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- get or set the resource limits of running processes
plimit [-km] pid...
plimit {-cdfnstv} soft,hard... pid...
If one or more of the cdfnstv options is specified, plimit sets the soft (current) limit and/or the hard (maximum) limit of the indicated resource(s) in the processes identified by the process-ID list, pid. Otherwise plimit reports the resource limits of the processes identified by the process-ID list, pid.
Only the owner of a process or the super-user is permitted either to get or to set the resource limits of a process. Only the super-user can increase the hard limit.
The following options are supported:
On output, show file sizes in kilobytes (1024 bytes) rather than in 512-byte blocks.
On output, show file and memory sizes in megabytes (1024*1024 bytes).
The remainder of the options are used to change specified resource limits. They each accept an argument of the form:
where soft specifies the soft (current) limit and hard specifies the hard (maximum) limit. If the hard limit is not specified, the comma may be omitted. If the soft limit is an empty string, only the hard limit is set. Each limit is either the literal string unlimited, or a number, with an optional scaling factor, as follows:
n kilobytes
n megabytes (minutes for CPU time)
n hours (for CPU time only)
minutes and seconds (for CPU time only)
The soft limit cannot exceed the hard limit.
Set core file size limits (default unit is 512-byte blocks).
Set data segment (heap) size limits (default unit is kilobytes).
Set file size limits (default unit is 512-byte blocks).
Set file descriptor limits (no default unit).
Set stack segment size limits (default unit is kilobytes).
Set CPU time limits (default unit is seconds).
Set virtual memory size limits (default unit is kilobytes).
The following operands are supported.
Process ID list.
plimit returns the exit value zero on success, non-zero on failure (such as no such process, permission denied, or invalid option).
process information and control files
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ulimit(1), proc(1), getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2), proc(4), attributes(5),

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At a Guitar Hero tournament a few months back, one kid complained to me that Expert Mode is "too easy." Then he demonstrated the game's secret Hyper Speed mode. My pupils nearly ruptured at the sight of him as he navigated the light-speed stream of colored notes; it looked like the trippy ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey. The dexterous moppet didn't even break a sweat.
"You must play real guitar, right?" I asked in awe.
He smiled wide. "Nope."
Music purists may wince and grumble, but it's a fact: Plastic guitars are here to stay, and instant guitar-god gratification trumps stumbling through "Smoke on the Water" in the garage. But these incredible rhythm-based titles also represent a new golden age of play for gaming purists.
Rock Band, the highly anticipated game from MTV that lets you play guitar and handle vocals, bass, and drums, has upped the ante in its bid to supplant Guitar Hero as the faux-music experience. Sure enough, Rock Band will have you grinning like an idiot before you even strum a note: The $165 bundle comes complete with rubber drum kit, drumsticks, Fender replica guitar, microphone, and USB hub to plug it all in. (If you dream of getting your Phil Collins on, there's even a headset adapter for simultaneous drumming and singing.)
If you've seen Guitar Hero in action, the game play here will be familiar. This time, however, there are three vertical sets of scrolling "notes" — for drums, guitar, and bass — instead of one, and a scrolling ticker of lyrics at the top of the screen straight out of Karaoke Revolution.
That kid from the Guitar Hero tourney surely will roll his eyes at the game's guitar licks, which are fairly easy even on Expert mode. But those who thought Guitar Hero III's insane difficulty was a sick joke will enjoy Rock Band's relative accessibility.
The drum kit lacks Blue Öyster Cult's all-important cowbell, but it otherwise feels incredibly authentic, right down to the kick-pedal. And unlike playing a fake guitar, banging the drums actually makes a skinsman out of you as you go — never mind that you'll be flailing like Animal from The Muppet Show at first. The game's greatest moment comes when you're allowed to freestyle your own impromptu drum fills (douche-baggy Lars Ulrich facial expressions optional).
But for all of Rock Band's triumphs, the game slips out of tune in its song selection — and in the sheer number of times you'll be forced to play them. Only 45 tracks are included, and six of those, disappointingly, are also found in Guitar Hero III.
Downloadable tracks should remedy this problem, but you'll still have to play some songs multiple times before unlocking new music.
Despite Rock Band's hiccups — including the fact that its essential mode, the four-player simultaneous "Band World Tour," isn't available in online play — it makes for an astonishing warm-up act for the series. It won't squash Guitar Hero, but a rumble between the two should translate to bigger and better music games for everyone. Even if nobody actually starts a band because of them.


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'Power For The Planet': Company Bets Big On Fusion
'Power For The Planet': Company Bets On Fusion
The world would be a very different place if we could bottle up a bit of the sun here on Earth and tap that abundant and clean energy supply. Governments have spent many billions of dollars to develop that energy source, fusion energy, but it's still a distant dream. Now a few upstart companies are trying to do it on the cheap. And the ideas are credible enough to attract serious private investment.
One such company is hidden away in a small business park in the suburbs of Vancouver, British Columbia. Nothing seems unusual here — there's a food distributor, an engineering firm and small warehouses. But on one door there's a sign suggesting that all is not normal.
The sign says "General Fusion" and warns people with pacemakers to proceed with caution.
The reason for that caution can be found behind bulletproof walls that surround an experimental machine. This gleaming metal structure could be out of a science fiction movie set. It stands 15 feet tall, is crisscrossed with wires and is covered with aluminum foil. Two men are hunched over an instrument, troubleshooting.
The machine is flanked with banks of electrical capacitors, which hold — and release — the amount of energy you find in a stick of dynamite. A siren warns to stay clear: The system is charging up, and with all that electric charge, some piece of hardware could go flying.
This plasma ray gun is part of a bigger instrument, which is still under construction. The goal, simply put, is to create a small piece of the sun and harness that energy.
"This is an insanely ambitious project," says Michel Laberge, the brains behind the project. He's a physicist and inventor with a rusty beard and a college-casual wardrobe.
Beating The Big Guys
This story really starts a dozen years ago, when the company where he was working asked him to join in a hot technology race that had nothing to do with energy. He was asked to build a switch for fiber optics communication cables.
"So I was in competition with Nortel, Bell Lab, Lucent," Laberge says. "All those guys were putting literally billions of dollars in this project. And they gave me half a million dollars, and one guy ... said, 'Do something that will work better than the other guy.' [And I said,] 'Oh, OK!' "
As Laberge tells the story, he actually succeeded.
"For half a million dollars, we beat the billion-dollars worth of work. So that inflated my head a little bit. I said, 'Hey, look at that. You can beat the big guy if you do something different.' "
So, on his 40th birthday, he quit his job in what he calls a midlife crisis, took the pile of money he'd earned at his old company, and decided to try something really revolutionary. With his Ph.D. in fusion energy, he thought he'd try to beat the big boys in the fusion field.
"Reason No. 1 is to save the planet. We are in deep poo-poo," Laberge says.
Fossil fuels will run out, and in the meantime they are causing global warming. Among the allures is that fusion reactors can't melt down, and they don't produce significant nuclear waste. And Laberge says if he succeeds, he could be worth billions.
"As for glory, I word that as a negative. I don't want glory. That's just a pain. I don't want anybody to know me, really. Not interested in the glory. I'll take the money, though," he says with a hearty laugh.
He knew he couldn't beat the existing multibillion-dollar fusion labs at their own game. So instead, he decided to combine ideas from the two current approaches to make a vastly cheaper machine.
A One-Two Punch
The general principle behind fusion is simple. If you can fuse together light atoms, you can create a heavier atom plus lots of energy. The trick is that in order to fuse atoms together, you need to provide enough energy to heat the atoms up to 150 million degrees Celsius.
"Other fusion uses a very complex way of producing energy — superconducting magnets, laser beams, all sorts of expensive and complicated and pricey stuff," he says. "It costs them billions and billions of dollars, so it's not so practical in my opinion. Here, what the energy source is, is compressed air. Compressed air is dirt cheap."
Think of his idea as a one-two punch. His big electrical gizmo starts to heat up the atoms. Those get injected into a 10-foot-wide sphere full of swirling molten lead.
"The liquid will be circulated with a pump, so it spins around and makes a vortex in the center. You know, like your toilet with a hole in the center," Laberge says.
And just as the heated atoms get into the center, Laberge fires 200 pistons, powered with compressed air, which surround the sphere. "Those are compressed air guns ... that send a big compression wave, squash the thing, and away you go!"
If all goes as planned, squashing the mixture heats it up enough to fuse the atoms and ignite nuclear reactions.
The concept is called magnetized target fusion. Laberge didn't invent the idea, but he re-imagined it, and, more to the point, he raised $30 million from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and several venture capital firms to see if he can get it off the ground.
Ask Laberge if he thinks it will work, and you'll get an indignant reply: "Of course I think it's going to work! Do you think I'm going to spend 10 years of my life doing something I think won't work? I think it [has] a good shot of working."
He adds, "I wouldn't say I'm 100 percent sure it's going to work. That would be a lie. But I would put it at 60 percent chance that this is going to work. Now of course other people will give me a much smaller chance than that, but even at 10 percent chance of working, investors will still put money in, because this is big, man, this is making power for the whole planet. This is huge!"
Changing The Venture Capital Game
And the physics concept isn't the only big idea here: Laberge is also pioneering the idea that venture capital firms, which are used to taking big gambles but expect a quick payback, can sometimes have the patience to invest in a project they can't just flip in three years. Private funding could change the game for fusion energy.
Richard Siemon used to run the fusion program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is part of the multibillion-dollar federal research effort. He says radical ideas like this get dreamed up at the big labs, but they get starved for money, which flows mostly to the industrial-sized projects. Sure, he says, those big projects are exploring important physics, "but when they are working on a concept and somebody says, 'Yeah, but it's going to cost too much for the customer in the end,' that's sort of like a non-issue for a government researcher."
But private investors are only interested in projects that could become commercially viable power sources. That's why Siemon is happy to see private investors taking an interest in fusion energy.
"I really think that venture capital might just come in at this point and pick the best fruits off the tree and run with them," says the retired physicist.
In fact, Laberge's company is not the only one out there using private funds to build reactors based on magnetized target fusion and other novel concepts. Siemon says he's confident someone will eventually figure this out. And that may be an economic competitor.
"Just in the last year I heard it reported from some technical meetings that China has gotten interested in magnetized target fusion," Siemon notes.
China could easily throw hundreds of millions of dollars at the idea. So venture capitalists could have some serious competition. Laberge, of course, is betting he will emerge victorious.


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When you drag files or folders to the Trash icon in the Dock, OS X doesn't delete them immediately. Just as you can pull something out of a physical trash can before the garbage collector arrives, you can remove files from the Trash until you decide you want to get rid of them for good (and thereby recover the disk space the files were using). When that time comes, you choose Finder > Empty Trash.
Ordinarily, emptying the Trash is immediate and uncomplicated. But occasionally something goes wrong and your Trash won't empty; the Finder may display an error message indicating a reason (though not how to fix the problem). If that happens to you, here are several solutions you can try.
'The file is in use'
If the error message claims that a file is in use, quit the last app that accessed that file (if you know what it is). Then, try to empty the Trash again. Sometimes this error is spurious—for example, Mail may report that a file is in use long after you sent it as an attachment. Even though the file isn't truly in use, Mail might treat it as if it were. Quitting Mail, emptying the Trash, and reopening Mail usually solves the problem.
'The file is locked'
If the error message tells you that a file is locked, hold down Option and again choose Finder > Empty Trash; the Option key tells OS X to override locked files.
How to force it with apps
Those tricks won't work if the error message says that you don't have permission to delete a file, or if no error message appears at all but the Trash remains full. In these cases, you have a couple of approaches to take.
You might already have a utility that, among many other features, can force-empty the Trash—for example, Maintain's $19 Cocktail and Titanium's Software's OnyX (free, donations requested) offer this feature.
Or, if you want a small utility that does nothing but force the Trash to empty, try NoName ScriptWare's Trash It (free, donations requested).
DIY Terminal tricks
However, all those utilities merely send OS X commands that you can issue yourself in Terminal. To do so, first open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities). Type
cd ~/.Trash and press Return. Then, type
sudo rm -R followed by a space (don't leave out the space character—it's essential). Don't press Return yet.
Next, click the Trash icon in your Dock to open a window displaying the contents of the Trash. Select everything in that window and drag it into the Terminal window; this action adds the paths of all those files and folders to the
rm (remove) command. Now, press Return and enter your administrator password when prompted. In a moment or two (depending on how much was in your Trash), the Trash icon should return to its empty state.


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Welcome Welcome Welcome! Come on in. Let me take that coat. Saunter up to the bar and have a cocktail. Mix and mingle. What's that you say? Why yes, this soiree is pants optional. I would have it no other way. Have some chips and dip. I made it myself with my special sauce. Secret ingredient that adds a little kick to it. Don't even ask. So glad you could all cum, and not too early either. No one wants to be arrive prematurely. Kind of spoils the fun, and your underwear. Yet, this is a way to get a good seat for all the action. Relax! Spread your legs, enjoy, and let many sordid tales be told. I even wore my studded assless leather chaps for this one. Yes, I dress to impress.
Just wanted to offer a big shout out to all my guests! Thanks for dropping in. I see some of you even dressed for the occasion. Oh honey, you shouldn't have worn that. Dude, does your mommy dress you in the dark. You purposely trying not to get laid? Oh, I kid, I kid. No really. Yes, I do. No. So glad you could all make it to my first ever virtual blog party where you get to take over my abode of a twisted blog. Don't mind some of the creepers lurking around here. I'm sure by the end of the night anyway you'll all be half naked in the bathroom doing strange things with my loofah to each other. All I ask is that you clean up after your nasty selves, and if some of you pervs end up in my bedroom be prepared to enter the world of internet porn. Not saying I have cameras hidden around my place. Oh, did you remember to sign the waiver and bring it with you? Just want to be protected in case some of you do damage to yourselves playing with the sex swing and assorted toys laying about. They are just for display purposes only. Wink Wink. Oh, don't mind that little red light in the bookcase and behind the mirror. It's nothing. Really. Continue reading "Does This Rag Smell Like Chloroform" Blog Party in My Pants!


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Abstract: Some people assign negative values for new products sold on laboratory auction blocks
(i.e., irradiated meat). We explore bidding behavior in two Vickrey auctions when
people have positive and negative induced values for the good. Aggregate bidding in the
second-price auction is precise but biased—highest-value positive bidders tend to
overstate benefits, whereas lowest-negative bidders understate losses. In contrast,
bidding behavior in the random nth-price auction is demand revealing irrespective of
induced value, but it is imprecise. Examining on- and off-margin bidding behavior, we
cannot conclude that any segments of demand are significantly different than the demand
revealing regression line.
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August 31, 2011
instagram // august
August through instagram.
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The consumption of alcoholic beverages in pregnant women can cause malformations of the embryo and their offspring may exhibit symptoms of foetal alcohol effects, or a collection of foetal alcohol effects called foetal alcohol syndrome; this relationship has been established for heavy alcohol consumption. A no-effect level to prevent harming the unborn child, however, has not been established. This is the reason why alcoholic beverages should be avoided during pregnancy.
The above summary provides an overview of the topic, for more details and specific questions, please refer to the articles in the database.


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Orchids are one of the top five plant groups with conservation issues in New Zealand. Unlike many other endangered or uncommon plants, propagation of native orchids from seed for conservation has not been attempted in New Zealand before. With the help of funding from the Otari Wilton's Bush Trust, the Wellington Botanical Society and the San Diego County Orchid Society (USA) we will implement seed germination techniques commonly used overseas to propagate New Zealand's rare and endangered orchids.
Orchids are well known by their unusual flowers and elaborate pollination systems. Many orchids rely on insects to produce seeds and disruption of this relationship may threat orchid's survival. Orchids, however, also require another organism to survive; a fungus. Unlike other plants, orchid seeds lack of endosperm; the nutritious tissue found inside seeds. This tissue provides food to the embryo during germination and until the very first leaves are formed.
To overcome this peculiarity, orchid seeds use a fungal "infection" to get carbon and mineral nutrients from the soil into the embryo and developing seedling. This association is essential for orchid seeds to germinate and it may last for the entire life of the plant. Inside the infected cells, either in the roots or the base of the stem, the fungus forms roundish structures known as "pelotons". Some orchids are very flexible and may use a variety of fungi species while other are species-specific and will only germinate if the correct fungus is present in the soil.
To artificially infect orchid seeds with its fungal partner, first the pelotons need to be dissected out of the roots of an adult plant and cultured in a special agar medium. Within a couple of days, several fungi will grow in the plate and sub-cultures need to be set aside to obtain pure cultures of each fungus.
After the fungus has been isolated and identified by analysing its DNA, seeds can be put in contact with the fungus to promote infection and seed germination. After about three months, if the correct fungal species has been used and the infection has successfully taken place, tiny small green leaves will appear in the plate. At this stage the seedlings are less dependent on the fungus and can produce their own food.
Jonathan Frericks, MSc student at Victoria University of Wellington, has travelled to Australia to learn these techniques from scientists at Kings Park and Botanic Garden (Perth). His trip to Perth was funded by a grant from the Australian Orchid Foundation. As part of his thesis, Jonathan will isolate and identify the fungal partner of a selected group of native terrestrial orchids and, in collaboration with Otari Wilton's Bush, cultivate a subset of them. Jonathan's project will gather information vital to implement seed germination methods for conservation purposes and understand orchid-fungal interactions in our native orchids.


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About Gino's Pizza Raleigh, NC
Gino's Pizza is conveniently located off of Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, NC. Our menu includes authentic New York pizzas, calzones, Italian subs, and pastas.
Whether you are a regular stopping in for our daily lunch specials, picking up dinner for the family, or ordering one of our famous Big Apple Pizzas, Chef Gino and the entire Romano family will be glad to serve you! Buon Appetito!


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Global generation capacity for nuclear power has grown to over 346 gigawatts since 1955
Note: Annual data.
Nuclear generating capacity additions began in the 1950s and now top 346 gigawatts worldwide (click on animation above to assess trends). The first nuclear reactor to produce electricity was a very small experimental reactor in the United States in 1951. Currently, 30 countries have nuclear power programs.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, nuclear power steadily grew around the world with brief periods of relatively slow growth following the accidents at Three Mile Island (North America, 1979) and Chernobyl (Former Soviet Union, 1986), as the nuclear industry absorbed the lessons learned from both accidents. Since then, nuclear power capacity has remained relatively stable throughout most of the world, with the exception of rapidly developing countries in Asia. An upcoming Today in Energy article will address post-Fukushima impacts on Japan's nuclear capacity.
Regional trends:
- North America—primarily the United States—nuclear capacity developed most quickly between 1970 and 1995. The first fully commercial nuclear power plant was built in the United States; Dresden Unit 1 (250 megawatts) operated from 1960 to 1978. Canada soon followed with its first reactor in 1962.
- Europe followed a similar growth pattern. France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the United Kingdom commissioned nuclear power plants in the 1960s. Since 1995, capacity in North America and Europe has remained relatively stable. Addition of new capacity through construction of new nuclear power plants has often been offset by nuclear power plant retirements.
- In Eurasia and Asia, Russia and Japan also operated commercial nuclear power plants in the 1960s. Asia has added nuclear capacity in more recent decades. Between 1980 and 2010, nuclear capacity in Asia quadrupled, led primarily by Korea, Japan, and India. More recently, growth in nuclear capacity in Asia has been led primarily by China, where capacity has quintupled in the last ten years.
Plans to add new nuclear capacity in North America and Europe are relatively small in comparison to those in such countries as China, Korea, and India. Projected increased electricity demand in rapidly developing countries coupled with energy security awareness and the desire to limit carbon emissions are contributing to the worldwide addition of new nuclear capacity.


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Christine Quinn, the highest-ranking New York City official to prefer Sappho over Catullus, got married on Saturday, and all the molar-grinding of bigots across America couldn't stop her because New York is among eight states (and a tiny little district) that either allow gay marriage or are waiting on legislation to legalize same-sex nuptials.
In the meantime, Quinn kicked off the summer with what sounds like a great party, beginning with her walk down the aisle to the tune of Beyoncé's "Ave Maria," all the way to State Senator Tom Duane "dancing up a storm" with his boyfriend of two years. Quinn's wife, New York lawyer Kim Catullo, wore a suit designed by Ralph Lauren and walked in to Bruce Springsteen's "If I Should Fall Behind" as 275 guests, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly surreptitiously stemmed the flow of tears with their hankies.
Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council and widely-regarded as the frontrunner for the mayoral job as soon as Caesar Bloomberg abdicates the purple toga, has been one of the most vocal advocates of same-sex marriage in a state whose first same-sex marital vows were spoken almost a year ago on July 24. Once again, the East Coast megalopolis finds itself at America's cultural vanguard — recent polls have shown that more Americans are completely fine with gay people getting married, probably because it has no bearing on how they live their own lives.
New York City's most senior openly gay official weds [Reuters]


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By United Methodist Communications Press Center
"I ask that you join with me and The Bishop's Prayer Team in continuing to lift these Commission members up in prayer unto the Lord Jesus asking that The Holy Spirit will give them wisdom, guidance and a true openness to hearing God's voice. I believe prayer shapes our future. Let our prayers be strong." - Bishop James Swanson Sr., Mississippi Conference
Members of the Commission on a Way Forward have expressed optimism at reaching consensus on a plan or plans to guide the Council of Bishops in leading The United Methodist Church into the future.
During the three-day meeting, April 6-8, at the United Methodist Building in Washington, D.C., the Commission members began discussing possible outcomes and timelines on accomplishing their task of examining paragraphs in the Book of Discipline concerning human sexuality and exploring options to strengthen the unity of the church.
Commission moderators Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball, Bishop Ken Carter, and consultant Gil Rendle provided guidance for the discussions. The Commission's other moderator, Bishop David Yemba, was unable to attend the meeting due to events in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Commission members indicated that they were leaning toward a simpler structure with clearer processes for decision-making and accountability for the church in its mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ. In personal responses, the members showed that they were honoring the learnings of the Call to Action and a worldwide Book of Discipline. Conversations during the meeting indicated a commitment to finding a way forward that honors the complexity of the global denomination and the unity of a shared faith in Christ.
This was the third meeting of the 32-member Commission on a Way Forward, which was appointed by the Council of Bishops to assist the bishops in discerning a way forward on human sexuality in the denomination. The first two meetings were spent on building trust and community among the members, developing a covenant, a common language, and working in learning teams.
At the heart of the discussion at the meeting in Washington, D.C., was the struggle among the Commission members, who have diverse perspectives, experiences, and relationships with a wide variety of constituencies, to have a fresh understanding of unity and connectionalism.
One member, Myungrae Kim Lee, summarized the meeting in this way:
"We all spent difficult time together at this meeting. We laughed and cried together to create new possibility for our UMC. This is a necessary step we must pass through to direct ourselves to a new future of UMC. I believe that the Holy Spirit was with us."
Commission members also noted that the upcoming Judicial Council hearing would not be dealing with the same question or task given them by the General Conference and that whatever decisions the Judicial Council makes, the work of the Commission would continue. The moderators will issue a separate statement on the Judicial Council hearing.
The members began the day on Thursday with acknowledging the election of one of their own to the episcopacy, Bishop Mande Muyombo, who was elected during the Congo Central Conference in March. The group then was led in Bible study on Galatians 4 by Rev. Jessica LaGrone.
"As Christians, we tend to see God through a transactional model and we often like to earn our way into God's good nature and love," LaGrone noted, reminding the Commission of the need to focus on the relationship with God.
Following small-group conversations which focused on the question "How is it with your Soul?", the Commission then heard from Texas Annual Conference Resident Bishop Scott Jones, the chair of the UMC Committee on Faith and Order, who discussed the document, "Wonder, Love and Praise," which was approved for study by the 2016 General Conference.
"We are in a period of discernment, listening to feedback and asking if this reflects who we are. Our church does have doctrinal standards (Articles of Religion, Confession of Faith, General Rules, Wesley Sermons and Notes on the New Testament) and those doctrinal standards are supplemented by statements of the General Conference," Jones noted.
Bishop Gregory Palmer, who is a member of the Commission and a former president of the Council of Bishops, led a conversation on the Call to Action, which was presented at the 2012 General Conference.
"Part of our productive work was naming what we saw at that time as the Adaptive Challenge moving forward: Redirecting the flow of attention, energy and resources to an intense concentration on fostering and sustaining an increase in the number of vital congregations effective in making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world, "Bishop Palmer said. "I don't think we could ever say we only have one adaptive challenge but I think this has currency in our time."
After Bishop Carter reviewed the Anatomy of Peace document as a framework for engaging in the complex and, at times, conflictual work of the church, members began to discuss a draft of an outline of their initial report to Council of Bishops.
Since the work is global, the Commission members discussed ways of informing annual conferences around the globe about their work through videos, listening sessions, and collaborating with groups and organizations with vested interest in the participation of LGBTQ persons in the UMC. The members agreed to decentralize the listening sessions regarding groups from Africa, Europe and Asia since human sexuality is understood differently in various parts of the world.
LaGrone also led a time of sharing and discussion around the recent academic theological colloquy, "The Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness," held at March 10-12, 2017 at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Several members of the Commission attended. Bishop Carter said the original purpose of the colloquy was to align the work with the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. "We respect the foundational work of many of our scholars and we asked them to reflect on questions related to our work. I urged them to be constructive and help us to seek unity and a way forward."
The work on Friday began with a greeting from General Board of Church and Society General Secretary Rev. Dr. Susan Henry Crowe, who welcomed the Commission to "the UM space here on Capitol Hill, where we promote, educate and engage the substance of the Social Principles." She said her agency's priorities are health, immigration, poverty and peace.
Bishop Mande conducted the Friday Bible Study using Galatians 5. He noted that the radical notion in this passage is that "far before we arrive with moral perfection, the gift of God comes to us in such a way that allows us to show up without any claim to anything but ourselves. Any claim to figuring it all out or knowing anything, falls away with the grace that comes freely."
After Bible Study, the group began by discussing a list of many of the currently and popularly discussed options related to LGBTQ identity and the unity of the church. Bishop Carter reminded the group that this was not an exhaustive list nor did it offer exhaustive descriptions. "We may see the world through these lenses. Many of the plans often discussed in social media, for example, were created not by global groups but by leaders within the USA. Sometimes language can tend to flatten things and we use a term that labels someone or puts them in a box."
Gil Rendle asked the members to be open to learning together in new ways, as these plans were presented to address a problem within the church. He reminded the Commission that they have a task of finding a way forward for our church.
Generally, there was a sense of willingness to learn more about all the various proposals, their strengths and weaknesses, in order to inform the work of the commission and to prepare for the deliberations and questions of the General Conference.
Rendle then led a discussion of centralization and decentralization, complexity and simplicity. The Commission did some work on its own vision for the future church's mission and structure. There is within the membership of the Commission a desire for some loosening of structure (or giving each other space), honoring differences, and yet finding a clearer consensus on matters of theology and doctrine.
On Saturday, the Bible Study was conducted by Bishop Rosemarie Wenner on Galatians 6, noting that if we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit and that there was a difference between being led by the Spirit and being guided by the Spirit. "Carrying one another's burden means we live together for restoration.
Restoration is different than punishment or separation. Restoration does not mean you don't take seriously who we are and what we are doing. It means you journey together, engage with one another in the Christian spirit of faithfulness and trust, reminding one another what we learn from God. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of gentleness, is meant to restore relationship."
The end of the meeting brought the formation of some new teams: a Writing Team and an Equipping Team, along with task teams to engage work on unity and Central Conference matters.
Bishop Steiner Ball offered the closing devotion based on Colossians 3:12-17 with the reminder to the members of the Commission that "forgiveness is needed when we get off track and we fail to make the choice to live by the Spirit. It is not all easy going. There is wrestling in this intentionality. There is a wrestling to be able to forgive. Forgiveness is not all about what we do for someone else. Forgiveness also opens us up to the healing power of God and enables us to work from a heart of peace."
She asked them to have thankfulness and gratitude as they go away from this meeting and that in word and in deed, "whatever we do, we do it in the name of Jesus Christ."
The next meeting of the Commission will be July 17-21 in Chicago. For more information on the Commission on a Way Forward, visit umc.org/wayforward.
Follow the Commission's work via social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/umcforward/.
Twitter: @UMCForward Instagram: www.instagram.com/umcforward/
About the Commission on a Way Forward
The 32-member Commission on a Way Forward was appointed by the Council of Bishops to assist the bishops in their charge from the 2016 General Conference to lead the church forward amid the present impasse related to human sexuality and resulting questions about the unity of the church.


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SAN FRANCISCO – Hardly a month goes by without some fresh evidence of the growing popularity of open source software, and perhaps one of the best examples in recent weeks has been Microsoft's creation of its new Open Technologies division.
On Monday, however, new data was added to the pile in the form of survey results from software-development tools maker Sonatype.
"The survey results confirm what we see and hear from our customers on a daily basis–open source has become the backbone of custom application development," said Charles Gold, the company's chief marketing officer.
80 Percent Use Open Source
As part of its annual Open Source Software Development Survey, Sonatype queried 2,500 developers, architects, and IT managers across all industries, company sizes, and geographic regions so as to better understand how organizations adopt, use, and support open source software.
Nearly 80 percent of those surveyed use open source tools, the data suggests, while half standardize on an open source development infrastructure stack. A full two-thirds, meanwhile, contribute to open source projects.
Yet while organizations are adopting open source software at a rapid pace, many don't have the internal controls and processes in place to do it right, Sonatype warns.
Policies Are Scarce
In fact, only 49 percent of those surveyed said they have an open-source policy in place, and 63 percent said that shared corporate standards either don't exist or aren't enforced at their company.
Forty-nine percent, meanwhile, said they have no effective licensing policy in place. Only 32 percent maintain detailed records of the components used in production applications–including their dependencies–and most said it is difficult to know when components and/or their dependencies are updated.
"While reliance on open source components increases year-over-year, limitations on the visibility, control and management of their use throughout the enterprise continues to plague organizations," Sonatype concludes.
An Improving Outlook
It should come as no surprise that Sonatype offers solutions for several of the problems it identifies, and its data should be considered accordingly in that context.
Still, the findings are interesting, and the good news is that corporate policies and governance practices are on the rise, Sonatype found.
Full results from the survey are available as a PDF file on the Sonatype site.


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I have a problem with LAN configuration on linux (Red Hat 7.2).
I had applied istruction of my linux guide, but I have note a right result
I have 1 server and 2 clients for my home LAN.
I had configured manually follows files (on server):
/etc/host.conf#Do not remove the following line, or various program
#that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
192.168.1.0 server.riv66.com server
192.168.1.11 pos1.riv66.com pos1
192.168.1.12 pos2.riv66.com pos2
/etc/resolv.conforder hosts,bind
multi on
When I try to ping from server:domain riv66.com
search riv66.com
name server 192.168.1.0
I had configured pos1's firewall to receive all ICMP packets.[root@server root]# ping -c 3 pos1
PING pos1.riv66.com (192.168.1.11) from 192.168.1.0 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From server.riv66.com (192.168.1.0) : Destination Host Unreachable
From server.riv66.com (192.168.1.0) : Destination Host Unreachable
From server.riv66.com (192.168.1.0) : Destination Host Unreachable
--- pos1.riv66.com ping statistics ---
3 packets trasmitted, 0 packets received, +3 errors, 100% packets loss
When i ping from client:
but, when i try to telnet from client to server:[root@pos1 root]# ping -bc 3 server
WARNING: pinging a broadcast address
PING server.riv66.com (192.168.1.0) from 192.168.1.10 : 56(84) bytes of data.
Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.353 msec
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=84 usec
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=77 usec
--- server.riv66.com ping statistics ---
3 packets trasmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.077/0.504/1.353/0.600 ms
How is possible?[root@pos1 root]# telnet server
Trying 192.168.1.0 ...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.0: Network is unreachable
Please help I cannot configure my LAN.
I have spent many time for that, with bad results.


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The largest global AIDS organization is once again involving the public by welcoming volunteers to help decorate the float and encouraging people to add the names of loved ones lost to HIV/AIDS to the float through its innovative text-to-donate effort
What: Volunteer opportunity to decorate AHF's 2013 Tournament of Roses float
When: December 26th – 31st 8 am – 11 pm daily
Where: Irwindale, CA – for access and complete address, volunteers must RSVP at https://www.aidshealth.org/rsvp
CONTACTS: Ged Kenslea, +1.323.308.1833 or mobile 323.791.5526 [email protected]
Kyveli Diener, +1.323.308.1821, ext. 1805 or mobile 310.779.4796 [email protected]
LOS ANGELES (December 18, 2012) – AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) made history in 2012 by entering the first float in Tournament of Roses history to ever focus on HIV/AIDS, and its "Our Champion" float honoring the late AIDS activist and Academy Award winner Elizabeth Taylor proved unforgettable by garnering the parade's "Queen's Award" for best use of roses that year. What made those 50,000-plus roses even more special was that many of them were "Memory Flowers," roses whose water vials were hand-inscribed with the name of a person lost to HIV/AIDS through an innovative text-to-donate effort led by AHF.
Marking the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS for the second consecutive year by entering a float in this year's 124th-anniversary Tournament of Roses Parade, AHF is honoring the 2013 parade theme of "Oh, The Places You'll Go!" – an homage to Dr. Seuss' classic children's book about achieving dreams – by highlighting all the places in the world that AHF has gone to provide prevention, treatment, and lifesaving care for those living with and fighting against HIV/AIDS. The 2013 entry will proudly display over 300 different types of flowers flown in from all around the world. The float's framing giant red ribbon, the iconic international symbol for global AIDS awareness, will be made up of over 150,000 handpicked red roses each in its own water vial.
To personalize AHF's involvement in clinics and activism efforts in 28 countries around the world, the float will feature five people riding on it who are not only living with HIV but are also actively involved in AHF's fight against the disease by working directly with the nonprofit or receiving care from an AHF-supported clinic. Of those riders, four traveled from as far away as Africa and Russia to show that HIV is not a disease that is limited to a small faction of people or one particular corner of the world, but rather affects people of any age, race, gender or orientation from all around the world. Furthermore, the riders' presence highlights that AHF's support of those living with the virus and the 25-year-old foundation's unstoppable fight to end the spread of the infection is also not reserved to one part of the world or a small group of people, but rather is available to anyone, anywhere who is impacted by the epidemic.
"Last year's float paid tribute and honored Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, a heroic champion in the fight against HIV/AIDS; this year we are drawing attention to the breadth of that ongoing fight through the stories of five brave men, women and children who are living with HIV or AIDS and who will share the impact this virus and AHF have had on their lives," said AHF President Michael Weinstein.
The five riders are Francis Xavier De Melo, 48, of India; Marcos Ledesma, 36, of Mexico; Alexandra Volgina, 33, of Russia; Mariam Nazziwa, 9, of Uganda; and 28-year-old Hydeia Broadbent of the United States. The riders will cruise down Colorado Avenue on the flower-covered float that also features a giant Red Ribbon, a massive towering globe, and tall cutouts of each represented continent.
Like last year, the public is invited to contribute a rose to the float's Red Ribbon in memory of a loved one lost to HIV/AIDS by texting "FLOWER" and the name of the departed loved one to 20222. That text will automatically donate $5 to AHF, and a "Memory Rose" in the Red Ribbon will have the honored person's name hand-inscribed onto its water vial.
AHF is welcoming anyone who wishes to help construct the float to RSVP through www.aidshealth.org/rsvp. Upon registration, volunteer "Rose Buds" will receive the address where the float is being constructed in Irwindale, CA and will gain access to pizza parties and t-shirt giveaways specifically for volunteers. For additional information about volunteering in the float's construction, email [email protected].


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What Do Babies Think?
Alison Gopnik: What Do Babies Think?
More From This Episode
Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Unstoppable Learning.
About Alison Gopnik's TED Talk
Alison Gopnik's research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are doing when they play. She offers a glimpse into the minds of babies and young children, to show how much and how fast they learn.
About Alison Gopnik
What's it really like to see through the eyes of a child? Are babies and young children just empty, irrational vessels to be formed into little adults, until they become the perfect images of ourselves?
On the contrary, argues Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of The Philosophical Baby, The Scientist in the Crib and other influential books on cognitive development, Gopnik presents evidence that babies and children are conscious of far more than we give them credit for. They engage every sense and spend every waking moment discovering, filing away, analyzing and acting on information about how the world works.


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VATICAN CITY (REUTERS) - Pope Francis shook up the scandal-plagued Vatican bank on Wednesday, removing four of five cardinals from an oversight body in a break with the clerical financial establishment he inherited from his predecessor.
It was his latest move to get to grips with an institution that has often been an embarrassment for the Holy See and which he has vowed to either reform or close. The four cardinals were removed just 11 months into their five-year terms as commissioners, which began under former Pope Benedict, who resigned last February.
The changes came as Pope Francis approached the first anniversary of a pontificate marked by austerity and sobriety, underlined by his decision to give up the papal apartments in favour of a modest suite.
The new team includes two cardinals - Toronto's Thomas Christopher Collins and Vienna's Christoph Schoenborn - from relatively rich dioceses who have had extensive dealings with financial affairs. The others are Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's new secretary of state, who will be elevated to the rank of cardinal next month, and Santos Abril y Castillo, a Spaniard who is based in Rome and is a close friend of the pope's.
The one holdover was French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.
The four who were not re-confirmed included the former secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
Commentators and some church officials blamed him for lax oversight that led to a spate of scandals during Benedict's pontificate, including the leaking of some of the pope's personal documents by Benedict's butler.
Cardinal Bertone has defended his record saying he was the victim of"anonymous accusations and rumour mongering".
Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, head of another Vatican financial department that Italian magistrates suspect of financial irregularities and which the Vatican has asked an outside firm to audit, was also removed.
Pope Francis has not ruled out closing the bank, which is formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), if it cannot be reformed. The cardinals commission reviews accounts and approves strategy. It acts as a link between the pope and the board of superintendence, which is made up of five lay members from around the world.
The bank has undergone major changes since the arrival last February of its new president, Ernst Von Freyberg, a German. His team has closed many accounts and hired an outside firm, the Promontory Financial Group, to help it meet international standards of transparency drawn up to combat money laundering.
An Italian investigation into alleged money laundering at the bank is still in progress. The bank denies the accusations.
Last month, Moneyval, a monitoring committee of the Council of Europe, said the Vatican had made significant progress in financial reforms but still risked being used for money laundering unless it strengthened internal controls.
Last July, IOR director Paolo Cipriani and deputy-director Massimo Tulli resigned, three days after the arrest of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano.
Mr Scarano, who worked as a senior accountant in the department headed by Calcagno, one of the cardinals removed and who had close contact with the bank, is currently on trial in Rome on charges of plotting to smuggle 20 million euros in cash into Italy from Switzerland.


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Organizational Structure
UNRWA is one of the largest United Nations programmes, with over 30,000 personnel working across five areas of operations, and is unique in that it delivers services directly to beneficiaries.
UNRWA Headquarters are located in Amman and in Gaza. The Agency maintains a field office in each of its areas of operations - Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip - and liaison offices in New York, Washington, Brussels and Cairo. The Agency's senior-most official is Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.


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IPak, powered by Pro Mach, introduces the RP-100, North America's first returnable plastic container (RPC) erector. The IPak RP-100 machine securely forms reusable plastic containers, while reducing labor costs and repetitive strain injuries related to forming returnable plastic trays by hand. It delivers the economic benefits and scales of production formerly unavailable to RPC operations, but are now available with automation. It will be on display in the Wexxar booth C-1719 at Pack Expo in Las Vegas, September 26-28, 2011.
The IPak RP-100 fully-automatic RPC erector, manufactured by Wexxar Packaging, is ideal for fresh fruit and vegetable growers, distributors and retailers. RPCs are used by produce packagers who take advantage of their natural cooling properties, as well as for the sustainable benefits of reusable transport containers. In the past, RPCs were typically formed by hand, which added labor costs and expenses related to repetitive strain injuries. Today, the RP-100 automatically forms stacks of up to 30 un-erected RPC totes at a rate of 25 containers per minute. RPCs can be loaded flat on either side of the machine. The RP-100 picks one tray at a time from the bottom and pushes it forward where the tray walls are automatically lifted and locked into place. Many packaging environments can now benefit from the sustainability of RPCs and still maintain their production demands.
"Sustainable packaging no longer means sacrificing the economies of automation," says Dyrl Nixon, IPak product manager. "Many produce growers ship products in RPCs at the request of their customers."
"The RP-100, like all our IPak models, is built for demanding agricultural conditions," adds Nixon. "RPCs reduce environmental impact because they are washable and reusable, whereas soiled corrugated containers must be compacted, recycled and re-ordered. We believe the RP-100 has applications beyond the produce industry as well."
The IPak RP-100 comes standard with a dual Easy-Load infeed magazine that allows seven stacks of RPCs to be primed for production at all times. The machine erects common footprint size RPC totes in depths of 3" to 6-1/2" without adjustments. It comes equipped with a color touchscreen HMI, advanced interlocking safety guarding, Remote Demand Control for pausing production when the discharge conveyor is full, and a patented compression module that consistently delivers securely formed RPCs.
The RP-100 forms 25 returnable plastic trays per minute, making it suitable for national and international growers with 24/7 packing and shipping needs. IPak and Wexxar Packaging will be demonstrating the RP-100 in booth C-1719 and taking inquiries for 2012.


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Law enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run earlier this year.
Today, we have a plea from a friend of Roger Slifer, a DC Comics legend and Transformers television producer, who suffered critical injuries in a Saturday morning hit-and-run in Santa Monica, Cal.
Wrote Shaene Sliders, "My friend Roger, a humble and amazing guy who produced and wrote some of this nation's favorite cartoons in the 80s and spread much joy to our generation, was run down in a crosswalk by the driver of the car in the article. He is still unconscious in the hospital. The picture is really blurry, but if anyone can get it identified, it sounds like that's you."
Yes, the picture is blurry, as they often are in these situations.
The details of the case, which has gotten a bit heated with Santa Monica police saying "the family's having the media call us, alleging we aren't doing anything," are as follows:
A white sedan slammed into Slifer, 57, in a crosswalk on Colorado Avenue near Fifth Street at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.
After breezing through the crosswalk, the driver of the vehicle failed to stop for the collision and continued northbound on 5th Street to Broadway, where they turned right and continued eastbound out of sight.
In a press release Tuesday, Santa Monica police said they have no information on the driver. The car was described as a late 1990's to early 2000 sedan, white, with a sunroof and tinted rear windows.
So, what kind of car do you think it is? Perhaps we can be the ones who call Santa Monica police to help with a tip rather than deliver accusations that they're not working hard enough.
Hit and Run Felony - Auto vs. Pedestrian [Santa Monica PD]


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Wonderland of Glaciers
Starting in Seward, we will spend a day exploring the glacier wonderland of College Fjord before setting off to cross the Gulf of Alaska, known for its abundant marine life. We will also visit another iconic site of Alaska – Hubbard Glacier, the largest tidewater glacier in North America.
Grand Scale of Wilderness
The scale and grandeur of Alaska is hard to describe. There is awesome beauty at every turn – from glaciers and mountains, to thick evergreen rainforests, fjords, and sheer cliffs with waterfalls cascading off their sides. In tranquil bays and coves, bears roam and eagles soar from tree to tree.
Alaska's towns and villages offer rich stories and origins. There is strong Russian history and Norwegian heritage, gold rush towns with their saloons, and native villages adorned with totem poles and intricate carvings.
Unmatched Wildlife
Known as the Last Frontier, Alaska is a wildlife paradise. Whales spend summers feeding in Alaskan waters. Bears roam the sea shores and catch salmon in rivers. Sea lions group on rocky outcrops, otters play in kelp beds, and seals float on icebergs in the fjords. There is nowhere else on Earth quite like Alaska.
- Experience the highlights of the Inside Passage and Gulf of Alaska
- Explore the largest tidewater glacier in North America – Hubbard Glacier
- Spend time whale-watching and spotting rich Alaskan wildlife
- Discover the amazing cultural diversity of Alaskan towns and villages
- Hurtigruten expedition cruise in the cabin grade of your choice
- One overnight in Anchorage before the voyage including breakfast
- Transfer from hotel to ship in Seward
- A rich program of included activities on all voyages designed to immerse you in the destinations you visit, including onshore exploration with the expedition team
- Professional English-speaking expedition team - an international handpicked team of highly educated experts in various academic fields with profound knowledge of the region we sail through
- Complimentary wind- and water-resistant jacket
- Loan of boots, trekking poles, and equipment needed for optional and included activities
- In-depth lectures on science, history, biology, geography, geology or culture that provide context to your voyage and help you understand the destinations you will experience
- Explorer Science program, with educational and Citizen Science activities that let you learn about the sights you'll see while contributing to research
- Introductory photo lecture, including camera adjustments and tips and tricks
- Photos and film/video footage from the voyage shared in the Expedition Logbook
- Casual opportunities to engage with the expedition team and other guests, including a welcome event, daily gatherings to recap the day and prepare for the day to come
- Opportunities to dine and interact with the expedition team and officers
- Destination-focused onboard library
- Port presentations providing destination insight
- A farewell event
- All meals including beverages (beer and wine, sodas and mineral water in all ship restaurants)
- Coffee and tea included throughout the day
- Early riser and afternoon treat offered in addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Fredheim restaurant meals included
- A la carte restaurant (only for suite guests)
- Gym, outdoor hot tubs and sauna with windows
- Rejuvenating wellness areas with separate treatment rooms, infinity pool, outdoor gym, running track
- Free Wi-fi onboard for all guests. Be aware that we sail in remote areas with limited connection. Streaming is not supported.
- No gratuities expected
- International flights
- Optional shore excursions with our local partners
- Optional small-group adventures with our expedition team such as kayaking (availability pending weather conditions and safety)
- Travel protection plan
- Luggage handling
- Visa for U.S. - for details please see visa information in our Entry Requirements.
Urban Outpost for Adventure - Anchorage - Hotel
Anchorage, the largest town in Alaska, welcomes you with a backdrop of towering mountains and fantastic wildlife. You will start your expedition with an overnight that gives you time to experience this unique and adventurous city.
Start of the Expedition - Anchorage / Seward- Embarkation
Transfer overland through amazing nature from Anchorage to Seward. Largely a fishing town, Seward welcomes visitors with mountain trailheads right from town, nearby glaciers, and a beautiful coastal setting. MS Roald Amundsen awaits your embarkation at the harbor.
Glacial Wonderland - College Fjord / Prince William Sound - Full Day
We explore less-visited College Fjord with its impressive collection of glaciers. This is a natural wonderland where ice and forests meet, home to five tidewater glaciers, five larger valley glaciers, and a dozen smaller glaciers, all named after famous East Coast Colleges.
Largest Tidewater Glacier - Gulf of Alaska / Hubbard Glacier - At sea - Half Day
At 76 miles long and almost 7 miles wide, Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America. Framed by an amphitheater of snowcapped mountains, it sits at the end of Disenchantment Bay like a sleeping giant.
In the Tlingit Land - Icy Strait Point - Half Day
Land of Tlingit people, Icy Strait Point offers a glimpse into the life of a native settlement. Houses adorned with intricate carvings, totem poles depicting stories of the clans, an old cannery restored to become a center for the community, as well as cafes, shops, and museum displays welcome visitors.
Included activity:
Cannery Experience (1 hr)
Enjoy a nature walk through second-growth forest and a historical tour of the Hoonah Packing Company Cannery. Your guide tells you about the area's fishing industry, local flora and fauna, and the native Tlingit culture. See a canning line in operation and take home your own can with a special treat inside.
Town of Many Stories - Sitka - Anchored - Full Day
Nestled on the western side of Baranof Island, Sitka features beautiful scenery with snowcapped mountains, small islands, rich wildlife and even a visible volcano. A former capital of Russian Alaska, the town has history imprinted on its streets, including a Russian Othodox cathedral and a forest full of totem poles.
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Alaska Raptor Centre (45 mins)
Join us on a visit to the Alaska Raptor Center, which rehabilitates injured bald eagles and other birds of prey. See the 24 'raptors-in-residence', including bald and golden eagles, hawks, falcons and owls, and learn about their habitats and how they came to be permanent residents at the Center.
From Rainforests to Glaciers - Tracy Arm / Endicott Arm - Full Day
True gems of Southeast Alaska, the Tracy and Endicott Arm Fjords feature lush Alaskan greenery on towering cliffsides as well intricately shaped icebergs that have calved into the water from radiant-blue glaciers at the end of the fjords. It is also home to mountain goats and harbor seals.
Art in the Wilderness - Haines - Full Day
Home of Chilkat Tlingit people for centuries, European traders arrived here in the late 19th century, followed by prospectors of the gold rush era. Known for its community of artists today, Haines remains a small Alaskan town at the end of the road, full of colorful stories and hidden surprises.
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Fort Seward Town package (1 - 2 hrs)
Discover Fort Seward and the town of Haines at your leisure. Guides will be stationed at strategic points to present you with the history and culture. Wander with a map of the fort highlighting such interesting sites as the old barracks building, salmon smokehouse, Alaska Indian Arts, the old hospital building, Officers Row and the fire station.
Little Norway in Alaska - Petersburg - Full Day
Nicknamed "Little Norway," rarely-visited Petersburg is a thriving fishing village with a strong Norwegian heritage, breathtaking scenery and abundant marine life all around. Proud of their Scandinavian roots, local residents even celebrate Norwegian holidays, and the heart of the community is the "Sons of Norway" hall.
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Dock Walk of Petersburg (1 hr)
Meet your local guide who is either a commercial fisherperson or someone involved in the fishing industry for a walk through the harbors. During your time on the dock your guide will point out various types of fishing gear and how it is used to successfully harvest some of Alaska's delicious seafood. Learn about what types of seafood is caught and the sustainability of the fisheries in the area. An underwater video camera will provide the opportunity to see under the dock in hopes of viewing sealife up close, you will be amazed to see what is living just underneath your feet! During your walk you may even hear a story or two from the fishermen preparing their boats.
Soul of Alaska - Wrangell - Full Day
One of the oldest island towns in Alaska, Wrangell has been governed by four different nations – Tlingit, Russia, Britain and USA. Numerous petroglyphs on the beach and moss-covered totem poles manifest to the area's distant past. Outside the main cruise ships routes, Wrangell remains a simple fishing town.
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An Alaskan's Day (1 - 3 hrs)
Join us and learn what it means to be Alaskan. We drive to a city park with views of the water and surrounding islands, to learn how to cook (and taste) local seafood on a fire pit. Your hosts tell stories about Wrangell's fishing industry, its history and what it's like living here today. Local hosts include people from various backgrounds representing their unique perspective of culture, traditional occupations with local skills, and more. Occasional humpback whales, Orca, seals and more frolic in the channel and tidal creatures play in several tide pools ready to be explored along the beach.
Unspoiled Wilderness - Misty Fjords National Monument - Full Day
Misty Fjords National Monument is a realm of thick evergreen rainforests, granite cliffs adorned with cascading waterfalls, mountain streams and coastal wetlands, often filling the bays and coves with milky fog. Quiet and tranquil, this magical place will show you the serenity of the Alaskan soul.
Gateway to Alaska - Ketchikan, Alaska - Half Day
Known as the "Salmon capital of the world," Ketchikan is a true frontier town, surrounded by towering mountains. Colorful gold rush era houses on stilts line the river bank. The city has strong ties to Tlingit culture and is home to one of the largest collections of standing totem poles.
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Alaskan Lumberjack show (1 hr)
Learn about Alaska's rich logging history through displays of strength and agility, action, excitement and laughter! World champion lumberjacks compete in 12 athletic events utilizing axes, razor sharp saws and powerful chainsaws. Your cheers will turn to roars of excitement as axes fly, men fall from tall trees, and then run atop spinning logs floating in the water.
Cruising through British Columbia - At sea
Enjoy the coastal mountain scenery and watch for the dolphins, porpoise, orcas and whales that frequent these protected inland waters.
End of the Expedition - Vancouver - Disembarkation - Full Day
Our voyage ends in cosmopolitan Vancouver, city of waterfront parks, international cuisine, galleries, museums, colorful neighborhoods, and beautiful nature all around. Take your time to explore the city to get even more out of your adventure.
Terms, conditions and restrictions apply; pricing, availability, and other details subject to change and/ or apply to US or Canadian residents. Please confirm details and booking information with your travel advisor.


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A Guide to Finding a Good Commercial Contractor
The commercial contractor is responsible for commercial construction. Know that such general contractor is actually involved in all kinds of commercial construction and they would handle both the public and private projects, from the construction of those schools to buildings, such commercial spaces and others.
They would also be responsible when it comes to overseeing a lot of tasks such as getting permits, making purchases, following the design, building codes and those state laws as well as norms. In choosing that great commercial contractor, you need to be extra careful because there is definitely a lot at stake. These are among the things which you must know so that you can find a good commercial contractor.
What you must do first is that you should start with the basics. You cannot work with any contractor which you find online. It is important that you start your search through finding licensed companies that have a great name in the local market. The company will have enough clients when the company has already worked with a lot of projects while claiming to be the best in the business. They must also be able to provide references on request which would tell much about their portfolio. Also, you have to know the nature and also the range of projects that they have done so far and if they can handle the project, keep the scope and also the other projects in mind.
It is also very essential that you would contact at least three to four commercial contractors for a similar job. You have to check if their pricing and also their bid is transparent and fair. The bids are actually meant to be detailed in various aspects and you might also need to check what is included in such proposal being sent to you and also the things which have been excluded. Ensure that all of the bids are focused on a similar scope of work and otherwise such would mean comparing different projects that is not the best way to move ahead.
Regardless of how small or big the project may be, communication with such commercial contractor is a lot more important. If you are satisfied with the bid, then you should ask them for the development process and search for reasons why you should hire the company. The concerned company must also be able to explain their approach to such job in order for you to understand their expertise. To make sure that you are on the same page, then you should also use one of the projects that they have done as a reference point as you speak with them.


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I'm not sure she was singing live. Frankly, I don't care. She was good enough – great enough – at everything else to make me not care. JLO's performance last night at the AMAs was everything. It had everything. It had costume. It had flair. It had HAIR. The energy – she put it all on stage last night. And it was spectacular. More spectacular than we've seen from her in a long, long time. Did you see that f-cking mic toss? I leapt out of bed for that mic toss!
You know what I think it might be?
When was the last time you've been so exhilarated by a JLO performance?
It made me remember how exhilarating she was when she was playing Selena. Bidi bidi bom bom! JLO brings out her best when her purpose is not to celebrate herself, but to honour someone else. There's nothing you can hate about that.
But we can always hate on the Slum Lover.
Let's Photo Assumption her expression here, posing next to him backstage.
Is that…
Could it be…
Can we hope that she might finally be over that sh-t?


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Broadcom has agreed to acquire Beceem Communications, a maker of chips for 4G LTE and WiMax devices, for US$316 million in cash.
The acquisition is a logical one for Broadcom, a major vendor of chips for many wired and wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS (Global Positioning System) and 3G (third-generation) mobile data. Broadcom said adding Beceem's engineering team and technology will help it get 4G chips to market sooner.
The proposed deal has been approved by the boards of both companies but is subject to regulatory and other closing conditions. Broadcom expects the acquisition of Beceem, a privately held company, to close in either the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year.
Beceem has products both for WiMax, the first 4G mobile system commercially deployed, and for LTE (Long-Term Evolution), the choice of a growing number of mobile operators that are preparing to launch 4G services. Earlier this year it announced a chip that integrates both WiMax and LTE, saying it would go into mass production in the second quarter of next year. Dual-mode 4G components may be critical for service providers that are deploying WiMax today but decide later to follow the tide toward LTE. Even Clearwire, which is building a national WiMax network around the U.S., has said it plans trials of LTE. Beceem is set to participate in those trials.
As much as 2010 has been a year of 4G, it has also been a year of acquisitions. Intel, which competes with Broadcom in the mobile arena, announced in August it would acquire the wireless division of chipmaker Infineon Technologies for $1.4 billion. That deal is expected to help Intel in the smartphone and tablet market while combining Intel's own 4G technology with Infineon's 3G products.


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Cause of Death Revealed for Miley Cyrus' Dog Floyd
Miley Cyrus was utterly and understandably devastated by the death of her dog Floyd earlier this week. We just learned what happened to the poor pooch and it is unbelievably tragic.
The singer soldiered on and remained on tour, despite the grief, breaking down during a soundcheck while dealing with her pain. Details about Floyd's death were scarce at first, but we know Cyrus was crushed. One of the dancers on her Bangerz Tour revealed how poor, precious Floyd suddenly died.
The dancer shared images on Instagram, captioning a composite shot: "A team sticks together during hard times... Thank you Smilers for lifting @mileycyrus up tonight!!! The energy in the arena was indescribable.... #ripfloyd#bangerztour #boston."
When an unaware Smiler asked what happened to Miley, the dancer revealed the details.
Warning: It's very sad.
Turns out, Floyd was killed by a coyote. It's already devastating to lose a pet, but to lose him in such a horrific manner only adds to the acute pain. Coupled with the fact that Cyrus was away from home and on tour and didn't get to give her furbaby a proper goodbye had to compound the pain.
Our hearts go out to Miley, the Cyrus family and Floyd, who has crossed over the rainbow bridge. Their pain is understandably deep.
Below is the dancer's Instagram post and a screenshot of the comment, confirming the cause of death.


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Although the ad got a lot of playtime on MSNBC Friday, a recent so-called "Republican women for Obama" video advertisement has turned out to be a disingenuous campaign ploy.
That ad, posted on the official Barack Obama campaign YouTube page on Friday, claimed to show a group of women that had previously voted Republican but later abandoned the party because they felt it went too far to the right, leaving them no alternative but to vote for President Barack Obama this November.
The problem is, so far two of these women have been shown to be Democrats who had previously supported Obama.
First pointed out by Zeke Miller of Buzzfeed, one of the featured actors in the video, Maria Ciano had been a registered Democrat since October 2006, according to Colorado voter registration records.
John Hinderaker of Powerline took it a step further and investigated Ciano's Facebook page and found some of her Facebook "likes" fall under many left-on-center causes:
- Democracy For America
- Tar Sands Action
- Amy Goodman
- Barack Obama
- Costoftaxcuts.com
- Being Liberal
- MoveOn.org
- Bernie Sanders Tells You A Secret the GOP Would Rather You Didn't Know
- Miss Piggy Delivers the Best Takedown of Fox News We've Seen All Month
- Think Progress
- The Best Quote From Barack Obama We've Seen This Week
- Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America's Heartland
- Climate Reality
- Grist.org
- The Amazing Victory Scored With Obama That More People Should Be Talking About
- The Sierra Club
- The Buffett Rule
- Obama For America–Colorado
- UniteWomen.org
- Denver Young Democrats
- Obamacare
- Latinos For Obama
- Michelle Obama
- Veterans For Obama
- I Love It When I Wake Up In the Morning and Obama Is President
- Obama Truth Team
- Democratic Party
But Hinderaker also discovered that Ciano's mother, Delia Ciano is another one of the women in the ad, who also has a history of pro-Obama support on her Facebook as well.


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Monday, March 17, 2008
© Stephen Haynes
Andy and I ran our very first ultra together Saturday we ran the Unknown ?k it was in the Cleveland national forest. It was a beautiful 33 mile course. The weather started off cool, it was a little cloudy. It got warm enough the first few miles to shed my jacket. It snaked around a crest and we climbed along ridges in this beautiful area. It was one of those days where you would take your jacket off and in 20 min. you were cold and had to put it back on.
There was 3 aid stations on the course, and there were out and backs into the aid stations, so you got to see the runners ahead of you.
We all had to pick Pokemon cards at the start and exchange them along the course. Who ever had the highest card won a ipod. Not sure who won.
I had a blast out there. We really took it easy out on the course. Andy has a 100 miler next Friday C2M 100. I also tried to focus on pose which really slows me down. We didn't mind running slow the most important thing was that we were together.
Oh, I forgot to mention we slept only a couple hours the night before. We slept in the back of Andy's Audi which is not a SUV. We fit in there perfect but it was freak'n cold out.
I just want to thank Andy for all the fun I've been having you're the best.
"I want to stand with you on a mountain, I want to bath with you in the sea, I want to lay like this forever, until the sky falls down on me."
3 comments:
- Miki said...
Yay fun! I love the Pokemon card idea though I hate Pokemon. (had to work on a pokemon project in my software days). Looked fun Cat and Andy. :)
- Jeffro said...
Is that a Moeben Sleeve on your arm?
Hi DD.
I follow your writing since the very first days in the trail/ultra forums and, when I was asked to suggest a top blog last week in a freaking interview for runners&bloggers, I did not wobble: Dirt Diva, said. "Dirt qué?", yeah. Just click ... and I quoted him some trail runnnind descriptions and some 100s you wrote about. Mate he was amazed!
So from now on you also have readers from Spain. I am giving a go to my blogroll and will edit some post in your honour. Waiting for the fresh winds to leave, and waiting for my next ultras, hug from Spain.
(in case you click do not be scared, that rare from todays post wording is Dutch; normally posting in español)


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A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
The Morning Light May Help You Stay Slim
Study found people tended to be leaner if they got sun exposure earlier, rather than later, in dayWednesday, April 2, 2014
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Spending time in the bright morning light may help you slim down, new research suggests.
The small study found that people exposed to more light earlier, rather than later, in the day tended to be leaner than their peers.
"We were very interested in looking at the relationship between lighting and how that may be affecting your weight," explained study senior author Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the sleep disorders center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
"This is an early study, but we did indeed see a fairly robust association between the amount of light and the timing of light, and weight," noted Zee. However, she was quick to point out that the study only found an association between early light exposure and lower weight, not a cause-and-effect link.
The study included 54 adults. Twenty-six were male, and the average age was 31. A special monitoring device -- worn on the wrist -- measured light exposure, sleep mid-point and duration of sleep for seven days.
Weight and height were self-reported. The researchers calculated body mass index (BMI) from those self-reported measurements. BMI is a rough estimate of a person's body fat. The participants also kept food logs during the seven days they wore the monitoring device.
Zee said the strongest association was seen in people exposed to light that was at least 500 lux, which is the equivalent of a well-lit indoor room. Outside on a sunny day provides 1,000 lux or higher, while most indoor rooms are about 200 to 250 lux, according to Zee.
But, the timing of the light also mattered. Those who were exposed to brighter light earlier in the day were the slimmest.
"For every hour later in the day that you reach 500 lux that translates to an increase of 1.28 BMI. The earlier the light exposure, the lower the BMI," said Zee.
There are a number of ways light might influence weight. One is by altering circadian rhythms -- the body's internal time clock -- to allow for better sleep. Morning light might also affect hormones that influence appetite regulation and metabolism, Zee said.
Even after the researchers controlled for other potentially slimming factors such as caloric intake, sleep duration/timing and the possibility that people getting early light exposure might be more active, light exposure still seemed to account for 20 percent of BMI, according to the researchers.
Does that mean people who live in sunnier climates would be thinner than their colder counterparts? Maybe, said Zee, though they didn't include such a comparison in the current study. "People tend to lose more weight in the summer, when you're getting more light earlier in the day," she added.
Zee recommended between 20 minutes and 30 minutes of bright morning light between 8 a.m. and noon.
"Whenever possible, be exposed to early light," she said. "Walk to work if you can. Bright, outdoor light will be way above the 500 lux. If you can't get outside, work near a window. If you can't get near a window, at least make sure your work environment is well-lit," Zee added.
Jaclyn London is senior clinical dietician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She said that the "researchers raise an interesting question, but the study is very small and relied on self-reporting of diet and weight. There was no study intervention either, so they weren't able to prove causality," London noted.
"However, I do think there's some evidence here to suggest that the impact of light may influence metabolic changes and possibly play a role in BMI. And, with 67 percent of Americans being overweight or obese, it's certainly an intervention worth looking at," London said.
The study was published April 2 in the journal PLOS One.
SOURCES: Phyllis Zee, M.D., professor, neurology, and director, Sleep Disorders Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago; Jaclyn London, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., senior clinical dietician, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City; April 2, 2014, PLOS One
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Santa Fe Film Festival Honors Mr. Lynn Stalmaster
The Santa Fe Film Festival honored legendary Casting Director Mr. Lynn Stalmaster after a public viewing of The Right Stuff, one of the hundreds of great films that Mr. Stalmaster cast. After the public viewing and award presentation, guests proceeded to a wonderful benefit dinner and party hosted by Katie and Jerry Peters at their residence in Santa Fe. Proceeds from the benefit will go to the non-profit Santa Fe Film Festival.Read More


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If you're gung-ho on upgrading to the iPhone 5 and have a mountain of old accessories from previous generations of the iPhone and iPod, this is the ugly adapter you'll need to buy for all of your deprecated gear. The iPhone 5 introduces a new, and considerably smaller, Lightning connector that's incompatible with every single Dock Connector accessory ever released.
It's officially called the Lightning to 30-pin Adapter and is available for pre-order for $29 starting today, while it ships in October. Wait, what? If you were hoping to use your new iPhone 5 with your old accessories next week, that's apparently not going to happen for at least a few more weeks.
And if you have an iPhone dock that's perfectly sized for the current generation iPhone, using that inch tall adapter simply isn't going to work. So Apple's also graced us with a more flexible option—literally—with a cable version of the adapter that's $10 more at $39. We all knew this day was coming, but who knew it would sting so much? [Apple]


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The Catholic Church has (by far) the largest number of homosexuals of any business on the planet. Yes folks, the Catholic Church is a business; yet its leaders continue to criticize homosexuality. What hypocrisy!
Speaking of homosexuality, just take a look at the Pope… Doesn't he look queer in his white outfit and cute red shoes? Talk about gay… TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in the U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
In a front-page article in Saturday's Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the Holy See sought to frame itself as the lone voice of courage in opposing initiatives to give same-sex couples legal recognition. In a separate Vatican Radio editorial, the pope's spokesman asked sarcastically why gay marriage proponents don't now push for legal recognition for polygamous couples as well.
Catholic teaching holds that homosexuals should be respected and treated with dignity but that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered." The Vatican also opposes same-sex marriage, insisting on the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman as the foundation for society.
The Vatican's anti-gay marriage media blitz came after three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote in the election that returned Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency, Spain upheld its gay marriage law, and France pushed ahead with legislation that could see gay marriage legalized early next year.
"One might say the church, at least on this front, has been defeated," L'Osservatore Romano wrote. "But that's not the case."
The article insisted that Catholics were putting up a valiant fight to uphold church teaching in the face of "politically correct ideologies invading every culture of the world" that are backed by institutions like the United Nations, which last year passed a non-binding resolution condemning anti-gay discrimination.
"The church is called to present itself as the lone critic of modernity, the only check … to the breakup of the anthropological structures on which human society was founded," it said.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, for his part, said gays can have their rights protected by means other than through legal marital recognition. He stressed that children should have a right to say they have a father and a mother.
"If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?" he asked sarcastically. Polyandry is when a woman has two or more husbands.
"As a result, don't expect the church to stop insisting that society recognizes a specific place for marriage between a man and woman," he said.
The U.S. election had been closely watched at the Vatican because of the strong divisions that erupted during the campaign between the Obama administration and U.S. bishops over gay marriage, which Obama endorsed in May. The administration and bishops clashed more vehemently over Obama's health care mandate requiring nearly all U.S. health insurance plans to cover contraception, which the church opposes.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the contraception mandate — which exempts houses of worship but applies to faith-affiliated employers — is a violation of religious freedom.
The Vatican's reaction to Obama's re-election was tinged with such lingering criticism, with Pope Benedict XVI congratulating Obama and praying that the ideals of freedom and justice continue to be upheld.
Lombardi went further urging the administration to respect essential values in "promoting a culture of life and religious freedom" — Vatican buzzwords referring to abortion, contraception and the insurance mandate.
It was a far cry from the Vatican's enthusiastic response to Obama's election in 2008. Then, the pope termed Obama's election an "historic occasion" in a personal note of congratulations sent right after he won, a break with traditional Vatican protocol that usually sees official telegrams of congratulations sent on inauguration day.
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Office of the Press Secretary
January 22, 2003
Presidential Remarks 1/22/03
Excerpt from President's Remarks in St. Louis 1/22/03
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The dictator of Iraq has got weapons of mass destruction. He has used weapons of mass destruction. He can't stand America and what we stand for. He can't stand our friends and allies.
He's a dangerous, dangerous man with dangerous, dangerous weapons. And that's why the world came together at the United Nations Security Council and said, Mr. Saddam Hussein must disarm. The message was as clear as can possibly be delivered -- Mr. Saddam Hussein must disarm.
And the first step of that disarmament was for him to make a declaration of his weapons -- 12,000 pages of deceit and deception were placed at the U.N. Security Council. We know what it means to disarm; we know what a disarmed regime does. We know how a disarmed regime accounts for weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein is not disarming, like the world has told him he must do.
He's a dangerous man, with dangerous weapons. He's a danger to America, and our friends and allies. And that's why the world has said, disarm.
But Saddam Hussein has learned lessons from the past. See, the first time he was told to disarm was 11 years ago. He is adept at deception and delays and denying. He asked for more time so he can give the so-called inspectors more runaround. He's interested in playing hide and seek in a huge country. He's not interested in disarming.
I hope the world has learned the lessons from the past, just like Saddam Hussein has learned the lessons from the past, but in a different way. It's time for us to hold the world to account, and for Saddam to be held to account.
We must not -- (applause.) We must not be fooled by the ways of the past. After all, we just discovered undeclared chemical warheads in Iraq. It's incredibly troubling and disturbing for a man -- that is evidence of a man not disarming.
He wants to play a game. For the sake of peace, we must not let him play a game. And so the resolutions of the Security Council will be enforced. (Applause.)
My hope is that Saddam Hussein will disarm voluntarily; that's my hope. I take seriously the commitment of any troop into combat. I desire peace. But in the name of peace, in the name of securing our future, if Saddam Hussein will not disarm, the United States of America and friends of freedom will disarm Saddam Hussein. (Applause.)
And should that path be forced upon us, there will be serious consequences. There will be serious consequences for the dictator in Iraq. And there will be serious consequences for any Iraqi general or soldier who were to use weapons of mass destruction on our troops or on innocent lives within Iraq. (Applause.)
Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein, or his sons, or any of the killers who occupy the high levels of their government, my advice is, don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal. (Applause.) And there will be serious consequences -- should we be forced into action, there will be serious consequences for the Iraqi people -- and that's freedom, freedom from oppression. (Applause.) Freedom from oppression, freedom from torture, freedom from murder, freedom to realize your God-given talents.