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in the Netherlands. It emerged from the 'Royal Academy for
the education of civilian engineers for serving both the nation
and the industry, which was founded in Delft on 8 January 1842 by
King William II. TU Delft provides top-level technical and scientific
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): Education Minister in the West Bengal government, Partha Chatterjee, on Friday received a notice from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the Jago Bangla case.
The investigating agency sent the notice to Chatterjee asking him to appear before it.
Jago Bangla is the Trinamool Congress' (TMC) official newspaper which serves as its mouthpiece.
Earlier on August 9, the newspaper's publisher and TMC MP Derek O' Brien had appeared before the CBI after he received a notice from the agency on July 26.
Apart from the two, its Editor Subrata Bakshi was also summoned by CBI more than a month ago to seek clarifications.
The probe agency had conducted searches at 11 different places in West Bengal, Bihar, Tripura, and Delhi as part of its ongoing probe into a chit fund case.
The searches were carried out in the district of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, Patna, and Agartala besides Delhi. During the searches, CBI claimed to have seized incriminating documents. (ANI)

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"Intelligent Design: (post #43929)
I haven't been around much lately and it's, sadly, likely to stay that way.
This morning I read the feature article in this week's Time or was it Newsweek talking about the "debate" about teaching "Intelligent Design" alongside evolution in American classrooms. The President of the United States recently expressed support for the teaching of this religion-masquerading-as-science!
Clearly my values are significantly different than many, many other Americans'. I can hardly believe that people are talking about such utter bullsh1t in the 21st century. No wonder our high school students compare so unfavorably with those from other countries.
Discuss, please.
Without coffee, chocolate, and beer, in that order, life as we know it would not be possible
Great way to get a state religion in by the back door isn't it?
Great way to get a state religion in by the back door isn't it?
That does appear to be the goal, doesn't it?
Without coffee, chocolate, and beer, in that order, life as we know it would not be possible
Oh, cut it out. Get real. Not even Christians want a State Religion. That's a stupid thing to say.
Vedi, Vici, Velcro I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Jean, people such as you, who I am assuming are true committed Christians, may not want a state religion. There are others who will tell you we are "a Christian country" founded on "Christian principles" and our government, our schools, and our courts should recognize that. If that isn't trying to come up with a state religion, what is it?
I have to wonder what our government will do if the democratically elected government in Iraq implements a constitution which is religious-based, one which reflects fundamentalist Muslim values, one which relegates women to a second-class status and outlaws the practice of other religions, such as Christianity? Is this what they started a war for?
Not One More Day! Not One More Dime! Not One More Life! Not One More Lie!
That certainly is the way it is in my county. Christian, through and through (pay no attention to the Muslim, Hindus and other assorted religions, please. They don't count). I mean, the City Commision in Tampa voted to have no support, observance or other positivity towards Gay Awareness month. Because they should all be shoved back into the closet, those filthy sinners.
Ugh. It's so bad, when they sent home a form from Ellie's classroom asking what holidays she celebrated, I didn't put anything. No need to have her singled out as different.
I would just like to know exactly where in the Bible it assigns a point value to specific sins. Is being gay say, worse than eating an unclean meat?
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. ~ George Burns
Save the Earth! It's the only planet with wine and chocolate.
It's so bad, when they sent home a form from Ellie's classroom asking what holidays she celebrated,
They WHHHHAAAAATTTTTT?!?!?!?! I hope you were at least tempted to make up a bunch of really weird, off-the-wall stuff?
That's just a thinly disguised way of asking your family's religion, or if you have a religion.
H*ll, they don't even ask questions like that at Gillen's Catholic school. (Of course there IS a certain presumption--the school admits students of all faiths or no faith but says they will be required to participate in Masses and such, but I don't mind that because it's out in the open and right up front--but nobody knows who celebrates Halloween/Samhain, Veteran's Day, St. Patrick's Day, National Gingerbread Week and so forth.)
I can't BELIEVE they did that!
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
-- Washington Irving
Yeah, I was a bit taken aback. It was on a "getting to know your student" questionnaire, so I'm thinking it was really quite innocent. We have a large Muslim and Hindu population in our area, and I'm sure the teacher was just trying to make sure she gets everyone's religion included in the classroom celebrations or something. I teach Ellie our holidays at home, and I teach her that most of them are celebrated by the mainstream under a different name, anyway. Most of the kids in our group think that's really neat. But being pagan in the Bible Belt isn't always fun.
It wasn't that long ago that some friends of mine were getting shot at, in their own backyard, for chanting and dancing around a fire. Ridiculous.
When my parenting group gets together (bunch of lazy pagans that we are, lol), we sort of have to "hide" what we are doing. No public rituals. It's just too risky. Sad.
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. ~ George Burns
Save the Earth! It's the only planet with wine and chocolate.
We need more pagans (or at least more skeptics) in the Bible Belt. It's a big job but thank god somebody is willing to do it.
Cave obdurationem cordis
We need more pagans (or at least more skeptics) in the Bible Belt.
Or maybe just more people who grasp the concept of separation of State and Religion. Wouldn't hurt to have a few more people who know how to mind their own business, too.
Agreed. Also people who grasp the fact that science is about disproving hypotheses, not proving them.
But I'd still love to write a book titled "Pagan in a Red State"
Cave obdurationem cordis
I would like to point out that these are STATES that are considering these additions to the curriculum. It has nothing to do with the federal government. It is, unfortunately, reaching a bit of a ground swell.
We have a large Muslim and Hindu population in our area, and I'm sure the teacher was just trying to make sure she gets everyone's religion included in the classroom celebrations or something.
I agree with you. There is nothing sinister about this. There are holidays like Kwanza and JuneTeenth that are celebrated here.
jillsiffer: I can beleive they sent home a form like that! School take so much heat from parents who don't want their little darlings to celebrate things like birthdays and holidays (or salute the flag!), who think that halloween is a holiday to celebrate the devil, etc. that they have to poll parents so they can give the classroom teacher a heads up! The parents will go so far as to claim that the whole class should not be allowed to celebrate Valentine's Day because Valentine was a christian saint.
One of our local high schools was embroiled in a lawsuit because it had a generic prayer offered at the graduation ceremony. This offended greatly someone who thought the prayer excluded her daughter.
Is it nuts out there or what??
I truly believe there's a cadre of people out there looking for something to b*tch about.
My son's Catholic school gleefully celebrates Halloween with full costuming every year, excluding ONLY devil costumes (kind of a natural adversary thing there, I think). But they're full of witches and bats and vampires and it's GREAT fun and nobody in the entire parish community is the least bit confused about "worshipping the devil" or any of that nonsense.
But my hateful, vicious, spiteful, backstabbing neighbor--the one whose license plate reads "Speak for Christ"--has a FIT about my Halloween lights and outdoor decorations. She's told EVERYBODY up and down the street that I'm beyond all hope of redemption.
Wait til she sees THIS year's graveyard scene!
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
-- Washington Irving
Jill: Both the styrofoam used in packing big-box items and the foam-rubber padding used to make cushions make really great headstones! Surgical gloves filled with popcorn look like skeletal hands when backlit.
One of my highest achievments as homeroom Mother and Halloween planner was the year I took a head of cauliflower and coated it with red jello, put it in a feely box (a closed box with just enough room to stick your hand in) and told the kids it was "A Brain". They were totally grossed out and only came back two or three times :) I love the make believe that halloween encourages!
I went to Catholic school too, waaaay back in the day when Real Nuns taught. The highlight of our night used to be to go to the convent and show off our costumes. Especially the year my best friends older brother dressed up as a nun.
LOVE the brain idea.
Last year two eighth-grade boys at G's Catholic school wore dark, pleated, "dress" slacks, short-sleeved white shirts, ties, and really sturdy Oxford shoes. They made little oval nametags and called each other "Elder" all day. Needless to say, they got hauled in and lectured about making fun of other people's religions, but I thought their costumes were very clever and very funny.
I just hope some Mormon kid somewhere dressed in an old-fashioned nun's habit on the same day!
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
-- Washington Irving
Oh, I think the elders should have gone from classroom to classroom, knocking on doors and asking if the occupants had been saved!
Actually, they were lucky to get off with a stern warning. This parish is heavily involved with a TON of other churches in town and places ENORMOUS emphasis on teaching kids that "our truth" is not necessarily "THE truth" or "the ONLY truth." I like it--for us and for now, being Catholic is absolutely the right thing--but I really, REALLY like the way the leadership stresses that the Catholic church doesn't "own" the only path.
But it WOULD have been great for the "elders" to go tracting, especially around back at the convent!
And I STILL hope some Mormon kid does a Pope costume, or a nun or something.
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
-- Washington Irving
Also Intestines: a combination of different pasta shapes, heavy on the spaghetti. Cook, cool, oil (to keep it from clumping) and add red grapes or cherry tomatoes. Put in bowl in feely box labeled "Intestines". The grapes and cherrys stain fingers a nice blood red when squeezed!
Do you take donations? -- I 'd pay to help you set up a scene that would raise the hairs on her neck and pop her eyeballs.
Cave obdurationem cordis
Hee, hee . . . well, I certainly take ideas!
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
-- Washington Irving
Hi, fellow homeschooler! I homeschool because my eldest son would never fit in a school setting, either academically or socially (he's an eight year old nerdly absent-minded professor). Oddly enough, my extremely social 6 year old (who I thought would be fine in school) turned out to have a very strong independent streak and likes to learn stuff on his own at his own insistence, although he does allow Mama to read him history (as long as I keep it heavy on the literature and folktales) and give him math projects and problems. Otherwise, life gets in the way of too much formal homeschooling, with all the field trips, parkdays and groups in which we participate (plus a new baby <g>).
Welcome to CT!
You know, I think it would be a fascinating study for an Alzheimer's researcher to study home school mothers (and dads). There is the study of the nuns who do not seem to AD prone and their "claim" is that they keep their minds very active. And everyone seems to agree that there is such good to come from "mind exercise". When you talk about "readding history keeping it heavy, etc." just cries out to me--your mind (also) is heavy at work. And my hat is off to you--and to school teachers. It is a calling.
My hat is off to anyone who believes in educating children, whether their own or someone else's. ITA about the parents who seem to find a cell phone conversation more interesting than their own child. Everyone should treasure the time they have with the little ones. Believe me, it is over long before you're ready.
Not One More Day! Not One More Dime! Not One More Life! Not One More Lie!
Gretchen: Interesting idea about AD and nuns! As an educator, it has amazed me how prevalent AD is in the teaching profession. I have heard everything from chalk dust causing AD to AD caused by compromised immune systems due to overexposure to germy children.
Could it be that nuns don't get AD because they don't have husbands and kids to take care of, therefore they aren't overworked and exhausted? Just a theory ;)
(I went to Catholic School in the '60s, before AD became well known. We had quite a few retired nuns who would substitute for classroom nuns. They were walking textbooks for AD!)
PLEASE. Don't perpetuate really bad ideas about AD. The truth IS if you live long enough, you will get Alzheimer's.
The nun's result lead to further research about using your faculties. I can't quote it here, but it really is a case of "use it or lose it" ,
Your statement about "before Alzheimer's Disease was well known" is the old thing about "senility". AD has always been with us--it has just always been called "senility".
AD is not caused by anything--or as far as is known. It has a genetic carrier. I don't want to go further but IF you live LONG enough you WILL get AD. Therefore we should all be aware of the needs of long term care for us or others.
The truth IS if you live long enough, you will get Alzheimer's.
Amen! I can only add to that that Alzheimer's might be the single cruelest disease we know. I've seen it from a few different perspectives, and can say from my observations that this is the most appallingly democratic of all diseases. As far as I know, there are no predictors.
"...very little has ever been accomplished by complacent people." Billmon
Yes, there are genetic markers that have been identified. Work was done at Duke.
Thank you for your kind words, Gretchen, I appreciate it. I am definitely exercising my mind learning my history all over again, not to mention researching all the topics and subjects I (too ambitiously, maybe) try to cover, especially since I don't use a curriculum (or a school in a box) but try to tweak everything to suit my boys.
My hat is off to all the teachers out there too; while some homeschoolers are very anti-school, I believe formal schooling suits some kids very well. I just wish our teachers - especially here in California - were given the freedom to teach not to "the test" but rather to pique their student's passion for learning.
Kris...Holding a sick (not too bad), cranky, but thankfully sleepy baby all day today; lots of computer work getting done!
Thank you for the nice welcome -- looks like we have quite a bit in common, homeschooling, cooking and I also love knitting, although I am a rank beginner in the latter. I have loved homeschooling -- as much for myself as for the kids -- I learned a ton along the way and have developed a passion for history, an actual understanding of how planes manage to stay in the air and how boats float and I now "get" and like algebra -- something that would have floored my 9th grade teacher. Plus I got to learn a dead language. And my daughter is now on grade level with all her work. All-in-all, a pretty good package deal.
By the way -- your older son sounds like my nephew -- and those kinds of kids turn into very interesting adults!
Have you tried D'Aulaires version of the Greek myths with your boys? -- my daughters just fell in love with them, wonderful illustrations -- we read them after dinner every night until we finished the entire book, then moved on to The Children's Homer (Padraic Colum's version) -- your sons might just love them. Anyway -- enough unsolicited suggestions on my part.
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Noises Off … Slamming doors! Sardines!
The Quebec Art Company has outdone itself again! Last weekend's production of Michael Frayn's frantic Noises Off in the auditorium of CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence was as hilarious as it was breath-taking to watch.
This is a play within a play, and it required a set that showed both "onstage" and "offstage." The talented cast of nine actors performed well-choreographed, frenzied action on the huge revolving set that itself was a star of the show. Members of the cast entered and exited with impeccable timing via a total of eight doors, a window, and staircases on both the front and back of the two-storey structure. The action was so frenzied that, as one of the cast members said, there was no room for ad-libbing or improvising.
Playwright Michael Frayn said he got the inspiration for Noises Off during the performance of one of his plays in London. "One night I was watching from the wings, seeing the actors dashing between the different doors backstage. It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind."
This three-act play depicts a mediocre theatre company attempting to stage a play called Nothing On. Through it all, tensions fray, passions flare, lines and trousers are dropped and plates of sardines appear and disappear but are never eaten.
From the start, it was a challenge (but such fun!) to keep all the players straight. For example, Sharon MacLeod plays the role of Dotty Otley (a middle-aged television star who is not only the top-billed star of Nothing On but also one of the play's principal investors) who is playing the role of the housekeeper, Mrs. Clackett. MacLeod is fearless, taking on a soi-disant Cockney accent, wrangling a telephone, and keeping track (not) of various plates of sardines. She sports her housekeeper's garb with an aplomb that recalls the great comedian Carol Burnett.
Julian Dawson, as Nothing On's director Lloyd Dallas, is a temperamental, exacting and sarcastic seducer of young women. To add to the confusion, he also stands in for another character near the end of Nothing On.
Michael Bourguignon, as Garry Lejeune, the lead in Nothing On, has wonderful comic timing and the courage to take a deliberate tumble down the stairs at one point. He is a delight to watch as he smoothly spirits his girlfriend in and out of bedrooms, closets and W.C.s, or in a jealous rage chases actors around with a fire axe when the play (within the play) inevitably begins to fall apart.
Director Cheryl Rimmer, the actors and the entire production crew did a fantastic job. There were too many names on the program to mention them all here, but from set design and construction to costumes, make-up and hair to "master sardine maker," they all brought this endearing British farce to life for appreciative audiences each night.
I laughed from beginning to end. Noises Off, Nothing On, everything funny. I can't wait to see what they'll do next! Oh, yes, that will be Fiddler on the Roof at the end of November!
The Quebec Art Company, founded in 1981, is the longest-running English community theatre company in Quebec City. To find out more, or to be a part of an upcoming show, visit quebecartcompany.com.
Sharon MacLeod (as Dotty Otley playing Mrs. Clackett) and Michael Bourguignon (as Garry Lejeune playing Roger Tramplemain) have a melt-down together as she discovers the telephone receiver is missing and he notices that his sardines have again mysteriously disappeared.
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- Metabolic changes of amino acids in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and their dependence on the severity of morphological changes in the brain according to neurosonography
Metabolic changes of amino acids in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and their dependence on the severity of morphological changes in the brain according to neurosonography
PERINATOLOGIYA I PEDIATRIYA. 2017.2(70):102-107; doi 10.15574/PP.2017.70.102
Yanovskaya G. O., Grechanina О. Ya., Grechanina Yu. B., Zdybskaya О. P.
Kharkov National Medical University, Ukraine
Purpose — to study changes in blood amino acid levels in hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, depending on the severity of morphological changes in the brain.
Materials and methods. A total of 60 newborns in the acute period of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and 17 relatively healthy newborns were examined; a study of blood free amino acids, neurosonography were performed.
Results. In neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, the levels of glutamate, glycine, whose participation in the pathogenesis of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy has been proven, as well as methionine and amino acid, which participate in energy metabolism and maintain a constant blood glucose level: alanine, valine, threonine, leucine, were more often significantly increased. Reduced levels were more often of tryptophan and tyrosine, which can be a substrate for the synthesis of neurotransmitters. The dependence of changes in amino acids on the severity of morphological changes in the brain was revealed: in periventricular ischemia of a mild degree, the levels of threonine, isoleucine and valine more often increased; probably, this is the result of their participation in the energy metabolism and gluconeogenesis, and demonstrates the work of compensatory mechanisms in response to hypoxia. In patients with severe periventricular ischemia, the levels of tyrosine, tryptophan, threonine, isoleucine, and histidine significantly more often decreased, which may be the result of "depletion" of energy and neurotransmitter metabolism, and/or increased need.
Conclusions. Our data confirms the active participation of amino acids in pathogenesis and mechanisms of compensation for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. The amino acids involved in the processes of neurotransmission and energy metabolism were most often changed. The revealed changes in the amino acids in the case of a severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy can indicate the depletion of these processes.
Key words: hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, amino acids, neurosonography.
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San Francisco's Leather Walk is one of the most diverse marches in the city and mixes a party atmosphere with an important charity raising event, while promoting the leather community and all its attractions.
The annual Leather Walk takes place on every year in September. On-site registration and check in begins at 10:00am at 440 Castro. Each marcher received a collectable Leather Walk pin. While you're waiting for the action to get started, grab some breakfast at The Cove on Castro, San Francisco's favourite local diner.
Entertainment starts at 11:30am at Jane Warner Plaza. The walk itself plans to start moving at 12:00pm from the front of Castro Theatre. The walk features performances by some of San Francisco's most amazing vocal and drag talent. The Leather Walk will include the following stops stops:
Stop 1: SF Oasis
Stop 2: Powerhouse
Stop 3: Mr-S-Leather
Stop 5: The Lone Star Saloon
Stop 6: SF Eagle Final Stop- Flag Raising and Beer Bust
Folsom Street Events presents Leather Walk as the official kick-off for San Francisco's Leather Week which culminates one week later at the Folsom Street Fair. People walk together to celebrate leather, kink, family and community — all while raising funds for three great agencies.
Each year, hundreds of Leather Walkers take over Market Street and march from the Castro to SoMa. The route includes stops at some of San Francisco's favourite watering holes, ending with the raising of the Leather Pride Flag at the SF Eagle. Each host venue will showcase some amazing entertainment.
Leather Walk was founded in 1992 by Art Tomaszewski, former AEF Board President, Bare Chest Calendar Man and former Mr. Headquarters Leather.
Art was inspired to start an event that would raise visibility, comradery and funds for AEF. In 2001, Sandy 'Mama' Reinhardt, a tireless community fundraiser and founding advisor at BCEF, took over event production of Leather Walk. Each year, Mama and Mama's Family hold Leather Walk fundraisers across the country. Today, Leather Walk raises vital funds for Folsom Street Events and Positive Resource Center.
The Leather community in San Francisco is quite diverse. The city has a the Leather and LGBTQ District in part of the city's South of Market neighbourhood.
The neighbourhood remains home to gay and kink bars and the popular Folsom Street Fair, which draws thousands of people every year to celebrate leather sexuality.
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How Autodiscover works in Exchange On-Premise?
If a company has their messaging infrastructure in On-Premise alone, this is how the Autodiscover works for Exchange Online Mailbox
- Once the user launches the outlook and enter the credential, Outlook will query AD for SCP record to get the Autodiscover Service information.
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Below the Test E-Mail Autoconfiguration result that explains the above behaviour
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Hybrid Exchange environment is nothing but a customer having few mailboxes in On-Premise Exchange and few in Office 365 (Exchange Online). Though both the exchange infrastructure are different, Hybrid Configuration Wizard make those 2 environments coupled together and function as a single environment.
Below the details on how Autodiscover works for a user mailbox in Office 365 for Hybrid environment user.
In above illustration, company user dhanya.com as their SMTP address space and for the mailboxes in Office 365, On-Premise will have a remote mailbox account with the target address as dhanyaonline.mail.onmicrosoft.com as the target address.
- Once the user launches the outlook and enter the credential, Outlook will query AD for SCP record to get the Autodiscover Service information.
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- Outlook will try to get the Autodiscover information for dhanyaonline.mail.onmicrosoft.com by dns query to internet. Autodiscover.dhanyaonline.mail.onmicrosoft.com will have a CNAME record that points to Exchange Online Autodiscover record
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Below the Test E-Mail Autoconfiguration result that explains the above behaviour which clearly shows the above explanation
We see lot of information on how the Autodiscover works for Exchange Online, Exchange On-Premise and Hybrid Exchange environment with explanations. I hope this is informative to you. Leave your comments if any additional information required.


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A reflection from the readings of the Catholic Church on 2/2/2018
Originally published on ACatholic.org
Sometimes it's hard for me to wrap my head around the Holy Trinity, after all, how to you describe something that is a mystery? Today's readings reveal to us a bit of the power found in the Second Person of the Holy Trinity – Jesus Christ. Today's Old Testament reading told the people that their Lord will come and offer continual refining, purifying, and healing. Our Psalm praises our incoming King of Glory proclaiming his Lordship and greatness. Our second reading reveals that our merciful Lord Jesus Christ shared in human blood and flesh so that he could also share (and carry) our burdens. Then of course our Gospel reading speaks to the fact that Jesus is indeed a "light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel." In a nut shell, it is through Jesus Christ, and only through him, that we enter into the fullness of love God promises us.
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I have taken this semester off to prepare for my Concluding Project at Saint Meinrad – a thirty page research paper that is tentatively titled "Entering Into God's Divine Love – A Mystical Pathway Into Perfect Healing". I have been spending much of my time this semester consumed in some of the great thought of our Church mystics – historical and modern alike. My goal is to develop a deeper understanding of God's love and mercy so that I can offer insight to those who seek healing from their brokenness. Much of my recent study has been around the Holy Trinity and given today's readings I thought I would share with you what I have taken in. In this reflection I have used thought and excerpts from Fr. Richard Rohr's book: The Divine Dance | The Trinity and Your Transformation. You might want to pick up a copy for yourself.
God – Three Persons
Fr. Rohr said something that really struck me in this recent book of his. "Don't start with the One and make it into Three, but start with the Three and see that this is the deepest nature of the One." (43). I had always looked at God as One who somehow, mysteriously, became Three. This certainly kept within monotheism (one God). I saw each person of the Trinity as three separate beings who had different roles in our salvation, yet somehow they were still One. The Father offered his perpetual love, the Son was (is) my friend, and the Holy Spirit, well, ehhhh, my human heart and mind didn't really grasp who the Third person of the Trinity was. However, I trusted what the Church has told us is true – the Holy Spirit is the Third person of the Holy Trinity.
So I pondered, what does it look like to start with Three and then see the deepest nature of the One? The deepest nature of God is love, relational love. What the Three Persons share is perpetual and perfect love. Power is found within this love – all the power we could ever need.
God the Father
We hear that God is love, and this is all well and good. However, do we really get what this means? So often our image of God is clouded with images of his "wrath" and "anger". We even sometimes believe we are unforgivable. So how can we really understand God's love if our view is tainted with these images and beliefs? No wonder people look for respite outside of Christianity.
However, through my study of our mystics my heart has been reassured of God's love. Our Church mystics, including the fourth century Cappadocian mystics, see it as theologically impossible for there to be wrath, anger, and unforgiveness in God – God is love and he cannot hold himself back from us – not even our worst sin can cause God to not love us. How reassuring! God the Father is the One who continually loves, creates, and brings all goodness into being.
God the Son
The Son, the One who is both fully divine and fully human is the one I found so easy to relate to, after all, he really gets me! How about you? However, looking at him through his relationship in the Holy Trinity we see that Christ, the Second Person, is the one who all things came into being – including you and I. All of creation; every person, animal, plant, river, star, and planet comes into being through Christ. He is in all that we are and God, the creator, creates through him in his great love. God, who is love, creates through Christ and together they share in this love of creation.
God the Holy Spirit
Let me use a little story to describe the Holy Spirit. When I was a young mother I remember adoring my children as they slept – their sleeping faces captivated me and I was consumed with maternal love for them. I loved everything about those moments. Needing to share this joy with another I would go to my husband so we could adore them together. I remember the two of us standing at their bedroom door, our hearts filling with bliss. The space between us became filled with this bliss as well. The best I can describe the Holy Spirit is this type of bliss. It is the love that God the Father and God the Son share when they look at their creation. The Holy Spirit is the loving bliss in and all around them.
"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always," – John 14:16
Like a loving mother, Christ went to the Father and asked him to bring forth love and bliss for their creation. Something we need for our survival. This love and bliss, the Holy Spirit, will eternally be found between the Father and the Son – and in all of creation.
The Holy Trinity
I hope this helps you a little in your understanding of the Holy Trinity. I would love to elaborate more; however, I better call it quits here! Sometimes I can be long winded…
"For God to be good, God can be one. For God to be loving, God has to be two… But for God to "share excellent joy" and "delight"… God has to be three, because supreme happiness is when two persons share their common delight in a third something – together." (98)
Lectio Divina
I invite you to fall into a deeper relationship with The Holy Trinity by meditating on the 1 Corinthians 8:6 and John 14:16-17. You may want to do this through Lectio Divina. Here is a page on my website where I share how I use this meditation: Lectio Divina
yet for us there is
one God, the Father,
from whom all things are and for whom we exist,
and one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom all things are and through whom we exist. – 1 Corinthians 8:6 (NABRE)
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you. – John 14:16-17 (NABRE)
Our Prayer Community
A few weeks ago our little prayer community was born. In this space we share our pain and we offer prayers for another. Perhaps you would like to practice Lectio Divina on the above mentioned scripture, or a favorite scripture of yours, for our little prayer community. This is what I am going to do for us this week.
If you would like to add your prayer request so that we can all pray for you please do so below. If you would like to privately email me your prayer request I invite you to do so.
God bless all of you. See you next week Friday – Carolyn
God the Father – continue to create goodness in us.
God the Son – hold us in your heart and remain in ours.
God the Holy Spirit – shower us with divine love.
Today's Readings: Malachi 3:1-4; Responsorial Psalm 24:7, 8, 9, 10; Second Reading Hebrews 2:14-18; Alleluia Luke 2:32; Gospel Luke 2:22-40 or 2:22-32
Rohr, Richard. 2016. The Divine Dance The Trinity and Your Transformation. New Kensington: Whitaker House.


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Would be fun if I could say "Hello, my name is Sherlock Holmes "though.
From now on me and my team would team will keep you updated with applications, deadlines, details, venue, coffee breaks, moderated caucus, unmoderated caucus, What not!!
I wouldn't deny the fact that I actually feel cool saying that I will be serving as Secretary-General for one the Biggest, Oldest Model United Nations in Central Asia!! With great work comes great responsibility.
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Posting a picture of mine so that you could come to me anytime during conference (Not during sessions) and talk to me about Rules of procedures, recent book or series you are stuck with, How to save mozzarella sticks, best places in Kazakhstan or India, history, news, medicine (because I am a medical student), sustainable goals …….. Anything!
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I started as a volunteer on Regional NSWMUN 2017, and now I'm in OC:) The atmosphere, relationships and surely new experience are still the components of the MUN World that drive me in it.
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I am a part of NSWMUN since 2016, where I participated as the delegate of India in Human Rights Council. Last year I served as USG for External Affairs and continue to work for this year conference too.
The reason I am a part of MUN community is that I feel responsibility for our world and wish to see it get better. One of the favourite parts is meeting and learning from different people.
I joined New Silkway MUN because I am deeply interested in Sustainable Development Goals and Model United Nations. Moreover, being part of such an organization where young individuals improve themselves and make their contributions to society is very exciting.
I am Didara. My role is a marketing team leader and ambassador. I feel lucky to be the part of mun because it gives me the motivation to be better, to improve my skills which I will need in my future life. I enjoy the process, the brainstorming and the possibilities that NSWMUN opens up to me. NSWMUN team is a family
Hello, everyone. I was given the honor to introduce myself as a member of the organizing committee of NSWMUN in 2019. I started as a delegate on the NSWMUN 2015! After active participation in international, regional and mini MUNs, I was invited to the Organizing Committee of the NSWMUN in 2016. I was working in models as chief of diplomatic affairs, coordinator, diplomatic reception, chairman and also this year I am in the education department as a chairman, trainer, and advisor to delegates and volunteers.
Why I am in OC because I am in love with MUN and actually it's my second family can't live without MUN, people who are working with here and friends from all around the world.
Especially the atmosphere of international MUN it gives me energy that I can no sleep three days and serve my guests meet them from airport, train station all these things give me the energy to stay here and motivate me.
The best place to make new friends, learn a new culture, traditions is MUN and I have an amazing feeling during the conference sometimes with some delegates we can't say goodbye this is so hard.
There are several reasons why I became a part of this incredible NSWMUN organizing committee family. First, I think that membership in NSWMUN organizing committee encourages me to widen my horizons, engage in self-development and teaches me effective strategies for the future. Second, since I study International Relations, work in NSWMUN is definitely suitable with my major. And last but not least, it is all about people there. I enjoy being surrounded by inspirational, open-minded, aspirational young people.
I am in organizing committee of NSWMUN to ameliorate my hard and soft skills and to become a part of its outstanding team working to strengthen international relations. In NSWMUN, I can become a global citizen. I hope that I will get invaluable experience and meet extraordinary people.
Working with NSWMUN helps to improve wide range of skills which are connected with collaboration and responsibility. It is a pleasure to work in the group with the same ambitious and young people. NSWMUN OC is one united family which inspires me to be a better person.
Since childhood, I have always been interested in politics and international relationships. I have always considered myself an initiative person, with an active civil position. In 8th grade, I joined the debate club in my school, which has really advanced my oratory and diplomatic skills. However, for me it was not enough, I wanted to move and develop further. Then I discovered more formal debates in terms of Model United Nations. My first attempt was in 2017 when I participated at KazNU Mini MUN. That was a starting point of my MUN experience. Six months later I was lucky to volunteer at Model United Nations New Silk Way, where I met lots of new friends, gained enormous experience and valuable knowledge. There I was able to express myself and show my interest in organizing such conferences. Thus I joined the MUN NSW Organizing team and soon became a Head of Entertainment Department. I can proudly declare that I am putting my treasure into the development of our conference.
I've been participating as a delegate at Model United Nations Conference since 2016. I really like debating, but MUN is not only about it, but also about critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership abilities. This year I became a member of Organizing Committee, and the reason that I'm here is the feeling that you're doing something for a greater cause (i.e. your academic field). In running a conference, you gain excellent experience with planning, organization, and negotiation.
My path to Organizing Committee began from NSWMUN 2018, which I attended like a volunteer. Friendly atmosphere of the team led me to join them. Thanks to them I evolved my working abilities and discovered new boards of big MUN family. Since that time, we are working side by side for our great goal.
Being in organizing committee of NSW MUN is essential experience due to many reasons. First, it provides me with various opportunities, such as traveling around the world and meeting interesting people. Second, it nurtures self-discipline and responsibility – one of the most important qualities of the modern world. Lastly, I value warm and cozy working atmosphere that is present here.
My name is Lyazzat and I am 17 years old. I joined the team in 2018 for the most important reason, which is unrealistically great guys and amazing surroundings.
In OC, I work in production, which helps me to develop the necessary skills for my future marketing profession. My responsibility is to create new ideas and offer several alternatives to solve one problem. Thanks to MUN, I developed the skills of competent oral communication - the ability to correctly express my thoughts during a conversation, correctly and logically build my speech, also the ability to effectively interact with other team members to achieve a goal and to find a common language with different interlocutors and public speaking skills.
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Coila and Karen are Cava, a face to face promotions business that comes face to face with Lesley Campbell. Lesley is a world wise global risk manager and business guru. What the New Hands need is some advice from someone who has been there and they get it from Anna St Clair, founder of the Ceramic Experience.
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The design is screened onto pale green silk dupion. Full kit is supplied which includes the wooden base. It can be ordered on green cotton if preferred – please specify in your order.
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Please click links below, I hope they will help You planning Your perfect wedding !
Please STAY AWAY from VR -( Virtual Wedding Expirience) wedding video – 360 degree Virtual Reality Video
You will have that BIG camera and stand on most photos – see below) and its a lot of problems to get good photos as that camera is everywhere – new family member ;)
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Backing up photos on multiple drives and discs may be fine for the short term, but digital storage eventually suffers from 'data rot'! Decades from now, you'll be showing your grandchildren images from this day, and you'll be so glad you invested in preserving these memories in wedding albums.
Google boss, Vint Cerf, says 'Print out your photos!'. Print out your most treasured photos or risk losing them!
You can order albums after the wedding, but I highly recommend to order printed album.
Digital photos do not exist in the real world.
– You will get links to see photos – (60 days is waiting time for photos – can be bit longer in summer months)
– I'm afraid I can't send sneak peeks as wedding photos are not on my editing computer until I start editing them. It's for security reasons as I don't want to move photos from computer to another computer – it can cause problems – "corrupted files" )
– We always recommend to order album in first two months after You will get Your photos – the reason is very simple – I still have Your photos on my editing computer.
– Also, I keep RAW files only month after photos are delivered – so after that, I can't edit Your photos – so please be sure to contact me asap if you have any questions
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What's Nearby Van Dorn Village?
Commuting from the neighborhood is very convenient; just 3 stop lights to 495 and minutes to 395, 95, and Fairfax County Parkway. There are two metro stations that are less than ten minutes away; Van Dorn and Franconia-Springfield. Kingstowne is within walking distance and home to Kingstowne Towne Center where you'll find multiple grocery stores, Kingstowne 16 Movie Theater and plenty of retail and dining options; Pasara Thai, Bonefish Grill, East Moon Bistro, Macaroni Grill, Dominos Pizza, World Market, HomeGoods, TJ Maxx. The Springfield Town Center is an easy drive about 10 minutes away via Franconia Road and offers residents even more shopping, dining, and entertainment options. Hilltop Village Center is also nearby and home to the sought after Wegmans. Burtons Grill has become a local favorite and if you're looking for a place to watch your favorite team the Green Turtle is also located in the center.
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Katia + Eisa: Beautiful OutdoorsMarch 14, 2013 - Weddings
We completely love to see individuals from distinctive societies get married. This time we saw the wonderful Kyrgyzstan bride "Katia" getting hitched with the Australian groom "Mohd. Eisa" (arabic origin). The majority of the family and close friends flew down from Kyrgyzstan and different Bedouin countries to participate in their wedding day. Begun off from their Palm jumeirah and finished off in an incredible reception at the Sheraton Jumeirah Beach.


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Age of Reputation
My friend Joy Sever emailed me to look at an article on reputation on The Edge. I did not know about this web site despite the excitement I experienced when I found it. The Edge was established in 1988 as an extension of a group known as The Reality Club including some of the most interesting minds in the world. From 1981 through 1996, The Reality Club held its meetings in Chinese restaurants, artist lofts, the Board Rooms of Rockefeller University, The New York Academy of Sciences, and investment banking firms, ballrooms, museums, and living rooms, among other venues. In January 1997, The Reality Club migrated to the Internet. It is similar, in my mind, to a networked Algonquin Roundtable or Bloomsbury Club.
The 2009 World Question for this year is "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" One of those answers was by Gloria Origgi, a philosopher and a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. And her answer was about reputation. This is what Joy wanted me to see.
Origgi's speaks about how the Internet has become an enormous network of ranking and rating systems where people can find what they want to know through the filters of others. She says, "My prediction for the Big Change is that the Information Age is being replaced by a Reputation Age in which the reputation of an item — that is how others value and rate the item — will be the only way we have to extract information about it." As I have written before and was noted by Clive Thompson in a Wired article, Google is not a search engine but a reputation management system. Yes siree. She envisions a world where a whole new set of search engines aggregate people's judgements. "This softer Web, more controlled by human experiences than complex formulas, will change our interaction with the net, as well as our fears and hopes about it." Just like the world is turning to soft power, we might be on the verge of the soft Web and as Origgi says, an Age of Reputation.


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SAFPS wins 'crucial' fraud information case
The dispute that led to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) case concerned the period for which fraud information is listed on the SAFPS's database.
The NCR contended that the information in question was negative credit information that could not be retained for longer than one year.
The SAFPS said fraud information could not be viewed in the same light as negative credit information and relied on the predictive nature of the fraud information, which had a relevant bearing for 10 years.
The nucleus of the judgment rests on the purposes of the National Credit Act (NCA). This includes to "promote a sustainable and responsible credit market, credit industry, and to protect consumers".
Van Schalkwyk says: "Further to this, the judgment gives guidance on the manner in which to interpret statute and that it should always lead to sensible and business-like results.
"To illustrate this point, the court uses an example of a person who has lost his job and due to prolonged lack of income gets sequestrated. Later, the person earns some income, settles the debt and gets rehabilitated.
"The details of this person will remain on the credit bureau database for 10 years.
"But the person who is listed for fraud, who lies to credit providers, manufactures payslips and bank statements and misrepresents the facts with the intention never to repay the debt, will be removed after one year."
The court makes it clear that by looking at this example, the NCR's interpretation of the statute "leads to patently insensible and unbusiness-like results and cuts across the purposes of the NCA - it would undermine the ability of the financial industry to protect itself against fraud and in doing so, protect fraudsters and not the victims of fraud; it would not protect consumers".
This interpretation does not promote a responsible and sustainable credit market or credit industry and does not protect consumers.
Van Schalkwyk says: "We welcome the SCA judgment and see this as a vote of confidence in our work. In the same breath we recognise the very important work of the NCR and will continue to support the regulator with our efforts to fight fraud and financial crime, as well as protect consumers against fraudsters."
The SAFPS was incorporated in 2000 as a non-profit organisation by the major banks to combat fraud in commerce. Its current members include most major credit providers in South Africa, some insurance companies, as well as the SA Revenue Service, the Financial Intelligence Centre and the SA Reserve Bank.


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Sarah Goodyear is a Brooklyn-based contributing writer to CityLab. She's written about cities for a variety of publications, including Grist and Streetsblog.
When I came back to New York in 1999 after an absence of several years, I pulled up in a moving van in front of my new apartment building in Astoria, Queens, and was immediately greeted by one of the things I had missed most about my hometown.
In front of the modest four-story walkup were a couple of old guys sitting on a couple of old chairs, watching the world go by. My fiancée and I introduced ourselves, and as we started moving our stuff into the building, we could see the men sizing up our potential as neighbors. They seemed pleased, for the most part, and a productive acquaintance was begun, one that, as it turned out, paid off for everyone a few months later when one of these same gentlemen had a small fire in his apartment. We were lucky enough to be help him get out safely and at the same time help to make sure the whole place didn't go up in flames.
Those chairs that the men were sitting in stayed on the sidewalk all the time, even overnight. They would migrate up and down the block and could be found in front of different businesses at different times of day, as the need arose. Sometimes one would break, but it would quickly be replaced by another. The seating was part of the neighborhood ecosystem, respected and valued by all. In a city where life is lived on the sidewalk, where you're always walking, sometimes you gotta have a place to sit.
Street Seats, a new project from urban planning and design firm Street Plans Collaborative, pays tribute to the importance of such humble streetside accommodation by crowdsourcing and mapping places to sit around the city – the countless benches, chairs, and stools that are just part of the culture here. "A couple of months after I moved to New York, I started to notice it," says Mike Lydon, a principal at Street Plans. "The neighborhoods were full of these little benches and perches."
Lydon began taking pictures of the seating he saw – most of which is, I should note, of the more official street furniture variety than the mobile chairs I remember so fondly from Astoria. Once he had collected enough images, with the help of an intern, he and his colleagues put them online, both as a photo gallery and as a clickable map that lets you view seats in any given neighborhood. Now the site is open for submissions from the public, which are coming in already.
A lot of the seats on the map are benches put out by businesses, or built around tree pits by neighborhood residents. One of the most elaborate is a sculptural design surrounding a tree in Long Island City, Queens. It's outside a coffee shop, but it was commissioned by a person who lives across the street, who paid an architect to design and build it. Others are much more simple, and most of the time it isn't even clear who built them. But someone obviously thought it was worth putting in the work.
Lydon says that although he has traveled around the world observing how people use the streetscape for his job, he has never seen as much DIY street seating anywhere else as he has in New York. "It's unique in my travels," he says. "In other cities, you see benches here and there, but you don't see anything on this scale, or as normative as it is here."
The Street Seats site is designed both to document this phenomenon and to serve as inspiration to other places. Lydon says he is always moved when he sees the effort and expense put forward by small businesses and individuals to give passers-by a place to sit and enjoy the world going by. "You see it everywhere," he says. "It's like a gift to the street."
All images courtesy Street Seats
Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible.
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