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Bienvenidos a Miami!! What a great feeling to touch down in this city. Bring on the sunshine, warmth, vibrant culture, and colorful cuisine!! Especially after the big chill that I have enjoyed (not) in London , Hamburg & Berlin in the last few days!
Won't have much time to play at the beach, however, as I am here with a killer crew to shoot nine- yes NINE- editorials. Rocked up with 52kg of equipment, wigs, extensions, colour - THE WORKS!
Can't wait to share the outcome with you.
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December 20, 2008
Interesting Christmas Songs by Azer
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all da way. It don't make sense, it don't make sense, da da da da da da HEY! (Yes, he really says "It don't make sense" in the song. I have no idea where he heard this version.)
We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, and a happy "ear".
Do not cry, do not cry, do not cry, I'll tell you why, Santa Claw is comin' to town.
Frosty the Snowman was a jolly ... HEY MOMMY, can we make a snowman?
Reema: Yeah, mommy, can we make a snowman? Paleeeez?
Azer: Peeeeeeeez??
Mommy: We live in Texas, it doesn't snow much.
Azer & Reema: awwwwww.
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Gates of the Arctic Time-lapse
In Alaska I made an effort to capture the passage of time through time-lapse photography. This short clip includes 3000 photos and covers over 5 hours of time. I often set my camera up while our group was taking a break from hiking or when we were eating a meal. It's really difficult to capture the size and beauty of a place like Gates of the Arctic National Park but I hope this gives you a little glimpse into what I witnessed during my 10 days backpacking in the park!


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Top Items:
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Federal agency warns of radicals on right — 9-page report sent to police — The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return …
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice: The DHS Outrage. If the Shoe Fits...
William Teach / Stop The ACLU: Hell Of A Job With North Korea, President Neophyte
Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN: Blinded — My friend Eli Lake at the Washington Times …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner: Re: Not a Big Deal?
Economist.com l WASHINGTON / Democracy in America: Extremism in the defence of liberty
Bruce McQuain / QandO: You Might Be A Right-Wing Extremist If ...
Eric Florack / BitsBlog: Nightly Ramble:The Deluxe Cheeseburger Edition
Michelle Malkin:
Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real — Last night, the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled: — Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.
Discussion: Think Progress, The Liberty Papers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Washington Independent, This ain't Hell …, CBS News, Brilliant at Breakfast, The Strata-Sphere, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Salon, La Shawn Barber's Corner, www.washingtonexaminer.com, NO QUARTER, PoliBlog, PoliGazette, The Obama Legacy, pandagon.net, Liberal Values, Newshoggers.com, The Mahablog and PERRspectives
Ali Frick / Think Progress: Fox host wonders if Obama administration will send 'spies' to tea parties.
Stephen Gordon / The Liberty Papers: DHS Report: "...has likely spurred African Americans …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: The Constitution Is A Subversive Manifesto Per DHS
Brian Montopoli / CBS News: DHS Report Warns Of Right Wing Extremists
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: Conservatives outraged at DHS assessment warning of violent 'rightwing extremism'
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: DHS warns of 'right-wing extremism'
Alex Koppelman / Salon: DHS report warns of rightwing extremism
J. T. / NO QUARTER: Boston Tea Party Plans!
Steven L. Taylor / PoliBlog: You're so Vain, You Probably Think this Report is about You (or, so Paranoid...)
Michael van der Galien / PoliGazette: 'Radicalism' Watch: Gov. Perry endorses resolution affirming state sovereignty
Jesse Taylor / pandagon.net: Unicorn Nuts...On Your Face
Steve Hynd / Newshoggers.com: From The "Shoe On Other Foot" Files
Maha / The Mahablog: Malkin et al. …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition — (updated below - Update II) — Right-wing polemicists today are shrieking in self-pitying protest over a new report from the Department of Homeland Security sent to local police forces which warns of growing "right-wing extremist activity."
Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Corner and Balloon Juice
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: And Then They Came For The Republicans ... At several points …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner: Not That Big a Deal? — This reader makes a point made by others …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Conservatives indict themselves with shrieking over DHS report on right-wing terrorism — My my my. The right, led by Michelle Malkin, is up in arms over the Department of Homeland Security's internal intelligence report on right-wing extremism and its post-Obama resurgence. — Malkin's headline wails:
Discussion: Comments from Left Field
Little Green Footballs:
About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism — Here we go again. — The latest cause for hyperventilation in the right-wing blogosphere is a report from the Department of Homeland Security on the need for vigilance against extreme right-wing groups like Posse Comitatus, militias …
Discussion: protein wisdom and The Strata-Sphere
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The execrable DHS report on "right-wing extremism"
The execrable DHS report on "right-wing extremism"
Steven L. Taylor / PoliBlog: Credit Where Credit is Due (and More on the DHS Report)
John / Power Line:
Watch Out For Those Crazy Right Wingers!
Watch Out For Those Crazy Right Wingers!
Discussion: protein wisdom
Fox News:
Homeland Security Warns of Rise in Right-Wing Extremism
Homeland Security Warns of Rise in Right-Wing Extremism
Discussion: On Deadline and Think Progress
Michael Winter / On Deadline: Report warns of rise of right-wing extremists
Xinhua News Agency:
Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates — Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday. — The Chinese merchant ships escorted …
Discussion: New York Post, Associated Press, La Shawn Barber's Corner, neo-neocon, Flopping Aces, Jules Crittenden and Gawker
Elizabeth A. Kennedy / Associated Press: Somali pirates on hijack spree since weekend
Andrea Shea King / Big Hollywood:
American Tea Party Anthem Singer Lloyd Marcus: "This whole thing is Rush Limbaugh's fault." — From homeless to cause celebre, things are happening fast for the Central Florida singer-songwriter ever since he debuted his now famous "The American Tea Party Anthem" at Orlando's Tea Party three weeks ago.
Discussion: The Foundry
Rory Cooper / The Foundry: Tea Party 101: Prepare for Tax Day
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
The White Man's Protest
The White Man's Protest
Discussion: Daily Kos and Buck Naked Politics
Fox News:
Tea Party Protesters Gird for Possible Liberal Backlash
Tea Party Protesters Gird for Possible Liberal Backlash
Discussion: The TrogloPundit
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Tea Party Activists: Tax Day Events Will Attract 'Silent Majority'
Tea Party Activists: Tax Day Events Will Attract 'Silent Majority'
Discussion: The Liberty Papers, TPMDC, Wonkette, Daily Kos, Politics and Critical Thinking, Gawker and Washington Monthly
Stephen Gordon / The Liberty Papers: Funniest Tea Party poster I've seen so far...
Brian Beutler / TPMDC: FreedomWorks' Long History Of Teabagging
Jim Newell / Wonkette: INTRA-TEABAGGER WARFARE …
David Waldman / Daily Kos: AstroTurf Alert: You can help Save the Rich!
Critical Thinker / Politics and Critical Thinking: Edmund Burke and a Progressive went to a Tea Party.
Leigh Hornbeck / Capitol Confidential:
Even Gillibrand's ballot challenged — This just in from Columbia County: when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's absentee ballot came up in the queue, the poll watchers for Jim Tedisco objected to it, saying the senator was in the county on election day and should have voted in person.
Discussion: Politicker NY, MyDD, the albany project and The Hill
Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY: Tedisco Camp Now Objects to Student Ballots
Jonathan Singer / MyDD: GOP Bites Off More than Can Chew on Election Suits
Phillip Anderson / the albany project: NY-20: They Challenged Gillibrand's Ballot. I Am Not Kidding
Aaron Blake / The Hill: Democrat's lead in N.Y. special up to 56
Jeremy P. Jacobs / The Hill:
Sen. Gillibrand's absentee ballot challenged
Sen. Gillibrand's absentee ballot challenged
Discussion: Albany Times Union
Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY:
As Murphy Goes Up, Republicans Object to Second-Homers, Democrats Allege Ethnic Bias
As Murphy Goes Up, Republicans Object to Second-Homers, Democrats Allege Ethnic Bias
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, the albany project, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room and TPMDC
Phillip Anderson / the albany project: NY-20: Now Tedisco Is Challenging Student Ballots
Jeremy W. Peters / City Room:
Paterson Will Introduce Same-Sex Marriage Bill — Gov. David A. Paterson will announce on Thursday plans to introduce legislation to legalize same-sex marriage, according to people with knowledge of the governor's plans. — Mr. Paterson's move, which he first signaled last week …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Around The Sphere — Our linkfest taking you to sites of varying viewpoints.
Eric Rall / Dean's World: Revising the Defense of Marriage Act
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register: Guv candidate says he'd order halt to gay marriage
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: We've Already Won the Battle Over Gay Marriage
Vincent Rossmeier / Salon: Same-sex marriage coming to New York?
Dan Janison / Spin Cycle: Gov to announce same-sex bill; backers skeptical
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog: Paterson pushing gay marriage
Maggie Gallagher: Don't give up marriage fight! — [cross-posted at Dallas Morning News editorial board blog] — I heard from Maggie Gallagher the other day, who wrote to object to my view that the battle to stop same-sex marriage is lost was not only defeatist, but inaccurate.
Discussion: Good As You and The Daily Dish
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Why Maggie Is Optimistic — Dreher interviews Maggie Gallagher.
Jim Treacher / The Greenroom:
Staged Military Photo Ops Suddenly Awesome — Back in 2003, the left was astonished and dismayed that George W. Bush got such a warm Thanksgiving welcome from ...
Discussion: The Plum Line and Moonbattery
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Photo Challenges Conservative Bloggers' Claim Of "Staged" Obama Troop Visit
Van Helsing / Moonbattery: Free Cameras for Phony Photo Op
Floyd Norris:
The Case of the Missing Month — I blogged the Goldman Sachs call this morning, starting at 7 a.m. The newest posts are at the top. — 7:50 a.m.| Call Over: The call ended quietly with little additional talk about December. — 7:45 a.m.| How Quickly We Forget …
Discussion: The Atlantic Business Channel, The Big Picture, Paul Krugman, Hullabaloo, CANNONFIRE, Newsweek Blogs, TPMMuckraker and DealBook
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture: How to Puff Up Earnings, Goldman Sachs Style
Barrett Sheridan / Newsweek Blogs: Goldman's Gold — Floyd Norris blogged the Goldman Sachs conference call this morning.
Christine Harper / Bloomberg:
Goldman Sachs's Viniar 'Mystified' by Interest in AIG
Goldman Sachs's Viniar 'Mystified' by Interest in AIG
Discussion: naked capitalism and Clusterstock
Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock: Goldman CFO Doesn't Get Why Everyone Is So Obsessed With AIG
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Shuster: If you plan on 'tea bagging all around the country, you're going to need a Dick Armey.' — On MSNBC's Countdown yesterday, David Shuster — filling in for Keith Olbermann — took Fox News to task for so aggressively promoting the right wing's anti-Obama tea parties.
Discussion: The Seminal
Jason Rosenbaum / The Seminal: Crowdsourcing the Tea-baggery
Pat G. / Wonk Room:
Shuster: If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country …
Shuster: If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country …
Discussion: Think Progress, Crooks and Liars, MSNBC and AmSpecBlog
John Amato / Crooks and Liars: Shuster: Teabagging a Dick Armey
J. Peter Freire / AmSpecBlog: You Shall Know Our Ignorance! — My sometime sparring partner …
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Obama Meets Privately With the Dead — Musicians Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the band The Dead perform in NYC, March 30, 2009. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images ) — The surviving (and formerly feuding) members of the Grateful Dead had a secret impromptu meeting Monday evening with the man they credit with reuniting them: President Obama.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Swamp
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog: The Dead reunite — again
Mark Silva / The Swamp: Grateful Dead: Live in the Oval Office
New York Post:
ELIOT SPITZER'S WANDERING EYE ON AG — BEHIND Eliot Spitzer's flaccid attempt at re-erecting his public persona is a plan to run for state attorney general in 2010, sources told Page Six. — After launching a column on Slate.com, and giving interviews to National Public Radio and the …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool, Gawker and Clusterstock
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: Eliot Spitzer Will Not Be Your Next Attorney General
Jay Yarow / Clusterstock: Eliot Spitzer Wants His Old Job Back!
Megan McArdle:
Democracy and Capitalism — I've been thinking a lot lately about the political theory of an independent central bank. A lot of the libertarians I know have deep issues with the activities of the Fed, which have been largely unaccountable to elected officials. — That's a valid critique.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and The American Scene
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The American Scene: Are Democracy and Capitalism Compatible?
Robert Farley / American Prospect:
AND A SPECIAL PIRATE ROUND-UP. — There's an avalanche of piracy related material today. Noah Shachtman has a fabulous rundown of what's wrong with several of the major proposed solutions for fighting piracy. Dave Schuler does pretty much the same bit, and comes to the same conclusions.
Discussion: Moe Lane, Information Dissemination, USNI Blog and Majikthise
Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise: Questions about the Navy's new pirate policy
Washington Post:
'3 Rounds, 3 Dead Bodies'
'3 Rounds, 3 Dead Bodies'
Discussion: New York Post, MSNBC, Majikthise, MoJo Blog Posts and Telegraph
Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise: Enough dead teen pirate porn already
Jonathan Stein / MoJo Blog Posts: Obama Is the Pirate-Killingest President Ever
Mike Pflanz / Telegraph: Somali pirates seize four more ships
Not Larry Sabato:
Virginia Republicans are for [Lesbian] Lovers — Wow- at the official Republican Party of Virginia Youtube channel- look at what video they loaded as a "favorite" on Youtube. — WARNING: DO NOT WATCH VIDEO UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE SOFT CORE PORN SPONSORED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA.
Ben Widdicombe / StyleList Fashion Blog:
Barbara Bush to Marry in Maine This Summer? — While Michelle Obama (and that dude she married) have been enjoying the spotlight during their first few months in the White House, I hear a little stardust is about to sprinkle on the previous family to live there. — Summer wedding in Maine, anyone?
Discussion: Gawker and Anne Schroeder's Blog
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blog: Barbara Bush to marry this summer?
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
National Republicans Get Behind Specter — National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn released a letter today offering a full-throated endorsement of Sen. Arlen Specter in his coming primary against former congressman Pat Toomey, a decision driven by a concern …
Discussion: Don Surber, MSNBC, FiveThirtyEight and Hot Air
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC: A LOOK AT PA: TOOMEY MAKES IT OFFICIAL
Andrew Sullivan / The Huffington Post:
Palin's AG Pick Defended KKK Statue, Mocked Offended Student — Sarah Palin's choice for attorney general once wrote a column defending the statue of a KKK figure as an expression of free speech and mocked the psychology of a college student who protested the display.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Political Machine and The Daily Beast
Tommy Christopher / Political Machine: Sarah Palin's AG Pick Under Unfair Fire for Defense of KKK Statue
The Politico:
GOP scrambles to show it has ideas — House Republican Whip Eric Cantor — the man Democrats dubbed "Dr. No" — is taking great pains these days to prove he has a raft of ideas of his own. — Stung by the Democratic barbs, the House's No. 2 Republican is unveiling a "Solutions Center" …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Plunderbund and PoliGazette
Jill Miller Zimon / The Moderate Voice: Eric Cantor's Solutions Center epitomizes GOP's failure to understand, relate
Michael van der Galien / PoliGazette: The Idea-less Party — That's the image the GOP is struggling to overcome.
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Burr told family to withdraw everything from bank — Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says when the financial crisis began he encouraged his wife to withdraw all the cash she possibly could from their local bank. — During a speech on the economy last night, Burr related his immediate reaction the week the crisis began.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, HT, PoliGazette and Senate Guru
James Shea / HT | http://www.blueridgenow.com: Sen. Burr speaks on economy
Michael van der Galien / PoliGazette: Link Mess — Here is your daily link mess. Don't know what 'link mess' is?
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
THE GOP'S SILENCE ON MN IS DEAFENING — From NBC's Mark Murray — While the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released statements last night congratulating Al Franken and ratcheting up the pressure for Norm Coleman to bow out, we haven't heard a peep from national Republicans.
Media Matters / Media Matters for America: Scarborough to Coleman: "Norm ...
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC: GOP On Coleman's Court Defeat: Silence
Emily Kaiser / City Pages: NRSC stands 'firmly behind' Coleman's appeal
Jonathan Stein / MoJo Blog Posts: Senator Franken, Almost
Dave Mindeman / mnpACT!: Norm's Situation Now Has Broader Political Stakes
Todd Beeton / MyDD: MN-Sen: More Right-Wing Victimization Whining From The NRSC
Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Kmiec on Dawn Johnsen: Former OLC head Douglas Kmiec argues in the Legal Times that Senate Republicans should not obstruct the confirmation of Dawn Johnsen to be head of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department. I agree. He writes: … UPDATE: In the comments below …
Discussion: ACSBlog
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Vatican vetoes Obama nominees for ambassador — Caroline Kennedy deemed unacceptable because of abortion views — The Vatican has vetoed three of Barack Obama's potential nominees as US ambassador amid a growing dispute between the White House and the Roman Catholic church …
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Goldberg tells Hannity, "I'm sorry, Sean ... but we have to stop going out of our way to find fault with every single thing he [Obama] does." — Wow that is about the 4 or 5 time in the last few days that an Fox commentator has voiced support for Pres Obams. Kirstin Powers , Mara Liasson, Bill O'Reilly, Bob Beckel and now Goldberg.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Paul Haven / Associated Press:
Decision likely in US torture case in Spain — MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spanish prosecutors will likely decide this week whether to recommend a full investigation into allegations that six Bush Administration officials sanctioned torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, an official in the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts


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To access the Grand Canyon University student portal, navigate to MyPortal.GCU.edu, and click the Student Portal Homepage link. Sign in with your Grand Canyon University credentials.
The Grand Canyon University student portal provides students with access to classes. If you are taking several courses at Grand Canyon University, use the links in the student portal to toggle back and forth between classes. The university recommends doing this because limitations may prevent you from seeing all of your current courses on the Learning Management System class list. When you log into the portal, you can access each class you enrolled in as a student.
In addition to class access, the student portal provides access to personal financial records, academic records, personalized Grand Canyon University alerts and an online payment feature. You can also access your LoudCloud classes by signing into the student portal. Accessing your LoudCloud classrooms through the student portal allows you to directly access the correct site to log into the system. You can still access your LoudCloud classes in the event of a service interruption, which the student portal periodically experiences, such as for scheduled maintenance.
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Located in Bay City, TX, we are your local, comprehensive dental solution for the entire family. Perfect Dental of Bay City can help you begin your journey to a healthy, beautiful smile.
Cleaning & Prevention
A focus on preventive dentistry helps you maintain the highest standard of oral health while limiting dental expenditures.
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When you step into Perfect Dental of Bay City, you'll know you've found the perfect place for your family's care.
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Wisdom teeth, extra teeth, or very crowded teeth present situations that may mean treatment involving removal.
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Compellingly fabricate resource channels
Synergistically foster business strategic theme areas without progressive potentialities. Proactively synthesize pandemic paradigms whereas installed base systems. Dramatically fabricate end-to-end networks with worldwide opportunities. Competently enable high standards in infrastructures for professional expertise. Progressively morph front-end systems and customized services.
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Rule Check: File Group Ownership
The File Group Ownership check determines whether one or more files are owned by a specific user group or by one of a list of user groups.
The name of the file to look for. If the file is not present, the test will either Fail or be Indeterminate, depending on the state of the Mark finding as Failed if the check was indeterminate checkbox, accessible at Settings > Configuration Scanner.
Any valid, full path to a single file, a comma-delimited list of paths to individual files, a single wildcard file path, or a comma-delimited list of wildcard file paths is acceptable.
Note: The asterisk (*) is the only acceptable wildcard character. You cannot use a question mark.
Some valid examples:
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The group names (not group GIDs) of the group(s)that should include the group owner of this file. Any single name or comma separated list of names is acceptable. Use the
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Incorporating locally available biomass into the soil, as a mean to increase its content in organic matter in the long term.
Projects & Practice
Tularù is an organic and multi-functional closed-cycle farm born that began life as a centre for sustainable production. It offers an alternative approach to solving current environmental, social and economic issues for farms.
A pilot programme in Scotland on Public Procurement led to new opportunities and markets for Scottish SMEs.
The Think Local development programme focuses on developing collaboration in short supply chain, by bringing together existing initiatives on farmers' markets, farm retail, food tourism, regional food and drink networks and in developing added value for rural producers.
An investment project that allowed a company to fill the gap in the local supply chain for wood chips in the north-west of Ireland.
Acquisition of a wood chipper that produces chips for cogeneration more efficiently, thus reducing the cost of tools and consumables per unit of finished product.
Set up an operational group to test different practices for optimal catch crop management and assess their efficiency in reducing nitrogen and carbon emissions.
On-farm processing can add value to the product and can also make farming a more attractive choice for young farmers - as demonstrated by a berry farm in Finland.
A project that demonstrates how agri-environment support can significantly help the protection of the environment while also increasing the profitability of a farm.
The project aimed to improve farmers' soil management skills and know-how on profitable and resource-efficient farming.


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Android Emulators • ePSXe for Android v2.0.3
Requirements: 2.2+
Overview: ePSXe for Android is a Playstation emulator (PSX and PSOne).
It is a port of the famous ePSXe for PC. ePSXe provides very high compatibility (>99%), good speed, and accurate sound. It is designed for smartphones and tablets, (for 1-4 players) including a fun 2 players option with split screen mode. It includes virtual touchscreen pad support, hardware buttons mapping (Xperia Play, phones with keyboard or gamepad, external gamepads bluetooth or USB such as WiiMote, Sixaxis, Xbox 360, Moga, Ipega) and analog sticks. ePSXe supports OpenGL HD enhanced graphics thanks to the Peopsxgl Plugin, cheat codes as well as savestates and memcards compatibility with the PC version. ePSXe includes native support for ARM and Intel Atom X86. More info: epsxe.com/android/
IMPORTANT: ePSXe doesn't include games, Games must be provided by user.
* Fix ECM
* Added shaders support (simple custom shader can be added). Thanks to Hyllian & Lottes.
* Added 2D-Filters: 2xSAI and xBRZx2/4. Thanks to Zenju.
* Added support for Sub-pixel precision to hw renderer (at x2/x4)
* Fixed garbage on borders in some games
* Fixed vibration on player 1
* Fixed the game The Hive
* Fixed PBP support on Nexus Player in android 6.0
* Added support for PPFv3 and support to autoload several PPFs by game
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Me: Why would someone break in?
Me: Because Sei's not here.
Me: Sei's worked nites before. Why would someone break in tonite? No one knows he's not here.
Me: There's only 1 car in the driveway.
Me: The other car could be in the garage.
Me: That's true. I didn't think of that.
Me: What if someone breaks in?
Me: The alarm is on. ADT would call the cops.
Me: Does the alarm work if someone breaks thru a window.
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With the new album mere moments away from release, supergroup KXM – Dug Pinnick of King's X on vocals/bass, George Lynch of Lynch Mob/Dokken on guitars, and Ray Luzier of Korn on drums – released the latest music video from their new record Circle Of Dolls. The video for "Time Flies" shows the band right at home recording in the studio and serves as a sneak peek into the renowned chemistry that these astonishing musicians have with each other. Watch the video for "Time Flies" here: https://youtu.be/A78EGcTA6HA.
Building upon the success of their 2014 self-titled debut and 2017's Scatterbrain, KXM's Circle Of Dolls is scheduled for release tomorrow September 13th via Rat Pak Records and will also be available via Frontiers Music SRL in Europe. Circle Of Dolls is currently available for pre-order via the Rat Pak Records website in various bundle configurations including turquoise & black splatter vinyl, cassette and hand autographed CD packages at: https://smarturl.it/KXMbundles. From the infectious riff of the album opener "War of Words" to the album finale of "The Border," KXM have yet again created something truly special and musically diverse. Circle Of Dolls features 13 brand new tracks and was recorded at the Steakhouse studio in North Hollywood California where the band once again tapped Chris "The Wizard" Collier to engineer and co-produce the new effort.
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Kamelot have long been among the most prestigious and innovative acts in the history of the rock and metal genre. Their blend of melodic metal, progressive influences and doom/gothic metal references has ensured that albums such as The Fourth Legacy (1999), Karma (2001) and The Black Halo (2005) turned into absolute masterpieces. Their 2015 release Haven not only established a new generation of fans for the band, but also took the group to more countries and cities than ever. Thanks to lots of sold-out shows, most successful tour of their career to date.
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In late 2016 the band entered the studio to begin recording their follow-up to the highly acclaimed chart topping album Haven. Haven debut #1 on the Billboard Music charts and was the highest overall charting release for the band in nearly all countries. The new album titled THE SHADOW THEORY will make Kamelot history as it will be released worldwide (excl. Asia) on Napalm Records/Universal and Napalm Records/ADA/Warner as an exclusive licensing deal through the band's KAMELOT MUSIC LLC and will showcase Kamelot at yet another level, both in terms of production and visual artistry.
It's time to step into the dystopic and psychological world of The Shadow Theory. The new album features all the signature elements of Kamelot but the band steps out to add new and industrial elements along with bringing some amazing emotions that harken to the band's earlier days. Kamelot's artsy music is chock full of symbolism relating to how the band feels about the world and the current state of civilization.
"The Shadow Theory album is a psychological journey through the complexity of the Human Mind. We are subjected to stimuli constantly through media, technology, social experiments and AI. Can we still be social creatures in the near future? The Shadow Theory is an album that is mixing many worlds, giving the listener an Escape within our own realities. This album was written and recorded over the entire year and we are really proud of the song elements and diversity on The Shadow Theory", adds guitarist Thomas Youngblood.
Produced by acclaimed music producer Sascha Paeth and mastered by Jacob Hansen, The Shadow Theory is a huge and massive album that is sure to please critics and fans alike. Additional guests include Lauren Hart (Once Human), Jennifer Haben (Beyond The Black) and Oliver Hartmann (Avantasia). The amazing and cover and artwork was created by Stefan Heilemann.
Following the release of The Shadow Theory, Kamelot will embarque on a massive World Tour, starting with North America in April/May 2018 followed by European shows in the Summer 2018 and with The Shadow Theory European Tour in September/October 2018 the band will return to Europe for their biggest headliner tour to date.
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Jamie Brown from the band Roxanne called in and talked about the bands current release, the state of tribute bands, era music and so much more. As well as George Lynch and dUg.
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Jimi Bell replaces Steve Lynch in Autograph - Debut show August 31st
House of Lords guitarist Jimi Bell jumps into the new role in Autograph as the replacement of Steve Lynch. Jimi brings a kick ass history of axe slingin' and is ready to make his show debut with the band on August 31st in Woodstock, VA along with Kix at the Shenandoah County Fair.
If you aren't familiar with his work, his resume stretches far and was also the runner up to Zakk Wylde in Ozzy. Performed in the movie "Light of Day," just to name a few.
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A little introduction: Jimi Bell is our new member on guitar/vocals. Our chemistry with Jimi Is absolutely undeniable! We're looking forward to release the Kraken on our very first "AUTOGRAPH"show together Sat. Aug. 31st in Woodstock VA. We'll be at rehearsal later on and post a fun live clip of the gang rockin' out.
Most are familiar with Jimi's axe-slinging skills in with "House Of Lords" and "Maxx Explosion". He is also the inventor of the Shredneck. Jimi appeared in the 1986 Michael J Fox/ Joan Jett film " Light Of Day" where he was both a performer in the movie and played on the sound track album. His band also toured with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. In 1986 Jimi was the # 1 runner up for Ozzy Osbourne. He then went on to play with Geezer Butler, David Wayne of Metal Church,Thunderhead and other extremely successful and respected artists. As a session player he has played for the WWE, UFC, ESPN, and NASCAR to name a few. Jimi's musical styles range from AOR Pop to Classic RNR and Metal. Currently Jimi is an official enforcer of GHS Strings, Marshall Amps ( Europe), Ovation guitars, Roberts Guitars, Viper Guitars, Charvel Guitars and PVX Guitars. We glue and we blend with Jimi as if we have been playing together for years. We are one!! You are us, We are you! Photos being taken by Joe Schaeffer tomorrow. (click on picture) REVOLVER Magazine
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Fun interview with Barry Kerch of Shinedown and Raven Black. Bill jumped in with Dom in the Barry interview. George rocked it out with the duo from Raven Black. These were interviews from Inkcarceration Festival.
Music Played: Crobot, Shinedown, Liv Sin, and possibly a few more.
We also played the weekly Rock N Metal Newz segment.
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KINGS X and TROPE kick off their UK shows on 17th September.
The tour starts the build up to the release of the long awaited new album from KINGS X which is due early spring next year.
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The San Diego International Airport has put three new exhibits on display featuring two local photographers and the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park.
In several locations in Terminal 2, the airport is showing a selection from the History Center's current exhibition, "TUNA! Celebrating San Diego's Famous Fishing Industry." The exhibit offers large-scale photographs and artifacts relating to the region's once flurishing commerical fishing industry. It's at the airport through September; the primary exhibit is on view in Balboa Park through Dec. 31.
In Terminal 2 East (near gate 23), photographer Natasha Kozlova is showing portraits from her "Children of the Sun" project, which involved photographing children diagnosed with autism.
Kozlova is a Russian born photographer whose images have appeared in Russian editions of VOGUE, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Glamour, as well as at Art Moscow, RuArts Gallery and other Russian art spaces. She moved to San Diego in 2007. "Children of the Sun" will be on display through October.
Also in Terminal 2 East (near gate 22) are photographs by Christine Witnik. For this exhibit, she's showing nostalgia-tinged photos from carnivals, circuses and amusement parks. She shoots in black and white, and then colors and hand paints her photographs.
Witnik moved to San Diego six years ago from Chicago, where she had won awards from the Deer Path Art League, the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and Chicago's Community Arts Assistance Program and had exhibited at the Brickton Gallery, among other venues.
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The second stage of Billbergia's Wentworth Point Marinas, The Broadwater is the highly anticipated new release that mixes stylish, sophisticated living with leisure and lifestyle on your doorstep.
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FREEING: a companion novel to the USA Today bestseller, Fading.
Knowing who you are and accepting who you are come at different prices.
Jase Kinrick grew up in your typical, all-American household. But after the death of his sister, his parents shut down, forcing him to deal with everything life throws his way alone. Terrified of the person he's discovering himself to be, Jase has his way with every willing girl to try and rid himself of what he fears he is—gay.
Escaping California and moving to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, Jase frees himself to the reality that he likes men. Never staying with any guy long enough to get to know them, he doesn't realize that he's still hiding from who he is until he meets Mark. Scared of having real feelings for another guy stirs up the questions
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To strip away the barriers to the heart of what is real, and to be okay with what lies underneath, will be Jase's moment of truth. But he'll need Mark to lead him there.
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My head is completely aloof from my sleeping pill. I know I shouldn't be driving right now, but I just can't be alone. Lying in my room in the darkness, all I can see is him. All I can hear is his voice. It's too much, and I need the comfort of my friend right now. I need to be in his hold. To feel safe in his bed.
When the elevator stops on Jase's floor, I step out and head to his apartment. Quietly unlocking his door, I walk through the darkness to his room. I stop when I see he's not alone. Suddenly, I feel like an intrusion—selfish.
Going back into the living room, leaving Mark and Jase be, I sit on the couch. I'm still shaking from the fear that was able to overtake me back at my house. Alone. I feel it now. I'm desperately needy, and I'm all alone. It's selfish of me to think that I can keep coming over here for Jase. Taking from him to comfort myself.
I tuck my knees under my chin as the tears start to flood and spill over. As quietly as I can manage, I cry. I release the loneliness and sadness that begins to consume me. Resting my forehead on my knees, I weep softly. I couldn't hold it in even if I tried. I can't be by myself, but I feel like I can't be here either.
The cushion dips down and when I look up, Mark is next to me. His expression hurts, I hate it. Pity. He would never admit to it, but I see it so clearly. I don't want him to feel sorry for me, but I don't have the strength to pull myself together right now. I need support, so I don't even speak when I lean into him as he folds me up in his arms.
In a weird way, a way I can't explain, the pain swells and abates at the same time. My cries grow harder as Mark holds me and whispers in my ear that it'll be okay. I don't believe him. It can't be. I wonder if it will ever be.
He allows me to let go in his arms, all the while, never loosening his tight hold on me.
I need it.
It's my safety.
Time passes when he eventually speaks. "Wanna talk about it?"
Lifting my head from his chest, I see Jase sitting in the chair next to the couch Mark and I are on. He gives me a slight nod before I turn my attention back to Mark and whisper, "I'm sorry. I . . . I just didn't want to be alone, but . . . I guess I just didn't think you'd be here. I'm not used to Jase having a boyfriend." Not knowing what to say to explain my sudden appearance here in the middle of the night, I close my eyes and simply admit, "I'm just so tired."
"I know," is all he says when he tucks me under his chin and holds me again.
Before I know it, I am being lifted into Jase's arms. He hugs me before taking my hands and leading me to his bed. The three of us crawl in.
I finally feel it.
Settled in between the two of them, wrapped in my friends' arms, I'm protected. If only for this moment—I can breathe.
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Some people like to climb the Himalayas or go white water rafting for thrills. I get my kicks by cooking for people. I absolutely love it. And no, it's not because of some maternal instinct in me, urging me to care for and nourish others.
It's the fast pace, the daily challenges and rush of excitement I get from being in the kitchen everyday. Watching someone take a bite of a dish we've prepared and seeing them smile, it's instant gratification...daily successes.
The restaurant world is male-driven. Most people are surprised to see me at the helm of Red Rooster's kitchen. I can't describe the number of times I get questioning looks whenever purveyors or repairmen are told that I'm in charge.
The stereotyping isn't new to me; I even find it within my own kitchen. Just last week, one cook took to calling me "Mama" while on the line. I dealt with him after service wrapped. It's my job to manage and educate my staff not only in cooking, but in professionalism.
Aside from these minor incidences, I'm thankful to work with such a supportive, diverse team of people. I don't like saying I run the kitchen, because chefs Jimmy and Mike do just as much as I do, not to mention Marcus.
My dreams of becoming a dancer were cut short due to an injury, and so I immediately transferred my passion for performing into cooking. I was fortunate enough to have begun my career under Amy Scherber of Amy's Breads, a female chef who revolutionized baking in New York City during the 90s.
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Fake news sells better than real news
We've all heard a lot about fake news during 2017. In fact, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it has never happened before, such is the hype surrounding it.
Paradoxically, the reality is very different. Fake news has been going on, well, since man began telling stories…
The Turin Shroud is believed by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ, yet three radiocarbon dating tests in 1988, showed that the cloth was made no earlier than the Middle Ages. You can imagine, if a cloth in which Jesus had been wrapped had been 'found' bearing his image following crucifixion, it would have been the lead story on the ten o'clock news, (if there had been such a thing back in those days).
In the town of Bayeux, northern France, you can see what is arguably another one of the world's oldest pieces of fake news - The Bayeux Tapestry. The victor's view of the Norman conquest of England is believed to have been commissioned by Bishop Odo, William the Conqueror's half-brother, shortly after his victory. It was finished in 1077, ten years after it was begun.
Experts now say it was an embroidery not a tapestry, I'm not here to argue about that, but before we even get started you can see there's controversy.
Nearly one thousand years old, it depicts a sequence of scenes telling the story of the events which led up to the Norman invasion of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror, and his defeat of the British ruler, Harold Godwinson, at the battle of Hastings.
George Wingfield Digby wrote of the tapestry in his book, Technique and Production:
The historical accounts of what happened at Hastings, the day Harold died, are mostly taken from the tapestry. We all know the story don't we? Harold looked up, got shot with an arrow penetrating his eye. Odd how this was, in those days, a fate said to be the appropriate one for people who break a sworn oath? Did Harold really get shot in the eye? Or was he trampled by some French horses and chopped to pieces?
Giant batmen on the moon
More recently, in 1835, the New York Sun ran a story about John Herschel, an eminent British astronomer. A series of news articles said he had spotted giant man-bats, blue goat-like creatures, and beavers that walked on two legs and could build fires - all seen on the moon. The newspaper even ran an artists' impression of the findings. Herschel was a well-respected scientist with one of the world's most powerful telescopes in an observatory in South Africa. It must have been true, mustn't it?
Then in 1993, less than five months after Bill Clinton had been sworn in as President of the United States of America, the Weekly World News had what I would describe as the most sensational story ever, about the then first lady, Hillary Clinton.
It ran the news that she had adopted an alien baby, and even had an 'official photo' on its front page. Just as intriguing, was the spin-off story about the Secret Service who were apparently building a special nursery for the alien baby inside the walls of the White House.
In the last few years, mysteries surrounding plane crashes have been closely covered. On 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing - flight MH370 went missing, without a trace.
The mystery was finally solved, just six days later, by the Sunday Sport, which had photographs of the airliner on the moon. Hard to believe, I know. But it wasn't the first time that the Sport had done this, they were experts at finding airplanes on the moon. In 1988 they'd found a missing World War II bomber there, which made history at the time, though it vanished without a trace a few days later, deepening the mystery.
The concept of fake news is far from new and far from unique
What has been the purpose of fake news up until now?
Well, put simply, it's to sell things to people who like the incredible, improbable or the amazing and to create revenue for those selling it. To monetise the fake stories.
Experts have dated the Turin Shroud back to between 1260 and 1390, which is wholly consistent with the shroud's first known exhibition in France in 1357. Later on in its history, it was even exchanged by a widow who in 1453, had it in her possession following her husband's death. She used it to pay for a castle in France.
In 1543, John Calvin, the influential French theologian, pastor and reformer, wrote:
He reasoned that either St. John was a liar, or else anyone who promotes such a shroud is convicted of 'falsehood and deceit'.
Since the beginning of the 19th century, the shroud has appeared in no less than ten exhibitions. A whole industry has sprung up around displaying, debunking or verifying it. Today Shroud of Turin centres and organisations exist all over the world.
Returning to the Bayeux Tapestry for a moment, William the conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo, the one who commissioned it, apparently also commissioned the cathedral it was to adorn. Cathedral chapters financed construction projects by actively raising money from congregations. One of the methods they used was to put items on display or arrange for relics to go on tour - items that could draw a huge crowd and raise large sums of cash, exactly like his 'comic book' tapestry.
The New York Sun newspaper editor who ran the story about batmen on the moon, well, he just made it all up. It's believed that his paper's circulation more than doubled. It overtook The Times of London to become the best selling daily newspaper in the world at the time of the story.
Supermarket tabloid newspapers such as the one that broke the Hillary alien baby story, were all the rage during the eighties and nineties in the USA. They sold millions of copies.
In the UK, the Sunday Sport was so successful when it was launched in 1986, just before they found the first airliner on the moon, that it turned into a daily newspaper. By 2005 it was selling 190,000 copies a day.
So we like fake news? We have always liked fake news? What happened in 2016 and 2017 then?
Well, here it is - the Russians got involved.
Yep. And worse than that. They started paying for advertising space in their dreaded roubles (or rubles if you're an American English speaker) on things like Facebook and Twitter to try and get you to click on their posts.
And here's the bombshell you weren't expecting - It was just like before, like all the fake news in history. Different stories benefited different sides of the political spectrum, because really it was just about making money.
Monetising fake news.
How does today's fake news make money?
Clickbait. A salacious headline like many of the ones we see about Hillary or Trump of late are just made up. They are bait to hook you in. And this technique is perpetrated by people in countries all over the world - from Abania to Zimbabwe.
As this piece in the Guardian explains:
But it doesn't always stop there. Once they get enough 'likes', there may even be the opportunity to sell the Facebook page on, as a going concern in itself.
Sometimes the headlines are designed to drag you to the fake news website where the fake news story is held. On the fake news site there is advertising. The more website traffic they get, the more money they make from advertisers and via affiliate deals.
And here's the rub, every Facebook trickster in the world is chucking their money at the US right now. And yes, even the Russians are chucking their roubles at the United States and creating fake US posts. Why? Because an American reader is worth three to four times as much to an advertiser than any other reader on earth.
Fake news sites are peppered with fake news stories that are US-centric especially to attract US readers.
The best way to get you to click? Use the correct words in your headline, as an eighteen-year-old Macedonian clickbait entrepreneur earning thousands, says in this article:
Some of the information in the posts appears to have been re-purposed from existing websites, including many in the US.
Besides politics, 'health stories' with fake homemade cures for serious illnesses, weight-loss tips and anti-ageing miracles are also popular ways to reel readers in.
Sarah Thompson is an expert in tracking down and documenting click-bait and runs the 'Exploiting the Niche' Facebook page. She is quoted in an article by BuzzFeed news as listing the growth areas for fake Facebook pages and clickbait themes:
Copycatted native American pages are being run by people in Kosovo and Vietnam, and scam artists traced to Georgia, are even making money from fake news aimed at Britsh and Canadian readers about hoax terror attacks in their home countries.
Content is also borrowed from the mainstream media and other existing news and campaign organisations. Sometimes the stories will be posted with the addition of invented details; sometimes they just will just have a fascinating or downright untrue headline added.
Polls, rallies or protest events are also popular ways to get Facebook clicks, direct someone to a website or even harness user data.
Some posts about Hillary Clinton have been a hit with curious Facebookers, although apparently, only the negative ones get the amount of click traffic needed to make significant money. It appears the main things we all want to read about are mess ups, controversy and bad fortune.
According to some clickbait spammers, in the run-up to the elections, Bernie Sanders-related content didn't perform well at all. Nobody was interested in large enough volumes to click. Though there is some 'Buff Bernie' colouring book advertising out there, this advert paid for in Russian roubles apparently only received around 54 clicks.
Many of the controversial political posts appear to be events. If you click 'going' on an event on Facebook - the event organiser can harness data from you, such as your birth date and phone number, send you surveys about pensions, direct you to their websites, and generally sell you all manner of other goods and services.
In very extreme and rare cases, unscrupulous Facebook accounts may even sell on the personal information they might obtain when you agree to attend an event, for others to attempt to hack into your accounts - or get you to click onto a dodgy link which may contain a virus.
But is the initial act of spreading the fake news actually a crime?
If it were a crime, then none of those supermarket tabloid newspapers in the US would ever have existed, the Sunday Sport would be banned and the Turin Shroud would be a laughing stock, rather than something still debated over and venerated by many to this very day.
Do the people who are running these Facebook pages all over the world, and asking for 'likes' really care about politics or are they just selling fake news to make money?
Selling fake news has always been a lucrative business, and it will always be the case. It just so happens that the US elections and Brexit have been incredibly controversial subjects that everyone wants to read about. Many canny Facebook entrepreneurs across the globe have figured out a way to make money out of that fact.
The mainstream news media have cottoned onto this fact. With reducing circulation in the newspaper industry, many have gone out of print, ditched the hard copy version and/or realised that they have to up their game in the click-bait stakes if they want to haul back their readership online. Some mainstream British daily newspapers openly admit that they now employ analytics specialists to look at what is trending on the internet, and what the public are reading - in order to write click-bait headlines around these themes.
Trump is fish food in the media
It could be argued that a recent example of the clickbait fake-news phenomenon in the mainstream media, has been the Trump fish food saga. Trump was recently seen feeding koi carp alongside the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, on a visit to Akasaka Palace in Tokyo.
These are some of the click-bait headlines which resulted:
Yet when you click through to watch the pool footage, you see the whole story in its full context, with the Japanese prime minister arguably taking the lead in the proceedings.
So when you hear the Senate shout about how a relatively small proportion of America's fake news was paid for in Russian roubles, just remember Hillary's alien baby and the koi carp clickbait incident.
All is not always what it seems at first glance.


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See no evil
By Diogenes (articles ) | Sep 10, 2004
In Redemptionis Sacramentum, the Congregation for Divine Worship listed liturgical abuses that are prevalent throughout the Western world.
In a classic example of how American prelates react to Vatican directives, Cardinal Roger Mahony has now announced that, despite exhaustive study, he cannot find evidence of the abuses the Vatican warned against.
While we all must constantly re-evaluate our liturgical practice and not allow it to become routine or careless, I have determined that there is no need to make any significant changes in our liturgical practice at this time.... We have not become aware of any serious abuses.
Maybe the Congregation for Divine Worship is delusional. That's disturbing.
But it's gratifying to know that in the Los Angeles archdiocese, one could never find:
- Priests who "take upon themselves the right to compose their own Eucharist Prayers"-- a practice that it "not to be tolerated."
- The use of musical instruments or singing during the Eucharistic Prayer.
- The breaking of the host at the time of Consecration-- which the Vatican said should be "reprobated and is to be corrected with haste."
- Preaching at Mass by anyone other than an ordained priest or deacon.
- The use of sacred vessels made from "glass, earthenware, or clay."
- Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist employed at times when there are several priests and/or deacons present to distribute Communion.
- Liturgical dance.
- The scheduling of First Communion for children who have not yet made their first confession.
- Excessive commotion associated with the Sign of Peace.
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Posted by: SentimentalGent -
Sep. 11, 2004 4:46 PM ET USA
I agree with verax except for one thing — can we make that ticket one-way for a group? In these cost-conscious times, we might save a few bucks by sending wayward bishops in multiples.
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 9:16 PM ET USA
Diogenes, must be an endemic problem as you suuggest, and caused by to many meds.
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 8:19 PM ET USA
Cardinal Mahony certainly interpreted very liberally sections 19,21, and 22 of Redemptionis Sacramentum on the role of the bishop and carefully did not, I repeat, not refer to 17 which gives authority to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. What an ego! Margaret
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 8:03 PM ET USA
Welcome back Diogenes. We missed you!
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 5:33 PM ET USA
The Cardinal of Los Angeles seems to be using the same tactic for the liturgical abuses under his nose as he did with clerical abuse of minors. Of course such a terrible thing does not exist in HIS archdiocese. "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" because if you do, you will have to do something about it. At last most bishops have that much of a conscience! Jashu
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 5:27 PM ET USA
Will gladly contribute for that ONE-WAY ticket to take M. to Tibet.
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 1:19 PM ET USA
While I have never attended Mass in the LA diocese, the evidence shown on CWN and elsewhere is indicative of abuse. Cdl. Mahoney's attitude is eerily similar to that of another Archbishop who thumbed his nose at Rome for decades - one Rembert Weakland. Birds of a feather...?
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 12:01 PM ET USA
I see at least one of these abuses at every Mass in my diocese! To add icing to this rotten cake, the homilies range from politically correct pablum to heresy. I suspect that there is all of this and more in Cardinal Mahony's diocese. It is nice that Rome has issued Redemptionis Sacramentum, but when will the Vatican actually ENFORCE it?
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 11:21 AM ET USA
Knowing there was certainly at least some broad mental reservation in his statement I read the letter looking for his way out and it only took 3 paragraphs to find THE catchphrase I was looking for... "But this Instruction cannot be read in isolation." Classic. Actually though, I think Card. Mahoney SHOULD read this in isolation, perhaps in a remote location like Tibet where he can no longer endanger the spiritual health of the Catholics in his Archdiocese.
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 11:00 AM ET USA
I remember the pictures shown here where non-precious metals and baskets were used for the Sacred Species at a Mass at the Rel. Ed. Congress where Mahoney celebrated. Oh no, this never happens.
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 10:39 AM ET USA
I agree with your point, Diogenes, but have a question about your remark that "liturgical dance" is proscribed by Redemptionis Sacramentum. Unless my reading is flawed (and it might well be), I can't find that in the document. I agree that it SHOULD be banned, but I'm very afraid that it wasn't. Can you educate me? BTW, Mahony's reign in LA is about to end. The disclosure of personnel files was the beginning of the end for Law, as it will be for Mahony. God help us!
Posted by: -
Sep. 10, 2004 8:57 AM ET USA
My diocese is a much more conservative diocese than the L.A. Archdiocese. I'll eat my socks if L.A. has no liturgical abuses. My diocese has plenty of abuses. Go to a Cardinal Mahoney Mass.


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Seven Days Before the Inauguration: Orthodox Christian Saints Day of St. Melania the Nun of Rome (+439 AD)/
From the Orthodox Christian Network December 31 (old calendar) and January 13 (new):
Melania the Younger, Nun of Rome
Saint Melania the Younger, who was born in 388, was the grand-daughter of Saint Melania the Elder (see June 8). Her father Publicola was an Eparch of Rome. She was joined in wedlock to a husband and became the mother of two children, both of which she lost shortly thereafter. Thus, having agreed with her husband to pass the rest of their lives in abstinence and chastity, and taking her mother Albina with her, she went off to Africa. They ransomed 8,000 captives; furthermore, they built two monasteries – one for men and one for women – in the city of Tagaste, which was in the district of Tunis. After seven years they moved to Jerusalem. Thereafter Melania shut herself up in a small and narrow hermitage by the Mount of Olives, and wearing away her body with fasting and vigil, she reposed in 434.
Because of the Apodosis of the Feast of the Nativity on the 31st of this month, the hymns of Saint Melania the Younger are transferred to December 30th along with the Martyr Anysia.
Apolytikion of Righteous Melania
The image of God, was faithfully preserved in you, O Mother. For you took up the Cross and followed Christ. By Your actions you taught us to look beyond the flesh for it passes, rather to be concerned about the soul which is immortal. Wherefore, O Holy Melania, your soul rejoices with the angels.
Kontakion of Righteous Melania
As a doubly-shining lamp * of truly mystical brightness * do ye shine upon the Church * like a high-towering beacon: * thou with beams of martyr's glory, * O Anysia; * thou with rays of great ascetic deeds, O Melania. * Now together ye are honoured * by Christ your Bridegroom * for your travails in His Name.


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