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The Iconostasis at the Russicum in Rome. |
The Roman Rite has a very unique genius. The various Eastern Rites and the Rites of
Northern Europe were highly influenced by the Court ceremonial of the Emperor
or Kings, but Rome was ruled by the Pope and although the papal court developed
its own ceremonial it was mainly liturgical and not imperial at least up to the
Renaissance papacies. And while the
papal liturgies were more elaborate than the liturgy in a parish or monastic
church—due to the presence of the pope—the rite, as practiced in the local
churches maintained the Spartan dignity of its ancient character. However, even the papal liturgies were more
austere than the elaborate Gallican Rites practiced north of the Alps. The vestments in Rome remained the simple
dignified vesture of roman magistrates—the alb, the chasuble, the maniple and the
stole. The deacon wore a dalmatic in place of the chasuble, though there were
rituals in which the deacon too wore a chasuble. The vestments were almost
invariably of white wool—the wearing of white being a sign of one's Roman
citizenship. (Red came to be used, as it
was in civil life, for the color of mourning.
It also was used for commemoration of martyrs—perhaps originally due to
its connection with death—and for the Passion of the Lord.) The basic structure of the liturgy: three
processions (entrance, gifts, and communion) each followed by a collect
remained clearly evident with the Readings placed between the first two and the
Eucharistic prayer placed between the second and the third. The congregation
stood through the entire liturgy, though there was seating for the clergy
during the readings and homilies. (In
the east there were frequent prostrations in imitation of the courtly
etiquette.) A Byzantine priest who has taught
liturgy in the seminary pointed out to me that the biblical model for the Roman
liturgy is the gathering around the throne of the Lamb in the Book of
Revelation singing the Thrice Holy Hymn while the liturgical model for the
Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite is Christ the Priest entering into the heavenly
sanctuary in the Letter to the Hebrews.
This makes some sense when one familiarizes oneself with the appropriate
scriptural texts and the very different geist
of each of the two rites.
My chief objection to the ad apsidem position of the priest in the Roman Rite is that it
bespeaks an ecclesiology in which the priest "says Mass" for the people rather than
celebrating the Eucharist with them. The
ad apsidem position privatizes the
Mass as the action of the priest when in fact it is the action of the entire
assembly, priest and people together. The
East, with its very different geist,
manages to include the faithful in the key actions of the liturgy despite the ad orientem position and even the
presence of icon screens or sanctuary curtains.
The Byzantine—and other Eastern Rites—have
developed a very different geist, one
that is highly dialogical, than the Roman Rite.
The Byzantine Rite is a series of litanies sung among the
(con)celebrant(s) at the altar, the deacon(s) standing at the Holy Doors, and
the faithful. There is a constant
exchange of sung dialogue between the altar and the faithful. Even the
Eucharistic Prayer contains one of these dialogical litanies. And don't forget the priest is not only
standing with his back to the people, but the iconostasis blocks most views of
the altar entirely. (In fact, in the
more strictly observant churches the Holy Doors are often closed, at least
during penitential seasons, and the curtain behind them is drawn blocking any
view whatsoever.) Yet the sung
interchange keeps the faithful aware that they are an integral part of the
In the West, however the prayers are usually said
by the priest alone. Kyrie, Gloria,
Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei are sung together in a high Mass, but usually by a
choir, and high Masses were rare: perhaps one a Sunday in most parishes with the
remaining five or six Sunday Masses being a simple low or "read Mass" with only
the priest and altar servers responding.
So the issue for me really is this: is the
Eucharist something the priest does on behalf of the people or is it something
that the entire Body of Christ—the Church assembled—does together with the
priest, as a sacramental presence of Christ in the assembly, does in
unity. The Tradition of the Church, as
found in the Fathers of the Church, make it clear that the Liturgy is the work
of the entire People of God albeit in their different functions. The versus
populum position of the priest at the altar, which is the authentic heritage of
the Roman Rite, preserves this in the face of a rite that would otherwise
reduce the People of God from exercising their baptismal royal and priestly
dignity to mere recipients of grace through the mediatorship of the ordained
priest. There is no way that I want to
go back to that faulty ecclesiology, nor do I believe the vast majority of the
faithful want to revert to being strangers at the Table of the Lord. My experience of those seminarians and clergy
who wish to go back is that they have a need to dominate and control others
that stems from an underdeveloped psycho-sexual self-identity and want to use
the Liturgy for their own aggrandizement.
They become, at least in their own minds, the indispensible mediators of
grace through whom alone we can approach the Throne of Grace and without whom
we would be bereft of the Love of God. Pray
for them for the judgment will be severe.


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New study changes view about the genetics of leukemia risk
A gene that helps keep blood free of cancer is controlled by tiny pieces of RNA, a finding that may lead to better ways to diagnose blood cancers and even lead to new forms of treatment, Yale School of Medicine researchers report online Oct. 10 in the journal Cell Reports.
In the past few years researchers have identified the crucial role of the gene TET2 in keeping blood cells healthy. Mutations of the gene have been found in about 20% of leukemias and indicate a poor prognosis for patients. However, the gene was thought to be irrelevant in 80% of leukemia cases.
The new study changes this view. The researchers identified the agents that could be responsible for many leukemias without TET2 mutation — a host of microRNAs from the large expanse of DNA that do not code for proteins. They found that patients with large numbers of these microRNAs are more likely to have impaired TET2 function, even without a known mutation, and are thus likely to have aggressive forms of cancer.
This knowledge could help doctors develop a course of treatment for leukemia patients, said Jun Lu, assistant professor of genetics, researcher in the Yale Stem Cell Center and Yale Cancer Center, and senior author of the paper.
Lu points out that half of leukemia patients who lack these markers may be spared side effects of aggressive treatments.
"If these markers are absent and TET2 gene is not mutated, then the 50% of leukemia patients without this marker would be spared harsher treatment such as high-dose chemotherapy or bone marrow transplants," Lu said.
New therapies that could block these microRNAs could in theory help treat blood cancers, he said.
"However, there is currently no good way to do that, but it is a problem I am very hopeful will be resolved," Lu said.
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Telling African American Civil War Stories, of Soldiers, Civilians, Contrabands, First Days of Freedom, and the Events that led to Freedom
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Getting to the Story by Learning the Facts
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Coming from one who has never heard my family's Civil War Era stories, thank you! I am glad you are here to help set the record straight.
One thing I do know... if we believe in ourselves and cherish our heritage (MLK), we will come to the place where we will desire to know the whole story.
We will recognize our own exclusion from history. Fables will not resonate in our hearts, and we will venture back to the original historical documentation. We will also find voices we can trust just like I have found yours.
What a difference this will make!I am glad to see you posting this and will be linking to it in several places. I have wondered if there were reunions or soldier's groups for the U.S.C.T? Years ago, I photographed all of the markers at the Little Rock National Cemetery and am now putting them online at www.Civilwarbuff.org. There are several hundred soldiers from the U.S.C.T. and we have had quite a response in people finding their ancestors.
Keep up the good work!
Pris Weathers
www.Civilwarbuff.orgThis is an extremely valuable blog. Thank you for giving us much to think about. You raise very important questions and as always, provide compelling evidence to support your conclusions.
According to the National Archives, the USCT included 7 numbered cavalry regiments; 13 numbered artillery regiments plus 1 independent battery (originally from Kansas); 134 numbered infantry regiments; Brigade Bands Nos. 1 and 2 (Corps d' Afrique and U.S. Colored Troops); Powell's Regiment Colored Infantry; Southard's Company Colored Infantry; Quartermaster Detachment; Pioneer Corps, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps; Pioneer Corps, Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps; Unassigned Company A Colored Infantry and Unassigned USCT.
And then there were the 7 regiments from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Louisiana that continued to operate, with the approval of the War Department, under their sanctioned state volunteer regimental names.
Accounts of the actual number of battles and skirmishes in which the U.S. Colored Troops and others participated have varied. The African American historian George Washington Williams wrote in his History of the Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion (1888)that the total number of skirmishes and battles in which the USCT participated numbered 449.
The late Budge Weidman of the Civil War Conservation Corps of the National Archives wrote that the number of skirmishes exceeded 400 and that the U.S. Colored Troops fought in 39 major engagements (designated by the Army as "battles"). War Department records indicate that "Colored" troops were wounded in 249 engagements.
Perhaps as many as 200,000 African American men fought in the war as soldiers and sailors--with casualties from disease and battle of approximately 37,000.
Given the numbers of black men (and women too) who were enlisted in the service of the United States during the war it is reasonable to conclude that most black families in the U.S. at the time had a member in the military.
Let us continue to strive together to raise consciousness of the role of our forebears in creating what Lincoln called a "New Birth of Freedom."


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The man who remade Mexico City
| Mexico City
Jose Guadalupe Gonzalez walks among giant paper-mache renderings of fantastical dragons and serpents, called alebrijes, with his wife and two teenage daughters in the middle of Mexico City's Zocalo to celebrate Day of the Dead. Later, the family considered catching a play for free, also in the main plaza, or strolling along the nearby, new pedestrian streets of downtown Mexico.
In the winter the Gonzalez family goes ice-skating in the same spot. And on Sundays, any time of the year, they can hop on free bicycles and ride along Reforma, the city's most icononic thoroughfare.
In many ways, Mr. Gonzalez says his native city is an unrecognizable place, having transformed under leftist administrations and particularly the city's outgoing Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, who has become an international star of sorts among the municipal set.
"Before the lower classes did not have access to these leisure activities," says Gonzalez, a retired mechanic.
Mayor Ebrard steps down on Dec. 5 with wide approval ratings over his six-year administration, which has changed Mexico City both on the surface and in ways much deeper. For starters, Mexico City simply looks different. There are all-women buses that circulate the city and newly paved bike paths traversed by men in suits commuting to work.
Perhaps the most important changes have taken place under the surface, via new laws, climate action, and violence-combating plans. Abortion was legalized in 2007, as was gay marriage in 2010, and later gay adoption. Mexico City has been at the vanguard of ecological change, and has also been transformed by the things one no longer sees: It's now perceived as one of the safest places in Mexico.
In short, a city with one of the worst reputations among urbanites for pollution, lawlessness, and general chaos, has an entirely new appeal.
"Outsiders once viewed the city as terrorizing," says Ivan de la Lanza, who works for the city's bike sharing program called Ecobici. "Now it's a city that people want to visit, where they want to live."
Quality of life
It is on the environmental front that Ebrard has garnered the most international plaudits, and one of the reasons he won the World Mayor's 2010 prize for best urban leader. After taking office he outlined a 15-year "Green Plan" to reduce the city's overall greenhouse gas emissions. The Ecobici program now counts over 50,000 users who can forgo their cars to commute to work along 17 paved miles of bike path. The city just unveiled a new $2 billion subway line that not only cuts commutes by an hour and in some cases much more, but also aims to get hundreds of buses off the streets.
"Along with [President] Felipe Calderon, Ebrard has supported environmental causes more than any previous administrations," says Gustavo Alanis Ortega, the director general of the Mexican Center for Environmental Rights in Mexico City.
There are of course "incongruencies," says Mr. Alanis Ortega.
The city closed down a giant landfill as part of its environmental plan, but that's meant that streets have piled up with garbage ever since. Ebrard has forged ahead with new road systems, including a double-decker structure for the highway that rings the city. While it's been supported by some who believe it will relieve unbearable rush-hour traffic, it is criticized by others for the additional cars it will bring to the city center.
"He hasn't made anything better," says taxi driver Juan Hernandez Velasquez. "There is trash all over the streets. His 'plans' have brought more traffic. If we are fighting contamination, it doesn't resolve anything to have us sitting in traffic on Sundays [when Reforma is closed down to cars]," he says.
But the polls show that Mr. Hernandez Velasquez expresses a minority view.
Ebrard's general popularity is evident not only in approval ratings, but in the landslide electoral victory of his party's candidate for mayor, Miguel Mancera. (Mexican politicians at all levels of government are limited to single terms.) Mr. Mancera won the election with 63 percent of the vote, on a platform of continuity with Ebrard's policies. (Meanwhile Ebrard sought his leftist party's ticket for the 2012 presidential election, but was edged out by Andres Lopez Obrador, who lost the 2006 and 2012 races. Ebrard is widely expected to be a presidential candidate in the 2018 race.)
Part of what has made Ebrard so popular is his focus on every citizen's right to quality of life. For the gay community in Mexico City, that means equal rights to marry partners and adopt children. For the lower-classes that means access to leisure. "Many people in this city could not go to the theater otherwise," says Jose de la Rosa, the coordinator for historic patrimony for the secretary of culture in Mexico City.
In addition, the Ecobici project is not only an environmental initiative, but an exercise in inclusion, says Rodrigo Guerrero, a strategist for the program. "It is not necessary to have a car or better job to enjoy the city or have a good quality of life," Mr. Guerrero says.
But perhaps most important to Ebrard' supporters is the sense of safety that people today feel in Mexico City. In part that is because the drug-related violence that has captured global headlines has stayed on the periphery of Mexico City, for now. But the mayor also pioneered a security camera program that residents largely support.
"In terms of public security, it is clear that the city today is one of the safest in the country,'' says Adriana Maciel, who works as the Mexico editor for the global organization City Mayors Foundation.
"This is important to emphasize given the grave situation of violence that the rest of Mexico is experiencing."
'Thieves all around us'
Despite all of these advances, Mexico City is still riddled with problems. The capital might be perceived as relatively safer than the rest of Mexico, but the key word is "relative." A majority continues to believe that crime is worse today. One recent poll is telling of the limits of improvement: According to an October survey in the daily Universal, there was a five percent reduction (from 66 percent in 2011 to 61 percent this year) of those who say that crime has increased in the neighborhood in which they live.
In fact, Gonzalez's wife, Rosa Hernandez Bravo, is one who says that she feels just as insecure as she did last year, and as she did six years ago. "There are many thieves all around us," Ms. Hernandez Bravo says.
Her husband interrupts. "It's much better now," he says. He lists off several programs that have improved their quality of life, especially for the elderly, he says.
"Ebrard has recuperated many public spaces," he says.
But husband and wife clearly do not always see eye-to-eye. "I think the city's as ugly as ever," she says, smiling.
He shrugs, the girls laugh, and they walk off to view the rest of the alebrijes exhibit.


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Step One: You Receive a Bylaw Notice
You have the option to either pay the Bylaw Notice or dispute it. You have 14 days upon receipt of the Bylaw Notice to dispute it. If a dispute is not filed with the Bylaw Enforcement Department within the 14 days, you will not be able to dispute it later. For full information on 'How to Dispute a Bylaw Notice' click here.
Dispute forms can be delivered, emailed or faxed (within 14 days) to:
City of Nelson - Bylaw Enforcement Department
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Nelson BC V1L 1N4
Phone: (250) 354-3919
Fax: 250-354-4179
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The City's Screening Officer reviews all disputes received by the City's Bylaw Enforcement Department.
Step Two: the Bylaw Notice Dispute Process
The City's Screening Officer will receive and review the Bylaw Notice Dispute Form and is authorized by bylaw to either:
- Cancel a Bylaw Notice
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Upheld Bylaw Notice
If the Screening Officer upholds the Bylaw Notice, you will be given the option to request an Adjudication Hearing. The Adjudication Request form (PDF) is required for this process to proceed.
Step Three: the Adjudication Hearing
If the Screening Officer upholds the Bylaw Notice, a date and time for an Adjudication Hearing will be set which shall take place in:
Council Chambers at City Hall
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At the Adjudication Hearing, evidence shall be presented and the Adjudicator shall decide whether the offence did or did not occur. If an offence did occur, the violation notice must be paid in full, plus an additional $25 administrative fee. If an offence is deemed not to have occurred the violation notice is cancelled and no penalties are assessed.


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The natural gas industry and environmentalists in Pennsylvania both had reasons to cheer and jeer in 2013 over the boom in Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling.
Environmentalists were heartened by a state Supreme Court ruling at the end of the year that rejected significant portions of industry-friendly legislation. The state's highest court ruled that Gov. Tom Corbett's administration had gone too far in passing a law that gives the industry the right to operate almost anywhere it wants to, even if local municipalities object.
The justices also ruled that lower courts had erred by upholding a cumbersome set of restrictions on doctors who need information about chemicals used in the drilling process. The rulings were seen as a big win for environmentalists but won't do much to change the gas that's flowing from over 4,000 wells that are already producing.
The ruling also doesn't mean new drilling will stop everywhere, since many communities welcome the jobs and royalty payments that come with drilling.
Not only that, gas continued to flow in record amounts.
The U.S. Department of Energy reported that Pennsylvania's 2013 gas production could rank second in the nation, behind only Texas. That represents an enormous leap from just five years ago, when the gas production was almost meaningless on a national scale.
The regional production of about 13 billion cubic feet a day at the end of the year is the energy equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil per day. For perspective, if the Marcellus Shale region were a country, its natural gas production would rank eighth in the world, and it now produces more natural gas than Saudi Arabia. More than 80 percent of the production is from Pennsylvania, with most of the rest from West Virginia.
The biggest question mark for 2014 is whether Shell Oil Co. will continue to explore the possibility of building a huge natural gas processing plant in western Pennsylvania. In March 2012, Shell chose a possible site about 35 miles north of Pittsburgh for the so-called ethane cracking, or cracker, plant. It would convert ethane from bountiful Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas into more profitable chemicals such as ethylene, which are then used to produce everything from plastics to tires to antifreeze.
Shell's option to buy the site expires at the end of the year, but it could easily be renewed. Shell spokesperson Kimberly Windon said last week there's no update on the plant.
Though the industry and environmentalists remained bitterly divided over many issues, there were also some preliminary efforts to seek a middle ground.
In March, several environmental groups joined major companies such as Shell and Chevron to form the Center for Sustainable Shale. It was billed as an attempt to create voluntary standards that go beyond existing state or federal regulations. But by the end of the year no company had yet been certified to meet the new guidelines.
In eastern Pennsylvania, some well-known critics of gas drilling said they were going to try to work with the industry to resolve problems. Members of Breathe Easy Susquehanna County said they aim to promote respectful dialogue with the industry to seek the lowest possible levels of air pollution. The nonpartisan group is based in Montrose, which is about 40 miles north of Scranton.
Meanwhile, many questions remained unanswered about exactly how drilling affects the environment and human health.
In February 2012, Geisinger Health System announced plans for a comprehensive study of health impacts on people who live in areas with heavy drilling, but so far the project has failed to secure most of the funding needed to accomplish all of its goals.
Pa.'s Gas Production Could Rank 2nd in 2013
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text: Along these lines, any comments on the performance/scalability of CFD codes? -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lindahl [mailto:lindahl at conservativecomputer.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:02 PM To: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: Network Charteristics and Applications Yea! beowulf.org is back! > The Question... Which specific parallel applications/algorithms/problem > classes benefit significantly from bandwidth increases,decreased network > latency or a combination of both? Here are some gross generalizations that might help: With most algorithms, the less data per cpu, the more bandwidth and latency count. So runs with lots of cpus, or smaller datasets, are harder. Example: Climate modeling generally involves running a relatively coarse grid for a large number of timesteps. It's hard to get a good speedup unless you have a really great machine, and so there was some bruhaha recently about how the US needed to buy (Japanese) vector machines for this problem. (However, I don't think this is the case, the climate people simply need to use best practices with MPI.) Example: QCD, quantum chromodynamics. QCD computes on a 4 dimensional grid. Sometimes people want to compute large grids, sometimes small. Less data on a node means relatively more communications and lower required latencies. Steve Gottlieb has a theoretical slide demonstrating this: http://physics.indiana.edu/~sg/utah/performance_model.html If you want to build a QCD machine that sustains 10 TFlop/s over a wide range of grid sizes, this is a hard problem. For example, if I have a 200 MF/s sustained processor, I can get to a local grid size of 4^4 using Myrinet and 12^4 using fast ethernet. 12^4 is so large of a grid that it isn't so useful for fast computations. Example: Weather forecasting. Similar to climate, but there are multiple kinds of forecasts: regional, national, global, each with more data. The regional forecast is *hardest* to speed up because it has the least data. You can get a speedup of say 8x today with fast ethernet before you hit a wall. But if you're doing global forecasts, you can get much bigger. The 10x number comes from an experiment that the Utah people did for their upcoming Olympic forecasts. Meanwhile, while doing the FSL bid, I computed that an extra 100 usec of latency wouldn't hurt their 40km national forecast at all, and the average bandwidth needed was 1/3 gigabit/sec, at 40-odd cpus. 2) With other algorithms, the range of data sizes people want to use is in a fairly linear area of performance on some hardware. One example of this is CHARMM on the Cray T3E, which has a great interconnect (and a slow processor) by today's standards. I actually built a little tool using the MPI profiling interface which does some gross computations of compute/comm ratios. I'd like to turn it into a tool usable by the community; would anyone like to volunteer to help? With such a tool you could take existing MPI codes and find out how they behave in practice. greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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