated, half amused look; how like the chief to put them firmly in the wrong!
Eve's eyes lingered in tolerance on Ironside as she and Ed followed him; the thing that rankled for the chief was that they COULD stand about and he could not. He had every excuse for irascibility.
Ed could have told her that he had always been irascible; but he would have agreed that it had always been dissipated in the strenuous activity of an energetic man and that enforced inaction had not made Ironside a sweeter character. But then it had not destroyed a gruff , almost guilty, kindness. They would complain; but they would do anything for the chief.
Robert Phillips, the black rights activist, owed his freedom to the untiring efforts of Ironside and his team. He was getting married and as a mark of respect – and to promote relations with 'The Man' he in general despised – had invited Ironside and his team as 'something of a curiosity for my friends to look at, a bunch of straight cops'.
Ironside had liked Phillips despite the man's initial antagonism and truculence; he had found him to be a straight dealing man.
Phillips had liked Ironside despite himself. And he had respected the way Ironside had helped the youths who had been looting for turning themselves in and being prepared to give back what they had taken; as well as having the courage to risk condemnation from rednecks for arresting the real murderer who had planned to let the rioters take the blame. And now Phillips was marrying a friend of his sister's, who was ready to let herself love a man who would talk to the authorities, coming from a family which disapproved of Phillips' activist activities.
The wedding went just as it should in the little church; the bride was radiant in a simple lace sheath dress and Phillips wore a look of contentment that, as Ed whispered to Eve, helped to dissipate what had been something of a 'lean and hungry look'.
The bride's father had apologised that his son could not be there; a murmur 'had to work' covered some embarrassment; Mark had already picked up that the new Mrs Polly Phillips' brother, Evan Davids, was not happy with her being associated with a man who had been arrested – even if proved innocent – and who was associated with lawless elements.
Phillips' associate, Williams, had been outspoken about Mr Davids' Uncle Tom attitude; and Mark threatened to hit him again if he upset the bridegroom by upsetting the bride.
"Well you'd understand the Uncle Tom thing wouldn't you now, boy" sneered Williams.
"One of these days" said Mark "You and I can find ourselves a nice quiet place to discuss this. But then when I'm a lawyer and you're still nothing, don't expect me to defend you."
Ed moved smartly over to steer Mark back to the chief to go outside for the photographs.
The photo shoot was not the only shooting taking place.
The crack of a bullet as they lined up took them all by surprise.
Phillips went down.
Eve sprang to his side as the bride screamed and clutched at him; Ed whipped his gun out and almost everybody else screamed.
"Well looks like some rednecks don't want him to bring up another generation" said Williams cynically.
"You may be right" said Ironside. "Pretty inefficient rednecks fortunately; didn't look like a fatal wound to me. Eve?"
"Through his shoulder: he'll live" said Eve.
"With a bit of a crimp on his wedding night" said Mark.
"We'll find the bastard that did it and….." began Williams
"And do NOTHING!" said Ironside irritably. Part of his irritation was that he was not able to chase the perpetrator; but Williams was available to take it out on. Williams had not gone out of his way to endear himself to the chief and Ironside sympathised with Mark's desire to smear the man's nose all across his face.
"Chief!" Roberts was half fainting but determined to be heard. "Chief, I caught a glimpse. He wasn't white. It was a black man" and then he passed out.
"He had a motorcycle running nearby and hopped on before I could get close" said Ed when he returned to Ironside. An ambulance had arrived and Phillips and his bride were on their way to hospital "I went to the paddy wagon to put out an APB but I doubt it'll do much good."
"Well in that case we'll have to track him down by other means as you were careless enough to lose him" grumbled Ironside.
"Yes chief" said Ed in resignation.
"This could provoke a riot" The Commissioner said. "Bob, we need to pull in every member of that group that Shavely and Barnard belonged to."
"That won't help, Dennis" said Ironside. "We aren't looking for a redneck."
Commissioner Randall stared.
"Bob I know you have some pretty odd starts sometimes but what's eating you this time?"
"Phillips caught sight of the face behind the rifle" said Ironside "The face was black."
Randall made a gesture of impatience.
"Caught sight of? At a distance? In cover? The man was half crazy with pain; he was mistaken Bob. Maybe the man who shot him was wearing a ski mask. Or had blacked his face."
"Dennis, would you mistake a light coloured ski mask for white skin?" asked Ironside "You know well enough that Robert Phillips is an intelligent man. It goes with the name" he added with a moment's grim humour. "If he says he saw a black face, I'm going to believe him."
"But good grief, Bob!" said Randall "What motive would a black man have to shoot him?"
"Well, Dennis, that's what we have to find out, isn't it?" said Ironside with heavy irony.
Williams and his coterie of black flower power young people had invaded the chief's office again. They constituted the self appointed fan club of Robert Phillips.
"Funny thing" growled Ironside "You complained about me bringing just one of my people to your meeting hall; but you seem to think it's just fine to invade my private residence with a horde. Twice. Your ideas of what's polite seems to vary when it's you being rude."
"Don't give me that crap, Ironside" said Williams "This is your office; we came for a consultation."
"Most civilised people make appointments" said Ironside.
"Civilised? Who you callin' uncivilised? You think 'cos we're black we're animals or sump'n?" said one of the coterie.
"No; I think because you're punks you're uncivilised" said Ironside "And that wouldn't change whether you were black, white, or green-blooded with pointy ears like that fellow in that new Science Fiction series on TV."
"Mr Spock" supplied Mark. "It's called Star Trek, chief."
"I don't care what it's called" snapped Ironside. "You lot are trespassing. Next time you do it, I'll decamp to a hotel until you've either got bored and left or I get bored and have you removed. Now if you have any information about who shot Phillips hand it over quick and I can get on with my job."
"Well we can all guess, can't we?" said Williams "It has to be one of them rednecks"
"Aren't you cats forgetting something?" said Mark. He disliked the coterie.
"What's that, man?" said Williams.
"A little matter of Robert Phillips identifying his assailant as a black man" said Mark "And that makes it apolitical so you agitators are superfluous to requirement – unless he's one of your own who wants the top seat and thinks that Phillips is in the way of his own political aspirations."
"Why you…." The man who had spoken before started forward.
Williams grabbed him.
"He saw a BLACK man?" Williams asked, nonplussed.
"You were there" said Ironside "Were you too busy bellyaching about rednecks to hear him?"
Williams scowled.
"Well I guess that puts a different complexion on it" he said.
"Well why would any BLACK man shoot Phillips? He's for all of us!" said the stunning girl of the group, her dusky skin lighter than that of some of her fellows, but the colour emphasised by a white leatherette mini dress and white knee length boots. Mark eyed her appreciatively but covertly.
"Well, that's what I'm hoping to find out" said Ironside "And if you people can't tell me, then you're wasting my time as well as your own. If you hear anything about anyone disliking him or being jealous maybe, as Mark suggested, then perhaps you might be good enough to contact my office and ask to speak to me."
"Oh we aren't staying where we ain't wanted" said Williams "I expect your boy will want to get on with fawning to you."
"No loser, I want to have a steak dinner and then get on with my schoolwork" said Mark.
"I know boss" said Mark as soon as the coterie had stalked out. "Get myself down to records and find out if there's anything on known associates of Phillips that might have had a grudge against him or ambitions to walk in his shoes."
"Quite right" said Ironside "Eve, Ed, I want you talking to the parents of some of the kids who have been in trouble over Phillips' incitement; see if there's anyone cares enough to put him out of business for the sake of their children."
"Chief" said Eve "There's another possibility."
"Well I don't claim to be infallible" said Ironside "I just usually am."
Eve took that as permission to lay forward her theory.
"Well the fact that he was shot at his wedding might be significant" she said "It might be that Robert Phillips, who is when all is said and done both handsome and charismatic, might have had a, er, liaison with a different girl than Polly Davids and if this other girl ended up with a broken heart or an illegitimate baby, any of her relatives could have had a motive."
"Hmph" said the chief "And that's why we pay for female officers; to think of the more morbidly romantic motives. Well the same group of people who might not like their kids involved are likely to contain those with daughters of an age to find him attractive; you may investigate that angle too."
"You're TOO kind chief" said Eve, the only one of them who dared be sarcastic to the chief when he was in a dour mood.
"I know" said Ironside "I'm going to let you report back here before I send you out checking jealous ex boyfriends of Polly."
Eve rolled her eyes at him.
Whatever his mood, Eve always lightened it; and one might almost imagine the ghost of a smile touched the side of his mouth briefly.
"Do you really think we're going to get anywhere?" asked Ed.
"Well we won't if we stay around the precinct complaining and worrying" said Eve.
"THAT sounded too much like one of the chief's comments" growled Ed.
Eve laughed.
"Well it sounds prettier when I say it than if you had to have HIM say it" she said. "Why don't we start with the parents of those boys the chief helped to get off on a suspended sentence? They're pretty grateful and co-operative. They'll maybe introduce us around."
"The wisdom of the serpent" said Ed "Goes with the name I suppose."
"Watch it wise guy" said Eve amicably.
Robert T. Ironside stared at the desk.
He thought that he had probably sent Mark on a fool's errand; but that angle had to be checked out. It was personal; it had to be personal. Eve was right about it being significant that the shot had taken place at the wedding.
He picked up the telephone and called the hospital; first to find out how Phillips was doing and second to talk to Mrs Polly Phillips.
Phillips was doing fine; the bullet had been removed and he had recovered from sedation and was sleeping naturally. Polly was distraught but willing to do what she could to help; and a couple of calls meant that a police car soon had her in Ironside's office.
"I need to know a few things Polly" said Ironside "This appears to have a personal motive; and I need you to tell me who you were dating before you met Phillips; who might be jealous. Any ex boyfriend who was angry that you were with Phillips."
Polly stared.
"But chief!" she said "I hadn't really dated anyone before Robert! I've been out with a few boys, but you couldn't say I was dating any of them. Not so that I would call them a boyfriend, so not going out with them again doesn't really qualify them as being ex boyfriends. I'm working so my brother can go through college; I don't have much time for a social life. And Robert understands that; he doesn't expect me to give up working now I'm married, I'll just go part time."
"Hmmm" said Ironside "So none of the men you've been out with has expressed any disapproval of Phillips?"
Polly laughed.
"No sir; it would be none of their business to do so. It's the business of my family only. My father wasn't all that happy at first but he heard how Robert had done his best to help you find who killed that nasty man Shavely. But he and Evan were the only ones who disapproved at first and they couldn't disapprove once they'd met Robert. Dad said he was surprised how nicely spoken Robert is. Mom just loves him! He's become a part of the family."
"I see" said Ironside. "And your brother looks on him as gaining another brother too now does he?"
Polly looked uncomfortable.
"Evan has the oddest ideas!" she said. "I – I fear that he's also a bit afraid that I won't go on working so he won't get his college fees paid. Which is absurd! Robert believes in a college education for all, he'd never stop me helping my own brother out! What's also foolish is that because Robert was arrested, Evan is afraid he'll be marked as a troublemaker at college and flunked to get him off the courses."
"That is absurd" said Ironside "Because Phillips was not even charged in the event. Being absurd however does not mean that some racist on the faculty might not use it as an excuse to try to push him to fail. I'd like to say your brother is paranoid but unfortunately he has a point. He should NOT have a point. However, I don't think it would happen even if I concede the possibility. They can't flunk him without his marks dropping to a certain level and that's subject to external review too, so as long as he works hard he should have nothing to fear."
"That was what I said" said Polly. "HE said that the Man is unfair enough without people like Robert giving him excuse. Chief Ironside, you think my brother shot my husband, don't you?"
Ironside gave her a long, considering look.
"Evan" said Polly "You shot Robert, didn't you? I know you joined the rifle club at college. And you have a motorbike. You stole a college rifle to shoot him."
Her brother scowled.
"And what if I did?" he said. "Do you think I want my sister tied to a criminal, to have everyone know that I'm related to a rabble-rouser who's been mixed up in a murder?"
"And the fact that I love him has nothing to do with it?" said Polly.
Evan shrugged.
"You'd get over it; you can't really love a man like that, he's dazzled you, that's all."
"Oh would I?" said Polly "All you're interested in is how you look and whether I can keep earning for you. I don't think you'd care that much if I was turning tricks so long as the money came in."
"Don't be ridiculous" said Evan "How would it look if I let my sister be a hooker?"
"How would it look" said Polly "Well it's not my safety or self respect that stops you pimping me, just your almighty image. And how do you think I feel at the thought that my brother is going to be a gaolbird?"
"What?" he stared. "Poll, you wouldn't turn me in! your own brother!"
"Why not?" said Polly. "You tried to kill the man I love most in all the world."
"Poll…. I'm your brother; he's going to make you unhappy! I did it for you, honey!" wheedled Evan "You and me, we're the only people in the world who know…. You don't need to tell anyone!"
"I don't need to tell anyone" said Polly "Because Ironside already knew. He's waiting outside for you to give yourself up peacefully. If you do that, as it was not a fatal shot he'll do what he can for you."
"You BITCH!" Evan Davids leaped on his sister with his hands about her throat.
Officer Eve Whitfield decided that it was time to step in at this point; and Evan Davids, turning in fury on the slight, blonde policewoman who had entered the room, found himself unaccountably on the ground with the said slight blonde policewoman sitting on him as she cuffed him informing him of his rights.
"I'm sorry Eve" said Polly "I really thought if I explained calmly he would give himself up."
"I'M sorry, Polly, that this is going to be painful" said Eve. "Ah here's Ed."
Ed took Davids down to a waiting police car. Ironside wheeled himself sadly back to the lifting gear of the paddy wagon. The instruction had been that if Davids was willing to come clean he would ride with the chief; otherwise he would go in a car to be booked in the normal fashion.
"Thanks again chief" said Robert Phillips, his arm in a sling. "Evan was one of the things I despise more than an Uncle Tom; a man who resents The Man but will not act on it whether by the peaceful protests or my way; a counterfeit Uncle Tom. I despise a hypocrite."
"Polly will need your support" said Ironside.
"And her parents" agreed Phillips. "Mr Davids is very cut up that his son should do such a thing; if he hadn't confessed to Polly, he'd have paid out every last penny to private investigators and a smart lawyer to see if Evan hadn't been framed. Of course finding the stolen rifle and matching the tire treads of the motorbike confirmed it. There's a knock on effect to the family of any criminal, isn't there?"
"Yes Mr Phillips, there is" said Ironside "As well as to the family of any victim. Violence never solves anything; it just creates more problems."
"Sometimes controlled violence gets a point across" said Phillips.
"Sometimes the point is sharp and ends up in another man's back" said Ironside, recalling the Shavely murder.
"What else am I to do, man?" said Phillips.
"You're well known now" said Ironside "Talk to people as before; but tell them to stick to civil disobedience. Tell them that they need the moral high ground. Get onto TV. Run for office. You won't be elected but run for office anyhow. There are enough supporters out there to put up the money for election campaigns. Become a lawyer and defend black kids. And work with them, helping them realise their potentials not inciting them to do things that end their youth and potential in gaol!"
"You sound like Polly" said Phillips.
"Your wife is a sensible woman" said Ironside. "Now I told the Commissioner I had living proof that you were a clever man; show him I'm right and get yourself out there doing good for your community."
"What proof?" demanded Phillips.
"The best proof" said Ironside. "Your name's Robert."
Ed, Mark and Eve exchanged looks laughing. HOW like the chief to have the last word as a non-sequitor!


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So they're going to start growing meat in a laboratory. Beef without cows, pork without pigs, chicken without ... chickens. Animal protein by proxy - muscle tissue from a Petri dish. Apparently, according to 'researchers' from the University of Maryland, it's going to be the answer to the world's food shortage, and the moral dilemmas of meat production and factory farming, all in one blissfully brilliant technological stroke. Is this genius? Does a Nobel Peace Prize beckon?
No! This is moronic! These are short-sighted, power-crazed, intellectually degenerate, self-serving, morally empty imbeciles! They believe they hold in their hands the beginnings of a brave new world of cruelty-free meat. I don't think so. It's more like the final eradication of any vestigial sense of responsibility, or duty of care, to the animals we use for food. Take it to its logical conclusion, and it consigns to oblivion 10,000 years of a relationship that has shaped civilisation - the contract of good husbandry between man and his domesticated livestock.
Now I am the first to admit that that contract is already in crisis, undermined by the inherent cruelty of our factory farming systems. The need to repair it, and restore and rebuild the respect of our own species for the species that we farm and eat, is desperately urgent, both for the sake of their welfare, and our own moral health.
And I can readily appreciate the overwhelming temptation to see an apparent solution offered by this extraordinary technology. It looks frighteningly like a watertight ethical syllogism: you can't be cruel to anything inanimate, i.e. without a central nervous system. Petri-meat will have no such system. Therefore Petri-meat will be cruelty free. It must seem like a no-brainer (if you'll excuse the pun) - especially to those investors and researchers temporarily blinded by the flash of pound signs, and the anticipated blaze of glory (whichever burns the brighter).
But it isn't like that, and it will never be like that. If you accept factory farming against your own stated moral position, as most of us resignedly do when we begin to load up our shopping trolley, and then you accept the technology that promises to replace it, then you also inevitably accept everything in between. After all, who's got time to check up on what these guys are really up to in the lab?
It seems to me far more likely that this Petri-meat technology will never really replace factory farming; it will only ever augment it, in the most grisly, Mengelean way imaginable. After all, another absurdly overfunded group of white coats (with butchers' aprons on top) have already given us the featherless chicken - no plucking required. They are also working on the brainless bird - 'too dumb to suffer', and have pledged to follow up with 'vegetative' versions of pigs, sheep and cows.
From the sound of it, Petri-meat could hardly be more revolting. The researchers are not even beginning to think in terms of anything as sophisticated as a steak, a chop, or even a chicken breast. Theirs will not be meat as we know it. A mass of cells, 'grown' on rubbery sheets of nutrified jelly, it will have no structure, no marbling, no resemblance to a 'cut' we'd ever get from a butcher. By their own admission that is way beyond their technological grasp, and may remain forever out of reach. What they have in mind, apparently, is a bloody, pulpy mush - it sounds like a bad case of road kill - which will certainly require reshaping, reflavouring and heavy processing.
I see scarcely any conceivable advantage over the dreaded TVP (textured vegetable protein), which has already, in the name of satisfying the sublimated meat-lust of vegetarians, been extruded and flavoured into imitations of everything from a sausage to a lamb chop. But the Maryland team remain convinced that the bovine, porcine, ovine or avian origins of what they can create will give them an edge over anything that can currently be done with a soya bean.
Personally, I would have thought that this will turn out to be reassuringly useless stuff, and so, on balance, I might just about be prepared to sit back and watch this experiment fail catastrophically. Except that I have a deep unease about what divergent paths it might take along the way. What frightens me most is the thought of what might happen when the Petri dish guys and the brainless chicken team get together in a lab and start to party. You know they will. How long before they can 'grow' endless drumsticks on the body of a mutant, anaesthetised chicken? Or create some proteinaceous robo-pig, capable of 'laying' 20-kilo hams like giant eggs?
As long as our farm animals remain whole and natural creatures - identifiable members of distinctive species with a known set of needs and natural behaviours - there can be a reasoned public debate, with hard edges and clear boundaries, about appropriate and inappropriate ways to rear them and take their meat. Consumers can, in theory at least, make their feelings felt in the choices they make at the meat counter. Many of us hope that the burgeoning collective anxiety and suppressed guilt on the part of the meat-eating public, may, over the next few years, finally translate into some meaningful consumer action. Things can, and should, get better for farm animals.
But an apparent technological 'fix' to the ethical dilemmas of meat production could spell disaster for farm animal welfare. Under the false promise of moral absolution in their meat-buying habit, the public may be led not merely to accept, but actually applaud, in the name of ethical and scientific progress, a situation where more or less anything goes at the biotechnological end of the meat industry. The thought makes my flesh creep.


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Link to my WIKI
Curriculum Vitae for Sebastian Mueller
Name: Mueller, Sebastian
Date of birth: 1981-02-23
Place of birth: Koeln, Germany
Email address: webmaster (AT) elchtest.eu This e-mail address is being protected from spambots.
Marital status: Single
Children: None
Smoker: No
2011-01-01 . today
Queisser Pharma
Server- and Infrastructure Administrator
2008-06-01 . 2010-12-31
Athena IT Group GmbH - Flensburg, Germany
IT system technician / IT Consultant
- HP Server and Blade Infrastructure
- Cisco
- Storages HP EVA and MSA
- Windows 2003/2008 Server
- Exchange 2003/2007
- VMWare (Virtuel Center / Infrastructure 3 / ESX3i / vSphere)
- Linux Server administration (Debian / CentOS)
2007-10-01 . 2008-05-31
Fixit AG. Holderbank, AG, Switzerland
The Fixit AG is a part of the FIXIT Trockenmöl Holding AG, I
was responsible for Server- and Infrastructure support of the Holding.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (Backup)
- Blackberry Server Support
- VoIP (innovaphone / Cisco CCM 4.x / Cisco Unity 4.x)
- SAN Support (IBM FAST / EMC CX3-40 / ADTX / Xyratec)
- Windows 2003 Server
- Exchange 2003
- IGEL Thin client
- Active Directory
- Project management (SAN / VMWare / Backup / VoIP)
2004-11-01 . 2007-09-30
ABC Software GmbH . Buchs, SG, Switzerland
Helpdesk Technician, System- and VoIP Administrator
After three Years at Electronic Arts Germany, I have relocated
to our Office in Switzerland. ABC Software is a Hard- and Software
Distributor in Switzerland and a part of Electronic Arts Inc.
- Cisco VoIP (Unity 4.x, Call Manager 4.x, IPCC 4.x, Call
Manager Express)
- Budget Planning
- Office 2003 Migration
- Windows 2003 Migration
- Windows 2000 Server and Workstation
- Windows 2003 and NT Server
- Windows XP
- ADS Domain Migration
- Implementation of LANDesk with PXE Boot
- VERITAS Backup Exec
- Server replacement
- Administration of Cisco Network devices (Switches and Router)
- User Helpdesk
2001-08-10 . 2004-10-31
Electronic Arts GmbH . Koeln, Germany
System Administrator and Helpdesk Technician
Full-time job as Systems and network administrator and
Helpdesk Technician,
at Electronic Arts (EA), EA is the world's leading independent developer
and publisher of interactive entertainment software for personal computers
and advanced entertainment systems.
Our Department advise EA establishments in Germany,
Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.
- Windows 2000 Server and Workstation
- Windows 2003 and NT Server
- Windows XP
- Exchange 2000 and 2003
- Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9.0
- Office 2000, XP, 2003
- Oracle Application
- Printer (HP, Minolta, Xerox)
- Mobile phone support
- BlackBerry support, administration and
installation of server and client versions
- Anti Virus Software (McAfee, Norton)
- Intel LANDesk
- Fax Software (Tobit and GFI Faxmaker)
- Norton Ghost
- Remedy Helpdesk System
- Programming telephone system (Nortel Networks)
- Administration of Network devices (Dell, HP, Cisco and 3com)
- User Helpdesk
2000-11-1 . 2001-06-31
German Arm Forces Ministry of defence . Duesseldorf and Koeln, Germany
System and Network Administrator
After two month basic training at the army in Duesseldorf, I
started working as an network administrator in the Central IT . Department,
of the Ministry of Defence in Koeln (more than 1000 user).
- User support and administration of Windows NT Server and
- planning, designed and administration of V-LANs
- Maintenance at Network device (3com, Avaya and Cisco)
1997 . 2000 School providing vocational education
Werner-von-Siemens School
Koeln, Germany
1992 . 1997 Secondary education
Comprehensive school Rodenkirchen
Koeln, Germany
1991-1992 Secondary education
Gymnasium Rodenkirchen
Koeln, Germany
1987 . 1991 Primary School
Koeln, Germany
VMware VTSP 4
VMware VSP 4
VMware Capacity Planner: Installing the Data Manager (CP26)
VMware ACE 2.0 Quick Start Guide
VMware Infrastructure 3: What's New v3.5 (elearning)
VMware ESXi: Administration
5 days
Cisco - CCNA BootCamp
VMware VSP: Selling Infrastructure Optimization Solutions
3 days
Check Point VPN-1 NGX Administration
2 days
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
4 days
innovaphone iCE Basic
NextiraOne Switzerland - Cisco VoIP (CallManager, Unity)
Landesk Training
Corel Draw 9
8 Weeks AlphaNet : AlphaNet is a local ISP in Koeln, which
companies and public authorities, where worked full time in
the Server Helpdesk group.
3 Weeks mu-NET: mu-NET is an IT-Service Company in Koeln, where I worked
full time at the user Helpdesk.
A very basic list of my skills would be:
- Operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows
- Programming: C, C++
- Web-development: PHP, HTML
- Networking: TCP/IP, Nortel, switching, WLAN etc
- Services: IIS,Wins, DNS, DHP, Databases, file servers, e-Mail etc
- Databases: MsSQL, MySQL,
- Security: network security, IDS , firewalls
- Phone systems: Nortel, Cisco VoIP
English : Good understanding and writing
German : Fluent (first language)


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Subject: Re: Furbush or Furbish from Scotland and Maine- Jewish connection?
Date: 21 Apr 2004 16:41:17 -0600
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I noticed in your posting that you had information on various Furbush/Furbish families in Maine.
I'm searching for the family and ancestry of the Phoebe Furbush that married Joshua R. Howard about 1841 in ME. I believe that she may be the daughter of Ivory and Sarah Haskell Furbush.
Do you have anything on this family/ancestry?
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City assaults 'may be linked'
Police in Londonderry are searching for a gang they believe may be linked to two assaults over the weekend.
The assaults took place in the Waterside area of the city in areas on either side of the Altnagelvin hospital.
In the first assault the three men attacked a small group of people in the Knockwellan playing fields area at about 9pm.
The attackers were described as being in their mid teens and one was believed to be wearing a Tottenham Hotspur top.
The next assault then took place in the Knightsbride area.
Belfast Telegraph


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4 Women Sharing Art members: Julianna Kirk, Dawn Schabner, Carole Amodeo, and Gail Neuman had their art juried into the COLOR Show at the East End Arts Council. 2 members won awards for their efforts. Carole Amodeo won a Third Place and Julianna Kirk won an Honorable Mention. There were over 375 pieces submitted and… Continue Reading


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It's beautiful! ♥ lovely how you did all the details ;D
Award: Very realistic. Liked: The curve of the tower is absolutely perfect - i have been to paris and it is no different. Tips: If im honest, i think you rushed the writing, and if it was slightly neater it would be ok but at the moment it kinda sticks out.
nice drawing i juz don't like the title.... dli ko bilib sko tweety oi.... bad cheetah au kah....
awesome!! I can't believe the detail :D 5♥s
Incredible. The detail in the metal work is outstanding! 5 ♥s
All I can say is that this is pure perfection! 5/5 maaan u rock XD
This is the most excellent Eiffel Tower I have ever seen drawn. I am speechless. WOW!
I'd love to see it in person. You did a fantastic job drawing it. Excellent drawing. Thank you for your comments and admiration. Great details in this. Perfect.
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1. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Sara Woodhull-Oracle Aug 17, 2012 7:45 PM (in response to Cyriel)Hi Cyriel,1 person found this helpful
We're just getting started on the doc for using session management with ADF specifically (as opposed to straight Java EE). Stay tuned to the ADF blog at blogs.oracle.com/jruiz.
Meanwhile, are you using JAAS (ADF native security, enterprise roles, etc.) or session management (EBiz object, etc.)? Generally you use one or the other (you need AppsDataSource with either).
If you are trying to do anything that requires the ICX session cookie, use session management. With session management, EBS then takes over the authentication part, and you don't do it in your pages directly. You'll need to override the beforePhase and afterPhase lifecycle methods on your page to use the SDK APIs to establish a joint session with EBS.
2. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 17, 2012 8:20 PM (in response to Sara Woodhull-Oracle)Hi Sara,
Thanks for your reply. Currently I did the enterprise role part AND try to use the session cookie because I need info from eBS like which org_id etc to render the ADF application correctly with the required data. Also, a user must be able to start the application only when logged in in E-Business Suite R12.1.3 and when using special org assigned responsibility (by using global security profiles in eBS).
Currenly I defined a new responsibility for each org, and assigned a special UMX| role to it through eBS User Management - and defined the same UMX role in ADF and provided pagedef grants to that role - that works and users can use their username from eBS for staring the app.
I did look at the Java EE example as described in the document which comes with the fndext jar ebs patch where a kind of landing page principle is used to transfer the user to the actual adf application when the icx session cookie is active (and derive the properties like username etc from it) or redirect to the eBS login page of the current agent when the cookie is invalid. That principle I need to use also for my final release.
Can you already share something with me regarding the use of session management and using the defined API's and classes in the SDK? I already built the complete ADF application but need to take care on the security part right now. So please share any concept post you already have about using the SDK. I wonder by the way as Oracle is delivering this SDK with the possibilities of using Session management that more real life code examples are there? I need them ;-)
Thanks Sara! You can also email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to send me your examples. Already had some contact with Juan through Twitter :-) Building a nice ADF application on top of Project Resource Management! I like ADF and the functionality.
Greetz from bloody hot Netherlands,
3. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)452071 Aug 17, 2012 9:59 PM (in response to Cyriel)Hi Cyriel,
Keep in mind that you need to adapt the code shown on the MyOracle Support note for Java EE session management to ADF. The basic work you need to do in order to share the session information between ADF and E-Business suite is creating your own PhaseListener. Use this sample to get started: http://www.baigzeeshan.com/2011/05/how-to-run-java-code-on-every-page-load.html
The methods tha tyou need to override are beforePhase and afterPhase for establishing the session. In those methods you would use the EBiz object.
Keep in mind the following aspects about the described implementation:
- It doesn't use ADF Security: meaning that all security is handle on the E-Business side. So, in order to use you ADF application you need to invoke the jspx page from EBS.
- Mixing ADF Security with session management is what we are testing at the moment so for now, both approaches are separate one from another. However, both use the AppsDataSource underneath.
Sara and I are preparing for OOW and it might take us longer at this point to provide you with the sample code but we could continue following up through this thread so other people working on the same topic can benefit from the conversation.
Thanks for your understanding,
Juan Camilo
4. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 19, 2012 5:09 PM (in response to 452071)Hi Juan,
Thanlks for the info. Yes I know adf security is not needed when using session management. So what I did now is to use indeed the beforephase listener in my jspx. Written a security class for that which is called in the phaselisteners. I finalized the class and testing it currently. It seems to work ;-)
Yes, created the function in ebs to call the adf page, and set the profile for the context root of the external wls server.
I'm checking in my class if the user is granted access by using the correct responsibility with still the umx role attached. (No need anymore to set this umx role in the adf application). Furthermore I'm building my page up based on another active resp of the user in ebs and settings from the global security profile in Human Resources and project org authority in Projects.
Oh and yes I use the AppsDataSource in wls defined with the fnd user with the apps schema connect role - connection is made succesfully.
Awaiting your blog post about it ;-)
Edited by: Cyriel on Aug 19, 2012 10:08 AM
5. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Sara Woodhull-Oracle Aug 20, 2012 6:37 AM (in response to Cyriel)You shouldn't need the JAAS part. If you are using the session management APIs, that will take care of the login as well (you create a function for your page, put it on the EBS menu, and launch it from the EBS home page).
A couple of teams in EBS have started using it. It's going to take a while (several weeks) to sort out and document what they did (once we have a chance to really work on it), so please be patient.
6. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 20, 2012 8:23 AM (in response to Sara Woodhull-Oracle)Hi Sara,
Yes that's what I did and am not using the JAAS feature....maybe a little with the umx role assigned to the resp which is not needed indeed.
7. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 22, 2012 10:47 AM (in response to Sara Woodhull-Oracle)Hi,
Managed to get steps further into this however I run into a problem.
Whenever I check wether I'm authenticated to eBS in my phaselistener my call to Session session = wrappedRequest.getAppsSession(true); is retrieving the guest user session. It is not picking up the session (id) after a succesfull login in eBS.
When validating the icx cookie it returns a cookie status of GUEST_VALID. Therefore it redirects me everytime to the login page of eBS because I'm checking on a VALID cookie status for a normal fnd_user.
What might be the problem here?
8. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 22, 2012 8:56 PM (in response to Sara Woodhull-Oracle)I see it's returning the guest session id if I look in my ICX_SESSIONS table while it should take the session from the FND_USER which is also there I see. Anyone having an idea what's causing the behaviour? I expect it this caused by the getAppsSession call where I pass the boolean true (as described in the documentation) which creates a guest session if no ICX cookie can be found already. But I'm logged in in eBS and a VALID FND User should be retrieved when calling getAppsSession - after some further debugging I thought it was caused maybe by the dbc file used to create the datasource. But after testing I'm able to connect with the database using the FND_USER with apps schema connect role in the datasource AND using a dbc file with an appl server id which was creates while registering the external wls server in eBS. I'm using the same appl id while creating the eBIZ(Util) objects....
Will debug further but if anyone has some clue than let me be the first to know.
9. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 23, 2012 3:05 PM (in response to Cyriel)Hi,
Again a few steps further. I'm now creating the AppsRequestWrapper in a filter and using that in the phaselistener. However I'm still getting the guest user cookie instead of the normal one.
10. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)452071 Aug 23, 2012 5:22 PM (in response to Cyriel)Hi Cyriel,
Can you share the code that you are using? where are you creating the session at? is at the phase listener? is it at Application Module level? Are you using the EBiz API?
As mentioned before, we are working together with the E-Business Suite team on putting together documentation and hopefully sample code that can cover the implementation. It is not trivial nor impossible, but it does require knowledge on ADF life cycle, writing things at the application module level and understanding of the APIs that are provided by the SDK for Java - and time to seat down and write how to do it I ask you to be patience as we are preparing for Oracle Open World and this consumes most of our time this time of the year.
In the meantime let us continue feeding this thread with the steps that you are following.
Juan Camilo
11. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Cyriel Aug 24, 2012 4:57 PM (in response to 452071)Hi all,
I wonder what should be at the appmodule level. See no reason for that. Furthermore i removed the ebs security realm withthe extauthentication provider (as this is applicable to jaas). So at the oment I only have the Appsdatasource (with the schema connect role user) and my app.
I se the profile for adf application context root and thefnction which calls the adf app. I'm using the adf function type. I'm currently fiddling around with a filter to initiate the appswrapper and the phaselistener. I feel i can remove the filter and do everything in a beforephase listener.
Session is created in the phaselistener ut as it is not finding an icx cookie it's creating a guest cookie...i think :-d
Did you make any progress on your side? Which parts are you using where? Appmodule, phaselistener and filter?
12. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)fblettner Sep 6, 2012 3:44 PM (in response to Cyriel)Hi All,
First of all thanks for your idea because I think i'm on the good way to implement the "session management" between EBS and ADF.
Today, i can retrieve successfully the ICX session cookie from EBS.
Steps to implement :
Create a listener with a beforephase as mentionned in one of the reply.
In this event, i add a popup windows to show the cookie (NULL if not connected, VALID if connected before to EBS)
I post the code of the beforephase event in this reply.
I have to finalize to redirect on EBS login page if cookie is not VALID and retrieve responsibility from the user. I will try to do this next week. I will be at OpenWorld this year so Juan if you want i can help you to create your tutorial and perhaps meet you in the conference.
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import oracle.adf.controller.v2.lifecycle.Lifecycle;
import oracle.adf.controller.v2.lifecycle.PagePhaseEvent;
import oracle.adf.controller.v2.lifecycle.PagePhaseListener;
import oracle.apps.fnd.ext.common.AppsRequestWrapper;
import oracle.apps.fnd.ext.common.CookieStatus;
import oracle.apps.fnd.ext.common.EBiz;
import oracle.apps.fnd.ext.common.Session;
public void beforePhase(PagePhaseEvent pagePhaseEvent) {
if (pagePhaseEvent.getPhaseId() == Lifecycle.PREPARE_RENDER_ID) {
/* Récupération des infos de l'instance */
FacesContext fctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)fctx.getExternalContext().getRequest();
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)fctx.getExternalContext().getResponse();
CookieStatus icxCookieStatus = null;
/* Récupération des infos de connexion EBS */
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
DataSource myDS = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("jdbc/JDBC ebs_LDEV");
Connection EBSconn = myDS.getConnection();
EBiz instance = new EBiz (EBSconn,"########## APPLSERVID from DBCFILE ##############");
AppsRequestWrapper wrappedRequest = new AppsRequestWrapper ((HttpServletRequest)request,
EBSconn, instance);
Session session = wrappedRequest.getAppsSession();
icxCookieStatus = session.getCurrentState().getIcxCookieStatus();
} catch (Exception e){
FacesMessage message = new FacesMessage("Hello - ICX : " + icxCookieStatus);
fctx.addMessage(null, message);
13. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Sara Woodhull-Oracle Sep 11, 2012 10:25 PM (in response to fblettner)Hi all,
It's great to see so many of you eager to implement ADF-EBS integration!
For those of you who will be at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 (in just a couple weeks!), Juan Camilo Ruiz and I are jointly doing a session on the Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java, along with Siva Puthurkattil from Lake County, Illinois:
CON3429 - Using Oracle ADF with Oracle E-Business Suite: The Full Integration View
Siva Puthurkattil, Lake County; Juan Camilo Ruiz, Sara Woodhull, Oracle
Thursday, Oct 4, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM - Moscone West 3003
For those of you who will not be at Oracle OpenWorld, fear not--we are already planning to do it again as a webcast after OpenWorld, tentatively scheduled for Nov. 1, 2012. It will probably be slightly expanded from the OpenWorld version, since we can have more time on the webcast. Please watch the blogs for more information: The Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack Blog at blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan, as well as the ADF Adventures Blog at blogs.oracle.com/jruiz.
About sample code for use with ADF: I know it's frustrating, but please be patient. We will provide that as soon as we can manage, but it's going to be sometime AFTER OpenWorld. And no, the presentation itself will not have sample code--it won't show up on the conference room screens properly anyhow.
Sara (and Juan)
14. Re: Access to ICX session cookie with ADF-E-BusinessSuite integration (fndext)Sara Woodhull-Oracle Sep 11, 2012 10:37 PM (in response to Cyriel)By the way, regarding putting code in the application module (*AMImpl.java): In EBS, we use BC4J (ADFbc) in all our OA Framework-based pages, and we have a standard that all business logic goes in the BC4J/ADFbc layer so it can be most easily reused and maintained. Also, when we want to call EBS PL/SQL APIs, we want to do it from that BC4J/ADFbc layer as well.
So, we put most of the session management-related code in the AMImpl, and we call it from the UI layer as needed. In this case, in the custom PagePhaseListener code we get the AM, and then we call the session management code to check if the session is valid, and so on.


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Single mum and superwoman Sally Freeman wants a better life for herself and her son, Charlie. But it's not going to be easy when their home is on a run-down Liverpool council estate. Just as Sally's mission to improve their surroundings gets under way, she's offered a ticket out of there, in the splendid form of Spencer Knight.
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Fans of the canceled Showtime series The Borgias, which recently wrapped with the Season 3 finale (now series finale) "The Prince," have launched a campaign to convince the network to revive the historical drama. The Borgias revolved around the family of Pope Alexander VI of Rome (a.k.a. Rodrigo Borgia) and his family, especially son Cesare and daughter Lucrezia, who were a little...too close for siblings, if you catch my drift. (For more on their complex relationship, check out the post My Body Is a Cage: The Borgias's Cesare/Lucrezia.)
In an effort to try to convince Showtime to reverse its decision and to bring the show back for a Season 4 or two-hour movie (the latter being show creator Neil Jordan's original plan), fans have created petitions (which former series regular David Oaks has himself signed), sent tins of sardines (a reference to the fasting the pope and his cardinals did in the show as penance, I believe), and created social media accounts (including a Facebook page and Twitter profile) and even a SaveTheBorgias website.
In a statement about the cancellation, Jordan said (via Entertainment Weekly): "For a variety of reasons we won't be doing a fourth season, but, 'The Prince' [the final episode], when I wrote it and shot it, did seem like the end of a journey for the family."
However, more recently he seems less satisfied with the way the series ended, telling Crave Online in an interview: "No, I'm not [satisfied with the finale]. I don't think any of the fans are either. It was interesting when I was shooting one of the final scenes there, it did seem to me all the family had descended into certain darkness. ... [B]ut I wrote a two hour movie to conclude all of their stories which I called The Borgia Apocalypse. It would've satisfied everything that the fans seemed to be upset about, but I'm not in control of the decisions of Showtime. I asked them to make it and we even agreed to reduce our fees to make it more palatable, the budgetary numbers, but they said no. So we shall see what happens. The script is still there."
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Proposals from speakers at the meeting were wide ranging. Some mentioned in a story in the Brooklyn Eagle:
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*Designating the first few floors of any new residential building as manufacturing.
*Upgrading infrastructure, whether tied to new development or not.
Some of the proposals aimed to reform the political process:
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*Requiring a community vote on any rezoning.
*Hiring a community liaison to monitor development and negotiate with developers.
*Creating a tenant advocacy group to prevent evictions.
The group may change its name and hold future meetings, said the story. What do you think of the proposals?
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1/2 lemon charred
2 slices of avocado
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Bike magazine assistant photo editor/extraordinaire Morgan Meredith has a tough life. He rarely gets to travel to Bike events and he spends most of his weekends cooped up in the studio, shooting product that he rarely gets to ride for both us and for Powder magazine—and he doesn't even ski.
But Morgan struck gold this summer: First with a two-week trip to B.C. and at this moment he's off partying it up with Lopes and Peaty in Scotland for the World Championships. I've been dropping hints to go on that trip all year long (sniff), but here I am, left behind in the office.
But while Morgan develops his palate for single malt his mail keeps piling up back in California, and look what just landed on his desk: a showroom condition (and I mean this frame has never even had a bottom bracket installed in it) Spooky Metalhead. It's got to be close to ten years old and it's still never been ridden. Seems all those karma points from riding the train to work instead of driving his car finally added up to something. Morgan just better get back to the office before we build it up and start riding over cars in the parking lot!