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I'm in for the E'ville show
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In for the PA show.
Working to get Tona to donate a board to raffle off there.
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Alright everyone a week to go and we're well over the half way point; thanks to those who've signed up! I know there are more than 47 kiters on the Peninsula, so to those who haven't bought tickets, we've got a few more incentives. I just picked up some more gear from KGB this weekend, including a hyperflex changing pad, T-shirts, hats, line treatment and surfboard wax. We've also got some huge deals from Ocean Rodeo, like $500 off kites! We're still working on lining up some more goodies, but between seeing your friends, making new ones, watching a sweet movie, and getting a chance at some serious schwag, there's no excuse not to sign up for the show. Keep it coming, hope to see you all there!
Also please feel free to help out on the promotional front! I've reached out to work-kite groups, message boards, surf clubs, and more. If you are members of other forums, clubs, or have friends interested in learning to kite, let them know about the show!
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What about EV, only 20 of us so far...?
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Deadline approaching - let's make the Emeryville show happen!
AMC Bay Street 16, February 27 8:30PM: A good option for east bay and city folks, this theater is easily accessible by BART.
Kirk out
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Tona will be contributing a brand spanking new 2014 board to the door prizes.
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Currently as of Feb 13th (deadline: Feb 20th):
Palo Alto show: 31 more tix needed to make the event happen
Emeryville show: 53 more tix needed to make the event happen
C'mon East Bay - the South Bay guys and gals are killing us! Do NOT make me drive to Palo Alto to see this movie!
Kirk out
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With 49 more people to go, I'm ready to call it quits on the East Bay show and make a move for the Palo Alto show on Wed 2/26. The Palo Alto show still needs 24 more bodies.
Landmark Aquarius, February 26 8:30PM: It's right next to a Cal Train stop in the heart of downtown Palo Alto.
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I just registered for the Palo Alto showing on Wednesday 2/26. We're currently at 63 with 22 more needed:
See you there!
Kirk out
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just got 2 tickets and still need 18 to go
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The Bay Area federal bench added two new judges Tuesday when the Senate confirmed San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman and San Francisco lawyer James Donato to the lifetime appointments.
Skirting Republican moves to block votes on federal judicial nominees, the Senate pushed Freeman and Donato through in a batch of other nominations that have not encountered any specific opposition. The Senate confirmed Freeman on a 91-7 vote, and Donato by a 90-5 margin.
Donato will replace former Chief Judge James Ware in the San Francisco courthouse, and Freeman will fill a vacancy in San Jose created by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel's move more than two years ago to the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C.
With the addition of Freeman and Donato, President Barack Obama's appointees now form a majority of federal judges in the region's federal courts in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. Vince Chhabria, a San Francisco deputy city attorney, is also awaiting Senate confirmation.
Freeman, 60, has been a state court judge since 2001, when she was named to the San Mateo County bench by former Gov. Gray Davis. She served as presiding judge for the court in 2011 and 2012 and was a longtime lawyer for the county before becoming a judge.
Donato, 53, is a partner in the San Francisco office of the national law firm Shearman & Sterling but spent much of his legal career at Cooley LLP. He also previously was a lawyer in the San Francisco city attorney's office.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who alternates federal judge picks in California with Sen. Barbara Boxer, recommended Freeman and Donato to the White House last year. In a statement, Feinstein praised the two judges, saying they will bring "important experience" to the local federal courts.
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz

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This is because they are skipping both retail and Xbox Live Arcade in the West, releasing instead via Xbox Live's "Games on Demand" service. Since full-fledged retail games appear on this service, the two Resi remasters aren't bound by XBLA restrictions.
Despite the presence of retail copies in Japan, the Resident Evil HD remasters are exclusively digital in Europe and North America. They'll be coming to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network a little later this year.
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All merchandise returns must include a packing slip indicating the customer's account name and a list of merchandise being returned. All claims must be made within 7 days of receipt of merchandise. Customers are responsible to go through all received product within the given (7 day) time frame. Customers are responsible for all return merchandise shipping charges. We will order a UPS call tag to pick up the merchandise if requested by the customer and at the customer's expense. Call tag fees are $12.50 in addition to the cost of shipping the merchandise. All returns are subject to a 20% restocking fee.
Our products are wholesale items that ship in bulk at wholesale pricing, minor defects may not be credited when returned. Any damages that happen upon the products return to the warehouse, will be the customer's responsibility and will not be credited. There will be no shipping credits applied to the customer's account as an available credit.
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If something I order is out of stock, will it be substituted with something else automatically?
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How long has SolarX been in the wholesale sunglasses business?
The owners of the company have been in the business since 2000. They've been working together to build SolarX Eyewear into a global brand and distributer since 2007.
I understand that the dozens come in assorted lens and frame color combinations, but can I choose my own assortments?
If you order 1200 pieces of a particular color combination, make a 50% deposit, and can wait approximately 4 months, then you may choose your own assortment. If you buy out of our stock, you must take the assortments as we carry them.
If I move to another part of the country, can SolarX help me establish my business in my new territory?
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If my business closes will SolarX take back any unsold inventory?
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Completely non-intrusive, this ARM In-Circuit Debugger and Programmer from Embest communicates with the ARM CPU core via JTAG using the ARM's boundary scan pins. The ARM emulator uses no target memory and requires no porting of code to the target system.
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A NEW line of "premium" soybeans called NK-1 Class Soybeans from Syngenta is available for 2010. The company says these varieties are protected from diseases and emerging challenges like sudden death syndrome and sclerotinia white mold. Syngenta reports that yields from NK-1 Class were up 6 bu./acre.
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Tiling is a simple and effective way to upgrade your interior design. Whether installed as flooring or on walls, for practical reasons or as a decorative statement, there are a variety of ways to incorporate tiles into your home décor.
Here's a rundown of the tiling interior trends to take advantage of this year.
Tiling lends itself well to patterning; just think of ancient mosaics.
Modern geometric and chevron patterns are particularly in vogue for use in flooring. An innovative new technique is to create a 'rug' effect with a patch of alternating, bright or patterned tiles forming a shape in the centre of a room. This design can be used to either delineate between spaces or to span across multiple rooms and create fluid movement between them.
There's no need to stick to square floor tiles, either. Hexagon, arabesque, diamond and half-circle tiles are all visually attractive, especially in contrasting colours.
Textures are playing a major role in the latest tiling trends. Unsurprisingly, a sought-after design is the use of a 3D effect. To reproduce this bold style, choose waved, folded and raised geometric patterns to formulate a focal point in a kitchen or bathroom.
Wood still has its place in interior design, especially when tiled. Opt for a cross-grain effect; the kind of surface seen on a tree stump. The rings create depth and dimension, which is aesthetically pleasing when used to tile living spaces.
A new interior trend in 2016 is brick tiling. Exposed brickwork has thus far been limited to clinical, warehouse-style interiors, but patterned clay floor and wall tiles are much more adaptable for use in alternate home décor themes. Rustic or polished, large or small, the trend is broad with brick tiles. Marble, porcelain and wood wall and floor tiles are making an appearance this year, too.
The concept of tiling is also emerging as a way to create objet d'art in modern interiors. Hanging up several of the same pop art or graffiti print canvases in a line creates a colourful and eye-catching tiled illusion.
This year sees neutral and grey palettes with warm undertones leading the way in interior design. When patterned wall and floor tiles are used, however, anything goes: from paintbox brights to blue hues.
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Metallic floor and wall tiles are a modern way to make your tiling stand out – and are not merely a trend for your splashback. A single shiny tile incorporated here and there will bring a modern spin to your interior design. Choose rose gold is advisable, a shade that has remained popular in home interiors since 2015 due to the continuing preference for warm tones.
Browse the Engel & Völkers blog for our take on the current interior and architectural trends, or find your nearest E&V offices to discuss properties incorporating the latest designs in floor or wall tiles.


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I believe there are tennis courts on Bronx Park East in the Bronx Park. I usually go to Pelham Bay Park. I am an intermediate level player.
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I have tried replying to you the other, but not sure it worked so I am trying again.
April will be a hard month for me, as I have guests from out of town and will be in and out of town myself. Perhaps one evening weekday may work? Let me know what is your schedule.
After April looking to fit in as much tennis as I can week day evenings and weekends.
Looking forward to meeting you, as I just moved to New Rochelle and I am looking for friends to play tennis with.
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Hi...this sis CoachV...thanks for joining the bronx tennis society....the Court near you you may want to go to are Crotona Park.....As around for a GUY named Raul they can find you players or go to Pelhambay park a little further away but more players there ask for a guy named Derek he can put you in a league.
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Let's say you want to find out how many unique values exist in a range that contains duplicate values. For example, if a column contains:
The values 5, 6, 7, and 6, the result is three unique values — 5 , 6 and 7.
The values "Bradley", "Doyle", "Doyle", "Doyle", the result is two unique values — "Bradley" and "Doyle".
There are several ways to count unique values among duplicates.
What do you want to do?
Count the number of unique values by using a filter
You can use the Advanced Filter dialog box to extract the unique values from a column of data and paste them to a new location. Then you can use the ROWS function to count the number of items in the new range.
Select the range of cells, or make sure the active cell is in a table.
Make sure the range of cells has a column heading.
On the Data tab, in the Sort & Filter group, click Advanced.
The Advanced Filter dialog box appears.
Click Copy to another location.
In the Copy to box, enter a cell reference.
Alternatively, click Collapse Dialog to temporarily hide the dialog box, select a cell on the worksheet, and then press Expand Dialog .
Select the Unique records only check box, and click OK.
The unique values from the selected range are copied to the new location beginning with the cell you specified in the Copy to box.
In the blank cell below the last cell in the range, enter the ROWS function. Use the range of unique values that you just copied as the argument, excluding the column heading. For example, if the range of unique values is B2:B45, you enter =ROWS(B2:B45).
Count the number of unique values by using functions
Use a combination of the IF, SUM, FREQUENCY, MATCH, and LEN functions to do this task:
Assign a value of 1 to each true condition by using the IF function.
Add the total by using the SUM function.
Count the number of unique values by using the FREQUENCY function. The FREQUENCY function ignores text and zero values. For the first occurrence of a specific value, this function returns a number equal to the number of occurrences of that value. For each occurrence of that same value after the first, this function returns a zero.
Return the position of a text value in a range by using the MATCH function. This value returned is then used as an argument to the FREQUENCY function so that the corresponding text values can be evaluated.
Find blank cells by using the LEN function. Blank cells have a length of 0.
The example may be easier to understand if you copy it to a blank worksheet.
How to copy an example
Create a blank workbook or worksheet.
Select the example in the Help topic.
Note: Do not select the row or column headers.
Selecting an example from Help
Press CTRL+C.
In the worksheet, select cell A1, and press CTRL+V.
To switch between viewing the results and viewing the formulas that return the results, press CTRL+` (grave accent), or on the Formulas tab, in the Formula Auditing group, click the Show Formulas button.
The formulas in this example must be entered as array formulas. Select each cell that contains a formula, press F2, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.
To see a function evaluated step by step, select the cell containing the formula, and then on the Formulas tab, in the Formula Auditing group, click Evaluate Formula.
Function details
The FREQUENCY function calculates how often values occur within a range of values, and then returns a vertical array of numbers. For example, use FREQUENCY to count the number of test scores that fall within ranges of scores. Because this function returns an array, it must be entered as an array formula.
The MATCH function searches for a specified item in a range of cells, and then returns the relative position of that item in the range. For example, if the range A1:A3 contains the values 5, 25, and 38, the formula =MATCH(25,A1:A3,0) returns the number 2, because 25 is the second item in the range.
The LEN function returns the number of characters in a text string.
The SUM function adds all the numbers that you specify as arguments. Each argument can be a range, a cell reference, an array, a constant, a formula, or the result from another function. For example, SUM(A1:A5) adds all the numbers that are contained in cells A1 through A5.
The IF function returns one value if a condition you specify evaluates to TRUE, and another value if that condition evaluates to FALSE.


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Few rockers have lived a life as deserving of a biopic as Queen's Freddie Mercury. Apparently, people in Hollywood agree, because yesterday (Oct. 10) guitarist Brian May spilled the news that such a film is in the works.
On his website, May confirmed that plans are underway for a movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator and star of 'Da Ali G Show' and 'Borat,' as Mercury to begin filming next spring, with a release coming a year later. May's post was as follows:
Ah … I promised news of yesterday's Queen band meeting. Well, it was just Roger and Jim Beach and myself … we are a small cottage industry !! Our main agenda was the Freddie film … which, I'm happy to tell you, is on course. Much of our discussion was about contractual things … it's pretty complex …. and determining who is responsible for what. The pieces are all falling into place, though we are now on a slightly later schedule – filming is now scheduled to start in the Spring, with Sacha Baron Cohen playing Freddie. The film should be ready for release early in 2014.
As much as Baron Cohen, known for playing flamboyant characters, can probably do a very credible job playing the late singer, there is the issue of his height. Baron Cohen is listed at 6'3″, a good six inches taller than the 5'9″ Mercury. Still, it does make us wonder who will play the other members of the band.
May also mentioned that, at the meeting, the band made other plans, but refused to divulge the news beyond the tease. He concluded by saying that, "Being in Queen is — bizarrely — as full of surprising twists and turns as ever — 40 years since we first got together, and 20 years after losing Freddie. But of course Freddie is in so many ways very much alive. He must be wryly smiling somewhere !!!"
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan - who was behind 'The Queen' and 'Frost/Nixon' screenplays - will pen the script and the film is being co-produced by Robert DeNiro's TriBeCa Productions.


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Experience is by industry achieved and perfected by the swift course of time."—Shakespeare Haskins & Sells at Seventy-Five When, in the long journey that is life, an organization passes the three-quarters of a century milestone and moves forward into the future, some of us connected with it may pause to ask: Why has Haskins & Sells survived in the race, when so many others have dropped out or disappeared before seventy-five years? Why are we stronger than ever today when, in the same time span, so many other organizations pass their peak, wither and die? What do we in this Firm have that is so special? There is no simple answer, of course, because Haskins & Sells is a large organization, a compound of many parts and elements. At its start seventy-five years ago it was merely a partnership agreement between two men, Charles Waldo Haskins and Elijah Watt Sells, who opened their small office at No. 2 Nassau Street in the New York financial district. Through the years from 1895 to 1970, the partnership they formed has grown into one of the ranking firms of independent accountants in the world. Indeed, our offices, our people and our services circle the globe. No doubt, one reason for the success of H&S over seventy-five years is that it was solidly founded by two men of great ability and industry, who were dedicated to rendering the finest possible professional service to their clients. Although Mr. Haskins lived through but eight years of the Firm's early life, Elijah Watt Sells remained at the helm for twenty-nine years, until 1924. In his time the profession of public accounting came of age; and our Firm under the leadership of Mr. Sells and his partners grew to maturity with the profession. Another important reason for the success of Haskins & Sells, I think, has been our long-standing dedication to improving and modernizing our methods. Back in the early 1920s, before I joined H&S as an assistant accountant, the Firm set aside most of the time of John Wildman, Ed Kracke, Will Bell and Ed Gause, four very important partners, so that they could study situations that sometimes would go wrong on an audit, and determine what we could do to prevent them. As one part of their study, these men carefully went through several hundred cases of serious defalcations, and related them to controls and procedures that might be used to forestall such occurrences in similar situations. From their work, in the late Twenties, came our Firm's internal control questionnaire, an innovation in public accounting that put us well ahead of the field at that time. It has been characteristic of H&S through the years to invest time and effort in development, in searching for new and more effective ways to serve our clients. We were never content to be followers; it was our style to get out in front and be leaders. For instance, as early as the mid-1920s we had made it a standard procedure to
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In light of the recent pedophile scandal to rock the Roman Catholic church, it seemed a good thing to search out the reason behind the sexual deviation that seems so prevalent within her priesthood.
I know of one young girl from Holland who loved the Roman Catholic church and served it with her whole heart. She even considered becoming a nun, until she was raped repeatedly by her priest for two years. Believing this man was a servant of God, she obeyed him, fearing his threats, that she would go to hell if she did not submit to his advances, or if she told anyone. For two years this young girl lived in horror. Finally, she decided that if this priest was a servant of God, she decided she did not want to serve this kind of God. She left the church, having never heard of the true God of grace and peace. Today she lives alone, still tormented by the ordeal, and denies even the existence of God. I have to wonder how many other young girls and boys have turned away from God because men who claim they are "Christ" commit such atrocities.
We know from historians that sexual misconduct was the norm for priests, bishops and popes of the Dark Ages.
Peter De Rosa, in his book, Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy, describes some of the men who held the office of a pope:
"Among the popes were a large number of married men, some of whom gave up their wives and children in exchange for the papal office. Many were sons of priests, bishops and popes; some were bastards; one was a widower, another an ex-slave; several were murderers, some unbelievers; some were hermits, some heretics, sadists and sodomites; many became popes by buying the papacy (simony), and continued their days selling holy things to rake in the money; one at least was Satan-worshipper; some fathered illegitimate children, some were fornicators and adulterers on a grand scale…." [ P. 30; Written 1988]
With leaders like this, is it any wonder that those under them are perverted also?
By the grace of God, there fell into my hands a book written in 1949 by a former Catholic Canadian priest named Jean Lucien Vinet, entitled, "I Was A Priest". He deals with the same issues that we are reading in today's newspapers. Pedophile and sodomite priests are not a new phenomenon within Roman Catholicism. It has always been the norm for her priests to be perverted according to Vinet.
Jean Lucien Vinet was born in 1902 to very devout French-Canadian parents. His father's family line had at least 10 priests and several nuns, so he was influenced early to revere the priesthood as being a "holy calling" from God. He attended a Catholic school run by brothers of a religious Order and the parish priest. At 15, Vinet thought he understood the Catholic religion fully and believed that Protestants were "people who had no Faith at all in God, or in Christ, the Saviour of Mankind. We were trained to look upon them as enemies of our Holy Roman religion." (p.14-15) This was the only influence that Vinet had concerning Protestantism. Vinet was convinced that many Protestants were members of Freemasonry. These men were the sworn enemies of Roman Catholicism (or so it was believed...today a Catholic is no longer forbidden to be a member of the Masonic order. Many of Rome's cardinals and bishops are known Masons).
Vinet writes about the parish priest who had told them a story which "stirred our soul and produced in our mind a great desire to become a priest." Although the story was
"...void of truth and common sense...it served well the priest's purpose of impressing upon our young minds the amazing Roman doctrine of transubstantiation and at the same time, to put the fear of God in our hearts against any future association with Freemasons."
The priest's account of the story went something like this:
"One day the Freemasons paid a Roman Catholic boy to steal a host which the priest had deposited on his tongue at Communion. Instead of consuming the host the wicked boy concealed it in his handkerchief and delivered it to the enemies of our church, the impious Freemasons. Like Judas, the boy had sold the real Body and Blood of Christ for a few pennies. The Freemasons, in their mad and sacreligious hatred for God, placed the stolen host on a table and cut it in several pieces in an effort to destroy God Himself But a miracle occurred...Blood and more blood began to flow from the mutilated host...it covered the table, the floor, filled the room, then the whole house with such quantity and rapidity that the satanic Freemasons were all drowned but one. The fortunate survivor advised the Parish priest of the miracle. The good Father rescued the particles of the host and the blood immediately ceased to flow. The surviving Freemason renounced Freemasonry, made his confession to the priest and became a good Roman Catholic" (p.15-16).
On one fable alone, many young men entered the priesthood, convinced that there was no greater calling "than that of the Roman priesthood which empowers a man to change bread into the real, actual and substantial Body of Christ" (16).
Rome teaches that not only does a priest change a piece of bread into God, but they also claim that the priest himself becomes "Christ literally". Fulton Sheen, in his book, This is the Mass, expounds on this:
"In this moment [when the priest changes the bread into the "body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ"], the priest quite literally becomes Christ Himself: his own personality is blotted out; it is absorbed in that of the everlasting Priest who is, at one time, the offered victim and the supreme officiant."
With comments from other priests saying such things as: "The priest is a storm: hurricane, cyclone, tornado rolled into one. Like Christ in the temple. Like Christ before the Pharisees. Like Christ hanging on the cross...No, He is more than that. The Priest is not just the cross, he is Christ Himself" (Lone Star Catholic, "Father" Brigante, March 1, 1959).
"...glorious priests...oracles of the Eternal Word...chiefs in the celestial militia...custodians of the Keys of heaven" (The Priest, His Dignity and Obligations, "St." John Eudes, XXV).
"To the carnal eye, the priest looks like other men, but to the eye of faith, he is exalted above angels" (Faith of our Fathers, Gibbons, 442).
"God deigns to make prelates, His own equals...If then, you receive a command of one who holds the place of God, you should observe it with the same diligence as if it came from God Himself" (True Spouse of Christ, Liguori, 93).
"Thus priests are gods in power. O power and dignity of the priesthood which surpasses all the powers of heaven and earth, second only to the ineffible dignity of the Mother of God" (The Priest, His Dignity and Obligations, John Eudes, 177).
"St. Gregory Nazianzen asserts that the priest is a 'God who makes gods'" (The Priest, His Dignity and Obligations, 13).
With doctrines such as these concerning the priesthood, is it any wonder that Jean Lucien Vinet was so excited when the priest told him that he'd been chosen to go to St. Boniface Seminary to become a priest. Vinet notes that the very day they were "ear-marked for celibacy and for the Roman priesthood":
"It became improper for us to miss daily Mass and even to talk to the young girls of our town. Such conduct on our part, we were told, could be punished by God who would rescind the divine calling" (p.16).
A "close watch" was kept on all the young men and the parish priest had to send a letter confirming that they attended Mass daily and "kept aloof from any association with the fair sex". If one so much as smiled at one of the young ladies in the village, this would have been taken as a "possible sign that we had no calling for celibacy and for the Roman priesthood."
Jean Lucien Vinet describes the kind of priest that headed the seminary:
"The Rector of the Seminary who was rather dictatorial, and who had just been significantly removed from the Ministry of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, was not successful in gathering the esteem and confidence of either the professors or the students. His greed for money and his inordinate love of authority, which he exercised ruthlessly, made him exceedingly unpopular. There was much talk as to the reason why he had left the Ukrainian ministry and our suspicions were soon confirmed that this man as a sex addict of the worst type. However, he was respected for his wide knowledge of languages and his many degrees in Roman philosophy and theology."
Interesting that many knew this priest was a pervert "of the worse type", yet he was respected!
Vinet goes on: "This man has since occupied various important positions in his Church. In our mind he is the prototype of Roman priest and personifies Romanism to perfection. To this Roman mind and conscience, Church authority and Church tradition take precedence over the teachings of Holy Scripture. Armed with theological degrees and extensive orational abilities he dictated his teachings and condemned others while he rested at ease in matters of his own private life. Before World War II, he interviewed the Winnipeg German Consul in an effort to arrange a meeting with Hitler. However, the two Dictators never met. A profound believer in discretion and secrecy of the Roman type, he was also a great believer in the motto of Romanism: "Do as I say or die...and die if you say what I do."
St. Boniface Seminary closed its doors during the epidemic known as the "Spanish Influenza". After a series of trials, Vinet resumed his studies for the priesthood at the Seminary of St. Victor, a small town near Quebec City, believing the Roman Catholic Church that had ordered him, in the name of God, to become a priest. Vinet began to realize the discrepancy between the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and the personal convictions and behavior of its priests. It was there that Vinet became disillusioned with the priesthood.
Vinet writes:
"Priest trainers must possess certain qualifications in order to impart to their pupils the genuine principles of Rome. It was the late and learned Cardinal Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec, who had chosen the professors for St. Victor and there is no doubt that the cream of Quebec priests were to be found in this Seminary."
The "cream of Quebec priests" trained young men to become priests. You would expect the conversation to be godly, but Vinet paints a totally different picture of so-called "priests of God".
"The seminaries, or training centres, as they were known were infested with the traditional 'chattage' which is common 'entertainment' of priests and students. The word 'chattage' is a consecrated expression in Quebec institutions, which means an abnormal and intimate friendship between male inhabitants of these colleges. One lover is the robust, active and manly type, while his partner is rather young, delicate, effeminate and passive. The normal effects of these unnatural marriages, of course, are homosexuality and sex crimes of all descriptions. Students, for reasons of confession or spiritual direction, spend much time in the intimacy of a priest's study, which is in most cases, his bedroom. We have seen students closeted for hours with priests and we were asked to believe that this ordeal did much to train young men to high spirituality and Romanism."
One day Vinet entered the room of his learned professor priest to discuss some academic subjects. This is where Vinet met the "Waterloo" of his respect and esteem for the alleged holiness of priests. He often thought of this priest as a great "Doctor of Divinity and a great lover of music", who eloquently said the Mass in such a manner that Vinet thought the angels in heaven could hardly realize this priest was a human being. What a revelation it would be for Vinet when it became apparent that this priest, like so many others, was a "dyed-in-the-wool religious hypocrite". It was the first time that Vinet had visited this priest and conversed with him intimately.
Vinet describes his horror as the priest "...approached me and planted a kiss on my blushing cheeks. Before I could gather my bewildered senses, the monster had given me an exhibition of the most disgusting obscenity. I was in the presence of a full-fledged sex pervert and a dangerous sex maniac! The learned and 'pious' pervert noticed my embarrassment. HE MADE HASTE TO EXPLAIN TO ME THAT SUCH ACTIONS WERE THE ONLY SEXUAL PLEASURE PERMITTED CELIBATE PRIESTS. He promised to write high marks on my examination papers if I submitted to being a partner in his sexual abominations. I refused, and this refusal almost cost me the success of my academic year. The angry priest even went so far as to advise the Rector and the Cardinal that I had no disposition to become a priest. According to him, a young man with no abnormal sex tendencies, was not fit to become a good priest. He might not have been so far from the truth after all, because I had indeed no disposition for homosexuality." [Emphasis added]
What Vinet most criticizes in this incident is not particularly the sins of the man, but the system of the Roman Church which trains and tolerates such perverts. He advised the Cardinal of the sexual activities of this priest, but the professor remained at his post for years after, giving Vinet the impression that such sex perversion, by a priest, is tolerated and accepted conduct. This is the same problem Catholic face today. The pedophile priests remain in high positions and were just moved to other areas where their perversions were unknown. Rome has not changed in her treatment of perverts! How can one trust that she will change now?
Following this incident Vinet advised the Rector of the Seminary that he was discontinuing his studies for the priesthood. He went on to become engaged, but the parish priest had quite an influence on him. He ordered him in the confessional to resume his studies and become a priest. Vinet ended his engagement broken hearted. He now would put all of his trust in the hands of the Jesuits and the Archbishop of St. Boniface. Often, during the course of his theological studies, serious doubts on the Roman doctrines taught to him, crept into his mind, but his conscience was silenced every time "by the encouraging words of my confessor 'Papa dixit' The Pope has said so. I submitted and believed."
Vinet was ordained a priest of Rome in our home town Church at St. Pierre, Manitoba, on June 4th, 1933. The Bishop, according to the teaching of Rome, gave him power to perform transubstantiation and to forgive all the sins which would be confessed to him. Vinet would be fobidden to marry by Roman law (also known as "divine law"). Even if he should marry legally in civil law, Roman law would consider the marriage "void and sinful" and any children born out of such a marriage would be "illegitimate".
Now as to the exact reason WHY the Roman Church prohibits marriage to its priests is confused. We know, however, that this law of celibacy was originally based on a false conception of mysticism. Some ancient "Fathers of the Church" have considered matrimony and the legitimate procreation of children as something naturally disgraceful and to be tolerated only as a necessary evil. Augustine believed that the "holy fountain of life was always dirtied by lust even in the tidy garden of marriage."
In sermon after sermon, Augustine repeated: "'Husband, love your wives but love them chastely. Insist on the work of the flesh only in such measure as is necessary for the procreation of children. Since you cannot beget children in any other way, you must DESCEND TO IT AGAINST YOUR WILL, FOR IT IS THE PUNISHMENT OF ADAM….A man should yearn for that embrace in which there can be no more corruption. If only a couple could have children without the sordidness of sex, say, by praying on their knees together.' According to Augustine, a man in his wife's arms should concentrate icily upon the child and look forward to heaven when he can embrace her like a statue" (Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy, Peter De Rosa, 319).
Even today the Roman Catholic Church has kept some remnants of this falsehood in her ritual. It provides for a "purification blessing" of mothers who have legitimately given birth to children.
Is it any wonder that Vinet writes:
"A priest, according to this mysticism, commits a greater sin against the Church and against God by contracting marriage, than by violating a hundred virgins. Forced celibacy is indeed a most anti-social and anti-Christian measure of dark-age Romanism" (24).
How different Rome's attitude towards sex and marriage than God's word, which clearly teaches us that "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled." (Heb. 13:4)
Now we come to this question: "Is celibacy and chastity actually observed by Roman Priests?" Let us stop to define "celibacy". The dictionary defines celibacy as two-fold: 1) Being unmarried; and 2) Being sexually abstinent, especially by reason of religious vows."
First, we must make a distinction between "celibacy" and "chastity". Celibacy is indeed commonly observed by priests and monks. Of course there have been exceptions but the parishioners knew nothing of it...the priests' wives were called their "housekeepers".
But although celibacy is almost always observed by Roman Catholic priests, Vinet writes:
"I regret to inform you...the same cannot be said of chastity. The fact is that innumerable sins of lust are committed in the Church of Rome in the name of the law of celibacy. It is unnecessary to state that there is absolutely no difference between the human nature of a Roman Priest and that of an ordinary layman, but priests who are bound by celibacy, solve their sex problems in defiance of the laws of God and country. Therefore, the vow of celibacy is the greatest hoax invented by Romanism. Priests who are avowed moralists become professional hypocrites in order to conceal their romances and the discrepancy between their teachings and their private lives" (24-25).
Vinet goes on to say:
"Opponents of the Roman Church have often suggested that nuns are the common accomplices of the priests' sexual sins. We believe this is incorrect. True, in the Middle Ages, tunnels were built between convents and monasteries to facilitate secret meetings of the parties concerned, but the modern priest's technique is no different from any other modern Romeo. If nuns and priests, in certain circumstances, do indulge in romances, tunnels are no longer necessary. Sexual crimes of nuns, priests, bishops and popes are accepted facts that cannot be denied. My old teacher, a religious Brother, used to tell us that Hell is 'paved with heads of popes, bishops and priests'" (25).
Even Roman Catholic historians and moralists admit that the law of celibacy of priests and the vow of chastity of monks, are historical failures. True, the Roman Church makes a supreme effort to conceal this fact from Roman Catholics. There isn't enough space, nor could we even begin to reveal all the acts of depravity of priests and monks But, throughout the centuries, one thing is for sure when discussing sexual perversion in Rome, "Semper eaden", that is, "always the same." Just as the Catholic hierarchy moves pedophile priests from one church to another, so Vinet describes the same situation in the 1940's:
"Manitoba Roman Catholics still talk of a Winnipeg priest who was sent East on account of his known sex perversions of young boys; the inhabitants of the small town of St. Pierre, Manitoba have just been relieved of an assistant priest who also returned East because he was drunkard and an exhibitionist."
Vinet goes on to tell of his own niece:
"Not very long ago, my seven-year old niece was criminally assaulted in the very precincts of St. Boniface Cathedral. The Cathedral authorities, with the co-operation of the local police, endeavoured to apprehend and punish the brutal criminal who had desecrated this holy place of Roman worship, but when the little girl identified as her assailant a young priest of the Cathedral staff, the case was hush-hushed into oblivion."
Vinet wondered why the Catholics throughout the world shut their eyes to the sexual crimes of priests, much like we wonder today. He saw the priesthood as hypocritical, preaching holiness and sanctity of lives while their private lives were in sexual shambles. Vinet writes:
"We must now surprise our readers by stating the most disgusting sexual crimes of priests are not committed in a normal fashion in company with adult women.. Moreover, many priests are women haters. Some of them refuse even to shake hands with the ladies; they keep their eyes cast down and abstain from looking at them. These are the usual signs of an abnormal and homosexual priest. The priests' and the monks' great sexual crimes are homosexuality and sexual abnormalities of various description. The victims are young boys and often young girls. We must make haste to explain that these so-common sex crimes of the Roman priests must be blamed on the system which trains them, rather than on their own God-given human nature. It is a gruesome fact that forced celibacy, auricular confession and some aspect of the priest's training, render a Roman priest a sexually-abnormal person or a sex pervert" (29)
Vinet reconstructs the various phases of a priest's training which lead him to the deplorable state of a sexual pervert.
"Let us take a good, clean boy of fifteen years. He is indeed a normal boy. Let alone, he would probably become a good, natural and Christian husband and father, but he is ear-marked for the priesthood and celibacy. He enters a seminary; he is told that henceforth he must not only renounce the possibility of marriage, but must also consider all young women proximate occasion of sin and the infallible cause of the loss of his calling to the priesthood. He must not think of them, must not look at them and must not associate with them. This boy is now trained in an abnormal life and will naturally look for compensation for the normal ambitions of his nature. If he attends a Quebec college or seminary he will invariably come in contact with the many practitioners of the infamous 'chattage'. He will be taught unnatural love between persons of the same sex and it will be a miracle if he does not become sexually abnormal in a short time. This future priest accepts celibacy in his mind but finds an unnatural compensation in sex abnormalities, and homosexuality is the common one. Later he will become a sex pervert. The forced law of celibacy has destroyed him."
Vinet did not want to convey the impression that all priests and monks were perverts, as he was aware that many had escaped. Yet, the statistics of his day was alarming.
"...we will state here the estimate of a group of young priests whom we visited in a Quebec college. They thought at least ninety percent of all the priests were either sex perverts or sex addicts of some variety and degree. This is not our estimate and we hope that the college professors were wrong."
The Roman Catholic church took great pains to conceal these facts from the public of that day. In Canada, for instance…
"If a priest is too widely known in the town where he is stationed, he will be transferred to the East or to the West as the case may be. Priests with sex records roam the country and pervert the young as they pass."
Vinet names many offenders of the day, with the record of the complaints. A short time before Vinet withdrew from the Roman priesthood, he visited a friend, the "Head of a religious Order in Montreal". When Vinet confided to him his intention of leaving the priesthood and getting married to the woman he left behind, the "Father" bluntly stated:
"As far as I am concerned, give me a nice-looking little boy and you may have all the women in the world."
The priest's answer was a frank admission of what Romanism had done to the priest's mind and heart. He believed marriage was a great sin and that sexual perversion was an acceptable substitute for matrimony.
God said, "It is not good that man be alone". Rome said, "It is good for priests to be alone". Paul said, "A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife." Rome says, "A priest must not have a wife." Paul said, "Marriage is honorable in all." Rome says, "Marriage is abominable for priests."
Paul said it was the doctrine of devils to forbid marriage [1 Timothy 4:1-3]. Rome forbids her priest to marry. The root of the problem is the fact that the very foundation of Catholicism is based upon "Doctrines of Devils"!
Vinet noted the horrible hypocrisy of the confessional. He watched as two young priests of his day used the confessional to "make dates" and solicit sexual favors. Vinet took the affidavits from the innocent victims. He was forbidden by Rome to turn them over to the civil authorities and he was forbidden to testify against them in civil courts. Vinet did complain to the bishop who removed the two young priests to another area.
In the 1940's, Vinet felt that young girls and boys were allowed to associate too freely with priests under the pretext of confession, spiritual direction and sport or study organizations. Today, things have not changed. We still hear of hundreds upon hundreds of young girls and boys who have been abused by these masters of mysticism. Their doctrines claim they are "alter Christus", that is "another Christ". What a distorted image of the true Jesus these poor children must have! Men who claim to be "Christ" behaving in a perverted manner, threatening their victims with hell if they ever reveal their secrets. Truly hell is paved by the heads of popes, bishops and priests, as they have confessed with their own mouths.
by Rebecca A. Sexton
Former Catholics For Christ


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DePaul, In A Tough PR Spot, Releases PitchfordPosted by nvr1983 on July 12th, 2010
Zagsblog overlord Adam Zagoria reported earlier tonight that 2010 recruit Walter Pitchford will be granted his release from DePaul at some point in the next two days, allowing Pitchford to sign with another school.
Pitchford, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, had signed a letter of intent with DePaul early in the recruiting period and was to start his college career this fall, but later asked for a release, telling Zagsblog that he asked for it because of the coaching change that saw Jerry Wainwright fired and former Clemson boss Oliver Purnell brought in to run things on the Chicago campus. He also claimed to be "concerned" with the level of crime in Chicago. DePaul initially denied Pitchford's request, and his appeal to the NCAA was also rejected. In an ESPN.com article published earlier on Sunday, Purnell defended his new employers, saying that DePaul was retaining Pitchford because they wanted to run the basketball program "with integrity." Purnell also voiced suspicion that there may have even been some tampering, by other schools, and reiterated that they weren't holding onto Pitchford just to be cruel, that there was a principle involved, here, and that he wanted the entire process to play out. Then, just hours later, came the news that Pitchford was to be released.
To be sure, since the moment that Pitchford asked for his release, DePaul has been in a tough spot. If they had immediately released Pitchford, they would have lost a recruit that they wanted, and in the process painted themselves as a program that can be walked on, a basketball team from which recruits are better off escaping. They would have looked like a place that has made no progress in coming back from their recent disarray, not a program doing all that it can to repair itself. If they had held onto Pitchford no matter what, there's no way they could have come out of that positively, from a PR standpoint. If they'd have held Pitchford to his letter of intent, DePaul would have been painted as a recruit-unfriendly program that holds kids hostage. Even if the reputation would have been unfairly gained, it's not exactly an image a new coach wants to cultivate, especially in a city as rich with young basketball talent as Chicago. And, of course, you never know what kind of effort you'd get from a player who doesn't want to be in your program.
Now we wait to see where Pitchford lands, which will be interesting, considering his reasons for wanting out of his LOI at DePaul. We can't really buy that there was a sudden realization in Pitchford's camp that there might be crime in Chicago, and while we know that Jerry Wainwright was a nice guy, there's no denying that Purnell's resume — especially recently — is more impressive, and DePaul will be the better for his being there. Pitchford's choice of school will have to jibe with his reasons for wanting out of DePaul. If they don't, despite Pitchford getting his release, there will be more questions here than answers.


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An Oklahoma City man was arrested this week after threatening a convenience store employee with a tree branch in an act of 'Botanical Brutality.' Ugh, sorry.
53-year old Marvin Glenn Jones had already been banned from a local 7-Eleven for making death threats against the store manager, but that didn't stop him. "General Jones" (as he called himself) returned later that evening, and when the store employee asked him to leave the premises, Jones allegedly returned with a four-foot tree branch and threatened the employee with it.
When police took him into custody, Jones reportedly attempted to set himself on fire in the back of the squad car, and claimed that a bomb was about to go off.
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A short-lived hoax on Twitter briefly erased $200 billion of value from U.S. stock markets on Tuesday, underscoring the vulnerability of financial markets to computerized trading programs that buy and sell shares without human intervention.
A tweet purportedly from the Associated Press just before 1:08 p.m. reported two explosions in the White House and that President Barack Obama had been injured. The posting sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling roughly 145 points in an instant.
Minutes later, the AP said the tweet was a fake resulting from hacking by an outside group, and the White House confirmed there were no explosions. But traders employing so-called algorithms that automatically buy and sell shares after scanning news feeds—including posts on social media sites such as those run by Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. —had already taken action. The two-minute selling spree left many traders stunned and dismayed, even though the market quickly recovered the losses afterward."It's frustrating and scary that a tweet can erase hundreds of billions from the market in a short time, but that's the world we live in," said R.J. Grant, associate director of equity trading at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
In a Twitter post, a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army took responsibility for the fake AP message. The group, which describes itself as "a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths" who support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, recently has targeted other media organizations. An AP spokesman said the news organization was unable to determine the origin of the hacking incident.
Securities and Exchange Commission officials are looking into trading activity that took place in response to the AP tweet, according to a spokesman, who said the agency routinely looks into irregular market action. Regulators looking into the activity said it was too early to tell if the tweet was intended to disrupt the market. Jenny Shearer, an FBI spokeswoman in Washington, said the bureau is also investigating the incident. She declined to provide further details.
At 1:07:50 p.m. Eastern time, the fake tweet appeared. Stock prices began to head lower in a selloff that quickly picked up steam. In a little more than two minutes, the Dow fell from around 14700 to 14554.
At roughly 1:10 p.m., the first denials began to appear saying that the AP's Twitter account had been hijacked. Within seconds stocks began to turn higher and by 1:13 p.m. had recovered most of the ground that had been lost. At the day's end the Dow was up 152.29 points, or 1.05%, to 14719.46.
In an echo of the May 2010 "flash crash," when the Dow lost 600 points in a matter of minutes, market participants say liquidity—a measure of traders' ability to sell stock positions quickly—dried up while the market was falling.
"It wasn't even that people really had a chance to sell as much as that bids just walked away," said Ian Winer, director of trading at Wedbush Securities.
Some said the episode revealed the influence of computer-driven, high-frequency-trading hedge funds, which by some measures account for as much as half of U.S. stock market volume. The computer programs some of them use have expanded their reach to social-media platforms such as Twitter. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently gave the green light to companies to release important information through those venues.
Such computer programs "are incredibly sophisticated," said Eric Pritchett, chief executive at Potamus Trading, a brokerage firm that specializes in electronic trading. A program "reading the feed and seeing 'blowing up' can also read the one saying the account was 'hacked,' " he said.
The Syrian Electronic Army recently took responsibility for an attack on National Public Radio, where the words "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here" were splashed across its website earlier in the month. Over the weekend, the website Syrianelectronicarmy.com said the group had hacked into the Twitter feeds of CBS News broadcasts "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours."
A spokesman for NPR said that it was monitoring the situation, and "60 Minutes" tweeted that it was "working with Twitter to resolve."
The AP spokesman said the hack was preceded by an attempt to get into its corporate email network. That original attack was blocked, said the spokesman, who added that "there is no evidence any AP systems beyond email were compromised."
The purported Twitter feed of the Syrian Electronic Army is linked to the similarly named website, which says its members "could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria." The site vows to "remain Syria's loyal soldiers." The group couldn't be reached for comment.
Security experts said the attacks on the AP and other media organizations highlight the need for those operating online to take appropriate precautions.
"We haven't seen anything like this before," said Giovanni Vigna, co-founder and chief technology officer of the security firm Lastline. "They wanted to shock people and draw attention to their cause."
Mr. Vigna said the dramatic reaction on Wall Street was likely linked to the edginess created by the Boston Marathon bombing. He said that it could foreshadow a dangerous future for investors. "Imagine a situation where knowing a tweet of this kind can cause a market to go down," he said. "You buy at a low price, and when the market rebounds, you make a profit."
Amid Tuesday's tumult, some traders emphasized their human advantages. A staffer at Los Angeles-based JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC said during Tuesday's turmoil, over a companywide loudspeaker: "Careful, those things can be hacked," according Tom Carter, a managing director at the brokerage.
"We made sure no one made a call on it, and sure enough, look what happened," Mr. Carter said. "You've really got to be careful in those moments. It would be irresponsible to start calling clients about it."
Source : The Wall Street Journal.


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Hope from Bethlehem
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Bethlehem, Palestine
"We are hopeful because history is not static."
Thumbing its nose at the international community in this holiday season, the Israeli government is going ahead with building thousands of housing units in existing and new Jewish colonization settlements in the Bethlehem and Jerusalem areas. After living 29 years in the US, it is not easy to be living in Bethlehem area. Life can be at times hard, exhilarating, depressing, fun, and hopeful. Israel occupied this area in 1967, but the landscape had begun to change well before that. In 1948, Bethlehem became home to thousands of Palestinian refugees after more than 750,000 people were driven from their homes in what became Israel. Palestinians were forbidden to return, and three cramped refugee camps (Dheisheh, Azza, and Aida) add to the local migrants from villages whose lands were taken over.
The 180,000 native Christians and Muslims of Bethlehem are now restricted to develop in only 13% of the district land. Some 87% of our land is now under control by a ring of colonial settlements, military zones, and infrastructure restricted to Israeli occupiers' use. Since 2002, we have faced the enormous human costs of a massive, concrete segregation wall. The wall zigzags around Bethlehem, placing fertile Palestinian agricultural lands and most of our water resources on the "Israeli side" and in many cases goes straight through centuries-old villages — separating Palestinian families from each other and from their jobs, hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques. The wall and checkpoints mean that many faculty and students can no longer make it to school at Bethlehem University and our student body has steadily lost its geographic diversity. The biblical and literal path from Nazareth to Bethlehem is blocked by many checkpoints and thirty-foot-high slabs of concrete.
Many of my relatives lost jobs in Jerusalem or lost livelihoods that depended on the city of which we are a suburb. It is virtually impossible for West Bank Palestinians to obtain permits to enter Jerusalem or for Jerusalemites to engage in commerce with us. Even if one gets a rare permit (a tiny percent do), checkpoints make travel unpredictable and often impossible, precluding maintaining a decent economy. Unemployment is now at 35%. But other disadvantaged segments of society suffer more: children and women. Because of the current demographics, 50-60% of Palestinians are children and they are the most vulnerable/suffering. Malnutrition is common. Women have to pay a heavier price than men because the occupation is added on top of a traditional male dominated society (though this last part is changing).
But we in Bethlehem can be thankful that we are not living in Gaza where things are far worse, and where just in one week in November, Israeli forces killed 191, including 48 children. The UN predicts Gaza will become unlivable by 2020. The whole area feels like a ticking time bomb. Israel's desire to acquire maximum geography with minimum Palestinian demography is the root of the suffering afflicting the Holy Land. Today there are nearly seven million Palestinian refugees and displaced people. Amnesty International has observed that the "peace processes" failed because Israel has ignored human rights, including the right of native Palestinians to return to their homes and lands. There is now a broad international consensus (with the exceptions of the US and Israeli governments) on the danger to international peace and security posed by Israel's continued violations of human rights and international law. Clearly if one wants peace in the Middle East and beyond, the path starts by giving justice to Palestinians. I am doubly pained as an American and a Palestinian Christian because my taxes support this 60-year carnage. Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid and the US administrations still go out of their way to cater to Israeli lobby influences.
Israel as the occupying power is responsible for the welfare of those under its military rule per the applicable Geneva conventions. Yet, Israel has intentionally de-developed the Palestinian economy. With the collusion of the EU and the US, the economy of the West Bank and Gaza became even more dependent on Western "humanitarian aid." Some 30% of this aid is siphoned off into Israel and some 30% goes to support Palestinian "security forces" whose job seems to focus not on protecting Palestinians from settler attacks but on fighting any Palestinians who dare to resist the occupation or challenge the usurpation of their land.
There is a system of corruption involving governments and "authorities" trickling down to people. This is coupled with a media strategy that makes it look as if the only choices available to Palestinians are blowing themselves up or capitulation and endless negotiations. This sad state of affairs did not just happen but was engineered and is actively managed to perpetuate occupation and dependency. Why else would Israel deny entry to academics coming to teach at the universities here, or entry to equipment for even the simplest of industries? Why deny Gaza electric power and equipment to treat the sewage and thus let sewage of 1.5 million people flow into the Mediterranean Sea polluting Europe and even Tel Aviv?
The logic of military and political power dictates that Israel is now building more Jewish settlements and demolishing more Palestinian homes and farms in spite its obligations under signed agreements and under international law. The Obama administration and Congress (beholden to the pro-Zionist lobby) stand isolated among the community of nations in its support of this apartheid regime.
But we are hopeful because history is not static. Here in Bethlehem, we derive strength from knowing that previous foreign military occupations came and went, including the Roman one that existed at Jesus' time. We derive hope from the fact that the crusaders ended after 130 years of trying to change this country to become monolithic. Zionism is also bound to fail in its similar task. We derive hope from thousands of visitors who come every year to show us solidarity. We derive energy from our work for peace with justice. We derive strength from the positive reaction received by churches around the world for the Palestine Kairos document. We derive strength from the growth of the boycotts, divestment, and sanctions movement (a la that implemented against apartheid in South Africa).
In this season celebrating the birth of Jesus, let us all resolve to work for ending racism, occupation, and apartheid. Let us insist on the rights of refugees to return and build a democratic society for its entire people in the Holy Land. When we succeed, people of all religions (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) and all backgrounds will share this small piece of earth in harmony and peace.
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This is a design challenge about heat transfer and insulation. Learners will apply the scientific method to design and build a container that will keep items cool when placed in boiling water. They will practice collaboration in team-building and in... (View More) teamwork. This is lesson 4 of 4 at the Grade 9-12 range of the module, Staying Cool. (View Less)
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Troy's celebrated solar house left in dark
Facility touted as next big thing still shut
Shawn D. Lewis / The Detroit News
Troy -- It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement -- a completely independent solar-powered house with no gas or electrical hookups.
Seven months ago, officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the $900,000 house owned by the city of Troy that was to be used as an educational tool and meeting spot.
But it never opened to the public. And it remains closed.
Frozen pipes during the winter caused $16,000 in damage to floors, and city officials aren't sure when the house at the Troy Community Center will open.
"It's not safe right now, and there's no estimated opening time because it depends on when we can get funding," said Carol Anderson, director of the city's Parks and Recreation Department.
That surprised the Oakland County Planning and Economic Development Department, which advertised tours of the house for its Tuesday Oakland County Green Summit.
"No, I didn't know anything about it," said Steve Huber, spokesman for county planning.
Bret Rasegnan, planning supervisor for the department, said the solar tours have been removed from the finalized agenda for the summit.
"It is disappointing that we can't tour, but the summit will still be of great value. I don't think it's reflective of the technology."
Lawrence Technological University, with help from DTE, mostly paid for the building. Its students built the 800-square-foot home, which was supposed to be livable year-round, free from the grid and churn out enough solar power to support a home-based business and electric vehicle.
So what caused the flood?
The city says it was a mechanical problem. University officials heard it differently.
Jeff Biegler, superintendent of parks for the city, said the flooding occurred from a glitch in the heater.
"The system was designed to kick a heater on to keep water from freezing," Biegler said. "The heater drew all reserve power out of the battery causing the system to back down and the pipes froze."
Joe Veryser, an associate dean of architecture at the university, said he heard otherwise.
"What I heard repeatedly was that somebody turned off the breaker during the winter and forgot to turn it back on, which caused the pipes to freeze and then break."
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It took me what seemed like forever to find a death date for my 3x great-grandfather, Richard Toner. After immigrating to Brooklyn circa 1850, he shows up there on censuses with his family, and in city directories on a regular basis. The family never moved outside of Red Hook, Brooklyn, and really lived in only a handful of addresses around 1 or 2 blocks on Van Brunt Street, by Tremont (now Visitation) and Verona Streets.
And then they just disappear. My last sighting of Richard was an 1880 Brooklyn City Directory, but I couldn't find him in the 1880 census, even though I had his address. I couldn't find anyone in the family in the 1880 census. In 1892, one of their daughters shows up, married and living with her husband and children, but Richard, his wife Mary, and the rest of their children are nowhere to be found. I was able to find deaths for both Mary and their son William in 1899, and (some of) their married daughters show up in the 1900 Census, but family is almost entirely absent from any records I've encountered between 1880 and 1900 - and Richard never shows up again after 1880. I figured he died in there somewhere, but 2 decades is a long time, and I couldn't find him in the NYC death index at the Italian Genealogical Group's site.
Luckily, I had some time ago met a cousin through Ancestry whose tree showed her as being descended from Richard's daughter - Elizabeth Jones Loughlin Renehan. I knew well that Elizabeth's name wasn't Jones, but rather Toner, but without having seen it thus misinterpreted, I might not ever have spent as long trying to think of what letters look like the letters in the name Toner. Jones was my first guess, since I knew that at least one person had misinterpreted a written Toner as Jones, and I did order the death certificate for one Richard Jones who had died in 1886, but he wasn't my guy. After thinking a little harder, I realized that Fones or Foner would look even more like Toner, and I found one likely entry in the death index - a [horribly mistranscribed] Ricehhrd J. Foner. When the certificate arrived, I knew without a doubt that I'd found my guy.
The certificate very clearly doesn't say Ricehhrd Foner, but Richard Joseph Toner. He died on 11 May 1880, so it would make sense that he wasn't on the 1880 Census, which was enumerated on 1 June 1880 - although that doesn't explain where the rest of the family was. His place of death was 91 Tremont St., which is not an address I'd seen the family at before, but it's certainly within that same radius of a block or so in which the family lived for years. His occupation and birthplace are right - he's an Irish-born painter - and his age is more or less as would be expected. He died after suffering from hepatitis for 10 days.
Richard was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn on 13 May 1880. I called the cemetery once to see if they could give me a burial location or a death date, but although they were able to tell me that a Richard Toner was the owner of a plot where several of his relatives were buried, they couldn't verify whether he himself was in that same plot.
Next step: Now that I have a death date, I need to call back and find out what other information Holy Cross might be able to give me.


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Tribal Truth necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Tribal Truth - Putting a Tribe behind Your Dream
Our Vision: To inspire every woman in realizing her dreams by bringing awareness to her self-worth and value in this world as The Total Female Package™.
Our 4 Core Offerings:
Health and Healing - We make conscious choices about what products we consume from a personal health and global environmental perspective.
Alignment - We promote community resources, business exchange, and business development so every woman's profession is in alignment with her life purpose.
Wealth and Abundance - Living by the Law of Attraction, women have an abundance of wealth in all areas of life: health, financial, spiritual, and relationships.
Empowerment and Leadership - Women are empowered to live out loud and on purpose with freedom and ease, and want to give back to their community (Servant Sisterhood Partnership and Leadership).
Our Four Core Values: Authenticity - Tapping into your full self-expression as The Total Female Package™ and embracing your true feminine divine power.
Love - All communication is rooted in love for all human beings, by first and foremost loving yourself.
Relationships - This is the foundation of community – being a servant sister to others and developing positive, loving relationships.
Growth - We value self-growth and team building as a life long journey and never-ending process. We seek to further develop ourselves for our community.
Women: 18 - 65
Teens, College Women, Mothers, Lawyers, Entrepreneurs, Sisters, Cousins, Teachers, Spiritualists...everyone.
We provide workshops and gatherings, sistership circles and high level associations - so folks interested in that would be a great audience.
We are looking to connect with women from different cultures and take this community to every country possible.
We need to do our logo over from what it is today and use the words "Tribal Truth." You can take a peak here:
Currently it combines both logos - Tribal Truth and The Total Female Package. We need one for only Tribal Truth. We have a tag line of "Putting a Tribe behind Your Dream - that can flow if it looks right but is not necessary at this point.
Our main target is to get a kick-butt "Tribal Truth" logo. We want this to be visually appealing.
Look tribal yet neutral. Looking for a logo that can be used for trademarking...and stands out from the crowd. Similar to the Nike swoosh! You can use it in any color and still get the presence of what it stands for it that moment.
Our current colors are gold and purple. So we want the logo to be simple, fun, energetic, playful while appealing to both youthful and more experienced women.
A logo they can get behind and feel authentic and safe with.
Tribal Truth empowers women to honor men so we want a logo that is neutral and when we are ready to start the men's part of the community can use it interchangeably.
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