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Hylas-1 advances European telecom technology
Hylas-1, the first satellite created specifically to deliver broadband access to European consumers, is very much a commercial undertaking. Launching this Friday, 26 November, it is also a significant technological achievement, encapsulating a decade of research and development by ESA and European industry.
With a launch mass of a little over 2.5 tonnes, and based on an Indian platform, Hylas-1 is on the small side as telecom satellites go, but the new technologies it carries enable it to pipe the Internet through the sky to hundreds of thousands of paying customers across Europe.
This first 'Highly Adaptable Satellite' is ESA's first public–private partnership to result in an operational mission: UK operator Avanti Communications has put up the majority of the budget, with ESA's contribution focused on Hylas-1's advanced communications payload. Avanti gains a more capable satellite while Europe's advanced technologies reach orbit much more rapidly than would otherwise be the case.
Telecom R&D has always been a priority for ESA, acting through its Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme. When it comes to space, this is where the money is – the telecom sector is by far the most commercially mature. It is no exaggeration to say that Europe's continued success within this market forms the economic underpinning for the rest of its space endeavours.
Telecom also offers pronounced social benefits, with satellites proving a versatile tool to extend the global reach of communications networks, from broadcasting to telephony and now broadband Internet.
Putting flexibility into orbit
In a conventional telecommunications payload, a transponder's receive frequency, bandwidth and transmit frequency are all fixed during the satellite design phase, typically several years before entering into service.
During the lifetime of a satellite, however, the operational requirements on the payload, in particular for broadband satellites, may change with evolving markets beneath them. With the expected lifetime of current commercial satellites exceeding 15 years, the ability to adapt to these changing needs should be highly advantageous.
"Hylas-1 allows its operator to adjust the bandwidth, frequency and output power of its communications payload," said Andrea Cotellessa, Hylas-1 Project Manager.
"This is a quite new capability, and is due to a payload concept called the Generic Flexible Payload (GFP), developed by Astrium UK through a series of ESA contracts."
The satellite has a separate antenna on each side of its structure – one transmitting a wide Ku-band beam for TV broadcasting and other standard satellite services, and the other transmitting in higher-frequency Ka-band for broadband services, directing eight spot beams onto key European markets, maximising its efficiency by reusing its given allocation of radio frequencies between spot beams.
"The operator can fine-tune how much bandwidth and power to put in each beam," explained Mr Cotellessa. "For an operator it is very important to have this flexibility, because you are able to match changes in data demand as they happen - effectively 'future-proofing' the satellite against market changes.
"It also means that even with a small satellite you can support large numbers of widely dispersed customers."
Evolving the GFP
The GFP concept owes its existence to many years of cooperation between ESA and Astrium in payload technological research, Mr Cotellessa added: "The mainstream of research and development by ESA's Directorate of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, working through the ARTES programme, has been to look at various next-generation telecom systems and our involvement with the GFP concept was part of that."
This effort began life in 2003, with ESA supporting a research project by Astrium to develop 'Modular Microwave Hybrid Technology' (MMHT).
Typically with telecom satellites their repeaters – the units that amplify, refine or otherwise condition signal inputs for output – are designed and built on an individual, bespoke basis, which adds considerable time and cost to their construction.
Instead, the MMHT approach sought to apply the principle of standardisation to repeater production, creating a portfolio of building blocks for given tasks, such as frequency converters or amplifiers. Known as 'hybrids', these circuits can then be combined as required to meet the particular needs of a given mission.
A second stage project, beginning the following year, produced MMHT modules with increased integration and functionality, known as Hi-MMHTs (for High Integration), containing around 2000 separate connections between layers.
The technologies and capabilities developed under these contracts have now been applied to developing the Hylas-1 payload units that together form its Generic Flexible Payload.
Setting the standard
Based on their chosen function, telecom satellites operate in a range of frequency bands, such as C-band for telephony and cable-TV distribution, Ku-band for television broadcasting and 'very small aperture terminal' networks, or Ka-band for broadband access.
Rather than satellite makers having to design separate payload systems for each frequency band, the GFP architecture translates the frequency of signals received by the satellite to a standard 'intermediate frequency' (IF) at C-band, where all signal conditioning and routing is performed.
This frequency conversion is performed by an electronic device called the Agile Integrated Down-converter Assembly (AIDA), which was the first unit to be developed using Hi-MMHT technology.
On Hylas-1, this signal is then passed to a solid-state matrix called the Routing and Switching Equipment (RASE). While doing away with the need for mechanical connections, RASE can establish connectivity between any pair of satellite uplink and downlink beams.
The signal then passes to an item of equipment that is the heart of the GFP architecture, the Single Channel Agile Converter Equipment, or SCACE.
SCACE allows the channel bandwidth to be adjusted – for example, to respond to changing demand levels from within a particular geographic region, and to be converted to the desired transmit frequency.
The flexibility that the GFP delivers to Hylas-1 is increased by another pioneering piece of technology, developed with ESA support by Tesat-Spacecom in Germany: the In-Orbit Adjustable Microwave Power Module (IOA-MPM) allows the transmit power signal to be adjusted to match demand while maintaining near-constant efficiency, preventing power being wasted in the form of heat.
Qualified for space
One last innovation is the most visible: Hylas-1's larger, double-sized antenna, which had to be carefully optimised for high-frequency Ka-band operations, the responsibility of EADS Casa Espacio in Spain.
The antenna's radiating surface accuracy had to be high while resisting any deforming effects due to the temperature extremes of Earth orbit, with high surface reflectivity to prevent undesirable heating.
"The various components of the Hylas-1 payload emerged through co-funded projects with the companies in question," said Mr Cotellessa. "Then, once the Hylas-1 public–private partnership was agreed, ESA agreed to develop them up to the level they were ready for integrated use within a mission, then to qualify them for space.
"This required the most rigorous qualification programme imaginable: a very long series of ever-more demanding tests, much more demanding in fact than the actual mission requirements.
"But at the end of the process we are left certain that the technology is ready for operation in orbit."
Even before Hylas-1 is launched on 26 November it has already proven influential. Astrium is already offering GFP technology to its commercial telecom customers, while another IOA-MPM will be flying on ESA's Small GEO mission, demonstrating a new small geostationary orbit platform.
And a full-sized commercial satellite, Eutelsat's Ka-Sat, will soon be following Hylas-1's advance into Europe's emerging Ka-band broadband market.


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Perceptions on the impact of Chinese businesses in Namibia: A case study of the retail and construction sector in Windhoek.
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There are conflicting perspectives on the increase of Chinese business in Africa and in particular in Namibia. This study hypothesized that in Namibia, local communities, political leaders, local business community and ...

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Deloitte: U.S. holiday sales to rise 4% to 4.5%
New York — Holiday sales are expected to climb to between $963 and $967 billion, representing a 4% to 4.5% increase in November through January holiday sales (excluding motor vehicles and gasoline) this year from last year's season, according to the new Deloitte holiday sales forecast. The growth rate is on par with last year's 4.5% gain.
In addition, Deloitte forecasts a 12.5 to 13% increase in non-store sales. Nearly three-quarters of non-store sales result from the online channel with additional sales coming from catalogs and interactive TV.
Deloitte also anticipates that mobile-influenced retail store sales will account for 8%, or $66 billion, in retail store sales this holiday season, driven by consumers' store-related smartphone activity such as product research, price comparison or mobile application use.
"We anticipate non-store sales growth will continue to surpass overall retail sales growth," said Alison Paul, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and Retail & Distribution sector leader. "In addition, shoppers researching their purchases electronically, via their PC, tablet or mobile phone, are increasingly influencing in-store sales, particularly as we see greater integration across retailers' store, online and mobile channels. More retailers are offering services such as 'buy online and pick up in store,' as well as inventory from other locations and price matching on the spot. The store is still a core element of holiday shopping, and retailers leading the way this season will be those that effectively bring together their pricing, promotions, merchandise and inventory management across both their physical and digital storefronts."
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An actuarial acquaintance pointed out to me that my pre-Budget blog was overly-generous in its assessment of KiwiSaver's personal tax-effectiveness.
"Actually," the actuary said, if you factor in the investment tax collected on the $12 billion funds under management, KiwiSaver is "fiscally positive for the government".
While KiwiSaver is doing more than 'washing its face' for tax purposes, the government did demand even higher levels of hygiene for the savings scheme in its Budget announcements.
There were no surprises, however. The hold on an auto-enrol blitz was a disappointment mainly to the existing default providers, who stood to benefit most from the move. Ostensibly, the delay was attributed to our lack of current funds but it also means any, surplus-pending, auto-enrol drive will come after the review of default providers, which was reiterated in the Budget.
Both the default review and the new quarterly KiwiSaver provider disclosure provisions were hardly news but their placement in the Budget was good advertising.
The soon-to-be-reformed Ministry of Economic Development (MED) has already published its terms of reference for the default provider review, which doesn't look like a rubber-stamping exercise for the status quo.
According to the MED, the review will attack three basic questions:
• How have existing default arrangements performed from operational, administrative, regulatory and policy effectiveness perspectives?
• What should be the objectives for the default provider arrangements and what are the best institutional arrangements and investment settings to deliver these objectives?
• What is the optimal process for managing any transitions from existing arrangements?
A discussion document is due out soon with final decisions to be announced before the end of the year.
The new quarterly disclosure requirements, meanwhile, are due to kick in by April 1, 2013.
All retail KiwiSaver schemes will have to supply a templated quarterly report covering "returns, fees, assets and conflicts of interest". This should bring a welcome dose of transparency and comparability to the existing idiosyncratic mish-mash.
In a non-Budget item, the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), which regulates the KiwiSaver Sector, also tweaked the rules last week, publishing a guidance note on performance fees.
While only two existing KiwiSaver providers, Fisher Funds and Milford (the now-defunct Huljich scheme also indulged in the practice), currently charge direct performance fees the issue deserved greater clarity. Read the industry submissions to enjoy the full debate but the upshot was providers now have to justify and explain their performance fees to a much greater degree.
Just prior to the FMA announcement, Fisher Funds raised the benchmark performance fee for its growth fund to 'the official cash rate plus 5 per cent', substantially up from the previous measure of the 90-day bank bill rate - enough, perhaps, to keep the actuary happy.


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Students of the Red Chair School of Performing Arts have been accepted to summer intensive ballet programs across the United States and for the first time, one Red Chair student is going to Russia.
Those accepted are Elizabeth Briggs, Ryan Sinton, Emily Anasti, Rose Filichia, Lena Harris, Rebecca Levin, Haley Briggs, Layton Briggs, Emma Casali, Josie Nivar, Leah Perez, Brooke Sinton, Penny Yokas and Molly-Jo Terry.
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Briggs, a junior at Burbank High School, was also selected. She will attend the Joffrey Bolshoi Exchange Program in Moscow.
This is the second year for the program. Just 10 dancers from the United States were chosen from auditions around the country to attend the Bolshoi program, said Jennifer Bosco, artistic director, American Ballet Theatre affiliate ballet teacher, and co-owner of the Red Chair School. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is one of the oldest and most renowned ballet companies in the world, she added.
Lizzy has been dancing for 12 years. Her rigorous dance schedule includes 15 hours a week at the Red Chair School and another 10 hours a week of practice with the Burbank High Dance Team.
To help cover the costs for the summer programs, Lizzy's church hosted a fundraiser dinner in May. Lizzy also was able to use money she earned for her Girl Scout troop through cookie sales toward the programs.
Summer intensive ballet programs are often affiliated with professional dance companies such as the American Ballet Theatre or the Joffrey Ballet. Students work on their dance technique and learn other dance styles with professional and amateur dancers. Each dancer must compete with other students for acceptance into these programs in national and international auditions.
In just two years, the number of Red Chair ballet students accepted into these competitive programs has tripled, Bosco said.
"We are extremely proud to see so many of our hard-working and talented ballet students attend a variety of summer intensive programs," she said.
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That this is a progress bar.
Once "Piracy" takes over completely, will we have progress?
Actually that says its completely legal to do exactly this.
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The MIFIAA.
Sorry about that.
Which he has decided to politicize. Everyone knows SOPA wouldn't have any effect on Wikipedia, so if Wales is going to get into the lobbying business, shouldn't he offer alternatives?
"If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?" - Paul Harvey.
So... 18 months behind plus 18 months procurement... that's 36 months, or 2 years.
Sure, just as soon as Apple stops preloading Mac OSX on their computers, and allows it to be installed on any system you want.
I think a majority of the cases settled, in fact. And the ones that did go to court were either thrown out on a procedural point (standing) or lost on a fair use defense (which was only a couple cases if I recall correctly, and even then the reasoning was very spotty at best). Generally speaking, if a person cuts and pastes an entire copyrighted work into their blog or message board, that's going to be infringement. But you're right, I shouldn't imply that it's always infringement. It's certainly fair to say that it usually is, IMO.
it seems foolhardy for Facebook to argue that use of a TLD along with local registered users confers jurisdiction in a foreign country
Actually it should be worse.
Lets take the standard claim of "Potential infringement" and "Making available"
Well, WB is clearly preventing "Potential use" and they are "Making unavailable" so obviously it should be $150 per false claim, times 6 billion people.
What, if the RIAA can use this kind of math, why can't we?
Wish I could edit posts...
So quit your whining Righthaven. You wanted to pay ball in the big courts, and now that you're getting beat, you want to quit?
Yeah, no. Life isn't fair. Deal with it.
Except, this is nothing like that.
This is closer to you going in front of the judge, contesting the ticket, going to court, losing, being given the fine, then appealing the ruling.
You still need to pay the fine. if you win, you get it back.
Its never lupus (at least not until season 4).
This would be a better example of pop songs using the same 4 chords. Axis of Awesome's "4 chords".
Well OBVIOUSLY time travel is impossible.
Have you tried to order parts for a DeLorean DMC-12 lately? Space exploration would be cheaper.
Not to mention the cost of flux capacitors today...
With plagiarism you're taking the other persons ideas, and saying they came from you. Its not theft, because he still has his ideas, but you are attempting to profit (grade) from using his ideas.
With copyright, no one is claming the music came from them, or in may cases, trying to profit from it.
(The theft bit came from the fact that you had literally stolen the paper it was written on.)
It actually isn't theft. It would be plagiarism.
Now had you actually taken his paper, put your name on it, and submitted it, it would be theft AND plagiarism.
I doubt a doctor was involved.
I started looking into the case, and while she died from the toxic materials in her medications, its what medications they were that was interesting.
She had Alprazolam (RX only: US (C - IV) and Canada), Acetominophen (Tylenol), and Zolpidem (RX only: US (C - IV), Not approved in Canada).
So, she was ordering controlled prescription medication from the internet, and not only that, one she couldn't possible have a prescription for. Sounds like she was self medicating
PROTECT IP isn't going to save us from stupidity, people.
That story didn't even pass the sniff test.
Remember, only doctors and licensed personnel (nurses, pharmacists in some areas) are allowed to prescribe medication. No reputable one would do so online with no medical history or ever seeing a patient. Online pharmacies offering drugs without prescriptions are illegal, and probably counterfeit.
Sugar pills would just kill people slower.
We already have safeguards in place to combat fake drugs. (FDA, hello?) The FDA should be ordering drugs from these online pharmacies and then testing them. Then you can sue (and then seize the sites legally). You need to shut these operations down, just taking away the domain name isn't enough.
This is a summary of the case talked about in the video.
Not only that but think remember, the body scanner isn't really useful for things like explosives. Its really only useful for finding things like guns, knives, etc.
And now that we've locked the cockpit door, what would the consequences be?
Pre-9/11 hijack: guy hijacks plane, diverts to Cuba, holds people hostage for 2-9 hours, situation over, almost everyone goes home. (yes, there were some massacres)
9/11 hijack. guy hijacks plane, crashes into building, killing everybody on board and many in the building.
post-9/11 hijack: "If you don't unlock this cockpit door so I can hijack this plane and crash it into a building, I swear I'll kill everyone back here!"
Now that we know what the terrorist/hijacker will do, the people will not just sit idly by and let him take over the plane.
So lets end this security farce, lets save the government a load of cash, and we can put all those TSA workers to work on things we actually need, like infrastructure repair. If they can grope my nuts, I'm sure they can wave a flag or handle a shovel.


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San Francisco 13, Seattle 6: Oh, this was not for the faint of heart. Yet another low-scoring NFC West scramble for yards, points, and general attention span of all those who bore witness to this borefest. Alex Smith and Russell Wilson both threw ill-timed and sloppy INTs that could've titled the result to the other team. Ultimately, though, the 49ers ground game racked up 175 yards on 32 carries, and Seattle's front seven just couldn't contain the unstoppable force known as Frank Gore, who alone averaged 8.2 yards per rush. Wilson, in his team's final desperate drive to tie up the score, took a snap in the ass when he called timeout, which seemed to perfectly encapsulate the Seahawks' game-long offensive woes.
Arguably, the most exciting part of the game occurred when Jim Harbaugh declined a safety in the final seconds that would've put the 49ers up nine and helped them cover the spread. Instead, the move equated to a big fuck you to gamblers everywhere and even sent some into hysterics.
The 49ers now stand alone in first place at 5-2, and the Seahawks go limping back home up north with an 0-3 record in the NFC West.


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Ask Olivia – Modern Dating Etiquette. From Cellphones to Webcams to Meeting for the First Time.
Dating has taken many faces over the years, and it is an experience everyone is likely to have an opinion on. However, depending on where or when you were dating, your experiences may be very different from the experiences of your friends, siblings or parents.
In the modern world, dating has changed quite a bit! With all of the advice on dating out there, some of it can be a little outdated because of this. So how do we navigate this new love scene? It's a jungle out there!
Gone are the days of shared milkshakes, letterman jackets and a nervous drive up to lover's lane. It's the new age and just like Joan Rivers, dating has received yet another facelift too.
This can be both a good and a bad thing, depending. For example, cellphones. Everywhere you go you are likely to see people of all ages slumped like the missing link over glowing little squares, barely grunting at the person beside them. This is a reality of our daily lives, and it has trickled over into dating too.
Even when dining at places like Plaza Athénée in Paris, France it's a guarantee that at least one person is texting under those pristine white table cloths. 30 years ago on a date it would have been totally unacceptable to just abruptly take a phone call or begin another activity, yet today many people do just that!
The temptation to divert attention to that little box is almost overwhelming, but to resist shows your date that you are really interested. Do you want a fun Friday evening, or to unlock the latest Candy Crush level? Leave the cellphone turned off in your pocket, or on the table at home.
Speaking of cellphones, since we are no longer chained to our corded landlines praying our roommate isn't going to fire up the dial-up internet before the cute girl from last night calls, there is an acceptable and unacceptable amount of time for replying to communications.
If, before or after a date together your date sends you a casual neutral text, respond to that text in 5 to 30 minutes. Any later and you seem uninterested, any sooner and its weird. If you get a tweet, poke, or some other online message, within 2 hours is acceptable.
Since we have access to multiple forms of communication at once, a reasonably prompt reply to basic communications is courteous. A side note, if all of your or their responses are 'k' or 'lol' it might be time to rethink a second date.
Webcams and video chatting have changed a lot of our interactions with each other. You can attend an important meeting in New York while you're in Hong Kong, witness the birth of your child when you're stationed overseas, and yes, even date.
Cyber dates are a growing trend for long distance couples and busy individuals, and they work! With a few snags.
For example, the lack of need to wear pants is both freeing and a hindrance. People often get the feeling that, if they aren't there in person, who needs to shave or brush their teeth?
However taking the time to put effort into your appearance can send signals to your brain that this is an important event and can make you more attentive and engaged overall. Do you feel more prepared in a suit, or your underwear? It may not seem like it, but the effort will show.
Another thing considering video dates, if you have agreed to chat at a certain time, be on time or early! Yes, it counts. It's also a good idea to speak clearly at a reasonable volume and make sure your background is free of takeout boxes and hustler magazines.
Video dates are one thing, but what about meeting someone online and then in person? That can be a big deal. After all, what if they're Ted Bundy?
A lot of people now do a Google Search before hitting the town with their online beau. A quick tip on date googling, don't bring up anything from the results on the date or they might think you're Ted Bundy.
With meeting anyone for the first time it is always a good idea to dress nice, link your friends to their profile and let someone know where you are and when you can be expected back.
So maybe you meet a great girl or guy and spend the evening together, you have dinner and drinks, then the important question pops up - Who pays? It's a sticky question indeed in today's day and age.
Although on first dates it is usually the gentleman that pays, a good rule of thumb is whoever initiates the date should pay. On the flip side, however, it is a good idea to always have enough money on hand to cover costs and avoid any potential embarrassment.
Once the date is paid for and the evening is wrapped up, you and your date may decide to take it back to your place and continue the fun. That's great! As long as nobody is expecting it.
In today's day and age, sex and dating overall are a little more casual. This gives us more freedom to be ourselves and make decisions about the people in our lives, but it can also create uncomfortable expectations for how an evening is supposed to end.
It's a good idea to be open minded, but leave things ambiguous until you receive clear signals. What's the rush, anyway?
Overall following some basic advice, practicing good manners, and using your best judgment will take you far. Look sharp, speak well and just enjoy being in the moment whether it's online, offline, or somewhere in between. As long as you respect your date, be spontaneous, be prepared and maintain an open mind you will be navigating the muddy modern dating waters with ease.


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China, experts agree, is the nation of the future; its immense population, its acrobatic blend of totalitarian controls and booming free enterprise, and the commercial and intellectual success its emigrants have enjoyed in nations from Malaysia to the United States all augur impending global dominance. In literature, however, the Chinese mainland, as far as Western ears go, is pretty quiet. The one Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize (if we don't count Pearl Buck) was an expatriate Parisian, Gao Xingian. Bookstores, the Times reports, are bustling, but nearly half the purchases consist of textbooks and half the translations are of American books. Meanwhile, American translation of contemporary Chinese fiction appears to be the lonely province of one man, Howard Goldblatt, the founding editor of Modern Chinese Literature and a professor currently at the University of Notre Dame. Goldblatt's midwifery has recently given us two novels by mainland authors: "My Life as Emperor," by Su Tong (Hyperion East; $24.95), and "Big Breasts & Wide Hips," by Mo Yan (Arcade; $27). Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum," which Goldblatt translated in 1993, won considerable notice and the hopeful remark from the Chinese-American author Amy Tan that "Mo Yan's voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have." Well, that's a tough old heart, and I'm not sure the Chinese are ready to crack it yet.
Su Tong was born in 1963, graduated from Beijing Normal University, and now lives in Nanjing. His novella "Raise the Red Lantern" was made into a film nominated for an Oscar. He is sufficiently at ease in his authorial persona to directly address the reader, explaining:
**{: .break one} ** My Life as Emperor could be considered a pleasure cruise through my inner world. It has long been my wish to penetrate the millennia of China's history, to transform myself into an old customer at some teahouse on an ancient street in the midst of a kaleidoscopic world with its teeming masses, and soak up the passage of time with my eyes. I am fascinated by classical times. . . . I hope my readers do not approach My Life as Emperor with the idea that it is historical fiction; that is why I have set the novel in no particular time. Identifying allusions and determining the accuracy of events places too great a burden on you and on me. The world of women and the palace intrigues that you will encounter in this novel are but a scary dream on a rainy night; the suffering and slaughter reflect my worries and fears for all the people in all worlds, and nothing more. **
The shrugging, dandyish tone is continued by the novel's hero and narrator, Duanbai, the fifth son of the deceased Emperor, who is unexpectedly named as his successor: "Still a child at fourteen, I could not figure out why I had been chosen to continue the Imperial line." He had "despised" his father, and his succession is vigorously protested by the imperial concubine Madame Yang, who waves a testamentary edict naming her son, Duanwen, Duanbai's oldest brother, as emperor. She is bundled off, but declines to commit pro-forma suicide with the six other imperial concubines; retainers chase her down and throttle her with the traditional silk cord, but she hammers on her casket lid and sits up, still waving the edict. The casket is filled with dirt and nailed shut with "nineteen long nails." This is the first but not the last atrocious example of imperial administration.
Duanbai has been placed on the throne by his grandmother, Madame Huangfu, and his mother, the Empress Dowager, Madame Meng; they sit beside him during his audiences with his ministers and tell him what to say. His own interest focusses on his pet crickets in their cages. Gradually, he realizes that he possesses the power to "obliterate" anything that annoys him. Near where he sleeps there is a Cold Palace, "in the grove of parasol trees," where concubines discarded by the former Emperor weep at night. Annoyed by the sound, Duanbai secretly instructs the Imperial Executioner to cut off their tongues; when these are brought to him in a "bloody paper packet," he is struck by their resemblance to "salted pigs' tongues, which were quite a delicacy." The crazed servant who tends the palace alchemy cauldron repeatedly says that "the fire is out, and calamity will soon befall the Xie Empire," and the reader does not doubt it. When General Zheng, "on the western front," sends an urgent communiqué, the adolescent Emperor tells the messenger, "You give me a headache the way you're always bringing me this and that. You say the barbarians have broken through our defenses? Well, drive them back to where they came from. How hard can that be?"
As Duanbai ages, he ventures into the lists of both love and war, but with a ruinous ineffectuality. In love with the birdlike Lady Hui, he lets her be persecuted by his mother and grandmother, and by more pragmatic concubines; finally, Lady Hui is driven into prostitution, and when, his own fortunes having taken a downturn, he encounters her he quickly grows disgusted with the "degraded body" of this "once lovely girl who had run beside the Imperial Stream flapping her arms like a bird." On the battlefield, he stays in bed, "warmed by woolen quilts," as his chief of staff, Yang Song, urges him to show himself to his troops. When the demoralized troops lose, he orders that the badly wounded Yang Song be killed rather than rescued. The sight of the wounded man, "his face a bloody mess" while his hands are occupied in "trying to keep a length of purple intestine from spilling out," makes Duanbai vomit. The Emperor is also nauseated by another sight as he ventures out into the troubled Xie Empire—that of a nearly naked boy eating insects in a tree. A guard explains to him:
**{: .break one} ** He's hungry. There is no more food at home, so he survives on insects. That is what many village people feed on during normal times. When natural disasters occur, after they have fought over insects, the people are forced to eat the bark of trees. . . . And when their hunger becomes intolerable on their way to somewhere, they dig up the clay roadway and use that to fill their bellies. That always kills them. **
Theirs is a more merciful death, however, than that inflicted upon a defeated rebel leader, Li Yizhi, by eleven successive tortures ceremoniously called Backward Disrobing Primate, Immortal Rides the Mist, Hollow Out the Eggplant, and so on.
Su Tong's purpose in relating his combination "pleasure cruise" and "scary dream" must be, in part, an indictment of the imperial system, with its drastic inequities, its elaborate cruelties, its implacable protocols. But the emperor's narrative has the shallow perspective of a Chinese scroll; it is hard to enter into it. Though the book is not long, the fall of the Xie Empire feels long in coming. Only when it has fallen, and Duanbai is free to wander, in poverty and danger, in pursuit of his ambition to become a tightrope walker in a travelling circus, does the hero become a protagonist in the Western style, defined by aspirations, struggles, and discoveries. The novel turns companionably picaresque. Pushed off the throne after eight years there, Duanbai can suddenly see:
**{: .break one} ** Everywhere I looked, the land was rich and fertile, and everywhere we stopped, we were surrounded by thatched huts lived in by men who farmed and women who weaved. Villages that spoked out in all directions were like a vast tapestry in yellows and greens that spread out ahead on my road to safety. A river, or a muddy road, or a few odd trees separated me from the lives of the common people, yet they were never far away. **
"My Life as Emperor" culminates in its biggest bloodbath yet, and the cry of the bullfinch, "Die—Die—Die," might be its epigraph. Like Voltaire's "Candide," this parade of misfortunes ends with a garden, "a weed-infested vegetable garden" in the deserted Bitter Bamboo Monastery on Bitter Bamboo Mountain, and with a doubt cast on palliative human wisdom, represented in this case by Confucius' "Analects." Su Tong's morbid fantasia wears an opaque lacquer of willful elegance. The reader suspects that exceptionally much is lost in translation. In sentences like "I knew then that I had truly fallen into the chrysalis of what transpires between a man and a woman" and "Her lips looked like a dead fish as they nibbled their way up my coiling dragon robe, producing a cheerless soughing sound," Professor Goldblatt is presumably pursuing the Mandarin text, ideogram by ideogram, but in one like "So it was a certainty that Duanwen was now licking his wounds in the residence of the Western Duke, having found safe haven at last," the English clichés seem just plain tired.
But Goldblatt's exertions here are as nothing compared with those in translating Mo Yan. This author, born in 1955 into a peasant family in northern China, sets a groaning table of brutal incident, magic realism, woman-worship, nature description, and far-flung metaphor. The Chinese novel, perhaps, had no Victorian heyday to teach it decorum; certainly both Su Tong and Mo Yan are cheerfully free with the physical details that accompany sex, birth, illness, and violent death. Right at the start of "Big Breasts & Wide Hips," we are witness to two difficult births, one by the very long-suffering heroine, Shangguan Lu, and the other by a donkey:
**{: .break one} ** The donkey struggled, yellow liquid shot out of its nostrils as its head jerked around and banged on the ground. Down at the other end, amniotic fluid and wet, sticky feces sprayed the area. **
As for Mo Yan's metaphors, they are abundant and hyperactive:
{: .break one} ** Sima Ting's persistent shouts floated in the air, like a fly in pursuit of rotting meat, sticking first to the wall, then buzzing over to the donkey's hide. **
*** ** My thoughts leaped across and squirmed beneath the white cloud that had so gently covered her and Babbitt. . . . My eyes were like blood-sucking leeches, fastened to her chest. **
*** ** Pastor Malory flung himself off the bell tower and plummeted like a gigantic bird with broken wings, splattering his brains like so much bird shit when he hit the street below. **
*** ** The morning winds blew in from the fields, like a wet cat with a glistening carp in its mouth, prowling arrogantly on the sheet-metal roof. ***
*** ** A full-bodied girl to my right had a tender, yellow, budlike extra finger outside the thumb of each hand . . . and those darling little extra digits fluttered over her face like the curly tails of little piglets. ***
Such surplus energy of figuration attests to, if not greatness, a greatly ambitious reach. Mo Yan here seeks to accommodate in the story of one indestructible woman most of Chinese history from 1900, when Shangguan Lu, first called Lu Xuan'er, is six months old and is hidden in a flour vat while her parents are slain by German forces invading to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, to 1993, when she dies in the care of her only son, Shangguan Jintong, in church during a sermon preached, as it turns out, by the eldest son of her son's father, a Swedish missionary called Pastor Malory. The dauntless mother (the novel is dedicated to "the spirit of my mother," and Jintong is its narrator) survives these ninety-three years but is one of the few characters who do; her eight daughters, the various men who have fathered them, her sterile husband, her ferocious mother-in-law, her fellow-villagers in Northeast Gaomi Township—all, with a few exceptions, perish in the waves of war, famine, and Communist enforcement that bathe this hapless land in suffering. So many die that individual deaths register with little more emotion than a hit in a shooting gallery. One piece of pain that does linger in the mind comes when five-year-old Xuan'er's feet are bound by her aunt:
**{: .break one} ** First she bent the toes back with bamboo strips and wrapped them tightly, wrenching loud squeals of protest from her niece. Then she wrapped the feet tightly with the alum-treated white cloth, one layer after another. Once that was done, she pounded the toes with her wooden mallet. Mother said the pain was like banging her head against the wall. "Please, not so tight," Mother beseeched her aunt. "It's tight because I love you," her aunt said with a piercing glare. **
As her uncle tells her, "Girls who don't bind their feet grow up to be big-footed spinsters that nobody wants." But history undercuts this marital strategy when the Manchu dynasty falls and foot-binding is banned. Xuan'er, sixteen and a beauty, is put on display; her "perfect lotus feet" are derided as "a poisonous legacy of a feudal system" while six young women with unbound feet sing and bounce around, "raising their feet high in the air to show their natural beauty," and an orthopedic surgeon demonstrates "how the broken bones of bound feet forever altered the shape of the foot." "A fallen phoenix," Xuan'er is humbly married off to the feckless son of a female blacksmith, and embarks on a strenuous life of domestic chores and wartime marches on crippled feet. At times, Mo Yan, speaking through Jintong, seems to forget that his heroine is handicapped, so dynamic does he make her, but at others he remembers: "The deep footprints she made in the muddy road with her crippled, once-bound feet were still discernible months later."
Seven of her daughters are physically sound (the eighth, Shangguan Jintong's twin, is born blind) but meet unkind fates in the century's clashing currents. Eldest Sister, Laidi, is forced to marry a crippled mute soldier in the Army of the People's Republic; Second Sister, Zhaodi, marries a local commander in the antiJapanese forces who later becomes an anti-Communist rebel; Third Sister, Lingdi, daughter of a "peddler of ducklings," dies trying to fly; Fourth Sister, Xiangdi, becomes a prostitute in order to feed the others; Fifth Sister, Pandi, marries a commissar and, as Ma Ruilian, enjoys an active career in the Communist ranks; Sixth Sister, Niandi, marries an American pilot named Babbitt, who works with the eventually defeated Kuomintang forces; and Seventh Sister, Qiudi, offspring of a rape by four soldiers, volunteers, along the self-sacrificial lines of Fourth Sister, to be sold to a Russian woman.
While growing up, however, the girls did not lack for appreciation by their little brother, who from infancy basks in the "glorious tradition of Shangguan women, with big breasts and wide hips." We don't hear much about the hips, but it's a rare page that fails to mention breasts: they smell of sulfur and lamb; nipples are likened to dates, cherries, and button mushrooms, and drive the narrator to such extravagancies as "slightly upturned nipples as nimble as the mouth of a hedgehog" and "whenever her nipple was aroused, you could hang an oilcan from it." Jintong admires his mother's breasts from his little basket; they look to him "like a pair of happy white doves." He jealously wails at Malory's amorous attentions to them, until:
**{: .break one} ** She stuck the white doves up under my nose, and I urgently, cruelly grabbed one of their heads with my lips. Big as my mouth was, I wished it were bigger still. . . . I had one of them in my mouth and was grasping the other in my hands. It was a little red-eyed white rabbit, and when I pinched its ear, I felt its frantic heartbeat. **
When his twin sister tries to nurse, he claws and kicks at her "until the poor blind thing cried her eyes out"; she survives on a thin gruel. Jintong refuses to be weaned at age seven, and a goat's teat is substituted, then goat's milk in a bottle:
**{: .break one} ** So I stuck the yolk-colored rubber nipple into my mouth. Naturally it couldn't compare with the real things on the tips of Mother's breasts—hers were love, hers were poetry, hers were the highest realm of heaven and the rich soil under golden waves of wheat. **
So impressive and ardent are Jintong's evocations of nursing's primal pleasure that this reader was slow to realize that Mo Yan intended our hero to be not a healthily typical male but a case of arrested development. His mother strikes a rare note of maternal complaint when, being beaten by a Red Guard while an intimidated Jintong watches, she cries, "Stand up, my useless son!" Though he does in the end make the disgusting switch to solid food, he never quite makes the switch to real life, running afoul of Mao's revolution to the tune of fifteen years at a labor reform camp and emerging into post-Mao capitalism to waste several golden opportunities others have provided for him. His one consummated sexual relationship, arranged by his mother, is with Old Jin, the proprietress of a vast recycling station; she is much older than Jintong and has only one breast, but it is a big breast and has some milk in it. However, she wearies of babying him and decrees, "Shangguan Jintong, you're dog shit that won't stick to a wall, you're a dead cat that can't climb a tree. I want you to get your balls out of here!"
Professor Goldblatt, in his introduction, explains, "In a relentlessly unflattering portrait of his male protagonist, Mo Yan draws attention to what he sees as a regression of the human species and a dilution of the Chinese character." Amid so much slapstick mayhem and mammary lewdness, this moral risks being lost. What does bear in upon the exhausted reader is the crushing misery of Chinese existence in the last century, which, beginning in the final years of imperial rule, neatly dovetails with the imperial misery portrayed, in a stylized but not implausible manner, in "My Life as Emperor." Both worlds, ancient and twentieth-century, are stews of slaughter, torture, famine, flood, and, for the peasant masses, brutalizing overwork. Both protagonists are immature weaklings. Nevertheless, unlike many braver and more engaged characters in these fictional annals, they survive to tell their tales. Their wanton weakness and self-absorption, and the natural poetry both are capable of, rebuke the societies that have made life on earth hellish. Bad societies offer no incentive to grow up.
Mo Yan's portrait of Chinese history has met ire on the mainland. Goldblatt quotes one critic as calling the novel "a sycophantic, shameless work that turns history upside down, fabricates lies, and glorifies the Japanese fascists and the Landlord Restoration Corps." The Japanese forces, whose invasion is the principal event of "Red Sorghum," are relatively shadowy in this novel; but even a Western reader insensitive to the fine points of the civil conflict that placed Mao in power must notice that in this book Communist programs and propaganda are played mostly for laughs, and that the most praiseworthy men, the Sima brothers, are associated with the old, bourgeois regime and the Nationalist Army. Mo Yan's fate is to operate on the edge of official constraints; the novel, nearly a half-million words long as first published in 1996 in China, has undergone trimming and rearrangement right up to this translation, based upon "a further shortened, computer-generated manuscript supplied by the author." Semi-capitalist China will not replay the censorship game by the same rules as were hammered out in the Soviet Union, but free spirits in China are still short of enjoying free speech. ♦


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Confidence rose in Europe to an index score of 79, its highest level in five years
North American confidence remained optimistic at 101, but declined five points from the first quarter
Asia-Pacific confidence held steady at 107, the highest level of all regions
New York, NY – July 27, 2015 – Global Consumer Confidence stayed relatively consistent for more than a year, declining one index point in the second quarter to a score of 96, according to the Nielsen's Consumer Confidence Index Report released today. The Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index measures perceptions of local job prospects, personal finances and immediate spending intentions among more than 30,000 respondents with Internet access in 60 countries. The global survey was fielded May 11-29, 2015, during a time when news of the Greek debt crisis was developing.
"Contrasts within and across markets continue to be a dominant feature of the global economy," said Louise Keely, senior vice president, Nielsen, and president, The Demand Institute. "Consumer confidence in Eurozone markets has been relatively stable, with the notable exception of Greece. While quantitative easing is largely viewed as doing as intended, Europe is now moving through the Greek debt crisis. A relatively strong starting point for confidence will support consumer spending as the crisis unfolds."
Despite the recent Eurozone economic uncertainty, consumer confidence grew throughout the European region in the second quarter, as 21 of 32 markets (65%) were more optimistic than at the start of the year. Confidence in Germany, the region's largest economy, declined three index points to 97—the first decline in a year. In the U.K., confidence increased two points to 99—the sixth consecutive quarter of increases. Regionally, confidence increased most in the Ukraine (48), rising seven index points from the first quarter, but still leaving the country far below 100, the equilibrium point of pessimism/optimism.
"In the U.K., wage inflation is starting to outstrip price inflation for the first time in years, inflation and mortgage rates are at historically low levels and unemployment is falling steadily, which all combine for a more positive consumer outlook," said Steve Smith, market leader, Nielsen U.K. and Ireland.
Confidence in Greece, however, declined by 12 index points to a score of 53—the largest quarterly decrease of the 60 countries in the survey. Confidence also declined by four points in both Ireland (88) and Italy (53).
Consumer confidence declined in six of seven Latin American markets measured in the second quarter, with Brazil (81) reporting the steepest drop of seven index points from the first quarter. The decline represents the third consecutive quarter of declines for the region's largest economy, and the score is the lowest Nielsen has ever recorded (the Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index was established in 2005).
In Brazil, sentiment for the three economic indicators hit new lows, as future job prospects declined four percentage points to 23%, personal finances sentiment decreased four percentage points to 56%, and immediate spending intentions declined nine percentage points to 32%. Nearly all Brazilian respondents believe they are in recession, as the sentiment increased five percentage points to 90% from the first quarter.
Peru's index (95) declined four points, followed by declines of three points each in Chile (84) and Venezuela (62). Consumer confidence in Mexico (84) and Colombia (93) declined two and one point, respectively, from the first quarter. Argentina was the only country measured in the region with a confidence boost, rising six points to 81 in the second quarter.
U.S. consumer confidence decreased six index points in the second quarter to a score of 101, but remained at an above-the-baseline optimistic level. "Confidence in the U.S. remains at elevated levels," said James Russo, senior vice president, Nielsen Global Consumer Insights. "However, it's an uneven recovery, as more than half of Americans still feel the effects of the recession and nearly 40% are still living paycheck to paycheck."
Consumer confidence in Canada, however, increased two points to 98, after declining six points in the first quarter. Immediate spending intentions increased four percentage points in the second quarter to 41%, reversing the decline from the first quarter.
Reversing the performance at the start of the year, consumer confidence in the Asia-Pacific region improved in only four countries in the second quarter, while it declined in nine others. The Philippines showed the biggest quarterly confidence increase of seven index points, rising to a score of 122—the country's highest level on record. Confidence also increased one point each in India (131), China (107) and Japan (83) from the first quarter.
"In China, consumers' desire to spend is growing, especially in the lower-tier cities and in the rural parts of the country," said Yan Xuan, president, Nielsen Greater China. "Higher income levels and growing e-commerce penetration in these areas represent important steps for increasing domestic consumption. The East China region is leading the country's economic transformation with the highest confidence and spending intention levels and where online, offline, traditional and specialty channels are converging and driving upgraded product choices."
Consumer confidence decreased in three of five countries measured in the Middle East/Africa region and held steady in two in the second quarter. At 108, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had the highest index in the region, but it decreased seven points from the first quarter—the biggest quarterly decline in six years. Confidence declined five points in Egypt to 85 and two points in Saudi Arabia to 105. Confidence levels in Pakistan (102) and South Africa (87) were unchanged from the first quarter.
Recessionary sentiment increased in four of five Middle East/Africa markets: Egypt and South Africa each increased three percentage points to 82% and 73%, respectively, and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates increased two percentage point to 45% and 41%, respectively.
Consumer confidence increased eight index points in Kenya (112) and three points in Nigeria (132) in the second quarter. Conversely, confidence decreased five points in Ghana (94), the second consecutive quarter of declines. The outlook for jobs increased significantly in Nigeria and Kenya, rising 11 and eight percentage points, respectively, from the first quarter. Eighty-five percent of Nigerian respondents and 67% of Kenya respondents believe the state of their personal finances are good/excellent, up two and three percentage points, respectively. Conversely, sentiment for all three indicators declined in Ghana.
The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions was conducted May11-29, 2015 and polled more than 30,000 online consumers in 60 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East/Africa and North America. The sample has quotas based on age and sex for each country based on its Internet users and is weighted to be representative of Internet consumers. It has a margin of error of ±0.6%. This Nielsen survey is based only on the behavior of respondents with online access. Internet penetration rates vary by country. Nielsen uses a minimum reporting standard of 60% Internet penetration or an online population of 10 million for survey inclusion. The China Consumer Confidence Index is compiled from a separate mixed methodology survey among 3,500 respondents in China. The sub-Saharan African countries in this study are compiled from a separate mobile methodology survey among 1,600 respondents in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. The Nielsen Global Survey, which includes the Global Consumer Confidence Index, was established in 2005.
Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen's Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content—video, audio and text—is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry's only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90% of the world's population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
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I'm tracing the Bushnell's- My great great grandfather was Benjamin Bushnell. Unfortunalety that as far back as I can get. the family was discribed as gypies, hawkers showmen and fairground people. due to this could they have been missed from the census
Fillery or Fillary
My Grandmother was ROSINA ANN FILLERY (1878-1880). She had Siblings:-
Alfred John 1887 Alice Ada 1898
Eldred George 1880 Elizabeth Daisy 1891
Wiilliam Voice 1884 Ellen Maude
Jane 1895
Mabel 1889
Their father was ELDRED JAMES 1855. his brothers and sisters (those I can trace) are:-
Alfred 1847 Agnes 1852
Walter 1850 Elizabeth Payne 1853
Step children John Payne, Jane Payne
Their father was ELDRED 1814. His brothers and sisters:-
Henry 1808, James 1822, Richard 1827, William 1833.
Their father was HARRY 1788. his brother and sisters are:-
Caroline 1841, Charles 1850, Henry 1833, James Albert 1850, John 1844,
Richard 1847, Sarah 1839.
Their father was HARRY 1788,and his father was HARRY 1740,His father was JAMES 1705.
James's father could be Richard or John. I'm not sure.
I have found others but don't know where they all fit in.
John 1636 Richard percy 1868
George 1846 Ann 1866
Emily 1849 Rose Mary 1874
Richard 1664 William 1808
Amos 1863 Voice 1813
Catherine 1818 or 1828 Joseph 1820 or 1822
Ann(e) 1824 Richard 1736
Mary 1742 Carlister 1747
Ann 1771 Walter 1879
Alfred 1889 Fanny 1871
Florence 1876
Apart from the most recent all the dates are approx.
Some have the surname of Fillery, some Fillary and one or two Phillary.
ROSINA ANN FILLERY married Walter Thomas Clark. Together they had three children ELDRED WILLIAM, HILDA MABEL and WALTER HERBERT. Walter Herbert was my Dad who had three children Jennifer, Valerie (me) and Colin.
And that brings me up to date.
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Sometimes a Freak Show participant is more a real horror show than a freak. How else could you explain this Freak Show Friday 1928 Buick sedan with electric chairs for seats, padded cell upholstery, and old ceramic fuses for door handles? Owner Jonathan Mill was looking for something to promote his company's electric parking brake system called E-Stopp. OK! So how does one go from wanting to promote their product to this—in 10 days no less?
Mill had the Buick already, but never knew quite what to do with it when synchronicity hit him—using the old sedan as a promotional tool for the parking brake deal. And since it's an electric parking brake, use electricity as the theme. Get it? Neither do we.
Nonetheless Mill hooked up with "rat rod king" Steve Darnell from Welderup in Las Vegas to help with the electrifying transformation. Says Mill, "I didn't want a cute little electric car." The Buick is now powered by an electric motor. They adapted it to the original transmission so 2nd gear is "forward" and reverse is reverse. Mill says, "It is very eerie to see it gaining speed with only the hum of the wheels; it doesn't make any sound." Yes, eerie—just what we all look for in our hot rod projects, right?
Von Deeter came up with some renderings of the transformation, and also used his artistic touch with the paint and fake rivets on the exterior. Inside, insane asylum windows, a padded cell interior, fuses for door handles, glowing hands in the back, 1920's porcelain switches to turn it on and, of course, vintage electric chairs add just the right touches to make this a memorable exercise. Continues Mill, "The entire crew at Welderup put their blood and sweat into getting this thing done in time and the pictures don't do it justice. It takes a while to see everything that went into the car." He's obviously happy with his spook show on wheels.


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From the next edition of the Catholic Key comes our first Advent reflection on the Christian conception of time from Fr. Ernie Davis:
I've had an irritating song lyric stuck in my head on and off for thirty-five years. All of you baby-boomers will recognize it immediately, and fans of the Steve Miller band will remember it too.
"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin', into the future."
It is irritates me not only because it sounds whiney, but also because no matter how hard I try to see how time could act that way, I simply cannot. The present doesn't slip into the future, it slips into the past. Whatever awareness I might have of the "now" is already past as soon as I reflect on it.
I love traveling, and I love reading history. I'm interested in reading about and in seeing what people in various times and cultures accomplished and how they lived. As I look at the great Pyramids of Giza or the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem or the bullet holes in Berlin, I experience not only the present reality, but also a past reality that was once as present as the moment now. Once present, they all slipped into the past. We experience bits of long-gone present moments as we encounter their relics.
I can also see how the past may be slipping into the present. We are continually on the leading edge of a wave that has already been somewhere. We remember past experiences and they continue to shape us. We avoid some things in the present because of past bad experience, and we hope that something that happened in the past will happen again. Isaiah remembered the great deeds of the Exodus and hoped that God would make them present again, helping and saving people from the distress they were experiencing. We read about his remembering, and kindle a similar hope that God will act for us in our present distress.
It seems to me that Jesus invited his disciples – and us – to experience another reality in relationship to time, different from the way the present may slip into the past or the past into the present. When he told his disciples, "Be watchful! Be alert!" he was not recalling a past action that could shape the present, and he was not looking at a present evolving moment. He was looking ahead to a reality already present with God that is now breaking into the human present. Rather than looking at relics of past events, he was inviting his disciples to look up and look ahead to events that are already rushing into our experience. He invited, warned, encouraged and cajoled them to reorient their lives to that new reality, a future reality charging in our direction.
"Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch. Watch, therefore; you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all: 'Watch!'" (Mark 13:33-37)
The Collect for the First Sunday of Advent seems to catch this invitation to reorient ourselves:
"Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with righteous deeds at his coming, so that, gathered at his right hand, they may be worthy to possess the heavenly Kingdom."
Advent is an invitation to allow God to reorient us now to the coming reality. It doesn't invite us to make a pious wish, but step into a reality that is coming and eternal and becoming present. That reorientation involves our human choices and it involves God's action in our lives. Our collect prays that God will give us the resolve we need to live in accordance to that new reality, that we may be truly righteous, just and loving. When we catch glimpses of that reorientation in ourselves and in the lives of others, we might want to sing a new song, one the angels and saints are singing now and we're just learning how to sing.
Fr. Ernie Davis is administrator of St. Therese Little Flower Parish in Kansas City.