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Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic Understandings of Reality
Stop Overlooking!
Jewish Reality
Where does the words Jew and Judaism come from? Many people, including some Jews, would be unable to answer that question. The word Jew is an abbreviated form of the name Judah, who was one of the 12 sons of Jacob and great-grandson of the Patriarch Abraham. Jews and Judaism are traditionally linked to the tribe of Judah, the lion, one of the twelve tribes of Israel whose ancestral lands surrounded the capital of Jerusalem. After the golden age of King David and King Solomon, the united kingdom of Israel collapsed into two separate kingdoms called Judea and Israel. The tribe of Judah stayed true to the religion originally established by Moses, while the ten northern tribes of Israel reverted to paganism and were eventually destroyed and scattered by its enemies. The tribe of Judah, represented by the nation of Judea, managed to survive this onslaught. In time, however, they too were invaded and shipped off to the Babylonian Empire as slaves. Staying true to their religious roots, even in exile, they were finally allowed to resettle Jerusalem and the surrounding area. Most, if not all, Jews of today trace their blood lineage to the tribe of Judah and not to the lost ten tribes of Israel. The direct ancestry of Jews can be described as follows:
Adam –> Noah –> Shem –> Abraham –> Jacob –> Judah –> Jesus –> Modern Jews
Many observers still remain confused by the term Jew. Is it an ethnicity or a religious affiliation? Most scholars would say both. Anyone who follows the religion of Judaism is a Jew, just as any individual born of a Jewish mother is also called a Jew. One could have pure Scandinavian or African heritage and still be a Jew through conversion. Jews can also be Pagan, or even Satanic, as well as uncircumcised as long as their mother was of Jewish blood. In short, the word Jew has two definitions. It is both a religious and ethnic term that depends on how it is utilized.
With that in mind, it is difficult to generalize about what Jewish reality is actually about. Is it a religious or ethnically based outlook? The answer, quite simply, is both. This has been the bane for many Jews throughout the ages, mostly because some Jews have taken it upon themselves to propagate ideas that are antithetical to the religion of Judaism. Several Jews, none of whom were religious, have publicly advocated anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish, policies that have caused Gentile Christians to deceitfully blame all the Jews in retaliation. Such is the paradox, and danger, of the word Jew. A very hurtful joke among Gentiles has been that they are quite glad not to be God's Chosen People- chosen to be spat upon and despised. For the purposes of simplicity, the words Jew and Jewish shall refer to those who adhere to the religion of Judaism. According to the Holy Bible, Jews are God's Chosen People and subject to laws that others are not required to obey. These include circumcision, kosher food requirements, along with a host of other rules that have been followed by the descendants of Judah since the time of Moses. In all, there are 613 commandments to the religion of Judaism.
There is more to Jewish reality than just this however. Apparently, Jews are commanded by God to impose, one way or another, the Seven Laws of Noah upon the entire human race. Besides for Christianity, this is the one and only Jewish conspiracy of any real importance and the Roman Catholic Church supports it without hesitation. These seven laws, as dictated by God, are as follows:
I. You will not commit idolatry.
II. You will not murder.
III. You will not steal.
IV. You will not commit sexual perversion.
V. You will not commit blasphemy.
VI. You will not eat the flesh of a living animal.
VII. You will establish courts to enforce these laws.
Some contend that the religion of Judaism, as with Christianity, is a thing of the past and will, in time, fade away to become yet another historical footnote. Others, mainly Protestant Christians, are ecstatic about the massive intermarriage that is taking place between Jews and Gentiles and the slow, but steady conversion rate to Christianity that is also happening among American Jews. Those who have seen the statistics are supremely confident that, outside of Israel, most Jews will be Christian by the end of this century. Are the Jews on the road to extinction? Not exactly.
Right now there are three main denominations of Judaism. They are called Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism. The vast majority of intermarriage and conversion to Christianity is occurring in the Conservative and Reform communities, not in the Orthodox. What is most likely to happen is that Jewish reality, far from disappearing, will experience a revival that will turn many Jews towards the oldest and most authentic form of Judaism called Orthodoxy. This type of Judaism has long viewed both Conservative and Reform Judaism as blasphemy and heresy, just as devout Roman Catholics have often regarded Protestant Christianity in a similar manner. It should be remembered that Jesus was an Orthodox Jew. There was really no other actual form of Judaism at the time.
Many Jews will contend that Orthodoxy descends directly from Moses and his teachings, similar to the way Roman Catholicism comes straight from the actual Apostles and disciples of Rabbi Jesus. It is not so much that Orthodox Judaism deserves to survive is that it will survive, which is how the Church wants it. This isn't a popularity contest. To both of them, Reform and Conservative Jews were, and are, heretics who are destined to either fall away from actual Judaism or be reconverted to the one true faith of Orthodox Judaism, which in fairness should simply be called Judaism. The ranks of Orthodoxy will grow in number both in Israel and in the United States due to conversion and the large number of children found in Orthodox families. Reform and Conservative Judaism will continue to dwindle away as the years go by.
Jewish reality will, in fact, become smaller and more Orthodox, but there will also emerge a new Jewish-Christian reality never seen before in history except during the days of the early Church. It is an astonishing phenomenon that will quite likely continue well into the next century. This is unlikely to be interrupted by any anti-Semitic backlash as was the case in Weimar Germany and Imperial Spain. The reason, of course, is that this time the Gentiles are peacefully welcoming, rather than violently demanding, Jewish conversion to Christianity. The tremendous amount of intermarriage is also helping to stabilize the situation. Assimilation was possible before, this time it is inevitable. At the same time, Orthodox Jewish reality, like the diamonds they specialize in, won't be going away anytime soon. As the Bible states: 'Only a few of you will be left among the nations where the LORD will lead you.' (Deuteronomy 4:27)
Basic Jewish reality bears an astonishing resemblance to what many would mistakenly call Christian reality. Those who know their history might well contend that for the past two thousand years this reality was often preached, but seldom practiced, except by the Jews themselves. Christian anti-Semitism, a menace that will hopefully go extinct very soon, has kept Christians from acting towards Jews as God has commanded. The commandments are very explicit about how to treat others and hopefully Christians will begin to obey them. This is not to say that all Jews at all times have obeyed them, but the nonviolent, peaceful actions of the vast majority of unarmed Jews throughout the centuries speak for themselves. Christians have been violent bullies towards the Jews for far too long and will hopefully begin to obey what many Jews consider to be the three most important commandments in the Bible. They are as follows:
Individual: Biblical Quote (Source)
God: You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
Neighbor: You shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:18)
Stranger: You shall love the stranger as yourself…I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:34)
Jewish reality, so often a source of pain, disappointment, despair and suffering is about to change. It has been changing since 1945. Hitler and the Nazis lost the war and, more importantly, they lost the debate about how to solve the Jewish 'problem'. The problem was not with the Jews, it was with the Gentiles and their inability to act like their LORD and savior Rabbi Jesus did by forgiving them. As Jesus Himself said while suffering on the cross, 'Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.' Will Jewish reality survive acceptance and tolerance rather than persecution? Some contend that without the hatred and disdain of the Gentiles, Jews will assimilate rapidly and Judaism will fade away until there are none left to practice it. Others contend that history is simply returning to an age-old reality that the Jews were, and are destined to be, God's chosen people and 'a light unto the Gentiles'.
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD
your God has chosen you out of all peoples on earth to be His
people, His treasured possession.
– Deuteronomy 7:6
In the future, as in the past, Jews will return to being a noble, honorable, dignified people rather than the cringing, pathetic stereotypes caused by centuries of Christian hatred and abuse. The return of the Jewish nobleman, respected throughout Gentile society, has just started and will continue indefinitely.
Protestant Reality
Some old-fashioned Catholics will cheerfully inform you that Protestants have all been roasting in Hell ever since Martin Luther passed on. Having discovered the truth behind this claim, some of them become more stubborn than a mule and continue to insist they are in Heaven unto this very day. They might also tell you that more than a few Protestants are guaranteed to act exactly like Martin Luther on any given occasion. They act like Nazis whenever they are 'winning', and Soviets whenever they are 'losing'. Sadly, they flat-out refuse to listen to anyone who tries telling them that life is no game and death is most certainly no laughing matter.
Even today there are still a few highly-educated Catholics who will warn you that many Protestants, especially those who are also Freemasons continue to secretly, and sometimes openly, worship Zeus/Jupiter as God the Father and Apollo as the Son, mostly because they would never, ever, actually accept a Jew as their Immortal God or their Heavenly King. Most Catholics don't find this out until after they die, while those who do are attacked for their beliefs and remain somewhat in danger their whole lives, mainly because of the powerful Protestant Gentile/Freemasonry establishment lobby. The American Protestant 'powers that be' also do not want any Jew to ever know that this nation's Protestant/Freemason Establishment secretly despises them, or that their grandfathers and fathers secretly rooted for Hitler during World War II. Even so, the miraculous invention of the Atomic Bomb by a group of almost exclusively Jewish scientists, decades after having been theoretically discovered by a Jewish physicist named Einstein, ended up causing the demonic Protestant/Freemasonry ruling class to suddenly become quite wary of their unexplained power and continued post-Holocaust success, both in this country and in Israel.
Today, their basic strategy of lies and deception is to keep the Jews too busy working and making money to ever really wonder about who actually controls the American after-life, namely the American world of the dead. In the meantime, the Protestant heretics fully intend on keeping every living Jew and/or Catholic totally clueless about the after-life, so that their own hand-picked proteges, their own 21st century Sons of Freemasonry, can continue to retain exclusive access, power and control over the American spiritual realm.
Seen in perspective, these Catholic 'conspiracy theories' about American Protestants should always be taken with a grain of salt, even though they may sometimes come dangerously close to the truth. Accusations against Freemasons and their deluded Protestant masses have diminished in recent years because the Church has finally recognized that what they see as blatantly obvious, historical evidence that Freemasonry is evil, wicked, Pagan and anti-Christian does nothing to convince non-Catholics that Freemasonry should be outlawed and legally prohibited from ever being re-organized. Tragically, 99% of Americans have absolutely no idea that the most successful third party in the history of this country was officially called the anti-Masonic Party. As the name implies, this political party was founded upon a very intense opposition to any and all forms of Freemasonry. Party members included Founding Father and former US President James Quincy Adams. Since that time, the near total social, cultural, and intellectual black-out about publicizing or mentioning the evils of Freemasonry, the Catholic Church of today is also slowly learning to deal with a 500 year old movement that calls itself Protestant Christianity, but is nothing more than international Freemasonry in reality.
Suffice it to say, St. Peter and his international team of Church Angels seem to finally be willing to listen to others, to control their anger, and to try dealing rationally with a heretical, yet very seductive, religious viewpoint that does not seem to be going away anytime soon. The astonishing disappearance of open and public Roman Catholic Church warnings and denunciations of Freemasonry seem to indicate that the devout and righteous forces of St. Peter have finally learned to appear more tolerant, and perhaps even a bit clueless, about the demonically Protestant American world of today. This should be seen as a much-needed improvement in Church strategy, a deliberate attempt to 'be wise as serpents' when dealing with their enemy.
Considering the disastrous results of St. Peter's disastrous campaign against Freemasonry, which consisted of dozens and dozens of official Church documents, written and published by nine different Popes over the course of nearly 225 years, a change in strategy was both effective and essential. In other words, Catholics are finally becoming better at defending and attacking their demonic foe, the Freemasons, without the media or the public even noticing or caring. On the surface of things, the Pope continues to barely ever mention Protestantism, except to compliment of support them. This is a vast improvement from the days when learned Roman Catholics would instantly dismiss Protestant reality with a simple quote from Scriptures: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.'
As far as they were concerned, Protestant Christianity was, and is, little more than 'the gates of hell' in disguise, which were composed of two sexually violent men (pillars) intent on 'spanking' any disobedient Chatholic ghost/soul who refused to go upstairs to the the Protestant cesspool in the sky that the non-Catholic Christians still call Heaven. Put simply, Protestants were the builders, the heretics, the enemy. Some contend that this is still the case even today.
Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun and games. You can have anything you
want, but you better not take it from me…Take you to your knees, I want to
hear you scream…
– Welcome to the Jungle, by Guns & Roses
Since 1945, this sort of thinking is being replaced by a more ecumenical understanding of Protestantism, one that takes into account a fairly recent phenomenon known as Evangelical Protestantism. To its own dismay, the Church of today is actually quite impressed and just a tad envious of what these Evangelicals have managed to accomplish in the last 50 years. It must be remembered that, since the Reformation, the difference between Catholic and Protestant was something that many Christians were willing to kill and die for. Catholics and Protestants would almost never intermarry and refused to be buried next to one another. Times have changed drastically, especially since the end of World War II, and even more so after Vatican II during the 1960s.
To be honest, the current crisis occurring within the mainline denominations of Protestantism, especially in Europe, is something the Church has secretly desired for a long time. In truth, there remain forces in Roman Catholicism that want Protestant Christianity to be destroyed immediately, some would say by any means possible. They cheer on the current illegal immigration from Latin America knowing full well that it is religious warfare by any other name. They figure that by overwhelming this country through sheer numbers, Roman Catholicism will simply establish itself by default. They envision a situation where the Church rules from the northern reaches of Canada down to the tip of Chile. They rightfully view the United States as the last outpost of a renegade Christianity, backed by Freemasonry, that must be stopped at all costs. They see little difference between a Buddhist and a Protestant, both of them being heretics that need conversion. This may sound a little extreme, but Americans who are interested in the situation, especially Protestants, must remember that Roman Catholicism is found in literally every single nation on this planet. In reality, many Catholics in the United States do not always see themselves as Americans, even though they may actually be American citizens. Many of them do not view this Protestant nation as 'the most Christian nation in the world.' Instead, they consider the United States a blasphemous abomination built upon lies and deceptions of Freemasonry with a pornographic culture that comes straight from Sodom and Gomorrah. Scratch an anti-American and many times you will find a Roman Catholic, or their hidden influence, hiding behind the rhetoric.
Aside from all that, Protestant reality is something that must be dealt with one way or another. It is here to stay. In the form of Evangelical Christianity, it is making quite a few inroads into third-world nations and is spreading like wildfire in South America, Asia and Africa. Obviously, the Holy Ghost is with them to some extent. Nothing else explains their phenomenal success. The basics of Evangelical Christianity, as seen by the Church, can be described as follows:
Protestant: Man is saved through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Catholic: Salvation continues through a personal relationship with Jesus.
Protestant: The entire Bible is the literal word of God.
Catholic: Except for the Ten Commandments, the entire Bible was written by men, but inspired and edited by God
Protestant: The Bible, and not tradition, is the true source of Christianity.
Salvation: All Seven Sacraments were established by the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ
While none of these of these doctrines are that particularly offensive to the Church, the theology that lies behind them is. Some Fundamentalist Evangelicals deny the Christian trinity, which has been a key component of the Church from its very inception. A personal relationship with Jesus is also somewhat of an alien concept to Roman Catholics who believe that Jesus ascended into Heaven almost 2,000 years ago and has not yet returned. The Church considers the Bible to be very difficult to understand for many readers and has established traditions that are based upon the Biblical interpretations of the early Church fathers, who read the Gospels in its original and unadulterated form. The authorship of the Bible is attributed to Moses, the prophets and the disciples of Jesus, not God Himself. These differences in beliefs between Roman Catholics and Evangelical Protestants can be summed up in the following manner:
God of Christianity
Evangelical Protestantism: Jesus Christ is LORD.
Roman Catholicism: The LORD God of Israel consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Good Works
Evangelical Protestantism: Man is saved by faith alone.
Roman Catholicism: Good works can, does, and will contribute to salvation.
Holy Bible
Evangelical Protestantism: Written by God.
Roman Catholicism: Written by various men guided by God.
At its worst, the Protestant mind is filled with superstitions, misconceptions, and self-righteousness. At its best, it is as sharp and keen as the most prominent, and insightful of the lethargic and media-shy, Roman Catholic theologians. One wonders why the best of them won't simply convert to the faith of their forefathers and not to the plethora of denominations that calls itself Protestant Christianity. Too many Protestants are fixated on the Book of Revelation and its apocalyptic predictions. Many will state publicly that they truly believe they are living in the end times where an all-powerful New World Order is about to stamp the number 666 on everyone's right hand and forehead. Get real. They also believe that the UPC bar code is possibly a precursor to this totalitarian system of the Beast.
Evangelical Protestants need to wake up and see how foolish they appear to unbelievers by scaring themselves and others into thinking the end of the world is near. The United States is years, perhaps centuries, away from any real danger posed by a godless, technological dictatorship ruled by the devil himself. There are far too many God-fearing Christians, and Jews, who own guns and are either serving in the military now, or have served, that simply would not obey any orders that contradicted their deeply held religious faith. Too many people would fight back and the forces of Satan would lose in a big way. There is nothing to be truly scared of in today's world except for a possible nuclear attack by Islamic terrorists.
Rabbi Jesus is not coming to earth anytime soon. One of the primary reasons why is that He simply does not need to do so after having thoroughly discredited the diabolical, yet seemingly Judeo-Christian, political alternative to Christianity commonly known as International Socialism, or Communism. What makes the Protestants look even more foolish is their utter lack of understanding that perhaps Jesus Christ is too busy repairing the damage that has been done to the Eastern Orthodox Christian Kingdom of Heaven after Satan and his forces took over in 1918. Far too many American Protestants still do not realize that Russia was Christian for 1,000 years before becoming the Soviet bad guy during the Cold War. One must remember that it has only been since 1991, that the opposing Communist nuclear superpower known as the Soviet Union finally collapsed, thus proving to the entire world that Communism was an evil lie of the Devil. Sincere Christian Protestants who still want to meet Jesus in person as soon as they can, will simply have to wait until they die to finally meet Him in His fierce, hot, and most terrible Divine glory that will probably end up terrifying most of them anyway.
In the meantime, Protestants should give the one, true Church a chance when deciding whether or not to be members of the Free Methodist as opposed to the United Methodist Church. Protestants should serious consider visiting their local Roman Catholic Parish before making that critical choice between the Southern Baptist, rather than the First Baptist, or even the Anabaptist congregations to name just a few. To be sure, there remain certain Catholic doctrines that Protestants love to regurgitate whenever discussing why they are not Roman Catholic. Some of these theological beliefs that Protestants still willingly deny and the actual Scriptures that back them up are as follows:
The Trinity
Protestant Denial: God is not composed of three different entities. The sign of the cross is unnecessary ritual.
Actual Gospels: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19)
Protestant Denial: Communion bread and wine is not the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.
Actual Gospels: For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink… whoever eats me will live. (John 6:55)
Papal Infallibility
Protestant Denial: The Pope is not infallible and is just another man like St. Peter was in the beginning.
Actual Gospels: You are Peter…I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 16:19)
Communion of Saints
Protestant Denial: The tradition of the Saints has no Biblical basis. There is no proof they are in Heaven as the Church claims they are.
Actual Gospels: Many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised…and appeared to many. (Matthew 27:52)
Entire volumes could be written about why, where, and how the Protestants are wrong about Christianity. It is ironic that, on the Left, the mainline Protestant denominations are fast becoming pagan outlets of a cheap New Age spirituality with openly gay pastors and female witch reverends who lead the Sunday services and perhaps lecture them about the evils of homophobia. While, on the Right, the Evangelical Protestants are becoming hard-core followers of the laws of the Bible as they are written, in other words, very real 21st century 'Judaizers'. Some cultural critics would complain that their modern, mega-Church services are still more like Hollywood game shows than true expressions of faith. It is true that, in the past, Evangelicals were too quick to blame the Jews, the feminists, and the homosexuals for this current crisis of faith rather than their fellow Protestants who are not following the laws of the Bible at all. In the end, it's better to denounce all unbelievers equally than to single out historically oppressed minorities who do have reason to be agitated.
Roman Catholicism, which has literally seen it all throughout history, truly wants these modern born-again Christians to succeed, but not as Protestants. They are much like 24-karat gold that is going unclaimed and unredeemed. Their souls are not necessarily the property of Luther, Calvin or Wesley. The faith of Jesus Christ is not a shopping mall with many different items to choose from. It was founded by Saint Peter in Rome and continues to this very day under the name of the Roman Catholic Church. It is to be hoped, and prayed for, that the protests among the heretic Christians will finally die down and they will willingly and proudly return to the faith of their fathers.
The Catholic Reality
Probably the most important aspect of Catholic reality, the one that Protestants hysterically deny, is that the Roman Catholic Church was, and still is, the original and most authentic form of Christianity. It is Christianity. This comes from the Gospels themselves thus making Protestants not only wrong by tradition, but wrong by the very Word of God. Rabbi Jesus tells Peter that he is destined to found a Church that will eventually take over the whole world and that he, and he alone, not Paul, is to be known as the founder and leader of all Christianity.
I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of Heaven.
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.
– Matthew 16:18-20
Nothing in the Gospels, absolutely nothing, predicts, foresees, or approves of such a thing known as Protestant Christianity. For Catholics, they are still heretics who must be reconverted to the one, true faith. Catholic reality is the dominant reality of the Western world. No other reality, except perhaps for Islamic reality, has as many adherents and fellow worshippers. Jewish reality, with less than 20 million, is only 2% of Roman Catholicism's one billion people. Not to belittle it, but its numbers hardly signify as a competitor faith. There are more Roman Catholic Churches in more countries than any other Church or international organization ever known. For this reason, the Church is the most multiracial institution in the history of the world. The foundation of Roman Catholicism consists of the Ten Commandments, the LORD's Prayer, and the Apostle's (Nicene) Creed. To begin with, the Ten Commandments, as understood by the Church, are as follows:
I. I am the LORD your God. You will have no other gods but me.
II. You will not use the name of the LORD in vain.
III. You will honor the Sabbath day.
IV. You will honor your father and mother.
V. You will not kill.
VI. You will not commit adultery
VII. You will not steal.
VIII. You will not lie.
IX. You will not envy your neighbor's wife.
X. You will not envy your neighbor's property.
The LORD's prayer and the Apostle's Creed also play a large part in the theology of the Church. The LORD's prayer is considered to be the prayer most suited in celebrating the message of Rabbi Jesus and has, in time, become the most fundamental Christian prayer of them all. Indeed, it is the prayer Jesus recites in the Gospels when asked for an example on how to pray to God. The Apostle's Creed, similar to the much longer Nicene Creed, dates back to around the 3rd century A.D. and has been the basic set of beliefs for all Roman Catholics since that time. Both the Creed and the LORD's prayer are listed as follows:
The LORD's Prayer
Our Father,
Who is in heaven,
Holy is your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done,
On earth as it is
In Heaven.
Give us this day
Our daily bread
And forgive us our sins,
As we forgive those
Who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
And deliver us from evil.
The Apostle's Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hell. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Roman Catholicism also includes the Seven Sacraments, rituals used since the days of the early Church fathers. Each of them is considered holy and sacred aspects of the faith, which are permanent and not subject to change over time. Roman Catholics are taught to avoid the Seven Deadly Sins that may lead to damnation and to act according to the Seven Virtues that are necessary for salvation. These three parts of the faith, 777, can be listed as follows:
The Seven Sacraments
I. Baptism
II. Communion
III. Confession
IV. Confirmation
V. Matrimony
VI. Ordination
VII. Anointing
7 Deadly Sins,Virtues
I. Pride, Faith
II. Greed, Hope
III. Envy, Charity
IV. Wrath, Prudence
V. Avarice, Justice
VI. Gluttony, Fortitude
VII. Sloth, Temperance
The elements of the Church, which include the Ten Commandments (Law), the LORD's prayer (Prayer), the Apostle's Creed (Doctrine), the Seven Sacraments (Ritual), Deadly Sins (Evil), and Virtues (Good), provide the basic structure of Roman Catholicism today and in the future. Calls for changing any of them would be construed as blasphemy and heresy, not because they are hopelessly outdated, but because they don't need to be changed. All of them are based upon Scriptures and are not simply 'Roman' traditions that are alien to the true Christian faith as some Protestants would have you believe.
Contemporary observers of the Church, some of whom remain unbelievably deluded and implacably hostile towards this institution, actually believe it is possible, or likely, that the Church will eventually change its position on fundamental issues such as abortion, euthanasia, sexual perversion, and female priests. They mistakenly believe that they have all the answers to these so-called problems and that their vision of the future, instead of the Church's, will prevail. Given the fact that these critics have only been around since the 1960s and are going to die soon makes the Church highly confident that Catholic reality will triumph over any other alternative reality.
Today's New Age values of tolerance for sexual degeneration and intolerance for female virginity does not scare or frighten the Church which is nearly 2,000 years old. The reason why is that the Church knows, for a fact, that true believers in God and Christianity will always out-reproduce nonbelievers. When it comes down to it, Christians will always outbreed the pagans, the agnostics, and the atheists. The future, as well as the past and the present, is Roman Catholic. Those who disagree should remember that, no matter what they say or what they do, they will always be outnumbered. In the end, Roman Catholic reality has already won.
May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.
Jason Nicholas Korning


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'The Wolverine' comes out in the next couple of weeks, so sexy leading man Hugh Jackman is promoting the crap out of it by doing his thing on the covers of several magazines. And for that? We are grateful.
Hugh Jackman reprises the role of Logan/the Wolverine in the upcoming film 'The Wolverine,' a sort-of prequel to that lame 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' movie. He'll also star in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' a veritable feast of sexy men, including Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Evan Peters, and Peter Dinklage (what? Short dudes can get it, too).
In 'The Wolverine,' Jackman heads to Japan and gets in some awesome sword action and encounters some new mutants we haven't seen before. We're excited. We're even more excited that the star is gracing the covers of so many magazines this month, including GQ Australia, Men's Health, and Men's Fitness — three pertinent publications, given his style, swagger, and impressive physique.
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[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 2005)] [Notices] [Page 41058] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 05-13703] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employment Standards Administration; Wage and Hour Division Minimum Wages for Federal and Federally Assisted Construction; General Wage Determination Decisions General wage determination decisions of the Secretary of Labor are issued in accordance with applicable law and are based on the information obtained by the Department of Labor its study of local wage conditions and data made available from other sources. They specify the basic hourly wage rates and fringe benefits which are determined to be prevailing for the described classes of laborers and mechanics employed on construction projects of a similar character and in the localities specified therein. The determinations in these decisions of prevailing rates and fringe benefits have been made in accordance with 29 CFR part 1, by authority of the Secretary of Labor pursuant to the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931, as amended (46 Stat. 1494, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 276a) and of other Federal statutes referred to in 29 CFR part 1, Appendix, as well as such additional statutes as may from time to time be enacted containing provisions for the payment of wages determined to be prevailing by the Secretary of labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act. The prevailing rates and fringe benefits determined in these decisions shall, in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing statutes, constitute the minimum wages payable on Federal and federally assisted construction projects to laborers and mechanics of the specified classes engaged on contract work of the character and in the localities described therein. Good cause is hereby found for not utilizing notice and public comment procedure thereon prior to the issuance of these determinations as prescribed in 5 U.S.C. 553 and not providing for delay in the effective date as prescribed in that section, because the necessity to issue current construction industry wage determinations frequently and in large volume causes procedures to be impractical and contrary to the public interest. General wage determination decisions, and modifications and supersedeas decisions thereto, contain no expiration dates and are effective from their date of notice in the Federal Register, or on the date written notice is received by the agency, whichever is earlier. These decisions are to be used in accordance with the provisions of 29 CFR parts 1 and 5. Accordingly, the applicable decision, together with any modifications issued, must be made a part of every contract for performance of the described work within the geographic area indicated as required by an applicable Federal prevailing wage law and 29 CFR part 5. The wage rates and fringe benefits, notice of which is published herein, and which are contained in the Government Printing Office (GPO) document entitled ``General Wage Determinations Issued Under The Davis-Bacon And Related Acts,'' shall be the minimum paid by contractors and subcontractors to laborers and mechanics. Any person, organization, or governmental agency having an interest in the rates determined as prevailing is encouraged to submit wage rate and fringe benefit information for consideration by the Department. Further information and self-explanatory forms for the purpose of submitting this data may be obtained by writing to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, Division of Wage Determinations, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S- 3014, Washington, DC 20210. Modification to General Wage Determination Decisions The number of the decisions listed to the Government Printing Office document entitled ``General Wage Determinations Issued Under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts'' being modified are listed by Volume and State. Dates of publication in the Federal Register are in parentheses following the decisions being modified. Volume I None Volume II None Volume III None Volume IV None Volume V None Volume VI None Volume VII None General Wage Determination Publication General wage determinations issued under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts, including those noted above, may be found in the Government Printing Office (GPO) document entitled ``General Wage determinations Issued Under the Davis-Bacon And Related Acts''. This publication is available at each of the 50 Regional Government Depository Libraries and many of the 1,400 Government Depository Libraries across the country. General wage determinations issued under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts are available electronically at no cost on the Government Printing Office site at http://www.access.gpo.gov/davisbacon. They are also available electronically by subscription to the Davis-Bacon Online Service (http://davisbacon.fedworld.gov) of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce at 1-800- 363-2068. This subscription offers value-added features such as electronic delivery of modified wage decisions directly to the user's desktop, the ability to access prior wage decisions issued during the year, extensive Help desk Support, etc. Hard-copy subscriptions may be purchased from: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, (202) 512-1800. When ordering hard-copy subscription(s), be sure to specify the State(s) of interest, since subscriptions may be ordered for any or all of the six separate Volumes, arranged by State. Subscriptions included an annual edition (issued in January or February) which includes all current general wage determinations for the States covered by each volume. Throughout the remainder of the year, regular weekly updates will be distributed to subscribers. Signed at Washington, DC, this 6th day of July 2005. Shirley Ebbesen, Chief, Branch of Construction Wage Determinations. 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The Mac has transformed teaching and learning in the Greene County school system in rural eastern North Carolina. A new project-based curriculum has engaged and motivated students, and college-going rates have risen dramatically.
The inspiration
In 2001, Dr. Patricia F. MacNeill, Assistant Superintendent of the Greene County School District, and other administrators took a hard look at student achievement levels and were not pleased. For example, one key measure of academic progress, the college-going rate, was only 26 percent. With a largely agrarian population, whose children would be looking at a much different economic future, Greene County knew it needed to change its education priorities and practices to better prepare its students.
As they began to explore new models of teaching and learning, MacNeill and her team attended an Apple Leadership Institute, where they saw the impact the Mac could have in the classroom. They also visited several schools where computers had been integrated successfully into the curriculum. In 2002, they decided to put a Mac in the hands of every Greene County student in grades 6 through 12.
The Mac gave Greene County teachers the means to introduce a more rigorous curriculum focused on interactive, project-based learning across all subjects. Rather than listening to lectures, making notes, and taking pencil-and-paper tests, now students learn by participating in interactive group research projects. After receiving a digital lesson from the teacher, student teams select a topic and use their Mac computers to plan, create, and present reports in a variety of formats, including content- and media-rich movies, podcasts, wikis, and blogs. And because iMovie, GarageBand, Keynote, Pages, and iChat are so easy to use, the students are able to work independently.
Giving students more responsibility for their learning has made them more engaged and better prepared in the classroom. And their test results reflect improved learning. After introducing project-based learning in his middle school science classes, teacher José Garcia saw his students achieve the highest scores possible in their end-of-year assessments. "The Macs have transformed my classroom and transformed my students," he says.
"The Macs are interwoven into our curriculum. There isn't a single day we don't use them."
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Funding an ambitious technology project in a poor rural school district required a total community effort. MacNeill and other administrators met with teachers, Board of Education members, County Commissioners, and Apple representatives to make their case and explore options. Faced with perennial low student achievement and college attendance — and the question of how those numbers might affect the future viability of the county — the board and the commissioners were persuaded to fully support the proposed school reform.
To implement the program, the district used a combination of funding sources, including reallocating money within their own budget. In social studies, for example, where information changes quickly, they opted for Internet-based research tools over buying new textbooks. They also applied for and won a substantial state grant. And to fund ongoing staff development, MacNeill used money from a widely available federal program for improving teacher quality.
In June 2003, the school district purchased Mac computers for every student in grades 6 through 12 and one Apple MacBook Learning Lab per classroom for grades K through 5. After the computers arrived, Apple Professional Development facilitators provided three days of onsite staff training in iWork and iLife. Weekly professional staff development sessions allow teachers to continue to develop and share teaching and computer skills. Email and iChat promote similar collaboration among teachers, students, and parents — many of whom had never touched a computer before. These interactions have also benefited the community: Greene County, where Internet availability had been low, now enjoys widely accessible Wi‑Fi coverage.
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A continuing tale of life in the boonies
No. 323
Betty Mros…a paragon of virtue
FARMINGTON – For anyone stumped by the word "paragon" and ready to jump down my throat in defense of Betty Mros-- relax. It means "a model of excellence" and octogenarian Betty, whose life ended recently with a fall from a ladder, was an extremely virtuous person.
In 21st century America, greed is good, because it oils the wheels of Wall Street; pride is trumpeted on bumper sticks, in connection with school honor rolls; envy is an essential ingredient of consumerism, which drives 80 percent of the country's economy; and gluttony, in most cases, is at the root of the morbidly obese epidemic.
In bygone days, greed, pride, envy and gluttony were four of the seven deadly sins, and these were counteracted by the seven heavenly virtues as proposed by a 5th century poet. Betty, one of the old school, had these virtues in spades.
Take charity, for instance. Betty Mros was one of the local hospital's volunteer auxilians for many years, and had it not been for her untimely demise, she would have been charitably helping this past week with the Lights of Love celebration.
Then comes diligence –- the virtue of hard work, and when it came to the advancement of the community, few were more diligent than Betty Mros. When Farmington's reputation was at a lowish ebb in the 1980s, for example, the Nute Ridge Half Marathon brought in athletes from up and down the East Coast, and Betty, who was in charge of the after-race food and drink, did an astonishing job in putting the town on the runners' hospitality map and reversing misguided impressions of Farmington.
She had other heavenly virtues, too, such as kindness and charity, but I will remember her best for her temperance, and its subcategories of prudence, tolerance, forgiveness, forbearance and mercy. Let me give a couple of examples:
Back in 1985, when I served as the town's parks and recreation director, there was a bit more retail activity on Main Street than there is today, and as Hay Day approached, I planned a competition for kids, which consisted of placing items in eight or nine shop windows -- with each cunningly placed article something which that store did not sell. For instance, in among the goods in Osgood's Drug Store window was a golf tee which kids had to spot, and among the wares in Barratt's 5 & 10 window, was a foreign coin.
Youngsters had to write in the mystery objects on their entry forms during the week leading up to Hay Day, and he or she who got the most right was the winner.
Back then, on North Main Street, was Betty Mros's Nearly New Shoppe which had nice dresses with flowery patterns in the window. I decided to place my toughest object on one of her delightful floral frocks, whose pattern camouflaged it perfectly -- and explained to Betty, in confidence, that this mystery item was a geological sample. Actually, that wasn't quite true.
A few days before I embarked on the contest, I had encountered on the street a large lady called Sue Thornton. She was an amiable person, and we were on good terms as this column had once wished her well when she had fallen through a porch. We chatted, and she explained that she had just undergone a gallstone operation and displayed the painful stone that a surgeon had removed. It looked a little like a geological sample, and Sue graciously allowed me to borrow it for a week or so, after I explained my intention and swore her to secrecy.
Betty will never find out, I thought, but I had underestimated Sue's affinity to the extraction, and that week she cruised up and down past Betty's Nearly New Shoppe bestowing fond, sidelong glances on the mystery item. "That's my gallstone," she would say to kids with contest entry forms, and the news didn't take long to reach Betty's ears.
"Honestly!" said Betty, who could pack more meaning into that one word than anyone I knew. Thank goodness for her heavenly virtue of restraint or temperance. For the sake of small children, and Hay Day and, ultimately, the town of Farmington, Betty allowed Sue's gallstone to remain in situ on that lovely dress until the mystery object contest was over and a winner named.
The following year's Hay Day featured The Long John Silver Agon, in which 20 local people dressed as pirates, replete with eye patches, plumber's plunger peg legs, crutches, and stuffed parrots on their shoulder, raced down Main Street, walked planks, struggled through rigging, knocked back tots of rum in Dumontski's Bar, rolled cannon balls, and eventually dug for treasure in what is now Manny Krasner's sunken office lawn.
The race was started in authentic style by a World War II vet, Ellsworth Hancock, who had a small cannon that he packed with a disturbing amount of black powder before igniting the fuse with his cheroot. The explosive din was such that several Long John Silvers teetered dangerously on their peg legs.
Ellsworth, who sometimes dressed in a fringed, buckskin jacket and a Davy Crockett hat, had a love affair with black powder and kept worrying stocks of it in his Central Apartments home. Persuaded by authorities that the whole block could go up, if there were ever a fire, Ellsworth –- whom some folks said had a brother also called Ellsworth –- then bowed to concerns, and stored his tins of black powder in an aging truck, out back.
Anyway, after his 1986 contribution to Hay Day, Ellsworth may have been a little dismayed that he had no role to play in 1987, even though, had he been asked, he could have started off the participants in the Great Gabby Hayes Gold Rush with another cannon blast.
You can't keep a good cannoneer down, though, and periodically, throughout the morning of Hay Day 1987, a thunderous explosion would rip through the air, causing Betty Mros, dressed in a grass skirt at the Hay Day booth, to lift slightly off the ground, each time.
"Where the heck is that coming from?" she asked me.
"I'm pretty sure it's Ellsworth," I said, and headed off to look behind the nearby Central Block. Yup. There was Mr. Hancock with his veteran's ballcap on, watching with satisfaction as the last wisps of blue smoke from his cannon dispersed on the breeze. He was enjoying a small cigar.
"Hey, could I have a shot, Ellsworth?" I asked.
"I guess so," he responded generously, reaching for a can of black powder. My hopes of setting off another explosion were promptly dashed, though.
"Honestly!" said Betty Mros, who had popped round the corner to see what on earth was keeping me, and had taken in the scene in a flash.
Her heavenly virtue of forbearance, beyond that single, powerful word of reproach, was disarming, we all laughed, and Ellsworth's cannon remained silent for the rest of the day.
He was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in 1997 and is still remembered. Betty was laid to rest there last week, and she will be sorely missed by the whole town for years to come.
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Betty Mros, dressed in her Hay Day attire of 1987, makes sure Ellsworth Hancock is a happy, but retired, cannoneer.
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Impossibilia (hardcover) - numbered, signed, and personalized
- "Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by Van Gogh" Aurora Award Finalist
- "Spirit Dance," AURORA AWARD WINNER
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We all have things we hide away inside—secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to.
In that respect, the characters we meet in Impossibilia are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little... different.
A dead wife that won't leave. A wolf. The secret to being the luckiest man alive.In 'Bouquet of Flowers in Vase, by van Gogh', remote viewing drives a search through the past for lost masterpieces. An ex-CIA agent, haunted by the presence of his dead wife, falls in love with a beautiful remote viewer with her own secret. But can viewing the past change the present?
Cree Indian legends, a love triangle, a covert government agency, and shape shifters collide in the award-winning 'Spirit Dance', described in Challenging Destiny as "...a vivid and wonderfully written tale about Native Canadian spirits, in the vein of Thomas King."
In 'Going Down to Lucky Town', an itinerant gambler chases a streak of luck across the country, while trying to win back the love of his daughter. The secret he finds forces him into an ultimate gamble for the highest stakes of all: his daughter's life.
And through all the stories, these characters share one more thing beyond what they hold inside. In the decisions they face, in the choices they make, they do what they do out of love. Lost love, found love, the love of a child. But love. So maybe they aren't that different from us after all...
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Canadian navy officer who sold secrets to Russia sentenced to 20 years for espionage
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – A Canadian navy intelligence officer who pleaded guilty to selling military secrets to Russia was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle will serve 18 years and five months behind bars because of time he has already served, Provincial court Judge Patrick Curran said. Curran also ordered Delisle to pay a fine of nearly CA$111,817 ($111,700).
Delisle, 41, pleaded guilty in October to espionage for selling secrets to the Russians. He worked at a naval intelligence center and had access to information shared by Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The prosecution said he would search for Russian references on his work computer, transfer it to a USB key, then take it home and paste it into an email program that he shared with his Russian handler.
In an agreed statement of facts, Delisle admitted that his treachery began when he walked into the Russian embassy in Ottawa in July 2007 and offered his services for money.
Judge Curran said Friday that Delisle "coldly and rationally" offered his services to Russia.
Delisle was arrested in January 2012 — the first person to be charged under Canada's Security of Information Act, which was passed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
During his sentencing hearing last week, Delisle apologized to his family, friends and colleagues for the hurt his actions caused them.
For years, Delisle funneled classified information to the Russians for monthly payments of about $3,000.
Prosecutors said Delisle came under suspicion after returning to the country in September 2011 from Brazil, where he met a Russian agent named Victor who told him that his role would change so that he would become a "pigeon," or liaison for all Russian agents in Canada. Alarms were raised within the Canada Border Services Agency because he had no tan, little awareness of the tourist sites in Rio de Janeiro, three prepaid credit cards, thousands of dollars in U.S. currency and a handwritten note with an email address, she said.
Authorities intercepted two messages in January 2012 that Delisle tried to pass on to the Russians, and he was arrested shortly after.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has said that Delisle's crimes could mean it receives less intelligence from allies in the future and it is still assessing the fallout of his actions.
The prosecution argued that Delisle damaged Canada's relations with its allies, endangered intelligence agents and exposed their methods of gathering top-secret material.
But the defense said Delisle's harm is "theoretical" because it isn't exactly known what secrets he leaked, adding that he was ensnared in the arrangement with the Russians and feared retribution if he tried to get out.
Delisle joined the navy as a reservist in 1996, became a member of the regular forces in 2001 and was promoted to an officer rank in 2008. He was charged last January.


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"Azamara Journey"
The Azamara Journey has been the best cruise ship we have been on so far, so much so that we are doing it again on the Azamara. Quest in November this year. Searching for other cruises to have a change, does not come up to scratch from passengers reviews, compared with the Azamara . This makes us very wary to make other choices in fear of disappointment and wasted money, and passengers should be aware of hidden cost on a lot of other cruises, which to us this is false advertising, the Azamara price included everything, and there was no extra cost at the end of the trip We are in our early 60s and prefer children free cruises and noisy teenagers. In other words we like being part of the baby boomers. This is what the Azamara have and it's heaven, we just don't want to get off. So if anyone can come up with other options as close or better than this, we will take it on board (Pardon the pun)Read more
- Cruise Name: Azamara Journey
- Destination: Africa/Middle East
- Sailed: October 2013
- 40 Helpful votes
- 1 Cruise review
- 5 Cruises
It was great to be greeted back on board by crew members who remembered us from previous cruises. From the Captain down, all the crew were friendly and attentive. Food and service were top-class. Entertainment was excellent, but the pianist, Richard Rubin, deserves a particular mention for his talent and humour. Overall this was a superb cruising experience, and we will return to Azamara Journey in the future.Read more
- Cruise Name: Azamara Journey
- Destination: Northern Europe
- Sailed: August 2014
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"Mediterranean Cruise"
We have just returned from a back to back cruise from Venice to Barcelona and return to Venice. Ship was exceptional and the crew were a very welcoming group including the captain. There must be a smile test to be able to join the crew of this ship as we got plenty of them - what a happy cheerful lot. Food was delicious (too good) and mainly dined in the windows area, as the food there was as good or better than other areas and so much quicker. Many missed out on shows by dining at the other restaurants as they were too late finishing to see them. Our cabin was perfect - mid ship and would ask for the same cabin if travelling again. Service of food and drinks was exceptional, with waiters remembering what you liked to drink and eat. Travelling times were good at night time, especially when there was nothing really to see and then we were in at port early, ready to take another day of sight-seeing in a different city or village. Entertainment was very good, couldn't ask for more and the organization on board was tops compared to another cruise liner we were on earlier this year. The organized departures from the boat each day, whether it be by tender or groups for tours was well done. I certainly liked the size of the ship and would not like to go on anything bigger - we have been on smaller river cruises and it compared well to them. Congratulations Azamarra - Journey on giving us a great trip.Read more
- Cruise Name: Azamara Journey
- Destination: Mediterranean
- Sailed: July 2016
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"Aussie Flag flying on the flagpole of the Azamara Quest on Anzac Day 2010."
Capt Carl Smith, John Howell Cruise Director and the Staff on the Quest were the type of people you would wish to have with you on a cruise. The ship was clean,cabins comfortable, well serviced by Stateroom Staff who were so pleasant and helpful.Our Steward would find my partners nightie and form it into an hour glass figure on the end of the bed each night with chocolates. The food was excellent from breakfast in the room ,BBQ by the pool at lunch and dinner in the Dining Room.Specialty Dining was available in the Aqualina or Prime C we enjoyed the fare at the latter.There were plenty of activities on board and nightly entertainment was good for a small ship. The highlight of the Cruise was the effort the ships company put into holding an Anzac Dawn Service and Remembrance session in the theatre at 10 am. There were a few Aussie servicemen on board and we asked John Howell if we could hold a service.The effort he put into the running of the service was amazing. John was the MC the senior officers served rum and coffee at 5.30 am,Father Pinto offered prayers,Group Capt Richard Hedges gave the Epilogue a Brigadier did the Ode . The surprise that brought a tear to our eyes was when one of the ships band was up in the Crows Nest playing the Last post with the Australian flag being hoisted on the ships flagstaff as the sun came up.It was EPIC. So that passengers of other nationalities could see our Commemoration Service a second take was done in the theatre at 10 am. Thanks a lot Azamara.Read more
- Cruise Name: Azamara Quest
- Destination: Repositioning
- Sailed: April 2010
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"A wonderful relaxing experience"
In April this year my husband and I cruised on the Azamara Quest from Singapore, Thailand, Cochin, Mumbai finishing at Dubai. This was our 6th cruise, our first on the Azamara. Both the ship and the cruise itinerary was a wonderful experience and lived up to our expectations. Being a smaller ship (approx 800 passengers), it proved to be very relaxing, as there wasn't any queuing up for meal sittings, or to see a show. The staff were exceptional, always very polite and went that one step further to ensure your cruise was relaxing and your holiday was a memorable one. Small things like remembering how and when you like your tea served in your cabin after returning back from our evening out, meeting you with a cold hand towel and a glass of chilled champagne after a hot day out touring, spraying you with cold water spray and handing out sorbets at the pool on a hot day. The captain Lief Karlsson making himself available for conservation by walking around the ship on most days. We had a varanda cabin on level 7 portside which if we sailed with Azamara again would asked for the same cabin. The room was ideal for us, very tastefully furnished with lovely bedlinen and quite large bottles of Elemis products in the bathroom. A bowl a fresh fruit each day, bottles of water and a little sweet each night when the bed was turned down. The storage for the clothing was ample for our 12 day cruise. Azamara has a very user friendly website where you can book all your land tours and do all your checkin online this makes boarding the ship very quick and easy. Each tour we selected was organised very well offering knowledgeable tour guides and good transport. The meal seating is anytime seating which we found an excellent idea, as you were not pressured to be at a meal at a certain time. We ate most of our meals at the Discovery restaurant, where the menu changed each night,we ate at the Prime C restaurant once (steak restaurant) and Aquallina twice (seafood). These restaurants were an extra $15.00 ahead and have to be booked, they are worth every cents. We would have breakfast most mornings at the Discovery as it was abit quieter than Window buffet restaurant, sometimes we ordered breakfast to our room which was lovely to have on our balcony as we sailed the Indian ocean This was great idea especially when we needed to leave early for a tour we had booked. Eating on board the Azamara was an experience of its self all the meals were excellently presented, with a large choice to choose from. There was red and white wines served at each meal at no extra cost, these wines were from all around the world and good quality. The restaurants were elegantly furnished without any formal dress required. The shows onboard the ship are not grand productions, but proformers we very professional and proformed excellent show each night. The shows and the guests seemed to change at each port. I used the gym quite regularly, which was very well equiped and offered boot camp, circuit training or yoga workouts each day and ran by a professional instructor. We did not use the Astral Spa and salon as we had already pre booked facials and massages at a salon on our stop in Thailand, but the Astral salon rooms looked very well presented offering a wild range of massages and treatments such as body wraps, facials, teeth whitening, and slimming treatments all by qualified beauticians.. The only concern I have, was the laundry, there is only one on board and this created laundry hogs, people who use 2 machines and dryers at a time, it is a very small conjested room and would get very busy at times especially towards the end of the cruise. It would be good if Azamara could put a small ironing board and iron the each cabin as when the laundry is busy it is very hard to get in and press something quickly. I would not hesitate to recommend this cruise ship to anybody and look forward to cruising with Azamara again in the near future.Read more
- Cruise Name: Azamara Quest
- Destination: Indian Ocean
- Sailed: April 2011


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I just got my iGesture in the mail, and although it has been easy to adapt to the gestures since I am coming from a TouchStream, I cannot figure out the arrow key gestures. According to the documentation, I should be able to use a single finger gesture to act as arrow keys, but it doesn't work. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any help!


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Banksterity strategy is built on ignorance
We have a clear and consistent policy of suppressing dissent and obscuring bleak realities
Independent TD Catherine Murphy last week released documents showing that, in the last six months, 58 per cent of all parliamentary questions about the operation of the Department of Social Protection were answered privately, so that the replies are not on the public record. Photograph: David Sleator
Ignorance, by definition, is negative. It is the state of not knowing. But that doesn't mean ignorance is a mere absence. It is created and constructed and managed – especially in politics and especially in Irish politics. It matters greatly to the disastrous strategy of banksterity that its most severe human costs should be kept out of sight and out of mind.
Those who bear those costs know all about them, of course. But their suffering must remain personal. It must not enter into the really important national discourse in which, as the Taoiseach told us last week, we are all heading for "higher ground".
And so we have a clear and consistent policy, applied with equal enthusiasm by the last government and the present one, of suppressing dissent and obscuring bleak realities. Massaging figures, silencing independent voices and refusing to publish information – these tactics are essential to the maintenance of the fiction that Ireland is a great success story.
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There are four groups of people who suffer most under the current regime: those who have lost their jobs; those who depend on social welfare; users of the public health service who do not have private insurance; and already marginalised groups such as Travellers and people with disabilities. Let's see how the construction of ignorance works for each of these groups.
1: the unemployed. Ask anyone who follows the news and they will tell you unemployment is high but stable at about 14 per cent of the work- force. In fact, it's much higher and it is not stable – it's getting much worse. The International Monetary Fund pointed out in its latest review of the troika programme that real unemployment, including those involuntarily working part- time and "workers only mar- ginally attached to the labour force", is 23 per cent, a figure it described as "staggering".
And the nature of this unemployment is getting steadily more toxic – the real harm is done when people are out of work for more than a year, a category that includes 60 per cent of the unemployed, and that is growing all the time. The difference between the official figures and this reality is that between "stable" and "staggering".
2: users of the welfare system. Last week, the Independent TD Catherine Murphy released some very striking documents showing that, in the last six months, 58 per cent of all parliamentary questions about the operation of the Department of Social Protection were answered privately, so that the replies are not on the public record.
To put this in context, 2.5 per cent of questions to the Department of the Environment are answered in this private way. According to Murphy, the questions she has submitted were largely "about systems and procedures". The effect of this strategy is to create as much ignorance as possible about the way decisions that affect vulnerable people are being made.
This move comes on top of the destruction by the previous government of the Combat Poverty agency, which had an independent remit to analyse the effects of public policy on the poor. One of the first moves in the shaping of banksterity, indeed, was the "integration" of Combat Poverty into what is now the Department of Social Protection, very deliberately destroying that independence.
3: users of the health system. Two independent groups have been monitoring the health system as it affects patients: the Irish Patients' Association (IPA) and the Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Health (ISQSH). Both are highly respected and responsible bodies.
The Government, through the Health Service Executive, has taken the axe to both. In February, the IPA had its State funding withdrawn. Last week, the ISQSH met the same fate. This is not about money – the total involved for the two organisations is €307,000, a fiscally irrelevant sum. The move against these organisations is entirely about the construction of ignorance.
4: marginalised groups. Almost as soon as the banksterity policy was put in place in 2008, the then government declared war on the (small and inadequate) human rights infrastructure to which migrants, Travellers, people with disabilities, the mentally ill and people suffering from discrimination could look.
A range of bodies – the Equality Authority, the equality tribunals, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism were abolished, merged and/or so badly cut they cannot be effective.
The new merged Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has still not been properly constituted, even though its "designate" board met for the first time last week. There is little prospect that it will be given the funds to operate effectively.
What you get if you put all of this together is not an accidental weakening of scrutiny of, and dissent from, the banksterity plan. It is a determination that the human cost of that plan be removed as far as possible from the official image of national triumph. It is the conscious cultivation of delusions – the very strategy that led us to this disaster in the first place.


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Vought Completes, Delivers First Boeing 787 Aft Fuselage
CHARLESTON, S.C., MAY 8, 2007 – Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. today delivered its first composite sections for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, representing 23 percent of the airplane's entire fuselage structure.
"Today marks a historic milestone for Vought," said Vice President of Vought's 787 Division Ted Perdue. "We've designed and produced a major portion of the world's first all-composite aft fuselage for a commercial airliner. Vought has once again demonstrated its expertise as a leader in the development and production of large advanced composite structures. Today is a testament to the capability and excellence of our entire team, and we are extremely proud to be a partner on the 787 program."
The two aft fuselage sections were initiated as "one piece barrels," which were wound in Vought's state-of-the-art composites facility here using advanced fiber placement technology. The barrels were then "stuffed" with further structure and systems components, and joined together with the aft pressure bulkhead to make the end portion of the cabin and the structure that supports the tail.
A custom-made transporter will carry the sections about 200 yards across the parking lot from Vought's facility to Global Aeronautica, Vought's joint venture with Alenia North America. There, the completed section will be wrapped and prepared for shipping before being loaded onto the Boeing Dreamlifter and flown to Everett, Wash.
The delivery is the culmination of work that is traced back to 2002 when Vought was named to Boeing's development team to help provide advanced materials technologies for its next-generation aircraft. A year later, Boeing announced Vought as a structural partner for the Dreamliner, responsible for designing and building aft fuselage sections 47 and 48. Vought's production activities began last June, on the heels of opening its new 342,000-square-foot manufacturing facility adjacent to the Charleston International Airport.
Aft fuselage section 47 measures 19 feet in diameter and 23 feet long. It is the last passenger section of the 787. Section 48, measuring 14 feet in diameter and 15 feet long, includes the pressure bulkhead and is the first cargo hold section of the airplane.
Vought has fabricated seven aft fuselage production units and one developmental unit since production began in South Carolina last year.
While the 787 is the first commercial airplane to be made primarily of composites, the carbon fiber materials have been widely used in military aircraft, including the B-2, which Vought helped design and manufacture. Other composite structures that Vought builds include the Global Hawk wing, the C-17 horizontal stabilizer and nacelle, and the V-22 fuselage.
Vought has work share on every Boeing jetliner in production, from the 737 to the 777, and has built major structures for the 747 since initial production began in 1968. These include the main fuselage section, doors and the tail section. Vought also builds large wing flaps for the 777 and major subassemblies for the 767, including the center wing section, horizontal stabilizer and aft fuselage.
Since the 787 program was officially launched in April 2004, Boeing has won more than 500 orders from 44 customers. The order pace is the fastest for any commercial airplane in history.
About Vought
Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. (www.voughtaircraft.com) is one of the world's largest independent suppliers of aerostructures. Headquartered in Dallas, the company designs and manufactures major airframe structures such as wings, fuselage subassemblies, empennages, nacelles and other components for prime manufacturers of aircraft. Vought has annual sales of approximately $1.6 billion and about 5,900 employees in nine U.S. locations.
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Here are some bugs I found and how to fix them.
I'll update the list with more when I have time.
Search in thunar not working:
Install catfish
Volume keys not working:
Install xfce4-volumed
Notifications are the ugly default theme:
Change theme to slider
For all users:
Open Root Terminal and run this command:
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gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type string --set /apps/notification-daemon/theme slider
Download and open with Gedbi Package Installer.
http://www.4shared.com/file/LQopvC78/mi ... 4_all.html
Mirror: http://ompldr.org/vOGVuOQ/mintdesktop-x ... 04_all.deb
Compiz SETTINGS DO NOT WORK.(How to here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 04#p413404)
Fonts Looks bad:
Menu --> Settings --> Appearance --> Fonts.
Make sure anti-aliasing is enabled, hinting is set to slight and sub-pixel order is set to RGB.
Menu --> System --> Xfce mintDesktop
Select the System Tweaks tab and then Click the Enable/Disable button next to LCD System Fonts.
Log out and log back in.
Remove Grey Border around desktop icons text:
Menu --> System --> Xfce mintDesktop
Select the System Tweaks tab and then click the Enable/Disable button next to Use white for the font color.
Doesn't reboot the computer after updates:
Caused by debian-installer getting installed.
Remove these packages:
apt remove --purge debian-installer debian-installer-launcher kexec-tools live-tools live-config live-config-sysvinit
Menu gets messed up after updates:
Download and extract the menu I have made below.
Then right click on the menu and select Properties.
Now select Use Custom File and use the file downloaded. There are others but I have other stuff to do and will post them later.