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Skip to comments.What have the cardinals been doing? One of them explains.
Posted on 03/09/2013 6:37:32 AM PST by NYer
From New York's blogging cardinal archbishop, Timothy Dolan:
Every day we each begin with the most effective prayer of all, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. In our sessions we pray from the Divine Office, begin each meeting with the ancient prayer to the third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the Veni Sancte Spiritus, and we break at lunch with the beautiful words of the Angelus. Wednesday, we cardinals made a Holy Hour of adoration before Jesus, really and truly present in the Blessed Sacrament, at the Altar of the Chair in Saint Peters Basilica.
Were praying a lot; and, from what I hear, so are you. Thanks!
Actually, we are back in that Upper Room with Our Lady and the apostles, and the challenges we and the new Saint Peter will face are, surprisingly, similar to those the first Pope, Saint Peter, confronted that first Pentecost: how most effectively to present the Person, message, and invitation of Jesus to a world that, while searching for salvation and eternal truth, are also at times doubting, skeptical, too busy, or frustrated.
So, you may be astonished to hear, we spend most of our times discussing issues such as preaching; teaching the faith; celebrating the seven sacraments; inviting back those believers who have left; serving the sick and poor, the least of these; sustaining our splendid schools, hospitals, and agencies of charity; encouraging our brother priests, bishops, deacons, and consecrated women and men religious; supporting our pastors and getting more of them! and our parishes; forming future priests well; loving our married couples and our families, and defending the dignity of marriage; protecting life where it is most in danger because of war, poverty, or abortion; and reinforcing the universal call to holiness given all in the Church.
Those are the big issues. You may find that hard to believe, since the word on the street is that all we talk about is corruption in the Vatican, sexual abuse, money. Do these topics come up? Yes! Do they dominate? No!
A journalist and, by the way, the reporters from home have been mostly amazingly patient, attentive, and thoughtfully curious asked if the new Pope would bring radical change to the Church. She seemed surprised when I replied, yes! At least I had her full attention! I then went on to clarify that the Church was big-time into change; namely, a change in the human heart, which Jesus called repentance or conversion. The job description of the Bishop of Rome is to conserve the faith, the truths of which have been revealed to us by God, especially through His Son, Jesus, faithfully passed on by His Church these past 2000 years, and to renew the invitation of Jesus to a change of heart.
So these days in Rome are hardly about the board of governors meeting to discuss changes to Church policy, but about how to present timeless beliefs more effectively.
Do names come up? Sure. But the name most spoken about is the Most Holy Name of Jesus!
Would you say His Holy Name and ask Him to send us His grace and mercy? Thanks!
But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
Just like Samuel, following The Lord.
Don't be misled, there is plenty of "sausage making" going on, and it's not necessarily the work of the Holy Spirit. Same in all organized denominations, including mine. The Roman Catholic Church, like most, best be about shutting off the flood of pedophile/homosexual/lesbian clergy and laity into its ranks, and restoring moral order. Otherwise all else is just continuing decay and Death.
Well, the Conclave begins on Tuesday. Could be by this time next week, we will have a new Pope.
I'm not Catholic, but I do pray that God provides wisdom and direction and the Catholic Church gets just the man that God wants there.
(Personally, I'm just a fan of 'big world events', and the election of a Pope is one of them. I can hardly wait for the shouts of "Fumare blanca!" and the cardinal standing on the balcony intoning "Habemus papam!".)
Dolan is the guy who got very chummy with the muzzie antichrist Baby Killer Hussein 0bama before the election. I pray for the sake of the World, he isn't elected.
And how do you know this? Personal experience as a cardinal?
Dolan is a conservative Catholic's worst nightmare. He would be a disaster.
Dolan is the guy who got very chummy with the muzzie antichrist Baby Killer Hussein 0bama before the election. I pray for the sake of the World, he isnt elected.This video is disconcerting as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQEmO07DpaI
About as narcissistic as the president. I wish this guy would shut up with his miserable self-deceptive self-aggrandizement.
I assume the Cardinals are playing spring ball, preparing for the regular season.
You got this wrong. This is an annual event and regardless of who the President is, its a convivial occasion to raise monies for a charitable purpose.
The interval between the election of a new pope and his installation has varied between 3 and 11 days in the years since 1800:
Pius VII--7 days
Leo XII--7 days
Pius VIII--5 days
Gregory XVI--4 days
Pius IX--5 days
Leo XIII--11 days
Pius X--5 days
Benedict XV--3 days
Pius XI--6 days
Pius XII--10 days
John XXIII--7 days
Paul VI--9 days
John Paul I--8 days
John Paul II--7 days
Benedict XVI--5 days
Advocating for Gun Control (Cardinal Timothy Dolan)
And there's also this gem, complete with LGBT presenters and dancing pagan priestesses.
Dolan's bad, bad news.
I meant to add that the more recent conclaves (since 1831) have been short, usually 2 or 3 days. So there would seem to be a good chance that the next pope will be announced in time for his installation to take place before March 24 (Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week).
The new Pope will be able to say that he is familiar with the problem of Evil.
Inside the Conclave: A Visual Chart
Youve heard about Pope on a rope how about a cardinal on a bike?
Where cardinals will stay during Conclave
Letter #37: A Living Stone
Conclave date to be announced after 7 pm local time
Is this Cardinal, Pope Emeritus Benedict's candidate to be his successor
Cardinal plotting anti-Ratzinger progressive Papacy
Vatican post office sells over 150k Vacant See sets
General congregations: With all electors present still no date for Conclave
LA's Cardinal Mahony tweets: We're close to setting conclave date
Patriarch Raï: The Conclave from a Middle Eastern perspective
Curia silences U.S. cardinals: You talk too much
Little-known Facts about a Papal Conclave
Filipino Cardinal Stirs Papal Talk With Rapid Rise
Letter #36: Silence (victory for the old guard of the Vatican)
General congregations: Profile of future Pope emerging from sessions
Cardinals contemplate insider, outsider papal candidates
College of Cardinals imposes media silence after breach
Last Two Cardinal Electors Will be in Rome by Thursday
Letter #33: Sistine Chapel Closed (approx 5 days for workers to prepare for conclave)
Pope Prediction: 10 Reasons Cardinal Burke Will Be the Next Pope
Popeless but not Hopeless
Election of Pope Trivia Quiz
Black Socialist Pope to Follow Black Socialist President?
Pope watchers keeping tabs on Vatican 'backroom boys'
Catholicism, True Reform and the Next Pope
Cardinals announce adoration, Vespers ceremony for conclave
When Will the Conclave Start? Pope Benedict's Final Legislative Act
Vatican Diary / The "who's who" of the new pope's electors (broken down by continent)
Letter #31: The Program, and the Sheriff (Mahony, Sandri, Anti-Pope)
Famous last tweets before cardinals enter media blackout of conclave
Cardinal O'Malley lists sex abuse, Curia reform as priorities
Old establishment cardinals hope for quick conclave
Cardinals Begin Pre-Conclave Meetings Amid Scandal
Lombardi: 12 Cardinal electors yet to arrive as 1st Congregation concludes
A ticket to vote for the first Latin-American Pope
Three candidates for Pope who are on few people's lists
Omens and portents and signs! OH MY! (minor earthquake near Castel Gandolfo)
Church changing big time, says Cardinal Dolan
Letter #30: The Next and the Last (media, papabili, Ganswein in tears)
Editorial: "Religious correspondents", "Vaticanists": don't know more about Conclave than us
During Sede Vacante what must priests say in the Eucharistic Prayer now that there is no Pope?
What is a [Catholic] Cardinal? A Basic Review of the College of Cardinals in History and Today
Benedict XVI's first night as Pope emeritus
Toward the Conclave. The Pressure on the Cardinals [Catholic Caucus]
Papal Apartments, Basilica Sealed for Sede Vacante
Update on Conclave Start Date
Cardinal Dolan: Pope Benedict 'fragile' on last day of papacy (good handling of msm)
Prayer for the Election of a New Pope
Interregnum Terms and Expressions, Q and A Format (Nuts & Bolts-current situation) [Catholic Caucus]
Dolan's bad, bad news.He wouldn't be my pick either. What do you think about Cardinal Sarah? (From his Address to ordinands of the Community of St. Martin, June 25, 2011.)
Celebrate the Eucharist with dignity, fervor, and faith. He who does not struggle to preach the Gospel, convert, protect, nourish, and lead the People of God down the road of truth and of life that is Jesus Christ himself, he who is silent in the face of the grave deviations of this world, enchanted by its technology and its scientific successes, exposes himself to one or another to the forms of slavery that can enchain your poor hearts: the slavery to an exclusively human vision of things, the slavery of ardently desiring temporal power or prestige, the slavery of vanity, the slavery of money, the servitude to sensuality.
And there is only way that can liberate us from these forms of slavery and bring us to fully assume our ministry of pastors and of shepherds, and that is the way of love. Love, agapé, is the key for understanding Christ. And it is for that reason, he who exercises the pastoral ministry in the Church, cannot put his energies in anything but a supreme love of Christ... --Cardinal Sarah
Good one!
Not said in a judgmental way about the Roman Catholic Church. Just years of experience at the parish, diocesan, and national level dealing with and experiencing the hierarchy & politics of organized religion. Worn out by it and am on hiatus, attempting to reconnect with my faith at a more personal, one-to-one level, which is what I think Christianity, in large measure, is meant to be. I miss the camaraderie and fellowship of a congregation, but not the behind-the-scenes pettiness, back-stabbing, and power struggles. And the Vatican is the center of uber-political infighting; there's not much disagreement about that.
Sounds like you'd make a good Baptist!!
Parish politics can be terrible. My wife converted to Catholicism and the pettiness she deals with is very difficult. And there is a terrible history of sausage-making throughout church history, as everyone knows. But the loss of temporal power, followed by the infiltration and exorcism of demonic forces has yielded an amazing purification, which is the hope of those of us who have been too stubborn to let the devil win.
I'm not one who's going to tell you that some minority has made the rest of the priests look bad. The fact is that the bad bishops have been such a sizeable majority that it made a frontal, legalistic assault by the good guys impossible. In 1962, Pope John XXIII ruled that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed into the priesthood, and the disobedience was so rampant that scarcely a handful of American bishops heeded his warning. In 1965, Pope Paul VI discovered a black mass in the Vatican. In 1968, he reasserted Catholic sexual morality in the age of birth control, and most bishops dissented and all but formally entered schism. That year, the guy who probably presided over the black mass became, unknown to Paul VI, the unofficial pope of the American de-facto schism.
But there is good news. In 1978, an exorcist, one of the very, very few bishops who were exorcists became pope. In 1982, he placed another exorcist bishop at the helm of the papal inquisition, which by then had been renamed the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. By 1990, according to the 2005 John Jay study of the Johns Hopkins University, they had reduced the abuse rate by 97%, before anyone in the press knew of the problem. In 2005, that exorcist became pope. He is now resigning, but he will continue to live and conduct spiritual warfare from within the Vatican.
Whatever the latest homosexual scandal to rock the Vatican, it is a big one. We'll never know what it is, but the gay-media-lobby-led speculation that Benedict is gay doesn't fit the facts: why would he appoint an investigation to discover and tell him he's gay? And he's the very guy who's asserting that gays can't make good priests; does anyone really think he thinks he should never have become a priest? But the last two elections have shown that the institution can rise above venial nature of the people who fill the offices.
There have been brilliant reforms. The cardinals shun anyone who campaigns for being pope as corruption. 2/3rds votes are necessary, and the conclave takes place in complete silence. Given that Benedict and the runner-up were both conservative non-Italian reformers, what are the factions or coalitions? How did they horsetrade past the 2nd round when John Pau started to emerge, if they couldn't talk?
I also would add that, at diocesan and national conventions, voting strategies for candidates and resolutions were/are worked out in advance, including rehearsal of contingency plans and instructions where to place votes on each round of balloting. Done by both the liberals and the traditionalists. Votes in the conclave can occur in silence, but possible outcomes will have been worked out in advance.
If I understand correctly, aren't there a small (3?) number of candidates put forward? It's much harder to play that game when there are 115+ candidates. The permutations are just too difficult to fathom. I could only suggest that the selection of Carol Wojtyla and Joseph Ratzinger as the last two popes suggests that didn't happen.
With the especially long delay before the conclave, I'm certainly hearing lots of reports of different camps this time. Not so much traditionalists vs. liberals as reformers vs. institution-conservationalists (i.e., people who don't want to rock the curial structure too much.)
A LOT of the fault for this may lie with the Americans; they've already been told to knock off the press conferences, because the "Vaticanologists" have been reading into their comments, but they're still blogging and chatting away. If these reports have any salt to them whatsoever, I'd expect Italian Angelo Scola is the next pope, but I thought he had the best resume going in.
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Skip to comments.Judge Rules Photo ID Wont Be Required For Pennsylvania Voters This Year
Posted on 10/02/2012 7:38:15 AM PDT by JediJones
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Judicial tyranny.
The franchise of freedom is in jeopardy.
Very, very disappointing. Voter fraud is HUGE in Philly. So, you have to show ID to buy a fricken box of Sudafed, but voting? nah, no problem, we trust you ... aaRRGH!
IMHO, we make it way too easy in this country to vote—especially if its fradulent voting. And fradulent voting is almost never prosecuted. Most Democratic voters wouldn't bother voting if it inconvienced them in any way.
This judge is apparently a GOP elected official.
There is absolutely no valid reason that votes without IDs can't go into the provisional pile, to be counted ONLY if the margin of victory is less than the number of provisional ballots.
Wrong link. The right one is:
To the dhimmis voter fraud is an entitlement.
Just like term limits the gatekeepers will decide who/what gets through and that includes BOTH the dhimmis and the GOP.
Read what he's done ...
PA voters (real, walking dead or cheaters) won't need ID as of now to vote (for Obama to keep the free goodies).
The Democrats and their tame judges want to win by any means possible and no ID makes fraud easier.
I predicted this weeks ago on here. The only surprise is that the radical leftist judge didn't wait until 24 hours prior to election day. Now the Republicans have time to appeal I suppose, for all the good that will do.
"Judicial tyranny."
Or judicial cowardice.
What the Hell happened to America...
From your link- Simpson is a Trojan Horse:
"Simpson was nominated by Democratic Gov. Bob Casey to fill a vacancy in Northampton County Court in May 1989 and then was elected to a 10-year term later that year.
Although Simpson was a Democrat, he cross-filed to appear on the ballots in both the Democratic and Republican primaries. He lost the Democratic primary but won as a Republican and went on to win in the 1989 general election."
Why bother to ask if it doesn't mean anything?
Sure it ticks me off but in practical sense will it matter for this election? Does anyone think obama won't gets PA's electoral votes anyway? It does however facilitate a distortion of the overall nationwide vote.
It's official. The anointed one is now propped up by his own corrupt judiciary as well as his own corrupt media.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Banana Republic of America
After does not matter. Only now, in this Last Election That Counts. Any subsequent elections will not matter.
This "Judge" has delivered the blow that will allow a flood of fradulent votes to come pouring in. A last minute bit of legal demolition to ensure Il Douche's victory.
No surprise. As far as the timing of his ruling is concerned, the judge did exactly what the supreme court told him to do.
MrB, you are absolutely going to have to stop interjecting wisdom into this discussion. ;-)
Is this an open invitation to masses of ineligible/illegal voters to go to Pennsylvania to vote?
No ID mandate - vote in your home state, then drive up to Pennsylvania and find an organization (Leftist, I'm sure) that keeps up with old folks that don't vote any more, or recent deaths, or ____________ (fill in the blank) and vote in someone else's place. Further - it would be difficult to trace/investigate.
Watch for SEIU busses at the polls?
Open season for voter fraud.
So it would also be safe to say that an I.D. would not be required to enter this so called judges court room?
It doesn't matter. In those Phila precincts with the voter fraud, the poll workers are in on it, and they'll let people vote without ID.
The voter ID law was a booby prize, a sop to conservatives and fair minded moderates who backed the Pileggi bill to allocate Pennsylvania's electoral votes on the same basis as is done in Maine and Nebraska: 2 for the statewide winner, 1 for the winner of each congressional district.
With a solid GOP majority in both houses and a governor pledged to sign the bill once passed, the Pileggi bill would have accomplished the same thing as the voter ID bill with far less fuss and fanfare.
With only the two statewide electoral votes at stake in the most corrupt Democrat districts, there would have been far less reward for cheating making for more balanced contests down ticket as well.
The Democrats would have been unable to launch their normal corrupt legal challenges and delaying tactics for three reasons:
Gleason, our Quisling state GOP chair, opposed the Pileggi bill on the basis that the GOP would win all 20 this year given Obama's sorry record. 'So what?', should have been the obvious reply. If that happens, Pennsylvania won't make a difference anyway.
Now, Mr. Chairman, are you willing to resign in disgrace if you don't deliver what you bragged would be done one year ago when you blocked this bill?
Fraudulent voting is protected by Democrats and their hand-picked lackeys in robes. The judge likes the fact that Democrat precincts in Philly vote 110% straight ticket Democrat and that Whites are turned away from the polling places by Black Panthers with nightsticks.
Wouldn't it be nice if our military were at our polling places to guarantee fair elections, and everyone had to stick their finger in indelible ink to prove that they've only voted once? We can do that for other countries, but not our own.
Yes that's how its done properly, with provisional ballots which get counted if the voters show they were properly cast by legitimate registered voters. Putting ballots cast by unidentified people in with the legitimately- cast ballots is like pissing in the punch bowl. It ruins the whole works .
This Judge wants to control this particular election....
he has been bought and paid for by Hussein thugs...they are scared...big time..
I live in Pennsylvania, was born here, returned here for retirement...biggest mistake I have ever made..well one of the biggest~~~
my area is controlled by FREE FOOD, FREE PHONES AND IGNORANCE...
we are not FREE any longer...we are controlled...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar law in Indiana constitutional.
I always always always check NO for "Should Judge ____ be retained?"
Gotta figure if they're in office long enough, they've compromised themselves and everyone/everything they're judging for political gain.
And none of them ever seem to get kicked out anyway.
The END MEANS couldn't be more obvious!! Friggin stupid judge....he is getting something good for that ruling.
What is the point of setting them aside if you're just going to count them anyways? They go in the "needs to be verified" pile and they do not come out of that pile until the verification is complete.
"Provisional" is just that - they aren't verified and counted unless they are needed.
Usually, they won't be. But if the margin is less than the number of provisionals, they'll all have to be verified as valid and then counted.
Of course, the 'rats could try to overwhelm the system by refusing to show ID and making all their votes provisional, delaying and messing up the works.
I just learned that the judge will have the ballots of the unidentified voters mixed in and counted with the ballots of properly-registered and identified voters.
This destroys the integrity of the Pennsylvania election, completely.
(Ballots from people without proper ID, or with no ID, should be Provision Ballots and counted only when the bona fides of the voters are determined. This is how it is done from one end of America to the other. The state has the duty to insure the integrity of the election. Mixing ballots cast by unidentified voters in with properly-cast ballots destroys the Pennsylvania election (and possibly may elect a President based on a whole lot of fake ballots).
If the RNC or the Romney campaign doesn't get on this ruling RIGHT AWAY, like TODAY, to get it fixed or set aside, then they may very well be conceding the election .... watch and see what they do....watch and see what they do....watch and see what they do....
Anybody else getting tired of this BS?
What's to stop a Democrat operative from grabbing that pile, throwing out the Republican ballots, and adding everything else into the main pile of ballots to be counted?
They do crap like that already.
Right on!! Tyranny in its purist form. This is why there is a need for those that want this country to survive to get out and vote and be vigalant against voter fraud. We are living the post American dream
This will clear the way for the First Wookie to take over for Baraq in 2016.
We have lost the judicial system, the financial system, the media to communism, the education system & most important we have lost GOD. Now follow the dots & find a place outside of this country while we still can.
The PA Sec of State needs to tell this judge to get bent. The SCOTUS has already ruled that photo ID laws are constitutional. The DOJ sued us twice about it but all you have to do is show up in Court and it gets kicked out. The states need to start ignoring these Federal judges who are out of line.
These are not "Provisional".. they can ask a voter for ID but they must give them a regular ballot even if they decline to provide ID.
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UNCW updated its network with Cisco® switching and wireless solutions. At the core, the university uses a high-port-density Cisco Catalyst® 6509-E Switches virtual switching system (VSS), taking the core to the next level with network system virtualization that boosts scalability up to 132 ports per system. Cisco Catalyst 6509-E Switches are also used with the mid-port-density Cisco Catalyst 6506-E Switches in the distribution layer. Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500 Switches complete the network's access layer with industry-leading security, high availability, and low cost of ownership.
In the data center, Cisco Nexus 5596 Switches form the backbone of the environment with high flexibility that supports Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet from unified ports. By upgrading the network, UNCW gained improved security features, a streamlined environment for easier management, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet speeds.
The Catalyst switches form the campus backbone that also supports wireless across the campus through over 1000 Cisco Aironet® Series Access Points. Early deployment primarily consisted of Aironet 1242 Series Access Points, which are designed specifically for challenging environments. Recently, the university has started transitioning to Aironet 3502 Access Points with Cisco CleanAir® technology for self-healing, self-optimizing networks and also to the new cost-effective Aironet 1602 Access Points.
To help networking staff manage the thousands of access points and network connections across the university, UNCW uses an array of Cisco management and security features. The Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance is a powerful security solution that meets growing needs for the most high-volume environments. Managed by the Cisco Security Manager (CSM), the ASA 5585-X supports up to 350,000 connections per second.
The Cisco Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2) for the Catalyst 6500 Series Switches supports up to 1000 access points with advanced wireless security. The Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides visibility, optimization, and lifecycle management for both wired and wireless networks. With centralized control, configuration management, and templates, these products greatly accelerate deployment and the introduction of new services.
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With a reliable, high-performance Cisco network backed by Cisco Catalyst switching, UNCW is using Cisco TelePresence® and WebEx® to become a leader in videoconferencing for teaching and learning. By combining audio, video, and collaborative communications in TelePresence, UNCW offers students a world-class blended learning environment where they can meet with teachers for natural interactions that approach the in-person experience. Many classes meet several times a week, and UNCW's learning approach allows students to choose between attending the class in person or participating in the live class with video on a wired or wireless network from the location they choose. In addition, Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Switches can prioritize video traffic with Strict Priority Queuing for the highest possible quality of service, helping to achieve connections free of skipping and lag. With its collaborative platform and optimized learning experience, UNCW's distance education with videoconferencing enrollment is growing faster than anticipated.
More importantly, students can access the system from almost any Internet connection without any complex set-up or installation. This capability greatly extends the reach and accessibility to students. Thanks to our strong investment in TelePresence, UNCW has grown its distance learning classes from 24 courses to 87 courses in less than three years. "We supported 3800 academic programming hours for distance learning in the past year, more than double the year before," says Kraus. "Cisco TelePresence is helping us reach more students, support partnerships with other institutions, and become a leader in a high-growth area."
Implementing Wireless for Mobile Students
The combination of a streamlined environment and easy management has helped UNCW scale quickly and prioritize deployment of access points across campus. The Cisco WiSM2 module on the Catalyst 6500 Series Switches supports a high number of access points and clients, a necessity for serving the growing number of devices on campus. The module even includes Cisco CleanAir technology to help identify and avoid interference for an optimized network delivering greater performance.
Using Cisco network management solutions, the networking staff can determine the number of users on any access point, view signal strength, and inspect heat maps of signal coverage. Using this information, the staff can be proactive in adjusting the position and number of access points to achieve the best coverage and signal quality before they even hear about issues. The networking staff recently used these tools to help redesign placement of access points in a new residence hall by viewing the network and determining how the building construction affected signals.
Cisco Prime Infrastructure improves scalability through use of profiles and automated configuration. Rather than manually configuring each access point individually, networking staff can apply profiles and configure multiple access points from a central management point. "Our wireless network has grown from 100 access points eight years ago to 1453 today, with another 418 already ordered," says Kraus. "Such rapid growth would never have been possible without streamlined Cisco management."
UNCW is also leveraging Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for greater security and increased support for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) practices. With this context-aware, identity-based platform, the university can provide different levels of access for faculty, staff, students, and guests to help ensure efficient delivery of services in the most secure way possible. Additionally, students are able to self-provision and manage personal devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and gaming systems.
Easing Maintenance with Streamlined Management
Despite growth of the network, including teleconferencing and greater wireless support, the streamlined Cisco network has helped enable UNCW to do more with existing networking staff. All of the switches can be controlled and managed from a central location, helping staff quickly isolate and troubleshoot performance issues. The Cisco switches also come with self-healing capabilities and failover to increase availability on the network.
The increased visibility and complete reporting also help the networking staff easily translate what they are seeing on the network for nontechnical administrative staff in an effort to clarify the need for additional infrastructure investment or new policies. For example, the networking staff saw that excessive usage by a small number of students, primarily due to pirating, affected the quality of service for others. The staff quickly built reports using data in Cisco management solutions to successfully make a case for the implementation and enforcement of usage policies from the Dean of Students.
With robust, high-speed wired and wireless networks, UNCW is leading the way through use of videoconferencing in distance education and wireless networking for a residential campus. "Working from a strong networking foundation, we are giving students greater flexibility and learning experiences to help them achieve their academic goals and help us become a leader in education," says Kraus.
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Michaela Binder, Durham University
After seven weeks in Sudan, we've just returned to England, and are looking back on a very successful season full of interesting new results. During the 41 days of excavation, Dyan Semple, Carina Summerfield-Hill and I were able to excavate 25 graves, 42 more or less complete skeletons and a large range of small finds and pottery.
Most importantly, in the chamber tomb G234 we found evidence that Cemetery C was already in use during the New Kingdom, much earlier than previously thought.
The last few days at Amara West were quite busy, as is usual in excavation projects like this. On one hand, all the fieldwork has to be finished.
My work at the end of the season focused on a slightly elevated area with several small shallow burial mounds (tumuli) made up of scattered schist stones and alluvial silt. In the three graves we excavated, the dead were also buried in side-niches at the bottom of a vertical shaft. However, the size and depth of the tombs (up to 1.8 metres) as well as the presence of the superstructures distinguish them from the other niche burials found further north in the cemetery.
Even though the graves were also disturbed and looted, they still yielded ceramic vessel fragments and a few objects, among them pieces of an ivory plate and a wooden pigment container decorated with carvings of lotus flowers.
It is possible that the prominent location and size of these graves indicates that they were meant for the burial of individuals from a higher social class.
At the same time, everything back at the house had to be packed and stored away. The skeletons excavated during this season had to be wrapped and packed in crates, not always an easy task, in order to make sure they are safely transported back to England.
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Kraków, September 11 th 2012
Teyon, a video games developer and digital publisher, announced today that the successful WiiWare™ series, Heavy Fire, is coming back with another installment on a new platform. Gun down enemies in Heavy Fire: Special Operations 3D on Nintendo 3DS™ starting from this Thursday, September 13 th. The game will be available via North American Nintendo eShop for just $4.99.
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Headquartered in Krakow, Poland, Teyon is a leading developer and digital publisher of interactive entertainment for all platforms. With sister offices in Lodz and Tokyo, the company employs over 70 people to develop and launch titles worldwide using proprietary cross-platform technology. For more information, visit www.teyon.com.
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Rita Moreno and Rita Hayworth became movie stars, but they proved that Hollywood was not exactly the most welcoming place for Latinas or those with Latino roots. Some women had to hide any trace of their ethnicity to make it on the silver screen; while others worked outside of the United States and shaped the movie industry in Latin American countries. Regardless of how they made it to the top, these 10 women with Latin roots played an important part in the history of early cinema:
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Another show has been added to the South American leg of the Dystopia World Tour. The band will headline a show at Teleferico in Quito, Ecuador on July 30, 2016. Tickets are on sale Monday, March 21. megadeth.com/tour
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Elder Devan J. Thompson has been called to serve as a missionary in the New York, Utica Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Devan is the son of Adam and Diana Thompson of Castle Dale. He is the grandson of Dixie Thompson of Castle Dale and the late Ken Thompson, Robert Olsen of Helper and the late Diane Olsen.
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Skip to comments.Fort Hood soldiers say Army warned them off tea party, Christian groups
Posted on 10/25/2013 3:16:59 AM PDT by markomalley
Dont donate to the tea party or to evangelical Christian groups that was the message soldiers at a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood said they received from a counter-intelligence agent who headed up the meeting.
If you do, you could face punishment that was the other half of the message, as reported by Fox News.
The briefing was Oct. 17, and about a half-hour of it was devoted to discussion about how perceived radical groups like tea party organizations and the Christian-based American Family Association were "tearing the country apart," one unnamed soldier said, to Fox News.
Among the remarks the agent allegedly made: Military members who donate to these groups would be subject to discipline under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the soldier reported.
Liberty Institute has stepped in to investigate. Michael Berry, one of the nonprofit's attorneys, said he has been advising the soldier about his options but that in the meanwhile, he said the American public should be on guard.
"The American public should be outraged that the U.S. Army is teaching our troops that evangelical Christians and tea party members are enemies of America and that they can be punished for supporting or participating in those groups," Mr. Berry said, in Fox News. "These statements about evangelicals being domestic enemies are a serious charge."
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Well, I can remember the last time the Tea Party rioted on the Washington Mall. They caused tens of thousands of dollars worth of litter cleanup.
The Pentagon now arms al Qaeda,
defends Hasan AND HIS HANDLERS,
and makes AMERICANS their enemy.
This will not end well.
Sending this to my Congressman and Senator. I want them to get to the bottom of this. If true, some heads better damn sure roll.
American troops are being systematically desensitized of the notion that American Citizens have rights. The PTB are targeting certain sections of the population and tagging them as "Enemies of the State"...
No matter what, this does not end well for people who do not toe the liberal line.
The progressives are making a multi-front concerted effort to turn the military.
If Fast & Furious, IRS, Benghazi, and others didn't cause any heads to roll, I am afraid you are SOL.
The only way heads are going to roll is the same way they did during the French revolution....by the hands of the people.
If Fast & Furious, IRS, Benghazi, and others didn't cause any heads to roll, I am afraid you are SOL.
If Congress were really patriotic and just, they would impeach and convict themselves for failing to impeach Traitorobama and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The odds are not good when you bet on evil men to do good.
sounds like someone is out to turn these young men and women and their military chain of command against fellow Americnas who are their own families, churches and neighbors since the "TEA" (Taxed Enough Already)Party is probably the sentiment of over half of Americans and will grow when folks get their obamacare tax bills
If this is so!
No sweat, we faced this and them in France, then later on the English in Scotland, then later on in Ireland. So, it's no surprize to face them again here in the U.S.A. It's the same people trying to take away Our God and freedom and shed our blood again. Y'all have just forgotten.
Those in power know they have driven us into the last corner (The USA).
The gov. knows (thinks) that this will be the end of those that have have always stood in their way. There is no where FOR FREEDOM to run now.
You must fight again soon like your forefathers did.
It's an all or nothing fight to the finish for freedom. Get ready..
If it comes, except your war with vigor. It will be your last one God willing..
This is America. When 20 million or so Mother raised, God fearing hunters rise up against this tyranny government, they will fold up like a cheap suit. That's a fact Jack..
That this is happening AFTER an islamic terrorist in soldier's clothing shot up the base makes this all the more outrageous.
That this is happening AFTER said islamic terrorist was seen for what he was and people were told to look the other way...words fail me.
"This will not end well."
No, it won't. But that has been the Obastard's plan all along, and his lickspittle lackeys — especially those in the MSM — know it, and approve of it.
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." — Winston Churchill
I'm with ya triSranch.
It's a shame I had to get down to the 12th post before I found someone that wasn't posting a defeatist comment.
Too many FReepers are ready to give up before the first shot is fired.
"You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. Winston Churchill
That's the Spirit!!
It's getting ugly out there.
We're probably in 1773. The Boston tea party was 1774. Lexington and Concord were 1775.
It won't end well for anyone.
Name the agent. Otherwise the report is not credible
God Bless You Marine.
"American troops are being systematically desensitized of the notion that American Citizens have rights"
Spirited: Despite that any sign of dissent against Darwinism brings immediate accusations of 'anti-science' it nevertheless needs to said that Darwinism is the key to the desensitization process because it presents man as despicable apelike 'other' rather than human.
The Black Book of Communism exposes the use of Darwinism by Marxist Communists and German Socialists. Both regimes conditioned soldiers to annihilate non-human dinosaurs and other unevolved enemies of the state(Soviet Union) and human weeds and useless eaters (Nazis).
If our soldiers are willing to terrorize and kill Americans it's because they no longer see them as Imago Dei but as something evolved from worms (Nietzsche) or primordial slime/apes (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, America's ruling class).
Ideas have consequences, meaning that what we accept as answers to the Ultimate Questions have real consequences in the temporal sphere.
Om barryville? You must be kidding.
Not surprised one bit.CI must be staffed with the muzzies policsars now.
That's what I was thinking. Without the name of the agent, I doubt the authenticity of this report. It isn't what I'm seeing. But if it is true, I think it is one person who went off the reservation. Otherwise, the would be a lot more reporting if it were systematic.
The true domestic enemy is their commander in chief.
They had an outright OPEN JIHADIST in their midst and did NOTHING!!!
In April some in the military were warned against Catholics...
I support the TEA Party. I support, uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States (took an oath along those lines). I advocate for personal freedom, liberty, and responsibility. ... Now I'm a radical? I think everyone that is told that myself and those like me are radicals ought to take a good hard look at the person making that claim and the people behind him or her promoting that idea. Remember the Constitution and the principles this Country was founded upon, things that have made this not just the greatest country on earth, but the greatest place to live in history. Then look at the failed ideas and ideals driving people who are out critics. Choose wisely.
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What the H__ is this? Indoctrinating our soldiers not to contribute to groups of their choice? The people in this Administration cannot be trusted.
All the is necessary for evil to win is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke
The army used to warn the men away from hookers and being in the wrong parts of town.
We were warned.
Everything coming from the left/Satan is upside down, inside out as far was the definitions of good and evil go.
Yes, if this is true, we need NAMES, and we need them sooner than later to cut this off.
I fully understand and know that it will never happen here, we got guns. They know we have guns also and they probably know that if pushed to the point we have nothing to lose, we will use them. That is why they will never push to that point.
Why? Because they know that they have already won. How, you ask? Each year tow groups graduate from their indoctrination centers ,a/k/a, schools, universities, and colleges and go out into the world. Meanwhile, in that same year, a generation of the elderly whom have lived when the United States was actually a free Nation, die. They not die out without passing on the traditions and customs to the younger. The Christmas Holidays is a good example: The term "Merry Christmas, God Bless you" has become happy holidays. The Christmas tree has became a holiday tree. The Christmas break has became a winter break. Saying the pledge of allegiance is frowned upon. Saying the Lord's Prayer has been banned in many places. Marriage between a man and woman is ridiculed, made light of and discouraged. And by the same token, marriage between two men, two women is encouraged and praised.
We crossed our fingers and used the fish symbol under Roman persecution.
We will prevail.
"Its a shame I had to get down to the 12th post before I found someone that wasnt posting a defeatist comment."
FR is infested with defeatists, RINO neo-con trolls, DU snakes and Soros propagandists. The mammon-worshipping Philistines have returned.
Deacon is ready, has been for a long time. . . . . . . .
" What the H__ is this? Indoctrinating our soldiers not to contribute to groups of their choice? The people in this Administration cannot be trusted."
The irony is that AFA is listed as a charity that can be designated on Combined Federal Campaign donations (cfc code 12037)
O...M...G... who have we become? This is not the America I grew up in, this is flat out Satanic...
O...M...G... who have we become? This is not the America I grew up in, this is flat out Satanic...
The first sentence tells you all you need to know. It isn't the "Army", it isn't systematic. They are loners in the military going rogue.
I'm a military curriculum developer, and somewhat familiar with how training is done, and this didn't pass the smell test. That doesn't mean I wouldn't call your Congressman; I just would not get caught up in hyperbole like many do here.
And who can forget those evil Christians that flew planes into the world trade center, drove around DC's beltway shooting innocent people filling up their cars with gas or (ironically) shooting up Fort Hood?
Apparrantly now the US has incorporated its version on Political Officers that were the backbone of the Soviet Union's Military.
This is not America.
This regime's progression of dehumanization being done against Christians and conservatives in the US today matches that of the Third Reich and how they dehumanized the "undesireables" to the point that "normal" people would participate in Krystalnacht and in the turning in and extermination of Jews. They systematically built on each step of legal degredation to change the thinking of the people, to the point that they considered Jews vermin who were dangerous to the nation just like plague-infested rats would be a danger. The logical response to thinking somebody is a dangerous rat... is to kill them.
That is the programming that this regime is doing. I have no doubts in my mind that Obama is pushing for sharia in America as well as in the rest of the world, just like he told the Egyptian ambassador in January of 2010 that he would do. The Holocaust of Christians all over the world has gotten WAY, WAY worse under Obama, and he is now laying the groundwork for the same thing to happen here.
I have a message for you, Valerie Jarrett. I will gladly die with Christ and live with Him forever while you get to be a play-toy for Satan forever. Whether you service Satan directly or act as one of 70 perpetual virgins for his agents on earth makes no difference to me. You're making your bed and will lie in it forever. I will NEVER lie in that bed. Cut my head off if you like; it will only be a one-way ticket to joy you will never even be able to dream of.
This is ALL under Obama's watch. This didn't happen under the 43 guys that preceeded him. Hopefully, it won't happen after he's gone from the scene......whenever that will be. Can't wait for the REAL, LEGAL holder of the office of POTUS. In my book, there will always be a huge asterick beside the 44th* number.
Culture is very slow to change. A two-term President can do a lot of damage, but his reign is finite. I do not foresee out troops turning guns on their friends and family. I have more faith in our military than that. Not to mention they have a President who underneathe it all, detests them. You really think they are going to arm themselves against fellow Americans for that man?
Free Speech is a casualty of Hope and Change. Could Bush or any Republican have gotten away with this?
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New reports say Amazon.com Inc. is making not one but two smartphones, one with a 3-D screen, along with a separate audio-streaming device. This comes after last month's reports that Amazon is building a set-top box for streaming movies and TV shows. If these reports, based on anonymous sources, are true, it looks like Amazon is setting itself up for a head-to-head battle with Apple Inc., maker of the roost-ruling iPhone and iPad. If Amazon adds smartphones and a set-top box, both Amazon and Apple will then have smartphones, tablets and set-top boxes.
The key to this battle is digital content. Mobile experts like to call what Apple and Amazon have a mobile ecosystem: digital content and the hardware on which content is consumed. Apple has demonstrated that when consumers buy a company's hardware—such as the iPod—they are likely to buy the digital content from that company's online store, in this case iTunes. Amazon replicated that model when it introduced the Kindle and then began selling lots of electronic books for Kindle owners to read on their devices.
Now the battleground has become streaming movies and TV shows over the Internet, and all the major players want consumers to be using their hardware, experts say. "The Kindle's combination of device and content jumpstarted the e-book market, and Amazon wants to ensure that it has a distribution channel where its content is always in front of the consumer," says Avi Greengart, research director, consumer devices, at mobile device and telecommunications research firm Current Analysis Inc. "For that kind of control, Amazon feels it needs to be in the hardware business."
Smartphones, a set-top box and a streaming audio player would all be moves to increase sales of Amazon's digital content, says Eric Best, CEO of Mercent Corp., which, among other things, helps retailers sell on marketplaces like Amazon's.
"An Amazon smartphone would be a hybrid type of device that functions as a phone, enables retail transactions, and provides capabilities for listening to music and viewing Kindle content and some lightweight video," Best says.
A move into smartphones would also be about control. Yes, Amazon has apps for every major smartphone platform, but it could have a more influential mobile presence if it owned the phone.
"Amazon's motivation is clearly to secure greater loyalty and engagement with its customers, no matter where they are—despite their success with the various Kindles, those devices don't generate nearly the level of activity and focus during the course of a customer's day that a smartphone does," says Charles Golvin, a principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. who follows mobile and telecommunications technologies. "While Amazon's Kindle and other apps allow its customers to engage with the company across devices from Apple and other competitors, the level of engagement achieved by an app falls far short of that achieved by controlling the entire device experience."
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"Amazon is unlikely to move into the smartphone market until it is satisfied with the performance of the Kindle Fire and it has fully learned the lessons from its latest foray into the hardware market," says Scott Bicheno, senior analyst, wireless smartphone strategies, at technology research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics Inc. "The smartphone market is more mature and has many more competitive players than the tablet market. Furthermore, the lower price tiers are especially competitive right now, which makes it unlikely that pricing strategy alone will be sufficient to bring success to any potential Amazon phone. For these reasons, reports of Amazon exploring other potential differentiators, such as 3-D displays, are unsurprising."
Amazon may want to take note of a recent development at Facebook. Earlier this week, AT&T slashed the price for the HTC First, billed as the first "Facebook phone," from $99.99 to just 99 cents after less than a month on the market. Ouch. Facebook was long rumoured to be working on its own phone, but then a few weeks ago came out with the Facebook Home app, which lets a consumer transform the look and feel of an Android device with Facebook features and functions. The AT&T price cut suggests consumers have not shown much interest.
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Magic imo is the ability to bend or even sometimes break the rules of the (in mmorpg case) virtual world. That's why it's magic. Secondly it's magic because doing this is uncommon: If it became common, it would then simply become part of the world, like using magic for energy for heating the home etc etc...
That's where I think rpgs have to be careful with magic imo: It ends up becoming another form of artillery or something equivalent to the unmagical equivalent. Obviously all those flash effects are too good to not use whenever possible on screen... so it's ubiquitous magic in most mmorpgs: Not REAL magic.
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Recommendation Networks and the Long Tail of Electronic Commerce
Gal Oestreicher-Singer
Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management
Arun Sundararajan
New York University (NYU): Stern School of Business and Center for Urban Science+Progress
September 1, 2010
It has been conjectured that the peer-based recommendations associated with electronic commerce lead to a redistribution of demand from popular products or "blockbusters" to less popular or "niche" products, and that electronic markets will therefore be characterized by a "long tail" of demand and revenue. We test this conjecture using the revenue distributions of books in over 200 distinct categories on Amazon.com and detailed daily snapshots of co-purchase recommendation networks that products of these categories are situated in. We measure how much a product is influenced by its position in this hyperlinked network of recommendations using a variant of Google's PageRank measure of centrality. We then associate the average influence of the network on each category with the inequality in the distribution of its demand and revenue, quantifying this inequality using the Gini coefficient derived from the category's Lorenz curve. We establish that categories whose products are influenced more by the recommendation network have significantly flatter demand and revenue distributions, even after controlling for variation in average category demand, category's size and price differentials. Our empirical findings indicate that doubling the average network influence on a category is associated with an average increase of about 50% in the relative revenue for the least popular 20% of products, and with an average reduction of about 15% in the relative revenue for the most popular 20% of products. We also show that this effect is enhanced by higher assortative mixing and lower clustering in the network, and is greater in categories whose products are more evenly influenced by recommendations. The direction of these results persists over time, across both demand and revenue distributions, and across both daily and weekly demand aggregations. Our work illustrates how the microscopic economic data revealed by online networks can be used to define and answer new kinds of research questions, offers a fresh perspective on the influence of networked IT artifacts on business outcomes, and provides novel empirical evidence about the impact of visible recommendations on the long tail of electronic commerce.
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Responding to the Feedback on "Inside Mormon Faith"
As Krista and I hop from meeting to meeting here in New York, we're overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of listener response to our program on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We're receiving very positive responses from non-Mormons and Mormons alike, from those who know and have studied the church as well as those for whom this was an introduction; at the same time, some listeners have expressed concern that this program was not critical enough to be journalistically valid.
Speaking of Faith models a distinctive approach to journalism about religion. The ethic of the interview is informed by deep listening and informed questioning. That is purposeful, based on her sense that adversarial questioning simply puts the interviewer on the defensive and shuts down the possibility of authentic and genuinely revealing answers. There are many legitimate ways to approach the multitudes of subjects in the news. This approach works for matters as deep and sensitive as religion and what we believe.
In the case of this show, her questions drew out a great deal of information that was new to many listeners. Some drove to the substantive core of distinctions between Mormon thought and traditional orthodox Christianity. As we also stated throughout the script, there are numerous controversies surrounding this faith in historical, cultural, theological, and social terms.
We didn't omit to mention these "hot button" topics, nor did we dismiss them. But we did and do feel they have been often reported and examined in the mainstream media. We wanted to cover some new ground. We wanted to explore the basic parts of this faith that make it distinctive, and that are little understood.
We had a journalistic goal — to provide a more basic theological and human context for non-Mormons to understand this faith of 13 million human beings globally — and a broad and basic human foundation on which they might navigate the controversies for themselves.
We tried to determine where to post a response like this — on the show's reflection page, to each individual, in next week's newsletter? — and then we had to check ourselves and ask: "Are we too defensive?" "Are we overreacting and should we just allow our listeners to air their grievances?"
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