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Maryland utilities have improved their response to major storm outages since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, but better communication is needed among utilities, emergency agencies, the news media and customers, a Maryland Public Service Commission report says.
The commission, which reviewed the preparedness and performance of utilities after severe thunderstorms in August and Hurricane Isabel in September, concluded in its report June 4 that there has been "substantial improvement" in utility operations.
"The violent weather of 2003 will long be remembered by Maryland citizens for the misery left in its wake," the five-member commission, headed by Kenneth D. Schisler, concluded. The commission said it hoped the response "will be remembered for the landmark improvements in the evolution of electric service restoration following major outages."
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Pepco, Conectiv, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Allegheny Energy Inc. and Choptank Electric Cooperative were the focus of the report.
"When Isabel hit, [the utilities] did do better than they did the previous time, because they learned lessons from the previous time," commission spokesman Allen M. Freifeld said.
"There is room for improvement in their coordination with the local emergency officials at the county level and communications with the customers," he added.
The commission said utilities should consider taking additional steps with municipal governments to increase landowner awareness of the risks of trees near power lines.
"Trees were the overwhelming cause of the outages in Isabel, and many of these trees were on private property," Pepco spokesman Robert A. Dobkin said. "There needs to be more aggressive trimming."
The commission also said there is no new evidence to suggest that policies on overhead and underground wiring of the electric distribution system need to be altered.
Customers accused Pepco of responding too slowly after the big storms last year. Pepco also failed to provide prompt and reliable estimates of when lights would come on, critics said. Some customers complained that their calls were met with little information and, at times, even indifference. And some said they were told that their power was on when it wasn't.
After a series of outages in 1999, the commission wrote that the utilities operating in the state failed to have "meaningful and timely communication" with their customers.
In its report this month, the commission said that "despite some significant technical problems, requiring improvement, the commission finds that the Maryland utilities' efforts at communications with emergency management and public officials were generally adequate."
Pepco, which primarily serves the District and Montgomery and Prince George's counties, said it mobilized nearly 2,500 workers, 1,200 of whom came from other states, to help about 500,000 customers who lost power, some for up to a week, after Hurricane Isabel.
BGE, which has a larger service territory than Pepco, said it called in 1,900 out-of-state workers to help restore power to about 700,000 customers.
Pepco, which commissioned a separate evaluation of its performance, provided the commission with a report in October explaining its slow response to power outages. Pepco detailed how a computer system became overloaded while filtering calls.
"The problem was compounded when the [computer system] duplicated some calls," the commission's recent report said. "As a result, the call system reported an extremely high level of substation activity to the EMS."
All of it, the report said, "led to extensive error messages."
Noting problems with communications with the news media, and in turn with customers, the commission said that "utilities may wish to develop communication plans to reach customers who are denied access to television or the Internet due to a loss of electric power. Such media as newspaper advertisements, posters, and . . . flyers in neighborhoods have been offered as some possible suggested remedies."
In one of its directives, the commission ordered Pepco and its affiliate Conectiv to file quarterly reports on progress that has been made in implementing commission-ordered changes and upgrading systems.
Dobkin said that the commission's report is fair and that the damage done by Isabel was "unprecedented."
"We learn from every storm," he said. "We certainly learned from Isabel."


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- reelstuff2000Asked on February 16, 2013 at 11:26 PM
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So, home recording tips anyone?
Following from that other advice thread, i thought i'd ask some horribly amateurish questions regarding home recording. i have audacity, what else do i need? seriously, i'm a chump. mocking my lack of knowledge would be far too easy for your brilliant mind, so don't bother.
do you have a library card?
go to your local library - that's a good place to start
here is my big hint for guitars
dont use modeling software. buy a decent amp and a reverse DI box so you can record dry and set your tones when mixing.


text: Yes the President wrote a fucking note to Condi saying he needed to go to the bathroom, but come on lefties, they don't mean he's asking for permission, he's just making sure that it's an appropriate time to leave the table. Geez. How many fucking times do I need to see the picture?!? Is this REALLY news? We got a fucking war and clean up in NOLA and you now dwell on this?


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Funeral services for Alyssa Dawn Baker, 16, of Troup, will be held 5pm Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at Troup High School Auditorium with Dr. Keven Wentworth, Rev. B. J. Jenkins, and Rev. Chris Wilkins officiating. Graveside services will be held at Crystal Hill Cemetery in Wickes, AR with Rev. Jon Newlen officiating.
Alyssa passed away unexpectedly on Friday, April 20, 2018, in a tragic car accident. She was born in Mena, AR on August 6, 2001 to David Baker and the late Susan Henderson Baker. Alyssa was a vibrant and loving daughter. She was the daughter of a pastor and thrived in all the social interactions that growing up in the church provided. She was an incredibly creative, bright and talented student at Troup High School. She participated in many activities such as marching band, theater, soccer, archery, and power lifting to name a few. She was an active member of Martin's Chapel Church of the Nazarene, the National Honor Society, and the Troup High School Student Council.
She was a treasure to her family and a delight to everyone she met. As a daddy's girl, she was his turkey hunting buddy, actress, artist, dance partner, and musician. She embodied life as a grand adventure, always desiring to enjoy new experiences, learn new things, explore new places, and meet new friends.
Survivors include her father, Rev. David A. Baker, of Troup; her grandparents, Alvin and Violet Baker, of Wickes, AR; and Dwight and Donnasue Henderson, of San Antonio, TX; as well as numerous friends, teachers, family, and church family.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Martin's Chapel Church of the Nazarene Youth Camp fund.
Visitation will be at Cottle Funeral Home, in Troup, from 5 pm – 8 pm on Monday, April 23, 2018.
Services are under the direction of Cottle Funeral Home, Troup, TX.
Online registration and condolences are available at www.cottlefuneralhome.com.


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I don't even know why, but I had a dream last night where I created a print that said "yes please" with a super simple silk screen effect, and then proceded to hang it on my super boring walls. I've been finding myself having dreams about creating really random things, but I never do anything about it. Lately PowerPoint and Picnik understand me better than people... so I decided to actually recreate what I saw in my sleep:
No idea why I had this dream and I'm still trying to figure out why it says "yes please"... but it's kind of fun working on projects i have dreams about. Next step, print it out and put it on my wall. Yes, please.


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Green Cities 2018 – Melbourne
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Date(s) - 13/03/2018 - 15/03/2018
12:00 am
Save the date for the 2018 Green Cities Conference!
Co-hosted annually by Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and the Property Council of Australia (Property Council), Green Cities is Australia's premier sustainability conference for the built environment and this year we're exploring our role in Energising Communities. Green Cities has brought together thought leaders, industry experts and individuals, inspiring sustainability initiatives for 12 consecutive years.
The theme will be Energising Communities and the conference will explore what can be done now to build smart, sustainable cities for tomorrow.
Speakers include John Flecker, Multiplex CEO, Lucy Brogden, Chair of National Mental Health Commission, Rod Fehring, Frasers Property Australia CEO and GBCA Chair, Sustan Lloyd-Hurwitz, Mirvac CEO and Managing Director and Turi Condon, Australian Property Editor. The keynote speaker will be Jamie Durie OAM.
Early bird tickets on sale until 13 October 2017.
Details here: https://www.greencities.org.au/


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Derek Capanna joined UBS in October 2015 as the Global Head of Equities Distribution and is a member of the firm's Global Equities Management Committee. Before joining UBS, Derek was with Deutsche Bank and a predecessor firm, Alex Brown, for 21 years. Most recently, he was Global Co-Head of Equity Sales and Head of Americas Equity Sales where he was responsible for overseeing Cash Equity Sales, Equity Derivative sales, and Global Prime Finance Sales. Prior to that Derek was Co-Head of ICG Americas and Head of ICG Americas Equities managing the institutional equity sales platform in the region. Derek began his banking career 1994 at Alex Brown in Equity Sales. In 2000, he was named Regional Head of Institutional Equity Sales for the US Central and West Coast Regions at Deutsche Bank based in Denver, CO. Following a move to New York in September 2005, Derek assumed the Head of Americas Cash Equity Sales role and oversaw all generalist equity sales in the US, Latin America and Canada.
Derek is passionate about education. He is an active alumnus of the University of Virginia, where he earned a BA in Economics, and is a former Managing Director of KIPP NJ, a charter school in Newark, NJ that he and his wife continue to support. Derek, a father of three, enjoys skiing, extreme running and cross-fit in his free time.


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Hello Jeff!
Thanks for the screenshot. That helps a lot!
If you look at the title bar, it says [Offline]. This means that while you have changed the password on the server, you're not allowing or having access to the server from the application, so it can't update it's notion of the reset password!
Please ensure that you have Internet access (at least once after the reset), and that you allow the application to access our server. How could it otherwise know that something has happened there?


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Rainy Day
Vintage Coat/ Choies Dress/ Ebay Bag/ Asos Shoes
Took these the other day in Soho and it began to rain so we only managed to get a couple pics. Today it is soooo cold in NYC! Yesterday the weather was amazing and last night Vladimir and I went to a birthday dinner at Putnams in Brooklyn where we all played trivia, ate great food, had some drinks, ridiculously fun night! But now I'm exhausted lol.
Have a great Thursday :P


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Ripped right out of the pages from Pinto's playbook.
You arrive at day fifteen with a PSP and
You play as Barry Steakfries, a man with a gun and a thirst only quenched by the splattered brains of as many zombies as possible. Oh and you're yoinked about through time and forced to tackle the undead denizens of whichever time period you land in! Each era you arrive in has its own array of brain-cravers ranging from a big ole' undead T-Rex to those unruly zombie gangsters; F prohibition! You've got a pistol full of unlimited ammo and there is always a shotgun laying around somewhere. Its the Zompocalypse, there are always plenty of shotguns...
Age of Zombies is a fun little game for just five bucks and is a great go-to game when you've got some time, and some zombies, to kill.


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The Beta Traz Warden is an officer of the Galra Empire who oversees the prison called Beta Traz that holds Slav. He has a pet yupper named Laika.
The warden seems ruthless in his duties, delightfully torturing Slav by forcefully and painfully extracting knowledge from the brilliant scientist's mind. However, he has a soft spot for his pet yupper, Laika. He is angered that anyone would try to separate her from him, and does not dwell long on the loss of Slav because he still has Laika at his side.
The warden has a robotic pack attached to his body by shoulder straps and a belt that, when activated by the button on his belt, will inject canisters of refined Quintessence into his neck on either side. This substance greatly increases his strength and makes him grow into a massive form; an extra pair of robotic arms at each hip also activates when the warden prepares to fight. The arms normally rest over his shoulders on stand-by. In his Quintessence-infused form, even a charged punch from Shiro's arm cannot overpower the warden's boosted robotic appendages.[1]
- The warden does not have a confirmed name.
- The warden's pet, Laika, is a reference to the dog Laika, one of the first animals sent to space who did not survive the ordeal.
- ↑ Season Two: Episode 10, "Escape from Beta Traz"
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|Zarkon ◆ Lotor
|Haggar ◆ Druids
|Branko ◆ Galra Commander ◆ Gnov ◆ Janka ◆ Ladnok ◆ Morvok ◆ Prorok ◆ Ranveig ◆ Sendak ◆ Sniv ◆ Throk ◆ Trugg
|Acxa ◆ Ezor ◆ Narti ◆ Raht ◆ Zethrid
|Beta Traz Warden ◆ Haxus
|Drazil ◆ Galactic Gladiator ◆ Prorok
|Core Reality
|Team Voltron
|Allura ◆ Coran ◆ Hunk ◆ Keith ◆ Lance ◆ Pidge ◆ Shiro
|Galra Empire
|Acxa ◆ Beta Traz Warden ◆ Bogh ◆ Branko ◆ Dayak ◆ Ezor ◆ Galra Commander ◆ Gnov ◆ Haggar ◆ Haxus ◆ Janka ◆ Ladnok ◆ Lahn ◆ Lotor ◆ Morvok ◆ Narti ◆ Prorok ◆ Raht ◆ Ranveig ◆ Sendak ◆ The Archivist ◆ Throk ◆ Trugg ◆ Zarkon
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|Antok ◆ Kolivan ◆ Krolia ◆ Regris ◆ Thace ◆ Ulaz
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|Iverson ◆ Matthew Holt ◆ Samuel Holt
|Alfor ◆ Bandor ◆ Romelle
|Arusian King ◆ Klaizap ◆ Moontow
|Shay ◆ Rax
|Blumfump ◆ Florona ◆ Luxia ◆ Plaxum ◆ Swirn
|La-Sai ◆ Lubos ◆ Ryner
|Other Aliens
|Baujal ◆ Myzax ◆ Nyma ◆ Olia ◆ Ozar ◆ Rolo ◆ Remdax ◆ Sal ◆ Slav ◆ Te-osh ◆ Vakala ◆ Varkon ◆ Xi
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|Colleen Holt ◆ Keith's Father
|Beezer ◆ Rover
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Use of the Magnetic Field for Improving Gyroscopes' Biases Estimation
Use of the Magnetic Field for Improving Gyroscopes' Biases Estimation - Descarga este documento en PDF. Documentación en PDF para descargar gratis. Disponible también para leer online.
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Wessling, Germany
Electronic Department from the University of Alcalá, E.P.S. Campus Universitario, s-n, 28806 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Academic Editor: Jörg F. Wagner
Abstract An accurate orientation is crucial to a satisfactory position in pedestrian navigation. The orientation estimation, however, is greatly affected by errors like the biases of gyroscopes. In order to minimize the error in the orientation, the biases of gyroscopes must be estimated and subtracted. In the state of the art it has been proposed, but not proved, that the estimation of the biases can be accomplished using magnetic field measurements. The objective of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of using magnetic field measurements to estimate the biases of medium-cost micro-electromechanical sensors MEMS gyroscopes. We carry out the evaluation with experiments that cover both, quasi-error-free turn rate and magnetic measurements and medium-cost MEMS turn rate and magnetic measurements. The impact of different homogeneous magnetic field distributions and magnetically perturbed environments is analyzed. Additionally, the effect of the successful biases subtraction on the orientation and the estimated trajectory is detailed. Our results show that the use of magnetic field measurements is beneficial to the correct biases estimation. Further, we show that different magnetic field distributions affect differently the biases estimation process. Moreover, the biases are likewise correctly estimated under perturbed magnetic fields. However, for indoor and urban scenarios the biases estimation process is very slow. View Full-Text
Keywords: orientation; pedestrian; perturbed magnetic field; homogeneous magnetic field; inertial navigation orientation; pedestrian; perturbed magnetic field; homogeneous magnetic field; inertial navigation
Autor: Estefania Munoz Diaz 1,* , Fabian de Ponte Müller 1 and Juan Jesús García Domínguez 2
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Linea intertrochanterica
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Linea intertrochanterica --> intertrochanteric line
a rough line that separates the neck and shaft of the femur anteriorly; it passes downward and medially from the greater trochanter to the lesser trochanter and continues into the medial lip of the linea aspera.
Synonym: linea intertrochanterica, linea spiralis, spiral line.


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UK high court blocks mass privacy action against Google
Tech company faced claims it gathered personal data from more than 4m iPhone users The high court has blocked a mass lawsuit against Google that aimed to collect as much as £3bn in compensation for the company's historical practice of collecting data on iPhone users whose privacy settings should have prevented surveillance. Mr Justice Warby, sitting in London, announced his decision on Monday. The litigation was brought by the campaign group Google You Owe Us, led by the former Which ? (...)
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Because if I give myself unlimited space I'll write really long dull reviews
I thought I'd instend, having just made one, restrict myself to a twitter, on which I'll review every album I listen to.
I'm not convinced with this thing yet, nothing to interesting has happened yet on it for me. Plus I've had to stop following quite a few people for just spamming the same thing over and over.
twitter is down on my PC...
I have updating on my phone. I will follow when you when I have the chance.
Typically 2, but I'm sure I will occasionally on one.
the idea of 4 or 5 listens in a row to review an album boggles my mind, as that is not how the average customer will consume it.
maybe not 4 or 5 listens in a row, but maybe a couple, then have a break from it, listen to something else, and then go back to it?
Maybe. Also, I may go with the idea of reviewing the album EACH TIME
To show if the album is worth subsequent listens. Like, if I give it an 8 the first time, but then a 6 the next time, it gets boring, if I give it a 2 and don't review it again, well then it wasn't worth relistening. However it could work the other way, like an 8, but on either further listens a 9, etc.


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Dutch bank ING Group ING, +2.93% nl:30360 said on Thursday that it would sell 5 percent of its stake in ABN Amro ABN, +0.00% nl:30110 or 80 million shares, as part of an effort to reduce its exposure to the equity markets. ING said the proceeds will be used to cut debt, and that it will still hold 10 percent of ABN Amro for at least 90 days. ING, ABN AMRO Rothschild and JPMorgan are the joint global coordinators and bookrunners on the deal.
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It blew up.
Just a little explosion. Small in hindsight, but much larger when right in the middle of it. Expecting to do what we do without hitting any speedbumps was kind of ridiculous.
It happened a couple days after my wife slept with another man for the first time.
I read an email. Now, keep in mind that Bayani and I are open about everything. I allow her full access to all of my emails, every site I visit, every text. She offers the same open access. After her first time with Abernethy, our shared girlfriend Fanny asked her how it was, and she answered in an email. She offered to let me read it, and I declined, wanting her to be able to express herself freely without worrying about how I would react.
I didn't think about it for a day or two. Then I came home late one night, long after she was in bed. I was not sleepy, so I decided to dink around on the intertubes for a bit. Her email account was left open on my computer. I admit it, I peeked. I mean, she had given me permission, it was ok. I still violated her trust, because I had told her I would not read it. I later apologized, once things calmed down enough to get to that very minor infraction.
But I still read that email, and contained within was information that set off a major anxiety attack.
In hindsight, I can now realize that I was already experiencing an anxiety attack when I clicked open that email. I think that is perhaps why I felt I had to peek, I was driven by emotions not under my control. I get them sometimes, not often, but I get them. And sometimes they can be debilitating.
There were a few things in that email that bothered me. I'll save you the boring details, and get to the juicy parts. Most of it was small stuff, easily handled with some introspection and a five minute conversation after work.
But the big thing that set me off, that triggered an anxiety attack so bad I was unable to sleep at all that night, was the size of his cock.
But not in the way that you think.
After the big event, I asked her all kinds of questions. That is how I process through things, by gathering as much information as I can. This was unnerving to her, but she complied(it was weird to be discussing her lover with her husband). She told me he was longer than I, but not nearly so thick. OK, I could live with that.
In the email to Fanny, she said he was just as thick, but nearly two inches longer.
She lied
She lied to protect my fragile man ego. She lied to me so that I would not know how small my cock really was. She lied to poor, little dicked me.
At least, that was how I felt. Thank you anxiety attack for giving me a clear and level head.
Never read your lover's email about penis size whilst in the middle of an anxiety attack.
Back on topic. The one thing I will never tolerate from anybody, from my kids to my friends to my lovers, and especially from my wife, is being lied to.
I really can handle a big cock.
Wait, that did not come out right. I can deal with my wife's new lover having a much larger member than mine. Let me put into context for you. Fanny has one of the greatest racks I have ever seen or played with. Good god she has great tits. I love em. I love to play with em, to suck on em, to rub my dick between them. They are spectacular. They have a fan club. But I don't make love to those boobs, I make love to the entire woman. And it would be just as good if she didn't have them. They are so very nice though…
But my favorite pair of all, are my wife's. Just the thought of how they feel in my hand is enough to get me hard. They way her nipples harden against my palm, their texture, their taste. Gods above I love those tits.
So, if Fanny can have large, spectacular juggs and I still prefer Bayani's, then it logically follows that Abe can be hung like a donkey and she would still prefer mine. Because it is attached to me. His giant cock might fill her like she has never been filled before, but mine fits her like we were made for each other. Mine is still her favorite.
I am not threatened by Mr Donkey Dick. I am threatened by her need to lie about it.
We talked about it, and she did admit to trying to protect my fragile man ego, but not to lying. De-emphasizing was what she said. I can accept that. I understand the motivation.
She did it because I am the most important thing in her life, after our children, and she did not want me to get upset. Because her biggest concern is not playing with that dick, it is making sure I was not hurt. And before she understood just how anxious I was, she had even offered to end things with Abe.
I told her Hell No. At my worst, I never even considered asking her to end things. What would that solve? She would still enjoy large cocks, I would still have trouble trusting her to be honest, and there would be a great deal of resentment on both sides.
No, telling her I was upset was a much better tactic. It worked. Everything is better now. Hearing that she is willing to give up this exciting new partner that makes her feel sexy, that is enough.
So, she has promised to be completely open, even with things she fears I will not like. She has to trust that I can handle it, and that I will tell her when I can't. We talked about our open email policy, and while we agree that there needs to be access in theory, we have agreed to respect each others privacy. I CAN read her emails to and about Abe, but I won't. As long as I am allowed to, then I don't really need to do I?
My being upset has also triggered a day of anxiety for Bayani, who spent the day worrying that she had somehow hurt me. She didn't. The fault was not hers, there is no blame to be hurled around like a bucket of monkey poop. This was a communication error, and a great big stinking pile of an anxiety attack.
I knew there would be a blow up. I was surprised when it didn't happen, and now that it has, I can relax. I can deal with this. Overall, it is a pretty small problem to overcome.
In hindsight, it was a pretty small speedbump.
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Town's future set out at council
The draft Haverhill town centre masterplan will move a step nearer when the second phase of the consultation is presented to St Edmundsbury Borough Council's cabinet on May 28 for approval.
St Edmundsbury Borough Council's cabinet committee needs to approve the draft masterplan before the final draft goes out to consultation from June 8 to July 17. Members of the public will then get a chance during this six-week period to have their say.
It will show a strategy for the town centre concentrating on four interconnected town centre quarter, which include mixed use development opportunities supported by a public realm framework which aims to make the town centre straightforward to get around.
The draft plan includes a vision for more shops, cafes and restaurants, improvements to the bus interchange and physical environment of the High Street as well as new places to live, work and enjoy the town centre.
Sarah Howard, Chairman of ONE Haverhill Board, said: "We are delighted with what David Lock Associates has put together for Haverhill and from June 8 members of the public will be able to have their say.
"They have taken on board comments from phase one of the consultation and have come up with a vision for our town which is both progressive and realistic."
Members of the public gave their views in March and April during an initial phase one six week consultation period on what the independent town centre planning experts believed were the broad issues and options that needed to be considered in preparing the town centre masterplan.
It is believed to be the first time a local authority has asked a community organisation within a town to lead on such a consultation.
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Group show of over 30 artists whose inspiration is from the recent tragic oil spill. 20% of proceeds go towards restoration of the oil spill. Plus live music & poetry reading. Artists present.
Assemble Gallery & Studio: 7406 Greenwood Ave N
"For You, For Me: A collection of useful art" featuring hand printed textiles by Erin Dollar. Inspired by the recent resurgence of hand printed textiles, Erin Dollar has created a range of one-of-a-kind prints on fabric. Continuing an exploration of abstract geometric forms and repetitive shapes, Dollar uses print, collage, and embroidery in her pieces. The show will include works on fabric and paper that are meant to be used in the home, such as tea towels and table textiles, as well as postcards & small prints. Erin Dollar is an artist and crafter living in Portland, Oregon. She spends her time drawing, printmaking, reading, making fake beards, and helping to run a non-profit community print studio.
Plus live music at 8pm by duo "Bookkeeper". Artists present.
Avanti Art & Design: 7317 Greenwood Ave N
Encore showing of: "30/30" 30 artists showing 30 pieces of work in various mediums, each piece is no more than 4" x 4". Artists present.
Balderdash Books & Art: 8536 Greenwood Ave N
Fantasy themed paintings by Heather Hudson and author of "Kishin is Coming" Anne Fitzgerald. Artists present.
*Bleacher's Pub: 8118 Greenwood Ave N
Stop in for a discounted appetizer or entrée during the monthly art walk.
Bherd Studios Gallery (Greenwood Collective)
8537 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 1
Bherd Studios Gallery presents the urban contemporary art of Augie Pagan, Chris Brett, Nose, and Wilky. Character development is one of the most important elements for writing fiction, however, for visual art, it is in and of itself The Story. The artists have been influenced by cartoon, comic and video game culture and through their work, have developed their own characters - each with their own traits and graffiti & urban art inspired style. Artists present.
*Carmelita's: 7314 Greenwood Ave N
$5 Happy Hour Menu All Night!
The Chocolate Shoe Box: 7410 Greenwood Ave N
Impressionist & mixed media paintings by Sarah Ghanooni.
Couth Buzzard Books: 8310 Greenwood Ave N
Paintings, Photography & Sculpture by Stacy Schonhardt, Shelli Young, Jan Caps, Connie Nelson, TV-TommyVision, Jess Angelo, Terry Thomas & Shawn Johnson. Artist present.
*85th Street Cafe: 8420 Greenwood Ave N
Olive oil tasting event & art walk specials.
*Emma Jeans: 8554 ½ Greenwood Ave N
Offering 30% - 50% off every art walk!
Francine Seders Gallery: 6701 Greenwood Ave N
New prints and monoprints by gallery artists Jacqueline Barnett, Pat De Caro, Caryn Friedlander, Emily Gherard, Juliana Heyne, Denzil Hurley, Robert C. Jones, Anna McKee, Elizabeth Sandvig, Julie Shapiro, Michael Spafford, and Barbara Earl Thomas will be on view in both the main gallery and the upstairs space beginning July 9.
Most of the artists included in this show would call themselves painters rather than printmakers; however, the work they do in this area has become part of their process, allowing them to take a fresh look at formal problems and experiment with different materials and techniques.
Kouzina: 8403 Greenwood Ave N
Monthly rotating artwork by a local artist.
*Gaspare Ristorante and Bar: 6705 Greenwood Ave N
3- Course Italian Meal for $22.00 all nite special for art walk.
Makeda Coffee: 153 N 78th Street
(between N. 1st Ave & N. Greenwood Ave.)
Naked City Taphouse: 8564 Greenwood Ave N
Large format oil & acrylic paintings by Dani Davis. Artists present.
Neptune Coffee: 8415 Greenwood Ave N
Monthly rotating artwork.
Oliver's Twist: 6822 Greenwood Ave N
Rotating urban contemporary artwork by Seattle artists.
Palermo Art Gallery: (Greenwood Collective)
8537 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 1
Urban contemporary figurative nudes by Yvonne Palermo. Current art stems from a long 12 yr. battle with our failing health care system, living with chronic pain and enduring 31 surgeries. The process taught Yvonne to draw and paint in a way that truly embraces the experiences lived in her fine art, and find her unique artistic style. Yvonne has been on HGTV and DIY network teaching her art and hopes to bring education to our community through her art classes starting in the fall. Artist present.
The Park Pub: 6114 Phinney Ave N
Rotating local artists.
Phinney Neighborhood Assoc: 6532 Phinney Ave N
Photography by Shek Lun Ho & John Marzulli. Artists present.
Rising Stars Children's Store: 7321 Greenwood Ave N
Miniature acrylic paintings on salvaged wood by Shawn Smith and Jewelry by Maria LaFrance. Artists present.
Rockwell Realty: 8315 Greenwood Ave N
Unique works created using daubs of paint applied in a pointillist fashion to create optical textures, enhanced by random strokes creating an energy of noise and tension by Michael Martinez. Artist present.
Sasquatch Studios: 6108 Phinney Ave N
Fused glass by Susanna Prince. Artist present.
Strut: 7511 Greenwood Ave N
Photography by Della Chen. Artists present.
Sugarcomb Salon: 780 N 73rd
Mixed media collage by Marty Gordon & Jessica Lowber, and stencil art by Derek Gress.
Tasty: 7513 Greenwood Ave N
"South of the Border" featuring works inspired bytrips to Southern Mexico by artist Nico Inzerella. Artist Present
Terra Bella Flowers: 8417 Greenwood Ave N
Baroque Portraits by Angie Lazaar. Artists present.
Urban Light Studios (Greenwood Collective)
8537 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 1
"Malice In Wonderland" group show of urban artists.Plus live music by Decateur Buff at 8pm & 9pm Artists present.
Volunteers of America: 9041 Greenwood Ave N
Photography b Andy Aupperlee & Michael Walsh, landscapes of PNW and beyond. Artist present
Wayward Coffeehouse: 8570 Greenwood Ave N
Rotating artwork by local artists. Live music from 8-10pm. Artists present.
Write To Move at Phinney Center: 6532 Phinney Ave N
7pm Life Drawing for Writers, $5 drop-in fee. Artist Present
* Venues offering art walk specials.


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Thermal management of very large-scale computers will have to leave the traditional well-beaten path. Up to the present time, the primary concern has been with rising heat flux on the integrated circuit chip, while a space has been available for the implementation of high-performance cooling design. In future systems, the spatial constraint will become a primary determinant of thermal management methodology. To corroborate this perspective, the evolution of computer's hardware morphology is simulated. Simulation tool is the geometric model, where the model structure is composed of circuit cells and platforms for circuit blocks. The cell is the minimum circuit element whose size is pegged to the technology node, while the total number of cells represents the system size. The platforms are the models of microprocessor chips, multichip modules (MCMs), and printed wiring boards (PWBs). The major points of discussion are as follows: (1) The system morphology is dictated by the competition between the progress of technology node and the demand for increase in the system size. (2) Only where the miniaturization of cells is achieved so as to deploy a system on a few PWBs, ample space is created for thermal management. (3) In the future, the cell miniaturization will hit the physical limit, while the demand for larger systems will be unabated. Liquid cooling, where the coolant is driven through very long microchannels, may provide a viable thermal solution.
Reliability issues associated with moisture have become increasingly important as advanced electronic devices are nowhere more evident than in portable electronic products. The transition to the Pb-free solders, which require higher reflow temperature, makes the problem further exacerbated. Moisture absorbed into semiconductor packages can initiate many failure mechanisms, in particular interfacial delamination, degradation of adhesion strength, etc. The absorbed moisture can also result in catastrophic crack propagation during reflow process, the well-known phenomenon called popcorning. High vapor pressure inside pre-existing voids at material interfaces is known to be a dominant driving force of this phenomenon. This paper reviews various existing mechanisms of water accumulation inside voids. The procedures to obtain the critical hygroscopic properties are described. Advanced numerical modeling schemes to analyze the moisture diffusion phenomenon are followed with selected examples.
In this paper, thermal management in GaN (gallium nitride) based microelectronic devices is addressed using microfluidic cooling. Numerical modeling is done using finite element analysis (FEA), and the results for temperature distribution are presented for a system comprising multiple cooling channels underneath GaN high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). The thermal stack modeled is compatible for heterogeneous integration with conventional silicon-based CMOS devices. Parametric studies for cooling performance are done over a range of geometric and flow factors to determine the optimal cooling configuration within the specified constraints. A power dissipation of 2–4 W/mm is modeled along each HEMT finger in the proposed configuration. The cooling arrangements modeled here hold promising potential for implementation in high-performance radio-frequency (RF) systems for power amplifiers, transmission lines, and other applications in defense and military.
This work presents an experimental study to enhance the thermal contact conductance of high performance thermal interface materials (TIMs) using gallium alloy. In this experiment, the gallium alloy-based TIMs are synthesized by a micro-oxidation reaction method, which consists of gallium oxides (Ga2O3) dispersed uniformly in gallium alloys. An experimental apparatus is designed to measure the thermal resistance across the gallium alloy-based TIMs under steady-state conditions. The existence of Ga2O3 can effectively improve the wettability of gallium alloys with other materials. For example, they have a better wettability with copper and anodic coloring 6063 aluminum-alloy without any extrusion between the interface layers. Gallium binary alloy-based TIMs (GBTIM) or ternary alloy based-TIMs (GTTIM) are found to increase the operational temperature range comparing with that of the conventional thermal greases. The measured highest thermal conductivity is as high as 19.2 Wm−1K−1 for GBTIM at room temperature. The wide operational temperature, better wettability, and higher thermal conductivity make gallium alloy-based TIMs promising for a wider application as TIMs in electronic packaging areas. The measured resistance is found to be as low as 2.2 mm2 KW−1 for GBTIM with a pressure of 0.05 MPa, which is much lower than that of the best commercialized thermal greases. In view of controlling pollution and raw materials wasting, the gallium alloy-based TIMs can be cleaned by 30% NaOH solution, and the pure gallium alloys are recycled, which can satisfy industrial production requirements effectively.
Thermal ground planes (TGPs) are passive thermal management devices that utilize the phase-change of a working fluid to achieve high thermal conductivity and low thermal resistance. TGPs are flat, two-dimensional heat pipes—similar to vapor chambers—in which liquid is held within a capillary wick, and vapor is held in a sealed vapor layer. Heat is absorbed at an evaporator region, causing the liquid to evaporate. The heated vapor in the vapor core is carried via convection to a condenser region where it condenses as the heat is expelled from the TGP to an external heat sink. The condensed liquid is then pulled back to the evaporator via capillary forces in the wick. In numerous applications, mechanical flexibility of the TGP is required, as is low-cost manufacturing and viable integration routes with electronics. This work describes a flexible TGP (FTGP) fabricated using printed circuit board (PCB) technology, in which commercially available copper-cladded polyimide sheets are used as the casing material. The wick is composed of three layers of fine copper mesh electroplated or sintered together and coated with atomic layer deposited TiO2. A coarse nylon or polyether ether ketone (PEEK) mesh defines the vapor transport layer, and water is used as the working fluid. The perimeter of the device is heat-sealed with flouroethylene propylene (FEP), which has been found to provide a near-hermetic seal for several months and is suitable for flexible applications. This architecture allows the TGP to function with minimal reduction in heat transfer performance while bent by 90 deg, and full functionality is returned when the device is returned to its flat configuration. The FTGP's measured thermal resistance is about half that of an equivalent copper reference for input heat fluxes of 3–6 W/cm2. More than 30 copper-cladded polyimide FTGPs were fabricated and characterized using both simple qualitative and more involved quantitative test setups. The results show that the fabrication and assembly processes developed in this work are repeatable and the devices are durable.
Thermal interface materials (TIMs) constitute a critical component for heat dissipation in electronic packaging systems. However, the extent to which a conventional steady-state thermal characterization apparatus can resolve the interfacial thermal resistance across current high-performance interfaces (RT < 1 mm2⋅K/W) is not clear. In this work, we quantify the minimum value of RT that can be measured with this instrument. We find that in order to increase the resolution of the measurement, the thermal resistance through the instrument's reference bars must be minimized relative to RT. This is practically achieved by reducing reference bar length. However, we purport that the minimization of reference bar length is limited by the effects of thermal probe intrusion along the primary measurement pathway. Using numerical simulations, we find that the characteristics of the probes and surrounding filler material can significantly impact the measurement of temperature along each reference bar. Moreover, we find that probes must be spaced 15 diameters apart to maintain a uniform heat flux at the interface, which limits the number of thermal probes that can be used for a given reference bar length. Within practical constraints, the minimum thermal resistance that can be measured with an ideal instrument is found to be 3 mm2⋅K/W. To verify these results, the thermal resistance across an indium heat spring material with an expected thermal contact resistance of ∼1 mm2⋅K/W is experimentally measured and found to differ by more than 100% when compared to manufacturer-reported values.
Multi-microchannel evaporators are often used to cool down electronic devices subjected to continuous heat load variations. However, so far, rare studies have addressed the transient flow boiling local heat transfer data occurring in such applications. The present paper introduces and compares two different data reduction methods for transient flow boiling data in a multi-microchannel evaporator. A transient test of heat disturbance from 20 to 30 W cm−2 was conducted in a multi-microchannel evaporator using R236fa as the test fluid. The test section was 1 × 1 cm2 in size and had 67 channels, each having a cross-sectional area of 100 × 100 μm2. The micro-evaporator backside temperature was obtained with a fine-resolution infrared (IR) camera. The first data reduction method (referred to three-dimensional (3D)-TDMA) consists in solving a transient 3D inverse heat conduction problem by using a tridiagonal matrix algorithm (TDMA), a Newton–Raphson iteration, and a local energy balance method. The second method (referred to two-dimensional (2D)-controlled) considers only 2D conduction in the substrate of the micro-evaporator and solves at each time step the well-posed 2D conduction problem using a semi-implicit solver. It is shown that the first method is more accurate, while the second one reduces significantly the computational time but led to an approximated solution. This is mainly due to the 2D assumption used in the second method without considering heat conduction in the widthwise direction of the micro-evaporator.
As integration levels increase in next generation electronics, high power density devices become more susceptible to hotspot formation, which often imposes a thermal limitation on performance. Flow boiling of R134a in two microgap heat sink configurations was investigated as a solution for hotspot thermal management: a bare microgap and inline micro-pin fin populated microgap, both with 10 μm gap height, were tested in terms of their ability to dissipate heat fluxes approaching 5 kW/cm2 at the heat source. Additional parameters investigated include mass fluxes up to 3000 kg/m2 s at inlet pressures up to 1.5 MPa and exit qualities approaching unity. The microgap testbeds investigated consist of a silicon layer which is heated from the bottom using resistive heaters and capped with glass to enable visual observation of two-phase flow regimes. Wall temperature, device thermal resistance, and pressure drop results are presented and mapped to the dominant flow regimes that were observed in the microgap.
In a raised floor data center, cold air from a pressurized subfloor plenum reaches the data center room space through perforated floor tiles. Presently, commercial tool "Flow Hood" is used to measure the tile air flow rate. Here, we will discuss the operating principle and the shortcomings of the commercial tool and introduce two other tile air flow rate measurement tools. The first tool has an array of thermal anemometers (named as "Anemometric Tool"), and the second tool uses the principle of temperature rise across a known heat load to measure the tile air flow rate (named as "Calorimetric Tool"). The performance of the tools is discussed for different types of tiles for a wide range of tile air flow rates. It is found that the proposed tools result in lower uncertainty and work better for high porosity tiles, as compared to the commercial tool.
In this paper, we present the design of a passive test chip with thermal test structures in the Metal 1 layer of the back-end of line (BEOL) for the experimental thermal characterization of the intertier thermal resistance of wafer-pairs fabricated by three-dimensional (3D) hybrid Cu/dielectric wafer-to-wafer (W2W) bonding. The thermal test structures include heater elements and temperature sensors. The steady-state or transient measurement data are combined with a modeling study to extract the thermal resistance of the bonded interface for the fabricated bonded wafer pair. The extracted thermal resistance of the die–die interface created by hybrid wafer-to-wafer bonding is compared to literature data for die-to-die (D2D) or die-to-wafer (D2W) stacking with microbumps. The low thermal resistance of the thin bonded dielectric interface indicates that hybrid Cu/dielectric bonding is a promising technology to create 3D chip stacks with a low thermal die-to-die resistance.
Carbon has become an attractive material for electronic packaging applications, such as interconnects, because of its low density and reasonable electrical conductivity. One challenge in these applications is overcoming the inherent chemical incompatibility between carbon and metals that limits adhesion. Recently, we explored a new technique for electroplating carbon fibers with nickel. Electroplated carbon fiber tows were soldered to nickel metal tabs using SAC 305 (Sn3Ag0.5Cu). The electroplated nickel was found to be free of microvoids with (Ni,Cu)3Sn4 forming as intermetallic compounds (IMCs) in an annular region presumed to be Ni3Sn4 at the SAC 305-Ni interface. Mechanical characterization of the carbon fiber–nickel interface revealed bond strengths up to 434 N, which is similar to a 22 gauge high strength copper clad steel. Electrical resistances were found to be as low as 1.1 Ω for a 38.1 mm long connection. Carbon–metal connections prepared using silver epoxy were found to have 80% lower load bearing capacity and 10–20% higher electrical resistance. Battery discharge tests indicated that the carbon connections reduced performance by only 4% compared to conventional copper. The performance drop increased to 7% when the discharge time was increased by 50%, indicating some thermal dependence. The electroplating technique is a fairly simple and inexpensive means of enhancing the wettability of carbon fiber to create scalable carbon-based conductors for low current systems.
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Lecture: A Look at the First Amendment
Speaker: Gene Policinski, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 21 at 3 p.m.
Location: Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library
A reception will follow the lecture.
Sponsored by: Auburn University Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.
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Financial Managers Need Only Concentrate on Meeting the Needs of Shareholders - No Other Group Matters
"Financial Managers need only concentrate on meeting the needs of shareholders - no other group matters" Discuss the above statement using practical examples to support you answer.
Formulas: Profitability2-3
Summary of Widgets Finical Ratios: Profitability6-8
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A shareholder is someone that legally owns one or more share of stock in a company. The objective of the firm is to maximize shareholder value by increasing the value of the company's stock. Although other potentials exist, such as survival, maximizing market share, maximizing profits and so on, these are co-insistent with maximizing shareholder value.
The responsibility of these objectives is held by Financial Managers. Financial Manger decisions can be divided into three general areas: investment decisions; financing decisions& dividend decisions. The investment principle determines where businesses invest their resources, the financing principle governs the mix of funding used to fund these investments, and the dividend principle answers the question of how much earnings should be reinvested back into the business and how much returned to the owners of the business. These decisions govern and guide everything that gets done and are interdependent with each other.
In practice corporate finance decision are not made solely by corporate financial management. Inside an integrated approach is taken by various directors. Directors that would be involved include finical directors, who oversee the finance function and will also consult with accountants, tax experts and legal counsel. Another director would be a corporate treasurer who keeps in contact with banks and other finical institutions regarding cash flow. Human resource directors help to dictate on ideal candidates for functional roles within the company. Production directors enable materials to be in stock so the company can sell to bring cash in. Selling and promotion of these products to attract a market is the responsibility of the marketing directors. And yet the primary objective of all these directors is to maximize the value of the company for its shareholders.
Within a company there are set corporate objectives to maximize its value. These objectives are based on the company's mission or aims. The corporate objectives govern the targets for each department of the business. They provide a mechanism for ensuring that authority can be delegated without loss of co-ordination. Among the most common corporate objectives are: to ensure long term stable growth in real terms; to spread risk and achieve growth through diversification; to concentrate upon the firm's core skills; to maximize market standing; to add value through continuous technological innovation; to achieve profit maximization in the short term to medium term; etc.
While management within a company should make decisions that meet the company objective of maximising shareholder wealth, this may not actually happen in practice, as the "agent is distracted by his own self interest". This is a concept proposed by Jensen and Meckling (1976) known as Agency Theory.
Jensen and Meckling (1976) defined the agency relationship as a contract under which one party (the shareholder) engages another party (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf. As part of this arrangement, the principal will delegate some or all of the decision-making authority to the agent. In practice, shareholders from most companies delegate the decision-making authority to the board of directors. In turn, the board of directors delegates power to the chief executive officers. The agency problems arise because of the impossibility of perfectly contracting for every possible action of an agent whose...
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text: Ms. Hyatt is CEO and co-founder of Silver Sherpa Inc., a professional services company delivering crisis management and transition planning for the elderly. Ms. Hyatt is also President and CEO of HYATTDIO Inc., a global strategy company. Ms. Hyatt was instrumental in the start-up of Canada's Electronic Health Records (EHR) efforts. Canada Health Infoway Inc. (CHI) was set up by the Government of Canada as an independent company collaborating with federal, provincial and territorial governments to accelerate and facilitate the implementation of EHRs. Ms. Hyatt held several executive positions at CHI, including Interim President and CEO. In the U.S., she was appointed a founding member of the HIMSS Global Enterprise Task Force studying global EHR initiatives. The work earned Ms. Hyatt and her colleagues the Spirit of HIMSS Award for their contributions to global thought leadership. Ms. Hyatt is a trained physiotherapist, holds an MBA in International Business, and is a member of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives, the International Federation on Ageing and the Healthcare Information and Management Society (US).


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Apparently, this is awards week because I was just nominated by Stella from Rainy Day Writings, Alli from wormal, Beatrice from How To Start Adulting for The Mystery Blogger Award! Thank you so much to both of you!! And if you haven't already seen their blogs you should check them out because they're some of my faves. The award was created by Okoto Enigma, so thanks to her, too, for making it!
The Award Rules:
1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. List the Rules.
3. Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
4. Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well.
5. Tell your readers three things about yourself.
6. Answer five questions from the nominee.
7. Nominate anywhere from ten to twenty bloggers.
8. Notify the bloggers by leaving a comment on their blog.
9. Ask your nominees any five questions of your choice, including one weird or funny question.
10. Share the link to your best post.
3 things about myself
- I love baking. Having a peanut allergy has forced me to make my own baked goods and get good at it.
- I actually don't really like cake but I always think I do. I make a cake. I think I like cake. I try a piece. I don't like it. Then the cake cycle repeats.
- I hate the smell of chocolate cake. I've purposefully left the house because a chocolate cake was baking.
I think I'm in a baking mood. The Cake Boss theme song has been stuck in my head all day.
Stella's questions
- What is your zodiac? I have an Aries sun, Leo moon and Cancer rising. I've been kind of zodiac obsessed lately, it's so fun to see if it actually comes true and how people of the same signs are similar.
- What is your favourite season? I used to really love fall, but I enjoyed last spring and summer a lot more than the fall.
- Do you have any pets? If so, tell us about them! I have 2 cats and a dog. They are kind of annoying a lot of the time but I still love them.
- What is your favourite band/musician? Beyoncé, Troye Sivan and Amy Winehouse.
- What is your favourite object in your bedroom? My bed?
Alli's questions
- What has been your favourite age so far? Why? I don't really know, I'm too young for this 😂 Let's go with 5 because I can kinda remember that and I remember going to Disney World and can't pick out any bad things from that year LOL
- If you had to be stuck in a room with one person for 72 hours, who would it be? I don't know if I would drive myself crazier alone than if I was with someone. I feel like if I chose anyone I would get really angry at them then we'd both just end up mad.
- What's one of your guilty pleasures? Lattes. I have a bad latte addiction and a desire to learn latte art.
- What's something you should never look up on google images? Have you looked this up before? Basically anything. All Google image searches go bad at some point.
- Who? What? Where? When? and Why? Me? A person? In Canada? At 11:30 am? Because I'm alive and here?
Beatrice's questions
- After a bad day, who's the first person you go to? My mum or one of my close friends.
- What's something you're scared of? Fish, death, and being upside down.
- What do you think of my new book, Into the Shadows? I'm sorry, I had to… I read some of the preview on Amazon and it looks interesting! I applaud you for writing a book, I think I'd get really bored of it.
- What's the last thing you ate? Tikka masala curry! Curry is my comfort food.
- If you were stranded on an island, what are the top three things you'd HAVE to have with you? A helicopter to get off the island. A pilot to fly the helicopter. And some food so I don't get hangry and make the pilot mad since they'd be my only way out.
Best post link
My most popular post has been The Blogger Recognition Award.
Beatrice from How To Start Adulting
Just So Peachy ( Love the name btw )
My questions to the nominees
- If you could be one celebrity, who would it be?
- What is your favourite book and why?
- Since I used a Disney GIF up there and mentioned going to Disney World, favourite Disney movie?
- Myers-Briggs type? I'm running out of ideas of questions lol
- Fav thing to do when bored?


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Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, a frequent contributor to ZENIT, is CEO of the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation in Canada. He also serves as English language Media Attaché to the Holy See Press Office.
The following is the keynote address delivered by Fr. Rosica to the Association of United States Catholic Priests in St. Louis, Missouri on June 30th, 2015.
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Dear Brothers in Christ,
Fifty years after its promulgation, who of us cannot still be moved by the opening words of that landmark conciliar document?
The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts. For theirs is a community composed of men. United in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit in their journey to the Kingdom of their Father and they have welcomed the news of salvation which is meant for every man. That is why this community realizes that it is truly linked with mankind and its history by the deepest of bonds.
There is an interesting history to the birth of this Pastoral Constitution. Such a document was not planned from the outset of the Council. It was toward the close of the first session of the Council, on December 4, 1962, that Belgian Cardinal Leo Suenens spoke of the need for the Church to address the world and not just to be occupied with internal Church matters. The very next day, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan (who was to become Paul VI by the next session) seconded Suenens' proposal. And then, on December 6, Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna echoed the views of Montini and Suenens. So, thanks to the support of three of the most influential and respected Council fathers, a statement on church and world became a topic for the next session of the Council!
The final result was the longest document of the Council, indeed the longest document ever produced by any of the 21 ecumenical Councils in a 2,000 year history: Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on The Church in the Modern World. The document is divided into two parts. The first part lays out theological and pastoral perspectives and principles about the Church in the world. The second part addresses five areas of what it calls "special urgency."
Once the basic anthropology of Christian humanism is presented in chapters one through three, the fourth chapter moves to a reflection on how the mission of the Church must be redefined. This method of re-conceptualizing the mission of the Church is already hinted at in the oft-quoted paragraph four of the introduction to the Constitution: "To carry out such a task, the Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. . . . We must therefore recognize and understand the world in which we live, its expectations, its longings, its often dramatic characteristics."
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council were men who had experienced two world wars, the horror of the Holocaust, the onset of the nuclear weaponry, the hostility of communism, the awesome and only partially understood impact of science and technology all these elements of their lived experience forced them to a non-internal definition of the Church. The Church had to be understood in its relationship to the world they knew. The message of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World is in many ways the hope that the Council wished to offer the world.
The Pastoral Constitution encouraged a new model of church/world engagement. Previous models were no longer adequate: the minority sect within the Roman empire, the alliance of Church and Constantinian state, the medieval institution of Christendom, the battered and battering Church of post-Reformation Europe, the established Church of the ancien regime, and the isolated and triumphalistic Church of the 19th century.
Gaudium et Spes suggested a Church with a new strategy for the Church's presence in the world, one which emphasized neither withdrawal, triumphalism, nor assimilation, but critical conversation (listening and speaking) along with principled cooperation with other social institutions and communities of people. The mission of the Church needed to be expressed in social categories and had, therefore, to take seriously the realities of secularization and pluralism.
In the two thousand year history of the Church, it had never happened that an ecumenical Council would focus with such profound pastoral involvement on the temporal events of humanity. The Council Fathers confronted theologically the fundamental questions that have always plagued the human heart: "What is man? What is the meaning of suffering, of evil, of death, that notwithstanding any kind of progress, continue to exist?" (GS, 10). Sounding out the "mystery of man" by the light of the Word of God, the Council Fathers also strongly committed the Christian community, which was called to offer a specific contribution to "render more human the entire family of men" (GS, 40).
One of the great gifts of Gaudium et Spes was its appeal for the personal witness and "illuminating" initiatives of lay people- encouraging them to assume greater roles in the life of the Church and the world. (cf. GS, 43). This still remains one of the great urgencies and hopes of the Church of our times.
Above all, Gaudium et Spes presents Jesus Christ as the Light of the world, the "lumen gentium" who illuminates the mystery of man, not only for Christians, but also for the entire human family; he reveals man to himself; he calls everyone to the same identical destiny, and, through the Holy Spirit, "offers to everyone the possibility to come into contact" with his definitive victory over death (GS, 22). We could sum up the entire document with these five points:
1. The Church works to build a world that acknowledges and promotes the dignity, life and freedom of each human person.
2. The Church works to create conditions of justice and peace in which individuals and communities and can truly flourish.
3. The Church is present in the activity of the international community.
4. The Church's universal religious mission does not allow her to be identified with any particular political, economic or social system.
5. The Church contributes to the establishment and consolidation of peace within the human community in accordance with God's law, a peace that is the fruit of the work of true justice.
When Gaudium et Spes was promulgated, many Catholics wondered why the church wanted to engage the world and whether the church had any business being concerned with political and economic issues and peacemaking. The council's intention was to come in contact with people of all walks of life as sign of respect for their dignity. The council was very clear that it presents this teaching for no other reason than to evangelize. This means to share the good news. It is not so much to present a parallel government, a parallel economic system. It presents valuable insight coming from revelation and presents modest contribution to humanity as it searches for a better life, a better world.
When the Church commits herself to works of justice on a human level (and there are few institutions in the world which accomplish what the Catholic Church accomplishes for the poor and disadvantaged), the world praises the Church. But when the Church's work for justice touches on issues and problems which the world no longer sees as bound up with human dignity, like protecting the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death, or when the Church confesses that justice also includes our responsibilities toward God himself, then the world often rejects our message.
The work of Gaudium et Spes is not over. I believe that only now is the message of the Second Vatican Council being so fully and vividly realized: we are a global church and we are responsible for our brothers and sisters throughout the world. We need further integration of social mission into the centre of Catholic life. We need to insist that social ministry is an integral part of the life and mission of the Church. We need to strengthen our sense of mission. We can no longer speak of "social justice" as an option or an alternative. Our incorporation and implementation of the social teaching of the church must become normative and constitutive.
Gaudium et Spes at 50
Today we re-read the words of Gaudium et Spes in a world scenario decisively changed. How many changes – political, social, cultural – have taken place since December 7, 1965! The cold war is over, science and technology have made unprecedented progress: from space exploration and the landing on the moon, from heart transplants to genetic engineering, from cybernetics to robotics, from telecommunications to the most advanced technologies. Think of the factors of change connected to urbanization and industrialization and the incredible growth and power of the mass media. The world has changed incredibly since 1965!
Gaudium et Spes also addressed the challenge of contemporary atheism (cf. GS, 19-21). The Council confronts it with its typical dialogic style, trying to distinguish the different expressions of this complex phenomena, but above all stressing the reasons which are in its origin (GS, 19).
Gaudium et Spes dealt with the dignity of the human person, the community of men and women, and human activity in the universe. Christ is the meaning and fullness of every creature, the alpha and omega of the world.
Gaudium et Spes spoke of the necessity to promote the dignity and holiness of marriage and the life of the family. The family is today at risk, not only by external factors of social mobility and the new characteristics of human labor. There are also the serious problems stemming from our individualistic culture that lacks a strong ethical anchor. It is a culture that confuses the true meaning of love between spouses and the gift of family life.
Should we not be asking if the changes happening in our times have been and are for the good of humanity? (cf. GS, 6). In particular, can you have "a more perfect temporal order, without it going hand in hand with spiritual growth?" (GS, 4). It is still necessary to go back and reflect on the analysis and indications offered by Gaudium et Spes, to verify its value and to grasp its knowledge.
The problem of poverty and of overcoming it through a healthy economy, respectful of the primary value of the person, allows for a vast discussion on political ethics in Gaudium et Spes. The appeal of the Council to eliminate the destructive fury of war and promote peace is ever still true.
The horizons of Gaudium et Spes are so vast. With this important document the Church really wanted to embrace the world. Looking at human beings in the light of Christ, the Church knew how to establish profound links and outline concrete needs. There resulted a kind of "magna carta" of human dignity to defend and promote.
As the Second Vatican Council stated, the Church's universal religious mission does not allow her to be identified with any particular political, economic or social system, yet at the same time, this mission serves as a source of commitment, direction and strength which can contribute to establishing and consolidating the human community in accordance with God's law."
What makes Gaudium et Spes genuinely significant is the way it defined the Church: not as an institution established in the past and still conducting a self-maintenance operation, but in terms of its task in the world. Moreover, along with Lumen Gentium, the Church of Gaudium et Spes is reaching towards eschatological goals, reaching towards a fullness of community life under God, a fullness of justice and peace, a sharing of resources, a building of relationships.
With Gaudium et Spes, social concerns are presented as the essence of being a disciple of Jesus. To be a member of the Church is to be a member of the community of the resurrection that is supposed to have a transforming impact in the world. Gaudium et Spes was extraordinary as a document because it gave a coherent picture of Catholic social teaching. But it goes even further than that. It gives a new and coherent picture of what is essential to being a Christian, what is essential to being Church in the world.
Gaudium et Spes suggested an ecclesial strategy for how the Church might engage the world with an attitude of respect and reverence for the activity of the Spirit working through the many events, institutions, and communities of our world.
Challenges of Gaudium et Spes
1) We need renewed attention and further development of lay leadership and responsibility: understanding that justice is pursued more often by believers' activities in their families, in their work, and in their citizenship, than in Church committees and Church commissions. Gaudium et Spes was not an invitation to new forms of clericalism but rather new ways of giving Christian witness to the world around us.
2) We need to preach St. John Paul II's message on the gospel of life in our land and our world of far too many abortions and executions, in our world of too much terrorism, in our society with too much family violence, in our society marred by the slow-motion violence of poverty.
3) We need to recover a stronger sense of mission. The discussion of orthodoxy and identity are important; but Church does not exist for itself, but to preach the gospel, to serve the least of these, and to build the kingdom.
4) The central message of Gaudium et Spes focuses on the social vocation of the Church. Now is not the time to turn inward, preoccupied by our institutional difficulties and internal disputes. Rather, now is the time to build bridges across the lines of race, gender, nation, and economics, and to renew the earth.
Openness to the world means getting ourselves dirty, stained, wounded by the existential realities that the poor face. The church should smell like the world that it penetrates. Many people want to witness to Christ in some idealized past that they long for with nostalgia. No, we witness to Christ now, here, where we are in our world. Part of the church's openness to humanity is to remind the rest of the world of human beings that have been forgotten. Fifty years after the Council, Gaudium et Spes still shows us the way and still offers us principles, which can help "the Church" really be "The Church in the Modern World."
The heart of Catholic Social Teaching
The Social Teaching of the Church is neither "left" nor "right", neither "liberal" nor "conservative" – within the contemporary politicized use of those words. "Social justice" is the way that we put into practice the Social Teaching of the Church in our daily lives. And yet the term "social justice" seems to have become a lightning rod that divides Catholics because it touches upon things that matter to every human being.
Social justice is an integral part of Church teaching. It is based on the rights that flow from and safeguard human dignity, and it compels us to work with others to help make social institutions better serve the common good. The Catechism of the Catholic Church devotes an entire section (#1928-1948) to the topic of social justice. Similarly, the 2004 Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, a required reading for all who work in the area of social justice and social concerns of the Church, gives a magnificent overview of the wider topic of the Church's social doctrine, and teaches clearly the meaning of social justice.
Pope Francis: Embodiment of Gaudium et Spes
From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda. Francis' actions parallel the simple, ever-human gestures of St. John XXIII so that the world soon recognized him, as it does Francis, as a man it can approach easily because he strives to understand and love its people rather than to condemn and make its people anxious about their salvation.
Pope Francis is becoming for us the activation or embodiment of "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the World." Not only will he be remembered as the Pope of Evangelii Gaudium but he is also the Pope of Gaudium et Spes. For just as Gaudium et Spes awoke the church out of its ecclesial slumber 50 years ago by insisting that to be Christian meant to pursue justice in every corner of the globe, the former Jesuit Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires is doing the same in his new role as Bishop of Rome. Pope Francis has chosen to emphasize not only Lumen Gentium but especially Gaudium et Spes.
Gaudium et Spes and our Priesthood
On June 6 of this year, Pope Francis made a one-day pastoral visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. At a meeting with priests and religious, he spoke these words:
"The priest, the consecrated person, is called to live the anguish and the hope of the people; to work in concrete circumstances often characterized by tensions, discord, suspicions, insecurities and poverty. Faced with these painful situations, we ask God to grant us hearts that can be moved, capable of showing empathy; there is no greater witness than to be close to the spiritual and material needs of the faithful. It is the task of us bishops, priests and religious to make the people feel the nearness of God; to feel his comforting and healing hand; to be familiar with the wounds and tears of our people; to never tire of opening our hearts and offering a hand to all who ask us for help, and to all those who, perhaps because they feel ashamed, do not ask our help, but who are in great need of it."
Laudato Sì: Gaudium et Spes in action
On June 18, Pope Francis released his second encyclical, Laudato Sì: "On the Care of our Common Home – addressed to "everyone living on this planet." This lengthy papal document calls for a new way of looking at things. We face an urgent crisis, when the earth has begun to look more and more like, in Francis's vivid image, "an immense pile of filth". Still, the document is hopeful, reminding us that because God is with us, all of us can strive to change course. We can move towards an "ecological conversion" in which we can listen to the "cry of the earth and the cry of the poor". To use religious language, what the Pope is calling for is conversion. This is a deeply uncomfortable encyclical because it is not content simply to face up to the institutional and moral issues of climate change and environmental degradation, but addresses the deeper tragedy of humanity itself.
Until now, the dialogue about the environment has been framed mainly using political, scientific and economic language. Now, the language of faith enters the discussion – clearly, decisively and systematically. Against those who argue that a papal encyclical on the environment has no real authority, Pope Francis explicitly states that Laudato Sí is now added to the body of the Church's social teaching". It continues the church's reflection on modern-day problems that began with Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, on capital and labor, published in 1891.
More than any other encyclical, Laudato Sí draws from the experiences of people around the world, referencing the findings of bishops' conferences from Brazil, New Zealand, Southern Africa, Bolivia, Portugal, Germany, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Australia, Canada and the United States.
In our preaching and presentation of Laudato Sí to the world, we have an obligation to present the full picture of this landmark papal document. When the environmental world welcomes the Pope as a powerful ally and the religious Right dismisses him as a disingenuous radical, socialist or a communist, these have missed the essential point. This is the Gospel call, as disconcertingly direct today as was Jesus's confrontation with the rich young man, the scribes and the Pharisees, or the moneychangers in the Temple. That's the unique quality of the encyclical. It is not just the declaration of assent to a program of international environmental action, but also the prophetic voice of the Church. It is therefore far more fundamentally disturbing and uncomfortable, demanding an individual response that will change our lives forever. This is Gaudium et Spes in our day.
Giving flesh and blood to Gaudium et Spes in our day
As Archbishop of Argentina's capital – a diocese with more than three million inhabitants – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio developed and implemented a pastoral missionary plan based on communion and evangelization. He had four main goals: open and brotherly communities, an informed laity playing a lead role, evangelization efforts addressed to every inhabitant of the city, and assistance to the poor and the sick. He asked priests and lay people to work closely together in the work of evangelization and education of the people. During many years of fruitful pastoral ministry, Cardinal Bergoglio insisted, "Teachers of the faith need to get out of their cave," and the clergy "out of the sacristy." He required parish priests to live with their people, and in the same conditions as their people, even in radical simplicity and poverty. Authentic pastors should have the "odor of the sheep" if they are to be effective and credible.
When Cardinal Bergoglio spoke of social justice, he called people first of all to pick up the Catechism and to rediscover the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. His project was and remains very simple: if you follow Christ, you understand that "trampling upon a person's dignity is a serious sin."
"My people are poor and I am one of them", Cardinal Bergoglio said so often, explaining his decision to live in an apartment above a school and cook his own meals. He frequented the Villas Miserias, advised his priests to show mercy and apostolic courage and to keep their doors open to everyone. One year before his election to the See of Peter, the Cardinal wrote a pastoral letter in which he reprimanded his own priests for refusing the Sacrament of Baptism to the children of single mothers.
His life was radically changed two years ago March 13 when "Padre Jorge," as he was known by so many in Argentina, became Pope Francis. We have all witnessed and been recipients of his Petrine Ministry for the past two years. Since his election as Bishop of Rome, he has captured the mind and heart not only of the Church but also of the world. He has not changed a single doctrine of the Church but has ushered in a way of speaking, a new style of leadership that has shaken the Church and impacted the world.
Some call him a revolutionary. At the heart of his message is a transformative call to reconciliation and mercy. As leader of the Catholic Church, he asks us to let go of different forms of thinking and the desire to impose certain ideas at all costs. He proposes a humble way of committed people who base their lives on Gospel living. For Francis, compassion and mercy can truly change the world. This is the Christian revolution: namely a conversion to the origin of the Gospel message as a way to the future, a true revolution of tenderness and mercy.
Pope Francis' electrifying homily to the new Cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica on February 15, 2015, is one of the most significant addresses that he has given in his two-year pontificate. Centered on "the Gospel of the marginalized," it provides a road map for Catholic Church leaders and educators. Commenting on Jesus' cure of the leper in Mark's Gospel, he said, "Compassion leads Jesus to concrete action: he reinstates the marginalized!" Jesus responds "immediately" to the leper's plea "without waiting to study the situation and all its possible consequences" because "for Jesus, what matters above all is reaching out to save those far off, healing the wounds of the sick, restoring everyone to God's family!"
"This is scandalous to some people! but "Jesus is not afraid of this kind of scandal! He does not think of the closed-minded who are scandalized even by a work of healing, scandalized before any kind of openness, by any action outside of their mental and spiritual boxes, by any caress or sign of tenderness that does not fit into their usual thinking and their ritual purity. He wanted to reinstate the outcast, to save those outside the camp."
Francis finds the contemporary Church at a crossroads: "There are two ways of thinking and of having faith: we can fear to lose the saved and we can want to save the lost." There is "the thinking of the doctors of the law, which would remove the danger by casting out the diseased person," and "the thinking of God, who in his mercy embraces and accepts by reinstating him and turning evil into good, condemnation into salvation and exclusion into proclamation."
"These two ways of thinking are present throughout the church's history: casting off and reinstating," Francis said. He recalled that Sts. Peter and Paul caused scandal, faced criticism, resistance and even hostility for following the path of reinstatement. Francis, and many of those who have embraced his message and strive to follow his example are also being criticized today for the same things: for not casting off but striving to reinstate those who are on the peripheries for a variety of reasons. …In healing the leper, "Jesus does not harm the healthy. Rather, he frees them from fear. He does not endanger them, but gives them a brother.
The Church of Francis is the Church of Jesus Christ
If you haven't yet realized it, the Renaissance Papacy is over. Francis wants the church to be an instrument of reconciliation and welcome, a church capable of warming hearts, a church that is not bent over on herself but always seeking those on the periphery and those who are lost, a church capable of leading people home.
Pope Francis is neither conservative nor liberal but a radical who wants to bring about a revolution of mercy. In Evangelii Gaudium, he invites and challenges all of us to move beyond our "comfort zones." He wants us to be warm, welcoming and forgiving. He wants us to eat with tax collectors and sinners; he wants us to forgive the woman caught in adultery (while admonishing her to sin no more); he wants us to welcome and respect foreigners (even our enemies), and, above all, not to judge others. He has spoken simply, powerfully and beautifully about returning to lost unity, a desire to achieve a missing fullness, a disarming invitation to simply come together to witness to the beauty of the love of Christ. He wants to build bridges that everyone can cross. He is especially conscious of the poor and those who have been marginalized, social outcasts kept on the fringes of society.
For Pope Francis, authentic power is service: Power in the Church is not about who kisses one's hand but how many feet one can wash in the service of Christ. Pope Francis made this clear when he visited a youth detention center on his first Holy Thursday in Rome in 2013 and chose to wash the feet of young offenders, including two young women and two Muslims. He continued that tradition last year by washing the feet of elderly women and men and those with severe handicaps. This year on Holy Thursday, he washed the feet of 12 prisoners at Rome's Rebibbia prison – incarcerated women and men. If we do not learn this Christian rule, we will never be able to understand Jesus' true message on power and be effective teachers, educators, pastoral workers, and agents of justice and peace. Pope Francis has a passion for the poor, the immigrant, the forgotten, and the "throw-aways." He is the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first from Latin America; these are the areas of the world where poverty is so great. Francis is inviting us to become witnesses, missionaries and disciples. That is our mission today. It is not new. Francis has brought new urgency, new passion, and I would suggest, new authenticity to this mission.
Field Hospitals in today's world
I leave you with this final image from the first Jesuit Pope – the powerful image of the "field hospital" which he uses often that is drawn from the Spiritual Exercises. It is the opposite image of a fortress under siege. The image of a church as a field hospital is not just a simple, pretty poetic metaphor; from this very image we can derive an understanding of both the church's mission and the sacraments of salvation. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds." This preferential option for those hurt by life reflects St. John XXIII's reply when asked why he convened Vatican II: "To make the human sojourn on earth less sad."
On the late afternoon of March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio received the call to go, rebuild, repair, renew and heal the church. There are those who delight in describing the new Pope as a bold, brazen revolutionary sent to rock the boat. Others think he has come to cause a massive shipwreck. But the only revolution that Pope Francis has inaugurated is a revolution of tenderness, the very words he used in his recent major letter on "The Joy of the Gospel." [Evangelii Gaudium #88] And the second revolution he has inaugurated is the revolution of normalcy. What he is doing is normal human, Christian behavior. These are the revolutions at the heart and soul of Pope Francis' ministry. This Bishop of Rome demands a lot while preaching about a God of mercy, by engaging joyfully with nonbelievers, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and those sitting on the fences of life- many who thought that Christianity has nothing left to add to the equations of life. This very room is filled with field hospital workers and revolutionaries, caregivers of mercy and revolutionaries of tenderness and normalcy already deployed in the great battlefields of life. In the heart and mind of Pope Francis, we need "a church that is again capable of restoring citizenship to so many of its children that walk as if in exodus. Christian citizenship is above all the result of God's mercy. Each of you has the power to restore that citizenship to so many people who are wandering and lost.
The ultimate evaluation of Vatican II, and for that matter, of all of our pastoral, spiritual and educational endeavors will be if we judge our efforts according to the mind and heart of Christ. He is the Lord of history. Our world and our times belong to him. Let us evaluate everything we are and do in terms of how well we have opened our eyes and the eyes of others to the radiant beauty of Christ. If we wish to be ambassadors, instruments, bearers of the message of Gaudium et Spes and icons of Evangelii Gaudium in the world today, if we truly desire to be workers of the authentic justice articulated so powerfully in the Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, we must be in direct contact with Jesus of Nazareth, who is the joy and hope of the human family. We encounter this Jesus in the Church, in the sacraments and in the liturgy. Take heed of Pope Francis' words recently spoken to future apostolic nuncios at the Vatican's Diplomatic Academy:
"It is not possible to represent someone without reflecting their features, without evoking their face."
"Do not lose sight of the face of He Who is at the origin of your journey."
"Do not fish in aquariums or farms, but instead have the courage to leave behind the safe margins of what is already known."
"Cast your nets and rods in less obvious seas."
And make your own the words Pope Francis spoke to new Archbishops gathered around the tomb of Peter yesterday morning, June 29, to celebrate the feast of Saints Peter and Paul: "Teach prayer by praying, announce the faith by believing; offer witness by living!"
Those words are also spoken to us. Go and announce the Joy of the Gospel of Jesus! Go and be his joy and hope for the world! Thank you.


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At a Demos fringe event at the conference, the Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde said the bankers had too much power and the regulator too little. He said: "The credit crunch was a power failure. The power was in the wrong place, the bankers had too much power, the regulators did not have enough and clearly in putting that right we need to make sure that the power is much more in the right place.
"In particular, when banks are taking systemic risks, they have to be regulated in a way that reflects that, either through the ability for banks to go out of business in a way that does not cause systemic risk or, if that is not possible, regulating the behaviour which causes that, which might include bonuses."
Conservative MP for Havant David Willetts who was also at the meeting agreed but said the power failure was down to the regulatory regime.
Willetts said: "The power failure was in the regulatory regime, we did not have any proper management of systemic risk. We had neither the FSA nor the bank doing it and in theory we were supposed to have some kind of tripartite structure doing it which was not working so there was a power failure and that is the gap that needs to be plugged because that is a key part of the regulation of financial services."