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The Santa Claus ConspiracyThursday, August 31st, 2006
Do you believe in Santa Claus?Seriously. This isn't a rhetorical question. Do you?
Assuming your an adult and don't wear tin foil hats to keep "them" from beaming thoughts into your head, I'll bet you answered "No" and you probably thought it was a stupid question.
But let's take a look at this Santa Claus thing.
The basic idea of Santa Claus is that someone is watching you, day and night, who knows everything you do and everything you think. Santa knows what you truly want, but if you want to make sure, you can write to him and tell him. Or, at special times, you can even go and see Santa and tell him directly.
And, if you take all the right actions and think all the right thoughts, one day when you wake up, you'll find that something you've really, really, really wanted has appeared before your very eyes.
If you don't do all the right things, well, you get a lump of coal… and next year you'll have to try even harder to get on Santa's good side so that he'll magically deliver what you want.
Sound familiar?
Sound like the way we think of our spiritual or psychological lives?
If I think "positive" thoughts, raise my vibration, forgive my parents, learn to love myself, lose weight, attend the right workshop, clear up "blocks", meditate with my eyes open, meditate with my eyes closed, meditate while remaining celibate, meditate while having sex… then, one day, as if by magic, I'll be rewarded for all my good actions and thoughts and I'll get a partner, more money, a new car, the house of my dreams, happiness, enlightenment, world peace…
So, let me ask again, do you believe in Santa Claus?
What are the actions that you do, hoping to prove to Santa you deserve to have what you want?
What are the thoughts you think you need to have to be a good boy or girl? What are the thoughts you need to get rid of?
How do you let Santa know what you want?
What are the ways you try to bribe him (think, milk and cookies)?
What do you do when Christmas morning comes and goes and you didn't get the train set, or Barbie dream house, or BB gun (or perfect partner, perfect job or perfect body)?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to slight you for acting like there is someone or something out there — God, Universe, Source, Higher Power, etc. — that is constantly judging and deciding whether or if to bestow good or bad things upon you.
I mean, think about it, this is one of the oldest ideas that humans have. We've got thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of years of people believing that some specific way of behaving or believing results in changing the world we live in. We may make fun of "primitive" cultures and the ways they try to influence the rains, the wind, the sun, and the gods that control them.
Our techniques and mythology might have changed, but in essence we're just doing what our great-great-great-great-and so-on grandparents have done.
What if we stopped?
What if you no longer believed that making some arbitrary change in your thinking — for example, "focusing on what you want" — would reliably result in getting something you want? What if you no longer believed that if you prayed properly you wouldn't get the kinds of terminal illnesses that end the lives of 99% of all humans?
What could you do with the free time and energy you would have if you stopped trying to convince Santa you've been good this year?
How might your life be different if you didn't think you needed to get that present you've been dreaming about in order to be happy? (How long did the happiness you got from your presents last, anyway? Until New Years day?)
We love to make fun of the beliefs of children and those we see as unevolved. Once I stopped nodding my head, all I could see is how much I had been believing ideas that were, on a good day, no better than those I mocked.
And once I could see the Santa Claus Conspiracy in these beliefs, it was practically impossible to open the flue and put milk and cookies on the mantle any longer. Discovering that there is no Santa Claus requires uncovering the ways we act as if there is. And once you do, there's no need to try to "live in the present" (if you do that, Santa will bring you a box of happiness and peace), since you won't bother to live in the future Christmas day.
In fact, it's stopping waiting for Santa to bring us goodies that reveals the goodies that are always available to enjoy. No need to wait for some magical day for the goodies of reality. And the goodie-ness of reality lasts waaaay longer than the ones that come wrapped up in the hope of future happiness.


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Exploratorium Snacks – Wonderful and playful science focused making projects built with inexpensive materials.
FabLearn Fellows – Resources on a huge variety of making projects, put together by the Teacher Fellows with FabLearn, an annual conference on making in education put on by the Stanford University d.school.
Make the Way – Collaboration between Sonoma State and Santa Rosa USD to integrate math and making in K-8 classrooms.
Maker Education Initiative – A supporter of the MakerEd community and provider of resources and programs.
Makeshop at the Children's Museum of Pittsburg has great resources for all things making in schools.
Making in Schools – A 6-part series on the Teaching Channel blog, written by Creativity Lab Director Aaron Vanderwerff and Lighthouse Community Charter Public Schools teacher Robbie Torney.
RAFT – Idea Sheets – A set of over 700 projects based on readily available low-cost materials.
Tinkering Studio blog – Amazing projects that are tinkerable and can be used in a variety of settings.
Thinking Routines
Dimensions of Learning Framework This framework from the Tinkering Studio lists and describes assessable indicators of engagement and learning. They also include a guide for how facilitators can encourage these behaviors and mindsets in their classes.
Google+ Groups
Bay Area Maker Educators This group has free MeetUps once a month on Thursdays in San Francisco. Meetings alternate between the Tinkering Studio and various maker spaces throughout the city.
2D Design
Inkscape (open-source vector graphics design software)
Gravit Designer (web-based vector graphics design software that can be used with Chromebooks)\
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No percocet's are not an anti-inflammartory drug. It has tylenol in it,which of course is not an anti inflammatory. I know because i have taken these for 2 years,and they have to also give me something for inflammatory. hope this helped some:) you can go to the drug checker above and type in percocet and it will tell you everything you need to know about that drug:) good luck!
you can take Ibuprofin along with this med (small dose) about an hour-hour and a half after perc. dosage
That's the first thing i thought of because percocet's dont have that in it,lol,good advice there,try that and see how it goes!
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(NBC News) – The Orlando Police Department has released body camera video from the officers who responded to the Pulse nightclub massacre.
The newly released video shows the chaos officers encountered when they arrived at the club.
Police officers can be seen running in all directions with their weapons drawn.
People run out of the club, frightened, being told by police officers to put their hands up and run across the street to safety.
Inside the club, officers encountered mayhem as they searched for survivors to rescue and encountered gunman Omar Mateen, who had taken several hostages.
Mateen was killed after a three-hour standoff.
The shooting was one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, leaving 49 people dead and 53 others injured.


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I've heard that talking about parenting can fetch you a bunch of caustic feedback, but I'm going to do it anyway.
My son Austin is five. The kid is brilliant. I know that all parents think their kids are smart, but this is no joke.
Austin knows how to do the basics of multiplication and division. His vocabulary rivals mine ("celtic punk" and "pneumatic tube" were probably among the first 100 phrases he learned, no joke). And for some reason, out of the aether, he's got this fantastic artistic ability. The other day he was copying a detailed illustration out of one of his Transformers books (it was a plane air-dropping Optimus Prime into battle) and was doing it freehand, without tracing, and did a better job than when Robin tries to draw stuff at his request.
This year he'll go off to kindergarten, and he's going to be bored as a motherfucker. He got bored with preschool over a year ago, and the fact that he's the oldest kid in his class isn't helping. They have to move at the speed of the slowest kids, so as not to leave anyone behind. You get a spectrum of kids with different abilities, but it's one class with one teacher… and so one size must fit all.
I find myself wondering about this, and other things I've never thought about when it comes to school, and education, and development.
All the things I've always taken for granted as immutable truths — school starts at five and continues for thirteen years, college follows high school, job follows college — are suddenly coming into question.
All at once, I'm no longer sure that what I learned in school is what I'd most like for my kids to learn.
This is the fault of you online weirdoes.
I've met a lot of entrepreneurs in this last year. And entrepreneurs are wackos. They're not normal; they break the rules; they're shit out of their minds. You spend enough time around people like that and suddenly it becomes really obvious that:
1. They owe their success not to their knowledge of Greek history or geometry, but to something closer to wily "street smarts" — an understanding of human nature and human motivation.
2. They've been able to do what they've done not because of their ability to memorize facts and take tests, but because of their willingness to try things that most people won't try.
3. They achieved not because of any ingrained sense of wanting to be secure and safe, but in spite of it.
I don't think school is bad, but I don't think it taught me the most important things that drive me today, either. I think I spent thirteen years learning what the state wanted me to learn, and then another five learning what the previous thirteen years had led me believe the world wanted me to learn.
And then I think I set that aside, recalled a lot of good times (and some bad) from those years, and then, bit by bit, re-learned what I needed to know in order to do what I do today.
I ask myself, what has been the most important stuff I've learned? Was it history, math, and science? Was it home ec, or literature, or business management 101?
Or did it come from experience at the School of Hard Knocks?
And so I wonder: What would be the curriculum at Johnny's Entrepreneurship School?
So let's think about that. I'd offer:
1. Independence and self-confidence.
A successful entrepreneur has to be able to be able to look at his situation and his surroundings and then do what he thinks he should do in spite of the opinions of others. Nobody around you will take you seriously when you say you want to create an internet shoe empire, so you have to have the nards to do it anyway.
2. Fierce (almost stupid) determination and a willingness to make big mistakes.
Nobody gets everything right the first time. An entrepreneur has to be willing to take a leap of faith with the full knowledge that his venture may fail. Successful people have to be willfully irrational about their ideas, and have to be able to learn the tough lessons that can only be taught through failure.
3. Faith.
In spite of failures, an entrepreneur has be willing to keep going on faith alone. And when faced with blood-chilling obstacles (like financial upsets), he needs the ability to determine if they're actually worth detouring around, or if they're what they are a lot of the time: phantom obstacles that don't really exist.
4. Creativity.
Successful people need to be able to come up with a lot, lot, lot of ideas and possible courses of action. Many of these ideas will and should break existing molds.
5. Optimism.
Some of the successful folks I know have caustic exteriors, but all believe deep down that what they're doing is right and will all work out in the end. By contrast, I've met people who don't truly believe the glass is half full or that things will eventually turn around. Those people will never make it.
5. Flexibility.
A successful entrepreneur has to be able to be totally packed, dressed, and ready to move in one direction, encounter a new bit of information, and go in the opposite direction instead.
6. Problem-solving ability.
Problems are everywhere when you work on your own, and because you're forging a new path, there's usually nobody to ask how to solve them. Entrepreneurs need to be able to develop solutions to problems, no matter how varied and wacky those solutions may seem.
7. An enterprising and capitalistic spirit.
All of the successful people I know have something good to offer the world and have the balls to ask people to pay for it.
8. An ability to follow your instincts and live by your wits.
An entrepreneur has to learn to trust his gut, and then keep trusting it on the fly. Many of the things I've done — including some of the best things, yielding the best results — have been done on a whim. I do most things for no other reason than that they feel right to do.
I could go on and on. But succinctly, if someone is really good at the above skills, I'd wager that they'd do fairly well as an entrepreneur, or as a trailblazer in any field.
The problem I have is that I don't know how well schools teach those things.
Enter the ridiculous concept of unschooling
Those wacky online weirdoes I mentioned? A lot of them do what's called "unschooling." I thought it was just a clever word and only recently learned from Lee Stranahan what it actually means.
Unschooling is not formally teaching your kids. It's guiding and supporting them, but letting them find their own path, and largely letting them do what they want to do with their time each day.
I don't know if I like this idea.
And I don't know if I don't like it, either.
It intrigues me, though, and I want to learn more.
It makes me wonder if a kid who had no interest in trigonometry or symbolism in literature could grow up without ever learning those things and be okay.
It makes me wonder if an artistic kid who found ways to get people to pay a pittance for his sketches at a very young age would eventually find a way to turn that ability into a thriving creative business.
And it makes me wonder if you took a kid with a desire to do something outside of the box and put him in school — where he was instructed to sit still, be quiet, and study the lesson of the day so that he could pass a test — if he'd lose that desire to do something outside of the box.
It makes me realize that a traditional education prepares you for a job, and that it seems like so many people want to get out of their jobs and do their own thing.
It makes me wonder if the most important things I ever learned in my life, for my life, were learned in a classroom or outside of one.
If my kids learned the entrepreneurial skill set I outlined above, and then only the book learning they chose to pursue, would that be enough?
I don't know the answers to these questions, yet they just keep coming to me.
How much conformity is good? I think there's value in learning how to sit still and be quiet, how to take direction, how to subordinate your id's desires occasionally to the needs of others. I think there's value in not always being the leader. But how much is enough? And more importantly, how much is too much?
What it really boils down to is, could I trust the base human instincts of my kids, with guidance from us as parents, to figure things out? Because that's what it ultimately comes down to: deciding whether or not "what they are inclined to learn" will lead to a good place.
And having faith along the way, I suppose. Lee told me that his kids, who are unschooled, sometimes play video games all day. And that would be hard for me to sit quietly through.
But then he says that they'll noodle with the Rock Band guitar and decide to pick up the real guitar. They'll run across something here or there and start reading philosophy. They'll see how Dad makes a living by working at home and doing what he loves, and become interested in (and inspired by) doing the same.
Ditto the experiences of Pace & Kyeli and their son.
And ditto the mindset of Naomi, who I know is all geeked up over this issue and wondering what to do with her own kid.
Ditto others. And others. And others. Rule-breakers all.
I don't know where this will lead for our family.
But I do know that I'm not where I am because of what my schooling prepared me for. I'm here because in many ways, I did the opposite.
Your turn. Discuss.
My partner in crime Lee Stranahan and I will be launching our new course, Question the Rules: The nonconformist's punk rock, DIY, nuts-and-bolts guide to creating the business and life you really want, starting with what you already have, on Wednesday, April 28.
It's ridiculously jam-packed: 5 course modules on how to rock your business and life as an entrepreneur who colors outside the lines, and over a dozen interviews with successful rule-breakers whose names you'll recognize.
If you're a punk rock entrepreneur (and I know you are), you'll want to check it out here because we're offering an immediate free bonus prior to launch day.


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Australian International Student Visa Reform
Shiran Illanperuma, a recent University of Sydney graduate, came to Australia in 2010 from the United Arab Emirates. He finished his studies in Media and Communications last year, and returned to the UAE when his student visa expired. While at USyd, he helped found the Autonomous Collective Against Racism and served as one of the collective's four inaugural Office-Bearers. Back at home, he's found steady, albeit trying, work as a reporter and a junior editor for a health and science journal.
"Work back home is a little soul crushing, especially after being acclimated to Australian work environments and hours," he told Honi.
"Working hours in Dubai are long and overtime is not paid."
A proposal paper released in December 2014, by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, revealed the number of international students remaining in Australia after the completion of their studies could potentially increase tenfold over the next four years—from 21,970 in 2014 to upwards of 200,000 in 2018.
The spike is attributable to changes to the Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485), which were made following an evaluation of the student visa program commissioned by the Gillard government in 2011.
Prior to the visa reforms, international students had to obtain sponsorship from a local employer to remain in Australia that fit within the designated Skilled Occupation List, a register of professions with a shortage of workers.
Under the changes, international students are now allowed to work and travel in Australia for at least two years after they finish their studies in Australia. The new rules apply to any international student who applied for, and received, a student visa after 5 November 2011, a grace period that Shiran missed by a year.
"Given the opportunity I probably would have liked to stay," he said.
The provision of extended stay entitlements, which would allow international students to pursue work experience in Australia and supplement their academic studies, was consistent with most "competitor countries", the 2011 review found.
Indeed, a key aim of the visa changes was ensuring that Australian universities remained attractive to international students. The reforms were vital to "the ongoing viability of our universities in an increasingly global market for students," the report found.
The visa reforms are likely to benefit international students, at least after they graduate.
Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) International Students Solicitor Nicholas Ngai said graduates on 485 visas would "absolutely" be better off than those currently studying.
International students, who are currently enrolled in a higher education course, are subject to a number of work restrictions based on their visa. Temporary Graduates, on the other hand, are not as encumbered.
"485s are in a better position," Ngai said. "They can work full-time. That's a big difference from a student who's restricted to 40 hours per fortnight."
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I brought the bottle of Lucid absinthe from my Style on The Rocks shoot. Just for giggles. After dinner, I gave it a true test run on my tequila-lovin' friends.
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CommSec expects the S&P/ASX 200 to rise 13.2% this year, closing at 6100 points. David Cassidy of UBS anticipates the same benchmark to reach 5700 points, the same level he predicted for 2014 at the beginning of last year 'before revising it lower'.
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Altavera Mortgage Services, which offers third-party residential mortgage origination services, reports that it has seen a marked uptick in non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) inquiries in the first quarter.
"While non-QM still represents only a portion of our overall client portfolio, approximately 35% of new client inquiries are for non-QM work," says Brian Simons, president and founder of Altavera, in a release. "We're seeing a rise in demand from originators for underwriting and processing support and from aggregators for pre-purchase review."
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Simons says the data suggests that the industry is preparing for increased business in the second quarter and the second half of this year.
"One of our clients recently requested four additional underwriters and three additional processors to prepare for their projected volume over the next few months," Simons says. "We also know of several non-QM investors that are hiring extra business development and sales personnel. In our experience, these kinds of staffing trends are a good indicator of what's in the pipeline."
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Top 5 tips to diet proof your grocery shopping
Have you planed your Christmas menu already? How about your Holiday grocery shopping? Have you done it?
For Me Christmas used to equalled to endless eating. But that is no longer true. Because I eat healthy portions and freshly made, good quality food all year around, the sight of enormous size of meals actually puts me off eating. My body does not appreciate that anymore, so I prepare food we like and good for us. Don't take me wrong, we still try to celebrate with food, I will cook and bake, we will have some nice Hungarian cakes, but I won't cook all the traditional meals and definitely won't have large quantity.
The preparation of the holiday meals starts with the planning and the shopping, and if you would like to hear my top 5 tips to diet proof your grocery shopping, please watch my video below.
Don't gain weight during this Christmas, the New Year's celebration is just few days away and you want to look good in your party dress, don't you?
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by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the first in a series of articles & videos exploring the foundations of an asana practice through sun salutations. But first... In my ideal universe - besides living next door to Johny Depp and and down the road from Einstein (imagine that dinner party!) - every yoga student would be encouraged to start a home yoga practice the very first time they ever went to a yoga class.Yes, the first time.In fact, every yoga teacher would teach with the … [Read more...]
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Sun Salutations Video Series: How to do Standing Forward Fold (Uttanasana)
by Kara-Leah Grant For years and years and years this posture has been my nemesis.I hated it. I sucked at it. It challenged me in every way.When I first started yoga, back in 1995 at a ten-week Iyengar course, I was so incredibly tight that when we went into a standing forward bend, I couldn't even reach forward and touch my knees.I had no forward movement in my pelvis at all - my hamstrings were just way too tight. And that's the first part of the body that must be freed up for a … [Read more...]
Sun Salutations Video Series: How to do Chaturanga Dandasana
by Kara-Leah Grant Chaturanga Dandasana is one of those postures that we often don't spend time in - either in yoga class or in our home yoga practice. It's a one-breath wonder. We're in, we're moving out, that's it.Partly this is because it's a challenging posture and we usually want to get out of it as soon as possible. And part of it is because it's not a flashy yoga posture where we feel like we get somewhere or gain a lot over time. It's easy to see Chaturanga Dandasana as just a … [Read more...]
Sun Salutations Video Series: How to do Upward Dog (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana)
by Kara-Leah Grant Like Chatranga Dandasana, Urdhva Mukha Svanasana is a posture we usually only spend a breath or two in during yoga class. It's a posture of transition and movement. And it's a posture that's very easily to do badly, creating stress on our lower back and shoulders.For this reason, it's a posture I'm now wary of teaching in a general, drop-in yoga class. Yes, it's a staple of sun salutations and yoga, yet many of the people I see coming to class aren't yet ready to swoop … [Read more...]
Sun Salutations Video Series: How to do Downward Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
by Kara-Leah Grant It's one of the most common and most popular of all yoga postures, yet like the other postures we've looked at in recent months, Adho Mukda Svanasana is far from being a beginner's yoga pose. No, downward dog is one of those postures which, when done badly, can do more damage than it does good. Fortunately, it's also a posture we usually get to spend serious time in - most sun salutations will allow five breaths in a downward dog, and it's a posture we return to again and … [Read more...]
Sun Salutations Video Series: Transition Time! How to Link the Postures Together
by Kara-Leah Grant In recent months, we've looked at all the different asanas or postures that make up a standard sun salutation.We've explored each of these postures in-depth, and explained them on video.Now it's time to took at the transitions between the postures. Because this is what makes sun salutations such a fantastic yoga sequence - especially for home practice. Each pose flows effortlessly into the next posture, creating a complete circle where you end up where you started, … [Read more...]


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Some time ago I wrote about some limitations still blocking the scope of things like web applications. I was seeing how many different players in the industry were taking a new look at the problem of disconnected browser-based programs, which is one of the main shortcomings in this space. In the last month or so several important announcements has been made public, and some basic support for this scenarios are actually working right now.
For once, Google just released Google Gears, its browser extension that adds offline support for applications. This is in a very early stage and thus it is just adding basic functionality like a local web server to serve locally cached content, a small local database to hold data, and a little thread pool to ease the handle of asynchronous tasks. As several people noticed, there is a bunch of stuff that's still missing, mainly more features to handle different synchronization scenarios, which is something that the current implementation leaves to the developer. But for the first release, this API looks really promising.
On the other side of the fence, Microsoft recently released Silverlight, which has planned offline support although it is in an even early stage in this particular area. However, the scaled-down version of the .NET Framework runtime is a perfect sandbox strategy to provide this kind of services in a safe and easy way, and this is something they definitively ave in their roadmap.
At the same time, Silverlight brings another push to other area where web applications were often turned down: rich applications. While it is true that Flash is a well-established platform, so far it has been mostly used in areas like marketing, games and other niches. Microsoft is trying to push Silverlight and its promised simplified programming model to a wider audience, including business applications and other typical markets where Flash didn't penetrated much yet.
In the meantime, another huge trend both competitors are heavily pushing now is mashups. These are web applications built out of parts, much like you could build with components before, but in the lousy-connected scene of the web. Microsoft has PopFly in Beta, while Google has its own Mashup Editor.
What's interesting in this space is that you can built a valuable service out of already existing services and sources by adding very little code or configuration on your part, usually just connecting outputs with inputs. But of course, this poses a new series of challenges, like the need to store this configuration and data somewhere. As it is usual in the mashup style, you may not own or control the server where you are hosting your creation, so finding a store for your data is not that easy. Also, as this kind of strategy evolves, there is an increasing need to have a standard way to access some specific information which has a more complex structure than what RSS or Atom supports.
Microsoft came up with a very interesting approach to help in this issue with a project called Astoria. What they are trying to provide is data services over the web, and this really captivated my attention. I had always discouraged people to try to use web services as a data service, in the typical sense of exposing a "query" service over HTTP. This something I reconsidered in certain cases once we arrived to the point where we were talking about XML Services (without the "web" emphasis). My main concern was always the high-latency nature of the whole SOAP-HTTP combo. Providing data access over the web means that you need to add to the actual database access a lot of overhead in the form of packaging, connection and disconnection, etc. This can decrease once you use SOAP over TCP, etc, but still SOAP is not designed to handle this kind of situation.
Astoria take a more RESTful approach (basic background on REST architecture in Wikipedia). It is based also on the ADO.Net Entity Framework (another piece of yet-unreleased software) that provides a conceptual model over a given physical database schema (to follow me, just think of it as sort of Object-Oriented Database). An Astoria service provides an entry point to this model, where you can start by querying its content (like "http://host/vdir/northwind.svc") and get an XML with the entities (kind of tables). Then you can refine your URL based on this information, to access a specific resource. I won't make this into an Astoria overview, but what's important is that this allows you to get the equivalent of select, insert, update or delete operations over the web, with a fairly good throughput, and -more importantly- with a single consistent mode that allows tools to be very generic. For example, there are some sample controls for ASP.Net that will figura out the whole structure of an Astoria service and allow to navigate trough its data by using grids with sortable columns, filters, paging and editing without any other configuration than the entry point (again, this "http://YourServer/YourModel.svc").
The point I'm trying to make is that we are starting to see some forbidden territory explored. I guess that sooner than we expect we will witness how cities are built over there. Convergence is happening really fast, and the traditional lines we take for granted today between desktop, web and mobile applications are finally starting to fade. New technology and faster communications are accelerating it.
I'd just want that the level of quality of the produced solutions evolved as fast as its reach... What do you think?
Programming languages have gone a long path, as you can see in this nice diagram by Éric Lévénez. Throughout its history, programming was always searching for the perfect balance between several forces like expressiveness, productivity and correctness. While the first two evolved with object orientation, higher abstraction and an increase in composability (as more and more reusable algorithms and even executable code accumulated), correctness was somehow slower, maybe because it is a more complex problem, and maybe because for a relatively immature industry, the competitive advantage seemed to be more productivity-related.
As software became more pervasive in our daily lives, however, predictability and safety in execution started to be bigger concerns. Also, software lives more and more as part of an ecosystem, where dependencies on other services its crucial, and minor mistakes or errors get quickly magnified.
Verifying that a program is correct is a tricky task. For once, intention has to be clear to be able to know what to check. Then, inputs and outputs have to be clearly defined, allowing to detect any misbehavior. Even at a lower level, some operations over the platform have to be validated to avoid problems in the hosting environment (like memory leaks, drying resources, locks, etc).
From an academic and mainstream perspective, so far, the tendency has been to solve these issues by strengthening the runtime environment (like the Java Virtual Machine or the .NET Framework), and letting it handle dangerous operations instead of the languages, and also making the compilers smarter to detect as many problems as early as possible.
To enable this many languages (like Java and C#) followed the C++ path of strong typing. The focus of type safety helped to make compilers much better, but also helped with many other levels of checking, like static analysis, which allows to provide a higher level overview of a system and detecting more subtle things like compliance to specific practices or conventions.
Strong typing also helped providing better contextual information within IDEs, greatly improving features like Intellisense and refactoring tools, but until recently, it also added some verbosity.
While this mainstream approach captured most attention in the enterprise market, a grass roots movement with a noticeable mix of open source initiatives and communities pushed in a different direction: toward dynamically-typed languages.
This is indeed a complex terrain, as there is not a strict definition of what makes a language "dynamic". Some of their attributes, however, are things like runtime evaluation and dynamic creation of types and objects, and many times, dynamic typing, although this is not a requirement. Generally speaking, they are perceived as simpler to program and more functional in nature.
I personally feel very happy about all this renewed language explosion because I love this field, but I still see a greatest reward in static languages, coupled with some features that are usually perceived as "dynamic".
Type inference for example, arriving in C# 3.0, allows developers to avoid declaring variable types in many situations, by using the var keyword. This is handy and nice, but it is also great in the sense that strong typing is still there, because the type is inferred from the value been assigned.
Functional programming is making its way also in the form of lambda expressions support, but without the need of been checked at runtime. I really prefer lambda composability over runtime expression evaluation, as it provides a much safer experience and fastest feedback.
But dynamic languages (and the DLR) will provide a good complement to strongly-typed languages, like a good way to handle scenarios where late binding is a need, or contributing some interpreter environment for checking short snippets of code without the need to have projects, compilation, etc. This is great to quickly instantiate stuff and play around, then getting code into a program.
I guess that convergence is here, and the will be no real static vs. dynamic fight in the end, but a great leverage of all the languages strengths. This will boost productivity and safety at the same time, and I hope programming would be able to make a quantum leap as a discipline pretty soon.
Yes, Ruby fans around the .NET world, now you can use Visual Studio to code on Ruby with nice intellisense, syntax coloring and debugging.
Thanks to the people at SapphireSteel we now have Ruby in Steel. They have a free personal edition if you want to try it. I've been using it to play a bit and it is very nice.
Now that John Lam started working at Microsoft, I guess if RubyCLR can go beyond a mere bridge and we can expect a full .NET implementation...
Duhh... I knew it would hapen sooner or later. Claudio tagged me, so now I have to confess to the world five personal secrets that I have been hidden all these years.
Well, here I go:
1. I'm a book freak. Yeah, many people know about my technical bookshelf, which I even have partially listed to share in my website. But I'm also a deep into literature. I like to read a lot, and my house is full of books everywhere.
I love literature since a kid, and I can read in Spanish, English, Italian and some French. Although I mostly used to read science fiction when I was younger, I derived aftewards into other stuff and then moved from literature into the edges of philosopy and sociology.
2. I write fiction, too.
I even published a fantastic literature fanzine called Gurbo when I was about 17, for about 13 issues, and hen I contributed with many more. Over time, I published a few short stories and I keep several longer works (a couple would-be novels) in the works.
I also wrote poetry and still do it from time to time, and I published some also but I'm never happy with my production as a poet. Sure enough, writing fiction is something that I'd like to do if I had more time.
3. It is true: I have a geeky family.
We have about half a dozen computers at home, including one in the kitchen that my wife uses for her cooking recipes and to organize he family schedules and so on. We four (my two girls, 5 and 10, my wife and me) have all our smartphones, pocket PCs, handycam and camera, several portable players and games, etc.
Happily enough, we have one single (if big) TV screen in the house. We are so geeky that we watch most our movies on the computers. Actually, I have even read a few complete novels in my phone...
4. I'm shy! Really!
Even while I spent a great deal of my time talking, teaching, pressenting, etc, and I seem quite self-confident, I don't hang too well with people outside of my professional life. This is maybe what drove me to read and write so much, and eventually exposed myself to the public. I can talk for hours, literally until my voice get broke as many people know, but always around specific (mostly technical) topics, but it is not so easy for me to start talking to people I hardly know in a party, for example.
5. Fun revelation: I quit driving
I have always been a loosy driver. I'm always thinking in something else, so many times I can't really concentrate on the road, the signs, and so on. Finally, instead of getting mad with my wife because she was always gving me directions, I quit.
Now she drives most of the time. I can drive from time to time, the same way I smoke a cigarrette from time to time even if I'm not a smoker, but I stopped driving and during the last year when I was working in a company more than half and hour from home, I discovered that I had an additional hour of reading... <s>
Well, I have not than many secrets after all. Now's my time to tag five other people, so I will pick:
The Teacher: Angel "Java" López
Ken Levy
Craig Berntson
Andrés Aguiar
Eugenio Serrano (and maybe we fork this meme into Spanish)
Now's your turn!
The people at Microsoft didn't figured it out and awarded me again as a Microsoft MVP.
Now, we have to consider if this is a sign of decadence, or just a bureaucratic mistake.
In any case, thanks to the guys at the MVP Program!
At least for me, this is the first incarnation of a "regular" Operating System hosted into the browser.
You can check it at: https://www.youos.com/
Actually, although it looks like a very cool experiment, playing with it I found that the desktop metapor doesn't apply inside the browser. The browser is a window within the host OS itself, so having other windows inside just don't work.
My take is that the browser itself should become the desktop, and the applications will be there. For all the speculation about a Google OS, my take is that they won't do anything like that, because the web+the browser already ARE the OS and thay just need to produce more applications.


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If the previous way of bathroom mold tile cleaning still cannot make the tiles and grouts totally clean then you can use another additional way. In this case, you will need the help of white vinegar to help you clean them up. The step of cleaning bathroom tiles with vinegar is similar with the previous steps. However, you should directly rinse the tile after scrubbing them since white vinegar is much stronger and can corrode.


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Last December, I committed the cardinal rule of travelling. I went to a place and saw nothing. I didn't visit the museums. I didn't sample much of the local food. I didn't pose outside the famous landmarks. (oh, except the Amsterdam sign, we at least managed to do that so that's something!)
Yet, despite having committed the ultimate travel sin, I had the best time! How is this possible, I hear you ask? Because sometimes travel isn't about ticking off a Top 10 list – it's about exploring some place new with people you love. I was lucky enough to be in Amsterdam and the Hague with two of my oldest and best friends (over two decades and still counting), so even though we got too distracted by each other's news, nostalgic memories and gossip to actually see or do anything remotely cultural, I wouldn't have had it any other way.
So, in true blogger fashion, here is lovely 'listicle' about all the things we didn't see, together, in Amsterdam:
1. Anne Frank's House
We didn't see Anne Frank's House. You have to book in advance. Like, way in advance. We tried to book tickets online weeks ahead of time, but there were none left. We turned up first thing in the morning just in case and the queue was halfway to France. We came back near closing time and the queue was just as long. So, we took a selfie with the sign, wondered if it was appropriate to pull a duck-face pout in a photo in front of Anne Frank's house, pondered history and one of literature's bravest heroes, and had the best time.
2. A 'Coffee Shop'
This is a white lie – we did go in one of those euphemistic 'coffee shops', but only because we actually thought it was a coffee shop! Woops! The naive innocents that we were, we were nattering away half-looking for somewhere to sit and have a proper chat, when we spied a place that had a neon 'coffee shop' sign outside the window. We went in, awkwardly looked at the menu, awkwardly realised where we were, then awkwardly walked back out again. Then we went and got an actual coffee in a Starbucks, because we figured they definitely sold coffee rather than 'coffee' there. It was awesome.
3. The Van Gogh Museum
We didn't see the Van Gogh Museum. Both a rip-off at 17 euros and a pain to get into, as we had to wait in a queue that wasn't moving, in the rain. Needless to say, we gave up, went to cafe that had a special Justin-Bieber-themed happy hour (had another coffee – there's definitely a pattern emerging here…) and had the best time.
4. Canal boat tour
After a day of not seeing anything in Amsterdam, we were pretty run off our feet, so decided we would see it all via a canal boat tour. We bought the tickets and got on the boat, which was lovely and cosy and warm (the Netherlands is bloody cold). In fact, it was so cosy and warm that we fell asleep on the tour and didn't see anything. An excellent napping spot though.
5. The Red Light District
We didn't see the Red Light District. After an exhausting day of not seeing anything in Amsterdam we decided to skip the famous Red Light District and make our way back to the Hague, where we were staying. We ate pizza while watching Mystic Pizza – an appropriate film about three friends who grow up together and do a really bad job of pretending to be Portuguese-American (come on, Julia Roberts, you're fooling no-one and your 'Portuguese-American accent' is a cultural sin worse than not seeing anything in Amsterdam). Oh, and we had the best time.
Travel companions
Travelling is great and places are beautiful, but if there was ever an example of how the people you're with really make a difference, this is it. Friends for over 20 years, and now spread across three countries, we only get the chance to see each other in the flesh around once a year. So, I had the best time not seeing anything in Amsterdam, because I was busy catching up with these two lovely buckets! Miss you guys!
Next stop, INDIA!


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...when this jesus person (if he existed,) never wrote or spoke a word of what exists between the covers of the NT?
It's all 100% heresay!
Pls prove me wrong and provide me with just one (1) word in the "fairytale" NT that he wrote.
The same way you say that your book said.You got yours from somewhere.SO, i believe in what Jesus said than what you said.
they, we, I .you, do it because of our need to make what we are saying sound offical. nothing more
Ya'll never catch me saying it. :
Saying it to sound official?
Beats me what that means.
I Meant, to be said like a Bible Historian, a suposidly well trained authority, . and yes I will not make the mistake either, no good.
start off with Jesus said, or says...like it is official, final authority. make it sound important. Like that
Hi Qwark,
Do you really doubt the existence of Jesus?
Now to answer your question. I believe the Bible to be true for many reasons, and several books in the New Testament are written in the style of historical narratives or biographies, and in these books, it says, "Jesus said, '....'" so that's why I use the phrase, 'Jesus said..."
Ok NP.
But using the same "logic : ) I will say: ..."and "Cinderella" said."
The diff "tween you and me is that I know when I'm reading a fairytale. :
There is a big difference between a fairytale like Cinderella and the narrative accounts in the Bible.
Here's a quote from C. S. Lewis that helps.
"Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage - though it may no doubt contain errors - pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors, or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative. If it is untrue, it must be narrative of that kind. The reader who doesn't see this has simply not learned to read."
You can google the above quote to find the whole article if you want.
Fat chance of that happening! I have never seen a religionist address the contents of a link.
Goddunit is about as good as it gets!
Then maybe he'll address the quote. Did the writers of the gospels anticipate the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative?
How would any of us know?
All we can do is offer an opinion, we weren't there!
You, I'm sure, know what opinions are worth...right?
So lets get serious and just agree that since none of us was there, we can only guess what was really goin' on...:
This is a serious question. Besides, you started this forum and have used several posts to mock Christians for not answering, and now you write my answer off as just an opinion, just a guess.
Well, here are three guesses. Which one do you think it is?
Guess 1:
The gospels in the NT are of the genre 'historical records'. They are accurate.
Guess 2:
The gospels in the NT are of the genre 'historical records', but they are inaccurate. But this leaves us with a few questions such as how could they be so inaccurate as to make up miracles? And if the records aren't true, why did so many people accept them as truth?
Guess 3:
The authors of the gospels developed a completely new genre of literature--realistic, fictional narrative. There are no previous examples, and no examples afterwards until modern times. How did they do this?
G'mornin' JC:
Yep I did start this thread "KNOWING" full well EXACTLY what I'd get back as responses: opinions, guesses, conjecture et al.
They're all that's available.
You are providing! :
This thread is only "serious" to those who believe in, fairys, tinkerbell, trolls, wizards, goblins, the toothfairy, santa claus,...you know 'em. I'm not gonna list 'em all.
No, but I have a terrible feeling I'm about to learn far too little about it.
Since you're not a religionist, maybe you will address the article. Smiley face! (how do you make the smiley faces?)
Like this seriously, look at the formatting tag near opposite where it tells you to submit, there are a few in there.
"Do you really doubt the existence of Jesus?"
According to bible, jesus was a famous man. But as we have no evidence to prove that, though we have more left overs by lesser known personalities, and all the bible is just a collection of stories that is validated by magic and not corroborated by history, we have to doubt the existence of a jesus as described by the bible. There might have been a local preacher by name of jesus, but certainly he is not the one in bible, as the bible one is followed by "multitudes". The Jesuses, who were followed by a decent crowd, were not the bible jesus either(like jesus des damneus).
c'mon "fundies," ya know ya have an answer.
Even tho it "can't" be a logical one, lets have some fun with this question.
Impress us!
We know ya have no way to back up your answers and ya might look foolish , but hey, ya only live once(you know this too) so, just for the fun of it "GO FOR IT!" :
Christians refer to what has been recorded in the bible as the sayings of Jesus, and for such believers, the bible is an accurate recording of Christ's teachings. They believe the bible is the truth because it is the word of God. And they know it is the word of God, because it says so in the bible. The fact that the books of the New Testament were written decades after the time of Christ does not effect a believer's faith in its truth.
Writings could get you killed in those days. Nearly all of the New Testament was passed by word of mouth. (Until they find older copies of the first texts) Some fifty years after, I can still remember "Ask not, what your country can do for you..." although, I have never seen a copy of the actual speech.
Why ain't I gettin' any play on this one?
I have a feelin' the fundies don't know.
Their silence speaks volumes...:
First of all, you answered your own question.
Jesus did not pen a single word we have today. So, there's nothing to answer.
Second. The silence is, for me, in any case, not worth the time to type a response!
But, I did it anyway. Lord knows why?
"lord knows why?"
DJ, c'mon, You know danged good'n well that if a "fundie" says: "jesus said" and I challenge him/her with "jesus never wrote a word of the NT, there's usually a banquet of "illogicity" (word?...it looks good. I'll leave it) flowing forth in an effort to backup their unreasoned belief.
I can only believe that their silence is indicative of their confusion.
I just thought I'd TRY to liven up the "forum" which seems to be losing steam.
1 John 2:22 - Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:3- but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
2 John 1:7 - Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Yes most of us know what is written in the bible about the subjects thanks.
People tend to paint God and Jesus all over their choices and actions like pumping extra grease in an axel. They think it gets them farther down the road. Smart folks that notice and take another close look!
There are a few different reasons to say "Jesus said"
Often I do it to show that "Jesus said" something that is contrary to the Christian doctrine.
I'm talking about prophesy ... end of days ... second coming and all that.
I can write a direct quote that says "Jesus said such and such" and someone is going to say "That can not be true !! ... BECAUSE ...."
They say that they believe what Jesus said .. "IF" we can interpret it.
Then I will say ... but Jesus said such and such.
Then they say but Paul said "this or that"
I guess it is all in how we interpret it.
And that says everything.
Wow, kinda new twist on an old debate. Basicly everyone (in theology ponderance circles) wants to find Q. The supposed oral and written saying of Christ. The similarities found in the gospels are believed to be found in this elusive supposed phantom tome. There is this 30 to 60 year gap before the first "books/letters/gospels" started being spread around in mass. The teachings/sayings of Jesus are what filled in that gap of time.
Now I understand the original question was more of a slight of hand dismissal of the Bible. Well, whatever. You may have your beliefs but do let others have theirs. Taken out of the stale context of religion, the teachings of Jesus and the Bible are life changing wisdom able to heal and restore wounded souls.
It's study is highly recommended!
"The teachings/sayings of Jesus are what filled in that gap of time." Is not true.
The "alledged" "teachings/sayings of jesus" were, alledgedly being passed from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation.
The NT, intoto, was not ready for promulgation for almost 300 yrs after the "alledged" crucifixion of the "alledged" jesus.
Study the asininity of the "Council of Nicea." Constantine, Arius and about 300 bishops from all over the "known" world trying to figure out whether this jesus person was god or the son-of-god. Ludicrous to the max!
Anyway Quadfather, I will admit it was an interesting study and certainly played an important role in the final decisions I've made concerning monotheistic belief.
Back to my question: "Why do people sway jesus said?"
1. No such word as "heresay".
2. Hearsay is rarely documented but is accepted as conversational validity in many places.
3. I fail to see where anyone -fundi or bundi- says this man wrote any of the books never mind anything in them.
4. Did people of history quote things he said and/or did? Seems likely as any other public figure in history.
"Alexander never really existed, since he didn't write himself the History of The Empire" Right?
because they can't say "Jesus wrote"
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Cuthbert nearly scores
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History of SJV Parish
St John Mary Vianney Parish opened its doors in October, 1971 Approximately 450 families were assigned from the parishes of St Mark, St. Brendan, and Holy Family to form the new parish on the east side of Lake Washington. There was great excitement from the new members. They were pioneers in a new venture (the first of many firsts) – the establishment of a parish within a seminary. It was also the first time that the Sulpician Society had been put in charge of a parish in the United States.
The first pastor, Fr. Edward Hogan, SS, was rector of St. Thomas the Apostle Major Seminary. He had dreamed of combining seminary life with the reality of a parish. However, there was the unspoken realization that this was to be only a temporary home for the parishioners. It was a unique beginning for St. John Mary Vianney Parish. Fr. Hogan welcomed the St. Vincent De Paul Society as outreach for the parish and established several parish groups including Hogan's Heroines (the women's guild renowned for its bazaars).
In 1975 Fr. Robert Turner, SS became pastor. During his tenure the Sulpicians generated a study concerning the education and formation of seminarians. The results led to the closing of the seminary in 1977, but St. John Vianney Parish remained under the pastoral care of the Sulplcian Society and continued as the main user of the seminary facility. During this period strong liturgies were produced and the parish had a reputation for being on the cutting edge of Vatican II. Archbishop Hunthausen was a member of the parish (he lived in the old convent in the basement) and on occasion could be seen sitting in the back of the church during Saturday vigil or rehearsals for special liturgies, RCIA, Marriage Encounter, Early Childhood Education, Channel (an Archdiocesan youth group) and the office of Marriage Advocate were established in the parish. The Archbishop was directly Involved at St. John Vianney Parish in the Sanctuary Program for troubled youth. The Pastoral Council, consisting of chairpersons of the various working committees, became a strong factor In the life of the Parish.
In 1981, based on the vote of the parish, an understanding was reached with the Archdiocese for the parish to assume management of the St. Thomas facility as the St Thomas Conference Center. It operated as a non-profit organization dealing with non-profit clientele. This would be the first time that a Catholic parish in the United States would manage a conference center. At this time the parish was turned over to the Archdiocese, which became responsible for the pastoring of the parish. The parish and the center grew in volume and scope, both needing the facility for activities. Subsequently, because of the needs of the center, it became increasingly difficult for the parish to find space for its own programs and activities.
In 1984 the Archdiocese requested the parish to discern the need to continue operating the center and parish together in the same facility. There was a prolonged study. Fr. Theodore Marmo replaced Fr. Turner as pastor. In 1985 the decision was made to build a new parish facility at a different site. In March 1987 twelve volunteers met with Fr. Marmo and were formally charged to discern the needs of the parish, develop a design, conduct a capital campaign, construct the new parish home and facilitate the move to the new facilities. Originally a commitment of three years, the project lasted six and a half years!!
In 1989 the Finance Council was formed for the second time, the Archdiocese and the parish sponsored an International Design Competition (the first of its kind for a Pacific NW Catholic parish) to select an architect for its new church facility. Based on the 1988 Discernment Report, 33 designs were submitted and the architect was chosen in October 1989 by a panel of three nationally known architects, a prominent artist, a representative of the Archdiocese, Fr. Marmo and members of the Building Commission. The first capital funding drive for the building took place in 1989. The completed project cost $43 million, but the Archdiocese would help with the funding in appreciation for the years the parish managed the St. Thomas Conference Center. We broke ground 1991 and construction began in 1992. In 1991 the Pastoral Council was formed for the second time with members elected by the parish.
In 1992 Fr. Jay DeFolco was named pastor. In the fall of 1992 a second capital funding drive was completed successfully. The parish community now numbered 840. During construction over 100 parishioners were directly involved in various phases of the project: a Christmas caroling party to serenade our new neighbors; two open house events – the last one combined with a parish picnic on the new grounds which attracted 600 people; a security group to guard the site from vandals during off hours; a shower for the new kitchen and social hall; the moving of church belongings to the new building; landscaping the new grounds (still going on); of banners; designing the dedication liturgies; planning the music; planning and executing the breakfast, luncheon and dinners for the event. The first Mass was held on October 916 1993 at 5:00 PM. The building still did not have the main outside doors. We opened with 1,008 families. The church was dedicated on the weekend of October 30-31, 1993, with Archbishop Thomas Murphy presiding. We had doors. Within the first 5 months the parish grew to 1,100 families.
In 1993 the Parish Life Commission was formed to welcome new parishioners, plan the social events of the parish and be responsible for the Social Hall. The parish became known for its warmth and hospitality. In 1994, attracted by the big kitchen, Sack Lunch moved to the parish. Started by Bev Graham, the program made 40 sack lunches once a week for the homeless on-the-street people in Seattle. Today the program makes over 2,000 meals per month. Many volunteers help make the lunches, provide sleeping bags, hats and many other articles for the homeless. It continues to depend on the community of St. John Vianney for support. The parish became the home of the Columbia Boys and Girls Choirs for several years. We also welcomed a Boy Scout troop and a Girl Scout troop. During this period our Filipino community grew and became very visible, the Knights of Columbus arrived, Sonshine Ministry was originated to help parish members who had a special need and the Prayer Line was established. Liturgical ministrIes, Stephen Ministry and funeral receptions were important ministries. Our RCIA program continued to grow, the children's programs greatly expanded, the nursery program became a reality and the first Mom's group was formed. Mission Trek included Jr. and Sr. High schoolers on missions to Eastern/Western WA and Mexico. The trekkers began their long association with St. Vincent De Paul Society's annual Christmas Basket program and the Christmas giving tree.
In 1997 Fr. William Heric replaced Fr. DeFolco, followed in 1998 by Fr. Frank Walsh, SJ as interim administrator and Fr. John Ludvik as Priest Administrator. In 1999 the parish hosted the Bridge Ministry (for persons with disabilities) Christmas Party. Trekkers now attending university formed the College Mission Trek for an annual mission to Mexico. We began to have brick, block and beam sales to aid the treks. We continued long time events: baby Jesus showers, garage sales, Mother's/Father's Days breakfasts sponsored by the youth of the parish, Knights of Columbus pancake breakfasts, Lenten Soup Nights to aid Rice Bowl, Filipino dinner dance to aid the parish, Winter bazaars, Annual Spring Auction, Vacation Bible Camp, Prayer Groups, Bible Study, Annual Picnic.
Fr. Kevin Duggan became our pastor in June 2000. Sung Masses have returned. A Parish Convocation and series of community listening brunches/lunches were inaugurated to determine the future work and goals of the parish. The main chapel was modified to allow for a proper eucharistic procession at weekend Masses. Many projects are in the works with established timelines which will maintain and enhance our lovely facility and enrich the lives of our parishioners.
We began celebrating 30 years as a parish with a picnic on October 14, 2001, continuing with a Valentine's Day Dance in February 2002, a pilgrimage procession from the seminary to the parish home in honor of St. John Vianney's feast day on August 3, 2002 and the annual picnic on September 15, 2002. The anniversary year ended with a Mass followed by a come-as-your-favorite-saint family costume party on November 1, 2002 – All Saints Day.
As we look back over the 30 years we have watched our parish community grow from the 450 families to our present population of 1,041 families. The many projects and committees originated to further the Lord's presence in our community and to serve each other are in response to our parish misslon statement. We have had sad times and joyous times over the years. The Vatican II directives were not always easy for some and still may not be. But we are a loving parish community that is constantly changing and growing together and we still maintain a core of the original members. We are a diverse group looking forward to an increase in our community as the area grows and we continue to strive to fulfill our mission and goals.
Our Parish's Patron Saint
Ever worry that you're not smart enough? Or influential enough? Or important enough? Ever wonder if the life of a very average person can be a life of real meaning and impact? Then look no further for inspiration than our parish's patron saint.
Jean-Marie Vianney was born into a farming family in eastern France in 1786. As a young man, his fervent desire was to become a priest, but his own intellectual shortcomings made that dream nearly impossible. He had a poor memory, little ability for abstract thought, and he simply could not grasp the fundamentals of such subjects as Latin and theology. Although his piety was recognized, he flunked out of the seminary.
That would have been the end of the story, but for the kindness of another priest, Father Balley, who tutored Jean-Marie and interceded for him with the diocesan examiner of candidates for ordination. The examiner saw Jean-Marie's academic deficiencies, but also saw his holiness and suitability for the priesthood. Father Vianney was eventually ordained in 1815, assigned to assist Father Balley until Balley's death in 1817.
In 1818 Father Vianney received his first independent assignment, to a parish in a small, obscure village called Ars. Ars had only about 230 inhabitants, and very few of these were outstanding for their faith. For most, religion was a mere formality, ignored except for weekly Mass attendance. Not a very promising first assignment for newly-ordained Father Vianney!
Father Vianney began his ministry by house-to-house visits in the parish, catechism classes for children, and most important of all, by personally living a life of humility and holiness that was a model for his parishioners. Slowly but surely, things began to change in Ars. The taverns closed, the church became crowded even on weekdays, and the line to the confessional grew always longer. In the confessional, Father Vianney discovered that he had a real gift for seeing into the depths of his parishioners' souls and for giving them absolution with a few compassionate words that often changed the whole course of their lives.
In time, the world came to Ars, as word spread about this extraordinary priest. From 1830 on, Father Vianney averaged 12-16 hours a day in the confessional, in addition to his regular pastoral duties, so sought-after was this humble, modest priest.
Father Vianney died in 1859, by which time Ars had already become a place of pilgrimage. Pope Pius XI canonized him in 1925, and in 1929 named him, very appropriately, the patron saint of parish priests.
St. Jean-Marie Vianney could also be considered a patron saint of all of those who worry about their shortcomings, their failures, their mediocrity.
If there's one lesson we can learn from St. John Vianney's life, it's that God has given each of us all of the talents and gifts we need, and even the most unpromising of assignments has the potential for greatness.
And there's a second story here, as well. Remember Father Balley, the kindly priest who mentored Jean-Marie and helped him become ordained?
Father Balley died two years later, so he never knew how much good resulted from his helping Father Vianney achieve his vocation. It's a reminder to all of us that opportunities for greatness, and for setting positive things in motion, present themselves to us every day.
It's in the smallest of ways, by living genuinely good lives and extending ourselves in kindness to others, that each of us, like St. John Vianney, achieve lives of true impact and importance.


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Even though VoIP is based on the Internet, it shares little in common with most web applications. This is because unlike the loading of a webpage, VoIP is a real-time protocol. This means that two people on a VoIP call need to be made aware of each other's responses immediately and without delay. While you may not notice or even care about the delay while loading an image on a webpage, even a few tens of milliseconds is enough to spoil your VoIP experience. Because of this, it faces special problems when it comes to implementation.
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