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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:30 am
Post subject: Possibility of updating censusplus.php to link to Curse?
Hi. I used to run CensusPlus a middling-fair bit several years ago, then stuff happened and I drifted. I came back a couple days ago and poked around the site and got to this page:
which has the download link for 5.0.2. Since I had no reason to think that was inaccurate, I got that file, plunked it in my addons folder, tried to take a census in game, and of course got errors. Only then did I go to the forums to try to look for the appropriate place to report errors, and fortunately stumbled across a link to
"Site status updates for MoP compatibility"
which directed me to the Curse page with the correct 6.0.0 version of the file.
May I request that the censusplus.php page link to the Curse page? Since every individual server page links to censusplus.php, I wonder how many people are getting the wrong file before they go hunting to get the right one.
Secondarily, even though in "Site status updates for MoP compatibility" post, Balgair says "(Edited this post to get the update visible on the website's front page Smile)", and even though the Latest News box on the front page has that post linked, there is nothing that tells a quickly-glancing casual user 'hey, btw, the 5.0.2 file that's linked on this site is outdated, instead you should get this 6.0.0 file that's linked in this post!' It's not that the information isn't discoverable, it's that the information is buried and not clearly labelled.
So if the official site can link to Curse, that will solve everything ^_^ Thanks!
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:50 am
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The problem is that only Rollie can change anything in the actual website and he has so much RL stuff going on that it took 2 months to get the database vaguely functional for MoP, getting anything else sorted isn't happening quickly.
The best any of the rest of us can do is put info into the news updates, which at least do reach the front page of the site if people read them. Even then, the addon was updated by bringoutyourdead, who does not have access to post new threads to the announcement section (and obviously only the first post in the thread is visible on the front page) - only myself and I think perhaps Hybuir of the vaguely active people here have that access. So we're doing the best we can, but until Rollie finds time to fix things up (or gives someone else access to do it, but there's very few if any people here both willing and capable of that), there's not a lot else that can be done.
The Curse download link
on the front page of the website via the news post, I know it's not very noticeable, but it's the best I or anyone else other than Rollie can manage. I've edited it once more to try and make it stand out a bit better, but since bold, font size and the like don't carry over to the front page, it's a bit hard to do much with plain text
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:42 am
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In that case, if you were to edit the title of the forum post to go from
"Site status updates for MoP compatibility"
"Site status updates for MoP compatibility - download v6.0.0 here!"
Would that title alteration reflect in the Latest News box on the front page?
If it did reflect, then anyone going to to the front page of WarcraftRealms.com would be able to see, at a quick glance, 'hey there's a new version number, I should check that out.'
For my own experience, I did see the Latest News box and I did see that there was a post titled "Site status updates for MoP compatibility", but since the most recent version number stated in the Latest News box was 5.0.2 (in the post below that) and since that was the same version number linked at censusplus.php, I interpreted the forum post title to mean 'here is some information regarding the inner workings of the website', and not 'here is some information regarding the fact that there is a new version of the addon, so please look here and don't go to censusplus.php'.
I'm not trying to demean or speak ill of the effort you have put forth to get the information out there, I know you guys are working hard with what you have. I'm a casual user/outsider trying to suss out the most simple change that can keep other casual users from getting frustrated and throwing their hands up and just deleting the addon. I mean, it only took me about 5-10 minutes to poke the forums and find the correct info (and even then I ended up being linked to the correct post by one user replying to another user in another thread), but I'm sure there are people more casual/ambivalent than I am who won't spend even that 5 minutes (and imo that does not speak politely of their character, but I can't really change that about them : x).
And, if editing the title of a forum post does not reflect on the Latest News page, is it worth making another post with an anviliciously blatant title like "Download CensusPlus v6.0.0 from Curse! Link provided in this post." Then, even if a person does manage to get the 5.0.2 file from censusplus.php, hopefully they'll either go to the main page and see that link and then get the correct file from Curse.
Again, I'm not trying to discount the work you all have put in. I'm just trying to think what smallest alteration will have the biggest impact, and hopefully ultimately make your jobs/roles easier in the long run.
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:47 am
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That makes sense, change made - I didn't think of that since I didn't really think a 2 line post was too long for people to read
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:47 am
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Wow, so. In the vein of 'casual users taking forever to figure simple things out'... I only just now figured out that the main page of WR can * scroll down * and a person can read the content of the original post of the threads that are linked in the Latest News box. I couldn't figure out what you mean by 'a 2 line post', because I thought you were referring to the title of the post. On my screen, one screen's worth of the main page of WR looks like it only contains the 'get involved today' box and the 'latest news' box; it didn't occur to me that there might be more content on the page if I tried to scroll down. I thought the links in the Latest News box directly went to the forum posts themselves.
I am ashamed and embarrassed that it took me this long to figure out something so ridiculously simple.
Thank you for fielding my frustratingly ham-handed attempts to help. I feel now like the kid in the kitchen going OMG LET ME HELP and all you chefs are like 'will you please just go sit down and let us take care of stuff, we really do have it as under control as it can possibly be right now.' So I'll go sit down now, and just keep uploading.... X D
Merry Christmas y'all X D
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:03 am
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Ohhh! I do apologise, it never crossed my mind that it could display that way so I'd assumed you/others had just not even bothered looking at the posts properly. Now I look again I can see exactly how that could happen, my screen resolution shows the top of the first post as well, but just one resolution lower would hide that and make it look as though the titles are all that there is, doh
Sorry for the crossed wires then, I can totally see where you were coming from now
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For domestic and international home furniture and interior design buyers, it sounds like a dream come true. Touted by developers as the home and contract furnishing industry's largest and most comprehensive showroom complex in the western United States, the World Market Center will cover an impressive 7.5 million square feet spread across 57 acres near downtown Las Vegas when completed.
Currently running ahead of schedule, Phase One (a 1.3-million square-foot, 10-story building featuring 230 permanent showrooms) will open in May 2005, followed by Phase Two in January 2007. The next three buildings will open in six-month intervals after that. How did the concept for this $1 billion integrated campus come about? "The developers perceived a lack of first-quality furniture exhibition space in the western states," says Jim Reid, manager of construction for developer World Market Center, LLC, in Las Vegas. "That combined with the infrastructure to support conventions that exists in Las Vegas, as well as the city's growing appeal as a destination vacation, prompted the project."
Showcasing complementary product categories, including furniture, decorative accessories, lighting, area rugs, home office, bedding, floral and more, the venue will be home to two semi-annual markets. During these events, buyers will have the chance to visit permanent and temporary showrooms for all industry segments.
As can be expected on a project of this magnitude, the number of subcontractors required to keep construction on schedule is high. Based on its previous working relationship with the general contractor, the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Las Vegas-based Dynalectric Nevada, an EMCOR company, secured the bid for electrical work. Staffing approximately 80 to 100 electricians on-site at peak time, Dynalectric is responsible for all electrical service to and within the building — from the Nevada Power vault in the sidewalk to every light fixture, electrical outlet, escalator, and elevator in between, says Don Mitchell, project manager at Dynalectric.
According to Jim Reding, tenant improvement director at World Market Center, this project's construction approach is unique, providing a design/build team to meet tenants' needs — from design and architecture to permitting and construction. "This process of meeting the unique needs of each tenant has proven to be a very successful model as our exhibitors are able to communicate their concepts, approve preliminary layouts and cost estimates, and approve final construction documents and construction bids," he says.
Although his team hasn't quite reached this point of construction yet, Mitchell anticipates that the exterior lighting will be the most difficult light fixture installation he's ever faced. "We will probably have to repel from the roof to the building and make final electrical connections to color-changing LEDs and fluorescent light fixtures in a cove that sweeps up the side of the building," he says. "Does Spiderman do electrical work?"
Although Mitchell admits this is a bit of an exaggeration, he explains his team will more realistically install most of the fixtures in the structure's three exterior coves from a 90-foot boom lift and the rest from a window-washing basket or platform lowered from the roof. Programmed to gradually fade or change colors simultaneously, the LEDs are positioned in a 150-foot row in 6-foot sections. The coves were designed to hide the light fixtures while allowing light to bounce off the façade of the building and illuminate the displays.
Despite such unique challenges, Mitchell maintains that the most interesting part of this project lies in the concept itself. "When finished, I don't think there will be a facility like it in the entire world — nor do I think this would be successful in any other city," he says. "Only in Vegas!"
Sidebar: Electrical Needs at a Glance
- 680 miles of wire and cable between power conductors and fire alarm cable
- 328 panelboards, each with 42 circuits, for outlets and light fixtures
- 10,576 light fixtures in the base building
- 6,770 4-foot track fixtures installed in tenant spaces
- 19,500 Par 38 track heads installed in tenant spaces
- 300 transformers located between the base building and tenant spaces
- 42 lighting control panels used for normal and emergency power

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For the past few years, the Iowa State University Library has subscribed to the Archive-It service for the long-term preservation of university web content. Archive-It is a web site preservation program that allows institutions to select and permanently capture html-based web pages. Created by Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive, the goal of Archive-It is to save born-digital information on web sites and to serve as a web archiving tool.
In 2008, Archive-It introduced a special program designed for K-12 students to preserve digital information. The goal of the K-12 Web Archiving Program was to educate students about not only what web sites should be saved for future research, but how would you choose what to preserve? Currently in its second year, 15 schools in 13 states participate in this competitive program which allows students to learn how to make these decisions and "help them to develop an awareness of how the Web content they choose will become primary sources for future historians studying our lives," according to the program's web site.
Special Collections and University Archives Head Tanya Zanish-Belcher saw the call, and forwarded the request on to Sarah Passonneau, Assistant to the ISU Library Dean and recommended that Ames Middle and High Schools consider applying. Sarah worked with Dr. Lance Wilhelm (Technology Director at the Ames Community School District), to complete the application, and Ames was one of nine community schools selected for the project.
As Jayne Staniforth, an Extended Learning Program teacher at Ames Middle School, said "My students view internet documents differently now. They are more aware of the continually changing nature of the Internet and the impact that has on history. They felt empowered to speak for their generation about what is important to them, what they value and how they communicate." She also noted the process showed that "their opinion mattered to a larger audience not just their peers." Middle school student Laura Graveline felt "she realizes how important the internet is to our generation." Fellow student Moriah Cooper exclaimed, "It feels like what you were doing actually counted for something, because future generations will be able to see what was important to us. It's a record."
Ames High School collections: http://www.archive-it.org/k12/8AmesHS.html
Ames Middle School collections: http://www.archive-it.org/k12/9AmesMS.html
For more information about Archive-It, see the vendor's FAQ and additional information at http://www.archive-it.org/. To see ISU's preserved web sites, please go to: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/collections/webarch.html.


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On last night's premiere of the seventh season of Real Housewives of Orange County, we got to see that Alexis Bellino—who believes that Jesus sanctions silicone implants but not homosexuality (because that's unnatural)—got herself another job. Adding to her responsibilities of her dress line, Alexis Couture, Alexis took on a once-a-week correspondence gig for the Fox 5 morning show in San Diego, for a series of segments about butts. Seriously. Having previously been very adamant about her belief that women belong in the home and not in the White House, it's weird to hear Alexis talking about how no glass ceiling will hold her back from her career goals, like her dream of being the Katie Couric of National Booty Awareness Month. Hopefully her newfound freedom won't turn her into one of those problematic "liberal" women. Whatever the case, it's good to see her evolving, at least in her own way, from the person who previously thought picking out her own outfit was the ultimate act of empowerment:
I think America is going through a liberal movement, and the older, more traditional marriage values are becoming something of the past. Jim and I are one couple who still favor a more traditional marriage rather than a liberal marriage, and because we do, it makes my marriage an interesting conversation topic. However just because we have a more traditional marriage does not mean I do not make my own decisions. As you can see just in this one episode, I chose to wear the dress I wanted, not the dress that was Jim's first choice.


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When the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of the Suez Canal, threatening Western access to that vital route, an agitated France shifted allegiances, joining forces with Britain and Israel against Egypt. This is a fact neither here nor there, except that during the 1956 Sinai Campaign there were soldiers in the Israeli Army and soldiers in the Egyptian Army who ended up wearing identical French-supplied uniforms to battle.
Not long into the fighting, an Israeli platoon came to rest at a captured Egyptian camp to the east of Bir Gafgafa, in the Sinai Desert. There Private Shimmy Gezer (formerly Shimon Bibberblat, of Warsaw, Poland) sat down to eat at a makeshift outdoor mess. Four armed commandos sat down with him. He grunted. They grunted. Shimmy dug into his lunch.
A squad-mate of Shimmy's came over to join them. Professor Tendler (who was then only Private Tendler, not yet a professor, and not yet even in possession of a high-school degree) placed the tin cup that he was carrying on the edge of the table, taking care not to spill his tea. Then he took up his gun and shot each of the commandos in the head.
They fell quite neatly. The first two, who had been facing Professor Tendler, tipped back off the bench into the sand. The second pair, who had their backs to the Professor and were still staring open-mouthed at their dead friends, fell face down, the sound of their skulls hitting the table somehow more violent than the report of the gun.
Shocked by the murder of four fellow-soldiers, Shimmy Gezer tackled his friend. To Professor Tendler, who was much bigger than Shimmy, the attack was more startling than threatening. Tendler grabbed hold of Shimmy's hands while screaming, "Egyptians! Egyptians!" in Hebrew. He was using the same word about the same people in the same desert that had been used thousands of years before. The main difference, if the old stories are to be believed, was that God no longer raised His own fist in the fight.
Professor Tendler quickly managed to contain Shimmy in a bear hug. "Egyptian commandos—confused," Tendler said, switching to Yiddish. "The enemy. The enemy joined you for lunch."
Shimmy listened. Shimmy calmed down.
Professor Tendler, thinking the matter was settled, let Shimmy go. As soon as he did, Shimmy swung wildly. He continued attacking, because who cared who those four men were? They were people. They were human beings who had sat down at the wrong table for lunch. They were dead people who had not had to die.
"You could have taken them prisoner," Shimmy yelled. "Halt!" he screamed in German. "That's all—halt!" Then, with tears streaming and fists flying, Shimmy said, "You didn't have to shoot."
By then Professor Tendler had had enough. He proceeded to beat Shimmy Gezer. He didn't just defend himself. He didn't subdue his friend. He flipped Shimmy over, straddled his body, and pounded it down until it was level with the sand. He beat his friend until his friend couldn't take any more beating, and then he beat him some more. Finally, he climbed off his friend, looked up into the hot sun, and pushed through the crowd of soldiers who had assembled in the minutes since the Egyptians sat down to their fate. Tendler went off to have a smoke.
For those who had come running at the sound of gunfire to find five bodies in the sand, it was the consensus that a pummelled Shimmy Gezer looked to be in the worst condition of the bunch.
At the fruit-and-vegetable stand that Shimmy Gezer eventually opened in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, his son, little Etgar, asked about the story of Professor Tendler again and again. From the time he was six, Etgar had worked the duchan at his father's side whenever he wasn't in school. At that age, knowing only a child's version of the story—that Tendler had done something in one of the wars that upset Etgar's father, and Etgar's father had jumped on the man, and the man had (his father never hesitated to admit) beat him up very badly—Etgar couldn't understand why his father was so nice to the Professor now. Reared, as he was, on the laws of the small family business, Etgar couldn't grasp why he was forbidden to accept a single lira from Tendler. The Professor got his vegetables free.
After Etgar weighed the tomatoes and the cucumbers, his father would take up the bag, stick in a nice fat eggplant, unasked, and pass it over to Professor Tendler.
"Kach," his father would say. "Take it. And wish your wife well."
As Etgar turned nine and ten and eleven, the story began to fill out. He was told about the commandos and the uniforms, about shipping routes and the Suez, and the Americans and the British and the French. He learned about the shots to the head. He learned about all the wars his father had fought in—'73, '67, '56, '48—though Shimmy Gezer still stopped short of the one he'd first been swept up in, the war that ran from 1939 to 1945.
Etgar's father explained the hazy morality of combat, the split-second decisions, the assessment of threat and response, the nature of percentages and absolutes. Shimmy did his best to make clear to his son that Israelis—in their nation of unfinished borders and unwritten constitution—were trapped in a gray space that was called real life.
In this gray space, he explained, even absolutes could maintain more than one position, reflect more than one truth. "You, too," he said to his son, "may someday face a decision such as Professor Tendler's—may you never know from it." He pointed at the bloody stall across from theirs, pointed at a fish below the mallet, flopping on the block. "God forbid you should have to live with the consequences of decisions, permanent, eternal, that will chase you in your head, turning from this side to that, tossing between wrong and right."
But Etgar still couldn't comprehend how his father saw the story to be that of a fish flip-flopping, when it was, in his eyes, only ever about that mallet coming down.
Etgar wasn't one for the gray. He was a tiny, thoughtful, bucktoothed boy of certainties. And, every Friday when Tendler came by the stand, Etgar would pack up the man's produce and then run through the story again, searching for black-and-white.
This man had saved his father's life, but maybe he hadn't. He'd done what was necessary, but maybe he could have done it another way. And even if the basic schoolyard rule applied in adult life—that a beating delivered earns a beating in return—did it ever justify one as fierce as the beating his father had described? A pummelling so severe that Shimmy, while telling the story, would run Etgar's fingers along his left cheek, to show him where Professor Tendler had flattened the bone.
Even if the violence had been justified, even if his father didn't always say, "You must risk your friend's life, your family's, your own, you must be willing to die—even to save the life of your enemy—if ever, of two deeds, the humane one may be done," it was not his father's act of forgiveness but his kindness that baffled Etgar.
Shimmy would send him running across Agrippas Street to bring back two cups of coffee or two glasses of tea to welcome Professor Tendler, telling Etgar to snatch a good-sized handful of pistachios from Eizenberg's cart along the way. This treatment his father reserved only for his oldest friends.
And absolutely no one but the war widows got their produce free. Quietly and with dignity, so as to cause these women no shame, Etgar's father would send them off with fresh fruit and big bags of vegetables, sometimes for years after their losses. He always took care of the young widows. When they protested, he'd say, "You sacrifice, I sacrifice. All in all, what's a bag of apples?"
"It's all for one country," he'd say.
When it came to Professor Tendler, so clear an answer never came.
When Etgar was twelve, his father acknowledged the complexities of Tendler's tale.
"Do you want to know why I can care for a man who once beat me? Because to a story there is context. There is always context in life."
"That's it?" Etgar asked.
"That's it."
At thirteen, he was told a different story. Because at thirteen Etgar was a man.
"You know I was in the war," Shimmy said to his son. The way he said it Etgar knew that he didn't mean '48 or '56, '67 or '73. He did not mean the Jewish wars, in all of which he had fought. He meant the big one. The war that no one in his family but Shimmy had survived, which was also the case for Etgar's mother. This was why they had taken a new name, Shimmy explained. In the whole world, the Gezers were three.
"Yes," Etgar said. "I know."
"Professor Tendler was also in that war," Shimmy said.
"Yes," Etgar said.
"It was hard on him," Shimmy said. "And that is why, why I am always nice."
Etgar thought. Etgar spoke.
"But you were there, too. You've had the same life as him. And you'd never have shot four men, even the enemy, if you could have taken them prisoner, if you could have spared a life. Even if you were in danger, you'd risk—" Etgar's father smiled, and stopped him.
"Kodem kol," he said, "a similar life is not a same life. There is a difference." Here Shimmy's face turned serious, the lightness gone. "In that first war, in that big war, I was the lucky one," he said. "In the Shoah, I survived."
"But he's here," Etgar said. "He survived, just the same as you."
"No," Etgar's father said. "He made it through the camps. He walks, he breathes, and he was very close to making it out of Europe alive. But they killed him. After the war, we still lost people. They killed what was left of him in the end."
For the first time, without Professor Tendler there, without one of Shimmy's friends from the ghetto who stopped by to talk in Yiddish, without one of the soldier buddies from his unit in the reserves, or one of the kibbutzniks from whom he bought his fruits and his vegetables, Etgar's father sent Etgar across Agrippas Street to get two glasses of tea. One for Etgar and one for him.
"Hurry," Shimmy said, sending Etgar off with a slap on his behind. Before Etgar had taken a step, his father grabbed his collar and popped open the register, handing him a brand-new ten-shekel bill. "And buy us a nice big bag of seeds from Eizenberg. Tell him to keep the change. You and I, we are going to sit awhile."
Shimmy took out the second folding chair from behind the register. It would also be the first time that father and son had ever sat down in the store together. Another rule of good business: a customer should always find you standing. Always there's something you can be doing—sweeping, stacking, polishing apples. The customers will come to a place where there is pride.
This is why Professor Tendler got his tomatoes free, why the sight of the man who beat Shimmy made his gaze go soft with kindness in the way that it did when one of the miskenot came by—why it took on what Etgar called his father's Free-Fruit-for-Young-Widows eyes. This is the story that Shimmy told Etgar when he felt that his boy was a man:
The first thing Professor Tendler saw when his death camp was liberated was two big, tough American soldiers fainting dead away. The pair (presumably war-hardened) stood before the immense, heretofore unimaginable brutality of modern extermination, frozen, slack-jawed before a mountain of putrid, naked corpses, a hill of men.
And from this pile of broken bodies that had been—prior to the American invasion—set to be burned, a rickety skeletal Tendler stared back. Professor Tendler stared and studied, and when he was sure that those soldiers were not Nazi soldiers he crawled out from his hiding place among the corpses, pushing and shoving those balsa-wood arms and legs aside.
It was this hill of bodies that had protected Tendler day after day. The poor Sonderkommando who dumped the bodies, as well as those who came to cart them to the ovens, knew that the boy was inside. They brought him the crumbs of their crumbs to keep him going. And though it was certain death for these prisoners to protect him, it allowed them a sliver of humanity in their inhuman jobs. This was what Shimmy was trying to explain to his son—that these palest shadows of kindness were enough to keep a dead man alive.
When Tendler finally got to his feet, straightening his body out, when the corpse that was Professor Tendler at age thirteen—"your age"—came crawling from that nightmare, he looked at the two Yankee soldiers, who looked at him and then hit the ground with a thud.
Professor Tendler had already seen so much in life that this was not worth even a pause, and so he walked on. He walked on naked through the gates of the camp, walked on until he got some food and some clothes, walked on until he had shoes and then a coat. He walked on until he had a little bread and a potato in his pocket—a surplus.
Soon there was also in that pocket a cigarette and then a second; a coin and then a second. Surviving in this way, Tendler walked across borders until he was able to stand straight and tall, until he showed up in his childhood town in a matching suit of clothes, with a few bills in his pocket and, in his waistband, a six-shooter with five bullets chambered, in order to protect himself during the nights that he slept by the side of the road.
Professor Tendler was expecting no surprises, no reunions. He'd seen his mother killed in front of him, his father, his three sisters, his grandparents, and, after some months in the camp, the two boys that he knew from back home.
But home—that was the thing he held on to. Maybe his house was still there, and his bed. Maybe the cow was still giving milk, and the goats still chewing garbage, and his dog still barking at the chickens as before. And maybe his other family—the nurse at whose breast he had become strong (before weakened), her husband who had farmed his father's field, and their son (his age), and another (two years younger), boys with whom he had played like a brother—maybe this family was still there waiting. Waiting for him to come home.
Tendler could make a new family in that house. He could call every child he might one day have by his dead loved ones' names.
The town looked as it had when he'd left. The streets were his streets, the linden trees in the square taller but laid out as before. And, when Tendler turned down the dirt road that led to his gate, he fought to keep himself from running, and he fought to keep himself from crying, because, after what he had seen, he knew that to survive in this world he must always act like a man.
So Tendler buttoned his coat and walked quietly toward the fence, wishing that he had a hat to take off as he passed through the gate—just the way the man of the house would when coming home to what was his.
But when he saw her in the yard—when he saw Fanushka his nurse, their maid—the tears came anyway. Tendler popped a precious button from his coat as he ran to her and threw himself into her arms, and he cried for the first time since the trains.
With her husband at her side, Fanushka said to him, "Welcome home, son," and "Welcome home, child," and "We prayed," "We lit candles," "We dreamed of your return."
When they asked, "Are your parents also coming? Are your sisters and your grandparents far behind?," when they asked after all the old neighbors, house by house, Tendler answered, not by metaphor, and not by insinuation. When he knew the fate, he stated it as it was: beaten or starved, shot, cut in half, the front of the head caved in. All this he related without feeling—matters, each, of fact. All this he shared before venturing a step through his front door.
Looking through that open door, Tendler decided that he would live with these people as family until he had a family of his own. He would grow old in this house. Free to be free, he would gate himself up again. But it would be his gate, his lock, his world.
A hand on his hand pulled him from his reverie. It was Fanushka talking, a sad smile on her face. "Time to fatten you up," she said. "A feast for first dinner." And she grabbed the chicken at her feet and twisted its neck right there in the yard. "Come in," she said, while the animal twitched. "The master of the house has returned."
"Just as you left it," she said. "Only a few of our things."
Tendler stepped inside.
It was exactly as he remembered it: the table, the chairs, except that all that was personal was gone.
Fanushka's two sons came in, and Tendler understood what time had done. These boys, fed and housed, warmed and loved, were fully twice his size. He felt, then, something he had never known in the camps, a civilized emotion that would have served no use. Tendler felt ashamed. He turned red, clenched his jaw tight, and felt his gums bleeding into his mouth.
"You have to understand," Etgar's father said to his son. "These boys, his brothers, they were now twice his size and strangers to him."
The boys, prodded, shook hands with Tendler. They did not know him anymore.
"Still, it is a nice story," Etgar said. "Sad. But also happy. He makes it home to a home. It's what you always say. Survival, that's what matters. Surviving to start again."
Etgar's father held up a sunflower seed, thinking about this. He cracked it between his front teeth.
"So they are all making a dinner for Professor Tendler," he said. "And he is sitting on the kitchen floor, legs crossed, as he did when he was a boy, and he is watching. Watching happily, drinking a glass of goat's milk, still warm. And then the father goes out to slaughter that goat. 'A feast for dinner,' he says. 'A chicken's not enough.' Professor Tendler, who has not had meat in years, looks at him, and the father, running a nail along his knife, says, 'I remember the kosher way.' "
Tendler was so happy that he could not bear it. So happy and so sad. And, with the cup of warm milk and the warm feeling, Tendler had to pee. But he didn't want to move now that he was there with his other mother and, resting on her shoulder, a baby sister. A year and a half old and one curl on the head. A little girl, fat and happy. Fat in the ankle, fat in the wrist.
Professor Tendler rushed out at the last second, out of the warm kitchen, out from under his roof. Professor Tendler, a man whom other men had tried to turn into an animal, did not race to the outhouse. It didn't cross his mind. He stood right under the kitchen window to smell the kitchen smells, to stay close. And he took a piss. Over the sound of the stream, he heard his nurse lamenting.
He knew what she must be lamenting—the Tendler family destroyed.
He listened to what she was saying. And he heard.
"He will take everything" is what she said. "He will take it all from us—our house, our field. He'll snatch away all we've built and protected, everything that has been—for so long—ours."
There outside the window, pissing and listening, and also "disassociating," as Professor Tendler would call it (though he did not then have the word), he knew only that he was watching himself from above, that he could see himself feeling all the disappointment as he felt it, until he was keenly and wildly aware that he had felt nothing all those years, felt nothing when his father and mother were shot, felt nothing while in the camps, nothing, in fact, from the moment he was driven from his home to the moment he returned.
In that instant, Tendler's guilt was sharper than any sensation he had ever known.
And here, in response to his precocious son, Shimmy said, "Yes, yes, of course it was about survival—Tendler's way of coping. Of course he'd been feeling all along." But Tendler—a boy who had stepped over his mother's body and kept walking—had, for those peasants, opened up.
It was right then, Professor Tendler later told Shimmy, that he became a philosopher.
"He will steal it all away," Fanushka said. "Everything. He has come for our lives."
And her son, whom Tendler had considered a brother, said, "No." And Tendler's other almost-brother said, "No."
"We will eat," Fanushka said. "We will celebrate. And when he sleeps we will kill him." To one of the sons she said, "Go. Tell your father to keep that knife sharp." To the other she said, "You get to sleep early, and you get up early, and before you grab the first tit on that cow I want his throat slit. Ours. Ours, not to be taken away."
Tendler ran. Not toward the street but back toward the outhouse in time to turn around as the kitchen door flew open, in time to smile at the younger brother on his way to find his father, in time for Tendler to be heading back the right way.
"Do you want to hear what was shared at such a dinner?" Shimmy asked his son. "The memories roused and oaths sworn? There was wine, I know. 'Drink, drink,' the mother said. There was the chicken and a pot of goat stew. And, in a time of great deprivation, there was also sugar for the tea." At this, Shimmy pointed at the bounty of their stand. "And, as if nothing, next to the baby's basket on the kitchen floor sat a basket of apples. Tendler hadn't had an apple in who knows how long."
Tendler brought the basket to the table. The family laughed as he peeled the apples with a knife, first eating the peels, then the flesh, and savoring even the seeds and the cores. It was a celebration, a joyous night. So much so that Professor Tendler could not by its end, belly distended, eyes crossed with drink, believe what he knew to have been said.
There were hugs and there were kisses, and Tendler—the master of the house—was given his parents' bedroom upstairs, the two boys across the hall, and below, in the kitchen ("It will be warmest"), slept the mother and the father and the fat-ankled girl.
"Sleep well," Fanushka said. "Welcome home, my son." And, sweetly, she kissed Tendler on both eyes.
Tendler climbed the stairs. He took off his suit and went to bed. And that was where he was when Fanushka popped through the door and asked him if he was warm enough, if he needed a lamp by which to read.
"No, thank you," he said.
"So formal? No thanks necessary," Fanushka said. "Only 'Yes, Mother,' or 'No, Mother,' my poor reclaimed orphan son."
"No light, Mother," Tendler said, and Fanushka closed the door.
Tendler got out of bed. He put on his suit. Once again without any shame to his actions, Tendler searched the room for anything of value, robbing his own home.
Then he waited. He waited until the house had settled into itself, the last creak slipping from the floorboards as the walls pushed back against the wind. He waited until his mother, his Fanushka, must surely sleep, until a brother intent on staying up for the night—a brother who had never once fought for his life—convinced himself that it would be all right to close his eyes.
Tendler waited until he, too, had to sleep, and that's when he tied the laces of his shoes together and hung them over his shoulder. That's when he took his pillow with one hand and, with the other, quietly cocked his gun.
Then, with goose feathers flying, Tendler moved through the house. A bullet for each brother, one for the father and one for the mother. Tendler fired until he found himself standing in the warmth of the kitchen, one bullet left to protect him on the nights when he would sleep by the side of the road.
That last bullet Tendler left in the fat baby girl, because he did not know from mercy, and did not need to leave another of that family to grow to kill him at some future time.
"He murdered them," Etgar said. "A murderer."
"No," his father told him. "There was no such notion at the time."
"Even so, it is murder," Etgar said.
"If it is, then it's only fair. They killed him first. It was his right."
"But you always say—"
"But the baby. The girl."
"The baby is hardest, I admit. But these are questions for the philosopher. These are the theoretical instances put into flesh and blood."
"But it's not a question. These people, they are not the ones who murdered his family."
"They were coming for him that night."
"He could have escaped. He could have run for the gate when he overheard. He didn't need to race back toward the outhouse, race to face the brother as he came the other way."
"Maybe there was no more running in him. Anyway, do you understand 'an eye for an eye'? Can you imagine a broader meaning of 'self-defense'?"
"You always forgive him," Etgar said. "You suffered the same things—but you aren't that way. You would not have done what he did."
"It is hard to know what a person would and wouldn't do in any specific instance. And you, spoiled child, apply the rules of civilization to a boy who had seen only its opposite. Maybe the fault for those deaths lies in a system designed for the killing of Tendlers that failed to do its job. An error, a slip that allowed a Tendler, no longer fit, back loose in the world."
"Is that what you think?"
"It's what I ask. And I ask you, my Etgar, what you would have done if you were Tendler that night?"
"Not kill."
"Then you die."
"Only the grownups."
"But it was a boy who was sent to cut Tendler's throat."
"How about killing only those who would do harm?"
"Still it's murder. Still it is killing people who have yet to act, murdering them in their sleep."
"I guess," Etgar said. "I can see how they deserved it, the four. How I might, if I were him, have killed them."
Shimmy shook his head, looking sad.
"And whoever are we, my son, to decide who should die?"
It was on that day that Etgar Gezer became a philosopher himself. Not in the manner of Professor Tendler, who taught theories up at the university on the mountain, but, like his father, practical and concrete. Etgar would not finish high school or go to college, and, except for his three years in the Army, he would spend his life—happily—working the stand in the shuk. He'd stack the fruit into pyramids and contemplate weighty questions with a seriousness of thought. And when there were answers Etgar would try employing them to make for himself and others, in whatever small way, a better life.
It was on that day, too, that Etgar decided Professor Tendler was both a murderer and, at the same time, a misken. He believed he understood how and why Professor Tendler had come to kill that peasant family, and how men sent to battle in uniform—even in the same uniform—would find no mercy at his hand. Etgar also came to see how Tendler's story could just as easily have ended for the Professor that first night, back in his parents' room, in his parents' bed, a gun with four bullets held in a suicide's hand—how the first bullet Tendler ever fired might have been into his own head.
Still, every Friday Etgar packed up Tendler's fruit and vegetables. And in that bag Etgar would add, when he had them, a pineapple or a few fat mangos dripping honey. Handing it to Tendler, Etgar would say, "Kach, Professor. Take it." This, even after his father had died. ♦


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WINTER PARK, Fla. - A Winter Park police officer stepped down after making a racist remark while discussing the Trayvon Martin case.
Lieutenant Ron Johnson quickly retired after an internal investigation revealed he said, "This is why they should be drowned at birth," in reference to black people.
That remark came from the 27-year veteran to fellow officers during a February police briefing when their conversation turned to the Martin case.
The investigation said the comment was racially derogatory.
"I think that's appalling that anyone would say that or think it or believe it, especially in my town," said Ann Lulow, a Winter Park resident.
"I think it's ignorance, just absolute on his part to even utter such words," said Julius John.
"Lt. Ron Johnson has been a part of our police family for many years, and to have this occur after an otherwise distinguished career with our department is regretful," said Police Chief Brett Railey. "However, regardless of the individual and years of service, statements of this type are unacceptable in order to maintain the public's trust."
Railey said Johnson has not had any racially-motivated complaints against him.
Johnson was not fired. Instead, he was allowed to retire with full benefits.
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The Sox have 15 fireworks nights this season. It costs thousands of dollars to put on these displays. All the money comes from sponsors, the sox don't spend a dime. This money could easily be spent on bobbleheads. I'm arguing that as a season ticket holder you can't possibly enjoy watching 15 fireworks displays every season. Especially since nearly half of the displays come after your team just got beat. Yay lets celebrate the 12 run spanking the Red Sox just gave us.
The money is there anyways, rather than watching the same display over and over again why not get something you can enjoy for years to come.
I'm not saying remove all the displays but 15 is a little excessive especially if you get a weekend season ticket package.
Just replace a couple fireworks nights with bobblehead nights.
Can you honestly say you wouldn't look forward to any of these?
1) Robin Ventura next to or holding a stack of gold gloves.
2) Alexei Ramirez with his arms out watching the slam he just hit.
3) Bo Jackson riding a motorcycle (like the one he ride out to give Fisk)
4) Harold Baines (anything)
5) Ed Farmer (pitching in the pajama uni's)
6) Bill Veeck
7) Steve Dahl in army camo since this is the 30th anniversary of disco demolition
8) Ivan Calderon with his Jerry Curl and Gold chains (ha ha I had to add that)
9) Steve Lyons with his pants down after stealing second
10) Jack Parkman (The Indians are doing a Rick Vaughn so one why not)
11) Jack Mac Dowell (With early 90s Mullet)
12) Mark Buhrle
14) Jenks (maybe make it a double with Ozzie holding his arms out calling for the big one)
15) Dick Allen (70s red pinstripes make 5000 random ones powder blue uniform)
The examples I gave have already been done elsewhere so they wouldn't be impossible.
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Part of the thrill of the NCAA college basketball tournament is filling out the brackets.
During March Madness, 68 teams vie for the championship. There are several rounds, during which the brackets get down to 32 teams, the Sweet 16, the Elite Eight and then the Final Four.
Playing off the excitement of the tournament, the National Endowment for Financial Education and the Financial Planning Association have created an interactive bracket of 32 financial goals that people can use to narrow down the most important money issues they want to address. To complete the bracket online, visit www.financialfour.org.
Just as with the NCAA tournament, there are four major divisions in this financial game:
●Saving and investing.
●Values, communication and advice.
●Protection and security.
"Identifying and managing priorities is the key to keeping your financial life in order," said Ted Beck, president and CEO of NEFE.
Beck says that using the brackets takes "the madness out of ranking your fiscal responsibilities."
I like the concept and the game. One of the things people often ask me when it comes to organizing their financial life is: "Where do I start?" There is so much to managing your money, it is hard to figure out what you need to concentrate on in the stressed-out lives many of us lead.
"Americans are increasingly responsible for an overwhelming amount of financial choices," said Lauren M. Schadle, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association. "Our goal is to provide insight on what they should be thinking about when developing their financial plans."
Let me walk you through the categories in this March Madness game. Under the saving and investing division are "emergency savings," "use variety of tools," "pay yourself first," "save 10 percent," "time value of money," "differentiate goals," "calculate retirement" and "use employer savings." You'll find an explanation when you click on each concept.
Under the values division are "tackle debt," "experience change," "financial terminology," "keep up maintenance," "family communication," "identify personalities," "tax time planning" and "financial check-up."
In the protection and security bracket, you'll find "adequate insurance," "emergency kit," "workplace benefits," "protect documents," "create a will," "ensure job security," "life insurance" and "pull credit report."
Finally, in the spending division are "live within means," "manage food costs," "responsible credit," "housing costs," "understand income," "track spending," "service providers" and "spend wisely."
As part of the fun, about 300 financial experts ranked their top financial priorities for Americans to focus on in 2013. Based on their picks, the National Endowment for Financial Education and the Financial Planning Association came up with a Final Four.
The winners?
●Live within your means. I agree that this should make it to the Final Four. Actually, I would retitle this "live below your means." You only have a limited amount of money. To meet your goals, you have to reduce your expenses so that you get to keep some of what you make for savings.
●Protect yourself with adequate insurance. Thirty-nine percent of U.S. adults do not have life insurance, according to a survey released last year by InsuranceQuotes.com. If you put this in your winning bracket, don't just focus on life insurance. Determine what other insurance you might need. For instance, if you rent, do you have renter's insurance? Only 34 percent of renters have renter's insurance, InsuranceQuotes found in another survey.
●Tackle debt. Stop promising yourself to get out of debt; instead, do it. I suggest you list your debts starting with the lowest balance and knock that debt off first. Getting rid of some debt quickly often motivates people to continue on their quest to be debt-free.
●Build an emergency savings account. If you live below your means, you'll probably have the money to start an emergency fund. You tax refund is a great emergency starter amount. So far this year, the average refund is about $2,900.
My Final Four were "manage food costs" (our eating out has gotten crazy), "pull credit reports" (haven't done that yet this year), "track spending" and "calculate retirement" (I've done this before, but I need to update some numbers because of the recent uptick in the stock market).
So, what would your Sweet 16 be? What about your Elite Eight financial goals or your Final Four picks?
Once you finish the bracket, you can go to www.smartaboutmoney.org , which is a program of the National Endowment for Financial Education. On the site, you can look for more information to meet your goals.
While you're watching the basketball games or during breaks, fill out this bracket. You can't lose.
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Zanzibar, 29 July 2009 - The $2.4 million restoration of Forodhani Park in Zanzibar's Historic Stone Town has been completed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC).
In the last decade, stresses caused by the popularity of the Park took a toll. It was clear that an important part of the patrimony of Stone Town was in need of revitalisation. The rehabilitation project was first proposed by the Trust in 2001 as part of a programme for comprehensive seafront rehabilitation in Stone Town. It was intended to be a logical extension of the work already completed by AKTC in Kelele Square. Following meetings between President Amani Abeid Karume and His Highness the Aga Khan, agreements for the restoration of the Park were signed.
The Trust has been active in Zanzibar since 1989, successfully completing the restoration of the Old Dispensary, now renamed the Stone Town Cultural Centre, and the old Customs House, as well as the rehabilitation of Kelele Square. Eleven buildings in Stone Town – many of them on the point of collapse – were restored as part of a programme to show the building and restoration techniques needed to preserve this World Heritage Site. The Trust has also worked with the Government and international partners – such as the Government of Sweden and the Ford Foundation – to provide training workshops on conservation practice and traditional construction methods for craftsmen, building professionals and Government officers. The creation of an Indian Ocean Maritime Museum is also proposed. The Museum will showcase the maritime cultures of the Indian Ocean, including the display of naval vessels and other artefacts that illustrate the history of the commercial and cultural contacts between Africa, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.
The restoration of Forodhani Park is intended to be part of a larger seafront rehabilitation programme, encompassing: construction of the seawall; underground infrastructure including water, storm and sewer lines; and, the creation of a pedestrian promenade, including planting, street lighting and street furniture along the sea side.
For more information, please contact:
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The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is a part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). Over the last 20 years, cultural revitalisation efforts have been carefully integrated into the broader economic and social programmes of the AKDN – reflecting His Highness the Aga Khan's belief that development is a complex process that requires multiple inputs. AKDN's development work in Zanzibar dates to the signing of a Protocol of Co-operation for Development between the Network and the Government of Zanzibar in 1988. In Zanzibar, AKDN's efforts include the Rahaleo Health Centre, which records over 16,000 patient visits per year. The Aga Khan Foundation continues to operate a number of programmes in education, training and health, including support for pre-schools on Zanzibar and Pemba, an educational Resource Centre and the training of hundreds of teachers. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development restored and converted historic seafront buildings into the Zanzibar Serena Inn.


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Adam Levine has a new hair color -- platinum blond.
The Maroon 5 frontman and "The Voice" coach posted a photo on Twitter Saturday beside fiancee Behati Prinsloo showing his golden locks.
"Apocalypse prep course complete," he wrote.
Apocalypse prep course complete. pic.twitter.com/muvPDrIa59— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 3, 2014
The musician's fans and critics -- but mostly his critics -- weighed in online, expressing scorn, confusion and criticism.
Adam Levine went blonde. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!? Adam's blonde, Spider Man 2 was bad, I'm in this contest- something's gotta give!— Debra DiGiovanni (@DebraDiGiovanni) May 5, 2014
Honestly it's dead Adam Levine crush is dead pic.twitter.com/dmpMozF81C— Linus (@carolynethomaz) May 5, 2014
Adam Levine dyed his hair blonde.. this is it, the apocalypse.— Sharon † (@xsharonxo) May 4, 2014
Some people wondered why Levine's hair was drawing so much attention.
Adam Levine's hair is trending on FB. Why are we talking about that? What about abducted Nigerian girls? What about Odessa? What about MERS?— Ingrid Holmquist (@ingridholmquist) May 4, 2014
Others matched Levine against other platinum blondes.
Trying to decide who Adam Levine looks like now that he's bleached his hair. Votes? pic.twitter.com/Lx8whOwJUB— Bill Werde (@bwerde) May 4, 2014
Adam Levine died his hair blonde and looks like Tyler Durden now. Ambivalence is all I can muster.— Zachary Todd (@MrZacharyTodd) May 5, 2014
... or questioned his rock status.
2007 Adam Levine would have made fun of 2014 Adam Levine so bad— madi (@maroonarryx) May 3, 2014
Breaking news: Adam Levine bleaches hair and wears cat tank top leaving Maroon 5 fanbase in confusion— livi? (@shewillbeliv) May 3, 2014
Of course, Levine got the final word.
"I hope people understand that when they say my hair looks creepy I take that as the highest compliment," he wrote.
I hope people understand that when they say my hair looks creepy i take that as the highest compliment.— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 4, 2014


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Welcome back!
Last week I travelled to Portugal to preside over the celebrations marking the anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima, May 13. I was very honored to be invited.
At this time last year I was also in Fatima, accompanying the Holy Father on his Apostolic visit to Portugal. Little did I know that a year later I would be coming back to celebrate the Mass for the feast day.
There are very large celebrations in Fatima on the anniversaries of the apparitions which are the 12th and 13th of every month between May and October, the largest celebrations being May, August, and October.
August is the month when many Portuguese immigrants who live abroad return home on vacation, and so they dedicate that month's pilgrimage to the immigrants. I've celebrated that Mass twice, but the biggest celebration of course is May the 13th itself and there were over 300,000 people there.
It began Thursday night with a Vigil with a rosary in many different languages, a candlelight procession and finally a Mass at 10:30 at night, at which I presided.
As you look over the plaza you see hundreds of thousands of candles burning in the darkness and listen to the enthusiastic singing of the Marian hymns which, in Portuguese, are many and very beautiful, it's a most moving experience.
The next morning I also celebrated the closing Mass at 10 in the morning. I offered the Mass in a very special way for all of our priests, deacons, seminarians, religious, and lay people of the Archdiocese and asked the Blessed Mother to help us in our efforts in the New Evangelization and inviting people back to the practice of the faith.
For those of you who speak Portuguese, you can watch a video of my homily here:
In a special way, this year's pilgrimage was dedicated to the new Blessed John Paul II, who had a very special devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. This year, in fact, was the 30th anniversary on the attempt on his life.
The Holy Father attributed his survival to the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima. The following year he came to Fatima himself, and the bullet that was taken out of his body was then placed in the crown of Our Lady of Fatima.
Three popes have gone to Fatima over the years, which shows the importance that the Church has given to these apparitions.
Friday, at the end of Mass, they had a very beautiful video that was shown about the new Blessed. The ceremony concluded with a very moving hymn of farewell to the Virgin in which the people take out their handkerchiefs and wave goodbye to the statue as it returns to the chapel of the apparitions.
That evening, I travelled to Lisbon where I was invited to the parish of very close friends of mine, João and Maria Cortez de Lobão, where we had a rosary and candlelight procession through the streets of Lisbon that night.
It was a quick trip, but it was a beautiful and moving celebration of Our Lady of Fatima.
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Back in Boston, I celebrated the 50th anniversary Mass at St. Athanasius in Reading on Sunday morning.
A number of the priests with connections to the parish were able to be present together with the current pastor, Father Darin Colarusso, particularly former pastor Father Bill Kremmell.
They had a wonderful music program and an enthusiastic response, and of course there was a birthday cake for the parish in the parish center.
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That evening I had the privilege to welcome the papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, at the 2nd annual Gala dinner for our Redemptoris Mater Seminary.
The event was very well attended and there was great enthusiasm.
We also recognized Jack Shaughnessy who for many decades has been a great supporter of all of the Archdiocese's priestly formation programs. Jack has a beautiful family, and many of his children and grandchildren were able to accompany him for the evening.
I was also very pleased to see Ambassador Ray Flynn and his wife Kathy were able to be there to support the seminary.
We had a presentation on Blessed John Paul II, particularly focused in his apostolic zeal and on his call to begin a New Evangelization of the Church. As I said to the guests in my remarks, the Redemptoris Mater Seminaries are a reality today because of his pastoral creativity and inspiration.
The Nuncio made beautiful remarks about his appreciation for the Redemptoris Mater Seminaries and spoke of the need to work and welcome vocations to the priesthood. You can listen to his remarks here:
A beautiful present was given to the Nuncio, a lovely Italian Jerusalem Bible which I'm sure he will treasure. The Nuncio was in the Holy Land twice during his career, first in the 1970s and then between 1999 and 2005 as the Apostolic Nuncio there.
Because of his time in the Holy Land, he has a very long and beautiful friendship with the Neocatechumenal Way, which is very active there. He is very cognizant of the work being done at the Domus Galilaeae Center promoting interfaith dialog, particularly with the Jewish people. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the Redemptoris Mater Seminaries and we are very happy that he accepted the invitation to come to Boston to be a part of this event.
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Monday evening I was happy to participate in the ceremony to present the Cardinal Humberto Medeiros Scholarships at Boston University.
BU awards full scholarships to 12 graduates of Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese. Since the scholarships were instituted by the then-president of BU, Dr. John Silber, in 1986 over 300 hundred students have been given these scholarships which are worth to date $35 million dollars. Dr. Silber knew of then-Bishop Medeiros' work with immigrants as bishop of Brownsville, Texas, and then came to know him well when he became the Archbishop of Boston.
Dr. Robert Brown, the current BU president, was unable to be there, but he was represented by Vice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs, Dr. Laurie Pohl.
This year's recipients of the scholarship were: Sean Ahern from Arlington Catholic High School, Brendan Bowdridge from Pope John XXIII Central High School, Danielle Conneely from Archbishop Williams High, School, Jaclyn Fulton from Austin Preparatory School, Kelly Gauthier from Bishop Fenwick High School, Sean Gunning from Xaverian Brothers High School, Dennis Marquis from Archbishop Williams High School, Nicolle Ouellette from Presentation of Mary Academy, Claire Pozniak from Notre Dame Academy Hingham, Kasthuri Sivalogan from Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Lindsay Smith from Mount Saint Joseph Academy and Matthew Talbot from Xaverian Brothers High School.
It's a wonderful opportunity for graduates of our Catholic high schools. Another nice feature about attending college at BU is that we have a very robust campus ministry program there, with a large participation from the students. The university has always been very supportive of the Archdiocese and our ministry there.
For many years we had Sister Olga and the Brotherhood of Hope lead the campus ministry at BU and they are now leaving to begin some wonderful new initiatives. We look forward to Fr. John McLaughlin and the FOCUS group going there to continue the extraordinary work of the Brothers and Sister Olga have done.
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On Tuesday we celebrated Mass at our Pastoral Center for the deacon jubilarians, the class of 1986. Father Tom Foley, who was then the director of the program, joined us for the Mass.
Afterward we had a dinner where I was able to spend some time with the deacons and their wives.
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Wednesday I celebrated Mass for the Consecrated Virgins in the archdiocese. Once a year we meet with them so we can hear an update on their activities.
The charism of the Consecrated Virgins was very prominent in the first centuries of Christianity and now has been newly restored in the Church after the Second Vatican Council. We are very blessed to have a number of women who have answered this vocation in our Archdiocese.
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Each year Catholic Charities has a gala dinner that I am happy to be able to attend. With the new demands on the services of Catholic Charities due to the economic crisis and the cutbacks in government funding, these sorts of fundraising efforts are more important than ever. I am pleased to say that they announced that the dinner raised $1.6 million to support Catholic Charities' critical work.
One of the people who addressed the banquet was Leosandra Santiago, a young woman from Santo Domingo who had been living in a shelter. Through the help of Catholic Charities she learned English and now is employed and is able to provide for her children. It's just a beautiful story of how Catholic Charities is able to change people's lives.
This year the alumni of Notre Dame University were an important part of the fundraising as we honored past president Father Theodore Hesburgh. Father Hesburgh will be 93 next week and he is known and beloved by many generations of Notre Dame alumni, many of which were present at the dinner that was co-chaired by John Mahoney and Brian Moynihan. Father Hesburgh was unable to be present, because he recently underwent surgery, so the award was accepted on his behalf by Notre Dame's current president Father John Jenkins.
Debbie Rambo, who became the president this year after many years of service at Catholic Charities, is doing an outstanding job. This past year, Catholic Charities served over 200,000 people at thirty different sites.
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I want to conclude this week reminding you that tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. I will be ordaining six fine men to the priesthood at our cathedral: John D'Arpino, Michael Farrell, Seán Hurley, Kwang Lee, Mark Murphy and Carlos Suarez.
Please remember them in your prayers as they begin this service to the people of God!
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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I broke down and after much gnashing of teeth, picked a winner (for me) on the whole smartphone thing. That's right, it's a G1 / Android device.
--- Why G1 ---
In short - the plans are cheaper, the phones are cheaper, and the hack factor is much, much higher. Give it a few hours of tweaking, and it's better than any of the other phones out there (or heck, within the next year or two, ie this upgrade cycle).
The contenders, in my opinion, are T-Mobile + G1, Sprint + Pre, and AT&T + Iphone.
Plan costs - Pretty much all the carriers have a $40 basic voice plan. Here's how it adds up.
T-Mo: $40+$25(data) (includes 400 messages)
Sprint: ??? (Most likely the 'Everything Data 450), includes unlimited SMS
AT&T: 40+$30(data)+$5(400 SMS)
This presumes that you're not getting a discount, or some sort of grandfathering :P, so real costs can be lower. YMMV. AFAIK, AT&T is least amenable to grandfathering for iphone. (Yes, the G1 can use non-G1 data plans with a simple APN switch).
Then there's device cost. Let's call it identical, for now, except the iPhone is stuck with 16gb while the other two devices can use 32gb sdmicro cards when those come out. (Yes, wait for WWDC, blahblahblah)
There's the interface concerns. While there's a multi-page thread in the soapbox regarding the benefits and drawbacks of multitasking, I'll just have to report that multitasking WORKS NOW. I had a podcast fired up, a IM service in the background, and was navigating using telenav on my G1. (May be possible on iPhone ... eventually). That being said, Android 1.5 is as slick as the iPhone once you learn the interface. A touch slower, though, but way faster than what I was using before.
We can look at cloud services.
I do like the idea of the Pre. I do. But I haven't heard much about their service model. And 'cloud' links already exist on the iPhone (mobile.me / google) and G1 (google). And I've already had my 'cloud' set up with Google (after they implemented their exchange functionality). I doubt that I'll give up all of the google apps just for a mobile device. So, no Pre.
And finally, hack factor. Sure, Cydia exists. But they're fighting Apple, tooth and claw. Meanwhile, the G1 is open source. Heck, there's a public release of Cupcake months before it came out. And you can tweak things quite a bit.
Therefore, for me, G1 wins. Cheapest, most hackable, most potential. What pushed me over the edge? Android 1.5. The (cup)cake is not a lie.
--- Getting it set up / Must Have Apps ---
So, I picked it up. First things first. Get this piece of junk from T-Mobile up to specs.
It came with the RC30 firmware out of the box. No on screen keyboard, not rooted so no tethering...
Well, after some initial playing, the only solution is to go to http://wiki.xda-developers.com...p?pagename=HTC_Dream and read all about it.
Namely, this page.
In short:
Step 1: Downgrade to RC29
Step 2: Type in some commands to root the system
Step 3: Upgrade bootloader
Step 4: Install Cupcake.
There, a usable system. If you can read ars and contribute content, you can fix the problems and get something modern.
Anyways, must have apps.
TuneWiki (replaces the crappy default player)
ACast (podcast manager)
AndNav2 (work in progress)
Telenav GPS (pay, monthly fee -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif -- .. but it works.)
Shopsavvy - Price checker
Wikimobile - simplified wikipedia interface
Weatherbug - weather app
Wifi Tethering for Root Users - Enough said. It works pretty well, too.
Locate - Pure awesomeness. Your phone can 'learn' where you are/what you are doing, and then change configuration appropriately. No more turning the phone to silent when you are at work. Or at home. Etc.
fIRC chat
Anyways, that's me with the new toy to date. Still need to get a bigger sdmicro card (16gb on order), a silicone skin for it (got a screen protector already), a audio breakout cable for car use (right now I have a usb>3.5mm jack, but I'd like to charge + sound so that I can use it constantly), and get some more utilities for it.
In particular:
Better camera app .. I like some sort of control for exposure, no 'click' sound, etc.
Notetaking app (and maybe twitter clients?) - still need recommends for one that will tweet for 'public' notes versus 'private' notes. Bonus if it can take voice notes and automatically transcribe them.
What I'd like to see more of (and is coming soon, I hope).
Offline GPS. TomTom has spoiled me completely with their WM app. I'd love an android port. (TeleNav requires internets)
More Widgets. Cupcake supports widgets on homescreen, i'd love to have a twitter widget, or a weather widget, etc.
Better gesture commands. Especially in the Browser. I do like the iPhone / Mobile Safari tab management, and I don't have that on android. However, I really hate the 'display the page intact' bit. I miss the ability of Opera for Mobiles to rewrite pages into single column layouts. .. Oh wai, there's a beta out!
I'll have to get back to you on that last bit.
Anyways, questions / comments / news, lmk.
Detailed Rooting Instructions. (7-15-09) Be sure to have the following handy.
Android SDK
Updated Radio
Updated Recovery Image
Updated Firmware (I linked Cyanogen's)
(Optional) Linux CD for partitioning.
SD Card (Perferrably 8+gb, Class 6) $50 @ Newegg
(Optional) SD Reader for your system
USB Cable
Follow these instructions:
(You can reboot the device by pressing call-menu-hangup, or by removing the battery)
Reformat your SD Card w/ a FAT32 partition, and a EXT3 partition. If you're using a linux CD, 'gparted' is a good program to do so. You can do this by mounting the SD Card from the phone, or via a seperate USB > SD adapter.
Put the RC29 image (DREAMING.nbh) onto the SD Card. Also, copy HardSPL (renamed to update.zip if not so already) and the recovery image (rename it something you can type easily with a .img extension) onto the card as well.
Reboot the device. Hold the camera button when it reboots. You should see on-screen instructions on how to flash your phone at this point. Make sure you have plenty of battery power. Press the power(hangup) button to start this. DO NOT INTERRUPT THIS.
Once you are on the homescreen, type in telnetd and hit enter.
Connect to the market, and download a telnet app and connect to localhost.
Once you are in localhost, type in the following. (# is the prompt)
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cd sdcard
# flash_image recovery recovery.img
# cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img
Once this is done, reboot the phone. Hold down the home button while rebooting to enter the recovery image. Now we apply several updates. Wipe your phone before the first update
HardSPL (should be on your SD card already)
Updated Radio
New firmware
A easy way to do this is to have the phone connected, and use the following dos commands. CD to your SDK directory, the 'tools' directory. Then, when you are ready to do an update, type in 'adb push (update name) /sdcard/update.zip'
I broke down and after much gnashing of teeth, picked a winner (for me) on the whole smartphone thing. That's right, it's a G1 / Android device.
I believe that is only 200 SMS for $5 and $20 for unlimited
I just recently got a G1 myself and I'm very happy with it. I've had a blackberry from work for a couple of years but it's always an older model. If I could get exchange to work with my G1, I would drop my blackberry in a heartbeat. The first app I got for the G1 was ChompSMS. I like it better than the included messaging app, especially with the built in keyboard and it now supports MMS.
Interesting thread. I have been using an iphone since shortly after it was released, and really have enjoyed it. Though since the G1 release, it has definitely had my eye.
Nation 450 w/ Rollover, $39.99, Data Plan for iPhone, $30, iPhone Text Messaging (200), $5.
According to AT&T's site about a minute ago.
I'll wait until grandcentral/Google Voice :P .. Installing chompsms, though. ... it crashes in Android 1.5 -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --
Not after you play put on Android 1.5. :P I compared it to iPhone and believe once you tweak it out, it's better than iPhone. Even in the 'polish' category.
You just need your own wax. Also .. $35 data plan? It's $25 by default on t-mo afaik. (I have a cheaper legacy data plan)
I just got a G1 as well. Here are the apps I'm currently using:
Yi: going to run android 1.5?
I hate you guys, but only until tomorrow when mine is supposed to arrive. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --
Right. Default data is 25, but I pay 35 for the data and unlimited text. Sad part is I ran with the $6 tzones getting full internet for years. I finally had to give it up -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --
Heh, I have the business plan 600, which comes with 400 messages of any type.
the APN thing did not work, Tmobile is now actively looking for G1's that aren't on the G1 dataplan, and cutting off data. I was able to get the phone to activate with the tzones plan, but then it stopped working. Then if I turned off/on the phone it work work for about 10 sec, and then I would be notified again about the dataplan not being right.
Hrm, well works fine here ($20 vpn plan) with the old APN. I'll report if it fails.
well i have read that the unlimited data works for the most part, but some has cited issues i figured i might as well pay the 35, and get unlimited text since once in a while i go over 1000, and thatb way i have no issues.
any advice on where to get the files for a downgrade to RC29? I have the cupcake upgrade file, but none of the other stuff. All the links I have found have been dead.
I very much enjoy syncing my contacts with Outlook as opposed to the "cloud". I am also wondering when the phone will get ALL of the bluetooth profiles that My Nokia E71 has available to it by default. Once it gets all of those I may purchase one. Looks interesting.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com...me=HTC_Dream_Rooting (in the OP) .. links are live there. (Was in the OP :P)
G1 will be EDGE only on ATT. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --
You can't get at kernel level stuff. (Wifi tethering is way cool). You also are limited to working with apple's dev framework, versus basically having the entire range of linux tools at your disposal.
Love my G1. Patiently awaiting the Cupcake OTA update. I haven't rooted so far, but I eventually will.
Thanks for the link .milfox. Way better than all the video tutorials out there. I was just looking for a simple instruction set, and this is it.
Also, from what I have been reading, there has not been any official word from tmobile US as to when they are actually releasing cupcake OTA.
Better off reflashing your own 1.5 (I use JF, it seems the best supported + has an autoupdate util), since if you root it, odds are you'll want a kernel that will support ip forwarding (the stock HTC one doesn't) which will need a non-HTC firmware anyways.
Sounds like Windows Mobile. :P
I'd add the HTC Touch Pro.
Since it's open source, I'm surprised someone hasn't already disabled the click sound.
I'm guessing T-Mobile re-opened port 80 on T-Zones after I left.
How old is your G1?
My battery issues disappeared after about a month.
I was pondering a WM 6.5 phone, but the Fuze/Touch Pro were more expensive and had worse UIs (even after all tweaking was done .. I still have a HTC Wizard to play with if I want to screw with WM). And I checked my apps, pretty much all of them had replacements in Android.
I haven't found an app yet, but :P I'm looking. I wouldn't mind exposure controls as well. Oh, and free upload-to-flickr.
About 4 days old :P
I found a nice replacement camera app, 'SnapPhoto', which has a slew more settings (including a tilt sensor based anti-shudder).
upgraded to cupcake(thanks for the links), and the update is really nice. The onscreen keyboard is ok, but I wish it had autocorrection like the iphone, but surely that is "patented" by apple or some such, just like the lack of multitouch.
Which 1.5 build are you running? JF? The official HTC?
Does cupcake add any other BT profiles that aren't there to begin with? Only headset support is craptastical.
A2DP & AVRCP for now, afaik. More to come.
Cute app of the day (and a definite keeper) is the Tricorder app.
Received cupcake OTA this morning!
So last night I was going to charge my phone in my bedroom with the plug in charger. Wait, what's this?! The charger is Mini-B USB and not the damn ExtUSB. Is this some kind of cruel joke, a screw up or am I overlooking something?
I couldn't wait any longer and rooted my phone, installed the JF 1.5 build.
Where are you located, Netherlands?
Question for the people who already have Cupcake.. did they fix the retarded in-call screen with the drawer keypad?
and no, in-call keypad still with tab drawer. not a very big issue to me though.
too bad autorotate doesnt function with the homescreen. why?
also the blurring in between looks a bit shoddy, fading would've been better imo.
Played around with My Tracks. It worked perfectly for letting me figure out exactly how long it takes for me to ride to school along with speed and altitude changes.
I thought in 1.5 you could control your audioplayer (play stop next previous) from the notifications screen?
.milFox, ChompSMS is now cupcake compatible, give it a whirl, you might like it! -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --


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Confession: We got a bit too excited when we heard the news today that Kate Middleton's expecting a little royal baby.
Apparently, so did everyone else. We've rounded up the best (er, funniest) reactions to Will and Kate's big news.
"#royalbaby is trending. So soon there will be a new half-blood Prince?" — @Lord_Voldemort7
"I hope Royal Baby and Blue Ivy Carter become best friends" — @BrooklynDecker
"God tells me the child is male, will be named Henry IX & the colonies better re-learn how to bend the sodding knee." — @KngHnryVIII
"Yes, Camilla, that's exactly what William and Kate were doing in France." — @Charles_HRH
"Ah, so THAT is the kid my generation will be saying 'Oh god, that makes me feel old' every time her age is mentioned" — @Chris_Kendall_
"What's that you say? A couple who've been married for 18 months are having a baby? I need some time to take this strange news in." — @Hylandian
"lol if it's ginger." — @Peppa_Oink
"What awful trendy name can we suggest for the #royalbaby? I'm thinking Aden/Caden." — @CleverTitleTK
"and SUDDENLY the sound of thousands people all scrambling to make Royal Baby parody accounts before they're left with @K4t3_babyOfficial" — @danisnotonfire
"Already depresshed at newsh coverage of the #royalbaby... far too early to be telling the world & raishing hopesh/fearsh." — @BigTamConnery
"reminder for the next 8 months: Kate Middleton's body and the fetus she is carrying are not you nor your child." — @girl_agrro
""KATE MIDDLETON'S UNBORN CHILD SHALL SAVE US FROM THE FISCAL CLIFF!!!" -- My Cardboard Sign Today" — @DamonLindelof
"BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth refuses to recognize Kate Middleton's "little Mudblood."— @WarrenHolstein
"The British empire has successfully colonized Kate Middleton's uterus." —@morninggloria
"Go on Big Willy..." — @AnthonyOgogo


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Dj 60W RGBW Light Effect Bar System and Ball LED Par Light
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Ocean Blitz Baby Suntop
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A surf inspired suntop, chlorine resistant and UPF50+ sun protection. This suntop is perfect for the pool or the beach.
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Own funds
To be able to absorb losses in a going or in a gone concern situation, institutions need own funds in sufficient quantity and quality in accordance with applicable European legislation. The Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) sets out the characteristics and conditions for own funds and specifies a series of mandates for the EBA. These include the development of Regulatory Technical Standards to further specify the quality criteria applying to institutions' regulatory own funds, as well the deductions that should be applied to own funds elements and the harmonizing disclosures. In addition, the EBA monitors the quality of own funds on an on-going basis and may provide advice and opinions.
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