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- IISS Bhopal Recruitment 2016
- Post – Lower Division Clerk Posts
- Total no. of Vacancy – 04 Posts
- Salary – Rs. 5200-20200/- + Grade Pay Rs. 1900/-
- Eligibility – 12th
- Last Date – 06 Feb, 2016
- Location – Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (IISS) Bhopal has uploaded a notification on their official website http://www.iiss.nic.in for the posts of Lower Division Clerk, seeking interested and eligible applicants for 12th. Applicants hoping to grab a job at IISS Bhopal can proceed to apply for this recruitment after matching their eligibility criteria listed here. The location of this job is Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Candidates should submit his application complete in all respect on or before the end date which is 06-02-2016. For specific details like age limit, pay scale, eligibility criteria read the detailed information below.
|Post Name
|No. of Post
|Age Limit
|Pay Scale
|Lower Division Clerk
|04 Posts
|18 to 27 years
|Rs. 5200-20200/- + Grade Pay Rs. 1900/-
|12th passed
Examination fee :- The Exam fee for this recruitment is Rs. 200/-, through Demand Draft drawn in favour of ICAR Unit IISS, Bhopal" payable at Bhopal.
- Application process :- offline
Address: The director, icar research complex for neh region, umiam-793103, meghalaya
How to Apply :-Interested candidates should completely fill the application form providing all his authentic details like age, qualification, name etc. correctly with a recent photograph and asked attachments , which are given in the notification and send the application complete in all respect to the designated address before the cut off date 06-02-2016.
Important Dates:
- Last date – 06-02-2016
Links here:-
- Detailed Advertisement here – Click here for IISS Bhopal Advertisement and Application form
Official Website : http://www.iiss.nic.in


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Lars turned 8 months old on Monday! I know (I KNOW!) I say this every update but where does the time go?!
Life with Lars has become a lot busier in that he is now a man on the move! He started crawling a little after he turned 6 months old and I'm pretty sure we haven't sat down since. Okay, that's an exaggeration but he took off pretty fast with the crawling which quickly turned into pulling himself up onto everything (including the wall…what the heck?!)
Since pictures say way more than words, I figured I would recap the last 2 months with more photos.
The last two months started off after the holidays with the Hawkeyes going to the Rose Bowl! We don't have to tell Lars the outcome of that games (ouch..) but I will tell him when he's older that he's been a Hawkeye fan from the start!
After the holidays and a couple of trips up North to the cabin, we were all hit pretty hard with a stomach flu. First Lars… then me… and finally Marc. It was nasty and the saddest thing to see our little guy not feeling well! It made it even worse to have to take care of him while we were knocked out ourselves.
In the picture on the left below Lars fell asleep on me for the first time in months (we've been "sleep training" so no more cuddly naps) which was so sweet and also showed how bad he really felt. In the photo on the right you can see in his eyes he didn't feel well. As Grandma Jan would say – he didn't have the sparkle in his eyes!
We also started swimming lessons in January. I wasn't sure how he would like being in the water and being dunked, which we have to do multiple times each class, but he loves it! While he's usually pretty squirmy and chatty, something about being in the warm water zens him out. All of the other parents in the class have commented how "chill" of a baby Lars is. Ha! If only they saw him at home.
Even though it's been a fairly cold couple of months, once it gets above 25 degrees, I try to get him outside for a quick walk for some fresh air. It seriously does wonders for him because I feel like he starts to get antsy if we're inside too much. Just like the rest of us, he likes a change in scenery! I make sure to bundle him up with lots of layers, always ending with his Patagonia bunting on top, which is seriously the coziest looking thing ever! I mean, don't you wish they made them in our size?!
We also took advantage of a warm February day and did some winter hiking. I've mentioned before that Lars was not a fan of the Ergo Baby because he doesn't like to face in, but he actually loved it when he was on my back facing in. I also think it helps that he's out of that weird newborn phase where they're just not sure what they want.
Another fun milestone? He's sitting up in a shopping cart! Which means I no longer have to bring the car seat in which takes up the entire cart, or carry him in in his outward facing carrier…woohoo! Oh and yes, I took him to Total Wine.
The last two months have also been super fun as Lars and his cousin Finn are getting to ages where they can actually interact with each other. Since Lars is 2 months older he's more mobile than Finn but they still do tummy time together and lots of "talking" while we hold the two of them. They are too funny (and cute!) together!
Other things he loves? His activity desk, bath time, putting EVERYTHING in his mouth, Maddie, screeching and screaming just to hear his own voice, and just generally always being on the go.
His latest thing is that he got his first tooth! And the second one is not far behind. This has, of course, come with a couple of nights of waking up when he usually doesn't, and a couple of days of being really clingy on mama but for the most part, I feel like he's been handling his teeth pretty well.
And lastly – one of my favorite parts of the past 2 months is all of the fun things Lars has been eating! I'm still mainly breastfeeding him, but have started feeding him solids 2-3 times a day. For the most part, Lars has liked almost everything I've made for him. Some of his favorites have been mixed berry oatmeal, apple and pear sauce, sweet potato, coconut milk, and coriander puree, pumpkin lentil and coconut curry puree, and he always loves bananas.
Some of his not-so-favorites have been green lentil soup puree and a chicken, spinach, tomato, and basil puree. Although I tried the chicken puree again last night and he gobbled it up! I guess it's true what they say – even if they don't like it – just keep trying!
We've also started giving him solids food like black beans, cottage cheese, cheddar cheese pieces, and I even had him try some salmon the other night (which he loved!). It's so funny to see him experience new tastes and textures in his mouth.
For feeding we are transitioning from the Summer Infant Feeding Booster Seat to the Keekaroo Height Right High Chair since he's a little squirm worm and is almost able to flip himself out of the booster seat. The Keekaroo high chair is height adjustable so it can be used for years…it fits up to 250 lbs!
Other products I love for mealtime are these Baby Bjorn bibs, OXO spoons, and these NUK silicone freezer trays for freezing the foods I make for Lars. We also still exclusively use Tommee Tippee bottles for when I am at work.
I think that's it…We'll be back tomorrow with more food!


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My 14 year old daughter had a problem to solve in French class (of course they take French!) the other week: she was to pair up with a classmate and craft a short back-and-forth dialogue for the class. That wasn't the problem, rather, after everyone chose partners, she found she was in a group of three. What to do? My daughter thought the answer obvious: they'd write up a dialogue where two girls were interested in the same guy. And he's interested in...
I'll leave things there, but Edith Wharton (1862-1937 )wouldn't have, and across dozens of novels, stories and novellas, never did. Though known most now for her New York Gilded Age Novels, she's always interested me for her writings on, in, and around Paris. If the Age of Innocence or The House of Mirth ever intimidated you, first, get over that, and second, start with one of her novellas, like today's recommendation, Madame de Treymes. It distills all of Wharton's most famous elements--class, money, religion, straitlaced society--into a 90 pp. novella set in Paris. Meet handsome, wealthy American bachelor John Durham, whose "European visits were infrequent enough to have kept unimpaired the freshness of his eye" and so he was
always struck anew by the vast and consummately ordered spectacle of Paris: by its look of having
been boldly and deliberately planned as a background for the enjoyment of life, instead of being forced into grudging concessions to the festive instincts, or barricading itself against them in unenlightened ugliness, like his own lamentable New York.
But to-day, if the scene had never presented itself more alluringly, in that moist spring bloom between showers, when the horse-chestnuts dome themselves in unreal green against a gauzy sky, and the very dust of the pavement seems the fragrance of lilac made visible--to-day for the first time the sense of a personal stake in it all, of having to reckon individually with its effects and influences, kept Durham from an unrestrained yielding to the spell. Paris might still be--to the unimplicated it doubtless still was--the most beautiful city in the world; but whether it were the most lovable or the most detestable depended for him, in the last analysis, on the buttoning of the white glove over which Fanny de Malrive still lingered.
The unimplicated! Unexpected, and unexpectedly perfect, word choices like that abound through the headlong rush of the next 90 pp., where Durham pursues Fanny, whom he could happily be with--and she with him--if only it weren't for the fact that she is already married. So, then, a divorce? Bien-sûr, except there's one small obstacle; perhaps Fanny's sister-in-law the eponymous Madame de Treymes, might be able to help?
I won't tell you how it ends--if you know Wharton, you know how it ends--although I do differ from many readers and critics when I say that I find a strange sense of possibility lurking in the blank part of the page beneath the final paragraph. Maybe all is not lost, maybe the sunny Paris of the first page is still sunny if--oh, but now I've implicated myself. No matter.
(Enjoy here if you want the raw text of the book (h/t to the Edith Wharton Society), or find yourself a pleasingly (if unfairly) dusty volume at your local library like the 1907 Scribner's edition pictured here.)


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Real reform in the Church requires a faithful laity, priest says
Posted on 08/22/2019 05:38 AM (CNA Daily News)
Auckland, New Zealand, Aug 22, 2019 / 12:38 am (CNA).- For the Catholic Church to be renewed, the entire body of Christ - especially the laity - must strive to live the faith devoutly.
This was the message of Father Roger Landry, who works for the Holy See's Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, at a Eucharistic assembly in July.
"While in history, reforms have been championed by popes, bishops, founders of religious orders and their spiritual sons and daughters, the real reform of the Church happens when lay people assimilate it and live it," he said.
"The Church is not made of marble, wood, bricks and glass, but of men, women, boys and girls, who build their lives firmly on Christ the cornerstone and Peter the rock on whom Jesus constructed the Church."
Landry spoke during the Auckland Eucharistic Convention on the weekend of July 12 at the Sacred Heart College in New Zealand. Speakers at the event also included Emeritus Bishop Denis Browne of Hamilton, founder of the conference, and Bishop Patrick Dunn of Auckland.
During his speech, Landry noted that there is much discussion about a renewed Church, particularly following recent scandals within the Church.
He pointed to the Second Vatican Council's teaching on the "universal call to holiness" and noted that the Gospels include the images of Christians as salt, light, and leaven.
"They are particularly meaningful images because they speak not only of the deep involvement and the full participation of the lay faithful in the affairs of the earth, the world and the human community, but also and above all, they tell of the radical newness and unique character of an involvement and participation which has as its purpose the spreading of the Gospel that brings salvation," he said, quoting St. John Paul II.
At the time of the New Testament, salt had three purposes: preserving food so it would not spoil, enhancing flavor, and combining with animal dung to create fuel.
Similarly, he said, Christians should preserve the world from sin, reflect God's glory, and bring others to the goodness of redemption.
"Jesus calls us to be his instrument to prevent the earth from going to corruption, from dying. We're supposed to keep the world and others good," he said. "As Salt of the Earth, we're called to be God's instrument for bringing good out of the evil we encounter, to help even those who were given over to evil to start producing something good."
"We, as salt of the earth, are called to give flavor so that others can 'taste and see the goodness of the Lord,' we're supposed to bring joy," he said.
Light is another important metaphor, Landry said, especially in a world darkened so deeply by grief, despair, sin, physical pain, and emotional wounds. Like Christ, the Christian should warm people from the cold and dispel darkness.
"He has come and mercifully taught us in such a way that we may walk as children of the light and be true children of the light. So the Christian life is supposed to be luminescent, like the lights on a landing strip at an airport on a foggy night that help planes land," he said.
"Similarly, light gives off warmth, and Christ has come into the world to warm us by his love, to burn away whatever in us is frigid or tepid, so that we in turn may warm others by the fire of divine love."
Leaven is an important metaphor, Landry said, because it teaches us that just a small number of devout Christians can have a significant impact on the world.
"We know that leaven works unseen, doesn't call attention to itself, but it does its work all the same. Much of the most important work of Christians happens through example - by our cheerfulness, by the powerful transforming influence of good friendship, by the encouraging smiles and deeds that others need when they are down," he said.
He pointed to the example of the early Japanese Christians, who kept the Catholic faith alive for centuries after the priests in the country had all been martyred.
Missionaries in the 1800s found hundreds of Catholics in a village in northeastern Japan. In place of Mass, the Catholic families would gather every Sunday to pray the Apostles' Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and an Act of Contrition.
The villagers had been instructed by previous missionaries to be steadfast and to wait for more "fathers" to come after the initial missionaries were martyred. The early priests had taught the people how to recognize the four marks of the Catholic Church: belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, devotion to Mary, the papacy ,and the priesthood.
"So great was the trust in God and in his Church by those who were being killed in the 1600s that they prepared the people for the time when Catholic priests would return to Japan, and their simple instructions were passed down by the kakure Kiristan, the clandestine Christians, for a dozen generations," Landry said.
Hong Kong student leader: Catholics have an important role in peaceful protests
Posted on 08/22/2019 05:12 AM (CNA Daily News)
Hong Kong, China, Aug 22, 2019 / 12:12 am (CNA).- As massive protests continue in Hong Kong, one student leader says Catholics have an important role to play in encouraging demonstrators to remain peaceful in asserting their demands.
"The protests last Sunday [were] very peaceful, peaceful protests. And very luckily, there were no major conflicts between the police and the protestors," Edwin Chow, acting president of the Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students, told CNA in an interview.
Despite the threat of violence from police and growing concern about a potential crackdown by Chinese authorities, an estimated 1.7 million people took to the streets of Hong Kong last Sunday for a largely peaceful demonstration in the pouring rain.
The largest protest has so far this year has been an estimated 2 million-strong crowd on June 6. At some of the protests, police and some protesters have resorted to violence.
"From June to the previous protest, almost every time, the police have used tear gas and bullets. But this time, for this weekend, actually the police did not use any tear gas and they didn't have any serious clash between the protesters and the police," Chow said.
Protesters continue to demonstrate against the use of excessive force by the police, as well as the potential for Hong Kong to begin extraditing suspected criminals to stand trial in mainland China.
The bill proposing extraditions to China, which was introduced in Hong Kong's government in February, has been indefinitely suspended, but Christians in Hong Kong remain worried that the Chinese Communist government will continue to find ways to persecute those who are helping Christians in mainland China, where freedom of religion is severely restricted.
"The Chinese government is suppressing the Church in mainland China, and so we are worried that when we have communication with the mainland Church, maybe one day the Chinese government will also arrest the Hong Kong people to suppress Hong Kong people," Chow said.
The apostolic administrator of Hong Kong, Cardinal John Tong, has asked the government to eliminate the extradition law completely, and for an independent inquiry into the excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.
The Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students organized members to attend the protest and also held a prayer meeting before Sunday's march. Chow said many more protests are already planned for August, and early next month students are planning to "strike" on the first day of class.
"My class will start on the 2nd of September, but actually the student union, most of the university students, we are planning to have a strike on that day. That is a must, I think, this will happen. We will go on strike."
Chow, a student studying Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, told CNA last week that he would like to see Catholics and other Christians take on a larger role in ongoing protests against the government.
While Chow said that Christians, among them Catholics, had a more major role when the protests began— leading the singing of hymns such as "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" in the streets during the protests, for example— their role has since diminished.
"It's a good chance for us to become united. Because I think for most of the Catholics and Christians, we have the same values, the same goal...so that's why we cooperate, and I think after Christians and Catholics cooperate, our strengths, our power becomes stronger," he told CNA last week.
Chow said he believes the protestors are changing their tactics to try to be less disruptive. A number of protests held in the last few weeks in the city's busy international airport caused a lot of noise and disruption, he said.
"So the protestors adjusted their strategy. They think that a peaceful protest maybe can gain more support. I think due to the previous clash, and too much violence, maybe we have lost some support, so we want to gain it again," Chow explained.
"And also I think the main theme of the protests is...police violence; it's hard to convince people that we are against violence when we use violence. So I think this is the main reason why this protest this weekend was [more] peaceful."
Chow believes that Christians groups can play an important role in encouraging protestors to remain peaceful and not be carried away by emotion.
"For the Catholic groups, for the Christian groups, we have the responsibility and we have the power to calm our friends down. Because I think singing hymns, just in the beginning, it creates a peaceful atmosphere, and it has a power to keep everyone very calm. So I think we can use this when we do this again."
Chow said there is an interesting protest set to take place this Friday, wherein protestors plan to form a human chain as part of the demonstration.
"This week, almost every day we have protests," he said.
"For tomorrow, the secondary students also have their own protest, their own assembly...it's a very busy month, very busy, these two months for Hong Kong people. Because actually, we almost protest every day."
Chow said the Catholic clergy have been very supportive. The Federation invited bishop emeritus Cardinal Joseph Zen to celebrate Mass on June 16, in front of the government headquarters.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing has also been very active in going to the protest sites, supporting the young people, and vocally supporting the protestors. Bishop Ha took part in a continuous ecumenical prayer meeting outside the Legislative Council building with thousands of Christians overnight after one rally.
"Other ordinary Catholics, some of the older Catholics, they also join in our activities," Chow said. "So you can see that not only the teenagers are supporting, participating in the whole protest, but the older people, some adults...they also join, they also support the whole protest."
In the US, the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chinese Ministry and the Office of Human Life & Dignity are inviting the faithful to a prayer vigil for Hong Kong at 6:30 pm on August 26 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco. The service is set to include scripture readings, Eucharistic Adoration, and Benediction.
White House criticized for push to allow indefinite detention of migrant kids
Posted on 08/21/2019 22:49 PM (CNA Daily News)
Washington D.C., Aug 21, 2019 / 05:49 pm (CNA).- The White House announced on Wednesday that it would look to terminate court-approved limits on detention of migrant children and families, allowing for indefinite detention. The announcement drew strong criticism from a leading Catholic immigration group.
"These changes would expand the number of children who will be detained and are in direct opposition to the child-friendly provisions in the Flores agreement," said Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC).
Gallagher added that the action "would destroy long-term child protection standards created by our government and the courts."
The White House's new rule will seek to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, a court-approved national policy on the treatment of migrants by U.S. government agencies. The new rule must be approved by a federal judge before it can go into effect.
"To protect these children from abuse, and stop this illegal flow, we must close these loopholes. This is an urgent humanitarian necessity," President Donald Trump stated.
Under previous court rulings, the administration said it had to allow most migrant children and families to leave detention centers after 20 days; a new proposed rule, the "Apprehension, Processing, Care, and Custody of Alien Minors and Unaccompanied Alien Children," would remove time limits and allow for indefinite detention.
The rule would ensure the care and safety of children in detention and protect them from smugglers, the White House said in its announcement; smugglers have been taking advantage of the previous policy by promising migrants a quick release if they were to be apprehended by U.S. law enforcement, and by bringing children and adults together to pose as migrant families at the border, the White House said.
In a press conference, Kevin K. McAleenan, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, emphasized that the facilities holding families under the new rule are "campus-like settings with appropriate medical, educational, recreational, dining, and private housing facilities."
However, CLINIC, established by the U.S. bishops in 1988, called the administration's proposal last September an "abomination."
Gallagher said on Wednesday that "clinical studies demonstrate that the mitigating presence of parents does not negate or lighten the serious and adverse effect of detention on the physical and mental health of children." The organization has also said that the administration's policy would allow it to set the conditions for migrants in detention centers with lesser independent oversight, threatening the due process of migrants.
In June of 2018, a group of human rights officials at the United Nations stated of the U.S. policy of detaining children and separating families at the border that "detention of children is punitive, severely hampers their development, and in some cases may amount to torture."
The number of "family unit aliens" apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has soared in Fiscal Year 2019, the White House says, increasing by more than 300 percent; more than 430,000 "family unit aliens" have been apprehended in FY 2019.
Priest: We need to address roots of the global migration crisis
Posted on 08/21/2019 22:02 PM (CNA Daily News)
Rome, Italy, Aug 21, 2019 / 05:02 pm (CNA).- With migrant and refugee numbers at a crisis level in Europe and other parts of the world, the international community must act to alleviate the suffering of those forced to leave their homes, a priest said this week.
Fr. Mussie Zerai is an Eritrean priest based in Rome, serving as European Coordinator for the Catholics of Eritrea.
Zerai works particularly with migrants who cross the Mediterranean Sea, fleeing dangers in their homeland and seeking a better life.
Speaking this week with ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish language sister agency, Zerai said that to address the migration crisis, it is necessary to look at the factors pushing people to leave their home countries.
He also said neighboring countries in Africa should be better equipped to accept refugees, so they are not forced to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
The priest pointed to an initiative by the Sant'Egidio Community and the Italian Bishops' Conference that allows migrants to travel to Italy and other European countries with their needs covered and without relying on local mafias.
These humanitarian channels are an important avenue of legal immigration, and states should assume similar initiatives, he said, stressing that if the European Union were to ensure "legal access for people who need protection, a lot of people would not feel driven by desperation into the hands of the traffickers, risking their lives in the desert and on the sea."
Rather than getting to the root of the migration crisis, Zerai lamented, "the European Union tried to put up walls…to create obstacles to whoever was fleeing from their countries for different reasons: hunger, war, political, ethnic and religious persecutions."
As a result, he said, people fleeing dangerous situations at home lack the protection they need to migrate safely.
"Perhaps we don't see them, but they continue to die in the desert, continue to die in the prisons, in the many detention centers, continue to die at sea."
Opinions divided in reaction to Pell decision
Posted on 08/21/2019 20:00 PM (CNA Daily News)
Melbourne, Australia, Aug 21, 2019 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- The decision by the Court of Appeal in Victoria to reject Cardinal George Pell's appeal of his conviction for child sex abuse Wednesday has divided opinion among court watchers, both Catholic and secular.
Reactions to the ruling ranged from celebrations that Pell will remain in prison, to questions being raised about the entire Australian legal system.
Cardinal Pell's spokesperson released a short statement after the decision, saying that the cardinal was "obviously disappointed" but will continue the legal process.
"While noting the 2-1 split decision, Cardinal Pell maintains his innocence," said the statement. "We thank his many supporters."
Pell may still appeal to the High Court, Australia's supreme judicial body. If the court decides to hear his appeal, there could still be months or even years before a final decision is reached. But in the meantime, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Court of Appeals' ruling meant that Pell will be stripped of his Order of Australia honors.
"My understanding is that this [appeal loss] would result in the stripping of the honours that are decided externally to the government," said Morrison.
"That is a process that is done independently, and that course will now follow."
Many people who were outside the court while the decision was being read were happy with the news.
Julie Cameron, who was described in Australian media as an advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse, said that the ruling meant that "the largest protected pedophile ring in the world is busted."
Videos taken from outside the courtroom showed a crowd cheering "victory" at the decision, while another stated "we're never giving up, we're never going away."
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt offered a different view from much of the media coverage of Pell's trial, saying in a post that the conviction makes "no logical sense" and that there were many "improbabilities" to the prosecution's case.
"Even if Pell could physically have been in the sacristy, in time, and without being seen, and physically done these attacks, how insane would he have to be to do all this, attack two boys he didn't know, in an open room in a busy cathedral?" said Bolt in a piece published after the decision.
Australian Catholic leadership also had varying reactions to the decision.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher, who succeeded Pell as leader of the Sydney archdiocese said he was "limited in my ability to comment on today's outcome," since Pell could still lodge a further appeal.
"Today's split decision amongst the judges is consistent with the differing views of the juries in the first and second trials, as well as the divided opinion amongst legal commentators and the general public," Fisher said in a statement.
"Reasonable people have taken different views when presented with the same evidence and I urge everyone to maintain calm and civility."
Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli of Melbourne, another of Pell's former dioceses, said in a statement that he "respectfully receives the Court's decision," and that he "encourages everyone to do the same."
Comensoli remarked that "the complexity of the search for the truth in this matter has tested many, and may very well continue to do so."
The archbishop said that he was praying for the man who accused Pell of sexual abuse, and that he would offer spiritual and pastoral help to him if he so wanted it. Notably, Comensoli declined to use the word "victim" or "survivor" to describe the man.
Additionally, Comensoli said that he will "ensure that Cardinal Pell is provided pastoral and spiritual support while he serves the remainder of his sentence" of six years in prison.
The Vatican issued a cautious statement "acknowledging" the decision.
"While reiterating its respect for the Australian judicial system... the Holy See acknowledges the court's decision to dismiss Cardinal Pell's appeal," Matteo Bruni, Holy See press office director, said Aug. 21.
Bruni stated that "as the proceedings continue to develop, the Holy See recalls that the Cardinal has always maintained his innocence throughout the judicial process and that it is his right to appeal to the High Court." A canonical process to assess the accusations against Pell has formally been opened, but remains pending until the entire criminal process in Australia concludes.
As a body, the Catholic bishops of Australia offered a similarly carefully worded response to the news.
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC), which represents all of the country's bishops and archbishops, said that while they accepted the judgment, they "acknowledge that this judgement will be distressing to many people."
"The Catholic Bishops of Australia believe all Australians must be equal under the law and accept today's judgement accordingly," said the statement from Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, the ACBC president.
Coleridge noted that "this has been and remains a most difficult time for survivors of child sexual abuse and those who support them," and that the Australian clergy has caused much pain in the country.
"We remain committed to doing everything we can to bring healing to those who have suffered greatly and to ensuring that Catholic settings are the safest possible places for all people, but especially for children and vulnerable adults," he said.
Retired Bishop Peter Elliott, a former auxiliary bishop of Melbourne, pointedly rejected the outcome.
"I don't accept this outcome because I hope it is appealed to a higher court," he said to the Australian news program 7.30 after the appeal was denied. Elliott has known Pell for over 50 years.
"I believe that George Pell is totally incapable of what he's been accused of, and what he's been convicted for," said Elliott, urging Australian Catholics to "keep calm, and carry on praying" for Pell.
Amazon missionary bishop: Synod plans miss the real problems
Posted on 08/21/2019 19:51 PM (CNA Daily News)
Belém do Pará, Brazil, Aug 21, 2019 / 02:51 pm (CNA).-
A long-time missionary bishop of the Amazon River delta has said that the working document for an upcoming synod of bishops on the region does not address the actual problems faced by the Church in the region.
Bishop José Luis Azcona, is the missionary bishop emeritus of Marajó, a diocese that includes dozens of islands in the Amazon River Delta. During his years of service in the region, Azcona lived under death threats for denouncing human trafficking and for defending the human rights of indigineous people.
In remarks recently offered to ACI Digital, CNA's Portugese-language sister agency, Azcona criticized the Instrumentum laboris, or working document, for October's Pan-Amazonian synod of bishops, which he said fails to address the Church's most pressing challenges: a growing Pentacostal majority; child labor, abuse, and trafficking; and a spiritual crisis.
Azcona said that synod must address a sobering reality: "the Amazon, at least the Brazilian Amazon, is no longer Catholic."
He questioned the central points of the synod's preparatory document, which he said focus unduly on "a distorted vision of the so-called Amazonian face," "interculturality," and the ordination of married men.
The Face of the Amazon
According to Azcona, "the Amazon, at least the Brazilian Amazon, is no longer Catholic.
"This point of departure is crucial for conducting the synod. If the Amazon has a Pentecostal majority, it is necessary to address that reality thoroughly."
"Any nostalgia for an Amazon that no longer exists is fatal to its integral evangelization. Even in some areas of the Amazon the Pentecostal majority reaches 80%," he said.
"A Pentecostal penetration into several indigenous ethnic groups, overrunning cultures, ethnic identities, indigenous peoples in the name of the Gospel, is a serious phenomenon in today's Amazon, which with its fundamentalist and proselytizing connotations has a profound impact on the indigenous peoples."
"This is today's Amazonian face!"
"There's not one word about this point in the Instrument laboris," Azcona said.
The bishop added that "the long experience of years confirms that in many Amazonian dioceses the faith is not lived out in society nor in history. The chasm between the confession and celebration of faith in beautiful liturgies and the social, environmental, cultural and political reality has not yet been overcome."
Child abuse
Azcona next pointed the pervasive problems of child abuse in the Amazon region.
"Unfortunately, the synod doesn't know, or knowing doesn't understand, the significance, for the present and the future of the Amazon, of the faces of anguished, re-victimized and denigrated children, [abused] by their own parents and relatives, subjected to a slavery that forms an essential part of the abandoned and destroyed face of Jesus in the Amazon."
"This entire document is straw if it doesn't understand or doesn't commit to the spirit and letter of the Gospel: 'He who receives a little one like this receives Me and he who receives Me, receives the Father who sent Me."
In that regard he continued, "in Pará alone in one year there were 25,000 reports of crimes of this kind [Editor's note: pedophilia]. According to experts in this area, for every reported case of pedophilia there are four others besides. If during approximately one year there were 100,000 abused children in Pará, isn't this face of destroyed children an essential part of the Amazonian face?"
"Where is the pastoral sensitivity, so evident and so firmly expressed by the Holy Father Pope Francis, expressed by those responsible for the Instrumentum laboris?" Azcona asked.
"Where is the defense of the Amazon, of its children, in the Instrumentum laboris, and, therefore, in the synod? Let's stop these false projections about the Amazon, and instead make possible new paths for it."
"What is the Amazonian face? Can a synod next October of this magnitude be built with a presentation so far from reality, from identity, from respect for what is different, when pre-established schemes of interpretation of reality deform what is real?" he questioned.
Inculturation or 'Equalization'?
Azcona also criticized "the themes around the inculturation of the Gospel in the Amazon and related areas," which he said "are presented in a context of immanence, Neo-Pelagianism, leveling out the Gospel with Amazonian (indigenous) cultures, ecclesiologically devoid of theological and pastoral foundations, annulling the Gospel of salvation."
Recalling the Ad gentes decree of the Second Vatican Council, the bishop pointed out that "the words of the Gospel proclaimed by the Church decide the destiny of persons, of peoples, cultures and nations."
"In no part of the Instrumentum laboris is anything similar explicitly affirmed. On the contrary, the tendency to equalize the indigenous cultures with the Gospel is overwhelming. This is a point of departure which cannot be dispensed with in a synod."
"Forgetting this fundamental principle renders the synod useless and nullifies the specific and unique power of God in the Gospel, as well as all missionary dynamism in the Amazon and from the Amazon," he said.
Azcona pointed out that "in no part of the Instrumenum laboris is the presence of demons spoken of, or their influence, their malice in persons, peoples and cultures, as well as the victory of Christ, his deliverance and the destruction of the power of the Evil One."
"The document forgets the luminous and guiding pages that speak of the Evil One and his presence in history, to which Pope Francis devotes numbers 158-164 in last year's apostolic exhortation on holiness, Gaudete et Exultate."
He also warned that "the Pelagianism spread throughout the document, leads to attributing to the Amazonian man, to his ethnic and cultural groups, more than what belongs to them, because they are realities created and marked by sin, and it supplants the solid conciliar doctrine about the Gospel and the mission of the Church in the power of the Risen One, as found in Lumen gentium 16.
"Finally, the utopian ideo to revitalize the pre-Colombian religions, separating them from Christ and the universal Church, would not be progress but regression," he said.
Ecological conversion
Addressing the question of ecological conversion, the bishop argued that "the need for repentance for the forgiveness of sins is the fundamental challenge that the Church has to face in the Amazon. Without this absolute priority of the being and action of the Church there is no future for the Amazon, because we thus forget the presence of the Kingdom of God in the world."
"In the absence of the repentance that 'makes exist that which does not exist' for the generation of the new Amazonian man, the document does not experience the hunger, the thirst for the Holy Spirit."
According to the bishop "the document, forgetting the New Pentecost encouraged by Pope Saint John XXIII in the preparatory prayer for the Council, sets aside the nucleus of the mission in the Amazon. Is this mission in the Amazon like a land and water mission? Or is it the missionary dimension which, as the Church in the Amazon, is called and sent out to the world? Let us be guided by the inspired teaching of Pope Francis in Evangelii gaudium."
"What the Holy Father proposes is evangelization and therefore an Amazon very different from a set of tasks carried out, projects, pastoral plans, inculturation, ecology."
"Why doesn't the document cry out this truth, the only truth that can save the Amazon?" he asked.
Viri probati
Azcona said that "the ordination of "viri probati" is going to be useless," since "it's placing a piece of new cloth on an old fabric. The tear is bigger!"
On the other hand, he observed, "the clergy in the Amazon need, as does the entire Church, repentance, conversion, the faith that saves in the strict sense. Experience offers this evidence. The meaning of the priestly ministry and specifically in the Amazon, is lost or is dead in the lives or in the authentic pastoral conversion of priests."
"Why ordain viri probati within a priesthood in crisis?" he asked
"The perfect and perpetual continence of the Kingdom of Heaven will continue being, a sign of encouragement of pastoral charity and the original source of spiritual fruitfulness- within the Amazon," he said.
"We may ask: Does this attitude of prayer exist for the gift of celibacy in the priests of the Amazon? "Does the entire Church pray that this sublime gift be poured out on the whole Body of Christ? The facts answer: 'No'!'"
"And also, and principally, deciding this issue is something completely inopportune in a context in which the current trends of large groups of Catholics, the so-called conservatives, are questioning the Magisterium of the Church, specifically in the Supreme Pontiff himself. Some are publicly calling him a heretic demanding his immediate resignation. Others are demanding his resignation for the lack of consistency on the issue of pedophilia in the Church! Let's not entertain a discussion on the legitimacy of these questions. What is certain is than an affirmative response would open up the risk of a division, of a real schism in the Church."
He thus stressed that "it's not about the victory of the so called 'conservatives' or the 'progressives.' It's about what is greatest in the Church: charity. In the face of charity, any concept or sociological label ought to pale."
"Recognizing that the venerable institution of priestly celibacy belongs to the disciplinary area of the Church and therefore subject to changes, I considerate it disadvantageous, even dangerous at this time for ecclesial unity, to open up the possibility that the document is asking for," Azcona said.
"It's not an exclusively indigenous ministry problem. It's a situation of the widespread shortage of priests in the Church. The same reasons that can be invoked for this recognition asked for by the document are the same ones that can be applied to the entire Church, or to much of it."
According to the bishop, "the problem is not just the lack of enough priests, but the examination, discernment of this great shortage for a realistic solution. The fundamental root of this shortage of vocations in the Church and also in the Amazon, including the evangelized indigenous peoples, is due to an alarming lack of faith or the absence of faith that works in practice through love and necessarily in history and society."
Thus, he explained, "even though it's a disciplinary issue, this becomes an ethical imperative beginning with the absolute instruction: Christ died for the unenlightened brother; your freedom is not something absolute; it is against Christ they sin, wounding the conscience of the brother; the only absolute is love; this love is that of God poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit"
"Is this the love of the Church in the Amazon? Is this the love of God that sufficiently pervades the criteria for pastoral care, the ecclesial criteria, the praxis as the supreme reality or is it gnosis or Pelagius which commands the ship of the Church in the Amazon?"
"This danger of schism is not imaginary! Nor in the Amazon!" Azcona concluded.
Azcona, 79, is a native of Pamplona, Spain. He was appointed a missionary bishop in the Amazon in 1987, and retired from his post in 2016.
This interview was first published by ACI Digital, CNA's Portugese-language sister agency. It has been adapted and translated by CNA.
Jesuit superior general: Satan is a 'symbolic reality'
Posted on 08/21/2019 18:44 PM (CNA Daily News)
Vatican City, Aug 21, 2019 / 01:44 pm (CNA).- The superior general of the Society of Jesus said Aug. 21 that the devil is a symbol, but not a person.
The devil, "exists as the personification of evil in different structures, but not in persons, because is not a person, is a way of acting evil. He is not a person like a human person. It is a way of evil to be present in human life," Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, said Wednesday in an interview with Italian magazine Tempi.
"Good and evil are in a permanent war in the human conscience and we have ways to point them out. We recognize God as good, fully good. Symbols are part of reality, and the devil exists as a symbolic reality, not as a personal reality," he added.
Sosa's remarks came after he participated in a panel discussion at a Catholic gathering in Rimini, Italy, organized by the Communion and Liberation ecclesial movement.
The Catechism of the Catholic teaches that "Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: 'The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.'"
Angels, the Catechism says, are "spiritual, non-corporeal beings."
"They are personal and immortal creatures," it adds, who "have intelligence and will."
Sosa, 70, was elected the Jesuits' superior general in 2016. A Venezuelan, he has a pontifical licentiate in philosophy and a doctorate in political science. He served as a Jesuit provincial superior in Venezuela from 1996 to 2004, and in 2014 began an administrative role at the general curia of the Jesuits in Rome.
Sosa has offered controversial comments about Satan in the past. In 2017, he told El Mundo that "we have formed symbolic figures such as the Devil to express evil."
After his 2017 remark generated controversy, a spokesman for Sosa told the Catholic Herald that "like all Catholics, Father Sosa professes and teaches what the Church professes and teaches. He does not hold a set of beliefs separate from what is contained in the doctrine of the Catholic Church."
Florida bishops: Serial killer's execution is 'unnecessary'
Posted on 08/21/2019 14:30 PM (CNA Daily News)
Tallahassee, Fla., Aug 21, 2019 / 09:30 am (CNA).- The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops is pleading for Gov. Ron DeSantis to stop the execution of Gary Ray Bowles, who confessed to murdering six men during a six month period in 1994.
"As we approach the date of Gary Ray Bowles' scheduled execution, we urge you to grant a stay," said an Aug. 14 letter, signed by Michael B. Sheedy, the executive director of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the state's bishops.
Bowles' execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Aug. 22. He was first sentenced to death in May 1996, after pleading guilty to the murder of Walter "Jay" Hinton, and then re-sentenced to death in 1999 after his initial death sentence was overturned. While in prison for Hinton's murder, he was convicted of three other murders, and sentenced to two life sentences.
When Bowles was arrested for Hinton's death, he admitted that he had killed a total of six people. As Bowles' crime spree spread from Jacksonville, Florida to Montgomery County, Maryland, he was dubbed the "I-95 Killer."
He killed men in three states, two of which presently use the death penalty. At the time of the crimes, the death penalty was legal in all three states.
Bowles met most of his victims in gay bars, and offered to have sex with them in exchange for money. He would then beat and strangle the men to death, and rob them. At the time he was arrested, he was on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
The letter said that while Bowles' "violent actions" ended the lives of six people, and caused "great grief" to their loved ones, "each of us is more than the worst thing we have done."
"Mr. Bowles is more than a man who committed multiple murders," said the bishops' conference.
"He is a human being who survived many years of childhood abuse and, after escaping his stepfather's violence as a young teenager, endured years of homelessness and child prostitution."
"Neuroscientific research has found that such traumatic experiences severely affect a child's developing brain, and thus affect subsequent behavior," the letter added.
The bishops' conference wrote that Bowles does not pose a danger to society as long as he remains in prison without parole, and that the death penalty is not necessary. Instead, "premeditated, state-sanctioned homicide of Mr. Bowles would only perpetuate the cycle of violence that victimized him, and which he later perpetuated."
"Killing him will only further erode the sense of the sacredness of human life and implicate us all – the citizens of the State of Florida – in his death."
On Wednesday and Thursday, Florida Catholics, as well as others opposed to the death penalty, will be gathering at locations around the state, including the governor's mansion and across the highway from the Florida State Prison's Execution Building. They say they will be praying for Bowles, his victims, the families of the victims, and for an end to the death penalty.
If Bowles is executed, he will be the 99th person sentenced to death in Florida since the state reinstituted its death penalty in 1976. His will be the second execution presided over by DeSantis, a practicing Roman Catholic.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty is today "inadmissable," because "there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes," and "more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption."
Pope Francis: Self-interest and hypocrisy destroy the Church
Posted on 08/21/2019 11:00 AM (CNA Daily News)
Vatican City, Aug 21, 2019 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis decried hypocrisy and self-interest Wednesday, saying that Christian community should always be characterized by generosity and solidarity.
"A life set only on profiting and taking advantage of situations at the expense of others inevitably causes interior death," Pope Francis said Aug. 21 in Paul VI Hall.
"And how many people say they are close to the Church, friends of priests, bishops, while they are only looking for their own interest. These are the hypocrisies that destroy the Church," he added in a departure from his prepared remarks.
Pope Francis said he asks the Lord to "pour over us His Spirit of tenderness, which overcomes all hypocrisy and puts into circulation that truth which nourishes Christian solidarity."
The pope said that solidarity is "the inalienable expression of the nature of the Church," which he called the "tender mother of all, especially the poorest."
"Being members of the body of Christ makes believers co-responsible for each other. Being believers in Jesus makes us all co-responsible for each other," he said.
"Among Christians we cannot say: 'Poor person, he has a problem at home, he is going through this family difficulty'. But, I must pray. I carry it with me. I am not be indifferent. This is being a Christian," Francis explained.
Throughout Pope Francis' general audience, a young girl who appeared to have a mental disability, danced across the stage clapping her hands in front of the pope in Paul VI Hall.
"We have all seen this beautiful girl - she is beautiful … victim of an illness and does not know what she is doing," he said.
Pope Francis asked the audience if they had prayed for this young girl and her family. "Whenever we see someone suffering we must pray," he said.
The pope stressed the importance of concrete acts of generosity in the life of a Christian, particularly with one's time and money.
"The sign that your heart has converted is when conversion reaches your pockets," he said. "There is where we see if one is generous with others, if one helps the weakest, the poorest."
In the life of the Church, there have always been Christians who stripped themselves of unnecessary things to give them to those who needed them, Pope Francis said.
He pointed to the example of the early Christians described in the Acts of the Apostles.
"A concrete example of sharing and communion of goods comes to us from the testimony of Barnabas: he owns a field and sells it to deliver the proceeds to the Apostles," Francis said.
"The Christian community is born from the overabundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit and grows thanks to the leaven of sharing between brothers and sisters in Christ. There is a dynamism of solidarity that builds the Church as the family of God," he said.
Pope Francis also pointed out that there were negative examples of hypocrisy and selfishness among this same community. He described the story of Ananias and his wife Sapphira described in chapter 5 of the Acts of the Apostles.
Ananias and Sapphira sold a piece of property to give the proceeds to the apostles, but retained for themselves a portion of the purchase price.
To which St. Peter responded, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you lied to the Holy Spirit and retained part of the price of the land? ... Why did you contrive this deed? You have lied not to human beings, but to God."
Upon hearing these words from Peter, Ananias fell down and died. "This cheating interrupts the chain of free sharing... and the consequences are tragic, are fatal," Pope Francis said.
"We could say that Ananias lied to God because of an isolated conscience," he said. "Hypocrisy is the worst enemy of this Christian community, of this Christian love: that of pretending to love each other, but only looking for one's own interest."
"To fail in the sincerity of sharing … in the sincerity of love, means to cultivate hypocrisy, move away from the truth, to become selfish, to extinguish the fire of communion and turn to the frost of interior death," the pope said.
Vatican 'acknowledges the court's decision' to dismiss Cardinal George Pell's appeal
Posted on 08/21/2019 09:18 AM (CNA Daily News)
Vatican City, Aug 21, 2019 / 04:18 am (CNA).- The Vatican said Wednesday it acknowledges the decision by the Court of Appeals in Victoria to uphold the conviction of Cardinal George Pell, while recalling Pell's insistence of his innocence throughout the judicial process.
The conviction of Cardinal George Pell on five counts of abuse was upheld by the Court of Appeals in Victoria Aug. 21. After an appellate panel announced its decision at a court proceeding, the cardinal was returned to prison.
"While reiterating its respect for the Australian judicial system... the Holy See acknowledges the court's decision to dismiss Cardinal Pell's appeal," Matteo Bruni, Holy See press office director, said Aug. 21.
Bruni stated that "as the proceedings continue to develop, the Holy See recalls that the Cardinal has always maintained his innocence throughout the judicial process and that it is his right to appeal to the High Court."
Pell's legal team has said it will thoroughly examine the over 300-page judgment before deciding whether to petition the Australian High Court in Canberra. Such an effort is expected by legal experts to offer very slim chance of success, given the appeal court result.
Pell's lawyers have said that he will not petition for a shorter sentence.
Bruni concluded his brief statement Aug. 21 by expressing the Holy See's closeness to victims of sexual abuse and confirming its commitment to carry out appropriate ecclesiastical procedures against clergy who have committed abuse.
The Vatican announced in March the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith would carry out a canonical process against Pell at the conclusion of the judicial process in Australia.
In response to questions, Bruni confirmed to journalists Aug. 21 that the CDF is "awaiting the outcome of the ongoing proceedings and the conclusion of the appellate process prior to taking up the case."
Bruni also referenced the precautionary measures imposed on Pell on his return to Australia in summer 2017, per Vatican norms: "the prohibition from exercising public ministry and from any voluntary contact whatsoever with minors."
The cardinal was convicted Dec. 11, 2018, on five charges that he sexually abused two choristers after Sunday Mass while he was Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996 and 1997.
He was sentenced to six years in prison, of which he must serve at least three years and eight months before being eligible to apply for parole.
The cardinal, 78, who remains an archbishop and a member of the College of Cardinals, was returned to prison immediately after court adjourned. He has been held in solitary confinement for 176 days. Pell is not permitted to celebrate Mass in prison.
He may now be transferred from the intake and evaluation facility at which he is currently being held to a different prison in Victoria.
Pell's lawyers have said that he will not petition for a shorter sentence.
A statement from the Australian archbishops' conference Wednesday said the bishops "believe all Australians must be equal under the law and accept today's judgement accordingly."
The statement also noted the Australian bishops' commitment to bringing healing to those who have suffered abuse and to ensuring Catholic spaces are always safe, especially for children and vulnerable adults.
Individual Australian bishops also released statements Wednesday, including Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, who said "reasonable people have taken different views when presented with the same evidence" in Pell's case, urging people "to maintain calm and civility."
"I know that there are many in the Catholic community and beyond who will find it difficult to come to terms with this judgment," Fisher said, "especially those who know the Cardinal and will struggle to reconcile this outcome with the man they know. I thank them for persevering in faith, hope and love."
"As we wait to hear whether the legal process will continue, I will seek to provide pastoral support to those Catholics who may have found their faith tested," the archbishop added.
The current Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter A. Comensoli, said in his statement that he knows "the complexity of the search for the truth in this matter has tested many, and may very well continue to do so."
He expressed his prayers and support for the man who brought the case against Pell before the courts, offering "pastoral and spiritual help, should he seek it."
Comensoli also said that he will ensure "Cardinal Pell is provided pastoral and spiritual support while he serves the remainder of his sentence, according to the teaching and example of Jesus to visit those in prison."


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An interesting spin-off from Shakespeare's histories, namely "Henry IV", carrying over the character of Falstaff and some of his friends into a comic outing.
Apparently Shakespeare was compelled to write the play after the Queen loved the character of Falstaff so much in the "Henry IV" plays that she wanted another play with Falstaff, pronto. While I wouldn't call the play weak in the way something like "The Comedy of Errors" is weak, it certainly does feel rushed in some ways, and full of padding, filler, the same way "Henry IV, Part 2" felt to me.
The primary story, concerning Falstaff and the titular merry wives is compelling and often very funny. The subplots are pretty draining, difficult to follow, and mired in cultural context very foreign to modern readers. Certainly a play better to watch performed rather than just read on the page (then again, isn't that every play?), as the accents and various nationalities of the characters are a key comic component.
It's a surprisingly good-natured affair, lacking the bite and acidity of some of Shakespeare's more venomous comedies. The main story quite literally hinges on two wives being very contended in their marriages, and amused at the thought of another man thinking he could in any way affect that. A far cry from the gender politics of "The Taming of the Shrew"! The ending isn't even a "defeat" of the comic antagonists so much as a politely amused call to return to normalcy and unity.
I didn't find the play especially compelling personally, but it's certainly an interesting diversion from the histories where it span off from, and is a better comedy than some of his earlier works besides. I give it three sets of horns, and a laundry basket.


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V-TAB is the largest newspaper printer in Scandinavia, with nine production plants and an annual turnover of around €240m. Printing 35 regional and national newspapers such as Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet, as well as direct mail (up to 3m per week) and over 180 magazine titles, V-TAB was formed in 2005 following the merger of three of the largest printing companies in the Nordic region.
"After the merger, this first thing we needed to address was the group's increased production requirements," notes Fredrik Bogårdh, V-TAB's Director of Centralised Prepress. As a group, V-TAB produces more than 70,000 pages per month. During peak periods, demand can rise up to 6,000 pages per day.
"We had to have a centralised system in order to be more effcient, reduce the manual handling of files and give our clients greater data access during production," continues Fredrik Bogårdh. "Our aim was to have better client communications and increase our level of customer service, all via a web-based communications tool."
V-TAB installed two mirrored MISTRAL-based systems, configured to feed data to all print sites, deployed by DALIM SOFTWARE distributor and systems integrator Network Innovation AB (www.ni.se), "V-TAB's requirements were clear", comments Network Innovation's Magnus Lundgren. "Apart from the production capability, they needed a flexible and expandable system, with an interface available in the client's native language. The system had to be JDF-enabled and offer powerful preflighting and validation features. In addition, the system had to interoperate with the InfraLogic back-end system that would be controlling the seventeen CTP systems across the plants."
Today, the central prepress department processes files which are then sent to seven print sites – with an eighth site due to come on line by the summer of 2008.
The final production workflow maximises productivity, handles versioning and colour management and includes innovative JDF-based system instructions. Fredrik Bogårdh describes the workflow. "Clients upload files through an easy-to-use, customised web-browser interface. After the file has been uploaded, preflighted and normalised, the preflight reports can be viewed, online or locally, in the client's own language.
Upon file validation, the MISTRAL system sends the file to a JDF-enabled Harlequin ScriptWorks RIP, along with JDF metadata describing the RIP parameters. The screened 1-bit TIFF files are then sent to the InfraLogic system which, again based upon the metadata delivered from MISTRAL, routes the file to the correct printing plant. All the heavy-lifting, in terms of RIPping and screening, has been done at the premedia facility, resulting in the CTP engines outputting the files very quickly – essential in a newspaper production environment."
But doesn't sending all those screened TIFF files take a long time? "Not at all!" notes Fredrik Bogårdh. "Here in Sweden we enjoy a state-of-the-art internet infrastructure together with inexpensive, LAN-speed internet bandwidth. Even large files can be sent in seconds. With such a highly-developed internet backbone, it's more cost-efficient to centralise the process rather than invest in multiple RIPs at multiple sites."
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Who here enjoys picture day? The changing of outfits, the self doubt, the hair styling? I honestly don't think I've ever enjoyed this reoccurring day. There's something about it that tells my skin to up the ante in the blemish department. Hair is always as flat as ever. I feel obliged to apply more make-up than I feel comfortable with and, what is worse, I am forced to wake up at an ungodly hour so that the entire prep process is done in time for work. And then the lingering anxiety: work starts at 8:30 am, but the photographer is only scheduled for 10:00 am. Leaves plenty of time for my hair to go limp and for me to rub a finger over my eye creating a delightful black smudge. Plus, the high-risk factor for wind as you step outside your front door . . .
Here at Venn, these feelings seem to be amplified. I've heard numerous murmurings of yoga sessions, scheduled golf and pre-planned therapy to cope with Photo Day Trauma, commonly known as PPDS (Post Photo Day Stress). Yet today, the day, something was different. We stood united as proud Vennians with a simple, but noble, strategy: be silly and photobomb the hell out of one another.
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electricracer replied to leweylupo's topic in Parts For Saleif you still have the bonnet and its not too bad (repairable) im interested sent you message with my email
Lupo 3L 1.2 TDI ABS problem - help
electricracer replied to woodyrvf750's topic in Volkswagen Lupoi would put money on the fact that not one of the current mechanics working at the main dealer have ever worked on an A2,(and definitely not a 3L !!) main dealers have a large turn over of staff and as a result all the staff trained on the older stuff will have left and gone somewhere else in the trade, usually the good independant garages, personally i wouldnt send an older car (4 years +) into a main dealers you will pay over the odds and possibly have someone working on your car who has never worked on one before. its your choice but as they didnt fit the parts properly that should ring alarm bells.
My Lupo!
electricracer replied to WobLupo's topic in New member?welcome, if you want your radio to actually work the only stubby aerial to go for is the polo one, all the other ones are a bit rubbish. i work over on the buisness park so give me a shout if you need any advice
Anyone have pics of a fitted whiteline rear arb.
electricracer replied to ThE gOg's topic in TuningGoogle is your friend http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/jabbasport/Lupo-ARB.jpg
if you have the cambelt done they should only charge for parts for the fan belt as you have to take it off anyway to do cambelt, about £10-£15, £300 for a cambelt is steep but you need to know exactly what your paying for ,if its a vw specialist then they should do the water pump and tensioners as well as the cambelt, these do need doing as they can only be done with a cambelt change. if the garage is just doing belt nothing else your being ripped off.
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electricracer replied to Davedex's topic in Volkswagen Lupoalways check the oil when the car is cold and on a flat surface, normally the amount from the min to the max is 1 litre
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electricracer replied to craigmahoneyy's topic in Member's Carslove your car mines black too but nowhere as clean as yours quick question do you still have the old fogs? need a pass side one for mine (big hole)
Polycarbonate window kit ??
electricracer replied to HJLUPO's topic in Stylingi assume your not going to use them on the road? they get scratched quite easily. had plastic windows in my mk1 golf track day car ,made them myself cost more than that for just sheets so seem good price
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electricracer replied to GeoScars's topic in Volkswagen Lupoall depends on garage some can be funny, (but shouldn't turn business away) exhaust blowing is a fail
black gti m6 heading north y plate
electricracer posted a topic in Spottedlooked a bit dirty but tidy, stood out from the crowd, but not quite as much as the lotus carlton that passed me just before the lupo
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electricracer replied to CLAYTONJONES's topic in Interior and In-Car EntertainmentJust done mine and it cost about 25 quid, go on ebay and buy a second hand flip key, either 2 or 3 button , it has been said that the three button can be activated for the boot on the gti udsing vagcom. I paid less than a tenner for a mint three button one, use the key programming method and it should then work the central locking, go back on ebay and find the guy that cuts new flip key blanks , cost about 15 quid, then carefully take key apart fit new blade, then very carefully strip your old key and remove the transponder chip, looks like a grain of rice, and fit in new flip key. Car will now unlock and run with new key
Sounding like A fool here but
electricracer replied to GeoScars's topic in Volkswagen Lupoas silver said if you buy new mounts you wont need spring compressors, you only need them for stripping the front struts to reuse the top mounts, and its cheaper to buy 2 top mounts than to buy a set of compressors. and you can assemble the coilovers without them
electricracer replied to jessperkins17's topic in Seat Arosaas long as you have two wing mirrors you can block the whole window out and it will still pass, after all thats all a van is,
Lupo GTi Airbag Warning Light
electricracer replied to Faraz's topic in Volkswagen Lupohow about one from a 2001 lupo gti, that will fit
Lupo gti failed mot today on emmisions
electricracer replied to blister's topic in Car Care, Maintenance and Mechanicalif you have a misfire it will fail on emissions its chucking unburnt fuel through usual checks leads, injectors etc you need to sort or it will kill your cat


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Torture Tuesday
Not only was it Torture Tuesday with this guy dictating the plan:
But I was a giant dummy, and talked smack how I was going to do 10 intervals instead of 8 so I could complete my first Yasso 800s. Even though there was no way to complete them in the 8 miles I was supposed to do, and even though I had never done that many intervals before.
So I get to the gym to get started... This is how all speedwork starts... you feel like you are walking a plank and about to jump off a cliff. Sometimes I'm a little fearful of speedwork, other times I feel stoked... but for the first time ever, I felt very nervous. I really shouldn't have talked smack! I've never conquered a workout quite like this... But I jumped off the cliff.
At the start, there was a chick next to me also doing intervals... this never happens. It was odd, especially cause this chick was doing some smokin fast intervals and it was driving me up the wall. You know how annoying even small things can be when you're at high exertion. And I'm not even sure why it annoyed me.
Knocked out interval 1, 2, 3, and 4 - 800m at 8:49 pace. I felt awful. My stomach was churning... and I was certain I would either puke or have an SUAR moment.
Shew... speedy interval chick was done... so I was back to being by my lonesome. Where I could focus in my own misery.
Shockingly, intervals 5, 6, and 7 felt great. Again - 800m at 8:49 pace. Somewhere during interval 7, I hear this dude behind me say "How about cranking up the speed a little bit there, slow poke." I was about to jump off the treadmill and take him down when my look of death got the response "no, no, noooooo, I wasn't talking to you. You are running faster than I run (liar!)." Apparently he was talking to the lady 2 down from me... I certainly hope they are friends and like to joke... because the treadmill is when my sense of humor is at an all time low.
As I finished interval 8, sweating like a pig, I thought "Why in the world did I talk smack to Adam?" He told me to do 8 intervals, and said he was "working me up" to Yasso 800s (10 intervals). I told him that I had this workout spanked and would do the 10. So uh, here I was done with 8 realizing what an idiot I was... but I couldn't let down coach after all my talk. Back at it. Interval 9 complete. One more to go, so why not just go down in style, right? So I cranked up interval 10 to an 8:34 pace (you all know I run at 11s, so I hope you realize how hard this was...). Anyhow... and it was D-O-N-E. And even though I was fried... I was alive and standing.
Yasso 800s at 8:49... that's 4:25 per interval... which is supposed to be a marathon predictor. That would be a 22 minute PR... yes please!!!
Now, I may have finished standing up, but I was light-headed when I headed out of the gym and could not seem to shake it off. Got home and shoved down some protein and carbs, but still couldn't shake it. Now... 4 hours later, I still feel like... well... this:
But that's ok... because I rocked the workout. Woo-to-the-hoo!!! (And perhaps @BartYasso even tweeted me about the workout. Top reason to love him... he's so personable and supportive to the running community, even the little guys/gals.)
Side Note: Yasso 800s are 10x800m intervals with 400m recovery jogs. A hard workout widely accepted as a marathon time predictor.


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Recently Tom Lee, a well-known stock strategist changed his tune on Facebook stock (NASDAQ: FB), among others. He is now calling these stocks buys as he sees a lot of growth potential and as a result, a nice return for investors. Should you listen to him and invest your money in this stock or are you better off investing elsewhere?
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Tom Lee is a managing partner at Fundstrat Global Advisors. He is also the Head of Research as well. He has over 25 years experience in equity research and worked for both JP Morgan and Solomon Smith Barney before starting Fundstrat Global Advisors.
To traders, he is known as a big bull with his aggressive predictions for the market. And based on his research, has been ranked among the best equity researchers by Institutional Investor since 1998.
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Ask the average person about Facebook and they will tell you that the site is simply a place to share your news with friends and comment and enjoy on the things happening in your friends lives. But Facebook is much more than this.
In addition to user's news feeds, Facebook offers a lot more. First, they have expanded into live video feeds. Now users can do live video for their friends to watch or comment on in the moment. Many small businesses and independent contractors are starting to use Facebook live as opposed to webinars since so many of their followers and fans are on the social media platform. It just makes it easier to broadcast and connect with each other.
Next, it is a playground for advertisers. With Facebook collecting so much personal data on its users, the advertisers looking to place ads and target consumers have a wealth of information. This allows them to hone in specifically on those people who are most likely to buy.
Third, we go back to Facebook live. It was just announced that Facebook is in talks to start streaming one Major League Baseball game per week this season. If this becomes a reality, it opens the door to more live streaming of sporting events.
Finally, the company is always adding new businesses to its portfolio to expand its reach. The most notable being Instagram.
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There is a lot of opportunity with this investing in this stock. As they update and refine their algorithm, they will be better poised to offer even more valuable personal information on its users to advertisers. This will increase the demand to advertise on Facebook and at the same time, drive up revenues.
The only trick here is to keep user's news feeds clutter free. Too many ads and they might go elsewhere. Too few and advertisers might not be happy with the results. It's a fine line that the company is constantly navigating.
Another reason for the optimism is the potential move into live sports streaming. Many cable television subscribers want to cut the cord, but cannot due to their love for live sports. As Facebook and other firms ramp up their agreements with the major sporting leagues to stream live games, more people will choose to cut the cord and move over to sites that are able to live stream sporting events.
More eyeballs and users on Facebook leads to more advertising dollars. Even before the news of the talks with Major League Baseball, analysts were estimating a 36% increase in growth for fiscal year 2017 and 26% in fiscal year 2018. If the deal comes together with Major League Baseball, you can expect those estimates to increase.
Finally, more people are using Facebook each year:
- Daily active users (DAUs): increase of 18% year-over-year
- Mobile (DAUs): increase of 23% year-over-year
- Monthly active users (MAUs): increase of 17% year-over-year
- Mobile (MAUs): increase of 21% year-over-year
The fact is that Facebook isn't going away. If it simply stuck to connecting people with each other, it would go the way of MySpace and another social media platform would replace it.
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You may have seen a hood scoop on some performance car models. They're especially a common add-on for the Ford Mustang and other pony cars. In case you don't know, a hood scoop is essentially a hood with an open vent to give the engine a bit more room to "breathe."
Engine Creates Heat
First, let's discuss some engine mechanics. An engine burns fuel, and burning fuel requires oxygen. The engine's performance depends heavily on the amount of available oxygen from the air. Typically, cool air is denser and more oxygen-heavy than warm air.
The engine generates heat as it's operates, which warms the surrounding air. The engine's cramped compartment leaves little room for the heat to escape.
The End Result? Warm air around the engine has less oxygen for the engine to burn fuel at its optimal capacity.
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So how does the hood scoop factor into this? The openings in the hood allow ventilation for the heat to escape. A high-quality hood scoop is designed to allow outside air to pass through the inlet. The design must also have a sealed connection in the intake manifold and air cleaner. This prevents the scoop from drawing warm air under the hood.
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Deadliest Catch. Once a week I need to feel like the wet lettuce I am by watching big, strong mad men fuck about with dangerous equipment on the Bering Sea,
Currently on the end of season 14.
Currently on the end of season 14.
@Rawkuss wrote:Anyone remember Scrubs? I just saw a meme on FB. God that was good.
@Mott1 wrote:Buffy, currently on s4. Despite the odd clunky episode (Beer Bad, Restless) it remains a wonderful adventure. Can't really see how a reboot will improve it, but I hope to be surprised (and not in a Nu Who way). And
wouldn't Anthony Head have made a good Doctor, potentially?
@iank wrote:But... but... the new one's going to be more DIVERSE!
That's all that matters.
@burrunjor wrote:Started Once Upon A Time again. Great series. Only two episodes in but its as good as I remember.
@Adam Ant Driver wrote:@burrunjor wrote:Started Once Upon A Time again. Great series. Only two episodes in but its as good as I remember.
I noticed that's on Netflix too so I might give that a go while I'm giving shows a second chance. I gave up halfway through the first or second episode when I originally tried to watch it, not really a Disney fan but I've heard it takes influence from the old Grimm tales as well as the Disney films.
Is there a certain point where you know for sure you like the series and should give up and accept the show isn't for you if you're getting nothing from it by then?
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