Muscle cramps are the sudden and involuntary painful contraction of muscle (or part of it), which disappears within seconds or minutes and is often accompanied by knotting of the muscle during touch.
Cramp is the repetitive firing of motor unit action potentials, also known as "cramp discharge".
The cause of cramping is unknown, however it is traditionally believed to be associated with exercise in hot and humid climates i.e. Dehydration and the depletion of electrolytes. However this isn't fully backed by scientific evidence.
Another theory suggests there is a neuromuscular cause. This thought proposes that the muscular overload and neuromuscular fatigue causes an imbalance between the excitatory impulses from muscle spindles and inhibitory impulses from Golgi Tendon organs.
However, due to muscle cramping occurring within a variety of situations and environments conditions, some believe it is unlikely that there is a single cause.
It is possible to distinguish cramp from spasms.
A spasm is an involuntary and abnormal muscle contraction, however cramps are severely painful (and can result in continued soreness), carry an involuntary and explosive onset with a gradual termination of the muscle stretching. This involves only one/one part of the muscle and it is possible to experience fair and forceful contractions.
In addition, muscle cramps tend to occur within the muscles of the calf and foot which can in turn impair athletic performance.
Cramps can occur in individuals with motor neuron disorders and metabolic disorders, but can also occur within healthy individuals during sleep, pregnancy and physical exertion.
Prevention and treatment methods include fluid and electrolyte balance strategies. The National Athletic Trainers' Association recommends that athletes prone to muscle cramps add 0.3 to 0.7g/L of salt to their drinks as a preventative tool. Others recommend adding sodium (3.0 to 6.0 g/L) to sports drinks based on the frequency of muscle cramps. Note: fluids and electrolytes are not immediately absorbed. Around 13 minutes is required to be absorbed into the circulatory system.
Neuromuscular training – there is strong support that the level of conditioning is a factor for the development of muscular cramping and that targeting the neuromuscular system can prevent this. The idea is to prevent neuromuscular fatigue. This could be done through plyometric and endurance training.
Ingestion of water or a hypotonic sports drink an hour prior to competition ensures absorption.
Maintaining hydration and adequate electrolytes aid in the prevention. Thus, fluids should be readily available throughout practices and competitions.
A balanced diet is important to ensure fluid and electrolyte replacement.
Minetto, M.A., Holobar, A., Botter, A. and Farina, D., 2013. Origin and development of muscle cramps. Exercise and sport sciences reviews, 41(1), pp.3-10.
Braulick, K.W., Miller, K.C., Albrecht, J.M., Tucker, J.M. and Deal, J.E., 2013. Significant and serious dehydration does not affect skeletal muscle cramp threshold frequency. British journal of sports medicine, 47(11), pp.710-714.


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Soon to be a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and costarring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early Pioneers in the American West through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.The Homesman celebrates the stories we hear nothing about: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county's men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable, and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek east, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and loneliness—a timeless classic told in a series of tough, fast-paced adventures. In an unprecedented sweep, Glendon Swarthout's novel won both the Western Writers of America's Spur Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. A new afterword by the author's son Miles Swarthout tells of his parents Glendon and Kathryn's discovery of and research into the lives of the oft-forgotten frontier women who make The Homesman as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.
Soon to be a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and costarring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early Pioneers in the American West through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.
The Homesman celebrates the stories we hear nothing about: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county's men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable, and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek east, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and loneliness—a timeless classic told in a series of tough, fast-paced adventures.
In an unprecedented sweep, Glendon Swarthout's novel won both the Western Writers of America's Spur Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. A new afterword by the author's son Miles Swarthout tells of his parents Glendon and Kathryn's discovery of and research into the lives of the oft-forgotten frontier women who make The Homesman as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.
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By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
revenge [ri-venj]: To exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
From Old French revenger, from Late Latin revindicāre, from re- + vindicāre to vindicate
vindicate [vin-di-keyt]: To clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like
To assert, maintain, or defend (a right, cause, etc.) against opposition.
To claim for oneself or another.
My fiction is rife with vengeful stories, scene after scene fueled by slights intimate or else secondhand. Grievance sits at the center of the inaugural story of my debut collection—my fuming response to a lifetime of witnessing vitriol and violence toward Black people: the time my gregarious older brother pulled out of Northern Virginia traffic to assist a car of strangers who'd been run off the road, but when the cops came, they insisted he must've been complicit; the film clips shown in social studies of embittered White mobs shouting at Black children cresting the steps of a school; the shining brown before-face of Emmett Till, and then, like an echo, of Trayvon Martin, with and without his hoodie.
I wrote that opening story in response to something closer too, an incident that took place here in Charlottesville, in 2015. A Black University of Virginia honor student was publicly forced to the ground and bloodied by uniformed officers, along a crowded strip of restaurants and bars near campus. This young man was confronted for suspicion of showing a fake ID, then arrested for resisting arrest, even though the ID turned out to be legit. The event, caught on tape, kicked up a reckless fiction in me, out of what felt like a loop of needless harm. In the resulting short story, a Frankenstein-like father spends a lifetime trying to substantiate the senselessness of the racism, (or else prove his own innocence in an incident of violence he suffered as a child). His method is to chart racism's cause and effect on Black boy like him, "but better" than him, a demonstratively blameless child: his own unknowing son.
I watered my seed of anger until it grew into a story that held my rage but also made space for the dissatisfaction I imagined in that other person's life.
Looking closer, I recognize fantasies of karmic or historic retribution in other stories I've written. They underpin the novella that concludes this first collection, a tale born from a festering wound at the heart of my claimed Virginia town of Charlottesville, torn open yet again in August of 2017, when White Nationalists staged Unite the Right! here. The long lead-up to their rally and its deadly conclusion felt like watching a slow-motion train crash. You point, you holler, you brace, but it keeps on coming. It crashes and keeps crashing. Afterward, on the news, I watched the rally's smug leadership claim a sort of victory, while I felt newly exposed.
When I began to write the novella a year later, I wielded the shards of their hateful performance, recasting each one. It felt like I was saying, I'll battle you, but not in the park below your beloved monuments to the Confederacy, and not along the downtown mall where my local indie bookshop sits. I'll take you on, but at a time of my choosing, on a ground built of my words. Writing against their vision of America felt audacious, just to center and care for my protagonist, Da'Naisha Love, a young Black woman born and raised in Virginia, like I was. Love and her ousted collective of lovers, neighbors and family flee marauding White supremacists and claim the museum of Thomas Jefferson's Plantation-home near town: Monticello. Jefferson is Charlottesville's local founding father, a man as full of contradiction as America is, as I am.
In those stories I was writing about the racism that pollutes my country's heart, but my fictions are run though with less lofty vendettas. No slight is too shallow. Apparently, I'm petty AF. One story I wrote was born of a real-life grievance I had with another mother, a woman I knew because our kids went to grade school together. This mother became angry after her son told her that mine had said or done something unkind to him, in the after-school program. But instead of talking to the teachers, or me, this fair-headed Mom went Rambo on my kid, who was nine at the time. According to the teachers, this mother bent down to shout at my kid, in a room full of children, her face bright red and inches from his. This was confirmed by my son, who doesn't rattle easily, but who was visibly shaken that day as I drove him home. And while I feel certain my son was not entirely blameless, he swore a credible innocence of whatever this raging mother seemed to be accusing him of.
I have only been in one fist fight in my life (and that at the behest of my older Carolina cousins, who called themselves toughening me up, that summer), but driving home that afternoon, I had to grip the wheel to refrain from driving to that other mother's house. If I'd had on hoop earrings, I might have taken them out, laid them on the dash, and come at her fisticuffs, metaphorically or for real, like, Look! I'm a Momma Bear, too. I can be the bear you think you're being. Not to your kid—but to you, who are grown, who should get the whole story, who should know better than to shout needlessly at my child.
Instead, I watered my seed of anger until it grew into a story that held my rage but also made space for the dissatisfaction I imagined in that other mother's life. How small would someone have to feel to lose it on a kid, for a slight unseen, unsubstantiated, and not apologize? I wanted to write a story to expose her, but, almost at once, it turned into a story about me too, about motherly rage writ large, or about ambition deferred. By the time I'd finished writing, I no longer felt so righteous when I spotted that other mother's silhouette in a passing car window. I recognized myself in her and her in me.
The funny thing is, despite my vengeful fictions, I am not a vindictive person at heart, not by demeanor nor upbringing. I am not a particularly confrontational either, though I have been known to offer up a wavery voiced objection, on occasion, to some injustice I feel I've witnessed. As a kid, growing up in suburban Virginia, I fear I radiated a saccharine niceness, and ever since, I've tended toward pre-emptive accommodation and reconciliation. In my long career of teaching public school children, I've cultivated a willful kindness, greeting students at my art room door in printed dresses, in Mr. Rogers cardigans—greeting them with open arms, as if to say, come on in, everybody. Come as you are.
Likewise, in family life and friendships, I've traditionally been the quiet one, the smiling one. And to be fair, I smile because I feel like smiling, because here we are in the world together. I smile like a bridge, and to extend grace because I need that grace too. But a smile can also be a shield. I must've learned early on that discontent can be dangerous body like mine—that my grievances could come back to harm me, even when I was innocent.
My stories are my way of saying, I saw what you did. It registered in my body. It came out as a swarm of words.
I'm thinking I inherited this way of deferred and story-based vengeance from my parents, who are adept at sidestepping slights, big and small. Though their temperaments are different, their survival of the Jim Crow South, and later their success navigating careers in Northern Virginia, was contingent on swallowing insult with a smile, or maybe not even registering it. Now that they are retired, I understand that all those moments or injury were never lost on them. They retell those stories of transgression now, not with bitterness, but often with hurt and humor. To be clear, my folks are both warm people, and forgiving too, but they do not forget. I'm thinking now that my spiteful fictions are also an act of remembrance. My stories are my way of saying, I saw what you did. It registered in my body. It came out as a swarm of words.
I figure I write this vengeful fiction as a condition of my birth. Here I am, an artsy, nerdy Black woman who was once an artsy, nerdy Black girl, always slightly out of place. I write toward retribution even though I believe in tenderness too, in protecting a space for all of us to grow. I write vengeful fiction even though I recognize the connections between everything and everybody, even though I know the imperfection of my own point of view. I write these stories because I feel compelled to call out the bully, even when the bully is me. I write because the experience of slight, of history, all of it has to go somewhere.
This summer I rediscovered the very first book I ever wrote. Hard covered, hand-sewn—Prom Queen was a fourth-grade assignment, complete with pencil-shaded illustrations. The plot is essentially Sweet-Valley High, but rereading it now, I'm startled by the streak of grievance that runs through it, recalling the specific feeling I had as a kid, of dislocation and longing. I read it to my partner, and he belly laughs at my cornball nascent righteousness. I laugh too, with tears in my eyes.
I write vengeful fiction even though my vengeance gets waylaid or distorted on the page. For example, in my story born of my anger at witnessing Black folks brutalized, my Frankenstein father, contributes to harm, his hurt like a fire that keep reigniting itself. In this way, writing avenging fiction feels like protecting oneself with a quiver of crooked arrows, or a satchel of boomerangs. Grievance gathers in my body, and I write toward it, even as my own words flay me. I keep on writing toward what hurts or angers me, trying to get at something I can't seem to express in any other way.
These days, between floods and fires and fiery resistance to equity, I feel less accommodating. The world seems newly glaring, or maybe the change is in me. I smile, but I'm exhausted. I smile but I am heartsick too. As this thread of fictional vengeance reveals itself to me, I see too how these stories of mine aren't only aimed toward retribution. Each smoldering account contains an attentiveness to injury—an urge toward vindication. It's audacious, I know, but I believe that a story can be a seed. I hope that if you read my vengeful fiction, it grows into something in you more useful than bitter satisfaction. I do want to make you angry, but with me, so that we might be heartbroken together, and in service of something useful. That in our shared brokenness, we might recognize one another, and begin the real work—in ourselves, between us, and on this ailing earth—a practice of care and repair.
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is available now from Henry Holt.
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Phoebe, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story "Control Negro" was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay, and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI's Selected Shorts series. Johnson has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Tin House Summer Workshops, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Митрополи́т Арсе́ний (в миру Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Мацее́вич, или Маскее́вич, или Мацие́вич; , Владимир-Волынский — , Ревель) — епископ Православной российской церкви, митрополит Ростовский и Ярославский.

Лишён сана за противодействие секуляризации монастырских имуществ, умер в заточении. В 2000 году был прославлен в лике святых Русской православной церковью как священномученик.

Биография
Родился в 1697 году во Владимире-Волынском в семье православного священника. Происходил из польской шляхты (по другой версии, западнорусской православной шляхты). Его отец, Иоанн Мацеевич, был иереем при Владимирском Спасском храме. Получил хорошее образование, учился в духовной школе Владимира-Волынского, во Львовской школе риторики, затем Киевской духовной академии.

В 1716 году был направлен в Черниговскую епархию в Спасский монастырь Новгорода-Северского проповедником. Здесь архимандрит Геннадий (Стефанович) постриг его в монашество с именем Арсений. В монастыре инок Арсений имел клиросное послушание, говорил проповеди и обучал детей латинскому языку.

В 1717 году инок Арсений был послан в Чернигов к преосвященному Антонию (Стаховскому), архиепископу Черниговскому, и рукоположён им во иеродиакона. Иеродиакон Арсений быстро сблизился с владыкой, который был другом митрополита Стефана (Яворского). Под влиянием архиепископа Антония он решил продолжить своё образование.

В 1718 году иеродиакон Арсений вновь поступил в Киевскую духовную академию «для слушания философии и богословия». Здесь по благословению преосвященного Варлаама (Вонатовича), архиепископа Киевского, в 1723 году в Киевском Софийском соборе он был посвящён в иеромонаха. В 1726 году окончил слушание академических наук.

В конце 1729 года Арсений вернулся в Черниговскую епархию и был направлен в Черниговский Троицкий Ильинский монастырь. Но уже в 1730 году отправлен в Тобольск для проповеди, где в качестве проповедника и учителя прожил 3 года.

В 1733 году, возвращаясь из Сибири, совершил путешествие в Устюг, Холмогоры и Соловецкий монастырь, где полемизировал с заключенными там раскольниками.

В 1734—1736 годах Арсений участвовал во Второй Камчатской экспедиции под началом Витуса Беринга. Однако в 1736 году взят под стражу и привезен из Пустозерска в адмиралтейскую коллегию по секретному делу, но признан невиновным. По болезни (цинга) уволен от флотской службы (1737 г.) и определён при епископе Вологодском Амвросии (Юшкевиче). С 1738 года — соборный иеромонах синодального дома и законоучитель Академической гимназии в Санкт-Петербурге.

С 1738 года занимался проверкой духовенства на соответствие их моральному и академическому уровню занимаемой должности и увещеванием отступников от Православия. Проверки могли доходить до пыток, так иероманах Арсений «пытал ярославского игумена Трифона, старца 85 лет, и пытал до того, что Трифон умер. Ярославский преосвященный подал жалобу об этом в Святейший Синод; Святейший Синод решил по этому делу, чтобы впредь духовных особ пытали бережно».

В марте 1741, во время регентства Анны Леопольдовны, Арсений был рукоположён во епископа Сибирского и Тобольского с возведением в сан митрополита. Выбор Арсения для этой кафедры был обусловлен не только его знакомством с Сибирью, но и тем, что незадолго до этого он отказался присягать герцогу Бирону — регенту малолетнего Иоанна Антоновича.

Позже Арсений Мацеевич отказался присягать и Елизавете Петровне, считая унизительными для архиерейского сана слова: «исповедаю же с клятвою крайнего судию сея Коллегии быти Самую Всероссийскую монархиню Государыню нашу всемилостивейшую». Взамен владыка предлагал: «исповедаю же с клятвою Крайнего Судию и Законоположителя духовного сего церковного правительства быти — Самого Господа Бога и Спаса нашего Иисуса Христа, полномощного Главу Церкви и Великого Архиерея и Царя, надо всеми владычествующего и всем имущего посудити — живым и мертвым». К этой формуле митрополит Арсений сделал ещё пояснение, что монаршей власти довольно в той силе присягать в верности и повиноваться, в какой показано от Крайнего Судии Христа в Евангелии и Апостоле. В термине Крайний Судья в приложении к лицу императора митрополит Арсений видел «излишнее ласкательство во унижение или отвержение Крайнего Судии — Самого Христа».

Елизавета разрешила не произносить Арсению этого выражения, однако присягу он так и не принёс. Тем не менее, это никак не отразилось на карьере и жизни Арсения: в 1742 году он неоднократно произносил проповеди во время коронационных торжеств, а затем был переведен в Ростов, причём получил звание члена Святейшего Синода.

С 1742 по 1763 — митрополит Ростовский. По его инициативе в Спасском монастыре Ярославля была открыта Ярославская духовная славяно-латинская семинария. Арсений считается деятельным просветителем, однако П. В. Знаменский придерживался другой точки зрения, считая Арсения Мацеевича противником создания духовных школ, что было редким исключением среди епископов украинского происхождения. В вину ему ставилось также закрытие латинской школы в Ростове. В 1759 году митрополит Арсений имел конфликт с ректором Ярославской семинарии Владимиром (Каллиграфом), учение которого Арсений посчитал «жидовством и кальвинизмом».

В 1752 году митрополит Арсений был организатором открытия мощей святителя Димитрия Ростовского.

Будучи единственным из архиереев, кто открыто выступил против секуляризации церковных владений при Екатерине II, начиная с  года, Арсений подавал в Святейший Синод один протест за другим против отнятия монастырских вотчин и против вмешательства светских лиц в духовные дела, особенно выступал против президента Коллегии Экономии Мусина-Пушкина, называя его «турком». Поскольку главой поместной Русской церкви с учреждением Синода был монарх («крайний судия»), то секуляризация церковных имуществ проходила при полном согласии Святейшего Синода. В Неделю Торжества Православия, до подачи своих прошений в Синод, митрополит Арсений на богослужении к остальным анафемам против еретиков прибавил «анафему, обидчикам церквей и монастырей». Императрица Екатерина узнала о поступках Арсения и назвала его: «лицемером, пронырливым и властолюбивым бешенным вралем». Императрицу поддержал Святейший Синод: митрополит Новгородский Димитрий (Сеченов), митрополит Московский Тимофей (Щербацкий), архиепископ Санкт-Петербургский Гавриил (Кременецкий), епископ Псковский Гедеон (Криновский), архиепископ Крутицкий Амвросий (Зертис-Каменский), епископ Тверской Афанасий Вальковский, архимандрит Новоспаский Мисаил (Чирский).

Синод подал доклад императрице о поступках Арсения. Императрица рассмотрела доклад и повелела, чтобы сам Синод митрополита Арсения «судил как своего члена и злонамеренного преступника». В Ростов, в середине марта был прислан обер-офицер, который привез указ Арсению следующего содержания: «14 марта определено ваше преосвященство, чрез нарочно отправленного гвардии обер-офицера привезти в Москву, а при том отъезде ризницы и людей, кроме трех нужнейших вашему преосвященству, с собой не брать, и имеющиеся в кельях вашего преосвященства письма, кроме печатных книг, собрав в одно место, вашею и того обер-офицера печатью запечатав, взять оному обер-офицеру в Москву».

14 апреля, при приезде в Москву, Арсения держали под крепкою стражею в Симонове монастыре, как преступника. Императрица написала письмо к обер-прокурору Глебову: «Александр Иванович! Нынешнюю ночь привезли враля, которого исповедовать должно; приезжайте ужо ко мне, он здесь во дворце будет». В присутствии Императрицы, Орлова, Глебова и Шешковского, Арсений до того простер свою дерзость в объяснениях, что Императрица зажала себе уши, а ему «закляпили рот».

В этот же день 14 апреля на заседании Синода Арсения присудили извергнуть из архиерейского сана, расстричь из монашества, а затем предать суду светскому, согласно которому, за оскорбление её Величества Арсения должны были казнить смертью. Приговор Синода был послан Екатерине. Императрица, как об этом сказано в указе синодском, «по великодушию и милосердию своему природному», соизволила освободить Арсения от суда светского и истязания, а повелела оставить ему один только монашеский чин и сослать его в отдаленный монастырь под присмотр настоятеля. Осужденный призван был в Синод для объявления ему и для исполнения указа. Арсения извергли из священства и сослали сначала в Ферапонтов монастырь, позже местом ссылки Арсения стал Николо-Корельский монастырь.

В ссылке продолжал жестко критиковать екатерининскую политику. В частности, он критиковал Екатерину за содержание под стражей бывшего императора Иоанна Антоновича, убитого в заключении в Шлиссельбурге при попытке поручика Василия Мировича организовать его освобождение. Арсений приветствовал поступок Мировича и осуждал решение царицы осудить его на казнь. В 1767 году Арсений был расстрижен из монашества в крестьяне и посажен в Ревельскую крепость под именем «некоего мужика» Андрея Враля.

Скончался  года, погребён в Таллине (Ревеле) в Успенском приделе Никольской церкви.

Проповеди и богословские труды
Арсений Мацеевич был известен как яркий проповедник. В 1742—1761 гг. он активно проповедовал при дворе. По сведениям Евгения (Болховитинова), 7 проповедей его были напечатаны при жизни, в 1742, 1744 и 1749 гг. В настоящее время известно 12 томов рукописных копий его проповедей 1746—1761 гг.; они находятся в библиотеке Троице-Сергиевой лавры.

Известны также труды Арсения Мацеевича против старообрядчества. Это «Увещание» раскольнику игумену Иоасафу (1734 г.), предисловие к исправленному им же изданию «Обличение неправды раскольничей» Тверского архиепископа Феофилакта (1745 г.), «Дополнение обличения ответов раскольнических, пустосвятами Выгорецкими в 1723 году предложенных».

Против лютеранства написано сочинение «Возражение на пасквиль лютеранский, называемый молоток», которое датируется Филаретом (Гумилевским) примерно 1745—1753.

Миссионерская деятельность Арсения Мацеевича оценивается неоднозначно:

Взгляд автора (Арсения Мациевича) «Дополнения» на характер отношений к расколу отличался строгостию, доходившею до жестокости. По автору, раскольников, как врагов церкви и государства, надлежит мечем духовным и гражданским истреблять и искоренять, дабы отнять всякую возможность распространения и усиления раскола; истребление раскольников должно совершаться с большим прилежанием и настойчивостью, чем жидов и других еретиков, живущих в пределах России, если последние (то есть все иноверцы), как в зловерии родившиеся, не совращают православных в свою веру и не вредят церкви и государству; раскольники заслуживают не только вечного, но и временнаго мучения и казнения

Владыка обнаружил, что среди ростовской паствы было множество раскольников, из-за отсутствия школ народ находился в глубоком невежестве, а духовенство не стояло на высоте своего призвания. Митрополит Арсений стал сразу заботиться, чтобы Церковь была воспитательницей народа.

Он много потрудился в деле народного просвещения, был ревностный проповедник и горячий защитник православия против лютеран и раскольников-старообрядцев. В борьбе с последними он поступал как человек своего жестокого времени, больше надеясь на грубую силу. Не щадя себя, когда сильные мира сего оказались против него, он, пока сам был сильным, тоже не считал возможным щадить своих противников. <…> Когда дело касалось богатых и почетных раскольников, он своею властью подолгу держал их в заключении, несмотря на жалобы, подаваемые на него духовным и светским властям.

Реабилитация и канонизация

28 июня 1918 года Всероссийским Поместным собором, как лишённый святительского сана по политическим мотивам, был восстановлен в архиерейском достоинстве.

Юбилейный Архиерейский собор Русской православной церкви в августе 2000 года определил причислить к лику святых Русской православной церкви для общецерковного почитания, среди прочих, священномученика Арсения Ростовского.

Память священномученику Арсению Ростовскому празднуется  (12 марта в високосный год, 13 марта в невисокосный год).

Неканоническая Украинская православная церковь Киевского патриархата на Поместном соборе 2004 года канонизировала Арсения Мацеевича как новомученика.

Труды
Изданные при жизни:
 «Увещание» раскольнику игумену Иоасафу. М., 1734. Повторно: Арсений Мацеевич. Увещание // Православный собеседник. 1861. т. III., С. 184—204.
 Слово в день Петра и Павла. М., 1742.
 Слово в день восшествия на престол Елизаветы Петровны. М., 1744.
 Предисловие к исправленному им же изданию «Обличение неправды раскольничей» Тверского архиепископа Феофилакта («Феофилактово обличение поморским ответам»). М., 1745.

Изданные после смерти
 Дополнение обличения ответов раскольнических, пустосвятами Выгорецкими в 1723 году предложенных. — Православный собеседник, 1861 г. т. III., С.349 (Статья носит название «Об Арсении Мацеевиче, как обличителе раскола») Также есть фрагмент в «Описании документов и дел, хранящихся в архиве Святейшего правительствующего синода за 1542—1721» (первые 7 обличений). С. CCCCXVII-CCCCXXXVI. Ссылка
 Доношения Арсения в Св. Синод. — Чтения Московского общества истории. 1862, № 2, 3; Русская старина, 1876. № 15.

Рукописи
 Записка «О благочинии церковном» (в соавторстве с Амвросием Юшкевичем). 1742 г. Содержала протест против синодального управления и Коллегии экономии, а также предложение о восстановлении патриаршества.
 Письма Елизавете Петровне. Хранятся в РГАДА.
 «Возражение на пасквиль лютеранский, называемый молоток». (1745—1753). Отрывки напечатаны в работе И. А. Чистович. Феофан Прокопович и его время". — СПб., 1868. С.386 — 407.
 Проповеди. Рукописи РГБ 303. II ТСЛ 10.1-7, РГБ 303. II ТСЛ 11.1-4. Список середины XIX века.

Примечания

Литература
 Снегирёв И. М. Арсений Мациевич, митрополит ростовский и ярославский. — Москва : тип. Бахметева, 1862. — [2], 40 с., 1 л. ил. (портр.); 23. — (Русские достопамятности; Вып. 4).
 Сулоцкий А. И. Место заточения, смерти и погребения бывшего Ростовского митрополита Арсения Мацеевича, или мнимая могила митрополита Арсения в Верхнеудинске // «Прибавления к Иркутским Епархиальным Ведомостям». 1863. — № 37
 Г. Н. К-ов. Арсений Мацеевич, митрополит Ростовский — как проповедник // Ярославские епархиальные ведомости. 1864. — № 35-52.
 Сулоцкий А. И. К жизнеописанию Арсения Мацеевича // Чтения в Императорском Обществе истории и древностей Российских при Московском Университете. М., 1864. Кн. 4. Ч. 5.
 Грот Я. К.  Екатерина II. Отзыв Екатерины II об Арсении Мацеевиче. Письмо к Вольтеру от 11 августа 1765 г. // Русская старина, 1875. — Т. 14. — № 11. — С. 587—588.
 Снегирёв И. М. Арсений Мациевич // Русские достопамятности: сборник. Т. 1. — Москва : издание А. Мартынова, 1877. — 256 с.

 Поселянин Е. Н. Русская церковь и русские подвижники 18-го века. С портретами и рисунками. — Спб., издание И. Л. Тузова, 1905. — IV, 5-356, 12 с.

 Григорьев А. Б. Священномученик Арсений Мацеевич в гражданском, уголовном и церковном судебном процессе // XVIII Ежегодная богословская конференция ПСТГУ; Материалы: В 2 т. М., 2008. Т. 1. — С. 98—107.
 Reichelt, Stefan Der hl. Arsenij Maceevic [Св. Арсений Мацеевич] // Johann Arndts «Vier Bücher von wahrem Christentum» in Russland. Vorboten eines neuzeitlichen interkulturellen Dialogs [Четыре книги Иоанна Арндта О истинном христианстве в России. Предшественники межкультурного диалога]. — Leipzig [Лейпциг], 2011. — C. 465—475.
 Григорьев А. Б. О формировании внецерковного предания и народного почитания священномученика Арсения Мацеевича, митрополита Ростовского и Ярославского на примере «1762 года выписки из последовавших в нынешнем году случившихся новостей» // Румянцевские чтения. Материалы международной научной конференции (15-16 апреля 2014) : [в 2 ч.] Москва : Пашков Дом, 2014. Часть 1. — С. 186—194
 Митров О. Ю., прот. Священномученик Арсений (Мацеевич), митрополит Ростовский: Корпус письменных источников // Вестник архивиста. 2016. — № 1. — С. 8-29

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It is hard for me to think of eschatology anymore without thinking of the hilarious and brilliant larknews article on how the rapture happened but Jesus only took the two people whose eschatological views were perfect. The article is a joke (who really thinks that perfecting eschatology will get you raptured?) but the satire is poignant: what actually is the point of attempting such precision? For that matter, what kind of precision is even possible? Some issues in eschatology are of course worth pursuing, e.g. are we or are we not in the millennium? More broadly, the covenant theology vs. dispensationalism debate also has some serious implications for how you read your Bible on a daily basis. So I understand the point in some of this and have to be careful that my general lack of interest in the subject doesn't make me too jaded.
The problem for me comes when we try to get much more precise than those more foundational concepts. I have no doubts about the validity of systematic theology (which I do not, generally speaking) and neither am I overly intimidated by Revelation. And while I do struggle to find much practical payoff to spending so much time on the subject, this is not my concern here.
My primary concern is this: has not past revelation revealed to us that God's future eschatological plans are not always as they first appear? I think of two specific instances.
First, while Jeremiah was told that the exile would last seventy years (and that with far more clarity than much of what is revealed in Revelation, Jer. 29:10), Daniel was told that it would actually be seventy weeks (i.e. seventy weeks of years; Dan. 9:24-27). God apparently had that plan in mind the whole time but chose not to reveal it as such in the beginning. Imagine Jeremiah dictating to Baruch where to draw the lines on his exilic eschatology chart: the one thing Jeremiah could have bet the farm on was that after seventy years the exile would end. But it was not to be so.
Second, there are literally no existing pre-Christian texts that predicted a suffering Messiah or that interpreted Isaiah's Servant Songs as Messianic. That is, if you only had the Old Testament, what would your Messianic (i.e. eschatological) expectations be? Probably similar to those of the Rabbis. And this does not even begin to touch the paradigm-exploding nature of an inaugurated kingdom.
So my point is this: Scripture consistently teaches that while the future is in no way out of God's control, it is in his hands and mind only. The outworking of God's future plan often does not happen the way it appears it should. This is not to say that God is not faithful to His word; it is to say that His plan is not very predictable even when He reveals it. Combine this historical Biblical precedent with the fact that the only thing that Jesus himself ever expresses limited knowledge of is eschatology, we probably would do well to follow his lead.
All of this combines to lead me to the conclusion that the God's intention in declaring future events to humanity is not for us to figure out their timing, but to respond with faithfulness. I can think of no instance in the Scriptures where a misapprehension of God's eschatological plans precluded them from following Him. Such misunderstanding does reveal the hard-heartedness of first-century Jews, but this is not at an issue of wrong eschatology but of sin. Apocalyptic texts in the Bible (esp. Revelation) vividly show that Jesus will win in the end, and win decisively. This much is beyond question. Our role is, like Baruch's in Jer. 45, to seek faithfulness rather than earthly greatness until that end comes, whenever that will be.
Let me recommend Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation by Dennis E. Johnson. It provides an excellent introduction to the book of Revelation.
Nice reference to Curtis in there.
Anyway, I agree wholeheartedly with this post. I was recently quite frustrated when one of the pastors at my church devoted his sermon to explaining what "will happen" in the "end times."


Dr. Corey Modrell was born and raised in Northwest Iowa. He owned and operated his own chiropractic office in Montrose, Colorado for 7 years before moving to Palmer in September of 2013 to join the team at Arctic Chiropractic. Dr. Modrell also taught Anatomy and Physiology and Human Biology for Colorado Mesa University while in Colorado. He was named Colorado's Rising Star Chiropractor of the Year in 2010. He is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP) and currently the team chiropractor for the Palmer High School wrestling team.
Dr. Todd Phillips PT, DPT, CSCS as our new physical therapist at Arctic Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy. He graduated from Shippensburg University where he studied exercise science and competed on the track and field team as a 400m specialist. Todd earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2014 and has focused on orthopedic and sports rehabilitation. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and is certified in dry needling for trigger point release. During his free time, Todd enjoys being outdoors, running, hiking, mountain biking and snowboarding.


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Q: axios request to localhost Error: connect ECONNREFUSED using Cloud Functions axios request error in firebase cloud function. here is my code.
import * as functions from 'firebase-functions';
import axios from 'axios';

export const mobileDoUpdate =
functions.firestore.document('/users/{ID}')
.onUpdate((snapshot, context) => {

axios.get('http://localhost:8000/user?id=29&status=active')
.then(response => {
    console.log(response.data.url);
    console.log(response.data.explanation);
})
.catch(error => {
    console.log(error);
});

});

the error is showing me Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8000
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)
how can I solve it? help me please.

A: You can't make requests to localhost when running on Cloud Functions.  That's never going to work.  You're going to need a full proper URL for the host or service you're trying to contact, and it's certainly not going to be localhost.  localhost always means IP address 127.0.0.1, which is the same machine where the request is originating.  Once you've deployed this code, localhost becomes the Cloud Functions server instance where the code is running, not your desktop machine.


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This basketball letter art sign will look great hanging in a basketball themed room. You could give this as a gift to your favorite basketball player.
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Q: If the Sun's temperature is around 5000K to 6000K which means it is a yellow star, why does it appear white in space? If the thermal radiation of stars is close to the thermal radiation of a black body the sun should appear yellow but yet it appears white because of emitting all of visible wavelengths which combine into white but this is inconsistent with the classification of star colors with respect to their temperatures.

A: I think that this image is a fairly accurate rendition of blackbody colors, if you view it on a correctly calibrated monitor:

You'll notice that there isn't any yellow in it. So I don't think that there actually are any yellow stars, traditional astronomical diagrams notwithstanding (though of course the spectra of stars are only approximate blackbodies).
Judging by this diagram, the sun as viewed from space should be a bit reddish/orangish. When I convert the AM0 spectrum to sRGB, I get this: $\color{#FFF2ED}{\rule[-0.5ex]{3em}{2.7ex}}$ which is a reddish/pinkish off-white. Perhaps this is the real color of the sun in space—if you viewed it through a neutral density filter so it wasn't too bright, and you used D65 as your reference white.
D65 is supposed to be an approximation of "the average midday light in Western Europe / Northern Europe". It's also the standard white of sRGB, so in some sense it's white by definition. Sunlight at ground level can be much redder or bluer than that depending on time and location. Our eyes/brains adapt to these differences and see a wide variety of spectra as white, so in some sense they're all "white by definition" in the appropriate context.
Rayleigh scattering makes direct light from the sun redder just as it makes indirect light bluer. Both the direct and indirect light illuminate objects, so the sun should always appear redder, or yellower, than the current white point, but I don't look directly at the sun often so I'm not sure.

A: I will tack on some background to benrg's excellent answer. The sun being in the classification known as "yellow dwarf" is an (almost intentional) misnomer. When the stellar classifications were being named, it was already well known that the sun and stars of similar temperature were white, but a name was needed to distinguish main-sequence stars between red dwarfs and blue giants, that at the same time distinguished them from red and yellow giants off the main-sequence. You couldn't call them white dwarfs because that's already taken for the off main-sequence stellar remnant, and those stars look yellow in atmosphere anyway so... yellow dwarf it is.

A: The appearance of things to the human eye is almost always "wrong" in a physical sense.  The human brain does a mighty amount of signal processing, and one of the things it does is "white balance" the scene.  Our sense of color is constantly being adjusted by our brains.  "Broad daylight" happens to be a situation our brains have evolved to work with, so our color balancing in that situation is excellent... if not confusing at times like these.

A: Never look directly into the sun but if you would it should appear white because of its high intensity. Also, sunlight may peak at yellow but contains a lot of red, green, and blue as well.


I'm here - in this thread - because there's not a "Yay!" thread.
Yay! All the scenarios are in!
Well, might as well belatedly answer why I'm here. Pick up tips to improve my still mediocre skills, and enjoy debating to hell the political and scientific details of an entirely fictitious universe... because it's fun. And an awesome universe to boot, where such discussions can turn genuinely philosophical, and reach a level of debate higher than my... usual haunts.
Wow, that makes me feel old. I DO remember when MC was a newbie!
Just saying hi, newly sucked into FfH.
A Dwarf Fortress Fall From Heaven 2 Mod? A DFFH2? I'd play but I'd miss the artwork and sound effects of the FFH2.
I'm here teasing myself again by reading about a mod I haven't been able to play since last years version (current PC can't run it). Man this game is looking good! I can't wait to be able to get back to playing it. Thanks again FfH Team for this mastery!
It's definitely worth it. I only started playing a month or so again, and was blown away by how awesome the mod is. It's just so well done, and there's so much stuff there to play with. I love in particular how every civ gives a completely different gameplay experience.
LoL Heya Emp. Glad you found the mod!
Interesting story... I'm in my 3rd game of FFH2 and got the Bannor. Got stuck on a midsized continent with dwarves... I quickly spammed 2 settlers and totally cut off their expansion. Soon I had the whole place except for their one city.
Sent in the Stooges and wiped them out, then "annexed" them with a <1 turn DOW walking into the city. Nobody knew about it since we hadn't encountered anyone else. Probably breaking the "rules" of being good, but hey, I can roleplay anyway I want, it's my game.
Started to get real boring then. Discovered the other continent and started to plan ahead for my crusade. There was a nice city barb right in the middle of the big continent with vamps on one side and annoying hippus on the other, elohim to the north and elves to the south. Only problem was the red dragon was squatting there. So I built 4 cats and a couple of heroes and sent them in with the Stooges (who had CRIII from the dwarven battles). Soon enough, it was mine. I cash bought culture buildings, the 3-tile Slums, and the Mercurian gate. That became my base of operations to take out the vamps... at least that was the plan.
I cast the crusade spell (I know I don't have all the names memorized yet) and HOLY COW I had a ton of those holy warrior guys. Good thing I had prebuilt a half dozen Queen of the Lines.
The vamps were no contest... I gifted all the cities to the Mercurians.
One of the ice raider civs had built the AV religion. So I went to take them out, also taking Hannah on the way (who had adopted the AV too).
By then the bad guys had shown, way south of the Hippus. The horse guys and Elohim had been butting heads, but I stayed out of it. No open borders though... hippus was #2 in score and had about 1/3 of the world, and was furious with me by refusing all his demands all game. I figure only my huge power graph kept him off me. He should have done it though... when all my holy warriors and heroes were up fighting the ice nomad guys on the other side of the continent.
Anyway I had to send my Queens way to the south, pick up my heroes from elfenland (who I had converted to Order by then, confessoring all his tree religion away), and land them south of hippus where the Bad guys city was. Shoot, Sphener by then had 200XP and wiped them out pretty much by himself.
Easy game... maybe I need to put it back on variable skill setting. Fun, though.
I'm here because I've just played the FFH scenario in BTS. Where would you advise I go next for more FFH loveliness?
You'd better believe The Redcoats are coming!
OK, this is a very general question. I feel like it is almost asking "What is science?" at MIT. But, what is FfH? I never understood; is it based on a novel, a game, or just based on the imagination of... well... us, the Fanatics?
FfH is partly based on many D&D campaigns of Kael but it has evolved so that over the many years it has become a mix of Kael's awesome material and stuff from the CFforums.
Oh. So basically, the mod has almost absolute freedom. I mean, there are no guidelines regarding following chapters in a book or following history?
(Right now, my favorite mod is RFC. It stresses me when the Colosseum is built outside Rome or Hanging Gardens outside Babylon.) This is great! I think it's almost finished downloading.
There is a history that you can check out, but there is purposely no future written, or even a set geography. The stories are set up to leave the Age of Rebirth (what you are playing in) wide open, and while many situations will be more likely/logical than others, anything is possible. You can check out the history in the Civlopedia under game concepts. I was going to post it here but it is rather long and formated for display in-game.
There are scenarios, but you don't need to feel compelled to recreate them in the main game.
Eh, hi. I don't know where to post this.
See, I make amateur card games. I use the Magic Set Editor engine to make my own cardset once in a while, and I'm pretty happy for some of the results I've done. I've made up a ruleset once in a while, thrown together some numbers, and boom, you have a playable card game.
I have three issues with the card games I make, first off they tend to have a resemblance to the original Magic: the Gathering card game, which annoys me (Most card games resemble that game anyways, but still), secondly I'm not the best programmer of the engine, sure, I can do some tricks, but I'm still learning it, and thirdly, I hate that I have to use the card art from Magic: the Gathering when making a new card.
So, yeah, my point was... Would anyone be interested in making a Fall From Heaven card game? I've been enjoying the mod a little, but I'd really need help for such a project. Game rules, mechanics, ideas, design, card art. I'd probably throw together the engine.
To me, the fun of the game is exploring those alternate histories. In fact, I think the game is way too staid and following a prescribed script as it is. I hope they relax things with Civ 5.
Retaining the same name wherever you build the wonder makes it easy to i.d. what it is and does, which is a gameplay advantage but it's a little jarring to have the Hanging Gardens of Detroit or the Colosseum of Tokyo. It takes one out of "the moment" somewhat, but it's nowhere near a big deal for me. It would be a cool little tweak to have the names modified depending on the civ but what do I know about coding.
You didn't mention it, so I must ask.
Have you played the Fall from Heaven card game that is included in the game, Somnium?


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The year keeps rolling along with fall firmly in our sights and the Holiday season right around the corner.
How fast did this year go by?
The daughter is well established in her Junior year down in San Diego. Senior season here is nearing the end with family fall color season on the horizon. I am already seeing Halloween costumes in the stores.