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…or How I stop worrying and learned to love the (Demographic) Bomb, NOT!
By Fr. Timothy Sauppé
Source: The Bellarmine Forum
A stranger came into the sacristy after Sunday Mass. In an incriminating huff he said, "I have been away from the area for fifteen years; where are the people? And now you are tearing down the school? I went there as a kid." I put my hands up to quiet him from further talking and I calmly said, "Let me ask you a question: How many kids did you have?" He said, "Two." Then I said, "So did everyone else. When you only have two kids per family there is no growth." His demeanor changed, and then he dropped his head and said, "And they aren't even going to Mass anymore."
I never thought I would be asking that question, but since I had to close our parish school, I've grown bolder and I started to ask that question more often. When I came to my parish five years ago, the school was on its proverbial "last legs." In its last two years we did everything we could to recruit more students, but eventually I had to face the fact that after 103 years of education the school was no longer viable. In one of the pre-closure brain-storming sessions with teachers, I was asked what to do to get more students. I replied, "Well, I know what to do, but it takes seven years." The older teachers laughed, but the others needed me to state the obvious to the oblivious, viz. we need more babies. In my January 2010 letter to my bishop asking his permission to close our school, I wrote:
Bishop, it is with a heavy heart that I request this of you. As you know, priests were not ordained to be closing grade schools, but we were ordained to be Christ in the midst of sorrow and pain, which will be happening as we come to accept both your decision and the inevitable fact that St. Mary's Grade School is no longer viable. The efficient cause is simple….no children. The first cause is the habitual contraception and sterilization mentality of a good portion of married Catholic Christians–in short the Culture of Death. The final cause is the closure of Catholic Schools and parishes. Bishop, we need your leadership to address the contraception/abortion/sterilization mentality in as forceful a way as soon as possible.
I, and St. Mary's, closed the school that May 2010. Now three years later, I am razing the school building. It breaks my heart every time I go into this closed school. It is only 50 years old and yes, the windows and heating are in need of replacement, but otherwise the building is in good shape. You could not build as solid a building these days. There has not been a week without someone bringing the school closure and now razing up to me and how sad it is. But the cost of insurance and the cost of heating an empty building has become too burdensome for an aging and a decreasing congregation. A part of this decrease has happened because I have preached against the Culture of Death. I have modestly preached against contraception and sterilization, but for many of my parishioners it is too late. Most of them are done with raising more children. They have had their two kids twenty, thirty, forty years ago and some women don't want to hear about the Culture of Death. They decide to go to other parishes where the pastor doesn't prick their consciences. I am reminded of a diocesan official in his talk to us young pro-life, pro-family priests twenty years ago. He said, "Yes, you can preach against abortion and contraception, but remember, you have to put a roof over your churches." Now, our diocese is closing and merging these same parishes, but you know what—they all have good roofs.
Pastors, if the demographic winter or bomb seems someone else's problem, try this at your parish as I recently did at mine. I took the last ten burials and printed out their obituaries. At Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery we had six men and four women with an average age of 80 years. With the ten, I counted the number of siblings for a total of 45 and divided by 10 which came to 4.5 children per family. Then I counted the ten's children and divided by ten. The next generation had 28 kids which I divided by ten and came to 2.8 per family. I then moved on to the third generation, the grandchildren. These ten deceased had 48 grandchildren from their 28 children. When dividing these numbers, I came to a figure of 1.714 per family. The national average number of children per household is 1.91 (cf. http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/cps2012/tabAVG3.xls); while the replacement level is 2.1 children per family.
A recent internet story from a demographer from the University of New Hampshire reports that new census numbers show that one out of every three counties is losing population. My diocese did a demographic study for our Catholic school system, and they reported that our county will be losing ten percent each year to 2020; it is on the poverty watch list for Illinois. While the general economy is depressed and our local economy is very depressed, we cannot blame these demographic shifts simply on a lack of business. Of course, most pastors don't need the U.S. Census, we can see this decrease happening in our respective parishes from year to year. And of course, this is not just a Catholic phenomenon, it's across the cultural spectrum. To be blunt, there is a current bumper-sticker that encapsulates our era; and it ties in to our school closure. A veterinarian has just bought our fuel burners from our school boilers because he is expanding his business to include pet cremation. Why? For pet burials. And the current bumper sticker? "We love our granddogs!"
I don't claim to have answers on how to turn around a dying parish or diocese. In fact, I am more at a loss as to what to say than ever before. To defend the Church's teaching against contraception and sterilization is like going back to ancient Rome and warning them about the dangers of indoor lead plumbing. No matter what you would say their only response back would come in various levels of volume, "But it's indoor plumbing!" In other words, no matter the real threat to one's physical health from contraception and sterilization, the immediate perceived benefits outweigh the moral and physical downside. And, if there is contraceptive failure, i.e., a baby, women must have access to abortion; and if a couple is infertile, they can always create babies–in vitro. Further, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now allowed an over the counter, non-prescription abortifacient drug, "Plan B," to be given to those fifteen and older. Something as unique as one's gender, maleness or femaleness, is now being treated as a flexible concept. In short, the freedom or liberty to kill the unborn or the elderly; to contracept or to sterilize one's fertility; to have completely open and unrestricted sexual relationships are protected under the law because, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's concept of existence, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life" (Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992).
Having grown up in the 60's and 70's with many "Don't call me Father" Priests, I knew that the problem was a lack of orthodoxy. Twenty years ago when I was ordained, I thought that if I just preached the faith and celebrated a solemn Sunday Mass people would turn around. But, after twenty years, my experience is that a few parishioners will write letters to the Bishop, some will leave murmuring, but the standard fare is benign indifference. Instead of encountering joy and submission to the Natural Law and the Church's teaching on human life and its dignity, I have found Catholic Christians either complacent or complicit with the Culture of Death. It was reported that over fifty percent of Catholics voted for a pro-abortion president who at a recent Texas Planned Parenthood convention asked God to bless them. If I have found any fruit, it has mostly come from home-schooling families.
I have become convinced that there is a connection, a direct correlation, between contracepting or sterilizing one's fertility that parleys into an infertile relationship with Jesus, the Divine Bridegroom. In other words, mortal sin is the ultimate barrier method when it comes to God's gift of grace being implanted within our souls. It is known that Jesus expects us to be faithful in small things before He will entrust us with larger issues. What is smaller and yet has the greatest value than bringing new life into the world? The realpolitik, the sitz im leben, the situation on the ground, is that reproductive dissent has reached and surpassed a critical mass. Whether we are talking within or outside the church, tacit support is given to the culture of death when we don't support the Natural Law against all unnatural sexual actions. To wit, the arrogant aggrandizement of the state and Federal government under Obamacare and the HHS mandate over Catholic hospitals and educational institutions. Where will it end? (Cardinal George of Chicago has predicted that there may be no Catholics hospitals or colleges within two years.)
Sometimes I feel like the Slim Pickens character from the 1964 movie, Dr. Strangelove, where he is riding the falling nuclear bomb; he, waving a cowboy hat; me waving a biretta. (If not a biretta, perhaps a sixty degree sand-wedge.) What I should be doing instead is to try to defuse the demographic bomb; but the thing is, "God always forgives, man sometimes forgives, but nature….nature never forgives!" If the vast majority of Catholics chose to contracept and sterilize themselves into the dust bin of history, what can God do? Of course, God could cause a miracle conversion a la the Prophet Jonah and Nineveh; or, the miracle of when God ordered Ezekiel to prophecy over the dead bones that then came together as he was prophesying– however, Ezekiel at least had bones to "work" with.
What can a priest/pastor do when there is a congregation with a contraceptive/ sterilization mentality? Should he tell them to repent and have a reversal of the vasectomy or tubal ligation? If that fails, should he encourage his flock to adopt or become foster parents? Should he not be promoting Natural Family Planning which uses the best of science to help couples to be fruitful–not to mention ecological breastfeeding (cf. http://www.NFPandmore.org)?
Of course, he should be doing all of these remedies and more, but at the very least he should be doing what the Curé de Ars, St. John Vianney did: fast, pray, eat potatoes for his people, his sheep. Take note that the Bishops of Great Britain have returned to Friday abstinence from meat as a corporate witness to bodily discipline and penance. Priests should be personally doing at least this much. (In the U.S., few even know that the guideline is that we should offer something up on Fridays, not necessarily meat.) Could something like what happened in England happen in the U.S.?
Cardinal Burke says not to wait for a national statement. In an exclusive interview with his Eminence, Rome correspondent for LifeSiteNews.com (April 23, 2013) Hilary White reported that, "The bishops of the world must, as individuals, take the lead in combating the Culture of Death, and not wait for the national conferences." Further, she quotes his Eminence as saying that,
"It should be emphasized that the individual bishop has a responsibility in this matter. Sometimes what happens is the individual bishops are unwilling to do anything because they wait for the national bishops' conference to take the lead."
Well stated your Eminence! Amen, alleluia!
Perhaps his Eminence had in mind then Bp. Sample of Marquette, MI (now the Archbishop of Portland, OR.) who wrote in 2011 against the contraceptive mentality for his diocese; or, Archbishop John Myers' September 25, 2012 Pastoral Letter entitled, "When Two Become One: Pastoral Teaching on the Definition, Purpose and Sanctity of Marriage." Or perhaps he was thinking of my bishop, Bishop Jenky, C.S.C. of Peoria, IL., who in 2012, brought in Fr. McCaffrey of Natural Family Planning Outreach for the diocese's Assemble Days for Priests. In any event, Cardinal Burke could have further observed that many priests wait until their bishops say something, but, let us not disregard the impact of a corporate witness of a common statement against a common evil. We do have the precedent of Pope Pius XI.
Recall, how in the midst of the rising evil of the National Socialist Party in Germany of the 1930's, Pope Pius XI delivered to the German flock a German Encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge. Read out loud during Palm Sunday Masses on March 14. 1937, Pope Pius XI addressed and condemned the racial Nazi ideology which would later lead the German government to exterminate "undesirables" such as the Jews and Gypsies. The Pope also called upon the faithful Catholics to hold fast to their Christian Faith and to the Natural Law! He reminds all Pastors of souls that,
"The priest's first loving gift to his neighbors is to serve truth and refute error in any of its forms. Failure on this score would be not only a betrayal of God and your vocation, but also an offense against the real welfare of your people and country." (#36)
How true these words are today in the face of a runaway chain reaction expanding the Culture of Death throughout all parts of society and media. It is all of a piece against the Natural Law; from contraception, sterilization, abortion, euthanasia, to the acceptance of homosexual and heterosexual sodomy within and without a "marriage" relationship. We are indeed in need of a new Mit Brennender Sorge moment for our day! A Catholic moment not for one country or people, but for the universal Church at large. An encyclical letter that would be read out at all churches on the same weekend.
It has been reported that Pope Francis is going to complete the incomplete encyclical of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Faith; would that his second encyclical (if his Holiness is open to suggestions) be on the defense of the Natural Law–Humanae Vitae 2.0. I would hope that he would use Pope Benedict XVI's wonderful address on the Natural Law that he gave to the German Parliament, Bundestag in September of 2011 as a start. If I may further presume to offer that the encyclical be centered on Jesus Christ and Him Crucified and how the Natural Law can be obscured in one's heart in a variety of ways (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II q.94, 6 art. & q. 77) viz. passion, evil persuasion, vicious custom, self-rationalization, corrupt habits, and unnatural vices (cf. Romans 1, homosexual acts). While civil law acts as a moral guide (St. Thomas), it is not infallible, and there can, in fact, be evil laws–which Aquinas calls not laws, but "a perversion of law." Again, think of the laws under Nazi Germany then or now with many U.S. states pushing for homosexual "marriages." I would also impose or extend the impediment to Holy Orders to any man seeking to become a permanent deacon: if he has been sterilized he should not be ordained. This and other things could be done which would announce to the encroaching secular world: "Thus far and no more–not within our One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!"
Again, I do not know how to defuse the current demographic bomb we are collectively riding. While the Church does challenge faithful Catholics to be open to life and to be fruitful in having children; something serious needs to be done. I believe Church historians will look back at this period of the post-Vatican II era and call it by some moniker–please LORD let it not be an unfortunate one. Whatever this period will be called it seems like we, as the Church, are living through a mass protest revolution; albeit perhaps unconscious, and perhaps unthinking, but we have done so, willingly. The flock is listening to a deceptive voice of a deceiving shepherd when it comes to not having many children or keeping with sexual purity.
My purpose with this article is not to throw stones, but to have an honest discussion regarding the state of the Church–"a voice in the desert." At the beginning of his pontificate Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said, "The Church as a whole and all her Pastors, like Christ, must set out to lead people out of the desert, towards the place of life, towards friendship with the Son of God, towards the One who gives us life, and life in abundance." (Mass of Imposition of the Pallium, April 24, 2005) He repeated these words in his opening to this Year of Faith. (cf. Porta Fidei, Oct. 11, 2012) As shepherds and pastors of souls, priests and bishops must be willing to cast our nets in waters that may seem unsafe or unwelcoming. But if we do not go out into the deep, we may find that the shallows have all been fished out. Yes, pastors must open the Doors of Faith, but we ourselves must be willing to walk in first. If we, the shepherds, are unwilling to defend the Natural Law against the onslaught of secularism, how can we expect the flock to do so? The experience of closing and now razing a school is one I do not want to repeat. For if a bishop or a priest hates closing a school, he is really going to hate closing a parish. In the midst of this Year of Faith, let us pray to the Holy Spirit to lead us out of this desert, this demographic winter, into a new Springtime and may Our Lady, the undoer of knots, open up our hearts to the love of God the Father and His Son, Jesus, and the love of new life in the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Fr. Timothy Sauppé, S.T.L. is pastor of St. Mary's Church, Westville, Illinois, in the Diocese of Peoria.


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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Various Goings On
600+ abstracts submitted to SODA. I wonder what the over/under is on how many will actually be papers a week from now. I'm expecting about a 10% drop, but wouldn't even be surprised to see it go down to 500 or so. That suggests about a 25+% acceptance rate. I'm not sure what message there is to take out of that. But given that 500 seems to be the total of accepted papers for SODA, STOC, FOCS, ESA, ICALP, and maybe another conference or two after that (SPAA, PODC?), it seems like theory is (still) producing too many papers, or has too few venues to publish them in. Larger conferences, or perhaps a large clearing-house conference, anyone? (Would SODA be that much different if it accepted, say, 250 papers? Discuss.)
While I think svn is great for collaborations, I've really found the merging functionality has negligible utility. I'm a novice user, but it seems whenever there's a conflict, the fastest way to deal with it is still to pick a winner, diff for differences, and glue together by hand. I think the bottleneck is when there's a conflict, I want to work out differences with my colleague, and the whole point is that we're working at different times and places. So the benefit of working separately seamlessly gets lost.
I still think everyone should be reading Claire's blog, which covers a really nice mix of topics, many of which could potentially lead to interesting community discussions.
11 comments:
- Joel Sommers said...
svn is so 10 years ago :-) try hg or git. they're vastly superior for handling conflicts. here's a link to mercurial merging: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-merging-work.html, and git: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-merge.html
- July 6, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Dan Spielman said...
As a svn user, I suggest that you get a good client for it. A good interface to the merge makes it much easier. Still, I find that I rarely need to use it because most of the merging is automatic if you edit different parts of the document.
BTW, everything I do is either in my svn repository or someone else's.
- July 6, 2011 at 10:55 PM
Merging text requires a bit of thought in organizing the paper source code in the first place. A typical setup that seems to work well is to put each section into a separate file, and ideally putting sentences in a paragraph on separate lines.
- July 6, 2011 at 10:57 PM
If you have merge conflicts, usually that means you have poor SVN habits.
1. You should be making small commits, and committing frequently (don't save up tons of changes and then commit).
2. You should be doing a "svn update" before making any edit.
3. Lines should be short. You shouldn't have the entire paragraph on line. Insert line breaks after about 72 characters or so, so it fits on a 80-column screen. (SVN's diff algorithm is line-based, so scrunching everything on one line can cause unnecessary merge conflicts.)
4. You should never re-flow or re-justify text that you didn't change. (SVN's diff algorithm is line-based, so this looks like a change to SVN and can cause gratuitous merge conflicts.)
My experience is that if you follow these rules, then merge conflicts are rare.
- July 7, 2011 at 1:18 AM
Line-based diffs are really annoying and often cause me annoyance in working with co-authors. I want to know what has changed between versions and it is a pain to include line-breaking changes.
Defaults in winedit and some other editing environments are for some form of line-wrap which creates new line breaks (in winedit it must be deselected in multiple places to completely eliminate it).
- July 7, 2011 at 2:14 AM
- Suresh Venkatasubramanian said...
I'll vote for 500 submissions when the dust settles.
- July 7, 2011 at 2:23 AM
The inability of these versioning tools to deal with line breaks ruins them for me. I want a tool that just works, not one that I have to work around.
- July 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- Michael Mitzenmacher said...
From what comments seem to say, I should spend an afternoon getting an svn tutorial and getting past my "novice" status.
Also, I do find that merging issues are rare -- precisely because (as commenters point out) we usually structure the file in section-sized pieces and avoid clobbering each other. On rare occasions, though, two people have REALLY worked on a file at the same time; at that point, perhaps it's just an unpleasant exercise no matter what tool you're using.
- July 7, 2011 at 11:55 AM
- Claire Mathieu said...
Thanks for the plug Mike!
- July 7, 2011 at 1:50 PM
Any gossip yet on the number of abstracts that became actual submitted papers?
- July 12, 2011 at 6:41 PM
- András Salamon said...
A different slant on Dan Spielman's earlier comment:
Maverick Woo suggested at Version control for collaboration (with word-level diffs)? using wdiff for word-based edit conflict detection in svn, replacing the default line-based conflict detection. This might take you a step closer to a reasonable merging strategy for resolving conflicts.
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FOIA request proves police still have drones despite year old promise to return them
Mikael Thalen
March 26, 2014
A Freedom of Information Act request published Tuesday revealed that the Seattle Police Department has secretly kept two surveillance drones despite assuring residents that they would return them to their vendor last February.
In 2010, Seattle police used federal grant money from the Department of Homeland Security to quietly obtain two Draganflyer X-6 surveillance drones as well as flight training for select officers. After a 2012 lawsuit from the Electronic Frontier Foundation uncovered the acquisition, public outcry ensued.
While attempts were made by the embattled department to quell public concern, former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn ordered an immediate halt to the program in early 2013, also announcing that both drones would be returned to their vendor.
"Today I spoke with Seattle Police Chief John Diaz, and we agreed that it was time to end the unmanned aerial vehicle program, so that SPD can focus its resources on public safety and the community building work that is the department's priority," a statement from the former mayor reads.
Now, a FOIA request regarding the axed drone program has produced a telling response from Seattle Interim Police Chief Harry Bailey.
"As of the date of this correspondence the Seattle Police Department has not returned the unmanned aerial surveillance drones and therefore does not have any responsive documents in regards to packing slips, receipts for shipping, etc.," Bailey wrote.
"Additionally a comprehensive search of the email archive was conducted using the terms 'return' and 'drone' resulting in no responsive documents. Finally a separate search was conducted by SPD personnel for any documents, memo, etc. between SPD and the Mayor's office or UAV manufacturer using the search terms 'UAV' and 'UAS' and that search also resulted in no responsive documents."
Although a 2013 statement from the department claimed that the DHS refused to take back the drones, residents are questioning why Seattle police have held on to the drones for more than a year.
The Seattle Privacy Coalition, one of Washington state's most prominent civil rights groups, noted that the drones are only one part of a much more concerning issue; the SPD's surveillance war chest.
"Surveillance technology advances rapidly. The fact that SPD's 2012-era drones, with their 15-minute battery life and inability to fly in the rain, are sitting on a shelf here in Seattle gathering dust doesn't worry us," Seattle Privacy Coalition spokesperson Phil Mocek told Infowars.
"We're more concerned about the continued lack of meaningful oversight of the police department, and about the fact that our police continue to use their U.S. Department of Homeland Security slush fund to purchase equipment the public doesn't trust them to use in a constitutional manner."
Unfortunately, the City of Seattle and its police officials already have a history of ignoring promises regarding surveillance technology.
Late last year, shortly after Seattle residents learned of the city's secretive DHS-funded mesh network nodes, devices capable of swiping unsuspecting residents' private cell phone information, SPD spokesperson Sgt. Sean Whitcomb announced that the network would be deactivated until further notice.
"The wireless mesh network will be deactivated until city council approves a draft policy and until there's an opportunity for vigorous public debate," Whitcomb said.
Soon after, residents discovered the mesh network to still be broadcasting a signal throughout the city's downtown area.
Although it is unclear whether or not the department has been purposely deceptive, the SPD's lax attitude towards rectifying major Fourth Amendment violations has done little to ease the minds of surveillance-weary residents.
Despite promises to uphold the publics' civil liberties, the department continues to accept federal cash for overreaching surveillance technology.
Even in light of Seattle's secret participation in TrapWire, a 2012 pilot project that ran a sophisticated facial recognition program through the city's CCTV cameras, the SPD announced last month that they would begin using a new DHS-funded facial recognition program anyway.
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Former DWTS Costume Maker Randall Christensen Designs For Meryl Davis And Charlie White
Just an FYI!! Did you know former Dancing With The Stars costume maker Randall Christensen designed Meryl Davis and Charlie White's costumes for the Olympics? This is so cool. Read on….
"The Olympic stage is the biggest stage in the world. It doesn't get any bigger than this."
In a workshop full of sequins, sashes, and all things that sparkle, Christensen is creating works of art.
United States ice dancers Meryl Davis and her partner Charlie White are showing off Randall's designs on the ice in Sochi. Randall says he was moved to tears by the pair in rehearsals.
"All of a sudden I felt something on my cheek, and realized it was tears. I was crying, I was so proud."
He believes getting the outfits just right is crucial for the athletes.
"Everything is riding on their look when they take the ice. The hair, the makeup, your presentation, fingernails, everything, including the costume sets the tone before you have to back it up with your skating."
Randall hopes he provides the tools needed to be the best.
"If I can help you feel that way when you take the floor or take the ice, my job is done, and I have you on your way to being successful, I think."
He did such a good job. I'm loving their costumes. More at ABC15. Don't forget, Meryl and Charlie skate this weekend. For more details, see this link at Pure Derek Hough. Pure Derek Hough is also featuring a new interview with Derek Hough where he talks of how he choreographed their short program. All eyes on this captivating pair! Let's hope they take Gold!!


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I think I need to eat less food.
Have I finally gone crazy? Maybe. My point is this; I think I generally eat pretty healthy foods not outrageously healthy foods, but I do eat lots of vegetables, plentiful grains like barley, faro and Quinoa, there are a few fruits, seeds, and nuts, dried apricots and some of the funky stuff like chia seeds, cacao, matcha and that sort of jazz. I consciously cut down the fruit sugar and increased the milk intake and when I am really good, I remember to take those iron pills. I don't eat a lot of fried stuff or excessive amounts of sugar but my problem is this. I just eat way too much.
It is just as well that the lovely folk at Riverford have been sending me the season's jewels. The sweet peppers in the vegbox from this week smell so sweet that I detected their untainted beauty before I even saw them as I rummaged through the picks of the week. I know I always get the most massive fresh leaves of spinach that aren't gritty or punched with off-putting holes as many crops I get from the supermarket are. I have been eating the spinach raw and my husband even uses it in smoothies but I thought I would do more justice to the silky loveliness in this curry.
So what I have been trying to do is satisfy my taste buds (the culprit of my excessive eating) with bold flavours. So bold and capturing that relatively little goes a long way. I have used homemade cashew cream in this curry rather than using double cream or coconut milk or coconut cream but for whatever reason my husband was convinced that I did use coconut. I have used tofu in the stuffing rather than paneer. It is all sounding good eh? It is bold without being heavy or overly spiced. In fact, there is very little of that, 'I have just had a curry and I can really feel it' aftermath. You know the one I mean don't you?
Its sweet, its spicy, its creamy its oof. It did it for me.
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- Chicago may severely limit the number of handguns that can be kept in a single home and ban gun dealers within city limits in the wake of Monday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted the city's handgun ban, City Hall's top attorney said today.
The court's ruling "did not say that a person is entitled to more than one handgun, and one handgun is sufficient for self defense," Corporation Counsel Mara Georges told aldermen at a City Council committee meeting. "We believe that a limitation on the number of handguns to one per person per residence would be consistent with the Supreme Court's decisions."
We can't wait to see the procedural roadblocks Shortshanks starts to throw up. The Department can't even run rifle and striker-fire transitions courses for officers. If he tries to task the Department with "qualifying" new gun owners, we expect waiting lists to be years long.
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Good for Slathering: Pork; beef; duck; ribs
My students make this barbecue sauce every month in my Southern-barbecue classes. It is the only red sauce that we make in the class, and we always double the recipe because the class slathers it on everything! This sauce has been printed in many places and thousands of students have the recipe, but I couldn't write a sauce chapter and not include it here. The Dr. Pepper gives this sauce an edge over most basic sweet barbecue sauces.
- Yield
- Makes 5 cups
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 cup ketchup
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- One 12-ounce can Dr. Pepper
- 1/2 cup cider vinegar
- 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ancho or New Mexican chili powder
- 1 teaspoon fine-ground white pepper
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1. In a heavy saucepan, melt the butter. Sauté the onion and garlic in the butter until translucent, about 10 minutes. Add all the remaining ingredients and simmer for about 15 minutes, until the flavors have blended. Continue cooking until the sauce begins to thicken, 20 to 30 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasonings with salt and pepper if desired. Remember, the ribs will have plenty of spice rub on them, so don't overseason the sauce.
- 2. Let the sauce cool for about 10 minutes or until it is warm but no longer "boiling" hot. Puree with an immersion or traditional blender-this will make the sauce thicker. Let cool. The sauce will keep, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
- 3. Brush it on food 5 to 15 minutes before the cooking time is finished. If desired, serve extra on the side.
Reprinted with permission from Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned by Elizabeth Karmel, (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


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Hilarion (Kapral) of New York
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Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) of Eastern America and New York is First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and was formally enthroned on May 18, 2008. He also remains the ruling bishop of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand.
Early Life
Metropolitan Hilarion's parents – his father Alexei Kapral, and his mother, Euphrosynia (nee Kasyaniuk) – were from the village of Obenizha in Volyhn, Ukraine. In 1929, during the Polish occupation, the local populace was persecuted and oppressed by Poles attempting to turn Western Ukraine into a Polish province. Thus, the 19-year-old Alexei and his young wife decided to emigrate to Canada. At the time, the Canadian government afforded immigrants the opportunity to obtain large tracts of land in Western Canada; it was there that the young family settled. Upon their arrival in the province of Alberta, the Kapral family received 160 acres of untilled land, as well as $100 in cash, a hammer, and an axe, with which to build themselves a home. In the developing Spirit River region, there were some 200 Ukrainians, and in view of the oncoming cold, they quickly built themselves houses. The great economic crisis of 1929-1930 affected the settlers as well, making an already hard life even more difficult. To find work, Alexei Kapral had to travel far from home, and he earned but 25 cents per day. Nonetheless, the family grew ever larger – five boys and two girls filled the house with children's voices, speaking Ukrainian at home. Their parents also spoke Russian and Polish The youngest member of the family was Igor, the future Metropolitan Hilarion. He was born on January 6, 1948, in Spirit River ], and spent his childhood in the country. He had to walk over three miles to school every day. Later he transferred to another school in Blueberry Creek, but returned to finish high school. In 1966, he found a spiritual director, Right Reverend Sava (Saracevic), Bishop of Edmonton, a Serb who greatly revered our Holy Hierarch St. John (Maximovitch, +1966).
From his youth, Igor felt drawn to the Church, and loved to read books and periodicals on religion and morals. In 1967, when Igor Kapral was 19 years old, he entered the Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in Jordanville, NY, USA. On graduating from the Seminary in 1972 (together with our rector, Fr. Victor – ed.), Igor entered the Holy Trinity Monastery as a novice [lit.: poslushnik, one under obedience]. On December 2, 1974 he was tonsured a rassaphore monk with the name Hilarion, in honor of Venerable Schema-monk Hilarion of the Kiev Caves, the famous Metropolitan of Kiev. On December 4, 1975, Archbishop Averky (Taushev, +1976), for whom the future Vladyka served as a cell-attendant, ordained him a hierodeacon. In 1976, Bishop Laurus of Manhattan ordained him a hieromonk. The same year, Fr. Hilarion received a Master's degree in Slavic studies and Russian literature from Syracuse University. The future Vladyka worked simultaneously as editor of the English-language version of the magazine Orthodox Life, and as a typesetter for the Monastery press.
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In 1984, at the young age of 36, Fr Hilarion was consecrated a bishop by Metropolitan Philaret of New York and nine other bishops and was appointed to the see of Manhattan, charged with overseeing the parishes in Pennsylvania and serving as deputy secretary for the Synod of Bishops.
In 1995, Bishop Hilarion was transferred to the See of Washington while retaining his residence in New York. This did not last long, however, in June 1996, recognising his pastoral gifts, he was transferred to the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (which was experiencing some problems at that stage) and raised to the rank of archbishop. In 2003 he was awarded the honour of wearing a diamond cross on his klobuk.
Upon Metr. Laurus's death Abp. Hilarion was appointed as the temporary head of the ROCOR Synod. On May 12, 2008, Archbishop Hilarion was elected and elevated as the new Metropolitan of ROCOR, having received all but one vote (his own).
On the December 10, 2009 Metropolitan Hilarion marked 25 years since the date of consecration as a bishop. The festivities took place in the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand
Hilarion (Kapral) of New York
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Gregory (Grabbe)
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Gabriel (Chemodakov)
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Last summer, I modified this post on Deciphering Romance Novel Blurbs & Reviews. Seemed to go over well enough.
This time (which is to say, next week's Stonecoast residency which is also next month's residency, and the first of next year's residencies) I plan to do a shortened version of my post on The Two-Minute Orgasm, possibly just for the thrill of saying "fuck" in front of my classmates.
The other read-aloud is more private. The ten or so students who started in Popular Fiction last winter got together midway through the residency and read aloud to each other, for practice. (I read a foreplay scene, perhaps again for the thrill of using the word "fuck" in front of my classmates.)
This time, someone asked for excerpts that "set the scene," meaning they establish a time and place for the protagonist to move through.
I've selected two really short bits from Love in Reality. First up, the hero visits his parents:
Rand pulled into his parents' driveway, turned off the car and sat for a moment, gazing at the perfectly-maintained landscaping. His parents' house wasn't large by Bel Air standards, but it sat on a particularly gracious lot, perfect for entertaining. Perfect for his mother to swan around, impeccably dressed, making sure everyone was comfortable. Perfect for his father to entertain industry moguls with his stories of clashes with the network honchos. Perfect for everyone to feel smart and creative instead of just lucky.
Even the air smelled perfect as Rand opened the car door. He shook his head. All this perfection and he still dreaded the duty Sunday brunch visit. He loved his parents, but he and Alan-Jennings-the-TV-producer (as opposed to Alan-Jennings-his-dad—when was the last time Rand had a conversation with his own father that hadn't been about the industry?) seemed locked in a tug-of-war over Rand's disappointing career choices.
The only imperfect thing the Jennings had to deal with was their son. No wonder he didn't feel comfortable coming home.
While the others were chatting about nothing in particular, waiting for the disembodied voice to tell them what to do next, Libby went back into the living room to look around. There was always a challenge involving details of the decor, so no reason not to study for it now. The walls this year were vaguely rounded in places, but they still had the large, built-in fish tanks, stocked with colorful fish. Libby crouched down to see the camera behind the fish tank, getting "watery" shots of the contestants in the background with real fish in the foreground. She memorized the number of fish in each tank before turning back to the living room furnishings.Nothing earth-shaking, but I think they get the job done. With luck, the reader can visualize the space and get a better sense of the character(s).
The decor was like Little Mermaid on Ice sponsored by Ikea—lots of blues and greens with sleek Swedish modern furniture. Tall, spiky potted plants mimicked seaweed and the few paintings echoed the sense of being under water. There were a lot of round shapes, too—rugs, wall art, pillows. Bubbles, Libby thought as she counted them.


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Sometimes I can't believe people actually live in such beautiful places. This sort of makes me feel lame about our place, but much more than that I'd say it's motivation.
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A mi me sucede algo similar y es que cuando veo espacios tan bellos y acogedores comienzo a pensar como cambiar algunas cosas de mi casa pero en fin, poco a poco...ReplyDelete
If we were to feature shots of your home on our blog we'd have to borrow your words too - as you've summed up above exactly how we feel about your beautiful place!ReplyDelete
I really like the simplicity and style of this home. Proves that you don't have to overdo it for a great style!ReplyDelete
- RegMay 30, 2012
your commentary is how i feel about your placeReplyDelete
That is a really nice home. I love those tiles in the bathroom!ReplyDelete
Oh, but your home is gorgeous too! ;)ReplyDelete
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What is the Family Focus Programme?
Problems with alcohol and other drugs affect people of all ages and all walks of life. Many parents find it difficult to discuss drugs and drug related issues with their children. They may feel they know too little to have any real impact on their opinions. Yet studies clearly show that parents have a positive impact on the life-style choices and drug taking behaviour of their children. Consisting of six sessions, this interactive programme promotes the role of the parent in educating their young people about risk associated with substance use, in an effort to reduce the demand for drugs. Delivered within a health promoting framework, our programme provides participants with an opportunity to:
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Lets take a short break from news and events in the Art World to ask an important but often misunderstood idea, how many people do you really know?
I don't mean know their name, or went to the same school, town, program, gallery or even concert with but how many people do you really know? In this day and age of social media/networking/six degrees of Francis Bacon its easy to mistake being linked to someone being equal to knowing them. If I asked you to name a good lawyer, cook, programmer, printer, accountant or Mr/Ms "get the job done no matter what" could you? Do you know someone you could promote for a project and they could not only be relied on to do a job but do it well, on-time and the first time? If so how many, even I admit it isn't as deep as I would like and thats a shame.
I have worked for or with many companies over the years and what often amazes me is not that there is lack of work/contracts but the amount of time and trial/error that goes into finding good people to do any number of skills.
Wasted time and mispent money.
The Art World in my estimation is the epicenter of "Jack of all Trades" skill sets. I have meet people that have skills so varied and rich that you would be forgiven for thinking they have Multiple Personality Disorder, thats a benefit we have, a asset if you will and we need to leverage it in the 21st Century.
Working in the Arts will always be precarious and fragile but we know change, we know projects, we know guerrilla style zero budget business models and we know people and we need to promote that. I will be doing this myself over time but its high time every blog/website in the art world spent some space helping people know how to contact the best individuals for any skill. It should never be who/what company should I contact to do this job but how do I organize the funds to pay [insert name here] to complete this project for me.
If you don't know a good cook, caterer, programmer, designer, printer, lawyer, copywriter, editor (in this town who isn't?), media production, animator, auto repair, public relations, ect then it might be best to start adding to your list since having a team you can rely on is more valuable for you and especially others then the funds it takes to hire them. Who has the time or energy to suffer through multiple bad suppliers to find that right person. The person or company that has that up to date list is the one that will hit the ground running and execute their idea the first time on half the actual budget.
Don't build your list of friends, acquaintances, followers or warm bodies but your cabinet of professionals for the job of today and more so the one right over the horizon.
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MSNBC's Richard Lui reports from the Hiring Our Heroes jobs fair in New York City, where veterans are seeking opportunities with companies as civilians.
The math is mean. Post-9/11 veterans lug a steep unemployment rate that's a point-plus taller than the civilian rate. Add to that the 34,000 troops who soon will return from Afghanistan. Bottom line: The existing bulge of ex-military job seekers threatens to further swell in a world where stripes carry no sway.
How to crack that cold equation? Just a little face time, says unemployed veteran Ruty Rutenberg, who believes that simply standing eye-to-eye with a hiring manager allows former service members to naturally radiate the ocean of intangibles that can only be absorbed in combat.
"That presence, that aura about military people is very tough to see online in a resume, where (HR executives) are only looking at lines of text," says Rutenberg, 29, who served as an Army medic in Iraq, riding in Black Hawk helicopters. He's been searching for his "mainstay" career for about a year. "Online, it's tough to tell a person's emotions, let alone a person's energy.
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"Online, it's tough to tell a person's emotions, let alone a person's energy," said Ruty Rutenberg, 29, who attended a job fair in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
"But when you get to be right in front of these people and interact with them, there is no trepidation for veterans in those moments. We've been in stressful situations that people can't fathom, that they've only seen in movies," Rutenberg said Tuesday at a job fair in Los Angeles sponsored by Got Your 6, an entertainment-industry-backed, national veterans campaign. NBCUniversal is a partner in that movement.
On Wednesday, Hiring Our Heroes — a program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation that aims to get veterans back into the work force — is hosting a hiring fair at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
For veterans like Melissa Fay, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, adjusting to civilian life and finding a job can be tough – but after a few edits to her resume, Melissa landed a position with General Electric as a financial analyst. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.
Click here for a list of upcoming Hiring Our Heroes job fairs.
Both events are part of the Got Your 6 "veteran hiring week." Such events, Rutenberg believes, are critical for companies with spots to fill and veterans with bills to pay: "One of the things the military ingrains in us is how to be present and confident in the moment, really in any moment."
Still, owning that moment may require a touch of coaching, say some career counselors, who have spotted common, repeated flaws in the resumes and in interviewing skills of ex-service members.
Humility 'can be damning'
On paper, the mistakes typically involve the use of jargon: cumbersome acronyms, technical descriptions, and — to many civilians — the complicated system of military ranks. Is a "specialist" special?
MSNBC's Richard Lui, joins Andrea Mitchell Reports live from the Hiring Our Heroes Jobs Fair in New York and explains how the initiative is trying to help veterans market themselves better in the work force.
"They feel: 'I've earned this rank. I want to make it prominent on my resume.' But that's one of the biggest complaints we hear from employers. They don't understand what 'sergeant first class' means," says Shareem Kilkenny, co-owner of Veteran Career Counseling Services. She operates VCCS with her husband, Kester Kilkenny, an Army veteran who spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"What I have to get them to understand is: How do I translate their ranks and skills into the skills that employers are looking for? It might be better, for example, if a resume reads: 'Worked under extremely stressful conditions,' or 'Worked in a deadline-driven environment' or 'Dealt with constant change.' "
Jon Soltz of VoteVets.org, talks about the unemployment numbers about veterans and their spouses and shares his thoughts on the Hiring Our Heroes initiative.
In addition to reading like a foreign language, militaryspeak may just get a veteran's resume tossed, warns Elizabeth Hruska, assistant director of career and internship services at the University of Minnesota.
"This can be a barrier to a civilian employer who needs to quickly understand the basics of you and your qualifications — and (emphasize) quickly: Employers tell us they spend only 10 to 30 seconds on that initial resume once-over," Hruska says.
While many veteran candidates may try to pitch themselves as the ultimate team players, some are prone to selling themselves short due to that group-first mindset, says Jason Dozier, veteran transition specialist with Hire Heroes USA, a nonprofit dedicated to creating job opportunities to veterans and their spouses through personalized employment training.
"Military members are very team-oriented, and the word 'individual' can be a euphemism for those who fail to be a productive member of that team," Dozier said. "And so tasks and accomplishments are more likely to be framed as 'we' rather than as 'I.' Humility is a great virtue, but it can be damning if you're looking to be competitive in the job market."


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Early History
The origins of this great company go back far further than most, as it was first established a staggering 120 years ago by Takeshiro Maeda and Kunihiko Iwadare, on August the 31st 1898. It moved into factories purchased from an existing electrical manufacturer of the time and it entered into the telephone market in the early 20th century.
The Booming 80s
NEC made its first significant move in the IT market, when in 1982, it produced the NEC µPD7710 digital signal processor, the very first of its kind. This was an innovation that resulted in part, from the establishment of NEC Semiconductors in 1981 and it was the first in a succession of new tech from the company.
Having launched the PC-8800 8-bit series in the same year, closely followed by the PC-9800 series in 1982, it would become a publicly floated enterprise on the Swiss stock exchanges. NEC would soon become the biggest name in PC production in Japan, obtaining a hugely dominant 80% share of the market.
Breaking the US
1984 is the year that NEC Information Systems entered the US IT hardware market, as it began the manufacturing of computer hardware. The V Series processor was launched in the same year and by 1986 NEC had demonstrated its SX-2 Supercomputer, which was the first to feature multiple processor cores.
Just a year later, NEC Technologies UK Ltd came into being and began manufacturing printers, early mobile phone technology, monitors for computers and video recorders.
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The company had to shed 10,000 workers in 2009, as it had to consolidate its position during the financial crisis. Whilst its semiconductor business channels have been a little sluggish in recent years, it has been involved in some major projects in related fields, having been commissioned by the likes of Google, Singtel, and KDDI to create an undersea pipeline linking Japan and the US. A feat completed in 2016.
Whilst it may not have been the most influential company in the IT world in recent years, it still has a large market share, particularly in Japan, where it enjoys almost 25% of the business available.
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