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Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is designed for people who are interested in:
The program is open to laity and clergy who have an interest in deepening their own spiritual life through attentiveness to end-of-life issues, as well as to those seeking to strengthen their competency in providing pastoral care. It is also for those hoping to broaden their understanding of inter-faith and interdisciplinary relationships.
Persons interested in CPE at VITAS also should have a desire to work with others in an inter-faith and interdisciplinary setting. VITAS does not discriminate based upon race, gender, age, faith group, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
Clinical Pastoral Education is a dynamic and creative program that uses the "action reflection" method of learning.
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Through supervised pastoral encounters, participants benefit from the opportunity to work directly with hospice patients and their families. With deep introspection, honest critique and real learning, CPE participants over time can increase their self-awareness and become more observant and sensitive to the needs of those they minister.
Reflecting on oneself as a person and minister in relation to people in crisis— through feedback offered by the supervisor, peer group members, the curriculum and written learning tools.
Increasing awareness of one's pastoral identity through ministry provided in the clinical setting, integrating one's family history and incorporating one's theological heritage.
Developing ways to broaden one's ministry based on existing and newly learned skills and resources.
Ministering to persons facing end-of-life issues, working as a member of an interdisciplinary team, providing bereavement services, offering staff support and other areas of focus.
Hospice offers a unique opportunity for Clinical Pastoral Education. The level of intimacy at the end of life invites a vulnerability that is rich with meaning and profound explorations of spirituality.
Through hospice care, a focus on the quality of relationships deepens between you and others as well as you and your own spirit. Possibilities for hope and courage emerge for all involved.
Chaplains use this clinical context for learning how to strengthen and build upon spiritual awareness. Mutual growth with hospice staff, patients and families happens in surprising and exciting ways.
Training in the hospice environment offers diverse experiences in patients' homes, hospitals and nursing homes, and assisted living facilities/residential care facilities for the elderly.
Bereavement group leadership rounds out the cycle of end-of-life care. Chaplains conduct memorial services and help facilitate bereavement support groups in the community. Experiencing end-of-life rituals helps clergy learn the nuances of ethnic, cultural, religious and familial heritage.
VITAS Healthcare is accredited by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. to offer three levels of training: Level I, Level II and Supervisory. Each level includes distinct objectives and outcomes. To earn credit for one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education students are required to earn a minimum of 400 hours of training (a minimum of 100 educational hours and 300 clinical hours) and comply with ACPE Standards.
Many faith bodies require a minimum of one unit of ACPE-accredited CPE to be considered for ordination. VITAS requires its hospice chaplains to complete one unit of CPE, with encouragement to do more. A minimum of 4 units of CPE are required to meet a committee to be considered for board certification as a professional chaplain.
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Captain's Report
Capt. Steve Reports...
Lund's Version of IPS
When I walked up to the boat, I saw decals proclaiming IPS. But contrary to the moniker given to pod drives on larger offshore boats, this time the acronym stood for Integrated Power Strakes. Two 87" long lifting strakes on the 2075's running surface provide lift, and improve performance allowing the boat to either go faster, or use less horsepower at the skipper's option. That's what Lund tells us anyway… we'll see when we call the 300 horses hanging off the stern into action.
Giving the bottom a further inspection shows a shallow V-hull meeting at a flat bottom. In the center of that flat bottom is a riveted keel. Applying simple physics to this design would seem to dictate a blueprint that should enhance time to plane, as well as allow for good turning performance, and higher top-end speeds. In effect there is a long, narrow "pad" on the centerline, not just one in the stern as we see on some boats in class. I penciled in another two "let's see" items to my ongoing report card. I also noticed the entire boat is riveted instead of welded, and the Lund bean counters clearly took the day off when it came time to hand out those rivets. They were everywhere, and in no small numbers. Along critical stress points such as the garboard seam and chine, they were closer together and staggered high and low to allow for the close proximity to each other. Pounding on the hull sides with my fists revealed a hard thud, rather than a hollow barrel sound that I was expecting from the aluminum hull. In case you are wondering if the rivet heads cause added drag, the answer is no they don't -- at high speed they serve to detach the flow of water from the hull and theoretically increase speed. So much for the once over on the trailer and fluid dynamics. Let's get wet.
I looked over the ramp and then asked for the keys to the Lund tow-vehicle so I could see if there were any flaws to the design from a launching standpoint. I was handed the keys and a team began to descend upon the ramp to minimize the effort for me, to which I said I'd rather to do it alone. If I'm a customer who's going to pony up the nearly $65k for this boat, I'd better be able to launch and retrieve it alone. Putting the trailer into the water until the level came to the tops of the fenders had the stern floating and the bow held fast. Perfect. Easing out the winch allowed the bow to drift back about 2' and stop. I disconnected the winch, climbed over the bow and settled into the helm seat to drive her off the trailer. No problems so far. I tied her up and parked the truck, and now empty trailer, in the lot.
Being the "top of the line" our test boat was fitted to the max horsepower with the 300 Verado. "Why walk when you can run," I always say. I pulled out onto the Minnesota lake in 55-degree cloudy weather with a 5-10 MPH wind roughing up the surface. I restrained myself a bit at first and got a feel for the boat. I hate to keep overusing a word, but solid is the best I can come up with unless I let my word processor's thesaurus add hard, firm, and unyielding… all of which aptly apply. Not surprising as her test weight is 3,000 lbs. We (the boat and I) met the waves bow on with little pounding but a modest amount of bounce that was to be expected. Water was thrown off the bow via spray rails that did a nice job of keeping the spray low enough to not get thrown back into my face. Cranking the wheel hard over showed the keel was effective in reducing, if not eliminating slide, while the reverse chine held the water like we were on rails. Not so much that it was uncomfortable, but enough to get me turned around in short order. The bank angle kept me planted in the seat rather than throwing me to the outside of the turn and having to hang on for dear life.
Cranking and Banking
When I put the 2075's beam to the waves I experienced a nice gentle up and down with no spray, and downwind runs were even more docile. Turning the wheel hard over and slamming the throttle to the stops gave a 20-degree heel to the inside. During a series of these hard-overs at WOT the boat turned in her own length, more or less, with no prop ventilation. The hydraulic steering made straightening out the wheel an effortless affair to launch in the chosen direction. Shutting down the engine allowed for the wind to take immediate control of the 2075 Pro-V and present her entire side beam to the waves. This was not a surprise, and in fact, I counted on it. If you have any tendencies towards drift fishing across the lake, the 2075 Pro-V is your platform. You'll be able to utilize the entire side of the boat.
The Numbers.
So much for looking around, it was time to see where the rubber meets the road, as it were, and determine what 300-hp would feel like on a 2,000-lb. (909 kg.) boat. As it turns out, the answer is, not too shabby. Top speed came in at 6000 RPMS and 60.8 MPH. That should get us back to the weigh-in before the clock runs out. If you're not in a rush, then pull the throttle back to a more sedate 3500 RPMS and you'll be rewarded with a 28.1 MPH best cruise while burning 7.4 GPH yielding a range of 222 miles on the 65 gallon tank (while still holding back a 10% reserve).
Those are decent numbers to be sure, but I was more interested in seeing what the IPS strakes and flat keel would do to the "get up and go." As it turned out, without doing a side-by-side comparison of this same boat with a traditional keel, I can honestly say that experience shows this to be a formidable design trait. Our time to plane was an impressive 2.7 seconds, and time to 30 MPH was only 6.5 seconds. Not a bad performer for a boat dedicated to fishing, and the time to plane is about as quick as it gets.
A Fishy Layout
But the fact is that this boat is sought after not for speed or hole-shot performance, but because of fishability. And for that task, she is equally well suited. Three deep-cycle batteries are dedicated to the 36V trolling motor, and access to those batteries is via the rod storage compartment between the consoles. Lifting up a deck panel in the storage compartment reveals the triple batteries and charger. That rod storage compartment, by the way, will hold 20 rods ranging from 6' – 8' (2.44 m). That should be enough of an arsenal to bring to the fight.
The carpeted bow casting platform was strong enough to not give me pause when jumping up and down to test its integrity, and in fact the boat was stable enough from all positions. Three of us, standing on one side allowed for only a couple of inches of freeboard deflection in from the level position, so no worries about stability either. There were four movable pedestal seats for six bases, two livewells, one forward and one aft, and dual baitwells. Cargo-netting lines the bulwarks at the bow, which made for great quickie storage for items like jackets and sweaters, or the odd bug repellant spray. However, my favorite feature, and one that's found on all Lund boats, is the Fast-Track caprail. A ridged track lines the inside of the caprail all around the inside of the boat. This is used for mounting the Fast-Track mounts for everything from drink and rod-holders to magnetic tool mounts. You can slide and re-mount these items anywhere your heart desires, and they look sleek too.
The helm was comfortable from a seating and visibility aspect, but I'd like to see the addition of an armrest just over the engine control, to aid in minute adjustments to the speed.
The 2075 just seems to be dripping with storage. A very clever use of space is featured in the gunwale compartments. Sliders open to reveal long and deep storage wells, and below, at your feet, are aluminum pull out drawers. If Lund was targeting the tournament fisherman with its 2075 Pro-V, it appears that they hit their mark. She's got all the qualities that the serious angler looks for, and the handling to get the job done.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Lund 2075 Pro-V (2010-) is 60.8 mph (97.8 kph), burning 29.8 gallons per hour (gph) or 112.79 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Lund 2075 Pro-V (2010-) is 37.4 mph (60.2 kph), and the boat gets 4.18 miles per gallon (mpg) or 1.78 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 244 miles (392.68 kilometers).
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Two weeks ago platinum briefly topped gold to regain its traditional status as the more expensive metal.
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As Englishman Adam Gee secured a two shot lead heading into the final round at the D+D Real Czech Challenge Open, his compatriot Matt Ford equalled the course record - in part thanks to some friendly inspiration.
Ford shone the brightest on Saturday at Golf & Spa Kuneticka Hora, shooting a sparkling nine under par 63, a magnificent bogey-free effort that not only set the low round of the week so far but also equalled Maximilian Kieffer's course record, set last year in the inaugural edition of the Czech Challenge, to get within touching distance of the lead with 18 holes to play.
One shot further back after an excellent round of his own, Ford's room-mate and yet another Englishman, Chris Hanson signed for an eight under par 64 to also climb into the top ten.
Ford, who won a 54-hole south regional PGA event in his home country on Tuesday before travelling to the Czech Republic, made a flying start, holing 30-foot birdie putts at both the first and third holes before some fine approach play saw the 35 year old Swindon man pick up a further three shots in succession from the sixth.
A further pin-point approach to three feet at the 11th brought a sixth unanswered birdie of the day, while another gain at the 14th preceded the highlight of the round as Ford benefited from some friendly inspiration.
He revealed: "When I got to the 15th I knew I was seven under at the time and I saw the scoreboard guys putting someone on 15 holes at 12 under par and I thought 'They're a bit early putting me up for that', but it was my room-mate Chris in front of me, cheeky bugger!
"I had a ten-footer for par and so I was telling myself 'You've got to make this now to stay with him!'. We've been mates for around seven years now from the PGA EuroPro tour so it did drive me on.
"I could tell he had made birdie on the 16th so I wanted to match that then, too. I hit a nice drive there and then hit a cutty five-wood that pitched short right of the green that hopped to six feet and I managed to hole the eagle putt."
Ford, whose once shot 59 during a Pro-Am at Tylney Park in England, could have gone to ten under but saw a 20-foot birdie come up short at the last but despite that he was obviously hugely satisfied with a fine day's work.
"I'm very happy with that," he continued. "I don't really feel like I've hit it that well but even when I missed fairways I got it around well so definitely satisfied.
"I thought if I could post nine or ten under par today then it would put me right in the middle of it and hopefully that will be the case."
Hanson, meanwhile, made an ideal start with birdie at the first after hitting a gap-wedge to a foot, and picked up further shots at the third and ninth.
It was on the back-nine that the Yorkshireman's round really sprang to life, though, as a birdie at the long 11th was followed by four on the spin – including a 40-foot birdie putt at the 15th – as Hanson shot over 20 places up the third day leaderboard.
"Last time I was in this sort of position was in Columbia (at the Pacific Rubiales Colombia Classic) over a year ago," said Hanson, who topped the PGA EuroPro satellite tour in 2011.
"So to get back into contention again after only playing a few events this year is great. I've shot nine under on a EuroPro event at Mottram Hall in 2011 but that's comfortably my best round on the Challenge Tour."
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Obligation as a relationship antecedent: A qualitative case study of the Las Vegas community
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This research develops Broom, Casey and Ritchey's (1997) concept of relationship antecedents, suggesting moral obligation as a non-consequential relationship antecedent. By using Bivins's (2009) classification of moral and functional obligations, this research suggests that nonprofit managers perceive a moral obligation on the part of gaming corporations to establish relationships that can benefit the local community. Where a functional obligation would affect the corporation's ability to do business, the moral obligation is non-consequential and falls outside the parameters of the six consequential relationship antecedents identified by Grunig and Huang (2000). Business ethicists have long debated the need for corporate social responsibility, broadly defined as the idea that a corporation has a responsibility to society separate from its profit-making obligation to stockholders. This research looks at corporate social responsibility in the gaming industry in Las Vegas, examining nonprofit managers' expectations for these corporations to contribute to the local community. This study examines through qualitative interviews these managers' perceptions about the responsibility of gaming corporations to participate in and give back to the local community. This research also sheds light on Las Vegas, NV, recognized more often for its architecture and cultural zeitgeist than for the contours of its community. A background section on Las Vegas history and its development as a tourist destination provides context for an examination of the ways Las Vegas's nonprofit organizations interact with the city's dominant industry. Nonprofit managers perceive gaming corporations as under- involved in the local community; in addition, they believe the community is under- informed about these efforts, potentially leading to a low level of civic engagement. This research also examines corporate social responsibility in the context of the economic downturn that began September 2008. Because Las Vegas's economy is so heavily dependent on the gaming and tourism industries, the city provides an excellent location in which to examine how economic forces affect corporate social responsibility efforts. The significant decline in CSR from the gaming corporations, as reported by nonprofit managers. suggests an orientation to CSR that is more functional than moral.


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One of the writers for the freep posted this on twitter...adidas provided this sample to the freep.
"Last week, athletic director Dave Brandon told a meeting of the state's sports editors that U-M intended to hold a nighttime unveiling of the jersey this summer and that U-M hoped fans would purchase a lot of jerseys, as they did for the Big Chill last winter."
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Maximum Rock 'N' Roll
Maximum'N'Roll is one of the most widely distributed zines in the world. It's a monthly fanzine dedicated to supporting the underground punk rock scene.
MRR started in 1977 as a punk rock radio show featuring Tim Yohannan (who became the zine's publisher), Jeff Bale, Ruth Schwartz (owner of Mordam distribution), and Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys). Maximum Rock'N'Roll zine first appeared in 1982 as the newsprint booklet in the "Not So Quiet on the Western Front" compilation LP (released on Alternative Tentacles). It developed into a monthly newsprint zine that helped galvanize the punk community throughout the '80s and '90s. Today MRR has published over 280 issues. And while not "the punk bible" it once was because of so many web resources and other zines, MRR still features a wealth of punk band interviews, news, music and zine reviews, columnists, and scene reports each month. Current columnists include Mykel Board, Slug & Lettuce editor Christine Boarts, and hardcore singer Felix Von Havoc.
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Everyone's got their favorite tool or accessory that they got from Harbor Freight Tools. Even if nothing else in the store tickles their fancy, there's that one thing they either love to own, or dream of getting someday. Actually, it's more like 20 or 30 things, but for the sake of this post, here are 10 of the Customers' Favorite Tools from Harbor Freight:
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Letter in the March 21 Tomahawk Leader:
To the Editor:
We live on Pier Street north of Merrill. The snowmobile trail has run along Pier Street for about eight years. At first it was a two-way trail on the west side of the road. In the last four years it has become a one-way trail on each side – west side south and east side northbound. Until this year the trail went across the ends of our driveways. I had it posted with a "No Trespassing" sign on our lawn. In December the operator of the trail groomer decided that the trail should go straight over our lawn.
I was home at the time and there was a heated discussion. I called the Lincoln County Sheriff for a deputy. He came out along with Department of Natural Resources Warden Rick Peters. The operator and club members said they could go anywhere they wanted to on the right of way. They left after running the groomer across the ends of the driveway as before.
On the following Monday, I went to the highway department for information on right of ways. I received paper work showing a right of way of 66 feet – in other words 33 feet of right of way on each side from the center line of the road.
I contacted Warden Peters with this information. An individual from the club called and said I was wrong because he had the highway commissioner check and was told right of way is 120 feet – or 60 feet from the center line. I was told they would go wherever they want.
I removed my sign and posts. The trail is out as far on my lawn as they can go. They should come back with the groomer and finish scraping the grass off and I'm sure they can break more branches off my trees.
As soon as the trail went over my north driveway they moved back to the center of the ditch – 33 feet from the center line. The trail on the other side of Pier Avenue follows the shoulder the same way the trail by my driveway used to.
I received many phone calls before this individual got his way with the trail location that were just shy of allowing me to file harassment charges.
A friend told me that 25 percent of people own snowmobiles, but 5 percent cause all the problems. I've met that 5 percent.
What's next? Is the county highway department going to clear cut 60 feet up Pier Street over other people's lawns so they can ride their snowmobiles?
I have a three wheeler and family members have snowmobiles and four wheelers. I know decent people in this club but this individual seems to dictate what is done – legally of course.
Problems such as I've experienced are why more and more landowners are closing their land to snowmobilers.
Special thanks to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department and DNR Warden Peters for their help with this matter.
Lee Neubauer
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GM must have had a good handle on dated mirror supplies and knew how many to order for what...a production week, or month maybe? And if there was an issue at DMI, Ajax's were ordered with the dates for production up to when DMI fixed whatever issue they were having. Is this how it went?
My thought would be that GM just had two suppliers so they didnt stop production due to being out of required part like a mirror. I am sure the parts were dated coded to track any manufacturing defects like the glass falling out because of bad glue, not that the dated part had to go on a vehicle assembled within a certain time frame. My C AX 9 mirror is on a 5A car.Mike


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In recent years this message has begun to appear at the end of job descriptions in many different fields. Except for the closing clause, some of these positions seemed perfect for a current smoker. The smoker may feel such hiring practices are discriminatory and feel great resentment toward the prospective employer.
In fact, some companies are now implementing no smoking rules for current employees. Where once the smoker was able to smoke at his or her desk without a hassle, now they must go to designated areas. And in some cases, they may not be able to smoke at all for eight hours a day due to total bans on smoking.
Even though an employer may face animosity from such an anti-smoking policy from existing employees, prospective applicants, and even some clients, the practice is gaining popularity in the business community.
Why would management be in favor of such restrictions on smokers? Because a smoking employee is a financial liability. Estimates of the additional costs of an average smoking employee range from several hundred to several thousands of dollars per year. Multiplied by several employees, smoking may end up costing an employer tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
Smokers cost more due to increased medical costs, higher insurance premiums, decreased productivity, more illnesses, and more accidents. Besides this, employee morale becomes affected when the second hand smoke issue surfaces. All in all, the economical and logistical burden placed on an employer due to employee smoking is substantial.
It used to be that all a smoker had to worry about were the crippling and deadly effects of smoking. Then the social stigma became a major concern. But now he must also consider the professional ramifications of smoking. After all, if he can't find work, it will become increasingly difficult to afford a several hundred dollar a year addiction to cigarettes.
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Matt Harrison gave the beleaguered Texas pitching staff a strong start, Mitch Moreland hit a three-run homer and the Rangers defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Friday night.
The Rangers starters had allowed at least six runs in the previous four games, but Harrison (13-6) held the Royals to two runs and eight hits in 6 2-3 innings. Harrison, who went 1-3 in July, walked three and struck out three, departing after 109 pitches.
Moreland's home run in the seventh inning came off Royals lefty relief specialist Jose Mijares, who had not yielded a home run to a left-handed hitter this season. Moreland hit an 0-2 pitch out to right with Michael Young and Geovany Soto aboard.
Jeremy Guthrie (3-11) held the Rangers to three runs and six hits over six-plus innings.


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Universal Orlando will debut the "Cinematic Spectacular" nighttime water show this spring as part of a new entertainment lineup at the Florida theme park that includes an upgrade to one ride, a re-theme of another attraction and the addition of a nightly parade.
PHOTOS: New attractions coming to Universal Orlando this spring and summer
"Cinematic Spectacular" will celebrate a century of Universal Studios movie memories with a nighttime water show that features film clips projected on 30-foot-by-30-foot waterfall screens and colorful fountains that rocket 100 feet into the air along with laser lights and pyrotechnic displays on the Orlando theme park's central lagoon.
Similar to "World of Color" at Disney California Adventure, the new Universal water show will incorporate iconic movie clips from "Frankenstein," "Jurassic Park," "Apollo 13," "Back to the Future," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Jaws" and "E.T." into a nighttime spectacular narrated by actor Morgan Freeman.
Visible from any location around the lagoon, the 20-minute "Cinematic Spectacular" will run throughout the summer and then on select nights through the end of the year.
Superstar Parade, the first daily parade at Universal Studios Florida, will also debut this spring with hundreds of characters, dancers and drummers performing alongside four floats themed to "Despicable Me," "Hop," "Dora the Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."
Universal also unveiled the official name for a re-themed motion-simulator ride opening this summer at the park: Despicable Me Minion Mayhem.
The new 3-D ride, a re-theme of Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast attraction, borrows elements from the animated "Despicable Me" movie and several film shorts to create a new story line featuring the supervillain Gru, his adoptive daughters and the little yellow minions.
Next door at Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park, the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man motion-simulator ride will keep the same story line but get a complete digital makeover with 13 reanimated 3-D scenes in time for a March reopening.
Conspicuously absent from Universal's big unveiling of new attractions for 2012 was any mention of a certain boy wizard.
Universal recently announced plans to expand the wildly popular Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida without revealing any further details.
Plans leaked to Theme Park Insider indicate Wizarding World will expand into an area formerly occupied by the recently shuttered Jaws attraction at Universal Studios Florida.
The expanded Harry Potter-themed land would feature a faithful re-creation of Diagon Alley from the film series complete with a Leaky Cauldron restaurant and a Gringotts Bank ride that combines elements of a roller coaster with a motion simulator, according to Theme Park Insider.
The new land would be connected to the original Wizarding World at Islands of Adventure via a Hogwarts Express train ride.


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Hi! Thank for for creating this website.
Christian Feasts
I was a little bit disappointed that Pentecost didn't make the Main Page, even after I had mentioned it: see Talk:Main_Page#Pentecost....
I'd like to see the Christian Feasts being honored on the Main Page, be it by a masterpiece, a link to an article, etc.: the next will be Trinity Sunday. Any ideas?
Thanks, --AugustO 08:42, 21 May 2013 (EDT)
- Good suggestions. Often this will depend on what else is in the news, or what other entries editors are spending their time on at a particularly moment. Other websites on the internet are purely religious sites.--Andy Schlafly 10:48, 21 May 2013 (EDT)
Conservapedia Proven Right
Mr. Schlafly,
I wanted to apologize if my past edit offended you or damaged the project. It was never my intent to remove information from the table, but only to enhance the layout and supplement the content through additional citations. I have also apologized on the talk page of the article, but I thought I owed you a direct apology as well.
Additionally, I still have a desire to improve the article. I have posted a proposed plan on the talk page, and I would be very grateful for your input. I eagerly await your suggestions.
Sincerely, WilliamWB 11:27, 23 May 2013 (EDT)
"Jesus prayed, often publicly, for people"
Andrew Schlafly, you claimed that "Jesus prayed, often publicly, for people". I'm still interested in an example for this - as you said that this happened often, you should be able to provide us with one. To be more precise: I don't want examples of Jesus blessing or giving thanks ( εὐλογέω - like in Matthew 14:19) or laying hands upon someone (ἐπιτίθημι χεῖρας - like in Matthew 19:15), I'd like to see an example of Jesus praying (προσεύχομαι) publicly for people.
Could you please give us a verse? Thank you. --AugustO 15:40, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- For example, Jesus routinely prayed in public before each meal.--Andy Schlafly 21:32, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- "I don't want examples of Jesus blessing or giving thanks"
- "I'd like to see an example of Jesus praying (προσεύχομαι) publicly for people"
- "Could you please give us a verse?"
- As you can see, your answer doesn't match the question. --AugustO 22:45, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- Try John 8-14 (Translated)#11:41 - when Jesus very publicly prays to and thanks God prior to raising Lazarus from the dead.--Andy Schlafly 23:45, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- I wonder if he'd be satisfied with John 17:11-17:
- Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. [1]
- Perhaps there aren't as many transcripts of our Lord's specific prayers as we'd all like. --Ed Poor Talk 19:46, 26 May 2013 (EDT)
- I wonder if he'd be satisfied with John 17:11-17:
My faith is VERY IMPORTANT to me
I may be a "liberal" Christian but I am devout, but some articles (guess by who?) suggest I am more associated with Satan them I am Jesus. I will not stand for it any longer--Patmac 09:34, 26 May 2013 (EDT)
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Can you please unprotect this page? I would like to update it with information about VY and Shock's chatroom that has come to light at Talk:Main Page. If this is not desirable, then I would suggest unprotecting the page (which is currently sourced only to a single page on an anonymous blog) so that a more verifiable article can be written in its place (and perhaps if I can get a hold of Conservative, he can point me to reliable sources). Thanks, GregG 21:28, 31 May 2013 (EDT)
Dead link
Can you do anything with this: Template:Dead link? --JoeyJ 14:02, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
- What is wrong with it?--Andy Schlafly 16:20, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
My talk
Could you restore my talk page, actually? A nice little memento from the hoopla. :) Onward 20:24, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
A copy from my post on Main page talk
Conservative still goes on with his hatred, I will get blocked for this but here is my promise, I will wait 3 days and if after that time this users hatred is not completely removed from this site I am going to report Conservapedia to the Southern Poverty Law Center and request it is designated a hate group.--Patmac 11:28, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- I would have preferred to send these messages to you in person but I cannot find an email for you so it has to be done here, I have requested you do something before but have been constantly ignored. Lets face it Andy, despite not holding office you are very much a politician, and what does a politician do when a subordinate constantly jeopardizes his position? He gits rid.--Patmac 11:41, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- Conservapedia supports and defends the full right to free speech, and urges liberal groups to do likewise.--Andy Schlafly 12:16, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
This is not free speech, this is hate speech. When i read that Jesus eats and spits out moderate Christians that is hate speech, and it also brings the name of our saviour into disrepute. He does not just attack evolutionists and atheists, he attacks Christians, to the extent that we are not Christians at all. "Liberal" Christianity and marital infidelity, "Liberal" Christianity and whore mongering, "Liberal" Christianity and bestiality, need i say more? But if someone dare challenge his position, he blocks them, how is that free speech? I think you personally have some pretty strange ideas but you do allow them to be challenged without going on a hate spree, and you are to be respected for that. But constantly allowing Conservative to post his vile tirade, however free it may be, just undermines Conservatives and by extension your image.--Patmac 12:32, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- This user Pacmac is blocked indefinitely. Apparently, he thinks he can define what hatred is, even so far as to saying that the above reference concerning Jesus constitutes "hate speech". This is the place in the Bible where it comes from, Revelation, Chapter 2:
- 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
- 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
- 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
- 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
- What it means is that this user is trying his best to stop any mention of the Bible unless this mention is done in accordance with his liberal philosophy; which means that the above Revelation verses are null and void. He further threatens to call the SPLC on us if we don't behave in according to his whims, i.e. one hate filled individual calling a hate-filled organization to complain about our alleged hate against his own hate-filled ideas.
- Patmac had also forgotten about our First Amendment RIGHTS to FREE SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, and FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE. He's so filled with hate himself that he would demand the SPLC to try to stop us from enjoying those rights. As far as I'm concerned, he failed. And he can continue failing somewhere else. Karajou 13:12, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- Firstly, let me say that I do not endorse user:Patmac`s tactics of legal threats. They have no place on a wiki, and should instead be sent to the site's owner (Mr. Schlafly) by email. However, as per hate speech and the Bible, it is clear that the Bible condemns churches who do not uphold the tenets of Christianity, but on the other hand, who is User:C to decide which churches are not upholding these tenets? brenden 13:43, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
This is an opportunity for Andy to show some leadership in setting a path that de-escallates the conflict here. On the one hand, Patmac is absolutely right about the intemperate nature of User:C's comments. On the other hand, Patmac's frustration with the failure to address that problem led him to make intemperate remarks as well. I suggest that we forgive Patmac for his transgression, and address whether User:C's edits are consistent with the fundamental commandments of Conservapedia. This is not a "Free Speech" issue. User:C is free to express his views on his private blog. Our question is whether CP should endorse and republish some sharp comments as the views of the entire project. Wschact 07:22, 4 June 2013 (EDT)
Can you please nuke
ReymeDneK's contributions? Thanks, GregG 10:15, 5 June 2013 (EDT)
There is a dispute between myself and user:Markman regarding User:Rafael's block. Could you please provide some guidance? Thanks, brenden 15:34, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- See this edit. Clear case of incivility. Considering his previous record I'd say he should be banned for at least a week if not more. I would have given him a lifetime ban but unfortunately there are too many editors with blocking rights who seem to be determined to subvert Conservapedia's rules. Interestingly enough, many of those editors are also in cordial relations with the RW userbase. - Markman 15:42, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist. As per "determined to subvert Conservapedia's rules", I would suggest that you re-read the rules. I still haven't forgotten your bullying of AlanE. brenden 15:48, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- "You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist." Come on darling, don't be afraid to call the parodist by his name - Dvergne. The same Dvergne who sided with you and with AlanE against me. So you're basically admitting to both associating with a liberal website and with parodists. - Markman 15:54, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- As far as I understand, User:Dvergne, Karajou, and myself were chastising you for spamming {{uncited}} specifically on AlanE's contributions. Are you insinuating that Karajou is "associating with a parodist"?? Furthermore, once again, you have shown yourself unwilling to read that userpage, that explains my goals on that website specifically. In case you can't see that website, I have the words reproduced below:
- "You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist." Come on darling, don't be afraid to call the parodist by his name - Dvergne. The same Dvergne who sided with you and with AlanE against me. So you're basically admitting to both associating with a liberal website and with parodists. - Markman 15:54, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist. As per "determined to subvert Conservapedia's rules", I would suggest that you re-read the rules. I still haven't forgotten your bullying of AlanE. brenden 15:48, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
==Wat?== *Why are you here? :I'd rather not be impersonated, and I would like a word in this place. *What are you doing at Conservapedia? :I do enjoy thought exercises. While Conservapedia does go in a little overboard at times, I still have faith in it. I feel that the only reason that Conservapedia's problems are so famous, are because of the inordinate amount of trolls and parodists, trying their best to write something so ridiculous, that their comrades might congratulate them. That, and the continued threats by [[user:naca|certain]] [[user:Umichcynic|people]] [[user:Proxima Centauri|at]] [[Liberapedia|certain websites]], to (blocked by spam filter), and harrass the precarious community at Conservapedia, have not helped the situation. One of my goals there is to rectify that. brenden 16:00, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- Your other edits on that website reveal a different story. Your cordial relations with the RW userbase shows that you're one of them. - Markman 16:04, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- In the days of TK your admiting you are even reading that site would have earnt you a ban. Davidspencer 16:05, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- On the contrary, I have been called a dick, a parodist, a "smarmy little prefect", among other things. I do my best to present Conservapedia in a positive light, and frankly, are doing a lot more good than Markman, going there to deliberately spread a false impression of a surly, confrontational Conservapedia. brenden 16:06, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- I think that I made my case and I don't need to elaborate any further. I don't only enforce the 90/10 rule but also try to comply with it, so I'll refrain from any further replies until Mr. Schlafly says his word. - Markman 16:09, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
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A sock of Mr. Mason has recently posted some vile attacks on that page. Although I have undid them, someone may want to block that sock and/or take other remedial measures. Thanks, WilliamWB 12:43, 7 June 2013 (EDT)


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Last night, Blessed Trinity senior quarterback Spencer McManes announced he was headed to the Ivy League next season to attend Yale. McManes, a four-year starter at the Roswell school, led the Titans to the playoffs the last two seasons under coach Tim McFarlin. In an email to Score, Skip McManes said Spencer "is psyched. It's been a long road." McManes last suited up in the 2012 Chamber Bowl for the South team.
While the Class of 2013 has still yet to put pen to paper, some colleges are already after members of the Class of 2014. Friday night, Sandy Creek wide receiver Demarre Kitt tweeted that Michigan had offered. Kitt de-committed from UGA in October and holds offers from Clemson, Ohio State, USC, Miami and Auburn, among others. Kitt recently declared Ohio State and Clemson as his co-leaders.
Kitt's Sandy Creek teammate Shaq Wiggins has already made official visits to Florida and Georgia, but he visited South Carolina over the weekend and will visit Ole Miss on Jan. 25 before giving Texas A&M his final visit. Wiggins has been committed to Georgia since February 2012, but rumors are circulating that he is interested in playing with former Sandy Creek teammate JaQuay Williams, who signed with Texas A&M out of Fork Union Military.
Georgia State has managed to snag yet another in-state prospect when South Paulding defensive end Carnell Hopson pledged to the program over offers from Western Carolina and Georgia Southern.
Finally, former Wilcox County star Nick Marshall, who spent one season at UGA as a cornerback before spending last season at Garden City junior college has announced that he will sign with Auburn to play quarterback. Marshall was a standout quarterback/cornerback in high school and also excelled at basketball. He was part of the Dream Team before being dismissed over an incident that reportedly involved the theft of money from a teammate.


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This memo is circulating through the state Dept. of Transportation, it lays out how they would shut down if Monday's budget extender doesn't pass.
It looks like DOT people could still be called out in emergencies such as fallen trees across the road and things like that. Otherwise, they stay home.
UPDATE: You, the wonderful commenters, have posted similar memos from other agencies. They're appended below. Keep 'em coming, either in the comments or to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Government Shutdown Contingency Plan
This plan will define steps to be taken by DOT to maintain critical public safety response capability if the NYS government is "shut down" due to lack of a passed budget or emergency spending plan.
• All state owned facilities will be closed (and not accessible by employees)
• Maintain only the most critical public safety services
o Response to severe highway incidents
• Major obstruction in road (down tree, protruding guiderail, etc)
• Major traffic incident where DOT presence is required to address critical safety issue
o Critical damage to transportation infrastructure, such as:
• Washouts
• Severe bridge damage
• Dark signal or critical malfunction
o Response for declared natural disaster emergency such as widespread flooding, tornado, etc.
• Employees essential to deliver above services will earn "on-call" pay and appropriate straight-time/OT to reasonably respond
• Contract employees at TMCs will be permitted to work (This covers Region 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11)
• All other state employees "locked out"/furloughed
• All other Department operations will cease until
Maintaining Critical Response Capability – Coverage for call outs:
Emergency call outs will be accommodated by utilizing TMC operations with consultant operators. The following is the proposed coverage plan using existing coverage relationships and/or assignment based on proximity. Each Region who will be forwarding phones, must provide updated call-out list to assisting Region by noon on Monday June 14.
Region Callouts by Region Callouts by
R6 * NITTEC / STICC Main Office STICC
* Regions will be forwarding calls to another Region. If NITTEC closed, STICC will take R5 & R6 calls.
Call-out approval:
Information will be provided to employees through the following channels:
• IntraDOT
• DOT Employee Emergency Hotline (800 number)
• Local television, print and radio media
If possible, appropriate information shall be posted on the IntraDOT and sent via Department email in advance, including this plan.
All employees should be instructed to call the Emergency hotline prior to reporting to work on Tuesday, June 15th and continue to call prior to the start time of each normally scheduled shift until the shutdown is over.
Actions Items:
• Ensure clear lines of communication with GOER or other authority for information and approval of plan implementation
• Confirm that we will be permitted to call people out to address critical public safety issues
• Will called-out workers be covered by workers comp?
• Confirm workers will have access to yards
• Review/approve above list of "qualifying" incidents for call-out
• Determine if we can pay people who are called out? If not, then we cannot provide for above public safety services and alternative is to inform law enforcement they will need to close roads
• Determine if 50 Wolf Rd to remain open? (may be state owned) If not, take steps to operate STICC at R1TMC
• Make sure we can pay TMC contractors for work performed during shutdown
• Ensure each call-forwarding Region provides POC/call-out list to "covering" regions
• Verify that each RDO/RME/RTE should filter/approve call-outs
• Should all calls go to RDO/RME/RTE in lieu of sending call-out list to TMCs
• Develop script for 1-866 number and pre-record
• Develop IntraDOT message
• Schedule Conference call with RD/RDO/RTE, etc once decisions are made
Key Players: Executive management, ETO Bureau, Communications, RDOs/RMEs, RTEs, REMs, TMC managers, Employee Relations, Facilities Manager, Employe
Here's the Department of Insurance:
As you have learned from the news media, should an emergency "extender" budget not be approved by the legislature, New York State will not have the authority to continue operations next week. In the event a budget extender fails to pass, plans are underway to continue essential health services, as well as to maintain order and assure public safety.
The lack of budget authority by midnight Monday, June 14, will require the shutdown of all other State operations, including virtually all Insurance Department operations on Tuesday, June 15. This is an unprecedented situation and there are many unknowns.
We will continue to keep you informed as we learn more.
Christopher F. Rulon
Deputy Superintendent for Operations
New York State Insurance Department
One Commerce Plaza
Albany, NY 12257
Phone: 518-474-4567
Fax: 518-473-4139
And here's a memo from the Department of Labor:
From: Message From The Commissioner
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:35 AM
To: labor.dl.mailbox.all
Subject: Commissioner Message
As I'm sure many of you have heard by now, the state is facing a possible shutdown of government if an agreement on an appropriation bill cannot be reached by the State Legislature by midnight on Monday the 14th. The Governor has informed me that if an appropriation bill is not enacted by Monday, we must shut down state services in an orderly fashion beginning on Tuesday morning. He stressed that the State has an obligation to provide essential services to its residents, to protect their health, safety and welfare. I am doing my best to stress that many of our staff provide services vital to the welfare of New Yorkers. However, as of right now it appears that inaction on the bill may impact all DoL employees including state and federally funded positions and Management Confidential staff. If this bill does not pass, it's very likely that all of us will be impacted and will not be authorized to report to work on Tuesday the 15th until further notice.
I am working with the Governor and his staff to get up to the minute updates on this unprecedented action. I know that a shutdown will have a terrible impact on all of us including the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who rely on our services and unemployment benefits. I promise you I will relay any information to you as I receive it.
And here's one from the Office of Children and Family Services:
Dear OCFS Employee
I am writing to you in regard to the potential government shutdown. If the Legislature does not enact an appropriation bill on Monday, June 14, the State will lose the authority to continue paying most of its bills and must be prepared to shut down non-essential state services on Tuesday, June 15, until appropriation authority is restored.
Governor Paterson has proposed budget extender bills that would ensure the continued orderly operation of state government. The State has an obligation to provide essential services to its residents, to protect their health, safety and welfare. That obligation will remain our first priority however events unfold.
In the event an emergency appropriation bill is not passed by the Legislature on Monday, non-critical state services will cease, beginning Tuesday, June 15 at 12:01 AM. Executive staff will develop a list of essential employees and this information will be communicated as soon as it is available.
If an appropriation bill is not enacted by Monday, and if you have been notified that your position is non-essential for purposes of the shutdown of state services, you should complete any shift that you began before midnight, Monday, June 14. You are not to report to work for any shift that begins on or after 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, June 15, until the shutdown ends or you receive a direct order to report from a supervisor.
Official action may not be known until midnight, Monday, June 14. If a shut-down becomes necessary, we ask all employees and contractors to call the OCFS emergency communications line at 1-866-269-4820 for a recorded bulletin or check the OCFS website for instructions related to the shut-down. The recorded bulletin will be available beginning at 12:01 A.M. on Tuesday, June 15. At that time, you will be instructed as to whether or not you should report to work for Tuesday and each day thereafter that the shutdown is in effect.
We recognize the hardship a shut-down may impose on you personally and on our entire workforce. We will continue to share information on developments with you as soon as it is received.
Gladys Carrión, Esq., Commissioner
And from Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis:
We've been officially informed by the Governor's Office that if the Legislature does not enact an appropriation bill by midnight on Monday, June 14, 2010, the State will lose the authority to continue paying most of its bills and must be prepared to shut down most State services on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 until appropriation authority is restored.
Governor Paterson has proposed budget extender bills that would ensure the continued orderly operation of State government. The State has an obligation to provide basic services to its residents to protect their health, safety and welfare. That obligation will remain our first priority however events unfold.
If an appropriation bill is not enacted by Monday midnight, we must shut down state services in an orderly fashion beginning on Tuesday. The only state services that will continue are those that are necessary to ensure public health and safety. State commissioners and agency heads have been directed to determine those activities which specifically relate to public health and safety and the employees necessary for providing them. You will be notified by your division or regional director if you should report to work on Tuesday in the event of a shutdown.
If an appropriation bill is not enacted by Monday, you should complete any shift that you began before midnight, Monday, June 14, and unless you were specifically notified otherwise, you are not to report to work for any shift that begins on or after 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, June 15 until the shutdown ends. Please check the public media to find out whether a shutdown of State services will start on Tuesday, and whether a shutdown will continue each day after that.
I know that this is very difficult for all of us and while I remain hopeful that the shutdown can be averted, it is necessary for us to plan for this in a professional and responsible manner. Thank you for all the good work you do every day for the people of NYS. I certainly recognize that any shutdown will affect everyone that works at DEC and will also have significant impacts on the many people we protect and serve. This could be a rapidly changing situation, and we will make every effort to keep you up to date as we receive any new information.


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Racist Or Overreacting? Watermelon Soda With Black Girl Eatin It & White Boy On Other Side Being Sold In Target! "Im Gettin Upset Already" (Harlem People Saying Its Serious & Not Good At All)
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Eduardo Goncalves Ribeiro had a tropical personality. Born to a slave mother in Amazonia he grew to be twice governor of the new Brasilian State of Amazonas whose constitution he masterminded on democratic, positivist principles that confronted the church's interference in secular affairs.
He visited Europe and dreamed the dream of turning his capital Manaus into the Paris of the Tropics. Never married, his work was his life. He rode the high wave of the late 19th century Brasilian rubber boom and the great buildings of the now much dilapidated modern Manaus, especially the famous opera house, witness to the imprint of his very fertile personality on the city.
He ruled over a brief human world mirroring and competing with the impenetrable vegetation and the highly decorated animal kingdom teeming around it on all sides. The surreal costumes of Carnevale seem to reflect the divine imagination at work in the crests of birds and the heart-opening beauty of the inside of butterfly wings. Within this rampant jungle Ribeiro cleared a human space for grand public buildings, parks and gardens, racecourses and bullrings and fine restaurants. It wanted to imitate the European world but always and still seems closer to the jungle whose sovereignty it opposed but on which it also depended. The euphoria of the rubber boom, like that of the City of London in the 90s, often went insane. The rubber barons, not unlike the robber bankers, lit their cigars with hundred dollar bills, watered their horses on champagne and sent their laundry to Paris. Their wives sweltered in fur coats in the opera house built of materials imported from Scotland and Italy.
All this from a white sticky liquid that oozes easily from a cut in the bark of a tree in the jungle. The indigenous people had long used its elastic properties but Charles Goodyear refined the production process and gave the world the rubber tires that it runs on today. True to their noble history of patriotic piracy the downfall of the Manaus dream came from the English. In 1867 Henry Wickham, later knighted for his mission, on instructions from the director of Kew Gardens, smuggled out seeds of the Hervea Brasiliensis rubber tree. By 1920 ninety percent of the world's rubber came from British plantations in Asia.
As with economists in today's, desperate efforts were made to prevent the inevitable collapse of Amazonia's brief glory. Ribeiro must have seen the end coming. One day, in 1900 at the age of thirty-eight he was found hanged in his study sitting in his rocking chair. They say that the voices he had always heard screaming in his head must have become unbearable. One cannot even hover on the margins of his extravagant yet strangely lonely life without the kind of wonder and thankfulness for life that you feel riding up the mighty Amazon by canoe or cutting your way a few metres into the dense jungle. As you fall asleep in a hard-won clearing you wonder whether the jungle will not have moved in and trapped you by morning. As Ribeiro discovered, in the jungle where he was born or in the urban clearing he made, once you let life loose it can only be lived not controlled.
Ribeiro made many mistakes as there must be many seeds left unfertilized in the endlessly self-reproducing imagination of the jungle. Not least of them was the hubris and hollow self-confidence, like that of all imperial attempts to dominate nature, which becomes intoxicated on the elixir of the fantasy of an eternal era of success. Nothing lasts forever and most things don't last long. But unlike the animals or vegetation in their lush cycles, human beings deny death, convincing themselves that what they give birth to may be, may just be immortal. The jungle and the longer sweeps of history repeat the only immortal lesson: that life is cyclical and that its cycles depend on nadirs, bottom-points and the relief of periodic dissolution.
Despite its fall Manaus is still there, welcoming people to the Amazon. What consoles us for the pain of human stupidity is what the ecology of the jungle demonstrates by its mixture of life and death, decay and regeneration. Here you tread the evidence of how the worst failures serve as sediment for the new wave of life over which we have no control. This moment of powerlessness in the life-process is the source of the fountain of creation, like the point at land's end where river becomes waterfall as it drops hundreds of metres to a new channel for it to flow in. (Listen to Beethoven's last piano sonata to hear this).
Maybe this paradoxical hope in the cycle of life was one of the intolerable voices competing for Ribeira's attention at the end. Maybe he had, like most of us, moved too far from the jungle to hear its lesson.
Laurence Freeman OSB
The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)


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The American Heritage dictionary defines gene pool as thus: The collective genetic information contained within a population of sexually reproducing organisms.
In terms of human genetic make up we can understand that experience of our ancestors is passed forward and it is something like a safety-line thrown across passage of time. This support is achieved within species and not from species to another.
Nine-tenths of our genes are identical to that of a mouse. It doesn't tell much. Neither would this: sixty percent of DNA found in the humans is also found in a banana. Where lies the mystery then?
DNA in a molecule is a genetic universe. A difference of .1 in a molecule would make some 3 million genetic differences. From such numbers Nature can give a mouse its own uniqueness as a man.
Yet Nature underwrites wellbeing of life forms on a standard that allows borrowing from species to species and from person to person.
That gene which makes a jellyfish glow can be implanted in another living thing to study its stress level.
We have organ donor programs by which organs from the brain dead can be used to replace the organs diseased and give new lease of life to the living. Like tissue match between persons so grafting a part of healthy skin onto replace the damaged skin by burns in another faulty heart valves of man can be replaced from animals as well. It would seem then for such procedures to succeed there must be a common ground?
Transfer factor is where a particular protein has the ability to recognize a disease and activate body's immune system. So it will not catch it a second time. In Transfer factor we see how this immunity can be passed from person to another.
Outbreak of AIDS epidemic has been the scrouge of the present century. Yet is has a chilling parallel to the waves of Black Death that devastated Europe earlier. The strange case of Steve Crohn from California attests to the timelessness of experience. His lover Jerry succumbed to the epidemic and died on March 4,1982. He was the fourth victim to die of AIDS. Steve however remained immune to it, which seemed curious to the scientists. Steve's blood carried HIV virus, 3000 times more than needed to infect a healthy cell and yet he remained healthy. Something was blocking the virus from getting in. He had a blocking system identified as Delta 32. It was traced out to his ancestry. His European ancestors carried this mutant gene as a result of the Black Death and they had brought it to the New World. Like Steve there are 1% of people in U.K and the U.S.A, carrying the gene.
In terms of use and experience transfer factor would indicate a long range view of things is Nature's game plan. Old Medieval idea of God sending Attila the Hun as a scourge for persecuting Christians is not borne by facts. Rome had it coming and it took slow in maturing and from many chain of events connecting the fall of Rome was that of a power structure that could not handle a vast empire. But the excellence of Imperial Rome, its Law, literature, art, technology will travel further under many guises. Civic Architecture of Washington. DC is a telling example.
Imperial Rome riding the baggage train of other world powers was nothing new. But for Hellenism that Alexander the Great centered around Egypt (Alexandria) Syria,Persia and Macedon ancient Greece would not had such an impact on the West. . Rome in her ascendancy borrowed Greek ideals as her own. Just as Greece did in her days.
Archaeological evidences show assimilation of influences from Syro- Hittite, Assyrian, Phoenician and Egyptian cultures. The Archaic Greece came into focus with the sudden end of the Mycenaean culture. Cosmos as one will make both human excellence and evil go under many guises according the necessities of the age and change shapes. Thus if war did glorify might of kingdoms and added prestige to the bandit-kings who led the plunder it would another time will be waged for 'the king and country'.


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A simple and delightful dish–stir-fried napa cabbage with dried shrimp (and straw mushrooms).
Straw mushrooms are optional but I put them into the stir-fry as I had some leftover in the fridge.
Surprisingly, they transformed this humble recipe and added extra flavor, texture, and color to my stir-fried napa cabbage. I loved it!
If you are a Chinese-Malaysian or Chinese, I am sure many of you have had this dish growing up; perhaps you are still preparing it at home. It's one of those homey dishes that reminds you of your mother's–or your grandmother's–cooking…
I served my napa cabbage with a dollop of garlic oil and fried garlic on top of this dish. What a great idea. It infused the serving with garlicky aroma. You should try it, too!
To make other nostalgic and homey Chinese-Malaysian dishes, AKA the food of my childhood, please check out my recipes below (recommended and pair well with stir-fried napa cabbage):
- Malaysian Sweet and Sour Eggs (Eggs Masak Branda/Belanda)
- Stir-fried Eggs with Red Onions and Shrimp
- Bean Sprouts with Salted Fish
- Malaysian-style Ladies Fingers/Okras
- Pork Ribs and Lotus Root Soup
- Bean Curd Sticks and Pork Ribs Soup
- Stir-fried Bean Curds with Leeks
- Braised Bean Curd/Firm Tofu with Mushrooms
- Steamed Tofu and Ground Pork
- Steamed Eggs with Cincaluk/Steamed Eggs with Fermented Shrimp
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The headline proclaimed, "Father Vincent Smith's First Mass a Notable Occasion."
Why exactly was this Mass, celebrated June 10, 1934, worthy of headlines? It was the first time an African-American born in Kentucky had celebrated Mass as a Catholic priest.
The newspaper wrote that more than 2,000 black Catholics — including Smith's parents, who were both in their 80s — attended the Mass along with 30 priests from the diocese of Louisville and surrounding dioceses.
"It seemed that the whole population turned out. I think they did," Smith was later quoted as saying. "My church had been restricted to colored for my Mass, but the white parishioners crowded in, too."
Many events in Smith's life would be recorded in newspapers. He was profiled in Ebony magazine, and The Rev. Albert S. Foley devoted a chapter to Smith in the book, "God's Men of Color".
Smith was born Aug. 2, 1894, in Lebanon to Pious and Mary Eliza Spalding Smith. He was the 12th of their 13 children.
Foley noted that Pious had been a plasterer by trade, and he was hired to help with the construction of the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. Pious often took his son to the monastery when he was a child.
At 17 years old, Smith worked as a chauffeur and valet for Rev. Ferdinand Brossart, who was then Bishop of Covington. At 18, Smith joined the Army and served 18 months in France during World War I. When he returned, Smith was convinced he was meant to become a priest, and Brossart enthusiastically supported him, according to Foley.
Brossart tried to gain admission for Smith at St. Joseph's Seminary in Baltimore. At that time, it was the only seminary that would educate African-Americans to become priests.
The seminary officials agreed to admit Smith, but they told Brossart they could not promise Smith would be ordained. The Bishop of Baltimore previously had ordained a few African-American priests, but he was hesitant to ordain more because he had difficultly finding placements for them.
With his dream on hold, Smith went to work in steel mills in Gary, Ind. He saved his money and later enrolled at Sacred Heart College, a seminary in Greenville, Miss. That seminary later moved to Bay St. Louis, Mo., and in 1926, he was one of four African-Americans ordained in the first class to graduate from the seminary, which had been renamed St. Augustine's.
But he was still not yet a priest.
He took his first vows in 1928 in East Troy, Wis., but he had to wait until May 23, 1934 before he was officially ordained as a priest by the Most Rev. R.O. Gerow, then Bishop of Natchez (Louisiana).
The next month, Smith returned to his hometown to celebrate his first Mass. At that time, Lebanon's Catholic community was still segregated. White Catholics attended St. Augustine, while black Catholics attended St. Monica.
Rev. Joseph A. Hogarty, who was the pastor at both churches, recognized that this was an important event, and not just for Smith. According to a newspaper account of the event, Hogarty "arranged for the Mass to be said in St. Augustine's in order to accommodate the many friends of the newly ordained priests."
Smith went on to serve parishes in Lafayette, La., Chicago and St. Louis. His final pastorate was at Our Lady of the Divine Shepherd in Trenton, NJ. After six years in Trenton, Smith was ready to return to Kentucky, where he sought to join the Trappists.
Once again, Smith's decision made the news. At the time, Smith had been identified as the only black priest in the United States with white assistants. He left the life of the parish priest in 1949, and entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, where he took the name Mary Simon.
After completing the two years of his novitiate, Smith took his final vows as a Trappist on the Feast of the Holy Trinity, May 20, 1951, a day he spent visiting with family and friends.
"I still carry vivid, happy memories of the great pleasure of seeing all of you on Profession day at Gethsemani," Smith later wrote in a letter to his nephew, niece and their children. "As you know, it was a real 'Red-Letter' day for me."
The day after he made his final vows, he was transferred to the Abbey of Genesee, a newly opened Trappist monastery in Piffard, New York, where he served as novice master until he died of a heart attack on March 22, 1952. Smith is buried at the monastery in New York.
Upon his death, the "Rev. Father Provincial" of the monastery wrote to the family informing them of Smith's death. The Father Provincial noted that Smith was a source of good cheer, adding that even the hospital corridors echoed his passing.
"Father Simon from the first days of his novitiate supplied the fine balance and the lubrication of good cheer with sound judgment," the Father Provincial wrote. "All proclaimed him, God's nobleman, a man's man, friendly apostle, a Crusader for souls, the kindly missionary ...."
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Evaluation shows "Faked" Heartland Climate Strategy Memo is AuthenticRead time: 15 mins
Brendan Demelle and Richard Littlemore | February 22, 2012
By Brendan Demelle and Richard Littlemore • Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 15:48
A line-by-line evaluation of the Climate Strategy memo, which the Heartland Institute has repeatedly denounced as a "fake" shows no "obvious and gross misstatements of fact," as Heartland has alleged. On the contrary, the Climate Strategy document is corroborated by Heartland's own material and/or by its allies and employees.
It also uses phrases, language and, in many cases, whole sentences that were taken directly from Heartland's own material. Only someone who had previous access to all of that material could have prepared the Climate Strategy in its current form.
In all the circumstances – taking into account Peter Gleick's explanation of the origin of the Heartland documents, and in direct contradiction of Heartland's stated position – DeSmogBlog has concluded that the Climate Strategy memo is authentic.


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The 2011 Personal Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally begins Saturday, with the ceremonial start in Buenos Aires; it will finish in Victoria, Argentina, on the first night. Actual timed racing begins on Sunday, with the first day of racing covering 566 km from Victoria to Cordoba. This the 32nd edition of the rally, taking place in Argentina and Chile for the third straight year; it will conclude on January 16th after navigating over 9,500 km of some of the roughest terrain any vehicle can navigate.
Entry classes for racing include just about everything on two or four wheels; motorcycles, quads, trucks and cars can join the mayhem. Over 425 entrants are expected in this year's rally. Last year's winner in the quad category, South American Marcos Patronelli, had a serious accident while testing in November and broke both fibulas, but has not yet withdrawn from the race. He thinks his odds are better than 50/50 that he will compete anyway.
KTM has dominated the Elite motorcycle class for the last five years with podium finishes and wins being traded by Red Bull's Cyril Despres and Repsol's Marc Coma; however, this year the Elite classification is limited to 450cc, making the racing even more competitive for other riders and entries from Aprilia, BMW, Honda and Yamaha.
Other notable rally racers will include NASCAR's Robby Gordon, entering for the seventh time in a Hummer in one truck class, and six-time winner Vladimir Chagin in another with his Red Bull/Kamaz truck. You can follow the daily results on the official Dakar website or check your local TV listings. There will be over 50 channels across the globe that will be covering all or portions of the event. Updated rally information is also available on Facebook and Twitter.
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