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Saturday, October 25, 2008
The article is titled "Christians and the Pro-Life Ploy". It appears at the LewRockwell.com website and is written by Dr. Gregory C. Dilsaver. It addresses the Pro-Life vote, but it does not condone the logical response to Obama's support of abortion. Instead it proposes another platform, one based on the concept that America has become a totalitarian empire.
Before going further, it is necessary to look at the author. G. C. Dilsaver is a Catholic psychologist. He has written a book, published by Sapientia Press, affiliated with Ave Maria University, and available through Ignatius Press, as his website advertises. He runs a clinic that he says is based on a Christian conception of God. He calls it Imago Dei Clinic.
Imago Dei Clinic treats the full spectrum of mental illness, including the mood disorders, psychoses, obessive-compulsions (sic), as well as marital, familial, and gender-sexual issues.image of God. Created in this image, the human person has a nature that can be understood in accord with universal attributes and laws, yet always retains a sublime mystery that is to be revered.
Imago Dei means
Imago Dei Psychotherapy is the first psychotherapy to fully locate the science of psychology within a traditional Christian understanding of the nature of the human person. Imago Dei Psychotherapy (IDP) views the human person as a moral agent who is called to assent to the truth and love the good.
Dilsaver lists his credentials here. His doctorate comes from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA. That school is a newcomer in Academics. It was founded in 1978 by Pat Robertson, and originally named CBN University (that's Christian Broadcasting Network), according to Wikipedia. The school is not without controversy both in the Law School and in the School of Psychology and Counseling. Wikipedia spells it out:
One professor said that there is a "climate of fear and intimidation" within the school. Another said, "The climate is contrary to Christian values rather than embracing them." While a third said, "I cannot in good conscience continue to participate in this unhealthy and toxic environment." A petition was circulated which criticized the behavior of the school's dean and the counseling department's program director said to have used the terms "brothas", "hoes" and "homos" however some students said the words were used in an "academic context".
Controversy is not inherently bad. One test of the mettle of the school must be what do its graduates stand for? With that question in mind I return to Dilsaver's article at LewRockwell.com. He writes:
Leaders in the Catholic and other conservative pro-life churches are almost making it mandatory this presidential election that the faithful vote for McCain or, more to the point, vote against the pro-abortion Obama. But is this single-issue pro-life exhortation really in harmony with authentic Christian tradition? Are these leaders really showing that they are of the mettle of their predecessors, from the Apostles to St. Thomas Beckett to Cardinal Mindszenty? Or instead are these Christian leaders more aligned with those predecessors who all too often compromised the faith and kowtowed to political power, the world, the flesh, and the devil? This essay advances that it is the latter.(bolding mine)
The Pro-Life Ploy
Indeed, the pro-life ploy is perfectly demonic: in holding out the illusionary possibility of destroying an evil an even greater evil is fed. But what can be more evil than killing babies? It is that which is the cause of this killing and myriad other evils. Indeed, as atrocious as abortion is, it is nonetheless a symptom. Our nation is not vicious because it allows abortion, rather it allows abortion because the nation is vicious.
It is good that church leaders are finally showing some spine in regards to politics and the crime of abortion, but this is neither remarkable nor prophetic. In doing so they are merely reacting to the most gruesome and sensational symptom of a systemic evil. But tragically the election of another Republican will not take care of the symptom; at the very best (don't hold your breath) it will remand it back to the states. Abortion will remain, legal or illegal. However, it is certain that voting for either the Republican or Democratic candidate will strengthen the systemic evil that is the current Republican-Democratic political axis, and the powers that manipulate that government. Also be certain that the last thing the national government wants to do is remand anything back to the states, much less to the community, church, or family. Indeed, Roe v. Wade is the rotten fruit of the Federal government's usurpation of state's rights.
The systemic evil that must be primarily combated is the rise of the most omnipotent State in history, both on the domestic and international level. Under this State, and abided by mind-boggling advances in technology, totalitarianism has the potential of reaching an apex of power and control undreamed of by past despots. The future is ominous indeed, for already this State contravenes its own constitution.
The article continues in that vein for a total of five pages of printout. The bottom line? Dilsaver places a higher priority on combatting this evil institution called America than he places on the lives of unborn and born infants who are the result of botched abortions. Life itself, in other words, is subservient to Dilsaver's idealism.
With this article Dilsaver joins the other public voices undermining the clear directives of a few brave bishops who are fighting for the life of the most helpless humans of all--unborn babies.
While I agree with most of his claims of a need for change, I surely cannot agree with his overall philosophy as expressed in this priority. It is a priority that will undermine any hope of addressing abortion by dividing the Catholic pro-life vote. Ron Paul is not going to be elected President. A vote for him is a vote against our only hope of addressing abortion--voting for a man who opposes it and has a chance to be elected. Instead we are urged to throw our Catholic vote away by voting for one who will not win.
The Republican candidate is not going to be a knight in shining armor delivering us from the evils of totalitarianism. Republicans and Democrats are not all that different on issues of governmental power. That is a given. Ron Paul may be advocating for addressing a wider scope of evil, but he has no hope of accomplishing his dream within the next four years. Supreme Court justices are at stake. Laws to entrench abortion more irreparably in the American legal system are at stake. They are on the table during the next term. We must address with our vote the immediate wrong that hits us in the face. Idealism can wait when infant lives are at stake.
With this essay Dilsaver joins the other Catholic voices of dissent such as Nancy Pelosi, Doug Kiemec, and Joe Biden that courageous bishops are opposing. It is sad to see such hypocrisy on the Catholic right as represented by Ave Maria University and Ignatius Press. We are a house divided in more ways than we know.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
Friday, October 24, 2008
There is a story at The Salt Lake Tribune website by Jessica Ravitz which unravels the history of VooDoo in New Orleans as told by VooDoo historian Gerald Gandolfo, including the bizarre variety of Catholicism that it has generated. According to this story the VooDoo Queen of NO was a devout Catholic who appears to have been buried in the Catholic cenetary. There is the story of Legba, VooDoo version of St. Peter.
Then there is the following:
Offering further illustrations of how Catholicism and Voodooism go hand in hand in New Orleans, Gandolfo pointed out unusual crosses affixed to the city's famous St. Louis Cathedral, calling them indicators of harmonious coexistence between the two religions. This relationship was bolstered by institutional viewpoint changes. During the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s, the Catholic church recognized African Traditional Religions as accepted forms of spirituality. And when Pope John Paul II attended Voodoo ceremonies in Togoland in 1985 and Benin in 1993, he helped further lift the veil of mystery and misunderstanding.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two Catholic groups that have received heavy criticism for making false claims that Barack Obama is pro-life and for receiving funding from pro-abortion billionaire activist George Soros are now trying to deflect attention by saying other Catholic groups get Soros money as well.
As LifeNews.com reported, Catholic League president Bill Donohue accused two left-wing Catholic groups of getting money from the activist.
Donohue said Catholics in Alliance receives funding from Soros' Open Society Institute (OSI) and that it is integrally linked to Catholics United.
Now, Chris Korzen of Catholics United is deflecting the criticism by claiming OSI also funds Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Catholic Legal Immigration Services -- making them supposedly "morally equal."
Donohue told LifeNews.com in response: "Unlike the three Catholic organizations cited by Korzen, Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance are apologists for abortion."
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Randall Terry at Catholic Online tells us:
Bishop Rene H. Gracida releases radio ad against voting for Barack Obama; Catholics Plan anti-Obama Demonstrations and Press Conferences Coast to Coast on Thursday, October 30.
The specific quote from Bishop Gracida:
"This is Bishop Rene H. Gracida, reminding all Catholics that they must vote in this election with an informed conscience. A Catholic cannot be said to have voted in this election with a good conscience if they have voted for a pro-abortion candidate. Barack Hussein Obama is a pro-abortion candidate."
Bishop Gracida recorded the radio spot in English and Spanish; it can be heard at www.randallterry.com.
I expect he will be hearing from the ACLU.
I hope his fellow bishops stand with him.
I'm not counting on it.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for him!
Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton is standing with him. The Dallas Morning News Religion Blog reports:
Joseph Martino, the Catholic bishop of Scranton, Pa., showed up unannounced at a church forum on the presidential election and let everyone know in no uncertain terms that his word on abortion is the final word.
Martino is a hardliner on how Catholics should regard pro-choice candidates. He had earlier written a letter to his diocese saying abortion is the issue by which Catholics must judge candidates. (He went further than the bishops of Dallas and Fort Worth did in their recent pastoral letter on the subject. Martino wrote that "public officials who are Catholic and who persist in public support for abortion and other intrinsic evils should not partake in or be admitted to the sacrament of Holy Communion. As I have said before, I will be vigilant on this subject.")
He also took issue with the USCCB statement titled "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship":
That's a nuanced document on the political responsibilities of Catholics. It says that while abortion is an "intrinsic evil," Catholic voters "should not use a candidate's opposition to an intrinsic evil to justify indifference or inattentiveness to other important moral issues involving human life and dignity."
It also says it's not a bishop's job to tell people who to vote for -- that "the responsibility to make choices in political life rests with each individual in light of a properly formed conscience..."...
"No USCCB document is relevant in this diocese," he said after crashing the forum. "The USCCB doesn't speak for me."
Fox News tells us Denver's Bishop Chaput is standing with him:
Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop says Barack Obama is the "most committed" abortion rights major party presidential candidate in 35 years.
Father Charles Chaput says, "To suggest, as some Catholics do, that Senator Obama is this year's 'real' pro-life candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse."
Chaput adds that pro-Obama Catholics "seek to contextualize, demote and then counterbalance the evil of abortion with other important but less foundational social issues."
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Goodbye to innocence. If they are serious about reducing the number of out-of-wedlock births perhaps they should consider the number of these that took place prior to the advent of sex education.
* Polly Curtis
* guardian.co.uk,
* Thursday October 23 2008 12.07 BST
Sex education is to be made a compulsory part of the national curriculum in primary and secondary schools under government plans to cut teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
A new personal, social and health education (PSHE) curriculum, expected by 2010, will include compulsory sex and relationships education as well as better advice warning children against drugs and alcohol.
Children will learn about body parts and the fact that animals reproduce from the age of five, puberty and intercourse from the age of seven and contraception and abortion from the age of 11.
Schools will not be allowed to opt out of the rules but the government is promising separate guidance to faith schools, which could find elements of the new curriculum at odds with their spiritual beliefs.
The schools minister, Jim Knight, said they would still have to teach the curriculum - which includes contraception, abortion and homosexuality - but will separately be allowed to continue to teach religious beliefs about sex.
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More evidence of betrayal of the Catholic laity...
ACORN's Unlikely Allies
Posted by Joseph Lawler on 10.23.08 @ 6:04AM
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) recently cut off its over $1.1 million in funding for the left-wing community organizing group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), citing a million-dollar embezzlement case. Of course, news of the malfeasance first came out four months ago, whereas most have regarded ACORN as radically liberal for years. What explanation could the Catholic outreach program possibly offer for funding until now a group that is defrauding the electorate to help Barack Obama, the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever?
None -- except for that maybe they thought they'd get away with it, before ACORN became a fixture in the evening news. The CCHD, which is run by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has funded far-left organizations with missions diametrically opposed to that of the Catholic Church for years, including, in the '90s, the pro-abortion group National Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The CCHD filed its grants for dozens of ACORN outfits under such left-wing euphemisms as "Economic Justice" and "Civil Rights." While some of the funding most likely went toward some kind of economic justice through immigration reform (for which John McCain also collaborated with ACORN) and helping impoverished families claim their Earned Income Tax Credit refunds, there is no doubt a substantial portion of those grants also went to voter turnout initiatives -- not to mention voter registration fraud. It would have been impossible to oversee the actions of these numerous ACORN affiliates.
Ralph McCloud, the director of CCHD, told Catholic News Service that he was aware that some of the money must have been used for voter registration drives in the past. "But by the same token, we didn't find any voter registration irregularities, the allegations we are finding now," he claimed.
Perhaps they didn't, although that's hard to believe considering the memorable stories of registration fraud from past elections, like the one in 2004 when ACORN offered a man crack cocaine to sign a registration form.
Here's the whole article.
Old Catholic Church embraces marriage equality - even for its priests
by Ethan Jacobs
staff reporter
Thursday Oct 23, 2008
Archbishop Bruce Simpson...and his partner, Jack Bixler...will be married in Massachusetts after living as a couple for 35 years.
Given the Roman Catholic Church's strong advocacy against same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the news that a Catholic archbishop and a priest will be marrying their respective partners of more than 30 years at a Catholic service in Milton later this month is sure to raise eyebrows at first. Yet Archbishop Bruce Simpson, head of the Benedictine Order of St. John the Beloved, and Father Bernard Sheffield, a member of the order and a priest based out of Port St. Lucie, Florida, are not conventional Catholics in any sense.
The order belongs to the Old Catholic Church, an off shoot of the Roman Catholic Church that split off from Rome in the late 1800s over opposition to the doctrine of papal infallibility and other doctrinal matters. Bishops within the Old Catholic Church have the authority to govern their own jurisdictions, and within the Benedictine Order of St. John same-sex couples have just as much right as their heterosexual counterparts to a church wedding. Simpson, who lives in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Sheffield will marry their partners at Milton's Holy Family Catholic Community, which also falls under the Benedictine order, on Oct. 29.
Simpson, who has penned a column on religious issues for The Advocate and other publications and who authored the 2004 book The Gay Face of God, said there are several practical reasons that he and his partner of 35 years, Jack Bixler, are coming to Massachusetts to be married, but he also hopes his wedding will send a message and serve as a counterpoint to the Roman Catholic Church's advocacy against marriage equality....
Simpson and Sheffield originally planned their visit to Holy Family Catholic Community, which formed three years ago as part of the Brazilian Catholic Church and shifted to become part of the Old Catholic Church and the order last year, to learn about the congregation's missionary work and help the church's pastor, Father Peter Miller, develop a plan to shore up the church's finances. Holy Family does not own its own church; it meets at the Church of Our Savior in Milton, an Episcopal church. After learning about the repeal of the 1913 law Simpson decided to take advantage of Massachusetts's marriage laws while he was in town, and Sheffield decided to do the same.
Miller said members of Holy Family, Church of Our Savior, and the public are invited to attend the weddings, which begin at 11 a.m. on Oct. 29. He said he is proud to be able to perform the marriage ceremony for his order's archbishop.
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We have a very progressive Holy Family Catholic Community here. I was a frustrated member for many years. It's Roman Catholic. The pastor, and two of the priests who served together at the parish, have all been credibly accused of sexual abuse. Hmmmmm.
The Catholic bashing continues...
WASHINGTON — A church-state watchdog group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the Roman Catholic bishop of Paterson, N.J., violated tax laws by denouncing Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.
In a letter sent to the IRS on Wednesday (Oct. 22), Americans United for Separation of Church and State accused Paterson Bishop Arthur Serratelli of illegal partisanship for lambasting Obama's support of abortion rights.
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Meanwhile Rabbis for Obama receives nary a word of criticism.
I call that blatant discrimination.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The political signs are blooming in front yards in my little corner of Northeast Ohio, especially in the recent couple of weeks. Judge signs. Representative signs. Strangely, there is a dearth of presidential signs. Occasionally I find a McCain or Obama out there, but if I didn't already know it, I'd suspect there wasn't going to be a presidential race this year. Why is that? Could it be because most of us up here in Northeast Ohio still haven't made up our minds? If this is typical, one of those signs might be worth preserving for posterity! But what do I know...!
Susanna sent in an article in The [Philadelphia] Bulletin about Black support for McCain. While 95% of the Black community is expected to vote for Obama, some Black leaders have emerged as McCain supporters. One particular leader is especially interesting, Dr. Alveda King, wife, mother, Director of African-American Outreach, Gospel of Life Ministries, and most significant, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King.
"I am very excited about the McCain-Palin ticket, simply because they support the values that mean the most to me," Ms. King said. "It is a plus to me that Sarah Palin is a woman because I've been elected to office as a wife and mother. I've been appointed to office as a woman and at the time I was a mother and became a grandmother."
Ms. King said her experience taught her she could both be a good mother and still serve the public. This is something she has in common with Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, McCain's running mate.
However, the most important reason she is backing the McCain-Palin ticket is its commitment to the pro-life cause.
How refreshing for a change! She proves that at least some Black voters are not racist and have given some thought to how they are going to vote, considering that the majority of abortions wipe out the lives of black babies. I bet she would join me in casting a vote for Alan Keyes if he ever appeared on the ballot.
Rome, Oct 20, 2008 / 11:39 pm (CNA).- Manfred Lutz, a psychiatrist with the Congregation for the Clergy, has responded in an extensive article to those who consider celibacy not to be "natural" and explained that the discipline is not only necessary for priests and religious to fully live out their vocations, but that it is also a "provocation" to a superficial world that does not believe in life after death.[emphasis mine]
In the article published by the L'Osservatore Romano, Lutz commented that celibacy represents "a permanent protest against collective superficiality." It proclaims that "the earthly world, with its joys and sufferings, is not all there is."
One who cannot renounce the exercise of sexuality is not capable "of joining in a marital union" either, Lutz continued. Looking upon women as "the object of satisfaction of a personal impulse plays a key role in the criticism of celibacy," he stated. Lutz also noted that there are even times when spouses cannot "fully exercise their sexuality, as in the case for example of a temporary illness or a permanent handicap. In these cases, a spousal relationship that is truly profound is not destroyed but rather enriched."
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I especially disliked this notion also included in the article:
This explains, for example, the surprising fruitfulness of the writings on marriage of that great shepherd of souls, the Servant of God John Paul II."
Would that be the "Great Shepherd of Souls" who allowed the homosexuals to take over the seminaries so that today we have no priests? The Shepherd who knew about the clergy abuse of the laity's children and didn't try to stop it? Perhaps children and teenagers weren't worthy of shepherding.
Was the conjugal act made an integral part of the sacrament of marriage because it contributes to superficiality? Give me a break!
Chastity is a provocation to the contemporary world. Babies speak more accurately that "the earthly world, with its joys and sufferings, is not all there is." We get them by having sex within the confines of marriage. Superficiality disappears in the reality of caring for them. Which is the way God made it. And which is why the conjugal act is a part of the sacrament of marriage and needs to be preserved, even under difficult circumstances, when it is possible to do so without causing abortion.
The psychiatrists who advised Rome during the scandal did us no favors at all. Why listen to this one?
I've developed a habit of late. When there is something scheduled that I really don't like, I think of having completed it and then knowing that in the total picture of my life there is one less of it that I still have to endure. One less round of chemo to go. One less PET scan. One less blood test. One less trip to the doctor. It's comforting somehow, though I suppose a person would have to be in the midst of battling cancer to understand why.
The medical demands can pile up. One day I counted all of the things that my doctors have told me to do each day. Twenty-eight. Some take minutes. Some take hours. There is something inherently unacceptable about the idea of doing a list of medical stuff each day so you can live one more day to do a list of medical stuff. A person has to have a life! So sometimes I just opt out.
Yesterday I opted out of wearing my sleeve.
A sleeve is something that is used to treat lymphedema, which develops when lymph nodes are impacted by cancer in one way or another. My left arm is affected. It's swollen because too much fluid accumulates there and the lymph nodes don't shuttle it away. That is typically the result of radiation that destroys the nodes, or else the result of the nodes being removed. In my case neither scenario explains why my arm is swollen. The doctors wax theoretical or remain silent when I ask the question.
In any case, I'm supposed to wear a compression sleeve during my waking hours. This is a compression sleeve. No big deal--right? It's annoying for only about the first 30 minutes of wear. Then I forget I've got it on. When I first started wearing it, my hand swelled up like a balloon. You know those clowns invited to children's birthday parties who make little animals out of balloons? My left arm and hand looked like something they had created. The solution for that is wearing a compression glove. You can see one of those at the above-linked website, top row far right.
Try to imagine cooking with one of those. Or washing dishes. Or doing laundry for that matter. We won't even talk about gardening or changing diapers! I put the thing on at the medical supply place, and promptly told the saleswoman that it wasn't going to happen. She suggested a gauntlet (covering for the wrist, hand above the fingers, and a thumb, but no fingers). It was more practical than the glove, so I agreed. I had it with me last Saturday on my Red Hat train ride through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It was in my pocket. It wasn't there when I got home. So much for the $60 gauntlet. Until my hand swells up again, I'm not even going to think about it.
One of the reasons why my hand is not swollen right now is the lymphedema pump--my latest livingroom accessory. Here's one. Think of a big blue sleeve attached by multiple cords to a motor. They don't show the cords in the picture. No one would buy the thing if they did. It really looks like a predatory sea creature that is preparing to eat your arm. The idea is to start squeezing at hand level, then work progressively up the arm until the pressure reaches shoulder level. Theoretically this pushes the fluid out of the affected arm. It does help. My hand no longer swells up and I can wear my wedding rings again. The downside is sitting there waiting for the results to happen. Hour by hour. A person can't blog or answer email with one arm in a compression pump. A person can't scratch the itch on the nose and still hold onto the book. Nothing's perfect. I keep telling myself, one less time I have to do this in my life every time I've completed a session.
I started out with three sessions per day. When the time crunch came, I got down to two. The other day I didn't even get one accomplished. The trick, I guess, is starting over each new morning.
As of yesterday I've completed the second round of chemo (well, technically the third, but we won't count that aborted attempt last spring). This one was six months long and was done in 1-month cycles of 2-weeks on, 2-weeks off. I'm convinced that the reason for the off-weeks is that the medical insurance goes up if you kill too many patients. This round consisted of three pills a day during the weeks-on, plus an IV once a week. It could have been worse. I could have had diarrhea for the whole six months instead of just for the last cycle. Probably couldn't have been much more tired than I was, though. Some people suffer nausea with these drugs. The only time I did was when I forgot to take the Prilosec for three days running. (With 17 medications to juggle, what's one more or less--until the results take hold.) Each time I got the IV, I knew there was a day of exhaustion coming. Just never knew when it would hit. Last Sunday it hit when I started to get dressed for the day's planned activities. I had to opt out, and spent the day in the recliner.
Then there is the hair loss. When my oncologist and I were determining what drugs to use in this chemo cycle, she asked if I had a request. I requested to keep my hair. "Ok," she said. "This drug won't cause your hair to fall out. It will thin a little, but you have nice thick hair." Uh-huh. I do still have hair. It has to be combed carefully to cover the bald spots. Sort of like the balding man with a comb-over. But hey...she didn't lie exactly. There is hair all over my pillow each morning. There is hair all over my clothes. The bathroom drains are all sluggish now from the hair build-up. There is hair on my grandson. There is hair on the kitchen counter. There is hair in my food. For a while I wore my wig. It kept my hair in check. Then I nearly shaved it off. This morning I glanced in the mirror and concluded that I was in-season for Halloween. I look like a witch.
On Monday I had the PET scan. The PET scan determines where the cancer has migrated if it hasn't disappeared. From this my oncologist decides what course of treatment is next or if I get a reprieve for a few months. I had been getting them at a regional center until this one. The regional center has closed. Maybe it was the little brown room that did it in. The technician who ran it believed that the radioactive stuff they shoot into your veins needed a quiet time in a brown room, in semi-darkness, sitting in a recliner and doing nothing for an hour in order to work. Sort of felt like being buried alive. The walls had leaves in bas relief. Brown leaves. In no identifiable pattern. I used to try to count them to relieve the boredom. This hour was followed by an hour lying on a table without moving, with your arms over your head or up in the air. My sanity survived via the rosary during this endurance test.
Monday the combination PET/CAT scan was done at the hospital in one of those trailers that travels to where it's needed. This time, after the radioactive injection, I was allowed to read for an hour in a fully lighted room with the radio playing elevator music softly in the background, and so I was still sane by the time the test rolled around. The test lasted 25 minutes. Lie still for 25 minutes? Piece of cake after the previous ordeal. Looks like I can stop dreading the PET scan. This discovery had me walking on a cloud for at least 36 hours.
Now is the waiting time. Wait for the results until November 6 when I have an appointment with the oncologist. On my 61st birthday, no less. We all know that when I go for a blood test this morning the nurses aren't going to tell me the results, even though they got them yesterday. If God is smiling on me, I'll get a few months off. If not, I'll be going back into chemotherapy, or something worse, real soon.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Catholic News Servicehttp://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0805330.htm reports the Vatican has approved three alternate phrases for the dismissal at the end of Mass:He said along with "Ite, missa est," the Latin phrase now translated as "The Mass is ended, go in peace," the new options are:
-- "Ite ad Evangelium Domini annuntiandum" (Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord).
-- "Ite in pace, glorificando vita vestra Dominum" (Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life).
-- "Ite in pace" (Go in peace).
So, what about the current common dismissal, "Go in peace to love and serve the Lord." That seems to be all I hear at Mass. Is it contrary to the rubrics?
Like an unborn baby in the Democratic womb, the New Party nestled within the Democratic Party and gave birth through the fusion method to the candidacy of Barak Obama. Fusion is one political system that Obama supporters do not want to see aborted.
Obama would like to distance himself from ACORN. He would like us to think ACORN played only an insignificant role in his nomination. Apparently that isn't the case. Where is the mainline news media on this one?
To understand how it happened, it is necessary to understand fusion voting. Turn to the National Open Ballot Project - Fusion Democracy webpage. Here and in the other webpages in this website, you can learn what Fusion voting is, how it insinuates its candidate into an established party and takes over the nomination. Current efforts are being exerted in Oregon and Maine to establish it there. Other states where this system is in place include New York, Connecticut, and Oregon.
The Fusion Legislation webpage explains:
In 2007, legislators in four states introduced legislation to re-establish "fusion" voting. This 19th century voting reform, also called "cross-endorsement" or Open Ballot Voting, is experiencing a 21st century revival.
Legislation was introduced with both Senate and Assembly support in Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico and Oregon. The biggest 2007 news comes out of Connecticut, where the legislature passed and the Governor signed a bill in July that established a full fusion voting system across the state.
Fusion has the potential for small party candidates to impact elections. This could be positive if the small party candidate is yours or my candidate. It can be negative when the small party candidate is the opposition.
Working Families is one organization working for the adoption of fusion voting in more states. As you can clearly see at the website, they endorse Barak Obama. You can also see how the third party facilitates getting their candidate of choice on the ballot twice.
Their "about" webpage describes how it works:
The Working Families Party is a third party with a twist, fusion voting.
Fusion voting lets one party (like the WFP) "cross endorses" the same candidate as another party. The votes from each party are tallied separately, but then combined for that candidate's total. It gives voters a way to "vote their values" by voting for the party of their choice without spoiling an election.
And it lets third parties like the WFP demonstrate support for the issues we're fighting for. When votes on the WFP's ballot line help a candidate we've endorsed win, we can hold that politician accountable to working people. Big business has plenty of money and power. Fusion helps us even the score.
Once common everywhere, fusion is now only legal in New York and a handful of other states.
Eric Erikson's blog spells out how this worked to Obama's benedit and how ACORN is a part of this picture:
Obama's Rise
With the New Party's rise and its entanglements with ACORN came the rise of Barack Obama. According to Stanley Kurtz, "Acorn is the key modern successor of the radical 1960's 'New Left,' with a '1960's-bred agenda of anti-capitalism' to match." And Barack Obama was ACORN's lawyer.
Using his position at ACORN in 1995, Obama set up the playing field for his election the following year. The Boston Globe reports, "Obama was part of a team of attorneys who represented the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in 1995 for failing to implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor and others to register as voters. A federal court ordered the state to implement the law." The Globe also notes, "Obama was part of a team of lawyers representing black voters and aldermen that forced Chicago to redraw ward boundaries that the City Council drew up after the 1990 census. They said the boundaries were discriminatory. After an appeals court ruled the map violated the federal Voting Rights Act, attorneys for both sides drew up a new set of ward boundaries."
With districts redrawn, ingratiating himself to black politicians on his side of the city, and rules loosened on voter registration, Obama could set out to run. And he did. Obama sought the New Party endorsement, which required him to sign a contract that he would keep up his relationship with the New Party.
The end of the story is simple. Obama won the New Party's nomination and, through fusion with his Democratic votes, he became the Democratic nominee. Using ACORN's get out the vote efforts and relying on his gerrymandered Democrat district, Obama moved on to the State Senate. While there, he paid back the New Party and the far left. He opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, he opposed legislation that would have prohibited the sale of pornography across the street from elementary schools and churches, and he supported allowing criminals to sue their victims if their victims injured the criminals in self-defense.
Fast forward twelve years and Obama is running as fast as he can away from the New Party brand. But beyond a shadow of a doubt, Barack Obama knew what he was getting into and remains an ideal New Party candidate. The New Party was, and as it still exists is, an amalgamation of the left and far left designed to attract far left candidates and move the Democratic Party back to the left. Barack Obama is an example of the New Party's success.
Thank God William Rehnquist ruled fusionism unconstitutional when he did, or there'd be more of these latent communists on the march upward into the political establishment.
The New Party website claims:
The New Party is an umbrella organization for grassroots political groups working to break the stranglehold that corporate money and corporate media have over our political process.
Our current work and long-term strategy is to change states' election rules to allow fusion voting - a method of voting that allows minor parties to have their own ballot line with which they can either endorse their own candidates or endorse the candidates of other parties.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A Catholic pro-life group says new information adds to the criticism a couple of Catholics organizations have already received for trying to make Barack Obama seem pro-life on abortion. Leading abortion activist and billionaire George Soros is behind the groups.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Catholics United have been working overtime to mask Obama's pro-abortion views. The groups have called him pro-life even though he supports unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason.
In comments sent to LifeNews.com today, Catholic League president Bill Donohue exposes the nexus between George Soros and two left-wing Catholic groups.
In 2006, Soros' Open Society Institute gave Catholics in Alliance $100,000 (double the amount he gave in 2005), Donohue indicates. In the same year, Catholics in Alliance listed Catholics United on its 990 as an organization with which it has a formal relationship.
Donohue says John Podesta, who runs the Soros-funded organization, Center for American Progress, admits that he works closely with Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United.
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Monday, October 20, 2008
I've read some horror stories of clergy sexual abuse. None of them have even come close to the story in Matt Abbott's column today. If I didn't know Abbott's work from other reports he has made, I'd say he had been duped. He says the story is a report to the New Jersey Archdiocesan review board, but he doesn't say how he got it from them. The priest's name and the places where this story are said to have occurred have been removed even though the priest is no longer living. That doesn't help to make it convincing.
But who could make up a story like this one? Tragically, after the revelations of recent years, I can believe that it's true; and it makes me wonder just what kind of men we may still have in the priesthood; and what they were thinking over there in Rome when these sorts of stories came in to them and they did nothing to stop it. Surely it could never get any worse than this one?
I read the story with the knowledge fresh in my mind that the Archbishop of San Francisco is the featured speaker at this week's priest convocation in my diocese.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
There has been no email from Fr. Euteneuer this week, so I'm taking Sunday off.
But before I click out of here, it was announced at Mass by the priest last night, in the parish where I'm registered, that Bishop Lennon is holding a convocation for diocesan priests Tuesday thru Friday this week, and that the speaker will be the Archbishop of San Francisco. I wonder if he plans to talk about Holy Redeemer Parish and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, since that is what he is best known for in the blogosphere? Sigh.


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The FTSE 100 closed down 35.36 points at 6,830.50 as mining shares suffered their biggest one day slide in a month after fears that slower growth and lending cuts to the property sector in China (the worlds largest metals consumer) would hurt the demand for metals.
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Cincinnati, Birmingham
Client: Blackswan
Value: £50M
Status: Pre-Planning
This project, for developer Blackswan, involves the conversion of The Cincinnati Corporation's 1950's administration building in Birmingham into a bespoke hotel together with the redevelopment of the former industrial site into a new residential village drawing inspiration from the iconic semi-detached of suburban Britain in it's traditional bay fronted form. Our proposals for the 1950's building use the existing central spaces to form three new levels of gastronomy crowned by a fine dining room in the old board room with views over the city beyond. References to the building's past use as an office from a bygone era provide inspiration for the hotels interiors whilst a stretched canopy references the building's americana and marks a new use on the roadside.
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Sunday, we spent the day with Micah's parents and sisters having Christmas. It is always such a fun time and by the end, it always looks like a toy store in the middle of the living room.... this year, we got to have lots of pink presents too (it was my niece's first Christmas)!
All 5 cousins with one on the way!!!
They love their Na!
Ya'll, this boy LOVES dogs. No matter where we are, if there is a dog, Remi is always close by! This is sweet Chloe and she has cancer. It was really sweet when I found Remi giving her some extra love...
Soon after, I saw that the other boys had joined in on loving on Chloe. It was the sweetest thing ever!
Remi was super excited about his new microscope kit!
These three cuties decided they needed a cereal break in the middle of opening presents
Remi was in desparate need of a new bike. Not only was his current bike too small, but it was literally falling apart! The look on his face shows just how excited he was...
Roen was pretty excited about his new green and blue boots. This is Roen's first pair of nice boots. Almost every other pair he has had, have been hand-me-downs from Remi.
I just love that the Holidays make everyone find time to be together!! These little kiddos are just growing up so fast and I love that they still get excited about getting balls, dump trucks and play-dough for Christmas!!!


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Remember the feel of your new two wheeler, the gleaming sleek beast ready to own the streets? The freedom is unexplained! Somewhere in the transition from college to corporate life, you forget why you got the bike in first place. Isn't it the worst when your bike goes from being your passion to an ordinary mule with the mundane task of taking you to work and bringing you back, maybe stopping for groceries on the way…? I had this epiphany and decided it's time to shake things up!
This is what we did when we realized our respective 2-wheeler were getting too laid-back. Living in Pune, you have lots of options to explore and this is the first one we did.
Locale: Pawana Lake
Distance from city: 56km (From Wakad Pune)
Bikes: 1 Pulsar/1Access/1Activa
Number of people: 5
One word for this place: Pristine!
Pawana Lake is the by-product of Pawana Dam and is one beautiful man-made lake.
We planned to leave by 6, which got extended to 7 am and that didn't seem all that bad. The mistake here was that we assumed it to be smooth ride and that was one big surprise. When the GPS tells you 1 hr 45 mins, take it with a pinch of salt. From steep Ghats to ghastly roads that test your off roading skills, the ride took us over 3 and half hrs! The literal 'kacha-roads' will definitely cover you in a thin veil of red dust. Also, the novice rider of the group ensured that the average speed of the onward journey was 35 (that was me, L Guilty! )
We stopped at this indigenous food place called Govind for some typical and awesome breakfast. Poha, vada pav and Chai in the brisk morning at 8-15 am seemed like the perfect start to this adventure. Pick out any local shack and you will feel the sizzling tea become a perfect detox. All the deadlines and pressure from work will give way to this calmness. I still maintain that Chai is the cure to all the crappy stress of everyday life!
The route was marked with fields and cattle. Small water bodies were spread out and it takes very little effort to imagine this place in monsoon! Sigh .., at around 10-30 we reached our destination.
The internal route to the Boat club is no child play, you feel the ache in your arms from all the effort of controlling the ride on the dicey road.
However, the first reaction to this lake is Meh! Stay with me for a bit…
No kidding, after 3 hrs. on bike, the distant lake seemed bleh… Owing it to the journey, we walked to wards the lake through a uniquely paved road
( there were few sulas and absolutes mixed in with the good old fisher! )
That's when we came to this awesome campsite! Turns out the banks of Pawna lake have been converted into small campsites with the organizers arranging for bonfire, bbq, music , tents , hike through the jungle boating, kayaking etc! They even had hammocks 😀 need we say more ?!
( the most sought after Hammock! )
The tenets were good for 2 / 3 or even 10 people! Needless to say, we immediately started planning for the next outing here, who wouldn't!
It was 11 pm by then, the idea of boating or kayaking under the sunny joyful sun was definitely out. Instead we did what we should! We waded into the water, tried to skip stones, listened to music, walked along the bank towards better set of stones and repeated all the above!! You can blissfully spend an hour and half along the bank and be sinfully happy!
By 1 pm we were ready to eat but food around here is made to order and waiting another hour seemed unreasonable. We were hungry but the sun was climbing steadily and the ride back was already scary!
We ended up hogging on chips and decided to head back home. Being the weak link in the rider category, I was destined to be the pillion for the ride back. The rough roads and the sun definitely made me smug! I soo didn't want to navigate the road back!
We reached home around 3-30. Dirty, tired, sweaty and thinly covered in said red dust. The arm and thigh muscles were singing but so was the heart! There is nothing better than getting back to nature … next time you have half-baked idea to explore the places around you, just grab your keys and head out! Rest will fall in place, trust me!
Tips from the horses mouth:
Entry time for camp:
Check in: 4 pm, check out : 12 pm
If you are here just for a day trip and want to have lunch, inform the hotel owner as soon as you reach the spot. As they cook post placing order, you might end up waiting for another hour if you order after exploring the lake
Book directly to save 200-400 bucks! Call the boat clubs and ask them for bookings. The online sites list it at 2200 whereas in person charge is 1800 for entire package. Just call up the boat clubs.
Choose the days as per your intention. For a big group, snag the weekend for your group and have the campsite to yourself but ensure that you book beforehand. For small group try off days to have some freedom and space. If meeting new people is the intent, go for weekend and meet some like minded people.
In addition to its scenic beauty, the fact that it is located in a close contact with historic forts like Lohgad, Tikona and Tungi, it also makes it ideal location, its both rustic and rough, take a pick.
Things you may wanna carry:
Pair of clothes to swim in , glucose or other energy drinks, sunscreen, a good book or two, board games or any other games, fruits or munchies.
Note that the ride is not all roses and clouds, its gritty and dirty… But it's so worth it!


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Okay..we made another attempt at the Guide-Apprentice Relationship on Video!
I felt better at this attempt and my feedback was SOOOO GREAT! You all will be so proud of ME and Sam. I was praised for being MORE assertive and taking charge, by my nonverbal actions. Sam was actually stopped charging forward and gazed at my actions and made brief UNPROMPTED eye contact. He discovered the value of looking at me, and actually followed my lead for a short period.
I am discovering that the KEY to the Guide-Apprentice relationship is really very simple. Someone MUST be the effective guide and someone MUST be the observant apprentice. I will admit to not being a strong effective guide. I have spent years by Sam's side, watching and trying to prevent a melt down or any unnecessary stress that could trigger bad behaviors. He has been used to setting the pace and leading all interactions with me. Now I have been trying to be a stronger, more assertive guide…on and off the camera.
The key points I am working on for the next video clip is…
1. Slow down the pace of the activity so that Sam will find it necessary to look at me, or read my body language.
2. Continue to be more assertive by my body language, letting him know I am in charge.
3. Limit or stop prompting (my usual mainstay).
By doing these things…HE will discover the value of looking at another person…to gather information from and to give information to others. This will be true communication! …as opposed to HIM telling me his needs/wants, or ME interrogating him about his day and feelings. The way we exchange information now is not true communication.
I am looking forward to a better day!
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Here is the Stockwell part!
Stoked to be a part of it, especially as I got some decent head phones out of it! :) Thanks Sam and his Dad. Well done to Jake Harris for making the films and Sam Ashley for taking the shots (there's a billboard photo of me looking like a gormless twat floating around somewhere... namely Heathrow airport)


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Despite the Billions of DOLLAR'S the world is spending on SO-CALLED POVERTY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING,TERRORISM, STARVATION'S AND SO ON.
But what's really going on for real in AFRICA
Hundreds of illegal African immigrants were found on an isolated Yemeni island on Thursday, said coast guards official.
"We rescued 236 African Immigrants that were found in Al-Aziza island where is located in Ras Amran area near Aden coast" Said the official who wants to remain anonymous.
He explained that there were 140 Somalis including 104 Somalis men, 30 women, and six children, in additions to 96 Ethiopians including 73 men and 23 women.
He pointed out that all the Somalis were handed over to the office of UN refugee agency in Yemen. Whereas, the Ethiopians were handed over to the concerned authorities of immigration, to be repatriated to their country.
"They were lucky that we found them, as this island so far from the coast," he confirmed, referring that the smugglers seem to have new methods to discard illegal immigrants.
"Mostly the smugglers throw the immigrants from their small boats to the sea 100-150 Km far from the cost, and most of them do not survive. However this time the smugglers offloaded them in this remote island to face their fate" he commented.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR , more than 27,000 people from Somalia and Ethiopia have risked their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in rickety smugglers' boats during 2006. They expect more displacement of Somali citizens if conditions in their country are not be stabilized.
n this regard, UNHCR and the United Nations World Food Program( WFP ) in Yemen announced that they have developed a contingency plan to respond to possible arrival of new refugees.
The two agencies have signed on Tuesday, in WFP office, a Joint Plan of Action for their operations in Yemen. "To facilitating coordination at the field level, the Plan of Action has been an opportunity for the two agencies to develop strategies and mechanisms to monitor the refugee situation and their repatriation or integration." Said a press release issued from the UN Information Center in Sana'a.
"This Plan is a precious tool to guide our staff in the field as well as our Headquarters to improve assistance to the refugees we serve" said Adel Jasmin, UNHCR Representative in Yemen. Under existing arrangements, UNHCR provides refugees with shelter and non-food items such as jerry cans, blankets, tents, plastic sheets, sop, stoves, kitchen sets, mattresses and sanitary materials for women. UNHCR also provides help in implementing health and education activities. Whereas WFP provides food assistance to around 16,000 refugees on monthly basis, including the refugees' children who are attending the basic schools at Kharaz and Basateen camps. WFP also assists malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers attending Mother and Child Care centers MCC). In addition, WFP provides three days rations as wet food to refugees upon arrival at Mayfa'a reception center.
Referring to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between WFP, UNICEF and WHO in May 2006, Dr. El Kouhene added, "this is the second time in less than a year that strong operational agencies in Yemen sign a document committing them to intensify their cooperation and jointly delivery ".
There are currently over 88,000 registered refugees in Yemen, including some 84,000 Somalis, but it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands more in the country.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Hundreds Of AFRICANS Immigrants Stranded In Africa,What's going on?
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How To Wear To Wear The Right Graduate Sash For Your Ceremony. When students are graduating there is a certain clothing that they wear together with the capo and the gown And that is what is known as the graduation sashes. In every graduation ceremony this is an important thing to be considered. You will find that these sashes come in different colors which signify different things in each school. It could be that there are those that belong to the same organization in the school culture. We have cases that they will be able to show gratitude in some cases by the use of the graduation stoles in this case. Here are a number of things to consider in choosing the right sash for your graduation. First keep in mind that colors are very significant when you consider the graduation stoles. In dealing with the white color, mostly it symbolizes a certain ethnic code or even a professional membership group in this case. The sashes can also be used to signify the color of the department that one has been through in this case. You will find that there are those who are embroidered to show the kind of accomplishments they have made in this case. Consider this as a means in which one has been through as well as the department they belong to in this case.
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AngularJS: Google+ Sign In Integration
Google+ Platform now enables easy, efficient and powerful multi-platform integration of it's services with almost everything you can imagine.
If you have a need to use Google authentication, over-the-air installs, profile & social graph access, develop your own "hangout" app, or use simple plug-ins like +1 button, Badge, Share and Follow button, provided API's are going to come in very handy for you.
This article is going to be all about Google authentication for websites, or simply said: "How to integrate Google+ Sign In button into your website and use it for sign in". Although, Google Documentation is very good and reading trough it will give you not only a clue, but good insights about the functionality of API with some nice examples, it does't cover some specific details when it comes to AngularJS integration.
We will only cover the basics here, so this article is designed mostly to save your time, but if you wish to learn more, see Google's PhotoHunt or check out it's source code from GitHub.
The basics
Sign In Button
The Google Sign In Button which you have probably seen many times on different websites has the role of offering the user the ability to authenticate with Google services. For developer, it is of huge importance because it represents a starting point for communication with Google services.
For our needs we are going to place a  in our HTML document with proper id and render it later "manually".

AngularJS gives us a nice feature with ng-hide, which is a flag that hides given component when Boolean variable bound to it is true.
There is more to know about this magical button, and that is that you must add this script in order to render the sign in button:

This script asynchronously loads plusone.js which is the Google+ JavaScript API (Google recommendation). Should be enough said for now, more detail will follow when we go trough the example part.
Sign In Dialog
After you have rendered the Google Sign In Button and user has clicked on it, the sign in dialog appears. In this dialog user can choose an existing Google account for sign in or create a new one. This dialog is by design just a smaller version of standard Google sign in form.
Next step that will be offered to user will be the permissions page, user must accept these permissions in order to authenticate. For more information about permissions, visit data scopes documentation.
User session state
User will be prompted for authentication first time he tries to sign in, after that he will be signed in automatically unless the user session manually terminated. Google track's the users signed in state in a persistent cookie store in users domain.
Get your ClientID
In order to use Google+ API and authentication, you must first enable Google+ API and register a new OAuth 2.0 credential. You can achieve this by going to Google Developer Console, and follow these two steps:
- Create a new project – Under Projects create a new project, name it as you wish.
- Enable Google+ API – Under APIs & auth and after that APIs find Google+ API and enable it.
- Register for credentials – Under APIs & auth and after that Credentials click on "CREATE NEW CLIENT ID", choose website option and after that insert the URL of your hosted website into "Javascript Origins" text field (i.e. http://localhost:8080). It won't work if you do not enter your website's URL properly!
Most important thing after registering your credentials is the "CLIENT ID" you will receive, you will need it when call for authentication is being done.
NOTE: User permissions accepted for a given Google account will remain permanently and do not have anything to do with user session state.
Someone once said, a good example can replace a thousand words, so here we go by defining a simple HTML document.

If you are confused at this point, please don't get worried, after we go trough some controller code things will become much more clear:
function SignInController($scope) { // This flag we use to show or hide the button in our HTML. $scope.signedIn = false; // Here we do the authentication processing and error handling. // Note that authResult is a JSON object. $scope.processAuth = function(authResult) { // Do a check if authentication has been successful. if(authResult['access_token']) { // Successful sign in. $scope.signedIn = true; // ... // Do some work [1]. // ... } else if(authResult['error']) { // Error while signing in. $scope.signedIn = false; // Report error. } }; // When callback is received, we need to process authentication. $scope.signInCallback = function(authResult) { $scope.$apply(function() { $scope.processAuth(authResult); }); }; // Render the sign in button. $scope.renderSignInButton = function() { gapi.signin.render('signInButton', { 'callback': $scope.signInCallback, // Function handling the callback. 'clientid': '[CLIENT_ID from Google developer console]', // CLIENT_ID from developer console which has been explained earlier. 'requestvisibleactions': 'http://schemas.google.com/AddActivity', // Visible actions, scope and cookie policy wont be described now, // as their explanation is available in Google+ API Documentation. 'scope': 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email', 'cookiepolicy': 'single_host_origin' } ); } // Start function in this example only renders the sign in button. $scope.start = function() { $scope.renderSignInButton(); }; // Call start function on load. $scope.start(); }
Retrieve additional user info
After successful authentication that has been explained in the example, you can retrieve some additional information from signed in user account. Google+ API follows a RESTfull API design, so a call like this:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/{userId}
would give us some additional information about given user.
Here is a neat example that shows how to retrieve users domain and e-mail address. Replace "Do some work in previous example with $scope.getUserInfo(); before proceeding.
// Process user info. // userInfo is a JSON object. $scope.processUserInfo = function(userInfo) { // You can check user info for domain. if(userInfo['domain'] == 'mycompanydomain.com') { // Hello colleague! } // Or use his email address to send e-mails to his primary e-mail address. sendEMail(userInfo['emails'][0]['value']); } // When callback is received, process user info. $scope.userInfoCallback = function(userInfo) { $scope.$apply(function() { $scope.processUserInfo(userInfo); }); }; // Request user info. $scope.getUserInfo = function() { gapi.client.request( { 'path':'/plus/v1/people/me', 'method':'GET', 'callback': $scope.userInfoCallback } ); };
Sign out
Google+ API also provides a easy way to terminate user session. Is also done by calling their API, and this is all you need to do:
IMPORTANT: This functionality won't work if you host your website in localhost for some reason.


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Microscopes on the Cutting Edge
Confocal microscope
When we see an ideal point by microscope, it can not be seen proper point. We see rings, which causes blur, around the point. The microscope which cut off the rings by putting stop is a confocal microscope. One more feature is spot illumination via objective lens. Because both illumination and image are focused together, the microscope is described as confocalmicroscope. But since in this confocal microscope we can see the image only at the one point, scanning is needed for imaging. When focal spot is misaligned in height direction, focal spot of the illumination is also misaligned. Then the image gets dark and invisible. In the confocal microscope, since only the focal spot can be seen brightly, samples can be captured sterically.
In applications for biology, by observing fluorescing dyed samples via confocal microscope, it becomes possible for us to recognaize blurring image as clear and stereoscopic image. This technique is similar to nonlinear optical microscope that can see only fluorescence induced by laser light.
Raman microscope
Raman effect is that light, which wavelength is different from the illuminating light, comes from materials by the illumination of the samples depending on the its condition. Without fluorescing dyeing, the light differenct from excitation comes from. But the light is very weak, the Raman effect could not be realized until strong laser light would appear.
Since Raman scattering light induced by certain incident light is very unique for the materials, it is possible to identify the materials by checking the spectrum of the scattering light. Although the structure of the Raman microscope is similar to that of fluorescence confocal microscope, the Raman microscope has a spectrometer.
Nonlinear optical microscope
Nonlinear optical microscope can see the different light from illumination. Although illumination light is reflected and refracted in the materials, small part of the light is changed its wavelength depending on the condition of the materials. It it also known that the condition of the materials can be changed by strong illumination.
Second harmonic generation microscope
The second harmonic generation (SHG)is a frequency doubled light to an incident light generated in the materials by the incident light. This phenomenon can be applications/ed to shorten (increase) the wavelength (frequency) of the laser light. SHG has many features such that surface state can be studied by seeing SHG intensity which depends on fine structures of the materials, and 3D conformation of the materials can be studied because the SHG is observable only in the illuminated part.
CARS microscope
CARS is a Raman scattering which generates high frequency light rather than incident light. CARS microscope can image the fluorescent biological sample without any dyeing. And it is also possible to know 3D conformation same as SHG microscope.
Electron microscope
Transmission electron microscope (TEM)
Using not light but electron, TEM is the microscope which defeats the limit of spatial resolution in principle. Although electron beam is used for illumination and electron lens which can bend electron beam by electromagnet is used instead of optical lens, a principle of detect image of TEM is same as optical microscope.
Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
Although SEM uses electrons, a principle of detect image of SEM is different from optical microscope in principle. It is more similar to Scanning probe microscope (SPM). By tracing the sample surface with electron beam, which is very narrow sting (probe), an image can be made from the information obtained during the tracing. At first, secondary electrons are observed in SEM. Recently, reflection electron and X-ray, which give a surface composition, can be observed, so that SEM has also been developed for analysis equipment.
Scanning probe microscope
Scanning tunneling microscope (STM)
Using sting as probe, STM measures distance by tunneling effect between sample and sting. As sample is scanned by piezo device precisely, the sting traces over the sample with keeping a certain distance to the sample surface. The position of sample and sting are reconstructed by computer.
Atomic force microscope (AFM)
STM measures tunneling effect, so that it can be utilized for only conductive samples. But AFM can be utilized for insulating sample and sample put under water. Probe is sting as same as STM. By detecting the sting moving by atomic force when the sting sets very near to the sample, the distance in height direction is recorded. As sample scanning is controled precisely by piezo device, the position of sample and sting are reconstructed by compluter same as STM.


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Water levels on the Yakima River in Benton County rose to flood stage on Friday.
Forecasts from the National Weather Service show the river reached moderate flood stage, cresting at nearly 15 feet, at 7 p.m. Friday. The river is expected to fall below flood stage, which is 13 feet, by Dec. 13 or 14.
Numerous roads around the Yakima River near Benton City, West Richland, and Richland remain under water, according to Benton County Emergency Services.
Once flood waters recede, crews will assess road damage. Residents are reminded not to drive around barricades and to avoid driving on water-covered roads.
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Livestock can be very vulnerable to the effects of localized flooding, the agency said. Several instances have occurred in the past in which horses and cattle have been stranded due to water running through a pasture. Livestock owners are encouraged to have plans in place to move their herds to higher ground if needed.
Property owners along the river should ensure that any boats and other equipment near river banks are either moved or secured to prevent items being washed away with the rising, the release said.
Residents should continue to monitor river levels in their area and listen for situation updates on local radio and television stations. Information is also available on the Benton County Emergency Services website at www.bces.wa.gov.


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A stratigic port on the northen shore of Israel, Akko was continously inhabited since the Canaanite periods.
In part of the Crusaders period (1192-1291) Akko was the capital of the Crusaders, and at Akko Napoleon lost a crucial battle to the Ottomans.
Today most of the old city is Muslim, and its port is used only for local fishing, and tourism.
Its main attractions are Hospitallers Citadel / "The Knights Halls" ; Al-Jazzar Mosque ; the local Bazaar; and the Templars Tunnel . In the local port one can go for a Akko Boat ride in a regular or speed boat.
Near the old city the Akko Mosaics synagogue ; and the Tomb of Baha'u'llah (Bahji) are also worth a visit.
|Akko on Wikipedia
|Akko on Tripadvisor
|Akko on Google Maps
|Akko's Municipality web site
Points of Interest in the Area
|Akko Boat ride
|Akko Mosaics synagogue
|Tomb of Baha'u'llah (Bahji)
Go for a Virtual Stroll in the market of the old city of Akko!


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and you know that I mean YOU!!
Maybe it's me who is wrong but so fucking what!
Maybe it's life that I hate!
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Do you even care?
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