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I am organizing a group of old images on OS X. Many are JPEG and predate the EXIF tag for camera rotation. Of course, many tools degrade the image (Question '10') if you edit the image. It is possible to rotate losslessly however.
I am considering writing a quick Automator action that will allow an image to be rotated -90 / 90 degrees based on seeing the image in the Finder and I would use either the Automator action or the command line sips to do so.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Why wait? The 30-Day Challenge
With that in mind, I want to tackle a 30-day challenge that I read about on another blog, but before I do, I'm going to engage in something I rarely, if ever, do here in this space.
I try to keep this space almost exclusively about my work or things that inspire my work and always with a positive spin. I think approaching life with a positive attitude is probably the best gift you can give yourself. Unfortunately, life is not all cherries and kittens, though I'm allergic to cats, so I don't know why kittens would be a positive thing in my world, but.... Anyway, the past year has brought so many blessings, both professionally and personally, but it has also been the most challenging year of my life in terms of my personal life. Without going into too much detail, but also reassuring all you terrific readers that I'm thankfully at the "light-at-the-end-of the tunnel" point, 2011 has been the year I went from married to single.
It's all(mostly?) good now and in many ways the process has been full of growth. Sometimes it takes a major shake-up like that to force you to re-examine your life and how thoughtful you are about your everyday existence. As part of that I've done a lot of reading, both online and otherwise, and found so much wisdom out there. One site that I particularly like is Marc and Angel Hack Life.
Their current post is titled 30 Challenges for 30 Days of Growth. If you take the time to read the post you'll discover that they're not expecting you to take on all 30 challenges listed, but to pick 2-5 that you feel you can make a daily commitment to for 30 days.
One of the challenges I selected is #30: Document Every Day with One Photograph and One Paragraph. It seemed like a bit of a no-brainer to choose that one because, hey, I already have a blog, and I could certainly work on improving it and generally being more attentive to it.
So, with that intention in mind and, noting Adam's point about the senselessness of waiting to take on a challenge, I'm starting today. For the next 30 days, I'll be posting a picture and a brief paragraph that, hopefully, relates to that.
Sound good? If you'd like to join me or want to take on some of the other challenges listed and feel like a public declaration of that intention would aid the process, feel free to let me know in the comments.
As for me, here I go.
Stitch Lab, which, by the way, is the best fabric and sewing store in town, and had a few minutes to walk around and shoot some pictures. I'll upload all of them to my flickr, but this one seemed especially appropriate for my first entry on my 30-day challenge. I'm not going to lie to y'all, I worry that I won't make all 30 days. It's like flossing daily. I leave the dentist's office with the best of intentions and then daily flossing becomes every other day or once every three days. But, and this is a big but, you can't make the change without setting forth the intention and there's something powerful about stating it publicly. So, I'm making my intention known about this aspect of the 30-day challenge. As for the daily flossing....hmmm...we'll see.
17 comments:
- Pétra said...
What a great challenge and it sounds like the right timing for your life. Thank you for sharing something so personal I wish you all the best in 2012!
- December 27, 2011 at 12:03:00 PM CST
- teresa said...
Congrats on making changes to your life and taking the bull by the horns. I love the idea of 30-day challenges since they feel so much more doable than a whole year of whatever.
I think I may have to make a public statement of my own dedication on my blog. Thanks for the inspiration and here's to a new chapter in life.
- December 27, 2011 at 2:21:00 PM CST
- jennifer said...
three cheers for resilience, malka. much love to you + yours, and warmest wishes that even more brightness may come your way. xoxo
- December 27, 2011 at 3:09:00 PM CST
- Lori said...
Best wishes with your new road in life. I love the idea of a daily photograph. As for the flossing, take it from this dental hygienist...SoftPicks by GUM work just as well and are much easier to do daily!
- December 27, 2011 at 5:14:00 PM CST
- house on hill road said...
that is a fantastic challenge and i love that you are sharing it here. virtually cheering you on! here's to a fantastic 2012
- December 27, 2011 at 6:11:00 PM CST
- Esch House Quilts said...
It sounds like you have had quite a challenging year! It is inspiring to see you come through it with such a great attitude. Good luck with the 30 day challenge!
- December 27, 2011 at 6:18:00 PM CST
- Salsy said...
Good for you Malka! I have only recently discovered your great fabric..am looking forward to purchasing some stitch in color fabric :).
Have a great 2012
- December 27, 2011 at 6:36:00 PM CST
- mek said...
While I would not wish you a year without challenges (I don't think you would like that!), I do hope that 2012 brings kinder challenges. Thanks for your post and the link to the challenges!
- December 27, 2011 at 7:19:00 PM CST
What a great pic. And to be surrounded by your work, great fabrics, and warm friends. Here's to you!!
- December 27, 2011 at 8:09:00 PM CST
- cauchy09 said...
oh, gosh we all have such a love/hate relationship with change. i wish you great strength through this transition and into the future.
and i look forward to your 30-day photo project!
- December 28, 2011 at 6:49:00 AM CST
- Sandy K. said...
What a great post - I love your positive outlook and the fact that you believe in moving forward. The challenge sounds right up my alley right now, so I'm going to take a look at the suggestions and forge ahead:). Thank you, and Happy New Year!
- December 28, 2011 at 6:39:00 PM CST
- liniecat said...
Best of luck for the future and I hope 2012 brings you most if not all you wish for. Thanks for the link to such a positive blog too.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:51:00 AM CST
- Cheryl Arkison said...
Well, that was quite a year then! Hope you are doing well as it closes out. Or rather, as you start the next steps.
- December 29, 2011 at 8:50:00 AM CST
- Rachel at Stitched in Color said...
Here, here on making the intention and stating it publicly. The photo you ended with was gorgeous. Happy New Year, Malka! Anything can happen in a year.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:38:00 PM CST
- blandina said...
A great post, 2011 has been a difficult year for me too, and it is not finished.
Thank you for the link to the blog and the 30 days challenge, I read the article and found it very interesting.
My 2012 bring you strength and serenity.
- December 30, 2011 at 1:46:00 AM CST
- Victoria said...
Just catching up on some blog reading... had no idea what a road this past year really was for you... I was only aware of the of peaks and not of the valleys. So sorry for the storms you have had to weather, but I admire your courage in facing them. Wishing you a wonderful New Year, full of new opportunities, self discoveries, joy, happiness, good health and prosperity.
- January 3, 2012 at 1:08:00 PM CST
Hi Malka---I'm catching up on my blog reading. Wow! What a challenging year for you. I wish for you a great 2012 with all kinds of goodness.
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Thursday's Child: Duncan, British Columbia
27 comments:
- Joanne said...
wow those totems are gorgeous! It's amazing they've withstood all sorts of weather conditions, being outside. Also amazing how time flies. :P
- February 9, 2012 at 6:50 AM
- Valerie Gamine said...
For some reason I've always been drawn to British Columbia. It's so beautiful and, in a way, strangely exotic. The totems are gorgeous...what a history they must have!
Sometimes I still think that 10 years ago was the still the 1990's.
- February 9, 2012 at 7:16 AM
- Carol said...
Love the totems. very expressive and colorful. That middle one looks so fierce. Looks like a fun and very memorable visit.
- February 9, 2012 at 8:11 AM
- Joanne said...
What a fascinating art form. And you just know that the art of each totem must be filled with such a rich story to tell.
- February 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Yummy said...
What fun looking totems!
- February 9, 2012 at 9:46 AM
- Belinda said...
There is something so magical about that part of the world. I used to have the biggest fascination with totems. I had my whole Social Studies class make them as my "lesson." I collected toilet paper rolls for a month.
- February 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Barbara said...
Totems are always fascinating; I bet the kids (now adults!) had a great time. The white one in the background looks unusual.
- February 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM
- Pam said...
I love totems... looks like a fun trip.
- February 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- Kayte said...
Have you read Susan Vreeland's book about these totems? It's a fiction, but a fun read, interesting subject. It's called The Forest Lover. Loved the photo of the girls beside the totem!
- February 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- Sudha said...
Such a lovely memoir, Beth - it always feels so warming when you think of times so long back and all the fun you had.And if you have photos to go with that,nothing like it!Thanks for our share in your tour of Duncan - how I love traveling with you to one corner or the other every Thursday:)
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- February 9, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- Liz That Skinny Chick Can Bake said...
We lived in Vancouver for a year when I was in high school...and I'm surprised we never made it to Duncan! I think we hit every other site in the area. Such fun memories for you~
- February 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM
- Beth said...
Kayte, I don't know that book but I'll look it up. It sounds great.
Belinda, I'm dying to see the totem your class made. Please tell me you'll post it on your blog someday!
- February 9, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Living in the Seattle area, I get to enjoy these works of art all the time - and probably take them for granted. :)
- February 9, 2012 at 3:57 PM
- Unknown said...
We made a trip to British Columbia as a family back in the day and I still remember the dramatic beauty of the totem poles, thanks for sharing;-)
- February 9, 2012 at 6:21 PM
- Unknown said...
I've been to Vancouver Island, but that's because my husband's family lives in northern BC, and that's one way to get there (via Ferry).
- February 9, 2012 at 7:30 PM
- Golden Eagle said...
Those are interesting totem poles!
- February 9, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Unknown said...
Wow, that is a spectacular totem pole! I love that your girls have grown up traveling so much. What an awesome gift.
- February 9, 2012 at 8:48 PM
- Elaine said...
I have always been fascinated by totem poles and I had no idea that there was a town devoted to them. What a fun visit that must have been!
- February 9, 2012 at 9:02 PM
I am loving the Totem Poles. Truth: I've always dreamed of seeing one up close and personal. And it would be fascinating to learn more about the symbolism/design aesthetic as well. In terms of an art form, they're definitely not The Easy Way Out. You know?
- February 9, 2012 at 9:51 PM
- Claudia said...
The totem poles are just stunning - such artistry! I do look back at trips and marvel at the years that have passed - but they seem like yesterday. I remember the first time my kids saw the Atlantic Ocean and a year later - the Pacific. ("Sweet" was their intonation).
- February 10, 2012 at 3:58 PM
- Jemi Fraser said...
Gorgeous photos. Totems are fascinating! I'd love to get out that way one day!
- February 10, 2012 at 8:22 PM
- Jeanne said...
Totems are such incredible forms of art. I'd love to visit BC and see them in person!
- February 11, 2012 at 11:18 AM
How neat. I've been to Nanaimo, but either didn't go through Duncan or didn't notice it. Next time!
- February 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- Dave Pollock said...
So cool Beth, I worked on restoring this caboose at the Duncan Museum last summer, after which it received a fresh lick of paint. Duncan was also home of renowned painter,E.J. Hughes.His whimsical dipictions of shipping and Shawnigan Lake are well recognized on the west coast.
- February 11, 2012 at 11:50 PM
- Lorraine said...
Those must have been incredible to see in person, so much detail. No doubt your girls have loads of wonderful memories that they will always cherish....they were so cute!
- February 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Jill | Dulce Dough said...
Beautiful totem poles! I had no idea there was an entire town devoted to the art of totem poles!
- February 12, 2012 at 1:33 PM
- Rita said...
We spend March in Victoria BC and this year we have been talking of going to Duncan for this reason; thank you for sharing Beth.
Last year our kids came to see us and we went to Nanaimo.
- February 12, 2012 at 2:03 PM


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Well, we have already had an MSNBC Bailout, so it makes sense that a bailout for the New York Times and the rest is just around the corner.
Don't you just love this suggestion for an Independent Journalism Tax
In order to preserve independent journalism in the age of the Internet, a national Fund for Local News should be created with money the FCC now collects from or could impose on telecom users, television and radio broadcast licensees, or Internet service providers.
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Of course, I may be wrong. If I am wrong, then President Obama will swiftly denounce any calls to use public monies to subsidize newspapers. Shortly thereafter, he will withdraw the MSNBC Bailout, and demand that GE return not just all public monies, but all profit that GE made with your money.
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Read cons. I will add that the same problem with head restraints and uncomfortable seats exists in the newer Accords as well. These formerly solid yet modest cars have become uncomfortable to sit in and laden with distracting gadgetry. Probably done with Hondas.
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I love the car. very reliable. The suspension is starting to loosen up and rattle. No Major repairs except head gasket because I forgot to change my antifreeze. That is what caused it to blow. Easy maintenance. Would recommend this car.
This car was fun to drive, comfortable for me (I am 5'3"), got great gas mileage, great maneuverability and lasted a long time. I replaced the timing belt twice and got over 226,000 miles from it, then the head gasket blew and the car over heated. If I was a mechanic, I would have done the repairs myself and driven it a while longer, but decided I had gotten my money's worth out of it. The car has a surprising amount of room in the back seat and trunk. Had a lot of road noise, although once I put some nice Michelin tires, it was a lot better. I should have done that sooner. Passengers in the back seat were not as comfortable as in the front, and it was noisier. In the summer, I would turn off the A/C if I had to accelerate up hill.
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Aus 192 Designs von 55 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
This project involves designing a logo for our popular knitting for charity website. No graphic designer has been involved so far, and a new logo is very much needed for:
We are looking for something special - a logo to further our mission: to encourage more people to knit more for charity. Be creative -- we are very open.
We like tasty, colorful and clean designs. It needs to fit into the website colorwise (although we will be updating the look and feel of the site soon to make it more modern and Web 2.0).
Please include a graphic and the site name, KnittingforCharity.org. We want to be able to use the graphic separately on Twitter, Facebook, etc. We plan to use this logo in many ways.
We want a unique and distinctive logo that is attractive to a wide age spectrum.
One idea: Yarn can be very colorful and has great texture. This appeals to most knitters. You certainly do not need to use yarn in the logo, but you might want to consider it.
The most common charity knitting items are baby blankets, chemo caps, and items for soldiers and abandoned pets.
Our target audience is women who knit, and especially those who knit for charity. They are passionate about knitting and love to help others. Although many of our visitors are grandmothers, many are also in their 30's and 40's (and even in their 20's). Our visitors almost always have a good sense of humor and love to make a difference.
* We'd like the logo to fit into the banner area at the top of the site
* Output should be in layered .psd format: Adobe Illustrator (vector, not raster), as well as .jpg (small, medium, large) for web files(RGB).
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* No clip art or stock images
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Patrick Stewart says he's applying for U.S. citizenship in order to fight and oppose President Donald Trump.
The British actor said on Thursday's episode of "The View" that he and his wife went to Washington last month to visit friends and to ask them what they could do about Trump. He said the only answer was to "fight" and "oppose" Trump, but he can't do that because he's not a citizen.
The 76-year-old Stewart stars in "X-Men" and "Star Trek." He reprises his role as X-Men founder Professor X in the Wolverine tale, "Logan," which opens Friday.
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See, the Mighty Angel Flying
31243, Hymns, See, the Mighty Angel Flying, no. 330
1. See, the mighty angel flying;
See, he speeds his way to earth
To proclaim the blessed gospel
And restore the ancient faith,
And restore, and restore the ancient faith.
2. Hear, O men, the proclamation;
Cease from vanity and strife.
Hasten to receive the gospel
And obey the words of life,
And obey, and obey the words of life.
3. Soon the earth will hear the warning;
Then the judgments will descend!
Oh, before the days of sorrow,
Make the Lord of Hosts your friend!
Make the Lord, make the Lord of Hosts your friend!
4. Then when dangers are around you
And the wicked are distressed,
You, with all the Saints of Zion,
Shall enjoy eternal rest,
Shall enjoy, shall enjoy eternal rest.
Text: Robert B. Thompson, 1811-1841
Music: Evan Stephens, 1854-1930


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The thrust of this thread is all wrong. One should never concern himself with how much money one can make doing something. That's a recipe for hating life. One should focus on doing something that he loves to do. Whether it's the practice of law or shredding on a Gibson Les Paul, doing what you love will always be its own fortune.
If someone knows of a guaranteed and easy way to make 160k let me know I'm sure everyone on this board including myself would like to know.


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shares in Chinese state-owned insurer PICC Group surged nearly 7 percent in its Hong Kong trading debut on Friday, a rare bright spot in an otherwise dismal year for initial public offerings in the city and most other big regional markets.
PICC's strong start is unlikely to kick-start the Hong Kong IPO market, which is headed for its worst fund raising year since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, after being the world's IPO capital in 2009 and 2010.
"You have to judge the success of the transaction over the next few days and weeks, rather than just today," said Philippe Espinasse, a former investment banker with Nomura and UBS in Hong Kong and author of 'IPO: A Global Guide'.
"I'm a bit skeptical (about a surge in IPOs). It'll take more than one deal for the market to fully reopen," he added.
People's Insurance Company (Group) of China, as the company is widely known, is among the last of the big state-owned companies to go public.
That process kicked off in the 1990s, when large oil companies, banks and insurers began to tap public markets as China started to liberalize its vast and underdeveloped economy.
Conglomerate CITIC Group, Postal Bank of China and China Minmetals Corporation Group are among the remaining large state-owned companies expected to list in the coming years, bankers say. For years, the IPOs of Chinese state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong was the main fee earner for global investment banks.
PICC jumped as much as 8 percent earlier in the session as retail investors who missed out on shares in its $3.1 billion IPO, the largest in Hong Kong in two years, scrambled on board.
Only 7.5 percent of the IPO was open for retail investors, while about 58 percent of the deal was covered by so-called cornerstone investors, including bailed-out U.S. insurer American International Group, who have committed to hold their shares for at least six months.
That allocation resulted in retail investors bidding for 17.5 times more than the number of shares offered, the company said, leaving plenty of individual investors looking to scoop up shares on Friday.
Founded in 1949, PICC is China's first nationwide insurer, with 2.42 million institutional clients and about 130 million individual customers, exceeding the entire population of Japan.
Investors buying into PICC shares are betting on a continued rise in China's insurance market, the world's sixth largest, where life and non-life premiums have recorded 22.1 percent and 24.8 percent growth respectively between 2006 and 2011, according to figures from the country's insurance regulator.
Swiss Re forecasts China life insurance premiums to grow 8 percent and non-life insurance premiums to expand 13 percent in 2013, compared with a low single digit forecast for developed markets.
China is also one of the most underdeveloped life insurance markets in the world, with a penetration ratio of just 1.8 percent at the end of 2011, compared with 8.8 percent in Japan and 3.6 percent in the United States, Swiss Re said.
"The life part of the business is growing fast and will become a bigger part of the group going forward," Sally Yim, a senior credit officer at Moody's Investors Service in Hong Kong. "And the company will require more capital to meet the rapid growth in life insurance."
Given the tough markets, PICC left nothing to chance to get the offer over the line.
As well as hiring a record 17 banks and securing $1.82 billion in cornerstone commitments, the company also leaned on the auspicious number eight, which is thought to be lucky in China and across much of the region.
Some glimpses of that emerged when the company set the yuan price range of the offer that ended in eight. Last Thursday, PICC held its first media photo opportunity for the IPO, timing the event for 12:58 p.m. to 1:58 p.m.
The following day PICC called the media conference between 4:48 pm to 5:58 pm and then the IPO itself was priced at HK$3.48, again emphasizing the importance of the number.
"It's solely coincidence," PICC's Wu said, after gifting Hong Kong exchange officials a golden elephant and a golden bull, both symbols of good luck and prosperity.
Despite the late boost to deal volumes from PICC, new listings in Hong Kong are down 63 percent in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters data.
PICC priced the IPO shares at HK$3.48 each, near the bottom of its marketing range. On Friday the shares closed at HK$3.72, up 6.9 percent, while the benchmark Hang Seng index lost 0.3 percent.
"The prices we saw today reflect people's confidence and expectations in us," PICC Group's Chairman Wu Yan said during a ceremony at the Hong Kong stock exchange. "Everyone has the same confidence in us as we have in ourselves."
The gains were a rare success in a difficult capital markets environment in Hong Kong, where some IPO hopefuls have delayed offers or sharply scaled back fund raising plans.
PICC was the top Hong Kong IPO since AIA Group Ltd's $20.5 billion offer in 2010 and No. 2 IPO in Asia-Pacific ex-Japan's in 2012 after Malaysian plantation company Felda Global Ventures Holdings $3.3 billion deal.
Across the region, only the Southeast Asian markets of Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand have seen a surge in IPO issuance, with volumes down more than 60 percent in China and South Korea and 40 percent in Singapore.
China International Capital Corp (CICC), Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and HSBC Holdings Plc acted as sponsors of the IPO.
Additional reporting Yimou Lee; Editing by Alex Richardson and Richard Pullin


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WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Obama nominated Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro, Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo and Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for District Court judgeships.
"These men and women have had distinguished legal careers and I am honored to ask them to continue their work as judges on the federal bench," said President Obama. "They will serve the American people with integrity and an unwavering commitment to justice."
Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro currently serves as a Judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, where she has presided over both civil and criminal matters. Prior to joining the bench in 1991, Judge Quiñones worked as a Staff Attorney for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs from 1979 to 1991 and as an Attorney Advisor for the United States Department of Health and Human Services from 1977 to 1979. She began her legal career as a Staff Attorney for Community Legal Services, Inc. in Philadelphia from 1975 to 1977. Judge Quiñones received her J.D. in 1975 from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law and her B.B.A. cum laude in 1972 from the University of Puerto Rico.
Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo has served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2006, where he has presided over a variety of criminal and civil matters. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Restrepo was a named partner at the law firm of Krasner & Restrepo from 1993 to 2006. Previously, he served as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1993 and as an Assistant Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia from 1987 to 1990. Judge Restrepo began his legal career as a law clerk at the National Prison Project. He received his J.D. in 1986 from Tulane Law School and his B.A. in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl has served as President Judge of the Berks County Court of Common Pleas since 2008, having joined the court as a judge in 1998. Previously, Judge Schmehl was a partner at the law firm of Rhoda, Stoudt & Bradley from 1988 to 1997 and an associate at the same firm from 1986 to 1987. For much of that time, Judge Schmehl also served as the Berks County Solicitor. From 1981 to 1986, he was a sole practitioner in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Judge Schmehl also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Berks County from 1981 until 1986 and as an Assistant Public Defender in the same jurisdiction from 1980 until 1981. He received his J.D. in 1980 from the University of Toledo School of Law and his B.A. in 1977 from Dickinson College.


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I will killfile Andrew Suffield so I do not recieve Debian list email from him but only if 100 other people on Debian lists will too.
-— Benjamin Mako Hill
I have created a pledge over at PledgeBank with the title above and am looking for your support. Here's the explanatory text:
If you read the Debian private email list, you understand my immediate motivation for starting this pledge. If you do not but interact with the Debian community in other ways, there's a good chance you can come up with many other examples of why agreeing to pledge might be a good idea.
I think the Debian project would be a better place if people stopped responding to comments that, in effect and often in intent, are little more than provocations, put-downs, and trolls. Andrew Suffield's emails to Debian lists fall in this category all to often.
However, since responses that quote unecessarily provocative messages are visible by folks who have ignored the sender, blocking email from a person (also known as killfiling) only works if done en-mass.
While Andrew is by no means the only person whose comments have a disruptive effect on Debian lists, he is a one example of a person whose negative effect outweighs his positive contributions in the minds of many. While those fulfilling this pledge would miss Andrew's positive contributions on the lists, I believe it would be worth it.
The point of course, is not to pick on Andrew Suffield. It's just that his behavior makes him a good example.
The point is to raise a little awareness about (and get a few names behind) the feeling that messages that are not intending to troll can have the identical effects — and that perhaps the best policy is to treat them accordingly. If the only outcome is that people understand this, it will have been a success.
You can sign up for the pledge at: http://www.pledgebank.com/killfileandrew


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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - As a Google executive lay dying on his yacht, an upscale prostitute casually walks over him, picks up her clothes and heroin and swallows the last of a glass of wine before lowering the boat's blinds and walking back on the dock to shore, police say surveillance footage shows.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) � As a Google executive lay dying on his yacht, an upscale prostitute casually walks over him, picks up her clothes and heroin and swallows the last of a glass of wine before lowering the boat's blinds and walking back on the dock to shore, police say surveillance footage shows.
Authorities charged Alix Tichelman, 26, with manslaughter Wednesday for her role in the death of Forrest Hayes, who was found dead by the captain of his 50-foot yacht last November. Police said the surveillance video from the yacht shows everything that happened from the time Tichelman came aboard to when she left.
Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Hayes, 51, had hired Tichelman before, and that their Nov. 23 encounter "was a mutually consensual encounter including the introduction of the heroin."
Clark said it appears this might not have been the first time she left someone in trouble without calling 911 or trying to help. Without elaborating, he said his agency is cooperating with police in a different state on a similar case.
"There's a pattern of behavior here where she doesn't seek help when someone is in trouble," he said.
News vans gathered outside Hayes hilltop estate overlooking the glittering Monterey Bay, where the five-bedroom home is on the market for $4.2 million. Hayes' widow has not spoken publicly and a blog created in his memory was deleted.
On the website, friends and co-workers were seemingly unaware of how he died. They fondly described their time together, Christmas parties on his boat, engineering teams at Sun Microsystems, traveling to China for Apple and most recently at Google, where they said he was involved in the Glass eyewear projects.
Clark said it's not clear if Hayes was a frequent drug user, and that in the video, it appears he needed Tichelman to help him shoot up. Clark described Tichelman as a high-end prostitute, who charged $1,000 and lived three hours away in the Sacramento suburb of Folsom.
He said she had other clients from Silicon Valley, home to about 50 billionaires and tens of thousands of millionaires.
"There's no question that Silicon Valley feels different than it felt 28 years ago when I moved here," said Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, an organization focused on the local economy and quality of life. "Something has happened. We used to be a Valley full of techies living middle class lives, and now we're a Valley of the uber-rich carrying toy poodles around with them."
Tichelman was arrested on July 4 after police said a detective lured her back to the Santa Cruz area by posing as a potential client at an upscale resort. Clark said they didn't just arrest her because they didn't know exactly where she lived, and they were concerned she would flee.
Police said Tichelman boasted she had more than 200 clients and met them through a website that purports to connect wealthy men and women with attractive companions. Her clients included other Silicon Valley executives, Clark said.
Tichelman's father has ties to the tech industry. Folsom software firm SynapSense announced hiring her father, Bart Tichelman in 2012. Neither the firm nor her father responded to immediate requests for comment.
She is being held on $1.5 million bail after appearing in court Wednesday wearing red jail scrubs. Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann approved a request from Tichelman's court appointed attorney, Diana August, to continue the arraignment until July 16. August did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Assistant District Attorney Rafael Vazquez said authorities are still investigating and may file more serious charges.
Santa Clara University Finance professor Robert Hendershott said financial windfalls like those seen in the Silicon Valley often bring problems as people have trouble managing their newfound wealth. But he said there's no obvious hedonistic culture in the Silicon Valley.
"There's no Great Gatsby type of parties famous in the Silicon Valley," he said.
Associated Press reporters Michael Liedtke and Terry Collins in San Francisco and researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this story.


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Scientists Are Lonely Men -Oliver La Farge
"It is not so long ago that, even in my dilettante study of the science of ethnology, I corresponded with men in Ireland, Sweden, Germany, France, and Yucatan, and had some discussion with a Chinese.
One by one these interchanges were cut off; in some countries the concept of science is dead, and even in the free strongholds of Britain and the Americas pure science is being - must be - set aside in favor of what is immediately useful and urgently needed. It must hibernate now; for a while all it means is likely to be forgotten.
It has never been well understood. Scientists have never been good at explaining themselves and, frustrated by this, they tend to withdraw into the esoteric, refer to the public as "laymen," and develop incomprehensible vocabularies from which they draw a naive, secret-society feeling of superiority.
What is the special nature of a scientist as distinguished from a soda-jerker? Not just the externals such as a trick vocabulary, but the human formation within the man. ...
The inner nature of science within the scientist is both emotional and intellectual. The emotional element must not be overlooked, for without it there is no sound research on however odd and dull-seeming the subject. ...
To an outsider who does not know of this emotion, the scientist suggests an ant, putting forth great efforts to lug one insignificant and apparently unimportant grain of sand to be added to a pile, and much of the time his struggle seems as pointless as an ant's. ....
.... McGarnigle went among the independent Indians of Icaiche because he had heard of a skull kept in one of their temples which, from a crude description, seemed to have certain important characteristics.
All his risks and his maneuverings with those tough, explosive Indians centered around the problem of gaining access to that skull. When he tries to tell an attractive girl about his experiences he not only understates, but can't keep from stressing the significance of a skull with a healed, clover-leaf trepan. -1942 From: A Treasury of Science (1958, Harper & Brothers)
What is the significance of a healed cloverleaf trepan, on a skull kept in one of their temples ?
Proverbs 29:12-12 If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.


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Hello abc123
You admit that Muhammad lied but there is no reprimand in the Koran. Did Muhammad sin by lying? If there was no reprimand then it would appear that he did not contradict the Koran and so lying is permitted and Muhammad was only choosing to follow Allah`s guidance.
Do you think that Allah permits lying as Muhammad was not reprimanded for lying?


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Shareholders of Wall Street banks who agree with former Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sanford "Sandy" Weill that the companies should be broken up face an obstacle: bondholders.
That's because trading on Wall Street relies on borrowed money, or leverage, that can be obtained cheaply as long as the traders belong to a conglomerate such as Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. or Citigroup that gets federally insured deposits. Jefferies Group Inc., a securities firm that isn't part of a bank and can't turn to the Federal Reserve for help, currently is charged more to borrow in the credit markets.
"If you divorce them from the mother ship, you'd also be divorcing them from the government at the same time, and that's where the subsidy is," Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University, said in a telephone interview. "The funding advantage is the key."
With stock prices at or below liquidation value, Wall Street's biggest banks are fending off calls to break up from stockholders, analysts and industry veterans including Weill. The firms are too complex to manage, over-burdened by regulation, and a risk to taxpayers, their critics say.
Financial companies have sold or spun off units to improve shareholder returns. Under Weill's leadership, Citigroup sold shares of Travelers Property Casualty Corp. to the public in 2002. American Express Co. divested most of Shearson in 1993 and spun off Lehman Brothers a year later. What's different today is that securities firms, such as Bank of America's Merrill Lynch, are benefiting from a funding discount.
Failed Model
The 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., as well as last year's bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd., taught investors that securities firms not attached to banks are riskier than they once acknowledged. Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to sell itself to Bank of America the same day Lehman declared bankruptcy. A week later Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley converted to bank holding companies that are regulated by the Fed.
Breaking up today's banking conglomerates would mean restoring the old model of financing securities firms in the bond markets, which failed in 2008. Without Bank of America's $1.04 trillion of deposits -- about 80 percent of them federally insured, according to Jerry Dubrowski, a company spokesman -- Merrill Lynch would have to depend again on capital markets to fund trading and back up derivatives contracts.
'Distorted Incentives'
The big Wall Street banks are today what government- sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used to be, producing profits for employees and shareholders even as taxpayers bear the ultimate risk, according to Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund who's now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a contributor to Bloomberg View.
"They are the GSEs of today with big downside guarantees and distorted incentives," Johnson said. "We should restore the free market and cut off the subsidies."
Jefferies, the biggest U.S. securities firm that isn't attached to a depository institution, cut European debt holdings last year by almost 75 percent to calm investors in the wake of MF Global's collapse. Jefferies had $9.81 of assets for every dollar of equity as of May 31, down from $12.92 at the end of August 2011, according to company reports.
Risk Tolerance
"I don't think there's a lot of tolerance for risk like there was before," Scott MacDonald, head of research at fixed- income investment firm MC Asset Management Holdings LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, said in a telephone interview. "Investor sentiment has changed. For many investors, leverage remains a four-letter word and probably will be going forward."
Jefferies's bond yields show that it costs the firm about 5.81 percent to borrow until 2021. That's more than the 4.38 percent yield on 2022 debt issued by Goldman Sachs. While Bank of America has the same Baa2 credit rating from Moody's Investors Service as Jefferies -- two levels below Goldman Sachs's A3 rating -- its 2022 bonds yield 3.99 percent.
As record-low interest rates limit returns on assets, banks have become more focused than ever on funding costs. That's led them to lean more on the cheapest form of borrowing available: federally insured deposits.
Bank of America pays about $500 million a quarter in interest for its $1 trillion of deposits compared with about $2.5 billion for $300 billion of long-term debt, CEO Brian T. Moynihan, 52, said on a July 18 investor call. Those figures don't include fees that the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender pays to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The bank reduced its long-term debt by $53 billion in the second quarter. It didn't issue any long-term debt in the period and doesn't expect to this year, Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson said.
Citigroup, JPMorgan
Eric W. Aboaf, treasurer of New York-based Citigroup, told a similar story to investors on a July 20 conference call.
"We have been focused on reducing our borrowing costs by substituting maturing long-term debt in the bank, which is a more expensive source of funding, with deposits, our lowest cost of funds," said Aboaf, 48.
JPMorgan, led by Weill's former deputy Jamie Dimon, 56, makes more money from debt trading than any other lender. Still, the New York-based firm finances its own operations with $1.12 trillion of deposits and $982.7 billion of market borrowing.
"Our deposit growth has been more than twice the growth of our competitors, and the best part of that story is that we're doing it with a lot of pricing discipline," Todd Maclin, co-CEO of consumer and community banking, said during a May 8 investor presentation. "Many of our competitors are using pricing to attract deposits, and we're fortunate in not having to meet them on those same terms."
Weill Reversal
Goldman Sachs has more than doubled its deposit base to $57 billion since 2008 and wants to raise more because the cost of three-year deposits is about 200 basis points, or 2 percentage points, fewer than issuing three-year debt in the bond market, Treasurer Elizabeth Beshel Robinson said July 24.
"The market is a little bit more challenging today than it's been in the past," Robinson, 43, said on a conference call with fixed-income investors, the first the company has convened. Solutions include using the New York-based firm's excess cash, "using some of the deposit growth to fund some assets, or perhaps even reducing some funding-intensive assets," she said.
Weill, 79, who arranged the 1998 merger of Travelers Group Inc. and Citicorp that ushered in the era of so-called universal banks in the U.S., said in a July 25 interview on CNBC that investment banks and commercial banks should be separated.
"Have banks do something that's not going to risk taxpayer dollars, that's not going to be too big to fail," Weill said.
While some regulators, economists and other banking- industry veterans have made similar statements, the view was a surprise coming from Weill. His deal creating Citigroup required repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which forced deposit-taking companies backed by government insurance to be separate from investment banks. A decade later, Citigroup needed a $45 billion taxpayer bailout to avoid collapse.
Advocates of the universal-bank model say the 1999 Gramm- Leach-Bliley Act, which overturned Glass-Steagall, didn't make the federally insured units any riskier because regulations bar capital transfers between entities within the holding companies.
Federal law limits regulated bank subsidiaries of holding companies from making loans to their affiliates that exceed 20 percent of the bank's capital stock and surplus. That limitation was suspended by the Fed on Sept. 14, 2008, and wasn't reinstated until Oct. 30, 2009.
About 99 percent of JPMorgan's $79 trillion derivatives book is in its deposit-taking subsidiary, according to data as of June 30 compiled by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The figure for Bank of America is 71 percent.
Counterparty Confidence
When Merrill Lynch's credit rating was lowered by Moody's last September, the company responded by seeking permission to move some of its derivatives contracts to the higher-rated and federally backed Bank of America NA subsidiary. The Fed signaled that it favored granting the request, while the FDIC, which would have to pay depositors if the bank subsidiary failed, objected, people with knowledge of the matter said at the time.
"For a lot of the activities that these companies engage in, the confidence of their counterparties is really confidence not in them, but confidence in the government bailing out their affiliated bank," Boston University's Hurley said.
Bank Bailouts
Bank of America, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are safer to own than a "high-risk security" such as Jefferies, said William Larkin, a fixed-income money manager who helps oversee $500 million, including bonds of the three banks, at Cabot Money Management Inc. in Salem, Massachusetts. He said he doesn't believe statements by government officials and regulators that no bank is too big to fail.
"When I look at companies, I think, 'What can kill the company?' And right off the bat I say the exact opposite of what the government says. I say, 'That's a company that's too big to fail,'" he said of Bank of America. "So that protects me."
It also protects Merrill Lynch. A year ago, as the European sovereign-debt crisis roiled markets, traders charged 78 basis points more for credit-default swaps on debt issued by Merrill Lynch than on debt of its parent, Bank of America, as Merrill Lynch was perceived as riskier. Credit swaps pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, minus the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.
More Capital
Now, the gap is just 7.6 basis points, and was as little as 2.5 basis points last month, the narrowest in more than a year, according to data provider CMA, indicating traders' perceptions of the two entities' creditworthiness is converging.
"If the investment banks are spun out from the universal banks, the resulting entity would likely need more capital than it does as part of the universal firm," Michael Mayo, an analyst at CLSA Ltd. and "Exile on Wall Street" author, said in an Aug. 21 note to investors in which he argued that Citigroup is worth more broken up than left whole. "You're going to need more capital to reassure the creditors."
Betsy Graseck, a Morgan Stanley analyst, offered a similar assessment in an Aug. 1 Bloomberg Television interview.
"When you do a basic sum of the parts of these companies, you can come up with a higher price than where they're trading today," Graseck said. "But the challenge is, do each of these companies have enough capital and liquidity to support breaking them up into four, five, six sub-components?"
'Artificial Subsidy'
The attitude of bond investors such as Larkin, who said he feels safe lending to the biggest banks because he expects them to be bailed out by the government in the event of a crisis, is one reason regulators are eager to require the largest firms to hold the highest percentage of capital, a so-called surcharge, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said at a Jan. 25 press conference.
"A bank which is thought to be too big to fail gets an artificial subsidy in the interest rate that it can borrow at," Bernanke said. "And by having additional capital requirements, that tends to equalize the cost of funding to different banks, and reduces the incentives of banks to get large just to create the impression of being too big to fail."
William B. Harrison Jr., the former JPMorgan CEO who arranged its 2004 purchase of Bank One Corp., wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times last month that the biggest banks don't have an implicit advantage. A bank rated AA deemed too big to fail can't borrow any more cheaply than a similarly rated industrial company, Harrison wrote.
None of the six biggest U.S. bank holding companies, including JPMorgan, has a credit rating as high as AA from Moody's or Standard & Poor's. What does are the bonds of JPMorgan's federally insured subsidiaries, which have Aa3 ratings from Moody's, according to the bank's website.
FDIC Fees
In comparing lenders to industrial companies, Harrison didn't mention the advantage deposits provide to financial firms. About 22 percent of the $1.68 trillion of liabilities at one of JPMorgan's subsidiaries were non-interest-bearing deposits, according to a second-quarter report filed with federal regulators. International Business Machines Corp., with the same Moody's rating, doesn't borrow any money interest-free.
JPMorgan's deposits aren't entirely without cost. The bank has to pay fees to the FDIC based on the company's average assets minus tangible equity. Its rate, which is pegged to the riskiness of assets and liabilities, is 10 basis points, or 0.10 percentage point, Dimon said on an Oct. 13 conference call.
Wall Street today is "deposit-funded, and the deposits themselves are guaranteed by the government," said Boston University's Hurley. "It's a huge part of the franchise of Dimon and Moynihan, and yet they're going to be the last people on the planet to admit it."
'Digital World'
Stock investors such as Michael F. Price, president of MFP Investors LLC in New York, and analysts including JMP Securities LLC's David Trone have said stock prices show that the biggest banks will struggle to make money because of new capital requirements, regulation and complex business models.
"They worked well together in the old world," Price, a money manager who in 1995 helped spur the merger of Chase Manhattan Corp. and Chemical Banking Corp., said in June. "That was the analog world. This is the digital world."
The biggest securities firms, if they tried to untether themselves from regulated banks, might not escape the capital requirements and Dodd-Frank regulations that apply to systemically important firms. Jefferies, with $35.7 billion of assets at the end of May, probably isn't too big to fail. Merrill Lynch, with about $600 billion in assets at the end of June, might be.
Diversified Funding
Bond markets, and some stock investors, may be unwilling to support a large, multinational securities firm that doesn't have diversified funding, including federally insured deposits and so-called wholesale funding from bond investors.
"The financial crisis has shown us that the independent investment-banking model doesn't really work that well," Kush Goel, a senior vice president and research analyst in the financial-services group at Neuberger Berman Group LLC, said in a telephone interview. Goel joined Neuberger in 2006, when it was still part of Lehman Brothers.
"Some people might say, 'I don't want to buy that, I don't care what returns they promise, I don't care what it is, I won't touch something which is entirely wholesale funded,'" he said.


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World of Warcraft patch 3.3.2 brings with it the final wings of the Icecrown Citadel, and with it the final confrontation with Arthas of Menethil, the Lich King. Witness his final moments here, but be warned: spoilers abound.
Patch 3.3.2 is the culmination of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft, allowing players entry into Frostwing Halls, where the Lich King awaits. Should the players be triumphant, this is the cinematic they will witness. It's a touching scene between one of WoW's most tragic figures and his father, reunited after the son killed his sire so many years before. If you've been following the game's lore, it could bring a tear to your eye. If you haven't, it's just so much machinima.
Again, hit play at your own risk. I'd never see this content first-hand, so I don't mind being spoiled.
Patch 3.3.2 - The Fall of the Lich King [MMO Champion]


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His Eminence George Cardinal Pell
Archbishop of Sydney
Commencement Address to the Class of 2008
President Dillon, members of the Board, graduands, students, faculty, family, and friends:
I would like to thank the College for the honor of being awarded this Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion. I am touched by the honor and the award, especially when I look at the list of previous recipients.
Like your president, a number of you have said that I have come quite a distance. I have come because for years I have known about Thomas Aquinas College, and I value deeply the work that is being done here. My visit is a sign of my own personal support for the staff, the students, for all the families, the benefactors, all those who, combined, continue this marvelous work.
An Unusual Advantage
It is always a privilege to deliver a Commencement Address to a group of new graduates, to congratulate them on their achievements, and to thank their families, sponsors, benefactors, and friends who supported them during their studies. We look forward with Christian hope and human optimism to the contribution they will make to society and the Church in the future.
As I mentioned, I have long been an admirer of St. Thomas Aquinas and as the president mentioned, for eleven years I headed Aquinas College in Ballarat, Australia, which is now a campus of Australian Catholic University. But unfortunately my Aquinas College was not a Great Books college. I believed so much in what you were doing that, in fact, I tried to interest the Australian Catholic University in running a Great Books program within the university, but unfortunately I was completely unsuccessful in persuading a sufficient number of the faculty.
Students here — and I think they realize this — have an unusual advantage from their direct engagement for four years with the profound thinkers who have shaped our Western civilization. They have followed the traditional Socratic method of questioning and dialogue, and continued their search for meaning and truth in a learning institution which is committed explicitly to the Catholic faith. Faith and reason are offered for their acceptance or rejection as they rigorously examine the intellectual claims of these great authors, religious or otherwise.
I congratulate the Senior Class Speaker, Joseph Thompson, who spoke on their behalf. What he said boded well — very, very well — for the quality of the learning that they have undertaken here. So, I repeat that they — the graduates and the students here — are unusually blessed and advantaged, because they have an ideal base for any professional course at all that they might now choose to pursue, any course whatsoever. And, of course, they have a wonderful base for married life.
St. John Fisher
A commencement ceremony is a happy time. Why then should I choose to speak of an obscure sixteenth century bishop from England, who spent his entire life in Rochester, which was the poorest diocese in England, and then so misjudged the political situation that he was executed by his king on some theological point of principle, without the support of even one of his fellow bishops?
St. John Fisher's story is told simply. Born in Yorkshire in 1469, one of four children to a prosperous merchant, he went to Cambridge University at the age of 14 where he was introduced to the currents of intellectual reform then springing from the Renaissance on the continent. In 1491 he was ordained a priest, gained his M.A., and was elected a fellow of Michaelhouse.
An appointment which was to prove crucial for his later career occurred when he became confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, the devout mother of Henry VII. Probably as a result of her patronage, he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1501, and in 1504, at the age of 35, he became Chancellor at Cambridge, an office which he held for the rest of his life.
Differences with King Henry VIII
Even in his early years he clashed mildly with the new King Henry VIII, who wanted to take the money his grandmother, Lady Margaret, had bequeathed for the development of new colleges at Cambridge; this greedy king had wanted to use it for his own purposes.
Luther's Protestant Reformation had started in 1517, a development which Henry VIII strongly opposed, even earning from the Pope for himself and his successors to this day the title of "Defender of the Faith" for his defense of the seven sacraments.
Fisher became the best-known defender of Catholic doctrine, and he was selected by Cardinal Wolsey, then Lord Chancellor, to preach at an open air rally outside St. Paul's Cathedral in London against Luther, when Luther's books were publicly burnt in 1526. Henry VIII was so pleased with Fisher's two-hour address delivered in English (which was then a primitive language, quite some years before Shakespeare, and not spoken outside England) that he ordered it to be translated into Latin so that it could be read and understood in continental Europe.
This united front — Henry and the Catholics — was broken by the inability of Henry's wife, Catherine of Aragon, to produce a male heir and Henry's infatuation with the formidable Anne Boleyn, who was eventually also executed by her tyrant husband. A good historian of the period claimed to me that a major reason for Henry's determination to eliminate Anne was his resentment at her bitter hostility to both Fisher and Thomas More.
We all know that Henry wanted his first marriage to be annulled, that this was refused by Rome, so that he responded by declaring himself to be head of the Church in England. After careful study, Fisher emerged as Catherine's most public advocate and a resolute defender of the essential role of the pope as the successor of St. Peter in Catholic life. It was his detailed study that convinced Thomas More, former speaker in the House of Commons and briefly Lord Chancellor, to refuse to take the oath of kingly supremacy. More said that he was much influenced in his decision to accept the argumentation of Fisher by the fact that Fisher was such a holy man, such a person of integrity.
There is a background piece of information which is often forgotten today when we have been blessed with good popes for a long time. (We've been spoiled with really good popes for over a century; looking at the last 2,000 years, we're batting far above the average!) What we should remember when we're talking about Fisher and More is that for the whole of Fisher's lifetime, the best of the popes then — the best of the popes — were worldly, with limited religious enthusiasm, while some others had disgraceful private lives. In short, the papacy then was a scandal. But Fisher was prepared to die for the Catholic truth embodied in the papal office and not for the personal qualities of its officeholders.
Most historians have now abandoned the view that Catholicism in England on the eve of the Reformation was weak and corrupt because Henry and his Protestant successors had to wage a bitter struggle for generations to strangle Catholic life.
Henry was regularly extravagant, and he was short of money from the beginning. In a masterstroke he commandeered the wealth of the monasteries not just for himself, but for many of the local nobility. In other words he locked most of the establishment behind him with significant financial encouragement!
In those days when there was little effective separation of powers and no freedom of speech, Henry would not tolerate public opposition. In April 1534, Fisher was confined in the Tower of London, and the case against him proceeded slowly. In May 1535, Pope Paul III created him a cardinal in the hope of saving his life. Henry VIII wasn't one bit impressed by that, declaring that Fisher would not have a head on his shoulders to wear the cardinal's hat. No head, no hat!
On June 22 of that year, Fisher was executed by beheading, rather than being hung, drawn and quartered, a remission which wasn't due to his age or office, but to his poor health. They were frightened that if they dragged him through the streets, he would die before he got to the execution spot. Despite his frailty, he announced in a loud voice that he was dying for the faith of the Catholic Church.
His headless, naked body was left on the scaffold until 8:00 p.m., when it was then placed in a shallow grave without ceremony. His head was boiled down and placed on London Bridge for two weeks, where his supporters were delighted by the fact "that it grew more florid and lifelike, so that many expected it would speak." His head was then thrown into the Thames to make way for the head of Thomas More. A calculated list of insults.
Incidentally Fisher's room in the Tower of London was renovated on Churchill's orders towards the end of World War II, not because of any reverence for Fisher's memory, but because if Hitler survived the War, Churchill was determined to imprison him, at least for a time, in the Tower of London.
Lessons to Be Drawn
Before I began my brief regime of St. John Fisher's life, I asked why we might ponder his story on a happy occasion like this commencement. This question has been left hanging, although the simple telling of his story suggests many lessons for a Catholic audience. Let me spell out a few further considerations.
A preliminary reason is that I, as a bishop, am keen to speak of a brave and farseeing fellow bishop who was fated to live in a violent time of change, which laid the foundations for England's rise to greatness and indeed the foundations of our contemporary English-speaking world.
Thomas More, the layman and martyr, Fisher's contemporary, has the best lines, is a more interesting personality and more humorous, and has gained much more publicity through the play and then the film, A Man for All Seasons. So, I want to redress this balance.
The Insight of Wisdom
St. John Fisher is remarkable for many reasons, but one might begin with a group of new graduates by reminding them that he was truly wise. I was very pleased to hear earlier what Joseph, your Class Speaker, had to say about wisdom. We know that wisdom is not coterminous with learning nor indeed with cunning. Wisdom brings insight, the ability to analyse and devise new syntheses, something akin to Cardinal Newman's criterion for an educated person, which is the ability to recognize the relative value of different truths. Wise people can evaluate public opinion, identify what is central, discard what is irrelevant, and downgrade what is secondary.
Cardinal Fisher was the only bishop to resist Henry, to acknowledge publicly that the issue wasn't merely a disputed annulment case, it wasn't just another quarrel with Rome, which would soon be over to enable the situation to return to normal. But many, many people believed those two things.
In fact, the rejection of the crucial role of the Papacy split the universal Church and set in train the destruction of Christendom. The subjection of the Church also opened the way to a royal despotism being exercised with fewer checks and balances.
A Life of Learning
A second point we should notice is that John Fisher was not only a learned man, but one who continued to study and learn throughout his life. In middle age he settled down to study Hebrew and Greek (not with an enormous amount of success, I believe), as well as wrestling with and answering the new challenges thrown up by the Protestant rebellion.
He was also a patron of learning, like the benefactors of this college and many other colleges, like the members of the Board of Thomas Aquinas College. As Chancellor at Cambridge University he worked to attract the funds necessary to bring leading scholars from abroad and to introduce the new learning of the Continental Renaissance, the rediscovery of the ancient classical authors in Greek and Latin, as well as the study of Hebrew for the Old Testament scriptures. He also played a major role in the establishment of Christ's College and St. John's College, new foundations at Cambridge, which are still thriving today.
An Example of Courage
St. John Fisher exemplifies also the importance of courage, of a principled integrity, a determination to speak the truth whatever the consequences. Courage is not universal, and every adult here knows that; indeed it is rare and wonderful, especially when the penalties, such as torture and execution, are extreme.
It is marginally easier to be courageous in a crowd, not merely because courage is infectious, but because friends, family, and intellectual allies are great helps in times of trial, bolstering morale and providing reassurance on judgments and tactics.
We should remember that Fisher and More were almost alone as they took their stand. As we have mentioned, no English bishop supported Fisher, and there was no family support whatsoever for More, not even from Meg Roper, his favorite daughter. They thought he was exaggerating the importance of the issue and was throwing away everything that they had for a mistaken point of view.
So, if courage is "grace under pressure," the pressures were not sufficient in Fisher's case to destroy the resolve of this sick, elderly bishop.
It might also be useful to state the obvious, even here at Thomas Aquinas College (and it's certainly not only useful, but it is necessary to make this point in Australia), and point out that Fisher and More (indeed the martyrs on both sides of the Reformation) did not die for conscience's sake, i.e. for the inviolability of personal conscience or the primacy of conscience. This is a contemporary way of speaking where public tolerance of different points of view is often regarded as the supreme virtue.
Fisher announced, as I mentioned, on the scaffold in a surprisingly strong voice, "Christian people, I am come hither to die for the faith of Christ's holy Catholic Church," and we well remember More's famous words that he was "the King's loyal servant, but God's first." They both died for the truth and more particularly the Catholic insistence on the essential role of the papacy.
A Model of Holiness
The final lesson we might draw from the life of St. John Fisher, and the most important one, is that we should be encouraged by his holiness, so that we imitate his faith and goodness, while we rejoice that we are not put to sterner tests.
Erasmus, one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance and no religious zealot, described Fisher "as the one man at this time who is incomparable for uprightness of life, for learning, and for greatness of soul."
He was noted for the devotion he exhibited during the celebration of Mass, uniting himself with Christ's self-offering on the Cross. He had a replica of the severed head of John the Baptist on the altar in his episcopal residence, as he took very seriously indeed the teaching of Thomas Aquinas that the office of bishop requires a high degree of sanctity.
While all Catholics are not called to be priests or religious, all are called to follow Christ in a serious way, to imitate Christ's wholeness of life in what we traditionally call holiness. Fisher is a good model.
I wish all the graduands of Thomas Aquinas College my repeated congratulations on their graduation and hope they receive every appropriate grace and blessing as they commence their new lives.
I am sure that you have already met many good examples and mentors in this environment and in your families and among your friends. May you also be inspired by the learning, holiness, and courage of St. John Fisher to devote your own life to some great and some good cause.
"There's a joy for life here you don't get in most places, a sense of purpose, a sense of love and fellowship bound up in our common cause of seeking the truth."
– Isaac Cross ('19)
Leominster, Massachusetts


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KDE 4.1 in Slackware Testing
Official Slackware packages of KDE 4.1 (and dependencies) are now in the "Testing" directory of Slackware-current. See the changelog for more information, and read on for a quote from Slackware founder, Patrick Volkerding!
Slackware creator/maintainter Patrick Volkerding writes this in the Slackware changelog:
"Added KDE version 4.1 to testing! :-)
Patrick has included scripts to help upgrade from KDE 3.5.x. Take advantage of the README's and documentation he's included (and notice that this information is for Slackware "current", not Slackware 12.1)
Kudos to Rob Workman for making KDE 4.x available for Slackware for the last few months.
Fred, now you've got no excuse not to get this working!
By Matt Williams at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
KDE3 & KDE4 at the same time
For those who don't want to remove KDE3 (& everything that depends on it), there're packages at http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/ which let you run both at the same time.
See Is it possible to install KDE 4.1 and keep 3.5 on Slackware 12.1? for more info.
By Smith at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Slackware rules :)
I met many of the slackware team at the 4.0 release event. They were all extremely friendly towards KDE so we figured it would only be a matter of time before it hit slackware. (they are rarely "early adopters") It looks like the next version will likely contain KDE 4.x. Wheee!
Now can someone tell gentoo that the boat is sailing without them? :P
By Troy Unrau at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Slackware rules :)
I'm running KDE4 on my Gentoo box since 4.0-beta
By Dusdan at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Also, I see Firefox 3 is still not stable on Gentoo. What's up with that? After 4 years of Gentoo, I'm glad I made the switch last year (first Mandriva, now openSUSE).
By parena at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am
Re: Slackware rules :)
I found a nice feature matrix that you can monitor for the progress of kde 4.1 in gentoo.
You can use kdesvn too on gentoo.
By Mark Hannessen at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am
KDE 4.1 rocks
I am deeply impressed with KDE 4.1
My wish for Windows 7: Package it with KDE 4.x
By velum at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Please look back
Patrick, please don't make the mistake Arch Linux did. Some people will need to keep KDE 3.5.9/10 around for a while. Please include KDE4, but keep KDE3 for a bit longer. The two can coexist. Really they can. Laptop users need a decent network/wifi configuration tools, which aren't quite there yet in 4.1. Also there are problems with many video cards that are flaky at present. Other reasons as well.
By David Johnson at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Please look back
The packages in /testing are named like the kde3 packages with just a different version and they both install to /usr. Personally i think this is a shame especially since i really know myself that you can install KDE3 and KDE4 on Slackware without getting into conflicts (i have KDE3 in /usr + ~/.kde and KDE4 is installed in /opt/kde4 + ~/.kde4).
Well... that is why it is in testing any may become "stable" with maybe Slackware 12.2 and/or KDE 4.2 which is OK for me...
By DarkVision at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Please look back
Their way of packaging is the clean way, the way you're suggesting is an ugly hack.
See also my reply to a previous thread: http://dot.kde.org/1218753052/1218821288/1218834292/1218841558/121884892...
By Kevin Kofler at Tue, 2008/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Please look back
I just read your post, and wonder, what about having KDE4 and the KDE3 bits with no available KDE4 versions. Those can coexist in a single $KDEHOME? Is eventually possible to have .kde for KDE4 and left KDE3 environment into a .kde3, then later migrate and remove the later?
By Shulai at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am
Re: Please look back
Until KDE4 is getting "stable" that "ugly hack" is better then anything else. On three different machines even GNOME behaves better then KDE 4.1 on Slackware. I really wonder why Pat added KDE4 to testing yet... :(
By DarkVision at Sun, 2008/08/24 - 5:00am
At one time Gentoo use to be considered the bleeding edge distro.
By MrEcho at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am
Re: Gentoo
Wrong; the Gentoo developers could have put the ebuilds anytime in the main portage tree, but it's with intention that it's still not there because KDE 4.x still needs to mature.
By Herbert Eisenbeiß at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am
Re: Gentoo
Well, couldn't they just put them on some exclude list. I remember when I used to use Gentoo, if there was a package that was in "testing" you'd have to include a keyword for it to emerge. Can't they do that? If they don't, then it's a sad day for Gentoo. The Gentoo I used to know was about testing software and developing it. That was the main reason I used it - I could test almost anything and get it working. Other distros had prepackaged crap that you had to recompile anyway to get the feature set you wanted.
By winter at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am
Re: Gentoo
kde-base/kde-meta [M](~)4.0.4 [M](~)4.0.5
By MrEcho at Fri, 2008/08/22 - 5:00am
Upgrade Scripts
"Patrick has included scripts to help upgrade from KDE 3.5.x."
Is there something like this for KDE in general. I'd really like to keep some settings such as email accounts and bookmarks and contact and calendars. Well, all the info in the PIM. I know I can do it manually, but a script would be nice.
By winter at Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:00am


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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop cold sores with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing cold sores.
The viruses that cause cold sores are easily spread. They come out of the skin and are "shed" from the site of the cold sore for 1-2 days before the sore appears. Then the virus is in the fluid of the cold sore blisters.
Once you have a herpes simplex infection, cold sores often form because of stress or illness. Some may form without an identifiable trigger.
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) can be spread by close contact with someone who has a cold sore. It can also be spread through personal items that are contaminated with the virus such as razors, towels, or eating utensils. Kissing or sharing personal items with a person who has a cold sore will increase your risk of getting HSV-1. The virus can also be spread to the genital area during oral sex. People with cold sores should not perform oral sex on their partners. The virus can be spread even when no cold sores are present.
Infants and young children up to 3 years old have an increased risk of being exposed to HSV-1.
Exposure to sunlight or other ultraviolet light is a common trigger for cold sores.
Stress on the body due to illness or excessive exercise can weaken the body's immune system. This can lead to an outbreak of cold sores. Common examples of stress or illness include:
Cold sore outbreaks commonly occur during times of emotional stress. The type of stress that activates cold sores is typically negative stress, instead of stress due to positive or normal life-changing events.
Herpes causes & risk factors. American Academy of Family Physicians Family Doctor website. Available at: http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/herpes/causes-risk-factors.html. Updated December 2010. Accessed February 14, 2014.
Herpes simplex. DermNet NZ website. Available at: http://dermnetnz.org/viral/herpes-simplex.html. Updated February 6, 2013. Accessed February 14, 2014.
Kuehl B. Cold sores: how to prevent and treat them. Skin Care Guide website. Available at: http://www.skincareguide.ca/articles/herpes/to_prevent_cold_sores.html. Accessed February 14, 2014.
Oral herpes. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115104/Oral-herpes. Updated October 5, 2015. Accessed October 4, 2016.
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Press Releases
Hardee's Adds A Little Spice to Its Menu With the New Jalapeno Thickburger
Aug 21, 2006
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – August 21, 2006 – Responding to the rapidly growing trend in America towards spicier cuisine, Hardee's® today is introducing the new Jalapeño Thickburger™ to its growing menu of quality burgers. The new Thickburger makes its debut at Hardee's restaurants following a successful run at sister chain Carl's Jr.® earlier this year.
"Just a few years ago, no one would have dared to introduce a fast-food menu item with this much heat, but as America has become more diversified, so have American's palates," said Brad Haley, Hardee's executive vice president of marketing. "But this burger isn't just about heat. A burger has to taste great to make it on our menu, and the Jalapeño Thickburger is one of our best yet. It's made with pepperjack cheese, a generous helping of jalapeños a creamy, yet zesty, Santa Fe sauce."
The decision to incorporate the new Jalapeño Thickburger into the Hardee's menu comes in response to the strong sales increases earlier in the year at Carl's Jr., due in large part to the introduction of the spicy burger.
The Jalapeño Thickburger features a charbroiled 1/3-pound, 100 percent Angus beef patty topped with jalapeño pepper slices, pepperjack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, red onions and Santa Fe sauce on a seeded bun. The new Thickburger will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants for $3.49 by itself, or $5.78 for a medium combo meal.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the first fiscal quarter ended May 22, 2006, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,141 franchised or company-owned restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,062 Carl's Jr.® restaurants, 1,963 Hardee's restaurants and 100 La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill® restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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Lightly moisten your hands with cold water. Take 1/4 cup cooked rice and form it into a ball, packing it firmly. Poke a hole into the center of the ball and insert a 1/4 teaspoon of minced ginger pickles and a small amount of the wasabi paste into the center. Pack the ball again to close the hole. Moisten your hands as needed to keep the rice from sticking to them, trying not to use too much water. Roll the ball in Eden Shake to cover. Repeat the above steps until all ingredients have been used. You should now have 8 rice balls.
Heat the oil in a medium skillet. Place the rice balls in the skillet and pan fry, turning the balls frequently, until golden and crispy. Remove and serve 2 rice balls per person.
A dipping sauce can be made for the rice balls by mixing 2 tablespoons of Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce together with 3 tablespoons of cold water, if desired.
Per serving - 203 calories, 8 g fat (39% calories from fat), 2 g protein, 25 g carbohydrate, 7 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 368 mg sodium


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Sigma Frater Myron Pope named as student affairs Vice President at Univ. of Central Oklahoma
University of Central Oklahoma President Don Betz recently announced the appointment of Myron Pope as the university's new vice president for Student Affairs.
Pope previously served the university as vice president for Enrollment Management. In his new role, he will oversee a reorganized Division of Student Affairs, which now includes Enrollment Management and the Wellness Center.
"Myron possesses the experience, creativity and vision to lead this area which is so critical to the success of our students," Betz said.
"At UCO Student Affairs connects with our students from the moment they are admitted to Central through the day they earn a degree. It is an integral partner with Academic Affairs in creating the transformative learning experience here at UCO."
The Student Affairs division includes recruitment, admissions, enrollment, first year experience, campus activities, student organizations, fraternity and sorority life, student counseling services, career services, global affairs, graduation support services, and the Wellness Center, among other services.
The reorganization follows the new model emerging at many of Central's peer institutions throughout the country.
"I am very excited about taking on this new role, and I am very appreciative of President Betz for this opportunity to lead our student development and services functions," Pope said.
"I am committed to continuing to work collaboratively with the campus community to offer transformative, co-curricular learning opportunities for our students while providing them with the highest level of service in our enrollment areas. It is my desire to lead from this new role with a focus on student success as the goal of all of our efforts."
Pope attended the University of Alabama where he received a bachelor's degree in history/English and a master's and doctorate in higher education administration. While at the University of Alabama, he played football for the Crimson Tide and was a part of the 1992 National Championship team.
During his career, he has worked in the community college system of Alabama as a talent search counselor, at the University of Alabama as the director of Recruitment for the College of Education, and at the University of Oklahoma as a faculty member in the Adult and Higher Education program. He brought his broad range of experience to the University of Central Oklahoma in 2004, serving as assistant vice president of Student Affairs before being promoted to vice president for Enrollment Management in 2005.
He has conducted a variety of research on higher education related issues, including community college student and administrative issues, minority student concerns, faculty governance issues and institutional trust. He has been published in scholarly journals and books and also has presented regionally, nationally and internationally on these topics. He has been active on the regional and national levels of the American College Personnel Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the Council for the Study of Community Colleges and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, as well as serving as an evaluator with the Higher Learning Commission. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., and is active in the community as a coordinator of Leadership Edmond, and board member for the Edmond Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA and the HOPE Center of Edmond. – See more at: http://www.edmondsun.com/local/x31536413/Pope-named-as-student-affairs-vice-president-at-UCO#sthash.VcxaiosE.dpuf


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New taste
Koreans never used to eat dairy products, but that's all changed. Fans from around the world now flock to Cheese Village in Imsil, the world's only cheese theme park. A few decades ago, a Catholic priest from Belgium sparked the trend by making goat's cheese. An entire nation now appreciates what raised a few eyebrows at first.


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A former real estate agent drove with the partially mummified body of a homeless woman in the passenger seat of her car for between three and 10 months, according to a report.
The grim discovery was made after the car was left partially blocking a driveway in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Monday and the police were called, the Orange County Register reported.
When the officers arrived, they noticed a foul smell coming from inside the vehicle, a 1997 Mercury Marquis, and then saw a leg poking out from a pile of clothes used to conceal the body.
U.S. & World
They smashed a window and found the body, along with a box of baking soda which had been used to reduce the odor.
"This person was somewhat used to the smell," Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Ed Everett said.
The 57-year-old former real estate agent said she had been too afraid to call the police after she found the body of the woman, the Register reported.
Women were friends
Police told the newspaper that the two women had become friends after meeting at Mile Square Regional Park and reached an agreement that the homeless woman, known only as Signe, could sleep in the former agent's car in December.
The driver was in financial difficulties and had been staying at a friend's house, police said. Officers declined to identify her.
The body of the woman, who is believed to have been between 50 and 60 when she died, had been reduced to about 30 pounds when it was found, with the lack of air and weather conditions at the time helping to preserve it.
The Register said officials believed the woman had been dead for three to 10 months, based on the state of the body. The cause of death was unknown, but an autopsy revealed no signs of foul play, according to the newspaper.
Further tests were being carried out in an attempt to identify the dead woman.
Officers were investigating whether the driver had committed any health code violations, the Register reported, but she had not been arrested or cited.