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She is now almost a rarity in the country. An on call 60-year-old lady who washes and iron our clothes to perfection. Aling Amanda or "Manang" has been with us for more than ten years. Recommended by a friend while we were in the middle of a household crisis, she came as a conquering Amazon ready to tackle our mountain of dirty clothes.
I pride myself as a stay at home mom but I am nothing without her. Dust I can eradicate, Josh I can discipline, frozen chicken I can turn into adobo. BUT my SAHM superpowers usually disappear at the laundry. My husband is impressed with her. She can keep his white barong white and iron it to an executive crisp.
I consider her my multi-tasking, secret weapon for she can be called to do other household chores. Want someone to cook an additional dish for the family Christmas lunch? She can whip up a mean caldereta complete with olives. Are the weeds in your garden growing fast by the second? She can shear them to death. Who can bathe the five pesky dogs in the yard? She can do it quickly with some words of endearment to the canine bunch.
She has re-entered our lives for my maids have bid adieu. "Manang!" I gleefully called out to her as she arrived weeks ago. I was almost tempted to jump up and down. She looks the same– dark-skinned and still on the hefty side. Oh yes, she still likes her cigarettes which prompted my son to admonish her ." That is bad for your lungs,Manang!"
My son is getting to know her again after a year's absence. I told my son I have to leave him with her to do an urgent errand. " No Mommy!" declared the five-year old tyrant. " But she can cook much better than Mommy," I countered. He went straight to Manang for the inquisition. " Is it true Manang? You can cook? How about my favorite chicken nuggets?"
Amused, Manang answered, "Yes, of course." She has won him over.


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SO what if there are formations you can be aw dumb as a stump and still go where ever someone tells you.Please don't ever tell me that these stupid football players are smarter and that football is tougher.In hockey there are more skills to learn.What skill does it take to play football?Let me put it to you this way.Football simple sport for simple minds!!!!!!!!!!!


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Louis Saha believes that Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson's decision to let Paul Pogba leave will go down as one of the club's "biggest mistakes".
The current France international – who has been starring for Les Bleus at the World Cup – was a youth player at Old Trafford until 2012, when he left to join Juventus on a free transfer in search of regular playing time.
Pogba is rumoured to have requested game time from Fergie, but the iconic Scot refused, which served to push the athletic enforcer out of the door.
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Since arriving at Juve, the 21-year-old has been a first-team regular, and established himself as one Europe's finest young players while winning two Serie A titles.
United have been linked with an ambitious move to lure him back to the Theatre of Dreams, and his compatriot Saha believes that allowing Pogba to exit was a blunder:
"It's not often I will criticise Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson but it's clearly one of their biggest mistakes," he told talkSPORT.
"He's clearly a talent. He's a confident player and he's always trying to improve. He's got a lot of aggression but he's got so much potential to improve.
"He's been very important for France and showed he can score goals and he can dictate the midfield area.
"He was very strong in his desire to go forward and he is a great box-to-box player. He reminds me of Patrick Vieria but maybe with a bit more style."


text: Markets Watch Eastern Corn Belt Weather April 14, 2014 07:00 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Nate Birt Top Producer Managing Editor Email Now that USDA has published a host of reports—including quarterly grain stocks and WASDE figures—analysts and producers will pay close attention to spring planting and possible wet weather in the eastern Corn Belt. "I know we can plant corn very quickly," notes Sue Martin, Ag & Investment Services, in an interview on the U.S. Farm Report Market Roundtable. "But if you put a 5 in front of this calendar date and we don't have very much corn in the ground, the trade and even the producer, too—they're all going to start to reminisce about last year. Yes, they put it in fast, but we had less of it to put in because of all the prevent plant. And all that's going to come back. I think it's just going to put a floor under this market. Until we get that crop pretty much planted, then we can start to have the expectations of good production." While farmers in some parts of the U.S. already are entering the field, the eastern Corn Belt is bracing for wet weather. In reality, both the trade and farmers will be waiting for months once planting occurs to get a better sense of where the market is headed. "The May WASDE, what are we going to see? It's going to our first look at '14-'15," explains Peter Meyer, PIRA Energy Group. "We know what the acreage numbers are already. Those aren't going to change. What are they going to start at, 165 in corn and 45 in beans? OK, I get it, that's where they're going to start. From here, though, as far as what you're going to see on paper, you're going to have to wait until the end of June when you're going to see the quarterly stocks and the real acreage numbers. Boy, there's a lot of space to be filled between now and then." While the timing of El Nino will be critical to the equation, Martin says, there are several reasons to think that the market will move higher for both new-crop corn and soybeans. "I look at the December corn, less acres here and less acres overall production out of Brazil, even though they're going to export some," she says. It's even possible December corn could take out last year's high and move to $6, Martin adds. Click the play button below to watch the complete U.S. Farm Report Market Roundtable discussion beginning at about the 7-minute mark: Click here for more news and videos from Top Producer's Power Hour. Back to news


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I have no idea what's going on in this body. I do know it's not a baby.
That just makes it a bug without a purpose, as far as I'm concerned.
Also, because this weekend is the Coug's bye weekend, Shoes and I had planned to go back to Portland for the weekend and see friends we miss dearly and visit the city we kind of maybe wish we hadn't left.
That, of course, is no longer the plan.
Stupid stomach bug without a purpose.
I've yo yo'd in between home and work this past week. I feel good in the mornings, by mid afternoon by stomach starts hurting and by late night I'm in severe pain with other symptoms. I thought my supervisor yesterday was going to lose it when I kept telling her I had just one more thing to do before I went home. (Really, my work boundaries are getting much better. I have a few families in crisis right now, though, with little coverage options, which makes not being at work a little difficult.)
I went to Urgent Care on Tuesday, because, even though I'm 36 and we've lived here for 2 years I'm slightly juvenile and irresponsible and still haven't established care with a PCP. The doc on call said, "Eh, you're either pregnant or you have The Bug. You're fine to go back to work."
Extremely helpful.
I'm tired of home. Tired of my bed. Tired of reading. Tired of social media. Tired of daytime TV. (When I watch TV, I catch myself thinking things like, "What do you mean Jwoww and Snookie and Janelle and Kim K can have babies and I can't; That makes zero sense ...." Then I have to remind myself that those thoughts help nobody and it doesn't matter who's having babies and who isn't.)
Tired of my stomach hurting.
Not tired of the Rosie snuggles. She's been a steady, constant companion, often choosing to lay her 75lb dog fluff directly on me, or choosing to snuggle her dog nose into my neck. Every time I'm really not feeling well she brings me her favorite stuffed octopus, which is extremely endearing and also disgusting because that octopus is really very extremely dirty.
Not tired of Shoes, who has gone out to buy Saltines and more Saltine and Gatorade and more Gatorade and lies down next to me and continually asks me what I need. How did I get so lucky to have him, you guys? I look at him and I remember just two years ago when all I could think was, "Our long distance is going to end soon and then we get to have a normal relationship where we see each other every day." He's a good one.
So today I'm at home, orders of my outpatient clinic, who are alarmed by my pasty pallor. (look guys, it's just a product of having no food energy for several days ...) I'm going to crack open "Play Therapy With Children in Crisis" (which I really have been wanting to read.) I'm going to start planning next Spring's garden (when else am I going to have this kind of time?) Shoes and I are re-arranging / redecorating the bedrooms in our house to make symbolic / spiritual / metaphorical room for a child; I'll probably start looking for paint colors.
And just continue to believe that whatever this stupid bug is it's not serious and will leave soon.
(I did schedule a real appointment with a doctor for next Tuesday to talk about the stomach issues and to establish care with a PCP. I am a grown up, in the end. I'm just a grown up who's tired of Super Bug.)


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I felt today truly humbled. I followed many other people from the Stockholm University to Aula Magna on this early Sunday morning in a pilgrimage. Like them I wanted to see the most famous physicist alive, the person named prominently in the 'Big Bang Theory', the man behind the Higgs Bosom... I mean the Higgs Boson. The whole hall was full and nobody followed the polite hope that people would not use mobile phones or cameras. One man in the row in front of me had a video camera. Actually, the Nobel organisers had already admitted in beforehand the unavoidable by encouraging people to twitter from the occasion. These contradictory wishes were not unexpected – we had all come to honour the luckiest scientists ever and wanted to record it, but the Nobel Prizes hoped to get there first.
Higgs and the Englert & Brout team who came to the same conclusion independently just slightly earlier, but their paper came out so late Higgs was not aware of their work thinking that their institution specialised totally to something else, had to wait for 40 years before anybody could built an instrument that could prove that this specific shot-lived temporary boson existed. Their line of research was very unfashionable in the early 1960s, but now they have seen the evidence (see below) that their theory is not only a theory but an explanation. The blip in the readings in 2012 in the famous Large Hodron Collider rewarded a long wait during which Robert Brout had already left this reality and could not be there on the scene when Englert and Higgs received a standing ovation from the full house. Considering this, the organisers who tried to show Higgs the timing cards would have probably been unwise to try to stop him. This was their true moment in the limelight after many years of patience. Einstein only had to wait for 17 years for his Nobel prize.
Emeriti presented two different approaches to the presentation of their finds that basically outline the same principle that there is a momentary break in certain conditions in the symmetry in the sub-particle level and the energy is absorbed in/by this boson. Or along those lines – it is about 30 years since I did my advanced physics. Higgs has never read an e-mail and logically does not give PowerPoints. On the contrary, Englert could master his PowerPoint presentation effortlessly. His task was to explain what they found out. It was all very well-presented, but most people were there for one presentation only (even if many students had packed lunch in order to hear the economics – I had decided to improve my economics and do a free museum visit instead). We started to photograph The Man from the moment he stepped to the room and continued when he started to read his paper the manuscript of which was beamed onto the screen. He took the trip down to the memory lane. How he had missed the night-time wine-fuelled discussions, with wine Higgs had provided, between other physicists in the first Edinburgh summer school since he had other things to do and missed an opportunity to help to fix a mistake in another physicist's unpublished paper. How the series he was writing to was shipped to him and he got the important papers a few months late from the State. How this publication published his outline, but refused his proper mathematical presentation of his idea. When he got around sending it to America, the Englert & Higgs paper came out on the same day. This he heard twenty years later from the famous physicist who peer reviewed both papers. This was like Pamela Smith's Personal Histories, but in physics, not in archaeology.
This was the great historical moment of my week. I did hear a good presentation of another topic of eternity – how to keep the memory of the sites with radio active waste. Similarly, the ATLAS project had its big event and stirred heated questions. But of those another time. Now one just has to think, if there has been a moment of such rewarded patience in archaeology. Carter was looking for the Tutankhamen's tomb (or any remaining tomb) from 1917 and 1922 and was literarily on his last leg with the funding when they found the first steps. That find was glorious, but we will see, if the new methods can help to prove some theories to the reality in the past.


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Sinn Fein have withdrawn from the talks process aimed at restoring devolution in Northern Ireland.
The republican party will not be nominating a deputy first minister to restore power-sharing on Monday, leader at Stormont Michelle O'Neill said, triggering another crisis at Stormont.
The current round of negotiations has run its course, she said.
"Today we have come to the end of the road."
However the party's president Gerry Adams said he believed the conditions to go back into devolved government would be achieved in the future.
Monday is the deadline for nominating a first and deputy first minister at Stormont or else Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire is obliged to intervene.
Fresh elections or direct rule from Westminster could be imposed within a reasonable period.
Mrs O'Neill added: "The talks process has run its course and Sinn Fein will not be nominating for the position of speaker or for the executive office tomorrow."
Power-sharing collapsed in January after a row over a botched green energy scheme predicted to cost the taxpayer up to half a billion pounds.
Sinn Fein has said it will not share power with the Democratic Unionists' leader Arlene Foster as first minister until a public inquiry into the renewable heat incentive (RHI) is concluded.
Republicans have been seeking movement on issues like an Irish language act giving the tongue official status in Northern Ireland, a hugely symbolic measure but deeply problematic for some unionists.
They also want to see progress on legacy funding for Northern Ireland conflict victims waiting up to 45 years for answers over how their loved ones died.
Unionists want to see greater transparency from the Irish Government over Troubles killings.
The DUP has said Sinn Fein cannot dictate who it will nominate as first minister and Mrs Foster has refused to forgo the key role.
The five main parties only had until 4pm on Monday to resolve their differences or face another snap election.
Mr Adams said thinking unionism was at a crossroads and the DUP needed to represent everyone's interests.
"We don't have the basis for doing that, we are not going back to the status quo, but will we be back, will we get the institutions in place? Yes."
A voting surge by Sinn Fein in the last Assembly election earlier this month saw the party come within one seat of becoming the biggest party at Stormont behind the DUP.
Public funding for services like health and education is in the balance without a deal to restore the administration.
Mr Brokenshire spoke to Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday afternoon and said creating a functioning ministerial executive was a priority.
"This is the necessary first step to addressing the issues of greatest public concern, health, education and other public services in Northern Ireland.
"Even at this stage I urge political parties to agree to work to form an Executive and provide people here with the strong and stable devolved government that they want."


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OXYGEN tanks, a bevvy of beautiful models and a late night are on the cards for Guns N' Roses fans at their Scottish date tonight.
Axl Rose and his crew of rockers roll into Glasgow's SECC this evening for the latest stop on their UK tour and if the last few weeks are anything to go by, it's going to be a colourful night.
The eccentric frontman has already caused chaos with crowds down south by appearing on stage as late as 11pm – two hours later than most would expect – and finishing his set at 2am.
It's rock'n'roll at its finest and Axl has even warned his fans of his diva behaviour online, saying: "Love it, hate it, accept it, debate it. You want 8 o'clock shows go find F-R-I-E-N-D-S or hit a cinema somewhere.
"This is Rock N' Roll! Treat yourself, don't cheat yourself thinking you're gonna go to school or work or whatever you 'normally' do the next day."
The late starts, which crippled punters midweek, are just a small part of Axl's performance.
It is believed the delay, which Axl claims is with good reason, may in part be due to the 50-year-old's insistence on inhaling up to two bottles of pure oxygen before he performs.
It has been suggested that the rocker suffers from a respiratory illness s and punters at previous shows have even witnessed him going off stage in the middle of the band's set.
One witness at his Liverpool gig told the Razz: "Axl went off stage in the middle of practically every song to do something at the side of stage.
"The only song he performed without a break was November Rain because he plays piano on it. Every single member of his band played a solo song for about five minutes each as well.
"He must have had about an hour offstage.
"The whole thing was made worse by the fact the bars closed at midnight and there were still two hours of the gig left."
There was jeering before the Liverpool gig, which started at 11pm – and many fans were forced to leave to catch trains and buses before Guns N' Roses even started their set.
The SECC have prepared for some delays and warned fans not to expect an early night.
A spokeswoman said: "There is no legal arrangement which states that a concert?must?finish?by?an?allotted?time.
"However, we will of course comply with the appropriate licensing laws regarding timings for bars being open etc.
"We have sent out some information to ticket holders as a precaution." The notice from the SECC reads: "We do not have confirmed timings for the Guns N' Roses concert but it is likely to start and finish late.
"Please see the following guidelines on timings and information to help you plan your visit. Doors to the hall will open at 6.30pm.
"The support act, Thin Lizzy, are expected on stage from 8pm and will play for approximately one hour.
"Guns N' Roses will take to the stage some time after 9.30pm, will play a long set and therefore it is likely that the concert will finish very late.
"The late finish of the concert may cause problems for patrons using public transport, so should consider alternative arrangements for getting home.
"Taxi Owners Association taxis will be available, at the dedicated taxi rank, after the concert, on a first come, first served basis.
"Taxi marshals will be on site to manage queuing."
Axl has also ordered a front row of models, and delights including square melon, a custom-made Italian leather couch and white roses for behind the scenes at his gig.


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IT IS A calorie-busting culinary concoction that has become as synonymous with Scottish food as haggis across the globe.
The "Stonehaven deep-fried Mars bar" shot to international infamy after a young schoolboy first asked to have his favourite chocolate bar smothered in batter and plunged into the frier of an Aberdeenshire fish and chip shop.
But as the unlikely delicacy celebrates its 20th anniversary, the Carron Fish Bar – birthplace of the fatty treat – has suddenly incurred the wrath of the giant chocolate company that manufactures its main ingredient.
Lorraine Watson, who runs the Stonehaven fish and chip shop with her husband Charlie, has received a letter from one of Mars Chocolate's lawyers, requesting that the chip shop should carry a disclaimer on any menus, and pointing out that the use of the bar for deep fat frying is "not authorised or endorsed by Mars Incorporated".
The chocolate company claims in its letter that deep frying the Mars bar, which recently had its saturated fat level cut, is "not in line" with the company's marketing code aimed at promoting a "healthy active lifestyle".
A shocked Mrs Watson – whose shop proclaims it is the "birthplace of the world famous deep-fried Mars bar" – explained yesterday how she had come to receive the letter from Mars.
Newspapers had reported that she was toying with the idea of applying for secured status for their famous invention under the European Union's Protected Food Name Scheme, in line with other specialities such as the Arbroath Smokie, Parma ham, Cornish pasties and Champagne.
She said: "When I looked in to applying for special status and looked at all the paperwork I realised it would never be a viable thing for us to do.
"It would involve a lot of communication with Mars themselves and that just wasn't going to happen.
"I was amazed when I got the lawyer's letter because I really feel they are giving me a slap on the wrist when I haven't tried to offend them."
She added: "We have been selling this deep fried Mars product for 20 years and this is the first time we have heard from Mars.
"Have I really offended them that much? I think it's sad that it's come to this.
"But we are quite happy to put a disclaimer on the main menu for the shop because I don't want any reason for them to come back and try some sort of court action against me."
Ms Watson continued: "I didn't know they had reduced the saturated fat content. But, of course, the deep-fried Mars bar isn't healthy. We have never said it was.
"And I am quite happy to put a disclaimer up because my intention was not to offend the Mars bar product. I am proud of the product – it does my business very well and it must be doing their business very well."
She said that the chip shop, which first encased the chocolate bar in batter in 1992, is still selling between 100 and 150 deep fried Mars bars every week – 70 per cent to visitors to the town.
She said: "We get visitors from all over the world, from as far afield as Japan and America, coming to the shop and ordering our bar. I saw an Italian book on Scotland the other day and we were right next to Dunnottar Castle."
A Mars spokeswoman said: "We are really flattered that customers of Carron Fish Bar like our product so much that it has now become a flagship product for the store. No application for a protected geographical indication has been filed to date. Should an application be filed, unfortunately, we wouldn't be able to support it as deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."
'Your products do not promote an active lifestyle'
EVIE Kyriakides, Mars's senior regional trademark counsel for Europe, states in her letter to Mrs Watson: "We are flattered that you obviously like our Mars product so much and consider it a flagship for your Carron Fish Bar. However, we are concerned that the use and reference to our Mars brand and products may mislead the public into thinking that your products are in some way associated with, or endorsed by Mars, when this is not in fact the case.
"We are also concerned that your products are not in line with our marketing code, through which we promote a healthy active lifestyle to consumers and treats in moderation. As you may know, we have recently reduced the saturated fat level in our Mars bar recipe. Deep frying our Mars bar product, of course, counters this significantly. To avoid any consumer confusion in this respect, we would be grateful if you would insert a small disclaimer at the bottom of any menus you may have and a sign on display at your shop stating as follows: 'Mars is a registered trade mark of Mars Incorporated. Our use of Mars is not authorised or endorsed by Mars Incorporated'."
"As you will appreciate, Mars reserves all its rights in the event we become aware of increasing instances of confusion or dilution.
"I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible. In the meantime I hope that the Carron Fish Bar continues to be a success."


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According to Abia Facts Newspaper, Aba One Time Big Boy, Fine Boy and City Glo Biggest Customers known to be a Yahoo boy has been arrested in connection with the kidnap of Imo born- American Soldier, Oscar Okebata. Read more after cut....
Impeccable police source has it that the arrested suspect, Onyekachi_Kelvin_Nwoke popularly known as Psquare who claimed to have returned from Malaysian, in company of...
Abia Facts Newspaper gathered that Psquare was a former phone seller at ST. MICHEAL'S in Aba and later married a 65 years old woman politician from Bayelsa.
Their marriage seems to have been over.
Abia Facts reported that he was a hot guy in Aba, referred to as 'Yahoo Big Boy', driving expensive cars and visiting clubs almost all night.
He is a frequent guest to a very popular club in Aba, owned by one prominent Abia state politician.
He alongside others was nabbed and paraded by Imo Police Command for the robbery and killing of an American veteran soldier, Oscar Okebata who was robbed and murdered in Atta in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State on January 12, 2017.
At a press briefing In Owerri, the state capital capital on Wednesday, the state Commissioner of Police , Taiwo Lakanu, said that Osondu Chukwu, Uchechukwu Stanley , Onyekachi
Kelvin Nwoke and Uchendu Promise were apprehended with concrete evidence that showed that they murdered the veteran soldier , who was in the state for the Christmas and
new year celebrations .
The CP said that the suspects allegedly sold Okebata's Samsung Note 5 handset at N125,000 which led to their arrest by the operatives of the command.
Lakanu said, " The suspects were arrested in connection with the robbery and murder of one Oscar Okebata , of Achi Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, an American veteran soldier who returned home for the yuletide period last year " .
" The victim 's Samsung Note 5 handset was sold at N 125,000, leading to the arrest of the suspected masterminds of the crime. "


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Way OT: Sweet sweet justice
I'm pretty new here, and this topic is about as far off topic as possible, but I feel like I must share as I bask in the glow of gloriously sweet vindication...
I'll preface this story by saying that through my childhood, I was always on the borderline, treading the line between being the good kid and the hellion. I've been TPing, I've set fireworks out in front of a house before, I've ding dong ditched. But even as a stupid kid, I understood moderation. For the most part, I was a respectful kid.
Fast forward 15 years. I've got a six month old boy, a wife, dog, and nice quiet house in the suburbs - of Columbus. Three months ago, my quiet little slice of Americana was violated by what I had assumed to be a preadolescent douchebag kid. That's right, I was the innocent target of a rash of ding dong ditches. Two or three times a week, multiple times a night. Hardcore shit. Karma you say? No, I've shoveled enough shit since my dumb years that I've worked off that debt.
So tonight, I caught the little SOB. I've thrown drunk idiots out of bars since I was 21, I've heard every word in the book come out of the mouth of some cockface who didn't agree with being cut off. The utter feeling of justice that I felt after chasing this kid down felt better than all of them put together.
About 30 minutes ago, the doorbell rang for the second time of the night. I've tried chasing the kid out the front before, nearly caught him twice. Usually, I just let it happen and stay put. Tonight, I decided to dash out the back door and hop the fence. Sure enough, the little prick was running through the neighbors back yard.
So I bolt towards the fence, it's four foot tall. I hurdle it in one stride - almost. Okay, maybe not even almost. I bit it over the fence. I'm 30 pounds heavier than my juco playing weight. I tore up my knee on the top of the fence, snapped a piece in half, and tumbled face first into the ground. But I still know how to fall. I tucked a shoulder and rolled out, unphased. The kid flew out the neighbors gate and into the front yard. I gained on him with every stride, each twice the size of his gimpy little child legs.
He still had a solid lead on me when I turned the corner, barefoot sprinting through the front yards of my neighbors. Denard F'ing Robinson couldn't have outrun me, with pure rage coursing through my veins. I think that it's the closest I will ever feel to a lion chasing his prey. Prey that just pissed on his territory.
He had no chance. None. He turned the corner into his yard with me mere feet behind, leading me to a trampoline with about 5 other 12-14 year olds. He hopped up there. They looked at me like a crazy man, they were probably only half wrong. I'll spare the details of the confrontation, but these kids learned new words to bring back to 9th grade next year. They were among the same I had learned from the drunk guys being cut off at my bar.
In synopsis, I called the cops for the first time ever. The officer was cool about it, I just let him know that I had an infant that woke up each time, and even though I used to do stupid stuff as a kid, I wanted these kids to shit themselves. I also told him I'd buy him a beer next time he came in to the bar off duty. He went back there, stirred up shit, and called it a night. I came back here feeling like Sherlock Holmes mixed with Frank Mir. And then I realized that while they would celebrate by clubbing down their enemies with midget strippers, I was back here posting on a blog. I guess the family life has calmed me down.
PS - the only thing I think that started this is I've been putting a patio in my yard, each day decked out in Michigan gear. Little prick bastard Buckeye.


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We did a whirlwind tour of northern Italy with Paul and Tara. We visited Florence after we picked them up from the airport in Bologna and before returning to Forli'. Then after Forli' we visited Venice, Bolzano, Lake Como, Cinque Terre, and Siena. In Siena they took a bus to Rome to finish up their trip.
|The baptistry doors at the Duomo in Florence.
|The view of Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo.
|Gelato in Florence.
|St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice.
|Gotta love the pigeons in Venice.
|Visited the islands of Murano (glass) and Burano (lace).
|Castle Runklestein in Bolzano, built in 1237.
|Some paintings on the walls inside the castle.
|The Dolimites just north of Bolzano.
|The Dolimites are also known as the Southern Limestone Alps.
|Crossing Lake Como on a ferry.
|Heading toward Menaggio.
|Nothing better than a game of mini golf on the shores of Lake Como.
|Vernazza, one of the towns of Cinque Terre.
|Getting their feet wet in the Ligurian Sea.
|Time for dessert.
|This was fun.
|Sunset in Vernazza.


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Monday, May 17, 2010
School Year 24 - Check
I'm not technically done yet. I have to submit revisions to my dissertation, though I don't really have any yet. My own notes for fixes is longer than those from my committee, though I haven't heard from them all. This should mean fairly straightforward revisions and a quick turn in. This lets me graduate in August. However, there is no ceremony, so I will only get a chance to walk if I remain / return to Hawaii in December just for that purpose.
Here I am at the defense with my leis and a few of my committee. (Facebook people can click over to my blog pacatrue.blogspot.com to see the pic.)
What's next? No idea. I've got some applications out that I've got a decent shot at and I may hear from those in 2-3 weeks. I will send more out if they aren't all too late in the next couple of weeks. If none of that's going anywhere, then I'll have to broaden my search out to industry of various sorts. And if that goes no where, I've got waiting skills from back in the day.
On to the next stage of Paca Life....
8 comments:
- Robin S. said...
Thanks for posting your picture! Makes everything feel more concrete, seeing you there with your committee.
You'll be an excellent teacher, Professor Paca.
Congrats on the completion of year 24!
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:57:00 AM
- Precie said...
Rock on, Paca!!
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:40:00 AM
- writtenwyrdd said...
Go team paca! I hope you get some great job offers soon!
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:41:00 AM
- fairyhedgehog said...
That's a long time to be a student!
Good luck with the job hunting. I hope you find something just right for you.
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:12:00 AM
- bunnygirl said...
Congratulations! Kind of a bummer you might not get to walk, though. I know the ceremony is boring as heck, but you're entitled to the fancy robes this time.
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:30:00 AM
- Peter Dudley said...
Huh. In your blogger profile photo, you have so much more... fur. And bigger ears.
Echo Precie.
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:38:00 PM
- Courtney said...
if u walk...ill be there! its a garentee!
proud of and happy for u just doesn't cover it big brother
- Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:05:00 PM
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.......................................................
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My friend Alex has collected a list of posts on mental health issues, and is adding to it all day at her space on the web - I Don't Blog. I encourage you to check out the list (and her blog generally, because she's an amazing writer). Two of my own posts are included in the list, both published on #BellLetsTalk Days - one in 2013 when I was struggling, and one in 2015 when I was doing much better, but my depression still likes to raise its ugly head from time to time.
Today, Bell Canada will donate 5 cents more to mental health initiatives for every:
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{top, Dressabelle | skirt, The White Carousel | shoes, Rubi | clutch, Charles & Keith | rings, Stroberi | bracelet, Pearlavish}
(Photos by Siu Farn)
When I first saw this top on the preview album, I knew I had to get it-- I practically camped in front of my phone waiting for the launch time so that I could rush in to buy it. Yes, I know, the things I do for clothes. So. A mermaid skirt. When peplum first arrived on the shopping racks and magazines, I thought, "well, great, why not put some ruffles around my waist that flare outward toward the butt/thigh area to emphasize how big they are?". Needless to say, I've never worn, and will likely never wear anything peplum, but I have seen people who look absolutely gorgeous in peplum (and I am so, so jealous) because peplum seems to be a staple in the executive world. Then, when mermaid skirts made their debut, my only thought was: "Ok, so it wasn't enough to put a miniature ruffled skirt around our waists, now we have to put it around our thighs too?". My sister, however, did not think the same way as I did and bought a black mermaid skirt, and then of course, I had no choice but to try it on. It did not look as bad as I thought it would be (but no, I'm not going to try peplum) and here we are, with brand new outfit shots featuring the mermaid skirt.
It's been something of a hectic, or should I say, fat, week, because all I seem to be doing is rushing around meeting people, and eating all sorts of food that I would not normally be eating. Not to mention the Easter Feast the staff canteen served up yesterday. And tomorrow will be yet another reunion with friends, which will hopefully be refreshing and a much welcomed break from the mundanity of a daily 8.30-6 job. Not that I don't like my job, (I rather enjoy it) but I do miss the people I used to see daily.
I've been recently on the prowl to search for new items for my wardrobe, but I find myself sticking to the same old boring safe items, but at the moment I'm dying for a pair of perfect jeans that I can actually fit into comfortably. Also, fingers crossed that my vacation in June works out!


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The French Church Prior to the Revolution
In the treatment of the preceding topics the general course of events belonging to the present subject has necessarily been anticipated. There are some special points, however, which may be accorded a brief attention, such as the extent of the protest against the bull Unigenitus; the amount of papal sanction given to the bull; the relation of the controversy to the insinuation of Ultramontanism; the crowning scandal of the controversy effected by imposing the bull upon the consciences of penitents as a condition of absolution; the closing stage of Jansenism; the downfall of the Jesuits; and the fortunes of Protestants.
Mention has been made of the fact that the majority of the bishops adhered to the bull Unigenitus. This adhesion was not the result of any fervent affection for that document. Some of them, doubtless, sharing the animosity of those who instigated the Pope to issue the bull, approved it as a means of annihilating the Jansenist party. A larger number probably were influenced by their double dependence upon King and Pope. They had learned that it was not easy to resist the will of Louis X1V., even when he was acting counter to Rome. In the Unigenitus affair they saw that King and Pope were united. Deeming it, therefore, hazardous to resist, and not being seriously troubled with theological convictions, they subscribed. The ensuing death of Louis gave, it is true, a temporary release from royal pressure; but to retract was a humiliating step, and also of doubtful prudence, since it would expose them to the Pope's displeasure, and would be very embarrassing in case the papal constitution should finally be sustained.
The position of the majority in the episcopate was too well explained to be of much weight with those whose independence was less hampered. In fact the protesting party greatly exceeded that of the subscribers. Voltaire, who had reached the verge of manhood at the publication of the constitution Unigenitus, thus describes the relative strength of the two parties, as the matter stood a few years later: "The Church of France continued to be divided into two parties, the accepters and the rejecters. The accepters were the hundred bishops who had adhered under Louis XIV. with the Jesuits and the Capuchins. The rejecters were fifteen bishops and the whole nation. The accepters enjoyed the support of Rome; the other party that of the universities, the parliaments and the people." Siècle de Louis XIV, chap. xxxvii., edit. 1829-40. Nearly a score of years were requisite to overcome the opposition so far as to secure a nominal assent to the detested constitution. It was only after forty-eight doctors had been expelled that the Sorbonne was constrained to subscribe in an unqualified manner (1729). As for the Parliament of Paris, it gave no voluntary assent, and the registration of the declaration for the execution of the constitution could be obtained only through the arbitrary mandate of the King (1730). Before reaching this result the government had signalized its inflexible resolution by afflicting numbers of the protesting clergy with fines, banishment, or imprisonment. The amount of violence used did not tend to increase the impression of the people respecting the holiness of the papal constitution. It was also a dubious element in the case that the infamous Dubois had been the means of turning the scale in favor of subscription at a crucial point in the controversy, and had been rewarded with a cardinal's hat.
It has been thought that Clement XI. doubted the wisdom of sending forth the bull which was to give him such an unenviable notoriety, and yielded with a measure of reluctance to the pressure of intemperate partisans. However this may have been, both he and the succeeding Popes made no concessions to the appeals with which they were assailed. Near the end of 1716 he issued briefs to various parties in France, wherein he insisted upon unqualified subscription and declared that to demand explanations of the bull was "to hanker after the fruit of the forbidden tree." Two years later, in a communication addressed to all Christians, he pronounced all who had refused or should refuse obedience to the bull contumacious, and sundered from communion with the apostolic see until they should thoroughly repent of their fault. 1 Magnum Bullarium Romanum, Continuatio, Pars ii. pp. 205-207. Innocent XIII. approved the position of his predecessor, declaring in letters to the King and the Regent that the bull Unigenitus condemned nothing but manifest errors. Benedict XIII., notwithstanding his anti-Molinist views in theology, commanded the strict observance of the bull (1725). Finally Benedict XIV,, in a brief, or encyclical letter, of the year 1756, gave this unmistakable decision: "Such is the authority of the constitution Unigenitus that no faithful Christian can refuse to submit to it, or oppose it in any way whatever, but at the risk of his eternal salvation." 2 Jervis, History of the Church of France, ii. 322. That the several Popes who had occasion to render a verdict upon the subject should have taken this ground is entirely explicable. They could not have done otherwise without exposing papal authority to the disgrace of a most glaring contradiction. For the constitution was from the start as plainly an ex cathedra document as it was possible for a pope to construct. It assumed to bind every member of the Roman Catholic Church, not to think, teach, or preach, any of the condemned propositions.
3 Omnes at singulas propositiones præinsertas, tanquam falsas, captiosas, etc., hac nostra perpetuò valitura constitutione declaramus, damnamus, et reprobamus; mandantes omnibus utriusque sexus Christifidelibus, ne de dictis propositionibus sentire, docere, ac prædicare aliter præsumant, quàm in hac eadem nostra constitutione continetur; ita ut quicumque illas, vel illarum aliquam conjunctim, vel divisim docuerit, defenderit, eliderit, aut de eis, etiam disputativè, publicè, ant privatim tractaverit, nisi forsan impugnando, ecclesiasticis censuris, aliisque contra similia perpetrantes a jure statutis pœnis ipso facto absque alia declaratione subjaceat.To retract was out of the question on the part of those who had no higher interest than their own absolute authority. To explain was nearly equally out of the question. The bull had been issued, not against abstract propositions, but against sentences contained in a specific work. Some of these sentences were as clearly expressive of a definite idea as it was possible for language to frame. To allow, therefore, that they were not condemned in their apparent sense would be equivalent to allowing that they were not condemned at all, and so would expose the Pope to the charge of folly or malice in having sought to discredit the writing of an eminent author by marshaling against it an extended line of bugbears.
The circumstances and the issue of the strife involved a partial victory for Ultramontanism. The Gallican sentiment, cherished by a large part of the nation, was indeed far from being quenched. On the contrary, it was kindled in many minds to an intensity which threatened to burn away all real bonds of connection with Rome. But the exigencies of controversy naturally led the supporters of the papal constitution in the reverse direction. In their attempts to silence opponents they were in a manner driven to magnify the authority of the Pope, and the duty of unqualified obedience. The position taken by the majority of the bishops constrained them for the time practically to ignore, if not formally to deny, the principles of Gallicanism. Some of them indulged in statements of a decidedly ultra cast. Early in the strife the Archbishop of Arles made bold to declare that the opposers of the bull were more guilty than Adam was after the primal trespass. Various writings began to be circulated which advocated the infallibility of the Pope. In one of these the author was pleased to say that it was not less heretical to reject the bull Unigenitus than to deny the incarnation of the Word and the divinity of Jesus Christ. 1 Rocquain, L'Esprit Révolutionnaire avant la Révolution, pp. 8, 17, 36.
Whatever degree of assent the bishops may have given to formal statements of this class, some of them proceeded at length to act as if they were undoubtedly true. In 1749 and the following years a scheme was set on foot to honor the Unigenitus constitution by making it a kind of indispensable passport into paradise. In pursuance of this purpose, De Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, issued the requisition that applicants for sacraments--at least in cases where there was any doubt about their frame of mind--should be required to produce "billets de confession," or certificates signed by orthodox priests, and testifying that the bearers cordially accepted the bull Unigenitus. This requisition was copied in nearly all the dioceses. The result was that some of the most conscientious men in the realm were denied the sacraments in the dying hour, and were left to expire without a title to Christian burial. Great wrath was naturally provoked; but it was a number of years before the tyrannous requisition was abandoned. The disreputable game of the "billets de confession" may well be characterized as a fitting conclusion to a peculiarly disgraceful chapter in religious history. In truth, the atheistic revel of the revolutionary era was scarcely more of a sacrilege against Christianity than was the whole ungodly fracas of which the bull Unigenitus was the central and the most responsible factor.
It may have been noticed that little mention has been made of the Jansenists in the above account. The reason has been that in the great party opposed to the papal constitution the Jansenists proper were not the most considerable fraction. Their Augustinian theology had never been acceptable to the larger portion of the French people. In the later stages of their history they had no great writers to recommend their theology, no names comparable with those which had adorned their early annals. Moreover, an unhappy episode inflicted much damage upon their reputation. As in previous times the zeal of rival parties in the Church had created a fruitful demand for miracles, so it was in case of the Jansenists. During the dark days when the unholy fiat which Jesuit malice had obtained from Rome was being made effectual against their adherents, their excited feelings were ready to claim relief in any appearance of supernatural intervention. The first token which met their watchful eyes was in 1725. A woman claimed to have been miraculously healed while accompanying a procession in which a priest who belonged to the appellant or protesting party was carrying the consecrated host. The Jansenists made much of the event; but soon it became unnecessary for them to dwell upon this single instance. In 1729 and the following years miracles in their behalf were, so to speak, an every-day occurrence. These were connected primarily with the grave of a Jansenist ascetic, François Pâris, in the cemetery of Saint Médard. It was claimed that sick people who visited this grave were supernaturally cured of their maladies. Extraordinary symptoms were sometimes manifested by the patients, such as convulsions, prophesyings, and trances. The like phenomena still appeared in other quarters after access to the wonder-working grave had been prevented by the authorities. Excessive enthusiasm ran into a crude physical rô1e, which justified the name convulsionnaires that was applied to the subjects of this overpowering excitement. At length the sober-minded among the Jansenists themselves were revolted, and constrained to censure the strange proceedings of their brethren as unworthy of religion.
It is needless to say that these miracles, especially when their credit was at its height, were not pleasing to the foes of Jansenism. As Roman Catholics, they were ready to welcome any quantity of prodigies, provided they should be rightly placed; but to have miracles at a Jansenist tomb was simply intolerable. The Jesuits in particular were cut to the heart. The glory of their order, it is true, was sustained by a record of all sorts of prodigies. But most of these occurred afar off, beyond the dim outlines of distant continents. An objector had a chance to say that the wonderful stories which were told had grown in the process of transmission. But here were miracles wrought beneath the eyes of critical Paris, miracles every way as well attested as any which had happened at the shrine of Becket. In their distress they could think of no safer expedient than to give the credit of the whole business to the devil. Not denying the strange workings of a mysterious power, they classed them among lying wonders. This was the position taken by one of their number in a writing published in 1737, under the title "Traité dogmatique sur les faux miracles du temps." Many others coincided with the Jesuits in this interpretation. Indeed the writer of the above treatise might have quoted Pope Clement XII., as well as the archbishop of Paris, in support of the view that the Jansenist miracles were wrought by the farer of the arch Deceiver. In the final result, while the Jansenists suffered discredit, their opponents also made but doubtful gains. The main advantage accrued to those who had no special love for either party, -- to the school of free-thinkers.
1 Barbier, Journal Historique du Règne de Louis XV., années 1729-1732; Grégoire, Histoire des Sectes Religieuses, tome ii. chap. 13; Martin, Histoire de France, tome xv.; Bauer, Kirchengeschichte der Neueren Zeit, pp. 513-518; Jervis, Church of France, ii. 281-287.
Before leaving the Jansenists, we may add a word respecting that memorial of their struggle which has been perpetuated in the Netherlands. In the time of persecution various representatives of their party had found a refuge in this region. Here the resident Roman Catholics awarded them so much sympathy as to fall themselves under suspicion and accusation. Adverse reports were carried to Rome, and the Pope was constrained in 1704 to depose the Archbishop of Utrecht. This measure, instead of subduing the minds of the people served to make them all the more friendly to the Jansenist interest. Finally, inasmuch as the Pope would not recognize the newly elected archbishop, it was decided in 1723 to install him without waiting longer for the papal authorization. From this date the succession has been continued in the episcopal see of Utrecht. At each new election of a bishop request is made of the Pope for confirmation. This is always refused, and so communion with Rome, though not repudiated in principle, is continually postponed.
About the time that the epidemic enthusiasm which spread from the grave of François Pâris was bringing discredit upon the Jansenist cause, the populace found occasion for irreverent witticisms in a book by the Bishop of Soissons, which was devoted to the memory of Marie Alacoque. 1 Barbier, Journal, i. 307, 308; Grégoire, Histoire des Sectes Religieuses, tome ii, chap. 20; Rocquain, L'Esprit Révolutionnaire avant la Révolution, pp. 80, 81. The book was a tribute to a form of religious distemper less violent than that of the convulsionnaires, but not many degrees superior in the sight of rational piety. This Marie Alacoque, whose story the bishop recounted, was supposed, near the end of the preceding century, to have been favored with the sight of the heart of Jesus in his opened breast. Stimulated by this fanciful vision, the mediæval faculty for materializing everything, which enters into the essence of the Romish Church, went to work to organize a specific devotion of the Sacred Heart. The Jesuits patronized the new auxiliary to a sentimental and superstitious worship. It did not, however, make great progress till the latter part of the century, when Clement XIII. gave it his approval.
A question soon arose as to whether the Pope had approved devotion to anything more than the symbolical heart, as distinguished from the physical organ.A special devotion to the heart of Jesus fostered inevitably a parallel honor to Mary, and there are some indications that the latter was rendered in no grudging measure. One of the fervent writers of the time speaks of the heart of Mary as "the storehouse of divine compassions, the furnace of the celestial fire, the library of the Old and of the New Testament." 2 Grégoire, Histoire des Sectes, tome ii, chap. 20. Another peculiar form of devotion prevailed for a season, at least within a limited circle. As D'Argensan, writing in 1751, informs us, the Queen and a number of the court ladies made use of skulls as an aid to their piety. "They adorn," he says, "these heads of the dead with ribbons and pendants; or they illuminate them with lamps, and they meditate before them for a half-hour." 3 Mémoires, vii. 16, 17.
It is supposed that Clement XIII. had some reference to the existing needs of the Jesuits, for whom he had large sympathy, when he approved the devotion to the Sacred Heart, designing to supply thereby a means of encouragement and union to the members of the Order, and those who shared in their griefs. There was certainly occasion enough for any encouragement that the friendly Pontiff had to offer. The time of reckoning had come for the disciples of Loyola.
The conduct of the Jesuits just before the storm burst upon them cannot be said to have been specially odious. They had not been unusually aggressive and intriguing. The storm was not the offspring of fresh provocation; it was rather the accumulated retribution which the misconduct of generations had earned. There may have been indeed some special provocations at this juncture. But these did not necessarily affect the standing of the whole Order. Had there not been a foregoing history, begetting in many minds the conviction that incorrigible evil was ingrained into this society, it might have successfully met any temporary causes of objection and ill-will.
A Jesuit writer has expressed surprise that it was precisely in Portugal, where the Jesuits seemed to be so firmly entrenched, that the great attack upon them was begun. "At the court," he says, "they were not only the guides of the consciences and conduct of the royal princes and princesses, but also were made the advisers of the King and his ministers in the most important matters. No position in the administration of the State or the Church was awarded without their consent and their influence, so that in truth the higher clergy, the nobles, and the people vied with each other to obtain their intercession and favor." 1 Georgel, quoted by Theiner, Geschichte des Pontificats Clemens XIV. i. 5. These words used in justification of surprise might better be employed for a contrary purpose. The overgrown influence of the Jesuits in Portugal is by itself a large part of the explanation of the attack upon them. To a statesman like Pombal, confident, energetic, and aggressive, it seemed a thing intolerable that a parcel of ecclesiastics should so completely dominate the nation. Having once entered upon the task of reducing their influence, he doubtless found that either he or they would have to go under. He therefore utilized to the full whatever might be turned to the discredit of the Jesuit fathers. He found in their mercantile projects a cause for complaint. Their alleged complicity in the armed rebellion of the natives in Paraguay gave him a vantage ground against them. Still more their alleged complicity in an attempt to assassinate the King (1758) gave him a formidable advantage. In 1759 came the unsparing edict for their banishment. They were sent in a body to their spiritual father, the Pope.
The news from Portugal caused a profound sensation in France, and in all likelihood raised the question in many minds whether the example of the sister realm might not be successfully imitated. As it happened, there was no occasion to harbor this inquiry for a long time. The impolicy of the Jesuits themselves placed effective weapons in the hands of their opponents. One of the fathers of the Order, Antoine Lavalette, who resided in Martinque, had engaged in large mercantile enterprises. The capture of several of his ships entailed so great a loss on the French firms with which he was financially connected that they were compelled to go into bankruptcy. The creditors of the bankrupt merchants then sued Lavalette and his immediate superior. It being hopeless to secure from them the large sum that was owed, they next tried the expedient of making the Order itself, as a corporate body in the realm, responsible. The Marseilles tribunal agreed to their plea. But the Jesuits were not convinced. Being advised that their establishments had no such oneness in law that all could be held to account for the liabilities of each, they concluded that they would try a legal shift rather than pay the money. With strange fatuity they submitted their case to the Parliament of Paris, the very body which had long and fiercely contended against their schemes. In answer to the claim that the Order could not be held responsible for the debt of a member, the Parliament asked for their constitution. This document, till then unknown to the public, was produced. It is needless to say that it made no favorable impression upon the minds of zealous Gallicans. Those who insisted that the State could not endure the unlimited authority claimed by the foreign ecclesiastic dwelling in the Vatican, were naturally jealous of an institute which delivered a powerful company of men within the realm, body and soul, to a foreign head. The determination of Parliament mounted at once beyond the affair of Lavalette. The examination of the books of casuistry which followed was rather a means of justifying its resolution to overthrow the Society than a basis of judgment.
An attempt was made to save the Jesuits by a compromise measure, providing that certain restrictions agreeable to Gallicanism should be accepted by the Order. A scheme of this kind, endorsed by the King, was forwarded to Rome. The response was a rejection of the proposal, uttered either by the Pope or the General, in these unequivocal words: "Sint ut sunt, aut non sint,"--"let them be as they are, or let them cease to be." Public opinion in France dictated the latter alternative. The royal order for the suppression of the Society was issued in November, 1764. This did not prohibit the residence of former members in France. But sentence of banishment was near at hand; it fell upon them in 1767.
Clement XIII. was profoundly disturbed by the overthrow of the Jesuits in France. As a means of censuring past and checking future assaults he issued the bull Apostolicum (January, 1765). This is nothing less than a warm commendation of the Order, wherein the Pope pronounces the charges made against its principles to be malicious and unfounded, and repels them in these terms: "We publish and declare that the Institute of the Society of Jesus savors in the highest degree of piety and sanctity both on account of the high end which it specially contemplates, namely, the defence and propagation of the Catholic religion, and also on account of the means which it applies to the attainment of this end." 1 Bullarii Romani Continuatio, Clemene XIII., iii, 38, 39.
This commendation was vain. The nations did not consider it necessary to ask the Pope what they should think of the Jesuits. Against the tempest which had begun to blow, the apostolic voice was no better than common breath.
The next and most far-reaching visitation upon the doomed Order was in the Spanish dominions, European and American. The decree of banishment was issued in 1767. An insurrection of the preceding year is presumed to have afforded the pretext. Beyond this all is involved in obscurity. There was no public process, and the King did not deign to assign a single specific reason for his summary measure. The following announcement to the Pope gives his motive for this secrecy: "To spare the world a great scandal, I will keep forever in my own heart the abominable plot which has necessitated these rigors. Your Holiness should believe me upon my word. The safety of my life demands of me a profound silence in this matter." 1 Crétineau-Joly, Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus, v. 302.
The kingdom of Naples and Sicily was made forbidden ground to the Jesuits (1767), as also the duchy of Parma (1768). In connection with the latter, Clement XIII. conceived that a suitable occasion had been given for the manifestation of his displeasure, some steps adverse to papal control having been added to the unkind treatment of his favorites. Reviving an old claim that this territory was a fief of the papacy, he undertook to treat the Duke of Parma as a rebellious vassal, and launched against him a sentence of excommunication. The boldness of the act was its only recommendation. The duke was related to the sovereigns of Spain, France, and Naples. Resenting the papal onslaught as an insult to the Bourbon family, they made reprisals by seizing papal territory. Nor was this all; they laid a formal demand upon the Pontiff to wholly abolish the Order of Jesuits. Whether Clement XIII. would have resisted this formidable combination was not to be made manifest. His death in 1769 transferred the fate of the Order to the hands of his successor.
Clement XIV. came to the papal throne, if not under an implicit engagement to fulfill the demand of the sovereigns, with far less of disinclination to do so than was cherished by the preceding Pope. Amiable and moderate in disposition, he was ready to study the interests of peace. As the Bourbon governments continued to press their demand, that of Spain being especially energetic and pertinacious, he at length gave them satisfaction. The brief for the dissolution of the Order of Jesuits was issued in 1773. In this writing, after taking note of precedents for dissolving orders, and calling attention to the numerous dissensions of which the Jesuits had been the occasion, and which it seemed impossible to prevent or allay, the Pope thus pronounced his decision: "Actuated by so many and important considerations, and, as we hope, aided by the presence and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, compelled besides by the necessity of our ministry, which strictly obliges us to conciliate, maintain, and confirm the peace and tranquillity of the Christian republic, and remove every obstacle which may tend to trouble it; having further considered that the said Company of Jesus can no longer produce those abundant fruits and those great advantages with a view to which it was instituted, approved by so many of our predecessors, and endowed with so many and extensive privileges; that on the contrary, it was very difficult not to say impossible, that the Church could recover a firm and durable peace so long as the said Society subsisted; in consequence hereof, and determined by the particular reasons we have alleged, and forced by other motives which prudence and the good government of the Church have dictated, the knowledge of which we reserve to ourselves ...we suppress and abolish the said Company."
Clement XIV. died the next year. His sickness was such as to lead some nearest to his person to believe that he had been poisoned. The question as to who administered the poison--supposing death to have been effected by that cause--lies too purely in the region of speculation to be considered here.
Cast out of their own household the Jesuits found refuge with the heretic and the schismatic. Doubtless it was not for the purpose of heaping coals of fire on their heads in the apostolic sense that Frederic II. of Prussia and the Russian Empress Catharine II. gave friendly entertainment to the members of the proscribed Order. Frederic had recently acquired territories largely Roman Catholic in population. He had promised to allow these territories to remain in statu quo as respects religion. The resident Jesuits were acceptable to the people. They were also largely employed as teachers, and it would make some trouble to supply their places. He therefore concluded to let them rest in peace. In communicating with the Pope upon the subject, he mischievously suggested that, inasmuch as he was a heretic, his Holiness was not able to release him from his obligation to keep his word, or from the duty of being an honest man. 1 Crétineau-Joly, v. 465. The motives of Catharine were very much the same as those of Frederic. She thought that she could safely use the Jesuits in the recently acquired Polish territory. Here they were allowed to receive novices. In fact Russian patronage served in a special sense to carry the Order through the period of legal nonentity.
It is interesting to note that adversity brought some dogmatic ameliorations to the minds of the Jesuits. As they were awaiting their fate in France a streak of genuine Gallican light shot across the leaden sky of their Ultramontanism. The illumination was sudden, and doubtless was not very permanent. But while it lasted, it had its effect. One hundred and sixteen fathers, including provincials and superiors, gave their written assent to the strong Gallican articles of the Assembly of 1682. 1 Crétineau-Joly, v. 260, 261; Theiner, Geschichte des Pontificats Clemens XIV., i. 21-23. A few years later some of their brethren in Germany were favored with a similar illumination, in virtue of which they gave their support to theses utterly irreconcilable with Ultramontane maxims. 2 Theiner, ii. 490, 491.
The interior broils of the French Church were not so engrossing in this period as to withdraw attention entirely from the duty of vexing the Protestants. There were intervals indeed during which they received a measure of indulgence. Some of the harsher provisions against them were left very largely in abeyance during the regency of the Duke of Orleans. But a bitter atonement was usually exacted for such a season of relative quiet. To permit the harvest to grow was to create an extra demand for the use of the scythe. So we find the government issuing in 1724 a peculiarly cruel edict. "To the penalty of death decreed against preachers was added the galleys for life for men, and perpetual imprisonment for women, against all who did not inform against them. It was enjoined on curés, or vicars, to visit the sick suspected of heresy, and to exhort them in private and without witnesses. An arbitrary fine was decreed against relatives, friends, or servants, who should prevent the curé from having access to the sick, and the galleys for life against concealed Protestants who should exhort or assist the sick secretly. The law condemning every Protestant, who should be cured after having refused the sacraments, to the galleys for life, and to confiscation of property as a backslider, was confirmed; if the sick man died his memory was to be prosecuted, and his property confiscated. Formerly it was necessary that the refusal of the sacraments should be attested by a magistrate; now the testimony of the curé was sufficient. The parish priest was constituted an official informer. Parents were forbidden to consent to the marriage of their children in foreign countries, without express permission from the King, under penalty of the galleys for life for men, and perpetual banishment for women, with confiscation of property. At the same time the new Catholics (and under this title were comprehended all Protestants, according to the fiction of the law of 1715, which denied that there were any Protestants remaining in France) were ordered to observe in their marriages the formalities prescribed by the holy canons and the ordinances. A11 civil status was thus annihilated for Protestants; there were thenceforth in France, before the law, only Catholics, and backsliders liable to the galleys." 1 Henri Martin, Histoire de France, tome xv., pp. 118, 119, in Eng. translation. An equally unsparing edict was issued in 1745.
While the practice was not perseveringly kept on a level with this barbarous code, there were numerous instances of intolerable vexation. Now and then a preacher was visited with a capital sentence. Bénezet was hanged in 1752, Lafage in 1754, Rochette in 1762.
It was first in 1788, on the eve of the Revolution, that a scant measure of legal toleration was granted to the Protestants. Even then the concession provoked the protest of the clergy. It required a very special tuition to instil into them the lesson of tolerance. The Faculty of Theology in Paris had not yet learned the alphabet of the subject in 1766. In their censure of a work published in that year they declared that religious intolerance was an essential principle of Catholicism. Rocquain, Esprit révolutionnaire avant la Révolution, p. 262. "The Assemblies of the clergy held from the accession of Louis XVI. up to the Revolution continually complained of the attempts of the Protestants to secure liberty of conscience. The following words appear in the report of the Abbé de 1a Rochefoucauld presented in 1789: 'This sect, which in the midst of its ruins retains the audacious and independent spirit which it had from its origin, wishes to usurp for falsehood the rights which belong only to the truth.'" 1 De Pressensé L'Église et la Révolution Française, p. 23.


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After going out for a beautiful Thai meal recently, where I had the most amazing grilled peanut chicken, the more I stared at the oversize tub of peanut butter on the worktop, the more I thought about trying to make a Thai-inspired dinner involving peanut butter, but that wouldn't take forever to make or have loads of ingredients. And lo, the speedy chicken satay stir fry was born!
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Ingredients (serves 1 hungry runner/cyclist)
- 1 chicken breast
- 1 pack ready-to-wok noodles
- 2-3 big handfuls of crunchy veg of your choice; I used a mixed stir fry pack with some extra mange tout for crunch
- A little oil
- 1 tbsp crunchy peanut butter
- 1-2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- Big squeeze of lime or lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp crushed garlic
Mix together the peanut butter, chilli sauce, soy sauce, garlic and a good dash of lime or lemon juice together until smooth, and let down with a splash of cold water until the sauce is a pourable consistency (but still coats the back of a spoon).
Heat up the oil in a wok or big frying pan, and after cutting the chicken into bite-size pieces, crack on with stir frying it.
Once the chicken has started to colour, add the veg, and then the noodles, and cook for a few more minutes, until the veg starts to colour but doesn't go soft- you want that all important crunch!
Finally, mix in the satay sauce and allow it to heat through, stirring well so it coats all of the veg, noodles and chicken.
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By Yvette Hopkins, The Bespoke Dresser
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Khloe Kardashian Reveals Having A Baby Won't Mend Relationship With Caitlyn Jenner
Khloe Kardashian has revealed her estranged stepfather Caitlyn Jenner won't be coming around when her baby is born.
The reality star, 33, appeared on UK TV show, Lorraine, on Thursday where she was asked by Ross King about her relationship with Caitlyn, who she has not spoken to in two years now.
Ross said:
'Will having a child affect anything between you and Caitlyn?'
She responded:
'I don't think it affects anything with Caitlyn.Things are just as they are.'
This comes after Caitlyn was noticeably absent in her daughter, Kylie Jenner's pregnancy annuncement video.
Caitlyn recently said
'They don't want me in their lives, the bashed me pretty badly. It's devastating when your kids do that. It really hurt.'
I don't talk about that side of the family, I spent 23 years of my life with those kids it's difficult to talk about it, terribly terribly sad.
I've lost all relationship with them, yes, I don't talk to any of them anymore.'