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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Not the Spirit of Timidity
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thank you God for Haydn
Do you think they sing anything other Haydn Masses on Sundays in Eastertide in Heaven?
Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of his death, the Holy Father is celebrating Mass, using one of the Haydn's Masses tomorrow, not sure which one.
Did you know he never composed anything without first saying the Rosary?
Deacon Needed
I've developed a passion about Solemn High Mass, it is about the Incarnation, about Divinisation, it is about the meeting of God and the high point of western art. It is the words and actions held sacred by generations of Saints and faithful people, the music and if you add the visual beauty, of fine vestments, of a building made for God's glory and consecrated by years of the prayer of His faithful, there is something quite mind blowing.
I had a meeting yesterday to discuss the music for Corpus Christi, as the obligation has been moved to the Sunday we thought we would have a High Mass on the Thursday evening, with a short procession.
We decided to settle on the Byrd Mass for Four Voices, isn't English Polyphony heavenly, all that soaring? Father Sean is going to be the celebrant, I am going to be subdeacon, first time ever, but we are still in need of a deacon, can anyone help out? A bed and dinner are on offer.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Irish Institutions Condemned 50 years ago
Which Irishman said
Speaking to a large audience at a public lecture in Cork's Savoy Cinema he said, "You are the people who permit your children and the children of your communities to go into these institutions of punishment. You can do something about it." He called Ireland's penal institutions "a disgrace to the nation," and later said "I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character." However, his words fell on stony ground.He wasn't simply ignored. He was taken to pieces by the Irish establishment. The then-Minister for Justice Gerald Boland said in the Dáil that he was "not disposed to take any notice of what ........... said while he was in this country, because his statements were so exaggerated that I did not think people would attach any importance to them."
Vote Christian!
Catholics should vote according to a well founded conscience, sometimes I suspect they form their conscience according to cultural political beliefs.
Real Christians are a bit rare in politics today, it seems that in the current of Westminster sleaze allegations the number of practicing Catholic MPs seems a bit higher than it should be.
We should grateful for small mercies, at least it means we are spared the spectacle we see in the Americas, in Venezuela Chavez is trying to create his own breakaway Catholic Church whilst in the US Obama is trying to isolate the Church's bishops by promoting those Catholics whose consciences are formed by the liberal values of the Democratic Party.
Far be it from me to tell anyone to vote for a particular party in the European elections, but I was interested in this ....
The Christian Peoples Alliance is unashamed to declare its commitment to the principle of respect for life. God values everyone equally and so everyone from conception (fertilisation) to natural death deserves the protection of the law. Our objective is to develop a new caring, pro-life ethic that will embrace an end to all forms of violence, whether gun crime, domestic violence, the abuse of children, the violence of abortionism and embryo experimentation, sexual exploitation of women, people trafficking, slavery or cruelty to animals.Maybe good Catholics should consider voting for the CPA, whoever you vote for, vote Christian! Our bottom line concern should be to stop the massacre of the innocents, the killing of children in the womb.
We will be firm advocates in the Assembly of a UK repeal of the 1967 Abortion Act. Significant new support will be given to maternity units, such as resources for people-focused birth plans and new mid-wifery and nursing posts. A family-support service will be funded to ensure the provision of a 24-hour, 7-day a week helpline for women and couples who are seeking a positive alternative to abortion. We will back higher child benefits and family friendly tax policies, such as transferable allowances.
It is vital that a child's needs are placed at the heart of the adoption process. For this reason, the CPA will ensure that adoption is normally confined to the traditional family unit involving both a mother and a father.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Cardinal Schoenborn: another piece of controversial art
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna personally commissioned Alfred Hrdlicka to produce the sculpture of the Blessed Sr Restituta Kafka who was murdered by the Nazis during Second World War, she was declared a Beata by Pope John Paul II.
It was blessed yesterday by the rector of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
Last year outraged Catholics forced the Cardinal to close a controversial exhibition of homoerotic pictures of the passion and death of the Lord he allowed to be displayed in St Stephen's.
Evangelisation by Theophany
I am fascinated by how evangelisation takes place. Bede seems to indicate that one of significant events in the evangelising of the people of Kent was Augustine's procession of singing monks from Ebbsfleet to what is now called Canterbury, carrying the icon of Christ on high. The story of the conversion of Russia, the ambassadors witnessing the liturgy at 'Agia Sophia, "not knowing whether we on earth in heaven" has parallels. The early Jesuits used boats travelling up the Amazon filled with oboes flutes and violins with a picture of Christ or the Mother of God fixed in the prow to excite wonder in the Amerindians. In the Gospel of John Jesus "awakens faith" in the Jews by signs and wonders, he works a miracle and they are amazed, and their amazement leads to a desire to listen.
A few years ago I had some correspondence with someone who had given a sizeable donation to equip a floating chapel which sailed down the Dnieper stopping of at settlement for a few days or so, they had a procession, gave two or three talks on the faith, celebrated the liturgy baptising, confessing and communicating those who wanted the sacraments, gave a few icons and pamphlets and moved on, returning possibly the following year or even later. The Orthodox would perhaps explain it as Evangelisation by Theophany. It seems to be more or less the model adopted by St Francis Xavier or those recusant priests of penal times. It seems to have been what the Wesleys did, leaving people with a few songs rather than a medal or two.
Nowadays the process of initiation is really supposed to take three years following the cycle of readings from the Lectionary, often this shortened to a mere year. It is supposed to be accompanied by the various Rites of Christian Initiation, Exorcisms, Giving of the Creed, Inscribing of the Names of the Catechumens, Anointings and Scrutinies. I am tempted to follow this liturgical path but then I think of the Ethiopian, who met Philip who explained Isaiah to him baptised him and left.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Archbishop of Lisbon
The Shrine has an interesting piece on the Tiara which refers to the Patriarchate of Lisbon, who was entitled to various Papal ornaments, all scaled down a bit. I remembered seeing these photographs on Far Sight which show some of them in use, the fans, a triregnum (here, in mitre form), a portable throne, was also used, but I can't find a picture. What I find fascinating is the threefold chapter, pictured here Canon Priests and Deacons, reflecting the College Cardinals.
Pope meets Mrs T
Mainstream Christianity
We really know little about him. He is portrayed as converting England to Christianity, he did some of that but his important role was bringing England into communion with Rome, mainstream Christianity. England already contact with Christianity, especially in the west and the north through the Celtic Church.
It is easy for us to forget being a Catholic in communion with Peter is mainstream Christianity. Not only is that evident through sheer dint of numbers, a billion plus Catholics in communion with Peter. It is also pretty obvious from the texts of the Gospels that Peter is the Rock on which the wisest of men Christ built his Church, which would withstand the buffeting of storm and even the Power of Hell until the end of time. It is also obvious from the history of the Church that the centre of communion is the person of the Bishop of Rome.
Any contact with Christ is a good, Augustine knew that there was something better than the mere "good". The "best" for Augustine was communion with Peter, mainstream Christianity.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
An alternative for couples who don't want IVF
Happy St Philip's Day
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Champagne is the preferred drink of Catholics
Canon Joseph Flanagan
Interview with Archbishop Nichols
Dominic Lawson has a typically hostile Times interview but there are one or two interesting bits and pieces.
Adoption agencies
"We have been pushed out unnecessarily. There are 400 adoption agencies in this country and all but 11 – the Catholic ones – would accept same-sex couples. I don't think it was appropriate to push out those 11 – who had a record of placing the most difficult children successfully. It was a disproportionate response [by the government] and the victims are the children, not the church."
What does Nichols think about Blair lecturing the church in this way, so soon after joining?
"I think it was extraordinary. I also think his political instincts, which are very strong, are not a good guide to the teachings of the Catholic Church, and a bit more reflection is needed as to the relationship between political instinct in general – and certainly his – and the nature of the truth that the church tries to put forward . . . Maybe he lacks a bit of experience in Catholic life."
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Catholic Rome (Vocations)
That talented photographer, tour guide and theoloical adviser John Sonnen has produced this nice video of Catholic Rome; pictures of clergy and religious.
I recognise one or two faces.
I know it is so retro in the the UK to say it but don't young men and women -and even older ones- in habits and proper clerical dress give a tremedous sign of hope: "the Church is young!"
Friday, May 22, 2009
Save the Liturgy, Save the World (from Jansenism)
People have suggested that Jansenism lies behind the appalling accounts of dehumanisation and abuse. What type of anthropology lies behind Jansenism? There is a heightened sense of sin, sin which cannot be overcome, but only beaten into semi-containment. There is a division of humanity into the saved and the damned, with the majority being damned. There is a tendency to see the poor, the weak as being damned, or at the very least as being beyond the influence of grace. Victims are damned, abusers are damned. Grace is given so sparingly, by a God who is mean with both love and Grace, and man, he is made in the same niggardly image. God is not merciful and forgiving but full of anger and rage, swift to condemn, waiting to punish. The wounds of the Son are not salvific but condemnatory, both victims and abusers are left without hope, the hell of now is but a foretaste of the hell to come. It is in this image man is created.
One has the vision of Jansenist liturgy celebrate perfunctorily in a damp chapel, poorly furnished with no joy, with no expense, with no understanding, with a mistrust of any movement of the heart. One is left with a vision of liturgy neither touching, nor being touched, by the divine. In the Usus Antiquior low Mass in every sense and in the Usus Recentior functionary anthropocentricity.
The rhythm of the Churches Liturgy, of Feast and Fast, is supposed to give us an insight into God, it is suppose to save a fallen world. It is meant to give us to celebrate what God has made us. In the Liturgy we join with our brothers and sister, the saints, united with God himself but if our theology of Gods has gone awry then so does understanding of man and so does our worship.
The phrase "Save the Liturgy, Save the World" is not a platitude or an empty slogan, the Liturgy forms our understanding of God, of the Church, of ourselves and of our neighbour. The Liturgy has become in the last 40 years reflective of what is deep inside of us, but in the first millennium the liturgy formed those who took part in it, hence in northern Europe monastic liturgists were the great missioners.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
"Today Christians celebrate the feast of the Ascension of the Lord!"
The Installation
Archbishop of Westminster: A guide to the ceremony
Music before Mass:
- Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (J S Bach)
- Christe, aller Welt Trost (J S Bach)
- Grand Dialogue (Louis Marchand)
- Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (J S Bach)
Before the Mass:
- Cathedral chaplains process to the sanctuary to sing Lauds together with the congregation
- Concelebrating priests, permanent deacons and seminarians enter the Cathedral
- Westminster canons leave the sacristy and take their places in the sanctuary
- The chapter sings Terce with the congregation
- The sanctuary procession enters the Cathedral
- Provosts and canons move from the sanctuary to the West Door
Solemn reception of the Archbishop:
- The choir sings "Tu es pastor ovium"
- Archbishop kneels at threshold of Cathedral
- A fanfare is sounded, the Archbishop is greeted by the Provost, who presents him with a crucifix, which he kisses
- The Archbishop sprinkles himself and the chapter with holy water
- Procession passes up the nave to the sanctuary, while the choir sings "Summae Trinitati"
- The Archbishop kneels before the high altar, while the Provost prays for him
Solemn installation of the archbishop:
- Bishop John Arnold reads the Apostolic Letter of authority from the Holy See
- The Provost leads the Archbishop to the throne, places him in it and reads the formula of installation
- Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor presents the Archbishop with the crozier
- The Provost and Canons greet the Archbishop, followed by other representatives of the diocese
- The choir sings "Benedictus Deus"
- The Archbishop of Canterbury greets the Archbishop
- All sing the hymn "All people that on earth do dwell"
- The Provost says the Collect
The Liturgy of the Word:
- First reading: Acts 22:3-16, read by Chris Nichols, sister-in-law of the Archbishop
- Responsorial psalm
- Second reading: Philippians 2:1-11, read by Jennifer Davies, secretary to the Archbishop of Birmingham
- Gospel acclamation
- The Gospel: Luke 10:1-9, read by Deacon Vincent Malone
- The archbishop proceeds to the pulpit to preach the homily
- The Creed is sung by choir and congregation
- The General Intercessions are read by Pamela Singh, member of the diocesan education commission, Edmund Adamus, director of pastoral affairs, Bwalya Kangwa, member of the pastoral board, Mark Nash, of the agency for evangelisation, and Helen O'Brien, director of St Joseph's Pastoral Centre
The Liturgy of the Eucharist:
- The prayer of the gifts
- The preface: "Father, all-powerful and ever-living God"
- The Eucharistic Prayer: "We come to you, Father, with praise and thanksgiving"
- The Communion Rite
- The sign of peace
- The motet, Ave Verum Corpus (Colin Mawby)
- The Communion Hymn, "Soul of My Saviour"
- Communion
- The Postcommunion
- The Hymn of Thanksgiving
- The Apostolic Nuncio, followed by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, addresses the congregation
- Concluding rite
- The hymn "Praise to the Holiest in the Height"
- Archbishop and concelebrating clergy proceed out of the Cathedral
Organ music at the end of Mass:
- Marche Pontificale from Symphonie No 1 Op 13 (Charles-Marie Widor)
Prelude and Fugue in C (J S Bach)
from Catholic Herald site which will be updated during the day
Abuse in Ireland
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Pastoral Musician of the Year
Corpus Christi
An Open Letter to Archbishop Nichols
Tomorrow, by the Grace of God and favour of the Apostolic See, you become the successor of St Augustine and the eleventh Archbishop of Westminster. I join with every Catholic in England and Wales in offering you my best wishes and congratulations.
At this particular time not only the Catholic Church in England and Wales, but Christian's as a whole and our nation is hungry for clear spiritual leadership, you can offer this.
There is a crisis in the Church and nation, I see it as a crisis of Grace. In the Church and the nation there is a loss of a connection with God, we have allowed God to be sidelined, pushed to the edge. Even in the Church we have come to rely on our own efforts rather than His power. This has robbed the Church in England and Wales of a sense of Hope. We have got to the point where most bishops are managing decline, so many priests are expecting not to be replaced, our institutions: adoption societies, care agencies, schools are becoming more and secularised. We need you to tell us that shipwreck awaits us unless we turn to the Lord, and trust in His promises rather than our own efforts. Like the alcoholic in the gutter we need to discover, "the Power beyond ourselves", that power is the Grace of God.
A tag traditional Catholics use is "Save the Liturgy, save the world" is important. The Liturgy is the public expression of the life of the Church. It is the "source and summit of Christian life" the fount from which and to which everything flows. At the centre of the Liturgy is the adoration of God, worshipped with, in and through Jesus Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Here mankind is raised from enmity with God to the position of Sons, here Christ raises us to share in his own Divinity. A mundane liturgy robs us of the sense of Grace, of Divine Power. If we are merely celebrating our own community then we are conscious only of our failure. The Liturgy, properly celebrated gives us a new anthropology, a vision of mankind conjoined to angels and saints in communion with God Himself. If we have a vision of what we have become through the sacraments, in the Church we will become the leaven that the world, and our nation desperately needs.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Prayers for Sri Lanka
Right and Wrong
Monday, May 18, 2009
Three Holy Heirarchs
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Not in my backyard
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Favourite Gift
Do check out Michael's site and blog, and if you want to commission something remember the Australian dollar is very weak against the pound, dollar and euro, so you will get bargain.
Apart from me, other customers are Pope Benedict, Bishop Peter Elliot and Cardinal Pell. Michael's work deserves to be more widely known and appreciated.
Roman Exhibition
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Jubilee, a video
It is also so good to see what the servers were doing, the excellent Dominic Scarbrough had less than an hour to show them what to do, most had never served in the Extraordinary form before.
I am very grateful to everyone who helped make this such a wonderful day, including my marvellous parishioners who organised the reception.
God is good to me!
Jubilee Homily of Fr Sean Fineagan: 'Good Jesu: what will you do with my heart?'
Remake religion? Remake Christianity?
President Obama can count on support for these programs from Tony Blair and his wife Cherie Booth. One of the aims of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, the think tank founded by the former British prime minister, will be that of remaking the major religions, just as his colleague Barack Obama will remake global society. With this purpose, the foundation in question will try to expand the "new rights," using the world religions for this end and adapting these for their new duties. The religions will have to be reduced to the same common denominator, which means stripping them of their identity. This cannot be done without establishing international law as inspired by Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), and charged with approving all of the laws of sovereign nations. This system of law will also have to be imposed on the world religions in such a way that the new "faith" may be the unifying principle of global society. This new "faith," this unifying principle, must allow the advancement of the Millennium Development Goals. These goals include "Promote gender equality and empower women" (number 3) and "Improve maternal health" (number 5). We know very well what these expressions cover and imply. The launching of the Foundation's program has been announced with a campaign against malaria. This is part of goal number 6: "Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases." The announcement was made in such a way that subscribing to this campaign will mean subscribing to the Millennium Development Goals as a whole.
In fact, Tony Blair's project extends and amplifies the United Religions Initiative, which appeared several years ago. It also extends the Global Ethic Declaration, one of the main proponents of which is Hans Küng. This plan cannot be realized except at the price of the sacrifice of religious freedom, of the imposition of a "politically correct" interpretation of the Sacred Scriptiures, and of the sabotage of the natural foundations of law. Machiavelli had recommended that religion be used for political purposes . . .
The former British prime minister's highly propagandized "conversion" to Christianity, as well as his interview with the gay magazine "Attitude" in April of 2009, make Tony Blair's intentions concerning religion even more clear, beginning with the Catholic religion. The Holy Father's statements, especially about condoms, belong to another generation. The fresh "convert" does not hesitate to explain to the pope not only what he must do, but also what he must believe! Is he Catholic? Blair does not believe in the authority of the pope.
So now we are back in the time of Hobbes, if not of Cromwell: it is civil power that defines what one must believe. Religion is emptied of its distinctive content, its doctrine; nothing remains but a residue of morality, as defined by the Leviathan. It is not said that one must deny God, but from now on God has nothing to do with the history of men and their rights: it is a return to Deism. God is replaced by the Leviathan. It is up to this to define, if it wishes, a civil religion. It is up to this to interpret, if and how it wishes, the religious texts. The question of the truth of religion no longer has any relevance. Religious texts, in particular the biblical ones, must be understood in their purely "metaphorical" sense; this is what Hobbes recommends (III, XXXVI). At the most, only the Leviathan can interpret the Scriptures. Religious institutions must also be reformed to adapt them to the changes. Some religious figures must be taken hostage and made to approve the new secularized "faith," that of the "civil partnership."
The rights of man as understood in the realist tradition are here put to the sword. Everything is relative. There are no rights left, except for the ones defined by the Leviathan. As Hobbes writes, "The law of nature and the civil law contain each other and are of equal extent" (I, XXVI, 4). Nothing remains of the truth, except for what the Leviathan says. It alone decides how the change should take place.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Jubilee Comments and "Presidency"
Yesterday was a wondeful day, lots of cards, emails of congratultion, and from many of you lots of nice compliments in the combox, even rabid old priests like me like a bit of "affirmation".
Lots of my parishioners turned up; for many, some of the priests included, it was their first experience of the Traditional Rite.
I was interested in what people had to say, my parishioners are kind people, so they were all complimentary, even the few negative comments were preceeded or followed by something positive:
"It was lovely Father, can't we do it every Sunday..."
"It was lovely Father but I am glad we don't have it every Sunday."
"It was a bit like Glynebourne..., I wanted to clap"
A priest said, "I loved the music but I hated all that bobbing up and down."
"I wept all the way through it, it was like heaven."
"Convinces me how much I hate Latin."
"I liked it but I didn't feel I was participating."
A priest who had never been to a Traditional Rite Mass said, "It was incredible, the silences were pregnant".
"I was the first time I found I was praying at Mass."
"It was so majestic, just so different from Mass in my parish".
A man in his thirties said, "When I was younger it had always been rubbished by priests, and at school, and treated as a joke, thirty five mortal sins before you got your vestments on, a language you can't understand, that sort of stuff but it was wonderful... "
Another young man asked if he could learn to serve it.
For my self, I loved being able to pray during Mass, to be a priest, rather than a "presider". All the stress is on the director of music and the MC. The priest's interaction with the people is strictly controlled, the texts of his private prayer direct him continually to God. From the priest's point of view he is one who prays, who performs the ritual, yes, he celebrates, but I am not sure he "presides". I don't know how we translate this to the Missal of Paul VI, which continually uses the term "President".
After 25 years of priesthood, I am convinced I am called to be a priest, I am equally convinced I have serious difficulty with "Presidency", I want to be the servant of the liturgy, and of Christ, and of his Church, and of his people. I think the term is at odds with the Gospel.
In the Traditional Liturgy, the "bobbing about", I suspect indicates Christ Presides.This video is the beginning of Mass, the sound quality isn't particularly brilliant. The organ pipes are right next to Nick who took the vid, but our schola were half the Church away.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
O Glorious Day
The Lord's descent into the underworld
At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this 'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is abou...
A French newspaper has reported Pope Francis, once Benedict dies, will abrogate Summorum Pontificum and handover Old Rite's celebrat...
I was at the Verona Opera Festival when Summorum Pontificum was published but it wasn't until All Souls Day that I first attempted to s...
In a conversation with our bishop recently, I thought he said that some parishes in the diocese were already using the new ICEL translations...


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Published on September 1, 2015 in the Singapore American Newspaper:
Despite what a number of Westerners think, you don't need Chinese to live comfortably in Singapore. The only language you need to get familiar with is Singlish, a dialect so unique that it has its own separate Wikipedia page (which is well worth a read, especially for the many uses of "can"). Although treated as a mongrel of Mandarin and English, Singlish also includes an array of words from Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese dialects like Hokkien and Cantonese, and even some Tamil. For anyone who hasn't grown up as a bilingual (sometimes trilingual) Singaporean, fluency in Singlish is a near impossibility. But to get you started, here is a beginner's toolkit of crucial vocabulary and phrases.
Ang mo(h)
Originating from the Hokkien word for "red-haired", ang mo is now common slang for "white person". Sometimes considered pejorative, it's nevertheless a widely used term that frequently appears in the media.
Aunty and Uncle
A polite way to address an older man or woman, especially if you don't know their name. It's akin to using "Miss" to get a waitress's attention or "Mister" for a taxi driver.
A stalwart of Singlish, this single word is a ruthlessly efficient combination of an English word and Chinese syntax, and you will hear it everywhere as a confirmation. Often, "Can" is used in place of "Okay" or "Yes."
The question version of the above, "Can?" is often tacked onto the end of a request and can mean "Is that alright?" or "Are you able to…?" For example, "Finish this by tomorrow, can?" (Once in a hawker centre when the beer aunty said 'No more jugs. Can?', I was genuinely confused as to what she was saying until she held up the can of Tiger.)
Vital for those hoping to get a meal at a hawker center, "chope" means to save a seat by placing the cheapest or most useless item you have (usually a packet of tissues) on the table. To remove or ignore someone else's tissues is considered a grave sin indeed.
Hokkien for "afraid to lose", "kiasu" is essentially the anxious, selfish "Me first!" spirit you see in those who edge you out of the way so they can get on the bus before everyone else or in that friend who always has to one-up you.
More assertive than an exclamation point alone, "lah" regularly appears at the end of assertions and declarations. Its tone can range from imperative to impatient to reassuring.
Another of Singlish's many sentence ending particles, "leh" is used to soften a command, request, claim, or complaint that may be brusque otherwise.
The Malaysian word "to eat", "makan" is deployed as a verb or a noun.
The eyelash in the eye of all English grammar purists living in Singapore, "to revert" is frequently used to mean "to return/respond to me". Technically, "to revert" is defined as returning to a former habit or condition, but it most commonly appears in Singlish as a request in business emails. For example, "Can you answer this question? Please revert."
Roti prata
This is a double whammy. The first meaning of this term is a flaky, fluffy, delicious Indian pancake that goes well with curry gravy and is quite popular. Since making the roti prata involves flipping the flat dough back and forth between one's hands, "roti prata" has taken on a second meaning: a person who keeps changing their mind.
Originally a Malay expression, "shiok" conveys a feeling of pure pleasure and happiness. Usually used as an adjective, this word pops up in a lot of advertisements.
Tai chi
Another double meaning. You may know tai chi as the Chinese martial art but because of the slow pushing movements, "tai chi" is also used to describe somebody who constantly pushes work onto others.
Take away
Where we would say "take out", here it is "take away" (or if you're really savvy, "ta pao"). You might not think there's a big difference but asking for take-out will often earn you a confused look. No good if your stomach is grumbling for makan lah!
Wa(h) lau!
A mild exclamation of annoyance, disbelief, exasperation, frustration, surprise, etc. Usually considered one of the more polite exclamations, its literal translation is something like "Oh my gosh!"

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Object type: white dwarf
Number known: 10 in our galaxy
Ten thousand light years away, the burned-out core of a dead star quietly circles a sun-like companion. Though the stellar corpse shows no signs of life, it is a cosmic vampire, biding its time as it slowly sucks gas from its mate.
Decades later, a blinding flash 100,000 times brighter than the sun heralds the undead star's reawakening: it has finally accumulated enough stolen fuel to power nuclear fusion once more. The star shines brightly for a few glorious days before returning to its deathlike slumber for years or decades, until the whole sequence repeats itself.
Spectacular as they are, these resurrections are just the prelude to the final act, when the undead star will go supernova, finally obliterating itself as it outshines our entire galaxy.
That at least is the suggestion of recent measurements of one such sleeper star, also known as a recurrent nova. They support the theory that these novae are the long-sought progenitors of a very interesting kind of exploding star: type 1a supernova.
Nature of darkness
Finding these progenitors would be a boon to the study of dark energy, the mysterious entity thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe. It was type 1a supernovae that led to the identification of the mysterious stuff in the first place, garnering three cosmologists a Nobel prize earlier this year. All type 1a evolve from a type of star called a white dwarf, but pinning down exactly which white dwarfs are supernova precursors could lead to much more precise measurements of dark energy – and even reveal its true nature.
The hunt has been on for decades. Recurrent novae were first discovered in 1913, but it wasn't until the 1970s that they became prime suspects. That was when they were identified as heavy white dwarfs with a mass very close to the supernova "tipping point" of 1.4 times the mass of the sun. When a white dwarf grows heavier than this, it can no longer support its own weight and starts collapsing, triggering nuclear reactions that rip the star to shreds in a type 1a supernova.
Still it has been difficult to prove that recurrent novae get massive enough to make the transition from heavy white dwarf to type 1a explosion. They steal gas from their neighbours, but also shed it during their outbursts, so it wasn't clear whether they gain or lose material overall.
Gain or lose?
To settle this question, Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge analysed measurements of the recurrent nova CI Aquilae from before and after its 2000 eruption.
Heavier pairs of stars orbit each other faster because of their stronger gravity. That means that any mass lost by the white dwarf would lengthen its orbital period.
Schaefer's team found that there was no measurable change in CI Aquilae's 15-hour orbital period after the eruption. Given the accuracy of their observations, this means the white dwarf cannot have lost more than one-millionth of the sun's mass in the event.
As it is estimated to steal more than twice that amount from its companion between eruptions, it must gain mass overall, Schaefer concludes.
Eagle-eyed amateurs
The conclusion is tentative because of possible measurement errors. But fortunately, eagle-eyed amateurs have caught two more of the 10 known recurrent novae in the process of erupting – U Scorpii in January 2010 and T Pyxidis last April.
T Pyxidis was a surprise, but Schaefer had predicted when U Scorpii would rise again, so space telescopes and ground-based observatories were ready to pounce on it. "We plastered that thing with observations – it was awesome," Schaefer says.
The analysis of those observations, along with measurements of orbital periods over the next few years, could help recurrent novae beat rival candidates for the role of true type 1a progenitors.
That would be a breakthrough for the study of dark energy. Type 1a supernova all seem to have the same intrinsic brightness, so their apparent brightness can be used to work out how far away they are. That, in turn, allows us to estimate how fast the universe's expansion is accelerating. However, these so-called "standard candles" do vary slightly from one another, limiting the precision of such measurements.
Knowing the properties of the stars that produce these type 1a explosions could help researchers better understand their variations, allowing more precise estimates of the acceleration of cosmic expansion. These in turn will be crucial to distinguishing between different theories for dark energy's origin.
"You can't get that high accuracy unless you know what the progenitor is," says Schaefer. "We desperately need to know."
Journal reference: the research will be published in a forthcoming edition of The Astrophysical Journal
Read previous Astrophile columns: The sticky star cluster that's mostly black hole, The rebel star that broke the medieval sky, Star exploded? Just another day in Arp 220, Giant star comes with ancient tree rings, Frying pan forms map of dead star's past, The most surreal sunset in the universe, Saturn-lookalike galaxy has a murky past, The impossibly modern star, The diamond as big as a planet.


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PROVENGE® (sipuleucel-T) is an autologous cellular immunotherapy indicated for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castrate-resistant (hormone-refractory) prostate cancer.
Acute Infusion Reactions: Acute infusion reactions (reported within 1 day of infusion) may occur and include nausea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, rigor or chills, respiratory events (dyspnea, hypoxia, and bronchospasm), syncope, hypotension, hypertension, and tachycardia.
Thromboembolic Events: Thromboembolic events, including deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, can occur following infusion of PROVENGE. The clinical significance and causal relationship are uncertain. Most patients had multiple risk factors for these events. PROVENGE should be used with caution in patients with risk factors for thromboembolic events.
Vascular Disorders: Cerebrovascular events (hemorrhagic/ischemic strokes and transient ischemic attacks) and cardiovascular disorders (myocardial infarctions) have been reported following infusion of PROVENGE. The clinical significance and causal relationship are uncertain. Most patients had multiple risk factors for these events.
Handling Precautions: PROVENGE is not tested for transmissible infectious diseases.
Concomitant Chemotherapy or Immunosuppressive Therapy: Chemotherapy or immunosuppressive agents (such as systemic corticosteroids) given concurrently with the leukapheresis procedure or PROVENGE has not been studied. Concurrent use of immune-suppressive agents may alter the efficacy and/or safety of PROVENGE.
Adverse Reactions: The most common adverse reactions reported in clinical trials (≥ 15% of patients receiving PROVENGE) were chills, fatigue, fever, back pain, nausea, joint ache, and headache.


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Chus and Ceballos just had a guest mix on tronik radio with Christian Smith...live set. tribal house, pumping...hasnt left the ipod...love that iberican sound...
Missed Sunday again but haven't played for so long.
Vinyl can be purchased here http://www.discogs.com/Admin-Typesun...elease/4661560
Lush deepness from 98 that still sounds fresh http://www.beatport.com/track/after-...nal-mix/623549
because I am home on a holiday and it fills like sunday :)
another fantastic label...indie dance? sounds like house music to me...
This went down a storm last night so thought i'd share it here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLgrT5qb9Ko
I have the original...I will give this one a spin...thanks!!!
As mondays are sort of like sundays to me, I'll just post this today...nice tune to start off a set with :cool:
watching football digging for music...i will have alot today...plus all the tech house i posted in that thread for those that missed it...


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As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration. In revealing that Saturn's moon Enceladus has many of the ingredients needed for life, the mission has inspired a pivot to the exploration of "ocean worlds" that has been sweeping planetary science over the past decade.
"Cassini has transformed our thinking in so many ways, but especially with regard to surprising places in the solar system where life could potentially gain a foothold," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington. "Congratulations to the entire Cassini team!"
Onward to Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa has been a prime target for future exploration since NASA's Galileo mission, in the late 1990s, found strong evidence for a salty global ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust. But the more recent revelation that a much smaller moon like Enceladus could also have not only liquid water, but also chemical energy that could potentially power biology, was staggering.
Many lessons learned during Cassini's mission are being applied to planning NASA's Europa Clipper mission, planned for launch in the 2020s. Europa Clipper will fly by the icy ocean moon dozens of times to investigate its potential habitability, using an orbital tour design derived from the way Cassini has explored Saturn. The Europa Clipper mission will orbit the giant planet — Jupiter in this case — using gravitational assists from its large moons to maneuver the spacecraft into repeated close encounters with Europa. This is similar to the way Cassini's tour designers used the gravity of Saturn's moon Titan to continually shape their spacecraft's course.
In addition, many engineers and scientists from Cassini are serving on Europa Clipper and helping to develop its science investigations. For example, several members of the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer and Cosmic Dust Analyzer teams are developing extremely sensitive, next-generation versions of their instruments for flight on Europa Clipper. What Cassini has learned about flying through the plume of material spraying from Enceladus will help inform planning for Europa Clipper, should plume activity be confirmed on Europa.
Returning to Saturn
Cassini also performed 127 close flybys of Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan, showing it to be a remarkably complex factory for organic chemicals — a natural laboratory for prebiotic chemistry. The mission investigated the cycling of liquid methane between clouds in its skies and great seas on its surface. By pulling back the veil on Titan, Cassini has ushered in a new era of extraterrestrial oceanography – plumbing the depths of alien seas — and delivered a fascinating example of earthlike processes occurring with chemistry and at temperatures markedly different from our home planet.
In the decades following Cassini, scientists hope to return to the Saturn system to follow up on the mission's many discoveries. Mission concepts under consideration include spacecraft to drift on the methane seas of Titan and fly through the Enceladus plume to collect and analyze samples for signs of biology.
Giant Planet Atmospheres
Atmospheric probes to all four of the outer planets have long been a priority for the science community, and the most recent Planetary Science Decadal Survey continues to support interest in sending such a mission to Saturn. By directly sampling Saturn's upper atmosphere during its last orbits and final plunge, Cassini is laying the groundwork for an eventual Saturn atmosphere probe.
Farther out in the solar system, scientists have long had their eyes set on exploring Uranus and Neptune. So far, each of these worlds has been visited by only one brief spacecraft flyby (Voyager 2, in 1986 and 1989, respectively). Collectively, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giant" planets, because they contain large amounts of materials (like water, ammonia and methane) that form ices in the cold depths of the outer solar system. This makes them fundamentally different from the gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which are almost all hydrogen and helium, and the inner, rocky planets like Earth or Mars. It's not clear exactly how and where the ice giants formed, why their magnetic fields are strangely oriented, and what drives geologic activity on some of their moons. These mysteries make them scientifically important, and this importance is enhanced by the discovery that many planets around other stars appear to be similar to our own ice giants.
A variety of potential mission concepts are discussed in a recently completed study, delivered to NASA in preparation for the next Decadal Survey — including orbiters, flybys and probes that would dive into Uranus' atmosphere to study its composition. Future missions to the ice giants might explore those worlds using an approach similar to Cassini's mission.


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i have made a java program, which is called inside a shell script.
Now the filename is to be supppiled as a command line argument to shell like
./nsdnet.sh ./nsdnet_file.csv
what i want is , this command line name should be interpreted as full path by the java code
like /dialp/Release/bin
and if we write
./nsdnet.sh ../nsdnet_file.csv
, then the filename should get expand to /dialp/Release/nsdnet_file.csv
is this possible?
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A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel |
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, May 03 2017 |
I feel your pain. But please use your brain. On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery. Millions of American parents, myself included, have walked in Kimmel's shoes. We've experienced the terrifying roller coaster of emotions — panic, helplessness, anger, anxiety, relief, grief and unconditional love — that comes with raising chronically ill kids. But Kimmel didn't use his high-profile platform to educate the public about coping with rare diseases. Or to champion the nation's best and brightest pediatric specialists and medical innovators. The Tinseltown celebrity turned his personal plight into a political weapon, which his liberal friends were all too happy to wield. Top Democrats tweeted their praise for Kimmel's advocacy of expanded government health care regulations: "Well said, Jimmy," Barack Obama gushed. "Thanks @jimmykimmel for sharing your story & reminding us what's at stake w/health care," Hillary Clinton effused. The Huffington Post piled on: "Jimmy Kimmel's Humanity Underscores Heartlessness Of GOP's Approach To The Poor." I don't need lectures from Huffington Post and Hollywood elites about having a heart. Neither do the rest of America's parents, whatever their political affiliations, who know what it's like to stay up night after endless night with suffering children, wondering whether they would ever be able to breathe normally again or see the light of the next day. Kimmel doesn't need more maudlin Twitter suck-uppery. He needs a healthy fact-check. "Before 2014," he claimed, "if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition, you were born with a pre-existing condition." This is false. If parents had health insurance, the child would have been covered under the parents' policy whether or not the child had a health problem. Kimmel continued: "And if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition." The term "pre-existing condition" is used to describe uninsured chronically ill people who apply for insurance coverage, not for a child in need of immediate care. Moreover, in the U.S., virtually all hospitals are legally obligated to provide emergency treatment to every patient who urgently requires emergency medical care regardless of the patient's insurance status. This would include a newborn with an urgent heart condition. This requirement does not apply only to patients who enter an emergency room. It applies to all patients who set foot on a hospital's property. Kimmel then dramatically asserted: "If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make." I repeat: It does not matter if you are rich are poor or if you are uninsured. If your baby is in the hospital, he or she will receive emergency care no matter what. "This isn't football," Kimmel implored. "There are no teams. We are the team, it's the United States. Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants." Kimmel implies that opposition to Obamacare-style insurance mandates is both un-American and indecent. Had he been less hysterical, he would have acknowledged that different health care systems have pros and cons — and decent Americans can have legitimate differences of opinion on such matters. In the land of make-believe, it would be wonderful if everyone had free access to the same high-quality care Kimmel and his family did at Cedars-Sinai and Children's Hospital Los Angeles. In the real world, Obamacare plans have severely curtailed the number of doctors and hospitals that customers can use. Command-and-control regulations on guaranteed issue, community rating and pre-existing conditions favored by Kimmel and company are driving up costs for everyone. Limited access to specialists and long waits have become the increasing norm — just like that other model of government-run health care, the Veterans Affairs system, where the despicable practice of "death by queuing" spiked under Obama. Moving toward a nationalized health system might play well with an emotion-driven late-night comedy audience. But sober observers know it would mean undermining America's superior access to cutting-edge diagnosis, innovative treatment, top specialists and surgeons, technology, and drugs. Compassion without clear thinking is just a waste of Kleenex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle Malkin is host of "Michelle Malkin Investigates" on CRTV.com. |
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The Moat
A town suffers two afflictions: a young girl who goes missing, and a curious homeowner who decides to build a moat.
"Diane Miller didn't watch the news. Diane Miller didn't sleep. She shoveled. She filled a wheelbarrow with dirt and carted it into her garage. She used a thick iron bar to pry around large rocks and roll them to the edge of her property. Her skin darkened under the sun during the day and glinted pale-blue in the moonlight. If we opened the window, we could hear her shovel biting into the ground with regular, crisp barks. We watched her until we started to fall asleep, or grew ashamed at our spying, and went back to bed. We always went to sleep before she stopped."


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By Rick Broida
Click to viewWindows Vista's Sidebar gets no respect - and that's a shame. With the right gadgets, the Sidebar can help you get things done, especially if you have enough screen estate to keep it running in the foreground (like on a widescreen monitor).
Granted, a few Sidebar Gadgets offer little more than eye candy designed to wow consumers at Best Buy. But if you know where to look, you can stock your Sidebar with some genuinely useful tools. Let's take a look at the cream of the crop.
App Launcher
Sure, Windows' Quick Launch tool is all well and good, but it can quickly get out of hand if you fill it with more than a handful of programs. App Launcher puts a second handful at close reach. You can drag and drop programs, files, folders and drives to the launcher or add them manually. You can also add Internet Explorer and/or Firefox favorites; click either icon and a fly-out list appears (Quick Launch can't do that).
Ask Windows Live
What's the capital of Nebraska? What's a hypotenuse? Where's Waldo? Ask just about any question you can think of and the Ask Windows Live gadget will serve up answers from Live QnA, MSDN, Windows Live and/or Wikipedia. Even better, the answers appear in a fly-out window, not an attention-stealing web page. It's a smart little bot, too—it even knows the meaning of life.
Callwave Visual Voicemail
Visual voicemail ain't just for Apple's iPhone. You can enjoy the same privileges with the Callwave Visual Voicemail gadget, which brings full voicemail notification and retrieval to the Sidebar (click the thumbnail for a full view). You don't even have to visit the Callwave site; you can sign up for the service straight from the gadget. Once you've configured your phone (an easy process), just watch the gadget for notifications of new messages. For each one it shows you the caller's number and the date, time and duration, and allows you to add the caller to your contact list. This is ideal for those days when you've accidentally forgotten your phone or intentionally turned it off to get some work done.
The ridiculously useful ClipboardHistory lists Clipboard content in chronological order, with the latest entry at the top. Click any historical entry to make it the current one (i.e., ready for pasting again). It would be nice if mousing over an entry revealed more of the contents, or you could scroll down to see more entries, but at least you can tweak the font size and number of characters displayed.
Gmail ReaderMini Outlook Inbox
With the flood of e-mail most people receive daily, it's a wonder anyone gets any work done. You can banish your distraction-packed inbox to the Sidebar with Gmail Reader and Mini Outlook Inbox, which give you at-a-glance previews of new mail without having to stop what you're doing.
The Gmail Reader gadget displays the 20 newest messages in your Gmail account. Mouse over one to see a summary; click it to see the full message in a browser window. Mini Outlook Inbox is a bit more robust, allowing you to create, reply to, delete and forward mail, and to see complete messages in a fly-out window. Best of all, Outlook doesn't even need to be running.
Package Tracker
Many businesses live and die by package delivery. The Package Tracker gadget supports all the major carriers; just paste in a tracking number and give the package a name (e.g. "iPod - Smith") and you can track it from the Sidebar. Mouse over any entry to see a summary of its status. That sure beats logging into, say, the Fedex site or even pasting a tracking number into Google every time you want a delivery update.
Before you head home from the office or leave for your next appointment, take a quick peek at the Live Search Maps-powered Traffic gadget. It shows real-time traffic conditions for your city (major metropolitan areas only, alas). The map itself is dynamic, able to scroll and zoom like a web map. It also includes single-click shortcuts to full-screen traffic views, driving directions and Live Search.
Turn any web widget into a Sidebar gadget
As our own Adam Pash recently reported, the Amnesty Generator—a freeware utility for Windows—can turn any web widget (including those beloved Google Gadgets) into a Sidebar gadget (click the thumbnail for a full view). In other words, if you find a tool somewhere and think, "If only I could have that in my Sidebar!", this makes it possible.
Of course, that begs the question: For sidebar-style productivity, are you better off with, say, Google Desktop or Yahoo Widgets? That's a matter of personal preference, of course, though those products do offer significantly larger gadget libraries. Personally, I find Yahoo's sidebar a bit cumbersome, and I wish I could have Google's without all the "desktop" stuff that comes with it.
Anyway, what would a Vista Sidebar feature be without some time-saving keyboard shortcuts?
Windows key + spacebar - Select Sidebar and bring all gadgets to the front
Windows key + G - Cycle through Sidebar gadgets
Tab - Cycle through Sidebar controls
What's your favorite Sidebar gadget? Share your productivity-boosting wisdom in the comments.
Rick Broida, Lifehacker associate editor, thought the Sidebar was much ado about nothing until he started putting it to good use. His special feature, Alpha Geek, appears every Monday. Subscribe to the Alpha Geek feed to get new installments in your newsreader.


text: Hi everyone! This is my first post. I just bought a 2014 crew cab pro4x. The rockford stereo system sounds like crap. I traded in my pro4x xterra and that system rocked. I think my truck is missing the amp. It sounds like a stock stereo system with no bass at all. Is this how the rf systems sound on all our trucks? Under the passengers seat there is a space that looks like a amp should be there. There is a bracket the size of an amp thats empty. The dealer says all these systems sound like crap, but there is no way it should be this bad for $1500.00. Any ideas? Thanks!


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Oman Airports signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to explore the different opportunities in the context of digital transformation & innovation for Oman Airports within the airport facility. The purpose of the MoU is to set Oman Airports as a hub of technology innovation in the region. the MoU was signed by Dr. Moaman bin Mohammed Al Busaidi, Chief Information Officer on behalf of Oman Airports and Shaikh Saif bin Hilal Al Hosni, Microsoft's GM for Oman & Bahrain.
On the other hand, Dr. Moaman Al Busaidi, Chief Information Officer at Oman Airports, highlighted that this MoU comes as a boost to Oman Airports' efforts as a center of digital- transformation in the region. This comes in parallel with the strategic objectives of the Oman Aviation Group and the overall strategic plans of the Sultanate in order to be as a benchmark in this field within the region. He said: "Signing of this MoU is an interpretation to Oman Airport's vision and a promotion to its role as a leading entity in the digital-transformation to make Oman a regional and international hub in technology.
It is worth mentioning that Oman Airport has applied many new smart technologies in the new Muscat International Airport such as the Airport Robotics, activation of passenger flow management that measures the number of travelers entering the building to achieve a better resource allocation and trialing the biometric technologies (e.g. facial recognition). These additions are accurate measurement tools that will ensure a great passenger experience and operational excellence.
"Digital transformation is a means to compete and stand out, as we are swept along by the Fourth Industrial Revolution," said Sheikh Saif bin Hilal Al Hosni, Country General Manager, Microsoft Bahrain and Oman. "Carefully crafted programmes can allow innovators to engage customers, empower employees, optimise operations and reinvent business models. Oman Airports has a very broad remit, so there is a lot of scope for digitalisation. We are honoured to play our part in bringing the advantages of cloud, mixed-reality, artificial intelligence, blockchain and many other leading-edge technologies to help serve passengers and businesses across all the sultanate's airports."


text: THE PROBLEM OF CONCURRENT TAXATION [The following speech by Patrick Henry was delivered to the Virginia ratifying convention, June 5, 1788.] I never will give up the power of direct taxation but for a scourge. I am willing to give it conditionally; that is, after non-compliance with requisitions. I will do more, sir, and what I hope will convince the most skeptical man that I am a lover of the American Union-that, in case Virginia shall not make punctual payment, the control of our custom-houses, and the whole regulation of trade, shall be given to Congress, and that Virginia shall depend on Congress even for passports, till Virginia shall have paid the last farthing, and furnished the last soldier. Nay, sir, there is another alternative to which I would consent; even that they should strike us out of the Union, and take away from us all federal privileges, till we comply with federal requisitions: but let it depend upon our own pleasure to pay our money in the most easy manner for our people. Were all the states, more terrible than the mother country, to join against us, I hope Virginia could defend herself; but, sir, the dissolution of the Union is most abhorrent to my mind. The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union; and I hope the people of Virginia will endeavor to preserve that union. The increasing population of the Southern States is far greater than that of New England; consequently, in a short time, they will be far more numerous than the people of that country. Consider this, and you will find this state more particularly interested to support American liberty, and not bind our posterity by an improvident relinquishment of our rights. I would give the best security for a punctual compliance with requisitions; but I beseech gentlemen, at all hazards, not to give up this unlimited power of taxation. . . . In this scheme of energetic government, the people will find two sets of taxgatherers-the state and the federal sheriffs. This, it seems to me, will produce such dreadful oppression as the people cannot possibly bear. The federal sheriff may commit what oppression, make what distresses, he pleases, and ruin you with impunity; for how are you to tie his hands? Have you any sufficiently decided means of preventing him from sucking your blood by speculations, commissions, and fees? Thus thousands of your people will be most shamefully robbed: our state sheriffs, those unfeeling blood-suckers, have, under the watchful eye of our legislature, committed the most horrid and barbarous ravages on our people. It has required the most constant vigilance of the legislature to keep them from totally ruining the people; a repeated succession of laws has been made to suppress their iniquitous speculations and cruel extortions; and as often has their nefarious ingenuity devised methods of evading the force of those laws: in the struggle they have generally triumphed over the legislature. It is a fact that lands have been sold for five shillings, which were worth one hundred pounds: if sheriffs, thus immediately under the eye of our state legislature and judiciary, have dared to commit these outrages, what would they not have done if their masters had been at Philadelphia or New York? If they perpetrate the most unwarrantable outrage on your person or property, you cannot get redress on this side of Philadelphia or New York; and how can you get it there? If your domestic avocations could permit you to go thither, there you must appeal to judges sworn to support this Constitution, in opposition to that of any state, and who may also be inclined to favor their own officers. When these harpies are aided by excisemen, who may search, at any time, your houses, and most secret recesses, will the people bear it? If you think so, you differ from me. Where I thought there was a possibility of such mischiefs, I would grant power with a niggardly hand; and here there is a strong probability that these oppressions shall actually happen. I may be told that it is safe to err on that side, because such regulations may be made by Congress as shall restrain these officers, and because laws are made by our representatives, and judged by righteous judges: but, Sir, as these regulations may be made, so they may not; and many reasons there are to induce a belief that they will not, I shall therefore be an infidel on that point till the day of my death.


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Health Behavior and Health Education
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theory, research, and practice
Broad Definitions
Health Education:
Includes instructional activities and other strategies to change individual health behavior, as well as organizational efforts, policy directives, economic supports, environmental activities, mass media, and community-level programs.
Health Behavior:
In the broadest sense, health behavior refers to the actions of individuals, groups, and organizations, as well as their determinants, correlates, and consequences, including social change, policy development and implementation, improved coping skills, and enhanced quality of life (Parkerson and others, 1993).
Settings & Audiences for Health Education
Seven major settings are particularly relevant to contemporary health education:


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Greetings, my name is Noctis Enoch, and I am the founder of REALITY MAGI.
In 2007, I obtained the book "Nostradamus Code: World War III".
The Final Chapter is about "The Great Genius".
The first page says "2006 to 2012".
2006 was "The Year of Acceleration" according to Joseph Prince (Senior Pastor of New Creation Church). Back then, it was indeed such a year for me. I greatly accelerated in my spiritual awareness and understanding of consciousness, reality and the universe.
My Website http://www.MindReality.com was started near the end of 2005.
In October 2010, I posted one of my Opus Magnum Articles on Mind Reality called "Seven Levels of Intelligence and Three Types of Genius":
>>> http://www.mindreality.com/seven-levels-of-intelligence-and-three-types-of-genius
In February 2012, I had the inspiration to start a new website as a means of further sharing my thoughts.
I thought of many domains and I found that the GreatGenius.com was not in use. That was amazing, considering the fact that there was quite a significant amount of searches for the term "Great Genius" (5,400 Global Monthly Searches as stated by Google Keyword Tool) and a number of places that talk about The Great Genius that Nostradamus mentioned.
GreatGenius.com was sold as a premium domain at $1,788.18 USD.
I decided to claim that domain as my own since there are many things described about The Great Genius that seems to reflect myself, and I believe this domain has been reserved by The Universe/God for me to make use of. Hence, the Great Genius website is born on 2012 February 9. This is an Aquarius Website.
How Apt!
I decided to write this first post on the website, and to include information from other websites as well. Here's some that I found:
[Nostradamus describes the coming of a great scientific genius that will help rebuild human society. From CENTURY IV-31: "This man...will be one of the highest, most developed geniuses ever to appear in our present history of man. He...made the decision to use his genius to help rather than to hurt mankind...One of the things he envisions...is self-contained, self-supporting space stations...It was very easy for him to spot this man along the nexus of time paths because he creates such a large ultimate effect...This man is one of the major forces who will help the earth recover from the scars of war."
This great genius will be influential in pointing out the mistaken premises that today's science has built itself on. His ability to perceive scientific truths will cause major breakthroughs in our technological capabilities. From CENTURY VII-14: "[He will] make clear the connections between the physical universe and the metaphysical universe as dealt with by religions." Because of these great advances, Nostradamus describes a time when a majority of people will be aware of higher powers and energies: "It will make every person a philosopher." What kind of time frame are we looking at here? Nostradamus reported that this great genius will show up in the mid-twenty-first century.]
- http://homestar.org/bryannan/nostro.html
[Basically 'The Great Genius' is an individual who is supposed to become known in the "Age of Aquarius" or 2012 and after for those who aren't familiar with the astrological terms. He was predicted by the prophet Nostradamus to be a regular human being with great abilities (a next stage in evolution?) that will drastically change mankind for the better and lead to a "golden age". Among his (I am just using the gender term 'his' because it is grammatically correct) crowning achievements are 'free energy", unification of religion and science, a deeper understanding of medicine, robotics, and a quantum leap in the understanding of consciousness, reality, and the Universe.]
- http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread454242/pg1
[Seth is a 'disincarnate being' (an entity of consciousness from another dimension, not presently incarnate in human form). His teachings are 'channeled' via a psychic called Jane Roberts (see "Seth Speaks' by Jane Roberts, published by Bantam).
Seth's take on the Aquarian Age is that there will be a 'second coming' of Christ, though Seth intriguingly describes Christ as an 'entity' who has also taken other roles at different times. Two characters will pave the way for him, one who has already been born in India, and another, a black man, who will do his main work in Indonesia.
The Seth material is fascinating – it offers a 'new age' slant on the original bible stories, and describes the coming of an age where our psychic abilities will enable us to make a great leap forward in terms of our relationships with each other, the planet, and our personal capabilities. Our time boundaries will dissolve so that we will be conscious of not only our own past lives, but also those of other people too, such that we will not feel so isolated and will come to understand that 'we are all one'. This will cause a great advancement in the quality of our relationships with one another.
Another 'great genius' is augured in the Seth prophecies (similar to the Nostradamus and Incan prophecies). This character will pull together the knowledge of science and spirituality in amazing ways. What psychics are now capable of will leap forward massively as the real workings of the universe and how to manifest within it become fully and deeply understood.]
- http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/articles/spiritual/2001/aquarians2.html
This is what is found in "The Nostradamus Code"
Centurie VII, Quatrain 14 – The Great Genius
"The Great Genius will help unify science and religion and bring about the enlightenment and peace of the Age of Aquarius foretold by prophets."
Centurie III, Quatrain 2 – The Great Genius discovers the science of miracles
"The great genius will realize the magic of alchemy though his discoveries and inventions. The new philosophy engendered by these discoveries will encourage the development of mental powers. People will be able to manipulate the basic forces of the universe in a way that will seem utterly fantastic to those not involved with the occult. People in the occult and psychic realms currently deal with these forces without understanding, but in the future understanding will be present, sharpening the efficacy of the art."
"The Great Genius will also unify religion and science and explain ancient documents, making clear the metaphysical connections between the universe and spirituality." (Centurie VII, Quatrain 14)
All of this is a fascinating discovery! I deal with Integration of All things to do with the Mind and Reality, which is basically everything that is to be known about the Universe, Consciousness and Reality. Unified Knowledge is the Key to complete awareness, and totality of knowing.
Henceforth, I declare this to be the start of the reign of Genius. Perhaps "The Great Genius" might be an individual. Or perhaps it is an Archetype and there may be more than one person who can be part of "The Great Genius" gestalt consciousness.
Mind Reality is for the purpose of elevating The Genius (Genie-In-Us). After all, who we really are, is Genius God Creators of Our Reality.