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Franz Kafka was commonly considered to be an assimilated Jew, and, at face value, his writings have nothing to do with Judaism. However, on closer examination, even though one would not necessarily look upon Kafka as a religious writer, many Jewish ideas can be seen in his work.
Franz Kafka was commonly considered to be an assimilated Jew, and, at face value, his writings have nothing to do with Judaism. However, on closer examination, even though one would not necessarily look upon Kafka as a religious writer, many Jewish ideas can be seen in his work. "In endlessly complex ways, nearly everything Kafka wrote turns on his relation to Jews and to Jewish traditions." Perhaps his friendship with Georg Langer who was heavily influenced by Chassidism - a movement which stresses the mystical and anti-rational elements of Judaism - acted as a focal point for his Jewish identity. Perhaps it was the pervasive antisemitism, which he would have encountered in Prague during his early years, which was the catalyst for his 'Jewish writing'. Whatever the case may be, mystical impulses "still retain an enormous force in the books of Franz Kafka." Kafka's writings, especially his unfinished works, are not to be taken literally, and call for interpretation. It is this interpretation which has been likened to Biblical exegesis. His closest friend Max Brod "convinced several generations of scholars that his parables were part of an elaborate quest for an unreachable God." One can see a clear link between Kafka's writings and Jewish tradition, particularly the mystical tradition in Judaism. In this essay, I will examine the parallels between a text of the Merkavah stream of mysticism (throne, or chariot, mysticism) and Kafka's story Before the Law, as well as the similarities between the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, and Kafka's text The City Coat of Arms.
Merkava Mysticism and "Before the Law"
Mysticism: An introduction
Religious mysticism is an attempt to gain direct experience of, and, even union with God. This is achieved not through an intellectual process of studying canonical texts, but by mystical processes, which are not rational. Thus, a mystic may attempt to achieve oneness with God through a process of contemplation. The mystic may also attempt to interpret the words of the holy texts, not on their face value, but on the assumption that they contain hidden meanings. The mystic's aim is to uncover the true meaning of the text, which is regarded as symbolical rather than a literal revelation of God's purpose. And so, the mystic attempts to reveal God's true purpose, and in so doing, come closer to, or even into direct contact with God.
Merkavah mysticism
The first phase of Jewish mysticism (from the first century B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E.) is known as merkavah mysticism. Most of the works associated with this tradition were produced in the fifth and sixth centuries. Already from the time of the Second Temple one can find esoteric writings based on Ma'aseh Bereshit (the story of Creation) and the book of Ezekiel. It is in Ezekiel that the imagery of the Divine throne as a chariot (merkavah) is first mentioned. This chariot was drawn by four chayot - living animals, each with four faces. This is the basis of the Jewish mystical tradition which lasted until the beginning of the German chassidut movement of the twelfth century. It is this imagery which serves as the central motif of contemplation for the mystic. For followers of the Ma'aseh Merkavah tradition, the animals in Ezekiel's vision were viewed as angels. Although this mystical tradition is basically not followed today, much of Jewish liturgy has its origins in this period. The kedushah of the Amidah prayer, which is based on Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 3, is the best example of this. This mystical tradition stresses the transcendent attributes of God, rather than his immanence. As is common with many mystical movements, there were periods of backlash from the 'Orthodox' establishment: "He who multiplies the praise of God to excess shall be torn from the world."
Pirkei Heichalot
Pirkei Heichalot (The Chapters of the Chambers, or Halls) serves as an excellent example of a Merkavah text. In the seventeenth chapter of the text the reader discovers that Havayah (God) "dwells in the seventh palace, in the innermost room thereof" on his throne, or chariot. At the entrance to each of the seven palaces stand eight guards - four to the left of the gate and four to the right. For the soul to pass the guards without danger, it must possess magical 'seals', which consist of secret names. These act as both a weapon and a defense against demons and evil angels. The mystic also intones special hymns, which enables him to reach a state of ecstasy, as he passes through the gates from one palace to the next. One does not find a description of these guards, only their names are mentioned. As each of their names ends with the suffix el (God), the merkavah mystics conceived them as angels of God. The guards who stand at the final gate are described vividly: "they stand angry and war-like, strong, harsh, fearful, terrifying, taller than mountains and sharper than peaks..." As the text continues, one finds imagery of fierce and armed soldiers. Clearly, the guards are there to block the way of the mystic who wishes to enter. Indeed, "the guards of the sixth palace make a practice of killing those who "go and do not go down on the Merkabah without permission. They hover over them, strike them, and burn them."
The imagery presented in the text is quite frightening. The central metaphor which permeates the text is that of the omnipotence of God and the dangers and difficulties of trying to reach Him. It appears strange, to say the least, that such an all-powerful God requires the protection of fifty-six guards, the final eight of whom are described in the most frightening terms. There are a number of possible explanations for the appearance of the guards in the text. The first is that the guards are not, in fact, protecting God Himself, but rather, that they are protecting the Jewish mystic who attempts to reach God, who resides in the innermost chamber of the seventh palace. For it is clear that the mystic stands in great danger, as can be ascertained from a study of the story 'Arba'a Nichnesu LePardes', which is found in the Talmudic tractate of Hagigah. It recounts the story of four rabbis who try to enter 'Paradise,' three of whom end up by losing their lives. A second possible explanation of this parable is that man lives in an inherently hostile and dangerous world, one which is filled with barriers and obstacles, as symbolized by the guards, which stand in the way of God and the human soul. The text teaches us that our role is to persevere and surmount these obstacles in order to reach God. It acts as a test, challenging the will and commitment of the mystic to ultimately reach God. Alternatively, the existence of the guards, especially the fierce ones which appear in the final verse of the chapter, is a statement about the existence of evil in the world. To reach God, man must vanquish the evil in the world as represented by the guards. The fact that the guards become fiercer and crueler the closer that man gets to God (as he approaches the seventh palace) emphasizes the difficulty and dangers of the quest. The closer that the human soul gets to God the more difficult the quest to ultimately reach God actually becomes.
Before the Law
There are similarities between the Merkava text which we have examined and the Kafka parable Before the Law. In the Kafka text the reader finds a man who "prays for admittance to the Law." The doorkeeper who stands at the entrance refuses him entry. He tells the man that even if he were to pass this gate, many more halls exist which are guarded by gatekeepers "each more powerful than the last." The man is perturbed by the inaccessibility of the Law, but does not disobey the doorkeeper. He takes his place on a chair for many years, engages in discourse with the doorkeeper, yet his attempts to enter the gate are always rebuffed. Finally, before his death, he asks the gatekeeper why nobody else has requested to enter the gate. The gatekeeper replies: "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it."
A comparative view
While the Law is not defined by Kafka, it has obvious parallels with the Bible, the source of all Jewish Law. Just as the goal of the Jewish mystic is to reach God, so does Kafka's character hold a need to achieve a knowledge of the Law. However, while Jewish belief suggests that the goal of attaining a greater understanding of God is achievable, Kafka seems to believe that the attempt is futile. Thus, in the Merkava text, the obstacles standing between man and God are there to be overcome and are capable of being overcome. In contrast, Kafka's character, while having a need to know the Law, seems to be overcome by a complete sense of passivity in pursuing this goal. He obediently accepts the doorkeeper's refusal to admit him to the Law until he eventually dies. Kafka seems to be saying that while man apparently has an overwhelming need to find meaning in the world, his quest for meaning is doomed from the outset, and there is hardly any point in even beginning the quest. In this sense Jewish mysticism has an inherently more optimistic view of life and man's relationship with God than Kafka.
There are also interesting similarities in the use of literary devices and language in the Merkava text and Kafka. The second sentence of Before the Law begins: "To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country..." The term 'man from the country' in the original German in which the text was written is mann von lande, which means 'man from the land'. If one were to translate this German term into Hebrew, it would read as am haArets (literally, 'man of the land'). In religious terminology, am haAretz refers to 'everyman'. Kafka is therefore suggesting that his story does not merely concern the experience of a particular individual, but has universal significance, just as the Merkava text finds divine meaning in a simple story.
There is also a similarity in the imagery that is used in both texts. The 'doorkeeper' in the Kafka text is clearly a parallel to the guards in the Merkava mystical text. The imagery of the strong and powerful guards who stand at the gate of the seventh palace in the mystical text serves as a reminder of the fear evoked in the Kafka character when he looks closely at the doorkeeper with "his fur coat, with his big sharp nose and long, thin, black Tartar beard." Both the Merkava text and Kafka seem to be saying that any attempt to approach the source of ultimate wisdom, whether it is God or 'the Law', is bound to be a terrifying and fearful experience.
As noted, Kafka does not describe the content of The Law, which is guarded by the gatekeeper. It may represent a general religious belief in a metaphysical being or a belief in a traditional type of God. The Merkava text clearly refers to God in the traditional Jewish sense. This is the God of Israel and the Jewish people. The traditional Jewish belief holds that Revelation and Redemption has the same meaning for all Jews and that the Jews are a collectivity. In contrast to this, the message which one derives from reading Before the Law is that Kafka believes that man is alone in the world and must deal with religion in his own way, and according to his own conscience. The quest for meaning is an experience unique to each individual. As implied in the Kafka story, each person has his own gate to the Law and no person can gain access to the Law through somebody else's gate. Once again one can see the pessimism is the Kafka piece. Redemption appears to be unattainable. After waiting patiently and passively for the doorkeeper to open 'his gate' to the Law without result, the gatekeeper, when the Kafka character is about to die, shuts 'his gate'. This suggests that not only is knowledge of the Law, but also redemption itself, is unattainable. Man will continue to try, yet his efforts are doomed to fail.
The Tower of Babel and The City Coat of Arms
The Tower of Babel
The Biblical story of the Tower of Babel is related in the book of Genesis. According to the aggadic midrash, six hundred thousand men, under the command of Nimrod, began to build a tower in order to reach the heavens and raise a rebellion against God. The midrash tells us that there were three types of builders: the first group wished to engage in war with the deity, the second were pagans who wished to set up idols to worship, and the third wished to "ascend into the heavens, and ruin them with... bows and spears." The story recounts that so intent were the builders on their goal that they placed greater value on the building process than on basic human values. The midrash relates that the loss of a single brick - but not that of a human life - was the cause of great grief amongst the builders. When the arrows which the workers shot towards heaven returned to them bloodied, they believed that they had slain the deity. At this point, God said to His angels "Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." Many killed their friend in frustration at the lack of communication. For others, their punishment was meted out by God. The first group of builders were scattered across the earth, the second were turned into apes and phantoms and God set the third group against each other, in order that they be killed. The midrash concludes by telling us that a third of the tower sank into the ground, a third was burned and the final third remained standing.
The City Coat of Arms: A comparative view
The Biblical story of Babel begins as follows: "And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech." These words imply that from the beginning mankind lived together in harmony and purity. This was achieved through the unity which they held by speaking the same language and sharing the same goals. The Kafka text, however, begins very differently: "At first all the arrangements for the building of The Tower of Babel were characterized by fairly good order; indeed the order was perhaps too perfect." As opposed to the Biblical text, the beginning of The City Coat of Arms gives the reader a sense of the disharmony and impurity from which mankind suffers. The 'guides and interpreters' indicate the existence of a language barrier which is complicated by the fact that man was following too strict and rigid a plan.
The second difference, when examining the two texts, is in the outcome. At the end of the Biblical story of Babel, the builders' endeavors end in absolute defeat; according to the Biblical text they cannot communicate and therefore cannot work together, and the midrash tells us that many of them were killed. This is not the case in The City Coat of Arms. In this story, the builders are merely sidetracked from their cause for "the idea... can never vanish again; so long as there are men on the earth there will be also the irresistible desire to complete the building."
Both texts begin with the people working together in pursuit of something constructive. Yet, whereas in the Bible the story ends with the destruction of the tower and the punishment of the builders, in Kafka's story there is a an implicit understanding that the whole city needed to be destroyed in order to bring redemption. The story concludes: "All the legends and songs that came to birth in that city are filled with longing for a prophesied day when the city would be destroyed by five successive blows from a gigantic fist. It is for that reason too that the city has a closed fist on its coat of arms." From a Jewish viewpoint the gigantic fist represents the imagery of the zroah netuyah (outstretched arm) with which God redeemed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Continuing with the theme of Redemption, we can view the destruction of the city by the gigantic fist to represent ultimate Messianic Redemption. In the Kafka text destruction represents freedom from the disorder and disintegration of society. There exists a religious view that widespread destruction will precede the coming of the Messiah. This view has its basis in the writings of the Prophets. For example: "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women raped; and half the city shall go into exile..." Here, one can see a link between the theme of destruction and Redemption in the City Coat of Arms and traditional religious views.
The view of history which the reader finds in The City Coat of Arms differs starkly from that which forms the basis of Orthodox Jewish belief. Kafka writes:
Human knowledge is increasing, the art of building has made progress, a piece of work which takes us a year may perhaps be done in half the time in another hundred years, and better done, too, more enduringly... It is far more likely that the next generation with their perfected knowledge will find the work of their predecessors bad, and tear down what has been built so as to build anew.
According to this view, civilization and technology progress with each generation. Within history, each succeeding generation is at a higher level than the preceding generation and the present generation is higher than past generations. However, one must realize that Kafka is not referring to the moral qualities of mankind. On the other hand, Jewish tradition places great emphasis on the moral issue. Also, according to tradition, Judaism views history within the context of a belief in yeridat haDorot ('a decline in generations'). This notion holds that as time passes from Revelation at Sinai, the holiness of each generation declines, and with this decline, their ability to make changes to the law decreases. "Since the chain of tradition stretches back to the revelation at Sinai, the further back in time a source goes, the greater legal authority attributed to that source. This means that the Amoraim cannot reject a ruling of the sages of the Mishnah." This is a fundamental precept of traditional Rabbinic belief.
Although Franz Kafka is commonly considered to have been a completely assimilated Jew, his works can be seen as incorporating and reinterpreting many Jewish religious themes. One must understand that Kafka had a positive relationship vis-à-vis his Judaism - it was not one of rejection or apathy. He had a strong Jewish identity, albeit a highly troubled one, and in his writings one can see a Jewish influence: "For all his uneasiness with Judaism, [Kafka] seemed the Jewish writer, more than any other since the Hebrew Bible." Whether Kafka wrote as a Jew because of the influence of Chassidism or Czech-German anti-semitism remains unknown. Whatever the case, even though one can initially read Kafka outside the context of Jewish or religious thought, it is clear that there exists an undeniable link between Kafka and Judaism, especially Jewish mysticism.


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Start Slug 12, IHWP In, FFB on always
- Good - run3595
- Good - run3596
- Calibration - run3597
- RMS (after regression) is fluctuating between miniruns. Looks like current scan run!
- It is a current scan, bad Aq
- The BPM4ac is saturating the whole time
- The BPM 4eX is very wide (12 um widths)
- Needs cuts - run3598
- rcdb says current scan but BCM yields are ~70uA, RMS on detectors look OK!
- 128 ppm charge asymmetry in BCMs, no Aq running ? -> There are 3 periods of different avg Aq, so maybe a cut will cut out the very large bad Aq stuff
- BPM 4ac still saturating and 4eX still 12 um widths
- Needs cuts - run3601
- Mini-run 0 has ~4X RMS (det reg_asym). Note: Aq feedback off, RHWP rotated back to nominal value
- There is large BPM noise (20 um widths in the online plots, though it may be some strange outliers)
- Good - run3602
- Good - run3603
- Good - run3604
- Good - run3605
- Good - run3606
- Good - run3607
- Looks OK! - run3608
- Not sure why the run was too short
Non-Production Runs and Bad Runs
- Junk run3589
- Junk run3590
- Junk run3591
- Test 50uA run3592
- Test 50uA run3593
- Test run @50uA large Aq mean
- Junk run3609
Pedestal/Calibrations Updates
- Starting from the beginning of production running analysis fails all events without any indication why HALOG
- Analog BCMs are too noisey for recent runs HALOG
- Regression seems to be failing for run3604 run3605HALOG
- Double peaks and shoulders in bcm dd run3604 run3605 run3603 HALOG
- Residual correlation with AqDs3 run3605 run3604 run3603 run3602 run3601
- Seems all the runs have fluctuation on RMS on combined asymmetry (postpan).
Other Status Updates
- Accumulated charge = 12.65C
- Changed regression set (and added combined BPM 4a_4ec X) - git commit - HALOG
- new file: prex_combiner.3583-.map
- new file: prex_corrolator.3583-.conf
- Updated postpan regression "combo_reg.3583-.conf" - git commit 3f8fa67 (prompt repo commit aea4bb3), HALOG
- Added aggregator scripts to prompt repo - commit 6838abbbae9ca3e02a3a2d6e8d29050b5f9d2437
- Updated priliminary pedestal maps for 70uA running (for Main, AT, and SAM detectors) HALOG

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Sharp Rise Seen in Robotically Assisted Hysterectomies
Study finds complication rate similar to other minimally invasive technique, but higher cost
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
But they question whether robotic surgery is preferable to another minimally invasive procedure, laparoscopic surgery, for women having their uterus removed for non-cancerous conditions. While the two procedures have similar complication rates, the robotically assisted hysterectomy costs roughly $2,200 more than the laparoscopic procedure, according to the new study.
"The robotically assisted procedure was substantially more expensive," said the study's lead author, Dr. Jason Wright, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City.
Wright said more work is needed to determine which women would benefit from robotic hysterectomy.
"This data also raises a lot of questions about surgical innovations and the need to find ways to better study them before they diffuse into practice," he added.
Results of the study are published in the Feb. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Hysterectomy is a common treatment for non-cancerous gynecological conditions, such as fibroids, endometriosis and excessive bleeding. As many as one in nine U.S. women will undergo such a procedure, according to the study.
Different surgical techniques exist for performing a hysterectomy. One choice is traditional open surgery, where a surgeon removes the uterus through a 5- to 7-inch opening in the abdomen. Another is vaginal hysterectomy -- removal of the uterus through the vaginal opening. Laparoscopy is done with special tools that allow surgeons to perform the surgery using only small incisions. Robotically assisted surgery is similar to laparoscopic surgery, but the surgeon uses a robotic device instead of a laparoscope to do the procedure.
Dr. Michael Zinner, chief of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said there are advantages to robotically assisted surgery in certain situations.
"The robotic device is easy to learn," Zinner said. "The wrist on the machine gives you [greater flexibility] unlike a straight laparoscope that's more like a chopstick. If the surgeon has any slight tremor, the machine evens it out," he said. In cases such as prostate surgery, where the surgery must take place in a very confined space and there's a significant risk of nerve damage, the delicate, articulating robotic device can be ideal, he said.
But for larger areas of the body, a laparoscope generally works just as well. "Nobody talks about using robotic surgery for removing the gallbladder," noted Zinner, because it would be more expensive without providing an additional benefit. Zinner co-wrote an editorial in the same issue of the journal.
In the current study, Wright and his colleagues reviewed data from more than 264,000 women who had a hysterectomy for a non-cancerous condition.
Robotically assisted hysterectomies were performed 0.5 percent of the time in 2007. By 2010, that number had jumped to 9.5 percent. The rate of laparoscopic surgery also increased during this time period, from 24.3 percent to 30.5 percent, according to the study.
At hospitals that introduced robotically assisted hysterectomy, its use quickly rose, the study found. But at hospitals without the robotic option, use of laparoscopic hysterectomy increased during the same time period. Overall, abdominal and vaginal hysterectomies declined.
Robotically assisted hysterectomy was less likely to lead to a hospital stay of two days or more compared to laparoscopic surgery, but the two procedures were similar in all other measured complications.
Where the two procedures differed most significantly was in cost, with $6,679 the median fee for a laparoscopic hysterectomy versus $8,868 for the robotically assisted procedure.
Joel Weissman, deputy director and chief scientific officer at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-author of the editorial, said the robotic machine costs about $1.5 million and requires extra personnel.
"It's a little bit unclear who's paying the extra cost," he said. "It seems like at this point in time, insurers are paying the same whether the surgery is robotically assisted or not. But hospitals have to somehow pay those extra costs."
If you're considering a robotically assisted procedure, Zinner and Weissman advised talking with your doctor about which procedure will deliver better results. If two procedures are similarly effective, they suggested comparing costs.
In the case of hysterectomy, because robotically assisted surgery and laparoscopic surgery have similar results but significantly different costs, Zinner said he'd like to see more surgeons training in the laparoscopic procedure.
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This weekend we what is often called the birthday of the Church. Happy birthday to all! We also bring to completion our celebration of the Paschal Mystery – the suffering, death, resurrection, ascension and coming of the Spirit on Jesus' disciples. Although this 'mystery' is really one single reality, we have stretched its celebration over a period of more than seven weeks. That such a time frame is not to be too excessively emphasized as historical fact is indicated by the two very different accounts of the giving of the Spirit we have in the readings of today's Mass.
Full of symbols
Most of us are more familiar with the account given in the Acts of the Apostles which is the First Reading of today's Mass. In this account, the apostles are all gathered in one room at the time of the Jewish feast of Pentecost, which in the Jewish calendar traditionally falls 50 days after the Passover (or Easter in our Christian calendar).
What follows is a scene filled with scriptural symbols. First, there is the sound of a mighty wind from heaven filling the whole house. The word in Greek for 'spirit' and 'wind' is the same, so the wind clearly indicates the Spirit of God.
Then there appeared tongues of fire which rested on the head of each one present. Again we have a symbol of God's presence. We remember Moses speaking to God out of the bush which was on fire. We remember that, as the Israelites wandered through the desert, they were accompanied during the night by a pillar of fire – God was with them. All present are then filled with the Spirit. The sign of this presence is their ability to speak in different languages.
A message for all
Immediately, the apostles go out and begin to speak to the crowds of people. Jerusalem is filled with Jewish and convert visitors from all over the Mediterranean, from Asia Minor, Egypt and North Africa, even Rome, to celebrate the feast. These people are amazed to hear men, who are clearly relatively unlettered people from the province of Galilee, speaking to them in so many languages.
The meaning is clear. What the apostles are preaching is a message destined for the whole world and not just for one people. A long time ago, as described in the book of Genesis, men tried to build a tower right up to heaven. For such arrogance they were punished by having to speak in a myriad of languages unintelligible to others. Humanity became deeply divided.
Today, Babel is reversed. All are speaking and hearing the message with full understanding; people are being brought together in unity under God.
Full of fear
The Gospel today has a quite different account of the coming of the Spirit on the disciples. It is the evening of Easter Sunday and the disciples are in a room, with the doors firmly locked. As accomplices in the work of the executed criminal, Jesus, they are afraid they are next to be arrested. The authorities would surely want to nip this subversive group in the bud before it gets out of control. Fear and anxiety is the prevailing mood among them.
All of a sudden, Jesus is there in their midst. "Shalom, Peace with you" is his greeting. It is the normal Jewish greeting but it has a fuller significance here. Earlier, at the Last Supper, Jesus had promised that he would bring peace, a very special kind of peace, to his disciples. A peace they could not get anywhere else and a peace that no one and nothing could take away from them.
Now, he brings that peace to this highly fearful group. "Peace with you" in the Greek has no verb. It can be read either as a wish or a statement of fact. It is something of both.
Jesus then shows them the wounds in his hands and side. There can be no doubt: it is the crucified Jesus himself, risen from the dead. As their fear changes to an unspeakable joy, Jesus again wishes them peace.
Receiving a mission
And then he gives their mission: "As the Father sent me, so am I sending you." Their mission is the same as his; they are to continue doing what he did.
Then he breathes on them. Breath symbolises life. In the creation story, God breathed over the waters. He also breathed on to the clay of the ground and formed the first human being. Today he breathes on his disciples and gives them a new life, making them a new creation, giving them the life of his Spirit, saying: "Receive the Holy Spirit."
Then he goes on to say, "Those whose sins you forgive are forgiven…" This is no mere juridical authority in which people are declared free of guilt. It is much more than that. The disciples are being given the authority to bring people back to God, to reconcile those who have become separated from their God to renew their unity with the Beginning and the End of their lives. They also have the authority to decide which people are not yet ready for reconciliation.
Ultimate mission
This is ultimately the mission of the Church, to bring people to God. It is not primarily to make converts to Christianity or to build up the Church but to work with God in building the Kingdom. The Kingdom realised is the whole world acknowledging the lordship of God our Creator and people directing their lives to be one with him.
This was the mission given by Jesus to his disciples and the same mission has been given to each one of us. So, as soon as a person becomes reconciled with God as Lord and Jesus as Saviour,
that person in turn accepts the obligation to become in turn a reconciler of others.
Special gifts
So, today's Second Reading speaks of the gifts that the Spirit of God and Jesus gives to each one for this work. We are not all called to the same thing in the same way. "There are all sorts of service to be done but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them."
We all have exactly the same ultimate goal, energised from the same Source, but, with our different qualities of character and ability and depending on the environmental situation in which we find ourselves, we aim at that goal in different ways.
Working together in different ways towards a common aim, Paul compares us to a human body. It consists of many parts but each part is ordered to the well-being of the whole. That should be a picture of the Christian community, of our diocese and of each parish and of each community within a parish. We are all equal in dignity – Jew or Greek, slave or citizen, man or woman, cleric or lay – but different in calling and manner of service.
On this feast of Pentecost, as we celebrate the formation and the mission of the whole Christian community, we also need to reflect on the particular role that God has for me, to reflect on the particular contribution that I can make to the corporate mission of the Church and of the particular group with which I am involved.
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|This photo is what they have on their menu a version of Greens. My niece ordered them and laughed when she tasted them, she said I should have made them instead, mine are much better! These were a little gritty and not as tender as we would like.
Uncle Joe, Aunt Linda, my husband Nemo, sisterinlaw, Tonya, motherinlaw Sandy, sisterinlaw Bobbi and my nephew Craig....
|Even Adriana the youngest one, wasn't crazy about the macaroni and cheese, she left that too!
|My beautiful great nieces Vanessa, Adriana and niece Mary who makes some mean greens!
|John, Luke, Mary had the wings... dry and overcooked! Joanne didn't say a word but Luke made several complaints on why it took two hours to get a pizza and everyone else was done by the time he got it? Really, unacceptable!
|The best part of the whole evening was getting to be with my family and some great friends, this is my brother Luke Colenzo and I catching up..... nope no pizza yet, it's already been an hour!
|Two of my dearest friends came to see me, Helen LaMore and Mary Macenroe, head of the Utica Boilermaker
|As you can see the breading was falling off, the inside actually tasted raw, cold but who was going to come so they could get sent back? No one ever came back or asked if we were good with anything.
|Vodka Riggies? With very little sauce,
tasted like plain boiled macaroni
I stopped taking pictures, it wasn't worth the waste of space
on my SD card, 15 disappointed people!
We just loved our next visits on our vacation. The pastry, the food the service and people were all fantastic...so stay tuned!
If you would like some recipes of what we really enjoy eating growing up in Upstate NY see some of our homemade recipes. We always go back to enjoy foods like Chicken Riggies, wings, pizza, greens all from Upstate NY specialities.... Our favorites are Napoli's Pizza, Florentine Pastries, Palateri Joes, Hemstroughts Half Moon Cookies, Chesterfields Utica Greens, Joe's and Rosario's Pizza. All the local feasts for pizza fritte just to name a few traditional spots we hit. Love the bagels at bagel grove and love the fish fry at Eddies in Sylvan Beach!
St Anthony's Son's of Italy Mount Carmel! I carry these back on the plane in tupperware!
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Fried Calamari
Upstate NY Greens
Tomato Pie Upstate NY Style
Italian Lemon Ice
Pizza Fritte Feast Fried Dough
Italian Gravy or Sauce the big debate
Feast Upstate NY Style Sausage and Peppers Sandwich
Upstate NY Apple Pie
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Now the Koch brothers are coming after my solar panels.
I had solar panels installed on the roof of our Washington, D.C. home this year. My household took advantage of a generous tax incentive from the District government and a creative leasing deal offered by the solar panel seller.
Our electric bills fell by at least a third. When people make this choice, the regional electric company grows less pressured to spend money to expand generating capacity and the installation business creates good local jobs. Customers who use solar energy also reduce carbon emissions.
What's not to love?
According to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative network better known as ALEC, our solar panels make us "free riders." What?
Yes, according to ALEC, an organization that specializes in getting the right-wing agenda written into state laws, people like me who invest in energy-efficiency and shrinking our carbon footprints ought to be penalized.
Why does ALEC want us punished? Since it's bankrolled by, among others, the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, it's hard not to surmise that they're worried about a threat to fossil fuels businesses. Koch Industries' operations include refineries, oil and natural gas pipelines, and petrochemicals
That's no conspiracy theory. Recently the British newspaper The Guardian wrote about the assault on solar panels as part of a broader exposé on ALEC.
John Eick, the legislative analyst for ALEC's energy, environment and agriculture program, confirmed to The Guardian that the organization would support making solar panel users pay extra for the electricity they generate. That's already about to happen in Arizona, where homeowners who use solar panels will pay an average of about $5 extra a month for the privilege, starting in January.
The solar power industry called the new rule a victory only because power companies in the state were demanding assessments of as much as $100 a month — more than high enough to deter families from considering switching to solar.
Making solar energy cost-prohibitive for homeowners and businesses is part of a larger ALEC objective, affirmed at its recent annual meeting, to continue its effort to eliminate state renewable energy mandates.
According to meeting minutes, ALEC has already succeeded in getting legislation introduced in 15 states to "reform, freeze, or repeal their state's renewable mandate." ALEC lobbyists are pushing policies through states that will speed up climate change and increase pollution. They're threatening the renewable energy industry, which is already creating new jobs and saving money for homeowners and businesses.
Without the current policy paralysis in Washington and a lack of bold, creative thinking about how to build a new, green economy at the national level, they wouldn't be making so much headway.
My organization, Institute for America's Future — together with the Center for American Progress and the BlueGreen Alliance — recently published a report that shows what's at stake with ALEC's destructive agenda.
Our "green industrial revolution" report recommends tying together a series of regional solutions that take advantage of the unique assets of each part of the country, such as the abundance of sun in the West and the wind off the Atlantic coast, into a cohesive whole.
These regional strategies would be supported by smart federal policies, such as establishing a price for carbon emissions and a national clean energy standard, creating certainty and stability in the alternative energy tax credit market, and providing strong support for advanced energy manufacturing.
This is the way to unleash the kind of innovation and job creation our economy — and our rapidly warming planet — desperately needs.
My solar panels are the envy of my block and I wish more of my neighbors will be able to make the same choice I did. But they won't if fossil-fuel dinosaurs like the Koch brothers and right-wing organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council keep casting their dark clouds on efforts to build a clean energy future.
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If Venus's pass across the sun earlier this week yields a bounty of information for hunters of transiting worlds in other planetary systems, it's because Venus is a known entity. Studying the June 5 Venus transit as if it were a faraway exoplanet "gives us a reality check," says planetary physicist Colin Wilson of the University of Oxford. "We can check on all those exoplanet techniques to see how accurate they really are." Such data may enhance NASA's Kepler mission as well as the many ground-based campaigns using planetary transits to identify distant worlds, a method that has led to the discovery or characterization of more than 200 exoplanets.
That reality check would not be possible without the data planetary scientists already have about Venus. And humanity's up-close exploration of Earth's cloud-shrouded closest neighbor began in earnest 45 years ago, when the Soviet probe Venera 4 launched on June 12, 1967.
The first two Veneras had failed after launch. Venera 3, launched in 1965, is thought to have crashed on Venus but returned no data.
At last, on October 18, 1967, Venera 4 became the first man-made object to enter another planet's atmosphere and send back data. "It was before any Mars landers or anything," Wilson says. And it changed our view of Earth's sister planet forever.
Not much was known at the time about Venus, according to Roald Sagdeev, former director of the Space Research Institute of the U.S.S.R. [now Russian] Academy of Sciences. What was known, he says, "was that it was covered by very dense clouds...and it was established that the atmosphere was in a state of super-rotation," meaning that the winds whip around Venus up to 60 times faster than the planet rotates. The unknowns were many, Sagdeev adds: "the temperature, the thickness of the atmosphere, and the atmospheric pressure. And nobody knew at the time that carbon dioxide was a major constituent of the atmosphere."
Venera 4 made it deep enough into Venus's atmosphere to reach pressures 22 times that at sea level on Earth (one atmosphere), sending back data all the way. Venera's instruments showed the atmosphere was mostly carbon dioxide and detected no oxygen or water.
From a technical perspective, too, the probe was an achievement, says Wilson, who works with the European Space Agency's Venus Express, currently orbiting the second planet. "It was the first planetary entry system that worked using the atmosphere to decelerate. They had to decelerate 300 g's. Building things to sustain that kind of shock is incredible."
The mission was not perfect, though. Partway through the dense atmosphere, Venera 4 conked out. "The immediate interpretation was that the spacecraft managed to hit the surface of the planet and terminated its work," says Sagdeev, who managed the Venera program starting with probe number 9. It was not until a few years later that the scientists realized that the spacecraft had been crushed by the pressure. "At least it helped them to design the next generation of Veneras," he says. And in fact, Venera 8, which Sagdeev called "very successful," was a beefed-up version of Venera 4. That lander survived on the surface for almost an hour, withstanding crushing pressure 92 times stronger than on Earth's surface.
After Venera 4, the Soviets sent 12 more Venera spacecraft to Venus—all successful—over the next decade and a half whereas the U.S. only flew one mission, Pioneer Venus, launched in 1978. Yet since the Venera program ended, there have been few Venus missions from any nation, with the notable exceptions of NASA's Magellan and the ESA's Venus Express, along with two Soviet Vega probes whose dual mission included a Halley's Comet flyby. There is still plenty more to learn about the planet.
Venus Express, for instance, has been seeking signs of active volcanism on the planet. "It's been looking for volcanically generated gases, volcanic plumes in the lower atmosphere," says Wilson, adding that the craft's findings have import beyond the present state of the cloudy, scorching planet. "We can start to understand the wider [question] of how Venus and Mars and the Earth evolved over their lifetimes. They were all created at the same time out of the same material, so how is it that these initially similar planets have evolved so differently?"
Unfortunately, sending another lander to Venus to build on the Venera tradition would be pricey. "The main concept that's been on the drawing table for a long-lived lander is you have to take an air conditioner to keep your electronics cool," Wilson says. "And you don't have all that much sunlight, so then you take a nuclear power source to run your cooler." A cheaper way to answer some big questions, he says, would be to deploy a balloon in Venus's clouds, as was done during the Vega missions of the 1980s. At the right altitude temperatures would be a balmy 20 degrees Celsius. "Not too hot, not too cold, and atmospheric pressure of half of one Earth atmosphere." A hypothetical astronaut, Wilson ventures, "could probably get away without even wearing a pressure suit. It's comfortable—except you're surrounded by poisonous sulfuric clouds."
Studying the surface from a perch in the clouds would be challenging, Wilson acknowledges, but a balloon mission could at least investigate how Venus's cloud chemistry works and taste the atmosphere to directly determine its composition. Perhaps by the next transit of Venus, in 2117, planetary scientists will have the answers to these questions and more.


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5 Essential Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Contractor
Article From HouseLogic.com
By: Oliver Marks
Published: September 30, 2009
You're ready to remodel but you want to make sure you get the best contractor for the job. Here's what to ask the candidates before you decide.
For all of the excitement of choosing plumbing fixtures, cabinets, and tiles for a remodeling project, the most important decision you make won't involve color swatches or glossy brochures. It's the contractor you pick that makes or breaks the job. That choice will determine the quality of the craftsmanship, the timeliness of the work, and the amount of emotional and financial stress the process puts on you. To make sure you're getting the best contractor for the job, here are five questions to ask the candidates.
1. Would you please itemize your bid?
Many contractors prefer to give you a single, bottom-line price for your project, but this puts you in the dark about what they're charging for each aspect of the job. For example, let's say the original plan calls for beadboard wainscot in your bathroom, but you decide not to install it after all. How much should you be credited for eliminating that work? With a single bottom-line price, you have no way to know.
On the other hand, if you get an itemized bid, it'll show the costs for all of the various elements of the job-demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, tile, fixtures, and so forth. That makes it easier to compare different contractors' prices and see where the discrepancies are. If you need to cut the project costs, you can easily assess your options. Plus, an itemized bid becomes valuable documentation about the exact scope of the project, which may eliminate disputes later.
The contractor shouldn't give you a hard time about itemizing his bid. He has to figure out his total price line by line anyway, so you're not asking him to do more work, only to share the details. If he resists, it means he wants to withhold important information about his bid-a red flag for sure.
2. Is your bid an estimate or a fixed price?
Homeowners generally assume that the bid they're seeing is a fixed price, but some contractors treat their proposals as estimates, meaning bills could wind up being higher in the end. If he calls it an estimate, request a fixed price bid instead. If he says he can't offer a fixed price because there are too many unknowns about the job, then eliminate the unknowns.
"Have him open up a wall to check the structure he's unsure about or go back to your architect and solidify the design plans," says Tampa, Fla., attorney George Meyer, who is chair-elect of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry. If you simply cannot resolve the unknowns he's concerned about, have the project specs describe what he expects to do-and if he needs to do additional work later, you can do a change order (http://www.houselogic.com/articles/what-remodeling-contract-should-say/) (a written mini-bid for new work).
3. How long have you been doing business in this town?
A contractor who's been plying his trade locally for 5 or 10 years has an established network of subcontractors and suppliers in the area and a local reputation to uphold. That makes him a safer bet than a contractor who's either new to the business or new to the area-or who's planning to commute to your job from 50 miles away.
You want to see a nearby address (not a PO box) on his business card-and should ask him to include one or two of his earliest clients on your list of references. This will help you verify that he hasn't just recently hung his shingle-and will give you perspective from a homeowner who has lived with the contractor's work for years. After all, the test of a quality job, whether it's a bluestone patio or a family room addition, is how well it stands the test of time.
4. Who are your main suppliers?
You've found a few potential contractors, you've talked to the happy former clients on each of their reference lists, now it's time for one additional bit of homework: talking to their primary suppliers. There's no better reference for a tile setter, for example, than his preferred tile shop; for a general contractor than his favorite lumberyard or home center pro desk; for a plumber than the kitchen and bath showroom where he's on a first name basis.
The proprietors of these shops know a contractor's professional reputation, whether he has left a trail of unhappy customers in his wake, if he's reliable about paying his bills-and whether he's someone you'll want to hire. The contractor should have absolutely no qualms about telling you where he gets his materials, as long as he's an upstanding customer.
5. I'd like to meet the job foreman-can you take me to a project he's running?
Many contractors don't actually swing hammers. They spend their days bidding new work and managing their various jobs and workers. In some cases, the contractor you hire may not visit the jobsite every day-or may not even show himself again after you've signed the contract. So the job foreman-the one who's working on your project every day-is actually the most important member of your team.
Meeting him in person and seeing a job that he's running should give you a feel for whether he's someone you want managing your project. Plus, it gives the general contractor an incentive to assign you one of his better crews since you're more likely to hire him if you see his A Team. If the contractor says he'll be running the job himself, ask whether he'll be there every day. Again, he'll want to give you a positive response-something you can hold him to later on.
It's not only the answers to these questions that will help you judge potential contractors-it's the way they answer them. Were they easy to talk to and forthcoming with details or did they hem and haw and make you ask more than once? Difficulty communicating now means difficulty communicating on the job later. But clear, timely and thoughtful responses-combined with terrific references, great completed work that you've seen, and a smart take on your project-may mean you've found the right pro for your job.
A former carpenter and newspaper reporter, Oliver Marks has been writing about home improvements for 16 years. He's currently restoring his second fixer-upper with a mix of big hired projects and small do-it-himself jobs.
(Reprinted from HouseLogic (houselogic.com) with permission of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.)


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Nevsky: Hero of the People
Written by Ben McCool (Memoir, Pigs) with art by rising star Mario Guevara (Solomon Kane, Victorian Undead), this full-length graphic novel is a stunning re-imagination of Sergei Eisenstein's famed film, Alexander Nevsky (1938). Alexander Nevsky is a central figure in Russian history, having lived during one of Russia's darkest periods--the invasion of the Teutonic Knights. Alexander Nevsky helped establish the Russian nation by defeating the Teutonic Knights, invaders from the last vestiges of the Holy Roman Empire, with an army comprised of ordinary citizens who were poorly-equipped soldiers but fought for their freedom. This ragtag band, against overwhelming odds, defeated the invaders in an epic battle on the frozen lake Peipus--a spectacular achievement that is still celebrated in Russia to this day. In 1938 the great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, much acclaimed for his masterful interpretation as seen in 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) and 'Ivan the Terrible' (1944), brought the story of Alexander Nevsky to life on the silver screen in an innovative and brilliant way, by developing new film techniques that remain in use almost 100 years later by some of the greatest directors of our time. Now, following in the steps of Eisenstein, IDW is proud to present one of the most compelling historical graphic novels ever produced--one that is as relevant today as it was at any time in history!


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Friday, May 31, 2013
Ask DrFran: Is Second Life™ Addictive?
Read DrFran's column in People.
Labels: addiction, addictive, Advice, answer, Ask, column, DrFran Babcock, experiences, help, issues, People, personal, question, Second Life, Secondlife, service, sl
SL10B Preparations: Flying over the Sims
Read Gemma's article in Events.
Posted by Bixyl Shuftan at 6:03 AM No comments:
Labels: anniversary, celebration, events, exhibitor, Gemma Cleanslate, plots, preparations, preparing, Second Life, Secondlife, sims, sl, SL10B, The Birthday, volunteer
Madpea Carnival to End With "Demolition Party"
The Madpea games area will be shutting down it's Carnival soon, but before it vanishes there will be one last event there, a "Demolition Party" with music, a raffle, and zombies, lots and lots of zombies.
After 7 months of entertaining SL residents with evil thrills, rides and games, the MadPea Carneval is closing down. While we are sad to see it go, we're also excited to have the space for creating new! To celebrate the Carneval, we are arranging a huge Demolition party on May 31st starting at 12pm SLT!
Details are in the Madpea Blog: http://madpea.blogspot.com/
Madpea Base, (54, 66, 32)
Labels: carnival, combat, dark, DJs, event, Madpea, music, party, raffle, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, zombies
Eye On The Blog: "Faster Avatar Loading on the Horizon
By Bixyl Shuftan
In its latest blog post, Linden Lab announces another update for it's viewer ready to be downloaded by the residents. It says it's been updating "Project Shinning - an initiative that will make avatars load and rez more quickly and reliably."
We've tested changing of outfits, avatar swapping, and initial avatar loading into worlds, and our tests showed performance gains across the board. Bottom line, Second Life users will experience less time in "clouded" or untextured avatar states and/or completely failed bakes that require relogs.
They included a video, narrated by Torley Linden, with details. The blog post promises "important updates you'll need to enjoy the benefits of Project Sunshine, so update if you haven't yet."
My own personal experience with the new viewer, based on a day's experience, was mixed. Avatars can still take a while a load. But eventually they did, although it could still take a few minutes, even in a place with just several other avatars. For someone used to chat interfaces based on Viewer 1, the communications HUD left something to be desired, especially when getting a number of Instant Messages. When I had to talk to several people at once, I had to log off and go back to Singularity. And once when trying to log on, the viewer just refused to coooperate (picture above). On the other hand, the glitch from the last official viewer of freezes and crashes when making IMs seemed to be gone, when it was working anyway.
Linden Lab promises two more updates, the first being "A server-side update, rolling out soon. It's at this point that you'll began to notice significant improvements in avatar and object load times and reliability." But for those who don't upgrade, the Grid will be a gray world. And later on, "A second Viewer update, released after the server-side improvements are rolled out." It's with this third step that the Lab says users will get "the full benefits of Project Sunshine."
With many residents still using the older Phoenix Viewers rather than the official viewers, it remains to be seen if everyone will benefit from Project Sunshine.
For the blog post: Click Here.
Bixyl Shuftan
Labels: bug fix, EOTB, eye on the blog, Linden Lab, Lindens, Project Sunshine, rez, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, viewer, Viewer 3
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Reader Submitted: Game Review - Star Wars The Old Republic - Free vs Paid Accounts
Read Nydia's article in Extra.
Posted by Bixyl Shuftan at 6:45 AM 2 comments:
Labels: account, accounts, dark, Extra, free, game, gamer, Jedi, light, MMO, MORPG, Nydia Tungsten, paid, Reader Submitted, review, Sith, Star Wars, SWTOR, The Old Republic
Rock N Rustic Ranch
Read Theonlyjohnny's article in Places.
Labels: club, country, DJ, music, Places, ranch, rock, Rustic, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Theonlyjohnny Resident
Press Release: Survivors of Suicide
We are a group that provides in world support to those dealing with depression and/ or the loss of a loved on to suicide. We can make the world a better place together. We have been around since 2009, we are an active group.
Join us!
Survivors of Suicide Depression Support group offers
* Daily positive living and healing articles
* 24/7 Peer support via the groups chat
* Join a community that understands what you are going through, as the are also
* Education about depression and depression related issues
* Referrals to real life resources
* Don't be alone
We have a club house with lots of healing and self help note cards from past posting. It is a great place to hang out and has greedy greedy and una games out for all to enjoy. Feel free to come and enjoy and explore.
Please tell others about SOS buy having it in your profile and./or handing out SOS 1 prim signs that stores, clubs and places in SL can put out to help more people find us. Talk us up to any bloggers you know and magazine people.
Any help you can provide will be most welcome.
Also seeking a place to host a immersive educational art exhibit about suicide. It will be a walk through exhibit. If you know of anyone with sim space to host this for a month, I would love to know. Thank you.
Schoomere (161, 48, 23)
Krissy Sinclair
Founder of Survivors of Suicide
Labels: depression, group therapy, Press Release, Schoomere, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, SoS, support, Survivors of Suicide, therapy
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Cartoon of the Day
Labels: Bixyl Shuftan, Cartoon, Cartoon of the Day, Club Cutlass, dance, Fox, foxes, funny, humor, joke, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Renaissance Island
Renaissance Island. There, one can see things as they were in 1500s England, with the buildings and clothes. The place also has a number of fun events that locals and visitors alike can take part in.
Read Grey's article in Places.
Labels: 1500s, 16th Century, castle, England, fencing, festival, Globe Theater, Grey Lupindo, historical, history, island, jousting, manor, Places, recreate, Renaissance, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Tudor
Kinzart Kreetures and Their Upcoming Gryphon
Read Grease's article in Design.
Labels: avatar, design, ferret, Flame Soulis, furry, Grease Coakes, gryphon, Kinzart Kreetures, KZK, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Sylver Bu
Wounded Warriors Memorial Day Weekend Event Raises 160,000 Lindens
On Sunday May 26th, the evening before Memorial Day, Veterans Isle hosted a Wounded Warriors Benefit concert. From 6 to 9PM SL time, three musicians performed live for the audience at the stage for the veterans community and friends of. The event was in part organized by guitarist Frets Nirvana.
ABOUT WOUNDED WARRIORS - Wounded Warriors program has developed significantly over the last several years to include advocacy, benefits counseling, caregivers retreats, coping/family services, peer mentoring, warriors to work and many other. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Veterans%20Isle/70/216/23
For the first hour, DennyMac performed on stage. From 7PM SL time to 8, Frets Nirvana himself performed for the crowd with his guitar. And in the last hour, Avantgarde Frequency played his piano. Just after Avantgarde got off the stage, Frets made an announcement, "Folks we raised 160k for Wounded Warriors tonight ...thank you to all who supported!"
There was an announcement of another event the following evening on Memorial Day. But events didn't go as planned, and instead a DJ performed for the small crowd.
Veterans Isle holds a monthly concert on the last Sunday of every month for The Wounded Warrior Project.
Labels: benefit, event, Frets Nirvana, fundraiser, Memorial Day, music, musicians, project, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Veterans Isle, Wounded Warrior
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Events This Week May 28 to June 3
See the list of happenings in Events this Week.
Labels: Book Island, church, club, Club Fur, Cutlass, dance, events, Happy Vixen, Lauren Live, music, Mystery, Odd Ball, Queen of Hearts, races, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, spring, Zero Gravity
Star Hunting
Read Johnny's article in Design.
Labels: design, game HUD, gaming, hunting, rise, RomaZona, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, star, Theonlyjohnny Resident
1920s Berlin to Hold Fourth Anniversary Celebration
From Thursday May 30th to Sunday June 2nd, the 1920s Berlin Project will be holding special events to celebrate four years on the Grid. The following was on the 1920s Berlin blog:
On the 30th of may, 4 years ago I opened the first version of our 1920s Berlin sim, it became a much bigger success then I could have imagined and has managed to survive longer then anyone could have predicted. To celebrate the sim's birthday and how well the sim is doing in general, we're having a few days of fun! The schedule may change at any time, but at the moment it looks a bit like this:
Thursday 30th May:
Keller party, small scale.
We'll drink, hand out some freebies, dance, chat and invite everyone who wants to to get up on stage to tell about their discovery of Berlin, their life here, to perhaps sing, do a trick or show off another talent.
Friday 31st May:
The Grand Anniversary Dance at unter den Linden
Saturday 1st June
Relaxed Rules Day
11:00 Tea Dance
12:00 Pool party
14:00 Eldorado evening – Revealing new building
Sunday 2nd June
Kids Day!
Special class, playground games, football game
More things will be added and there will be a few surprises too…
Hat tip: Daniel Voyager
Labels: 1920's, 4rth, anniversary, Berlin, Germany, historical, history, Jo Yardley, project, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Monday, May 27, 2013
Wounded Warrior Memorial Day Benefit Tonight.
Veterans Isle (70,216,23)
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Labels: benefit, event, fundraiser, Memorial Day, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Veterans, Veterans Isle, Wounded Warrior
The First Sims: Minna
Read DrFran's article in Places.
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Labels: DrFran Babcock, Explore, first, freebies, historical, history, houses, Kennylex Luckless, Minna, Paula Dix, Places, Second Life, Secondlife, sims, sl
"Love and Other Bruises" at Palais Orleans
Read Gemma's article in Design.
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Labels: Amona Savira, art, artist, bruises, exhibit, exhibition, gallery, Gemma Cleanslate, Harbor Galaxy, hurt, Limipro Lighting, love, Maloe Vansant, Morgana Nagorski, Palais Orleans, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, wound
SL10B Open to Exhibitors
Yesterday on Sunday May 26, the sims for the SL10B celebration were open to those whom would be setting up the exhibits, or helping out to. All day begining at Noon SL time, exhibitors IMed the SL10B group asking to be made part of the new exhibition group so they could teleport over to their plots. Since applications were closed on May 20th, the exhibitors began getting their notifications in the email. This includes Second Life Newser, which got it's notification a few days ago.
The Newser's plot is in the SL10B Astonish sim, the northeast corner of the event grounds. Like the others, it was 1024 square meters (32x32) with a 269 prim capacity and a 175 ft height limit.
Each exhibitor got a "Cake Slice," with a few notecards and things, made to resemble a slice of cake with the words "It All Starts With a Cube," a quote from Philip Linden.
Residents were asked to drop something on the sim to let everyone know the plot had been claimed. For the SL Newser's plot, there was one object that would tell everyone for sure whose plot it was.
A wider view of this corner of the SL10B grounds. A few other plots had already been claimed as well. While some just had a cake slice dropped, others had at least something set up on the plot.
A couple exhibitors looked like they already were set up for show.
Read more in the SL10B blog: http://slcommunitycelebration.com/ .
Bixyl Shuftan
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Labels: Bixyl Shuftan, exhibitors, open, plot, plots, preperations, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, SL10B, The Birthday
SL Video: Second Life U.S. Military Veterans Center
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From Bobcat, "U.S. Military Veterans Center, Created by and for U.S. military veterans, active duty and families. Bridging the gap between generations for all services, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard. DAV, VFW, Legion & more. Shop our Navy Exchange and the Hangar!"
Filmed at Patriot Island. The Veterans Center later moved to the Veterans Isle sim.
Labels: guard, memorial, military, Patriot Island, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, SL video, soldier, tomb, Veterans, video
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Cartoon of the Day
The tires rezzed last when this car slowly came in to view. That made me think of street thieves whom shove blocks under cars, pop the hubcaps, and take off the nuts to swipe the wheels.
Bixyl Shuftan
Labels: Bixyl Shuftan, Car, Cartoon, Cartoon of the Day, crime, funny, glitch, humor, joke, rezz, rezzing, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, wheels
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Bay City Celebrates Five Years
See the article and pictures in Events.
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Labels: anniversary, Bay City, Bixyl Shuftan, celebrate, city, Daniel Voyager, events, fifth, fun, Marianne McCann, parade, party, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Uccello Poultry
Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble Visits Bay City, 1920s Berlin
Daniel Voyager was on the scene when Bay City had an unusual guest: The head of Linden Lab Rod Humble, also known as Rodvik Linden.
Rodvik Humble who is CEO of Linden Lab today came inworld for about half an hour to hang out with SL residents in the Weston region in Bay City. A large crowd formed around Rodvik within minutes and had a interesting discussion. The reason that Rodvik Humble came inworld will be revealed soon. Wooooot!!!!
Bay City wasn't the only place Rodvik stopped by. Jo Yardley of the 1920s Berlin Project documented his dropping over there as well.
I had invited Herr Humble for a free tour of the sim a while back and was told he would be dropping in today. It was great to finally meet his avatar in person. The welcoming community of 1920s Berlin was very excited to have him as a guest and we all hope his avatar will come more often.
Rodvik Linden is not known to visit the Grid often, at least not recently. Earlier in 2011 not long after becoming CEO, he did make an effort in "getting immersed in Second Life" and he did make an appearance at SL8B. Since then however, Rod hadn't been noticed. Do these visits mean the head of the Lab will take the time to visit inworld more often. Time will tell.
Sources: Daniel Voyager, Jo Yardley.
Labels: 1920's, Bay City, Berlin, inworld, Lindens, Rod Humble, Rodvik Linden, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, visit
SL Video: "Second Life Coast Guard - Veteran's Day 2011"
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From BBFlights, "Simple video of the SL Coast Guard tribute at the 2011 Veteran's Day tribute in the Flying Tiger WW2 Memorial sims in Second Life. Video by Howdy Colter."
Labels: Coast Guard, Howdy Colter, memorial, salute, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, SLCG, tribute, Veterans, Veterans Day, WW2 Tribute
Friday, May 24, 2013
Color Out of the Lines
Burn2 is hosting a fun event this weekend in Deep Hole on the playa. It is called "Color Out of the Lines." The sim will be open from Noon time Friday until Saturday night at 11:59. Come and express your inner builder.
There is an ample supply of materials: building blocks, shapes, textures for you already there, or you can bring your own. There are small sandboxes with a four hour return for you to play in. If you have never built before this is a good way to start. There will be helpers there to assist you. There are already some lovely builds by well known artists on the playa. Music and partying is also going on.
Check out the blog for more information. http://www.burn2.org/
Gemma Cleanslate
Labels: art, artistic, artists, Burn2, Burning Man, color, Deep Hole, event, Gemma Cleanslate, lines, music, Playa, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Third-Party Exchanger Update: No Additional Authorized Linden Resellers
It's been about a week since the last of the Third-Party Linden Exchangers were closed. AnsheX, owned by SL tycoon Anshe Chung, quietly ceased trading. Podex, owned and operated by Jacek Shuftan, was shut down when Jacek's account was suspended by Linden Lab. On the same day, the Lab announced it's new terms for "Authorized Linden Resellers." Of the many exchangers that had once been operating, only five had been approved for the new plan. Among them was AnsheX.
the list of five allowed resellers remains at five.
It's unclear why no additional new Linden Resellers have been authorized.
Bixyl Shuftan.
Labels: AnsheX, Bixyl Shuftan, Exchange, Jacek Shuftan, Linden Lab, money, Podex, Podex Exchange, reseller, resellers, Second Life, Secondlife, service, services, sl, Third-Party, update
Angels Beach Land Rentals
We offer places with friendly and interesting neighbors. Some places have a tropical island look, others more temperate. Some of the sims have access to enough water to boat around in. And there are plans later on for an open water sim for even more water activities. The sims are home to a number of quality clubs, such as Cutlass and Zero Gravity. In one sim alone there are two quality clubs that work together so there is no lag from them. There are also some small shopping areas available.
To learn more, please contact Nydia Tungsten, Brandi Streusel, Jasmine Dawn Shuftan (Orasine Resident), Rel Klaber, or Matoazma Kazyanenko.
"We pride ourselves on on not just renting land but renting our customers the land you want. We listen to what you tell us on what you are looking for."
Labels: advertisement, Angels Beach, Brandi Streusel, community, home, homestead, HV Community, land, Nydia Tungsten, Purrfection, rental, Second Life, Secondlife, Sherkin Island, sim, sl, Sunweaver Estates
The Drax Files: World Makers "Episode 6: Abramelin Wolfe"
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From Draxtor Despress, "Motion capture artist Abramelin Wolfe monetizes his creativity by humanizing our virtual lives -- one fluid movement at a time. He puts his dream of an immersive future succinctly: "We want a universe that we can step into!"
Edinburgh-based Abranimations is run by the Englishman with his Scottish wife who designs colorful mesh avatars. The couple makes their living capturing performances ranging from everyday walking and communicating to 1920's flapper dances and Geisha sequences. They then sell the polished animations in their in-world store to a global userbase by way of the Linden Dollar.
But the virtual world is more about fun than it is about commerce for him, says Abramelin: "Second Life is about other people's creativity. Some of it is beautiful. Some of it is just strange...but all of it is amazing! It is like looking into their minds."
Abramelin's hectic work schedule includes expanding the business to encompass services for the emerging Scottish video game industry, but he always finds time to take long flights over the vast virtual mainland to marvel at user-created chaos and beauty. It's a digital testament to human ingenuity and the desire to exercise that muscle of imagination."
More information at http://www.abranimations.com
Labels: Abramelin Wolfe, animation, AO, AOs, Avatar Override, Draxtor Despres, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, SL video, stop-motion, video
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Volcano Party at Mount St. Helens
Last Friday was an annual tradition at the Steelhead Community. May 18th is the birthday of local Tensai Hilra. It's also the anniversary of the eruption of Mount. St. Helens. And with Steelhead having their own St. Helens and a population of mad scientists, the result was the biggest lava lamp as part of a party for Tensai.
Read more in Events.
Labels: ash, birthday, events, hot, lava, mad science, mad scientist, Mount St. Helens, party, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Steelhead, Tensai Hilra, volcano
Reader Submitted: Game Review - World of Warcraft
Read Nydia's article in Extra.
Labels: Extra, game, MMO, MORPG, Nydia Tungsten, Reader Submitted, review, World of Warcraft, WoW
SL10Birthday Preparations Under Way
It is a very exciting and busy time. Then we get to watch the empty sims fill up with marvelous creative exhibits. And so, at this time the notifications to the builders (and other volunteer applicants) are going out. There are so many it will take some days for all notices to arrive so watch your e-mail if you are waiting. The sims will open to builders on this Sunday, May 26. The sim coordinators and Exhibitor Assistants will be waiting for them. Let the party preparation begin!!
I will keep you updated on the progress. Remember it opens on June 16 and will be open until June 29, with stage performances ending June 23. I promise you, no matter how many times you visit you will never see everything there is to see! Though I will start work this Sunday I know from last years I will never see it all! Keep an eye on the Blog! – There will be regular updates and information posted there!
Gemma Cleanslate
Editor's Note: Applications for plots at the SL10B closed on Tuesday May 21st. Acceptance notices for exhibitors should start "coming in the next few days and will continue all week.
Labels: birthday, Diana Renoir, Doc Gascoigne, Gemma Cleanslate, Second Life, Second Life Tenth Birthday, Secondlife, sl, SL10B, The Birthday, training, volunteer, volunteers
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Cartoon of the Day
Holocluck Henley at the "Skunk Aid 2" Relay For Life dance, looking like he just stepped in something.
By Bixyl Shuftan
Labels: Bixyl Shuftan, Cartoon, Cartoon of the Day, dance, funny, Holocluck Henley, humor, joke, Relay for Life, RFL, Second Life, Secondlife, Skunk Aid, sl, step
Interview With Aurora Avila
Read Grease's interview in People.
Labels: AnthroXtacy, Aurora Avila, avian, AX, bird, DJ, Grease Coakes, interview, music, penguin, People, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Club Toxxic Haven
Read Theonlyjohnny's article in Design.
Labels: club, design, dying, empty, haven, Places, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Theonlyjohnny Resident, Toxxic Haven
Press Release: Burn2 "Color Outside Of The Lines"
In remembrance of the time of our early beginnings; Paper - empty as our abilities, was given to us along with crayons. So we created art. As paint boxes and coloring books appeared we still created art, now of structure and less of our first faltering attempts. As we grew in our art, "She" (our mother figure) was always at our side guiding us, praising us; swift with tape and magnets to post our results upon the fridge.
She was always there to encourage us and to push us further to use chalk, clay, and anything that came to hand. She was our muse and sponsor, and always gave us permission to COLOR OUTSIDE OF THE LINES.
BURN2 – Deep Hole, Join us May 24th and 25th for a two day event with music and collaborative creative art building. Celebrate the act of art creation and the role of Her(our mother figure).
The Playa will OPEN to the public at NOON on FRIDAY, May 24 at the following location:
Drum, Play, Celebrate: Come join the Lamplighters each day to drum and perform. There are no bystanders.
Create, Share, Keep: Small creative areas are setup for participants to "color outside of the lines" by moving the different shaped objects supplied or adding their own to a group art piece that will only last four hours (take a copy! quick!).
Join us, free your inner Burner, and once again explore art and honor the mother muse we all have. Share the news with friends! See below for more information and to share on all your favorite networks:
Website: http://www.burn2.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BURN2BURNERS Label: Burn2
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BURN2BURNER Hashtag: #burn2 Keyword: Burn2
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/burn2/ Keyword: Burn2
BURN2 is an extension of the Burning Man festival and community into the world of Second Life. It is an officially sanctioned Burning Man regional event, and the only virtual world event out of more than 100 real world Regional groups.
The BURN2 Team operates events year around, culminating in an annual major festival of community, art and fire in the fall - a virtual echo of Burning Man itself
Contact people: Emcee Widget, Ronon Carver, Taralyn Gravois
Labels: art, artistic, Burn2, Burning Man, color, Deep Hole, event, Lamplighters, Mother, Press Release, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Events This Week May 21 to May 27
See the list of happenings in Events this Week.
Labels: Book Island, church, club, Club Fur, Cutlass, dance, events, Happy Vixen, Lauren Live, music, Mystery, Odd Ball, Queen of Hearts, races, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, spring, Zero Gravity
SL Enquirer: Boxing in Second Life - It's A Real Knockout
We live in a world where standards on genders exist. In one sport in SL, someone's sex doesn't matter. Scroll down to learn more about this refreshing activity.
Warrior Instinct Nations, formerly known as Averlast, was opened in July 2007, by Karine Koba. Ms. Koba wanted an establishment that provided not only excellent boxing events and equipment to train with for this sport, but also a variety of activities outside Boxing. I will list some of the other pastimes this business offers in a bit. First allow me to tell you how to play in this business's main competition: Boxing.
Labels: activities, Averlast, boxing, culture, entertainment, fighting, Karine Koba, Sarah Elisabeth Brenham, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, SL Enquirer, sports, spotlight feature, Warrior Instinct Nations
Press Release: Happy Birthday to the American Cancer Society
"On May 22nd, the American Cancer Society will celebrate 100 years in existence! Since 1913, the Society has been at the forefront of many innovative discoveries and has been a driving force in providing services to cancer patients that can't be found elsewhere. Today, two out of every three patients diagnosed with cancer will survive, due to those discoveries, but the American Cancer Society will not stop until it is three out of three! You are invited to join the Relay For Life of Second Life community as we kick off the birthday celebration with a Celebration of Hope on Tuesday, May 21st from 5pm to 7pm SLT on the American Cancer Society sim. On Wednesday, May 22nd, we hope you will stop by for the ACS Island Open House throughout the day. Stop in and learn more about the American Cancer Society and all that it offers in world and out. We look forward to seeing you there!"
Gem Sunkiller, RFL Blog
Labels: 100 Years of Hope, 100th, ACS, American Cancer Society, anniversary, birthday, event, fundraiser, Hope, Press Release, Relay for Life, RFL, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Monday, May 20, 2013
Art Exhibit "Realism in Second Life" Opens
Life, at the Cuauhnahuac Gallery in Instituto Espanol. Set in a replica of a real-life museum in Mexico, the exhibition features a variety of pictures from Ruben Acajou and Sandralee Palianta.
Read Grey's article in Design.
Read Grey's article in Design.
Labels: art, artists, Cuauhnahuac, design, exhibition, gallery, Grey Lupindo, Instituto Espanol, mexican, Mexico, pictures, Ruben Acajou, Sandralee Palianta, Second Life, Secondlife, sl
Tales From the Ghost Forest – LEA14
Read DrFran's account in Places.
Posted by Bixyl Shuftan at 6:04 AM No comments:
Labels: alien, aliens, art, artistic, design, DrFran Babcock, Ghost Forest, LEA, LEA14, nature, Places, post-apocalyptic, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Tales, Uan Ceriaptrix
A Busy Weekend
Bixyl Shuftan
Labels: Bay City, Bixyl Shuftan, current events, events, later, news, relay, RFL, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, Steelhead
Oculus Rift VR, By Philip Rosedale's New Company, Coming to Second Life
Jo Yardley, the lady known for her work on the 1920s Berlin Project, had a few things to say about something on the more futuristic scale of things: Oculus Rift.
Last month, Second Life's creator Philip Rosedale, who has moved on to found a new start-up company called "High Fidelity," announced "a new kind of virtual reality platform" called Oculus Rift, a "high field of view, low latency, consumer-priced virtual reality head-mounted display." Although the company's primary interest seems to be 3-D gaming, Halmet Au reported that Linden Lab was interested in this technology, with "several Linden staff … working on integrating Oculus Rift with Second Life in an *unofficial* capacity."
Chatting with Rod Humble, Jo quoted him as saying, "Hopefully we will be sharing some vids within a few weeks then get into testing after that. I don't want to overhype this BUT SL+OR is like having dinner with Stefan Zweig and Peter Altenberg."
Hamlet Au called integration an "enormous gamble" that he earlier doubted the Lab would undertake. And in one article Jo Yardley linked to, the writer felt OpenSim would get it first. But it looks like Rod Humble, noted for his experience in gaming, will be having Linden Lab work on it.
Sources: New World Notes, Jo Yardley's Second Life
Bixyl Shuftan
Labels: 3-D, 3D, Bixyl Shuftan, breakthrough, development, headset, integration, Jo Yardley, Linden Lab, Oculus Rift, Philip Rosedale, Rod Humble, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, VR
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Cartoon of the Day
Uccello Poultry of the Poultry Report finds herself in a potentially cat-astrophic situation in the outskirts of Bay City. Fortunetly Marianne McCann was nearby to give her a hand.
By Bixyl Shuftan
Posted by Bixyl Shuftan at 12:05 PM 1 comment:
Labels: Bay City, bite, Bixyl Shuftan, Cartoon, Cartoon of the Day, dino, dinosaur, eat, eaten, funny, humor, joke, Second Life, Secondlife, sl, swallow, T-Rex, Uccello Poultry
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