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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made
8-6 Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII and IX
Everyone remembers the exact moment when they realized their Phantom Menace sandwich was filled with shit. For me, it was the scene on Tatooine where Qui-Gon was talking and Jar Jar was snatching fruit from the bowl with his tongue, eating like an insect. Annoyed, Qui-Gon reached out and snatched Jar Jar's tongue out of the air, then held it in his fist while he talked. That was when I realized I was watching a cartoon.
Worse, it was a cartoon I already knew the ending to. How did this happen?
The decision to do prequels:
It's not just that we knew how the story ended when we walked into the theater (me, I would have killed off Obi-Wan in Episode II just to fuck with everybody), it's that this isn't the interesting part of the saga. Adolf Hitler's childhood wasn't interesting. So, Darth Vader used to be a wooden, whining kid. The pre-rebellion galaxy was embroiled in a series of boring bureaucratic disputes. Who gives a shit, George?
He should have made the sequels, damn it. He should have done them right away, in the late '80s, with the original cast.
With a good sequel, you can expand the universe, introduce new characters, explore more of the existing ones, take what we know and push it in radical new directions. With a prequel, all that imagination is devoted to devising ways to shoehorn the existing characters into the old story, to pretend they all knew each other back then. The universe gets smaller as we find out that every page of history contains the same dozen names. The fantastic, magical world starts to seem like something some guy just sat down and wrote.
The CGI scourge:
If you're not sure what I mean, try to spot the difference between this:
And this:
The first one looks like they're actually standing on something (Jabba's flying barge thing). See the scratches? The beat-up paint? Nobody notices that during the movie, but it's a subconscious little hint that this vehicle has been used. It has a history. It's a real object. The second shot, you look at it and expect little power-ups to be floating around. You look for your control pad.
Thank you, CGI. Thank you for letting the director project the most expansive reaches of his imagination into a bright, neon digital rendering that doesn't for one second look like a universe you could live in. Don't get me wrong, when I saw that space battle in Revenge of the Sith I did turn to my friend and say, "Damn, those are some phat-ass effects!" When I saw the barge scene from Return of the Jedi 20 years ago, all I could think was, "I wonder how Luke is going to get out of this one!"
It gets worse. Have you guys seen other films with Hayden Christensen? He's not a bad actor. Natalie Portman? Nominated for an Oscar. Put them in the Star Wars prequels and they turn into mannequins.
Why? Because, it's almost impossible to act in front of a green screen, often interacting with characters also represented by a green screen. True, it was probably hard for Harrison Ford to look at a fellow actor wearing a rubber mask and act like he's really an alien, but at least he's there.
It's infinitely harder to stand alone in an empty room with green walls, without even the puppet to react to, while the director shouts, "OK, you've landed on a fantastic world full of alien life forms! The man comes to help you off the space ship ... look! There's a huge creature to your right! React to him! React! No, further to your right! No, he's taller than that! Look up! You're amazed! Put amazement on your face!"
I couldn't do it. Neither could Samuel L. Jackson.
George Lucas got older:
No, I'm not saying old people can't make movies. But, ask yourself: How did the same people who gathered in naked, stoned crowds for this ...
... grow up to make this show a hit:
It's almost like they lost something along the way, isn't it? Well, so did George Lucas.
Here's something unpleasant: All art comes from demons. Not real demons, in most cases, but demons of angst and horrible memories and sexual frustration. You get beat up in school because, while the cool kids are putting bruises on each other on the football field, you were sitting on the steps writing your science-fiction stories. That fear and tension that winds itself around your soul like steel wire as you try nervously to sneak out of the locker room before the big kids give you a Wedgie and a Tittie-Twister and a Dirty Sanchez, all that builds up into adulthood. Art is how you let it out.
It was an angsty bastard who introduced Han Solo to the world by showing him ruthlessly blowing the face off a mafia bill collector, shooting him from under the table and then cooly walking away and paying his tab. Lucas introduced Obi-Wan Kenobi by having him end a bar fight by slicing a guy's arm off.
Lucas didn't flinch at the thought of blowing up the peaceful planet of Alderaan and killing billions. None of this was gratuitous; it told us the story and what the stakes were.
Angst drives it. Now, if the artist is lucky, that angst goes away. If the audience is lucky, it doesn't. The art dies with the angst, you see. By middle age the artist finds himself watching his old films and trying to make ones that sort of look the same, or trying to make films his children can watch. It gets bland. It's not just with movies, you can start to see this happening with Eminem. As he gets his life together his songs sound more and more like remixes and covers of the old ones. He'll never do Bonnie & Clyde again.
So what happened to the sequels?
Millions of fans and one movie studio and one toy company were all clamoring for them. But, I'm going to guess that after devoting 10 years to the project, Lucas and everybody else involved was just sick to death of Star Wars.
Still ... say he had taken a year off, then come back and signed Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher (what were the latter two even doing at the time?) and started filming a new trilogy in 1984.
I don't know what the plot would have been, I like to think the 1984 George Lucas would have had some good ideas. Personally, I would have killed off Luke at the end of Episode VIII. Let the little bastards chew on that for three years.
#5. A Doom that isn't a huge turd
I'm talking about a Doom directed by somebody who knows horror and knows action. I'm talking Paul Verhoeven, or John Carpenter.
Look, I don't expect a Doom movie to be freaking Citizen Kane. It's OK for the dialogue to be simple and stupid and I don't care if you cast a wrestler as the lead character. This is going to be a "B" movie.
But a "B" movie doesn't have to be shitty. You hear that, Hollywood? You can make an unapologetic action movie and it can still be good. After all, in the world of video games, Doom isn't a "B" title. It's top of the line, the games always made by top developers with top budgets. Don't give me a knock off with a cut-rate action director (any Andrzej Bartkowiak fans out there?) with a creature effects budget less than that of the Doom 3 video game.
No, Doom needs somebody like a Paul Verhoeven, the guy who took a screenplay called RoboCop, a concept so cheesy it could easily have played like freaking Inspector Gadget, and turned in a relentlessly brutal, bloody film that originally earned an "X" Rating from the MPAA.
Yeah, that's a guy's arm getting blown off, dark ropes of gore stringing out of the wound. ThatDoom should have been, "B" movie horror and violence done with imagination. Have you seen Verhoeven's Starship Troopers? Imagine that film without all the political bullshit that nobody involved understood anyway.
If you couldn't get Verhoeven, how about John Carpenter? Remember that moment in The Thing when the severed head grows legs and crawls away like a spider?
Imagine that director given a blank check to portray hordes of creatures literally from the bowels of hell. We're talking about a hard R-rated Doom that would even have adults sleeping with a night light for the next month.
So what happened?
The Chicago Cubs, that's what. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908. Why? Because Cub fans sell out Wrigley Field every game, regardless of how bad the team is. Management makes money regardless of whether or not the team is winning, so why bother?
Likewise, studios think video game fans will pile into the theater on opening weekend regardless of whether or not any effort was put into the film. Will that change? Come ask me after I've seen the Peter Jackson-produced Halo, should they ever decide to actually make it.


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Republicans! To the barricades, mes enfants!
From Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Senator Rand Paul declared his candidacy for the presidency. The run-up had all the pageantry now associated with such affairs: prayers, recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance, a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, and well-produced campaign videos galore.
"It's the economy, stupid!" The weirdest thing about the onrushing 2016 presidential cycle is the scarcity of a GOP economic growth theme.
As noted in my preceding column Dr. Paul Krugmans reflections, as published in the UK Guardian at the end of 2012, Paul Krugman: Asimovs Foundation novels grounded my economics, are of keen interest. Prof. Krugman there wrote, I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation.
Paul Krugman, a few years ago, wrote at length to extol the magnum opus of science fiction grandmaster, Isaac Asimov, theFoundation Trilogy. Prof. Krugmans reflections thereon are of keen interest.
Libertarianism no longer seriously can be considered marginal. It has emerged as an important part of our public discourse.
Both Republicans and Democrats are struggling with, rather than changing, a gratuitously poor status quo. Memo to our political leaders: When all of the answers lead to pain for you and for America its time to change the question.
One of the most frightening forces at work in the world today is the tendency of Big Government toward perversion of science.
On February 27th, at the Fed headquarters at the corner of 20th and Constitution, the Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Dr. Janet Yellen, and Governor Lail Brainard, met with a delegation of 21 center right figures.
A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers.
Sen. Rand Paul is drawing liberal fire from many left wing commentators, now including Prof. Paul Krugman. Many of the criticisms are badly off base.
Whether or not one supports Audit the Fed, the argument really cannot rest on the Feds independence. Fed independence currently is a polite fiction.
The fact that Bush recognizes the possibility and implications of of a 4% rate of economic growth is extraordinary. Economic growth is not merely the best way. It is the only way to let the middle class thrive.
Without what would come to be called macroeconomic intervention by the government, the Roaring 20s swiftly followed the Forgotten Depression. Then Black Tuesday would ensue.
Rand Paul recently sat with me to share some of his views. The insights on his worldview left me persuaded that he deserves to be considered the most important public intellectual serving in the United States Senate.
The lack of a moment of celebration of the end of the Cold War cheated America out of an opportunity to reorient itself. Silence submerged the lessons of an epic epoch.
The real issue of money in politics is about the Fed, not the Kochs. The Feds political impact is orders of magnitude greater than all the billionaires money, bright and dark, left and right, combined.
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Boehner may well be the worst thing to happen to progressives since December 26, 1991 when Gorbachev dissolved the USSR. The left understands this better than does the right.
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I have a dataset of building footprints vectorised from a raster dataset. The dataset is currently just a vector representation of the raster data. I would like a polygon dataset that only has vertices at the corners of the building. I have attempted to use the Simplify command in PostGIS with limited success. Is there a better way?
There are many algorithms dedicated to building simplification. You may have a look at this website for an overview. See also this question. You could use:
These transformations may be enough for your need. It can be interesting to combine them.
I am almost 100% sure none of these algorithms are implemented in PostGIS. Some are implemented in the Opencarto java library I am developing. Let me know if you want to test it!
Will avoid creating derived geometries (polygons in particular) that are invalid http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-1.5SVN/ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology.html
should be a better output than Simplify
check your geometry first and after
Just a thought -- I wonder if something like this might do the trick:
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Is it possible to rename the wp-admin folder?
I know I could just rename it, but unless it's supported by the code lots of things would break.
If I use a custom folder name, it will make it slightly more secure, security by obscurity and all that.
Unfortunately it's not currently possible nor does there appear to be will to consider it as a modification as you can see by this recent thread on the wp-hackers list and this ticket on trac.
If you'd really like to see this be revisited I'd suggest:
No, you cannot rename the folder. The path is hard-coded in multiple locations throughout WordPress' source.
Security through obscurity isn't really security anyway.
If you want to keep subscriber-level users from seeing the wp-admin directory, you can create standalone versions of the login/registration and profile/edit pages in their own directories. Then, you can protect your admin folder via htaccess or IP restriction. (Though if you do this, you should make an exception for the admin-ajax file, as some plugins use it to add, um, AJAX functionality).
This approach gives you the "obscurity" you want (which doesn't really do much, but often makes clients and managers feel better), and also adds some real security by limiting access to the admin. Plus, honestly, a URL that just says "/login" looks a lot nicer than "wp-login.php".
It should go without saying that this doesn't make your site bulletproof. But it's a nice, basic enhancement.
There is actually a very good tutorial on this here:
It explains how to change the folder name, the wp-admin login url, and make sure that login.php redirects to the main site so that people can go there directly.
An approach that is officially supported by WordPress is to move the WordPress installation files into a sub-directory, while keeping the site in the root, like so:
Site URL:
Admin URL:
While this does not give you complete freedom in changing your admin url, it means you can prefix it with anything you like. This is just as good from a security point of view. It also has the benefit of moving all the WordPress installation files into a location unknown to users, so it should be part of any wordpress hardening strategy.
From the WordPress Codex: Giving WordPress Its Own Directory
Also, note that while this security scheme is called Obscure URL, it is not the same thing as security by obscurity. Obscure URL is a perfectly valid security scheme that is just as good as a password, while security by obscurity relies on using secret unproven procedures.
The same caveats apply though as with passwords: Call the custom folder something like
People keep asking this question, but people keep marking it as a duplicate. The chosen answer for this however, really isn't an answer to the question.
To rename the wordpress admin you need to take two steps.
In the following code I'm using dashboard as the name of my new wp-admin. Change dashboard in the code below to whatever you want to name your new admin.
First you need to tell wordpress you want to change the admin url.
On line 2558 wp-includes/link-template.php is the code that dertermines the admin url.
Using the
You can test to see what your new url is by doing this:
However, if you'll notice when clicking through the admin that not everything works and some of the links may give you 404 not found or something similar.
Second, change the .htaccess in your wordpress root directory and add the following in the begining before anything else.
Now, I'm not an expert when it comes to editing .htaccess so some of this might not be necessary. However, I've never found it not to work.
Here's the whole thing. Create a file and drop in your plugins folder or mu-plugins folder. (remember to change every instance of dashboard to your preferred admin url)
I haven't had any in over a year using this method. You might notice that wp-admin will still work which kind of sucks, but it's more of a precaution than anything. I had some poorly written plugins that hardcoded wp-admin in some places that wouldn't load when trying to block or redirect wp-admin. I'm sure there is a way to do this with the htaccess, but I haven't successfully figured it out. Also, this hasn't been tested on multisite or anything like that ever.
Update: Alternative Approach
This is pretty similar, but for some reason my above answer didn't work on every host I tried.
Add to
Create a file in mu-plugins folder called
Note: This approach seemed to work better on some hosts, but still had the issue of not redirecting wp-admin links to the new admin url. Here's an approach I tried below. While this below doesn't work I think it's on the right track. I'm not totally sure what hook to use. htaccess might be a better alternative but I kept getting redirect loops when I tried that way.
One way to lock down the administrative control panel is to utilize .htaccess rules. Just add an .htaccess file to the root of the wp-admin directory. After you add this file, just add the following rule to deny all IP addresses and allow only your IP:
If you want to rename the wp-admin with the aim of adding additional layer of security to your WordPress installation, you can also try the Roots / Bedrock WordPress Boilerplate. It can help isolate the web root to limit access to non-web files. It can also help in organizing/securing the whole WordPress core by putting it in its own subdirectory like renaming wp-content/ to app/ as well as these additional features:
You can also check their GitHub Repo for a more detailed usage:
Take a look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stealth-login/ this may help you out.
No it's not possible to rename the wp-admin folder with any short of code or htaccess hack,
In the past i done the same for a client by performing a complete folder search via Coda (the editor i use) for the tag "wp-admin, wp-content...etc" and i remove the "wp-" from the files.
After that you will be able to install it but:
In all the ways i don't suggest you to do something like this, leave it as is and try to implement a User Login/Register/Profile page to give your users/clients a better experience.
You can also add a Post form from the frontend so the Admin and Users with the Capabilities to write a post can do it from the frontend.
Also you can take a look for some nice plugins here that do the same with more functionality.


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I enjoy shooting panorama and at present simply rotate the ballhead to line up each segment. Obviously, this is restricted to single row images. I would like to shoot multi row panos and have been deliberating over the NN5.
I have a Canon 1D MkIII and use 24-105mm, 17mm TS-E and 70-300mm lenses.
Would the NN5 starter package be suitable for my purposes? I don't intend to shoot 360 degree, simply wide vistas.
As I don't want to shoot 'sophisticated' panos would I be right in thinking that I do not need the RD16 rotator?
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STEUBENVILLE - The bus transporting the St. Clairsville boys' soccer team to Harding Stadium for its Division II sectional tournament game with Harrison Central Wednesday night was delayed by blasting in the construction zone on Ohio 7 between Rayland and Mingo Junction.
However, the third-seeded Red Devils (10-4-1) didn't show any ill effects as they scored on a penalty kick in the second minute and tacked on five more goals in the first half en route to a 6-2 blasting of the Huskies (6-9-1) on the Reno Field turf.
With the victory, St. Clairsville advanced to Tuesday night's clash with top-seeded Minerva (12-5) back at the Steubenville facility. The start time is 6 p.m. with that winner moving on to a one-game district final against the Beaver Local-Steubenville winner. That game is scheduled for Oct. 26, also in Steubenville.
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CENTRAL'S David Forrester (26) and St. Clairsville's Zach Oliver race after a loose ball during Wednesday's Divsion II sectional game at Steubenville's Harding Stadium. The Red Devils prevailed, 6-2, and will take on Minerva on Tuesday. Additional images may be found at cu.timesleaderonline.com
"We wanted to jump out strong, and we did," St. Clairsville head coach Gary Watt said. "We were clicking on all cylinders and a lot of good things were happening. I was able to get everyone in the game, and that's always good."
The Huskies, which eliminated Cambridge in their first-ever OHSAA sectional game earlier in the week, were called for a handball in the box in the second minute.
St. Clairsville senior Taylor Wissmann lined up for the penalty kick and drilled the ball along the rug to the left of Harrison Central goalkeeper Logan Starr. Starr made a lunging effort, but the ball was already behind him for a 1-0 count.
Just over a minute later, junior Zach Oliver chipped the ball over top of Starr from 15 yards out after taking a pass from Ty Boone. That made it 2-0 and was the first of four net-finders on the night for Oliver, which gives him 22 for the season.
Harrison Central finally was able to get a shot on goal when Conner Pecar got behind the Red Devils' solid defense and fired a shot that goalkeeper Izaac Wiley made a diving stop on before covering up in the 22nd minute.
Oliver completed his natural hat trick when he pounded the ball into the back of the net after the Huskies weren't able to clear it from their zone.
Boone made it 5-0 when his shot from a nearly impossible angle on the right wing found its way into the back of the net. The laser scooted along the carpet and trickled through Starr's legs.
Oliver completed his fine night and his team's scoring when he got behind the Huskies' back line and let loose a shot that was too hot for Starr to handle. Wissmann logged the assist.
"Zach had a good night, but we put a lot of emphasis on playing as a team," Watt added. "We put on the hard hat and go to work. Tonight we did just that."
With the game out of reach, Watt substituted freely in the second half.
"We rotated a lot of kids in and out of the game in the second half," he said.
Harrison Central never gave up and eventually got on the scoreboard.
Pecar scored a pair of late goals for the Huskies to make it 6-2.
"Down 6-0 at the half, I told the kids to come out and play like the score was 0-0," Harrison Central head coach Eric Sheets said. "I wanted to see a good effort until the end, and the kids gave that.
"We battled until the end," he added. "I couldn't ask for anymore from this group. If you would've told me at the start of the season that we would win six games and tie another in our first year, I would've told you I'd be elated, and I am."
Wiley stopped both shots on goal that he faced before giving way to Devan Case midway through the second half.
Starr was credited with 10 saves, while Drew Mizer had two in relief.


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Benedict XVI & the bureaucratization of the church.
Just posted, Massimo Faggioli on the pope's decision to resign (yes, by the way, canon law calls it resignation, not abdication):
Many Catholics are temped to spiritualize Benedicts decision, but doing so avoids grappling with the unique features of the modern papacy. Catholicism has had a long, and often fraught, relationship with secular political power. The Catholic Church is, of course, heir of the Roman Empire, which emerged centuries after the turbulentbut long successfulmarriage of ecclesial and state power held by the emperors Constantine and Theodosius (between 313 and 380). More recently, the Catholic Church showed its spiritual, cultural, and political might when John Paul IIwith the help of Ronald Reaganbroke down the Berlin Wall and put an end to Communist rule in Eastern Europe.Those examples suggest a strong dynamic of attraction-repulsion between Catholicism and imperial power. But how has the global church survived as an institution, given a social and political context thats seen great upheaval over the past century? The age of colonial empires gave way to financial empires. A world dominated by Western powers is yielding to one increasingly oriented toward the South and East. The era of Catholicism as a the state church in Europe has given way to the contemporary world of religious pluralism and freedomand decreased Catholic practice. This is the long-term historical context of the papacy Benedict XVI will resign: one that became more monarchical in the nineteenth century (as a reaction against the democratization of modern political systems), and that is now more centralized than ever beforedespite Vatican II.
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Do the editors concur with his claim that John Paul II "broke down the Berlin Wall?"A few dissenting views:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/06/who_brought_down_the_be...
Unfortunately Rome is more charlemagne than Jesus. The vatican celebrates empire more than the crucifixion. Benedict got into his empire hat when he objected to Turkey entering Europe. Even to this day the Catholic encyclopedia ascribes "moral ascendancy" to the constant wars of Charlemagne. It was in this tradition that Cardinal Spellman advised to bomb the Vietcong. The cross is really "foolishness" to Rome while the empire must be preserved notwithstanding the lip service to the gospel. Words can proliferate but actions always speak louder.
A monarch who resigns because he is no longer physically fit for the job is also saying that he has nobody to help him. And whose fault is that?Today another possible narrative comes to mind. The Curia is dysfunctional. If Pope Benedict simply let nature take its course without resigning, then, as control is gradually slipping away from him, the Vatican would be more in more at the mercy of bureaucrats, and chaos might erupt, before or after his death. Divisions and internal wars would develop; there might be some sort of breakdown. Instead, resigning is a last act of power and control on his part (for the greater good of the Church, of course): an effort, while he still can, to control the transition and prevent chaos. Yesterday in his homily he said: "I am thinking in particular of the sins against the unity of the Church, of the divisions in the body of the Church. Living Lent in a more intense ecclesial communion, overcoming rivalry is a sign " - he's trying to preserve unity through the transition to the next pope.That narrative would be consistent with the bizarre rumors that claim that he would be willing to continue "helping" and "providing advice" - which, to me at least, seems like a singularly bad idea...
I guess Pope Benedict was resigned to the fact that his health was failing and that he could no longer be up to the job (and maybe that he could not accomplish the goals that he set our to do e.g, re-evangelize Europe and reunite the SSPX). So, he resigned.
I think that the "tipping point" in his decision was the Vatileaks. I think that we will find out that Benedict had more enemies in the Curia than we know. Can it be that he just happened to leave the documents in a place where his butler could find and leak them? And, it would not surprise me at all that the pope appointed Vigan to be the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States to protect him. (Vigano wrote Benedict on March 27, 2011: "Blessed Father, my transfer in this moment would provoke confusion and discouragement for those who thought it was possible to clean up so many situations of corruption and abuse of office".)Maybe I read too many Drew mysteries when I was young.
Grant: The pertinent canon uses the verb renuntio for which my big Latin dictionary gives: To retract, revoke, recall, refuse; to give up, break off, protest against, disclaim, renounce."
Yes, Joe. And the English translation provided on the Vatican website renders it "resign."
There is always suspicion when everyone seeks the highest place at the table.
Article published in the newspaper "Europa" on February 15, on the pope's speech on Vatican II yesterdayhttp://www.europaquotidiano.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013_0215Europ... rilassatezza di Benedetto XVI che parla del concilio Vaticano II ai preti della diocesi di Roma, di cui vescovo, tipica di una persona che si tolta di dosso un peso enorme. Un papa visibilmente sollevato e apparentemente in buona salute, parlando per 50 minuti a braccio e con chiarezza ammirevole - tiene ai preti romani una appassionata e a tratti commovente lezione sul concilio Vaticano II. Nel suo discorso Joseph Ratzinger ha riproposto non solo la sua visione sul Vaticano II, ma anche aneddoti personali, come il suo rapporto con Giovanni XXIII e con il cardinale Frings durante il concilio, e accenni alla questione della responsabilit della chiesa e dei cristiani nella Shoah.Ma il centro del discorso nella contrapposizione tra il concilio dei padri del concilio, quello della fede e il concilio dei media. Il paradosso che questa lezione sulla spaccatura tra le due interpretazioni del Vaticano II viene trasmessa proprio dai mass media dal Centro Televisivo Vaticano, ma poi ripresa da moltissime altre reti e giornali. Questa contrapposizione tra concilio teologico (dei vescovi, dei teologi, dei credenti) e concilio sociologico (dei mass media e del mondo nella sua accezione metafisica) si ricollega allomelia del mercoled delle ceneri, in cui il papa dimissionario aveva puntato lindice contro i cristiani che vogliono compiacere il pubblico e non il Signore, che cercano lapplauso e non la verit: si riferiva anche alla Curia romana, proprio come fece nellomelia pre-conclave del 2005 che lo port al pontificato.Siamo qui al nocciolo del pensiero ratzingeriano: unantropologia agostiniana fondamentalmente pessimistica, una Weltanschauung che vede il mondo e la chiesa come due forze in contrapposizione e irriconciliabili se non a prezzo della eliminazione del carattere cristiano della chiesa. Il concilio Vaticano II di Ratzinger un concilio ancora valido nella sua teologia, specialmente in quella relativa allinterpretazione della Parola di Dio nella Scrittura, la teologia della costituzione Dei Verbum. Ma il concilio fu sciaguratamente traviato dallinterpretazione interessata datane dai mass media e su questo ieri Benedetto XVI stato misericordioso da quei teologi e cattolici convinti che il concilio avesse finalmente riconciliato Chiesa e Mondo. Questa spaccatura riecheggia quella del discorso pi celebre di Benedetto XVI sullinterpretazione del concilio, quello del 22 dicembre 2005, in cui il papa distingueva tra ermeneutica della continuit e della riforma e ermeneutica della discontinuit e della rottura. Quel discorso venne presto piegato dagli spin doctors del cattolicesimo tradizionalista in una netta spaccatura tra continuit e discontinuit (si veda su questo Interpretare il Vaticano II. Storia di un dibattito, EDB, 160 pagine, appena arrivato in libreria). Il pensiero ratzingeriano pi raffinato di questo: ma tra gli errori del pontificato vi anche quello di non essere riuscito a moderare gli istinti reazionari di molti ratzingeriani assai meno raffinati di Ratzinger. Il papa non parteciper al conclave, ma questo discorso e quelli delle prossime due settimane daranno segnali importanti per il posizionamento di molti cardinali che si preparano al conclave. Basti leggere la lectio magistralis del cardinale Scola al convegno romano sul concilio, tenuto nellottobre 2012: in quel discorso (ottimamente edito dalla rivista Il Regno di Bologna), Scola faceva sua la lettura ratzingeriana del concilio, ma offriva significativi scostamenti dalla vulgata officiale del ratzingerismo dei blog reazionari. I cardinali in corsa devono camminare su una linea sottile, quella tra linterpretazione del Vaticano II di Benedetto XVI e la loro propria visione del concilio: sullabilit di giocare tra il gi di Benedetto XVI e il non ancora del suo successore si decider buona parte del conclave del 2013 e del futuro della chiesa cattolica.
Google translate: "The relaxation of Benedict XVI speaks of the Second Vatican Council to the priests of the diocese of Rome, of which he is a bishop, is typical of a person who has taken a huge weight off. A pope visibly relieved - and apparently in good health, speaking for 50 minutes at arm and with admirable clarity - the Roman priests held a passionate and at times touching lesson on the Second Vatican Council. In his speech, Joseph Ratzinger has presented not only his vision of the Second Vatican Council, but also personal anecdotes, such as his relationship with John XXIII and Cardinal Frings during the Council, and references to the question of the responsibility of the church and of Christians in Holocaust .But the center of the discussion is the contrast between "the council of the fathers of the council, that of faith" and "the council of the media." The paradox is that this lesson on the rift between the two interpretations of Vatican II is transmitted just by the media - from the Vatican Television Center, but then picked up by many other networks and newspapers. This contrast between theological council (of bishops, theologians, believers) and sociological council (the media and the "world" in its metaphysical sense) relates Ash Wednesday homily, in which the pope had put the resigning 'index against Christians who want to please "the public" and not the Lord, who seek the applause and not the truth: also referred to the Roman Curia, as he did in his homily pre-conclave of 2005 that brought him to the papacy .Here we are at the core of Ratzinger's thought: basically pessimistic Augustinian anthropology, a Weltanschauung which sees the world and the church as two forces in opposition and irreconcilable at the cost of the elimination of the "Christian character" of the church. The Second Vatican Council is a council of Ratzinger still valid in its theology, especially that relating to the interpretation of the Word of God in Scripture, theology of the Constitution Dei Verbum. But the council was unfortunately misguided interpretation interested interpreted by the media and - on this yesterday, Benedict XVI was merciful - from those theologians and Catholics believe that the council had finally reconciled to the Church and the World.This split echoes that of the most famous speech of Benedict XVI on the interpretation of the Council, that of Dec. 22, 2005, in which the pope made a distinction between the "hermeneutic of continuity and reform" and "hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture". That speech was soon bent by the spin doctors of traditional Catholicism in a clear split between "continuity and discontinuity" (see this Interpreting Vatican II. History of a debate, EDB, 160 pages, just arrived in the library). Ratzinger's thought is more refined than this, but among the errors of the papacy there is also that of not being able to moderate the reactionary instincts of many Ratzingerians much less refined Ratzinger.The Pope will not take part in the conclave, but this speech and those of the next two weeks will give important signals for the positioning of many cardinals who are preparing for the conclave. Just read the keynote of Cardinal Scola at the conference on the Roman council, held in October 2012: in that speech (best magazine published by The Kingdom of Bologna), Scola was Ratzinger's reading of the council, but offered significant deviations from the official Vulgate the ratzingerismo blogs reactionaries. The Cardinals running must walk a fine line, the one between the interpretation of Vatican II by Benedict XVI and their own vision of the Council: on the ability to play between the already and the not yet Benedict XVI of his successor will be decided much of the conclave of 2013 and the future of the Catholic Church."Google translate does a pretty reasonable job, overall, but there are a couple of exceptions. What's that about a "resigning index" in paragraph 2? And something about misguided interpretation and theologians in paragraph 3?
thanks Claire:- instead of "resigning" there should be "pointing finger"- at par 3: "But the council was unfortunately misguided on the basis of a popular interpretation conveyed by the media and on this, yesterday, Benedict XVI was merciful by those theologians and Catholics who believe that the council had finally made peace between the Church and modern world- the magazine that published Cardinal Scola's speech on Vatican II (very interesting, looking at the conclave) is not "The Kingdom", but "Il Regno" http://www.ilregno.it/index.php
Benedicts opposing of the hermeneutic of discontinuity with the hermeneutic of reform creates a distinction that is both false and harmful. First, its vague enough to be true -- fill in what youd like on either side and you can justify it: discontinuity, bad; reform, good. Second, his implication that the media created a bogus sociological council ignores most of what actually went on in the intervening years: feminism, the civil rights movement, the fall from grace of institutional authority, space flight, the advances that science has brought us in our understanding of ourselves and the material world, the explosion of the Internet and mobile communications, the immediacy of social media, the booming of capitalism, and the world-flattening expansion of globalization. All these things have had an enormous impact on the way in which people see themselves and the world around them, including and in particular, their faith. They can in no way be written off as a bogus sociological council. The world were talking about here is Gods creation. Third, his actions have conflated the restoration of traditional forms of worship (not a bad thing in itself in a church that draws its lifeblood from tradition) with the maintenance of a painfully strangling autocracy. Nothing says we cant have a Church that revels in mystery and tradition and also has a form of governance that reflects the progress the modern world has made in the past couple of hundred years, including practices such as fair representation, checks and balances, the rule of law, free speech, accountability, transparency, modern standards of justice, etc. etc. etc. A combination of the richness of the Catholic sacramental traditions with modern methods of governance is a combination has not yet been tried, and wont be, if we keep looping back and forth between the hermeneutic of discontinuity and the hermeneutic of reform.
Claire @ 02/14/2013 - 1:27 pm: you said chaos might erupt.Im curious about what you mean by chaos when we already have these situations:1. Wholesale abandonment of this church by people in Europe, Ireland, Australia and the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of the faithful simply walking away every year.2. Ever-increasing numbers of European and Irish priests banding together to say enough is enough about so many things.3. Rapid diminution of the ranks of the ordained priesthood with the average age of those left being somewhere in the mid 60s.4. Increasing rejection of authoritarian clericalism by the laity.5. Continued fear of women religious by an aged male episcopacy.6. General abandonment of the churchs proscriptions against birth control, abortion, divorce and same-sex marriage.7. Continued insistence on the European trappings of a church that has most of its growth outside of Europe and North America .. a failure to learn from the Chinese Rites and other similar scandals of the past.8. Massive inroads into formerly Catholic countries by sects because of a failure to understand or admit that baptism is not the same as conversion when it comes to being a Christian.9. Significant dissatisfaction with liturgical improvements that have been dictated by people who mistake uniformity for unity.10. Significant rejection by citizens of the unwarranted interference in politics by members of the episcopacy.And, if I bothered to take more time, Im sure that there are a few more examples that I could enumerate.
Chaos in the Vatican. Some foretaste was given last year during the Vatileaks episode, I believe.
Jeanne Follman, "Nothing says we cant have a Church that revels in mystery and tradition and also has a form of governance that reflects the progress the modern world has made in the past couple of hundred years, including practices such as fair representation, checks and balances, the rule of law, free speech, accountability, transparency, modern standards of justice, etc. etc. etc. A combination of the richness of the Catholic sacramental traditions with modern methods of governance is a combination has not yet been tried, ..."This is a pretty good description of the Episcopal church and Anglicanism in general - mystery, sacrament and tradition, a form of governance that provides ALL members of the church a voice in their own church, and all of the other attributes you mention.
You're right, Anne. Anglicans etc. still have Vespers AND a sane attitude toward birth control. A good start and one we could emulate. Unfortunately, neither Anglicans or Catholics have made much progress in explaining the mysteries of the faith in understandable, coherent ways to the modern world. But that's another discussion altogether!


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Blues 101 - Keeping the blues alive in Saskatoon
Blues in Schools program teaches music and much more to local students
This year marks the Saskatoon Blues Society's (SBS) 11th annual Saskatoon Blues Festival, a testament to the hard work of a lot of dedicated Toon Town blues lovers. 2013 also marks the 11th anniversary of the Blues In The Schools (BITS) program, and along with acting as a vehicle to keep local youth excited about music and the arts, it's also an extremely effective way to provide students with valuable education regarding racism, class conflict and music history, in an accessible and interesting format.
Blues in the Schools, founded in Chicago in 1978, is an international youth outreach program dedicated to teaching school-age kids about blues and blues history. BITS takes that history and uses it to discuss larger social issues. When the local program began, the SBS brought blues artists to Saskatoon to conduct workshops (called 'Blues 101'). Blues 101 mixes performance and lecture together to create a presentation that touches on difficult concepts most notably racism.
"It's really easy for people to understand the discrimination that blacks have suffered. Kids really get that," Gord MacAulay, coordinator of 2013 BITS says. "So we can take that, and then say, 'okay, so how does that apply to First Nations people in Canada? How does that apply to the way people treat Muslims?' We've had a very positive response from teachers who've told us that after Blues 101, their classes have had really lively discussions about tolerance and respect.
We want to say, 'listen to all sorts of music then decide what you like,'" MacAulay says. "Don't listen to an artist just because your friends or the media decided that the artist was cool. We want to show kids all sorts of different directions, to help instill some confidence so that they can make their own choices, instead of just following the crowd."
The SBS is pleased to announce the SaskTel Blues in the Schools program for the 2013 Saskatoon Blues Festival celebrations will feature winner of three 2013 Maple Blues Awards, Canadian artist Steve Strongman and long-time educator Steve James from Austin, Texas along with help from local bluesman B.C. Read. Both are also performing as main stage artists at this year's Blues Festival. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have them visiting over 3000 students in our local schools.
SaskTel Blues in the Schools Week is Monday February 25th - Friday March 1st.
More information on our primary presenters can be found by following the links to their respective websites Steve Strongman and Steve James.
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Supply and demand situations should decide prices, and the two sides will study how they can eliminate oil-link pricing and the possible ramifications by such an elimination, a top Japanese official said.
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TOKYO -- Japan and Europe will start a joint study
about liquefied natural gas, seeking ways to lower prices of
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Senior officials of the European Commission and METI will
have a first meeting of the study in Brussels later Friday, a
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"Prices of LNG under long-term contracts are more or less
linked to oil in both regions, though we are not sure if it's
reasonable [to price LNG this way]," said Koji Yamashita, the
METI official set up the meeting.
Supply and demand situations should decide prices, and the
two sides will study how they can eliminate oil-link pricing
and the possible ramifications by such an elimination, Mr.
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Since the Fukushima accident in March 2011, Japan's demand
for LNG has risen sharply as utilities ran gas-fired power
plants on full steam to make up for idle nuclear power
As a result, the country's annual demand for LNG rose 23%
and the bill surged by 75% in the next two years, helping widen
Japan's trade deficit, data from the government show.
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Orchard St. Ravine is a 2.2 acre site comprised of two Parks owned parcels of land separated by an unimproved street right-of-way (38th Ave SW), with another unimproved right-of-way (SW Orchard St.) bordering the northeast side of the site also included in the greenspace. The majority of the woodland site contains a madrone-Douglas fir forest situated on west and southwest facing slopes, while the remainder of the site is fairly flat and open with dense thickets of blackberry. The forest type found at Orchard St. is one that is fairly scarce in Seattle data reveals that only 52 acres out of 2700 acres of Seattles urban forest in Parks ownership that was surveyed contains the conifer-madrone forest that is present at the Orchard St. site. As is seen throughout the city, the woods exhibit signs of decline and invasion by non-native species.
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If yes, how? Also, I know you can't do it for arbitrary statements about real numbers, but that's not what I'm asking, and by "real" numbers, I mean the numbers constructible from 1, -, /, and the operations mentioned in the title.
Also, I don't care about numbers that can't be constructed from said operations and constant.


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Citing wikipedia: "...the first confirmed sighting of the continent is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny". I wonder why, especially because its location is not so far away from South America.
The existence of a Southern Land was postulated by the Greeks, on grounds of symmetry. Aristotle (Meterologica, II, 5) writes:
The closest historical episode of settlement in the polar region that I can think of is the Norse settlement of Greenland. The differences are striking.
The Norse were a seafaring, agricultural society. They could rely on a (comparatively, see below) advanced political system to support their expeditions. Settlements in Greenland were supplied with local agriculture and trade, and trees were notably growing in the region for them to build and cook. They remained small, because the climate was nevertheless rigid and there weren't many suitable places were to create settlements. Climate change, alongside the arrival of the Inuit people, determined the failure of their colonization attempts.
On the other hemisphere, the only candidate people we can reasonably think of are:
Of these, only the Polynesian had sufficient seafaring abilities to reach Antarctica in great numbers. Coming from Equatorial and Tropical regions, they were unprepared to settle in the harsh (euphemism) climate of Antarctica. Even though in the Medieval Warm Period the climate could have been milder, it was still a challenge for the Norse in Greenland. The Arctic temperatures in turn are milder than those of the antipodal region, so even if there was discovery, most certainly there has been no colonization.
The South American Yaghan people, used simple canoes to travel between islands. Their adaptation to cold does not seem adequate to face Antarctica's climate. (Compare e.g. to Inuit's clothings).
This rules out any previous settlement.
As for the discovery, we must consider that none of these people left written records, so we must rely on oral accounts.
Polynesian oral history relates that a great explorer, Hui-Te-Rangiora, sailing far south of New Zealand around 650 A.D., discovered a "white land":
from Maori associations with the Antarctic, Turi McFarlane, Canterbury University, 2008
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There is a fast that according to a clear Halacha in Mishna Berura - some people would fast on one day and others would have to fast on the following day. Which fast is this?
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Yom Kippur Katan. When Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbos, some people move up YKK (and the associated fast) to Thursday, but others - who do not say Yom Kippur Kotton yet still fast on Erev Rosh Chodesh observe it on Friday.
(Mishnah Berurah 249:22)
Maybe the series of Taanis BaHaB fasts after Pesach and Sukkos? There are different customs as to when these should be observed (see, for example, Rema to Orach Chaim 492:1).
I had thought it would be Ta'anith Esther, if Purim is on a Sunday (observed in Yerushalayim, etc., on Sunday, and everywhere else on Thursday), but that is apparently not the case. http://www.ou.org/jewish_action/article/facts_and_figures_about_the_new_year
I'm going to have to assume you are speaking theoretically, then, and discussing the historical tradition of Rosh HaShanah being observed for only one day within Yerushalayim, while being observed over two days elsewhere, thus causing Tzom Gedaliah to be observed differently, as it is observed the day following R"H, unless that day is Shabbath, rather than on a specific date (ie, 3rd Tishrei). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_of_Gedalia
EDIT: I think I've (finally) found a pretty strong defense of my argument for Tzom Gedaliah. RaMBa"M Kiddush HaChodesh 5:3-6 suggests very strongly that there were places ("BeZman HaZeh" - although that was the time of the RaMBa"M) that observed only one day of R"H, which would mean Tzom Gedaliah was observed on 2 Tishrei. I will concede that 7-8 (ibid.) seem to contradict that, but I think that is a matter of policy, which, it would seem from 6 (with the use of the word "KeMinhagam") was not universally adopted. See: http://machonshilo.org/en/images/stories/files/RoshHaShanna1-2%20D.doc
Did people fast the churban-related fasts during the second bes hamikdash's time? The tenth of Teves would seemingly then fit the bill for the same reason Seth J notes for tzom G'dalya: people near enough to the declaration of the month would fast on the right day, while people farther away would (I assume) fast based on a 30-day preceding month (since Kislev usually is 30 days).
If you had a distressing dream on Friday night. The Shulchan Aruch (288:4-5) (see the Kaf HaHayyim on that Siman) lists several opinions about if one may fast a ta'anit chalom on shabbat, and on what dreams. The poskim are of varied opinions about this.


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Footbal roundup: Gilbert, Woodland, Pomperaug cruise
John Lippincott rushed the ball eight times for 74 yards and scored on touchdown runs of 7, 9 and 53 yards as host Gilbert defeated Sports Sciences, 35-0, Friday.
Lippincott also went 6-for-10 for 157 yards and tossed a pair of touchdowns. Lippincott hooked up with John Ambrozaitis on a 55-yard score in the first quarter and then dialed it up on a 31-yard touchdown to Seth Dayton in the second quarter.
Tony Ortiz Jr. had 13 rushes for 109 yards while Thomas Casey caught three passes for 50 yards to lead Gilbert (2-2).
Pomperaug 35, New Milford 7: Carl Gatzendorfer led the Panthers' defense with an interception and a fumble recovery as they picked up a road victoryagainst the Green Wave (0-4).
Dylan McAllister had two rushing touchdowns, both from nine yards out, for Pomperaug (1-3). John Yule also scored on rushes of 1 and 43 yards.
Eric Beatty threw for only 38 yards in the win, but found the end zone on a two-yard rush.
Steve Croce added an interception for the Panther defense.
Woodland 47, Kennedy 0: Tanner Kingsley threw five touchdowns passes for the Hawks in Beacon Falls.
Anthony Scirpo caught two TD passes and Brian Reis, Jack Pinho and Rahmi Rountree caught the others for the Hawks (2-1).
Josh Collet had a rushing TD, and Colby Zaccarelli had an interception for Woodland.
Kennedy slipped to 0-4.
Derby 53, Wilby 14: Dillon McMahon racked up 132 yards and two touchdowns (51 and 32) on six catches to lead Derby in an NVL showdown with Wilby.
Michael Kreiger, who threw for 222 yards, also connected with Jordan LaRue on a 45-yard scoring strike, while Tyrae Small rushed for 73 yards and a touchdown.
Roberto Soto and John Piazza picked up touchdowns on rushes of 32 and 55, respectively.
Duane Jones added a fumble recovery in the end zone for the Red Raiders (3-1).
Taifa Wright and Jacob Thomas both scored for the Wildcats (2-2).
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz today donated two super ferries to Egypt. King Abdullah handed the two ferries to President Mubarak at a ceremony at Jeddah Islamic Port.
The ferries, "Al-Riyadh" and "Al-Qahirah" will operate between the Saudi port of Dhiba and the Egyptian port of Safaga. The vessels are expected to further increase trade and investment between the Kingdom and Egypt.
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Why do some people hold a woman should not say kadish? She's not singing so it shouldn't be Kol Isha, and if she's behind a mechitza it shouldn't be a tzniut problem.
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R' Brody discusses the issue on JPost's Ask the Rabbi. He cites many authorities, such as R.Y.D Soloveitchik and R.Y.Henkin, that permitted it and R.M. Feinstein who said it was common practice in Europe. However, he mentions some objections raised:
It may be that in certain areas the Reform and Conservative movements cause an opposite reaction from Orthodox Jews.
Rav Moshe talks about this in Igros Moshe OC(5) 12:2. He says women did say kaddish but the tshuvah is more focused on a mechitza for one or two women .


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I'm very fresh to Ubuntu and I just downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 on my Lenovo x100e computer. I'm having issues with my wireless adapter. It says the adapter was turned off by a hardware switch. The issue is that my laptop has no hardware switch for wireless!
The way I used to enable/disable wireless was through Fn and F5 keys. when I tried to turn it on from the network setting, it didn't allow me. It keeps turning off straight away. If anyone has any advice or help to give I'd be very grateful.
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Join us for a celebration of the amazing artistic talents of Ohio State students. This event feature dozens of artists, from a variety of disciplines in the peforming and visual arts. Come early (doors open at 5:30 PM) and check out a gallery of student artwork before the performances start.
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The OSU Jazz Club, Johnny Beatbox, Overground Percussion Ensemble, Carlos Ferrerira Fadul, Chris Ray, Dance Linx, 8th Floor Improv, Ballroom Dance Association, Magician Rob Pond, Nkechi Edeh, Sujin Kim, Andy Larue, nationally acclaimed Irish dancer Michael Holland, Andy Kirk and Mike Dillman, 3D Urban Dance Group, China Oriental Folk Dance Team, Blastronauts, Ebony Richardson, Stylez Dance Group, and the Drum Major from The Ohio State University Marching Band.
Cosponsored by Ohio State's Major Campus Events Committee. This event is part of the Big Arts Week at and around Ohio State, April 22-26. For more information, visit http://artsinitiative.osu.edu/bigartsweek/.


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Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal headed the Kingdom's delegation to a meeting of the Friends of Syria in London today. The session was attended by foreign ministers and officials from ten other countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey, and the UAE. The discussion focused on the latest developments in the Syrian crisis, efforts to support the Geneva 2 Conference, and the intensification of humanitarian relief activities.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the participants issued a final communique in which they welcomed the September 27 statement of the United Nations Security Council calling for the achievement of a timely political transition in Syria based on the Geneva Declaration. Condemning the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons and heavy artillery against its people, the delegates agreed that there is no place in the transitional government for Bashar Al-Assad and his junta. Furthermore, they welcomed the UN Security Council agreement guaranteeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.
Regarding the Geneva 2 Conference, the communique urged the Syrian National Coalition to join the peace talks. It expressed hope that the meeting will lead to a political transfer of power and the creation of a democratic, inclusive Syria that respects human rights and the rule of law. The communique called for an increase in humanitarian assistance for refugees in order to alleviate their horrible suffering and to reduce the strain on neighboring countries. Finally, it expressed concern over the increasing presence of extremist groups operating inside of Syria and demanded that Iranian and Hezbollah fighters withdraw from the territory.


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FALL RIVER — The North Park Independent League Red Sox, with a 10-0 win over the Somerset Babe Ruth Phillies at North Park on Monday, captured the Taunton River League Championship, a three-team double-elimination baseball tournament that also included the Aces from the Junior Twilight League of Lafayette Park.
James Mello threw a no-hitter in the finale, striking out 12 and walking one. He also went 3-for-3 with a two-run home run and three runs batted in. Jose Martinez also homered.
The Red Sox broke the game wide open with six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. That outburst included a two-run triple by David Piela, Mello's two-run homer, an RBI walk by Evan Chace, and a walk to Sammy McCarten.
The Sox had jumped ahead when Martinez launched a two-run home run in the second inning, a blast that might have landed on President Avenue had it not hit a tree.
They added two more runs in the bottom of the fourth. Alec Kfoury singled in Joglas Ortiz and Mello followed with an RBI single.
The scores from the tourney's previous games: Phillies 5, Aces 4; Red Sox 3, Phillies 0; Phillies 8, Aces 6.
Red Sox roster: Brandon Babb, Evan Chace, Bailey Dias, Alec Kfoury, Jose Martinez, Samuel McCarten, James Mello, Jordan Michaud, Nathan Nowacki, Joglas Ortiz, David Piela, Nathaniel Raposa, Ethan Souza, Wilson St, Pierre, coaches Iulises Ramos, Peter Chace, Chris Raposa.
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As alluded to last week with a very brief teaser video posted to the official Call of Duty Instagram account, Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer will see a new horror movie icon appear in the game thanks to this week's latest downloadable content.
Along with four new multiplayer maps, a new weapon and the second new episode for Ghosts' co-operative game mode, Extinction, the Devastation map pack will feature an appearance by the ferocious hunter, the Predator (following Michael Myers' debut in Onslaught), but there's a lot more to see in the latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Devastation map pack trailer.
Exploding volcanoes, an attack by a tentacled kraken creature and thrilling takedowns are just some of what you'll see in the video below:
Call of Duty: Ghosts Devastation Gameplay Trailer
Call of Duty: Ghosts' Devastation map pack is out this week, April 3rd, exclusively (for now) to Xbox One and Xbox 360. Did the trailer convince you to pick it up this week?
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Wilson Wildlife Area Boat Ramp and Fish Access Improvements
Most of the time people who visit Wilson Lake probably think of the wildlife area as a place primarily for hunting and viewing wildlife. But there are also great fishing and boating
opportunities, especially during the spring post spawn walleye migration and the prime summer channel cat season.
To help improve boat access and fishing enjoyment, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism personnel added a new lane to the Elm Creek boat ramp during the winter. Staff will be developing additional mowed fish access areas along shorelines to provide shoreline angler access.
Remember that camping is not allowed on the area and you must take all of your trash with you when you leave. For some good fishing and less crowded conditions, you might want to check out the wildlife area. If you have other questions about fishing, boating or other wildlife area opportunities contact the Wilson Area Office at 785-658-2465.


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The Warren County Board School is dropping its membership in an organization suing house speaker Jody Richards and Senate President Davids Williams. Four of five school board members voted in favor of dropping out of the council for better education lawsuit.
The CBE is suing the state, claiming the state need to put more money into education.
The members went against the recommendation of superintendent Dale Brown because they no longer want to pay dues to belong in the CBE.
Superintendent Brown feels they should have continued to support the lawsuit.
Dale Brown says, "My concern is the fact that funding is needed for us to continue quality programs for the students in Warren County. And I feel like its necessary for us to work for the best possible funding for our students."
Another reason the board pulled out of the lawsuit- they say they want to let the government do its job and they say supporting a lawsuit against the government would not be the appropriate way to address education issues.


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I have a victorian fireplace with a modern gas fire installed. The fire place has a hatch at the top to open/close the chimney, which the fitters have connected to a wire to force it to be fully open constantly. However, it loses a lot of heat through this. I believe it is partly ventilated from underneath. How much should this kind of hatch be open? can I close it completely? Can I close it and have a CO monitor? Surely as long as this is OK there is nothing to worry about?
Your flue should always be open when the fireplace is operating. It is a fire and smoke risk to close the flue while the fire is lit.
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RAYLAND - Charles "Butch" W. Folda has been honored by the National Safety Council for his work efforts.
Rural carrier Folda, who worked out of the Rayland post office for 30 years, received the Million Mile Club award for attaining 1 million miles or 30 years of service of safe driving without a preventable incident, according to officials.
Vicki Bruno, officer in charge of the Rayland post office, presented to award to Folda.
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MILLION MILER — Rural postal carrier Charles "Butch" W. Folda recently received the Million Mile Club award from the National Safety Council. Presenting the award to Folda was Vicki Bruno, officer in charge at the Rayland post office.
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Folda is married to Janet Bell-Folda, who also is a rural postal carrier. His father, Charles Folda of Rayland, was a rural postal carrier on the same route his son has.
The Rayland carriers now work out of the Martins Ferry post office, but continue to carry the Rayland rural routes.
The Rayland post office retail window and post office box service remains open.