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Thank you for making this post available and maintaining a site for thinking. I am very interested in the matters considered here. In particular, the problem of distinguishing Being from the intentionality of an infinite mind has the potential of awakening an ever deepening perplexity. For instance, after having read this post, I imagined a reply from a theologian, who says, "In naming Being as the unthought, you have only said as much as I mean when I say that the infinite ratio/logos of an entity is only partly accessible to a finite mind. When it is said that Being is presupposed by thinking/mind rather than conversely, I say: yes, for *finite* thinking, but not for infinite thinking, which remains for us a mystery revealed as such in and for faith." While Heidegger usually hesitates to name "mystery" (das Geheimnis) as the matter of his thinking, there is nevertheless some sort of "inaccessibility" to be thought in this matter. Thus the potential perplexity: if the "ultimate" matters in each case (mind presupposing Being or Being presupposing mind) are inaccessible in some way, how can they be at all distinguished? Doesn't that require ignoring precisely the inaccessibility (i.e. something that is essential about them) in order to make the distinction and thus tending to wallow in the inessential?
In order to whet this perplexity a bit, it seems meet to distinguish the ratio (syllogistic reckoning) that the theologian imagined here takes to be "finite thinking" from the thinking that belongs to the unthought, a thinking that is not grounded in faith but is nevertheless grounded through a "leap" . . . –into the Ab-*grund*, i.e. the time-space in which Being (which, as you say, "conceals itself in logos as what is unthought") is cleared *as* self-concealing. If this abyssal time-space is the essence of language (as often hinted by Heidegger), and this essence is the unsaid that speaks as the self-withholding still, then we see that the unsaid belongs to the unthought (Sein) as its truth (which is *not* correctness!). Accordingly, the thinking that dwells near the abyss in the sense of the self-withholding still can no longer be a reckoning (ratio) but a way of remaining silent (Verschweigung), which does not necessarily entail, however, a literal abstaining from mortal speaking/writing. The time-space (i.e. the truth) of ratio as a reckoning, on the other hand, is that of constant presence, which is not at all a remaining silent as indicated, since it reckons with constantly present meanings as a condition of traditional logic.
The point of looking at the time-space for each type of thinking is that it brings forth that in which the "ultimate" matter is manifest in its accessibility; thus, the distinction by way of the time-space not only does not ignore the inaccessibility, but accentuates it. It is because the time space of a theological unfolding of faith is constant presence that the mystery of God's will is understood as indicated in the argument: "The human mind can only understand the intention of an infinite mind by a multitude of finite ideas it cannot reduce." That is, the taking up of faith within this time space understands the revealed mystery as a mystery *to and for* the ratio that belongs together with the understanding of Being as constant presence.
Thinking as Verschweigung, on the other hand, is not bound to the formal reckonings that can be subsequently derived from it. This is not because of any indecisiveness, however. Rather, it is bound to what may appear to be its "assertions" only insofar as they remain question-worthy and prepare for the ever unsaid opening in which the thought-worthy may unfold as itself.
Accordingly, what is spoken here hopes to convey its preparatory character; in this case, the character of preparing an open space for discussion, rather than being bound to the specific claims made.
Thanks for the thoughtful remarks. I will be adding your refreshingly peculiar website to my Blogroll.
There is a lot to respond to in your comment, and there is much that I agree with.
subsequently as a consequence of the fact that knowledge of beings is always fragmentary. The concealment of beings as a whole, untruth proper, is older than every openedness of this or that being. It is also older than letting-be itself which in disclosing already holds concealed and comports itself toward concealing. What conserves letting-be in this relatedness to concealing? Nothing less than the concealing of what is concealed as a whole, of beings as such, i. e., the mystery (Das Geheimnis); not a particular mystery regarding this or that, but rather THE ONE MYSTERY — that, in general, mystery (the concealing of what is concealed) as such holds sway throughout man's Dasein. In letting beings as a whole be, which discloses and at the same time conceals, it happens that concealing appears as what is first of all concealed. Insofar as it ek-sists, Da-sein conserves the first and broadest undisclosedness, untruth proper. The proper non-essence of truth is the mystery (Das Geheimnis).
"if the "ultimate" matters in each case (mind presupposing Being or Being presupposing mind) are inaccessible in some way, how can they be at all distinguished? Doesn't that require ignoring precisely the inaccessibility (i.e. something that is essential about them) in order to make the distinction and thus tending to wallow in the inessential?" This "one mystery" distinguishes itself from all inaccessibility (whether inaccessiblity of the infinite to finitude or inaccessibility of a particular theological mystery) because it itself is inherently concealing (of itself). The mystery is not something that is concealed --it is this very concealing. It is therefore not Mind nor anything else. What then IS it? It is that which is already concealed in what is. It is the differing of Being (Sein), or rather, it is Being itself (Seyn). This difference is made by Das Geheimnis, and it is the source of the difference between the "ultimate matters" being distinguished.
So if I were to respond in a single sentence to the "perplexity" you have underscored in the problem of how one can distinguish between two "ultimate matters" (Mind presupposing Being or Being presupposing Mind) that are both "inaccessible in some way", I would respond that only one of these "ultimate matters" is inaccessible (namely Infinite Mind) but the other (Being as ultimate presupposition) is EVEN MORE CONCEALED then anything inaccessible, since, as the differentiating of Being itself, it is the concealing of what is concealed, i.e. the non-essence of truth, Das Geheimnis. In its simplest formulation, then, my answer to this perplexity is: the distinction between the two ultimate matter's is a result of one of them: namely the differentiation of Being (Seyn) itself.
This traces a different path to an answer than does your own attempt, but I think we eventually wind up in the same vicinity. For it would not be hard to argue that the zeit-raum in which Sein is cleared is precisely the differentiation of Seyn selbst.
Thank you for your response. Given what you have said, I am happy to dismiss the talk of inaccessibility in relation to das Geheimnis. Yet there still remains the question of how it is to be dismissed. For there is an important sense in which das Geheimnis as the concealing of what is concealed is indeed inaccessible, at least insofar as "accessibility" is allowed to speak in the widest sense that would include the abyssal clearing or time-space. While Seinsvergessenheit holds sway, for instance, the mystery *cannot be thought from itself*, and the thinker is powerless from himself alone to open the space in which it may be so thought. What is that if not an inaccessibility? Admittedly this sense of inaccessibility is not thought from the mystery itself, and it only makes sense in the thinking for which Seinsvergessenheit has become an issue. But how does this become an issue? One way, among others, is that the thinker must respect that Seinsvergessenheit remains the dominant character of all thinking in the age, and that he himself is never absolutely free of it. This is especially important in the beginning of an inquiry—i.e. *before* the matter in question has had an opportunity of opening from itself. One therefore cannot assume a "standing clearing" in which truths of Being and mystery can be stated reliably. Insofar as there is a reliable saying, it must be recognized that this is precisely the Seinsvergessenheit through which one must wait for an unreliable opening (which I think is what you are calling the differentiation of Seyn itself) in which they come to decision in their truth. While Seinsvergessenheit holds sway, one can say that "Being is not a being" until one is blue in the face, try to represent it in all possible ways, and yet one still is only thinking of a distinction in beings until there is the opening (self-differentiating of Being) that cannot be secured. This is why the elucidation of mystery in the truth essay is in Chapter *6* and not Chapter 1: in laying bare the condition of truth as correctness the abyssal clearing in which those elucidating words first speak is prepared (but not reliably produced through the preceding chapters). That is, the earlier chapters can be thought as passing through the Seinsvergessenheit that holds sway in our age with respect to the problem of truth, and the elucidation of mystery is then the harboring of the clearing in which the mystery is projected. So while one is passing through the reigning Seinsvergessenheit (with an eye to preparing an opportunity for a silencing of its decisiveness, both in oneself and others), the talk of inaccessibility (in the sense of having to wait before the word speaks truly from itself) is perhaps *more* appropriate than any "result" from a former project within the abyssal clearing once this "result" has fallen to its reliable saying in Seinsvergessenheit once again. For the latter produces the semblance that it wasn't a coming to decision in a project, a project upon an unreliable opening that first lets it speak truly. When one begins with a makeshift such as inaccessibility, and yet is ready to cast it away in the clearing when it shows itself as no longer speaking the matter in question, the possibility is prepared that the casting away itself will harbor the unsaid opening in which the projected mystery speaks.
There is much more that I would like to respond to, however, I do not wish to overstay my welcome here, as this could quickly become unwieldy. One thing I would like to clarify, however, is that I was not primarily headed toward the distinction between the inaccessibility of infinite Mind and the mystery of Being, but rather to the *question* whether infinite Mind is an appropriate *interpretation* of God (or gods). For that, one first has to see it as a project in a time-space, in which infinite Mind can appear as an interpretation with respect to the matter of God or divine mystery. The differing between infinite Mind and God himself (or gods) is thus a much more primordial divine mystery than that between a finite and infinite mind. Thus the "ever deepening" perplexity.
Here I could say I agree in one sense of the remark, but I would want also to point out an important ambiguity: the time during to which Seinsvergessenheit holds sway can be said in more than one way. On the one hand, it is the time that began with the "first beginning," i.e. the time which began with Greek thinking which also eventually buried the hidden possibility of that thinking. In this sense, Seinsvergessenheit has (increasingly) reigned as long as metaphysics has actually existed. According to this sense, the "mystery cannot be thought from out of itself" insofar as it is epochally withheld in order to provide the ages of Western history -- the ages which metaphysics each time grounds for a while. On the other hand, the time of Seinsvergessenheit is only the present age, the age, that is, where metaphysics consummates what has always what has always been most distinctive of it, namely how Being withholds itself from metaphysics. In this case, the time of seinsvergessenheit is the dissipation of actual metaphysics into the various fields of the sciences, as the latter is ordered in advance into the constellations of technology, the invisible center of whose gathering is Das Gestell. But in this case, if seinsvergessenheit actually comes about through the actual loss of metaphysics in the present age of technology, then it is precisely at this moment that the mystery may yet be thought from out of itself. Only now, in the reigning of seinsvergessenheit, is the possibility granted to think Being differently than metaphysics was ever eventually able to. Seinsvergessenheit thus becomes the mystery first giving itself to thought, namely in the offering of nothing but concealment. Thus the Janus-Head of technology.


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A new year, a new month, another blog stats report.

Over the past month I wrote six blog posts:

* [2021 New Year's Resolutions & Goals](https://www.joehxblog.com/2021-new-years-resolutions-goals/)
* [2020 Goals & Accomplishments](https://www.joehxblog.com/2020-goals-accomplishments/)
* [Petitioning During the Pandemic for a Seat on City Council](https://www.joehxblog.com/petitioning-during-the-pandemic-for-a-seat-on-city-council/)
* [Decoupling My Commenting System from jQuery](https://www.joehxblog.com/decoupling-my-commenting-system-from-jquery/)
* [December 2020 Book Reading List](https://www.joehxblog.com/december-2020-book-reading-list/)
* [Meeting My Fitness Goal in 2020](https://www.joehxblog.com/meeting-my-fitness-goal-in-2020/)

## Alexa

* Global Rank → 1,223,621

## Google Analytics

* Sessions → 4,228
* Users → 3,843
* Pageviews → 4,833

![Google Analytics Graph for January](/images/blog-stats/2021/01/stats.png)
*Google Analytics Graph for January*

## Google Search Console

* Clicks → 3,010
* Search Impressions → 68,300
* Average position → 26

![Google Search Console Graph for January](/images/blog-stats/2021/01/search-console.png)
*Google Search Console Graph for January*

## AdSense

AdSense really is the only interesting metric this month. On December 19th, I received an email stating that "Ad serving limit placed on [my] AdSense account" because they "identified invalid traffic concerns in [my] AdSense account."

I don't know what caused this - as you can see by the other metrics, my impressions have increased. I did re-enable my adblocker for my site. It does look like Google stopped limiting the ads on December 29th or 30th.

* Balance → $109.28
* Estimated earnings → $57.89
* Impressions → 8,262
* Clicks → 93

![Google AdSense Graph for January](/images/blog-stats/2021/01/adsense.png)
*Google AdSense Graph for January*

## Moz Stats

Moz Domain Authority → 30
Moz Linking Domains → 505

## Ratios

* Earnings / 1,000 sessions = $57.89 / 4.228 = $13.69
* Earnings / 1,000 pageviews = $57.89 / 4.833 = $11.98
* Earnings / 1,000 impressions = $57.89 / 8.262 = $7.01
* Earnings / day = $57.89 / 31 = $1.87
* Sessions / day = 4,228 / 31 = 136.4
* Pageviews / day = 4,833 / 31 = 155.9
* Impressions / day = 8,262 / 31 = 266.5

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Q: How to urlencode location.search params in IE7, using JavaScript I have noticed that IE7 does not url-encode querystring parameters retrieved from javascript, e.g:
var qs = location.search;

In Firefox, the parameters are encoded. How can I write IE-specific code to URL-encode the parameters in the same fashion as FireFox?
For example, in Firefox, this querystring:
?val=<script>

//gets rewritten as:

?val=%3Cscript%3E

A: Normally, the correct function to URL-encode a string for use in part of a URL is encodeURIComponent. Don't use escape, which is an obsolescent non-standard custom encoding scheme unique to JavaScript. It looks like URL-parameter-encoding, but treats pluses and all non-ASCII characters differently. Put it together with a standard URL decoder and you get errors.
However, you shouldn't call encodeURIComponent over location.search if it's giving you bad characters like < or > (which shouldn't appear in a URL, but which IE allows you to enter), because it will double-encode characters that are already correctly encoded; for example a real %3C in the address (from if the user has followed a correctly-formed link to your site) will get mis-converted to %253C.
Fixing up 'unsafe' URL characters whilst leaving already-encoded characters alone is what the encodeURI function is for; try that (on all browsers, no need for sniffing). It's rarely used, but could be what you need. Otherwise, you're looking at an annoying regexp-and-hex-encoding-function replacement.

A: You can use the escape function:
var qs = escape(location.search);

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Movie review: 'Hereditary' passes on a derivative family horror drama
Jun 6, 2018 at 1:49 PM Jun 6, 2018 at 1:49 PM
Much hype surrounds the arrival of the thinking-ghoul's scarefest, "Hereditary." Don't believe it. Somewhere between here and Sundance, where Ari Aster's writing-directing debut had the sycophants tripping over their Mukluks, the not-as-clever-as-it-thinks horror pic appears to have shed a few integral chromosomes.
Either that, or "Hereditary" is yet another example of critics allowing the rarified mountain air to create a townwide brain freeze in picturesque Park City, Utah. But here at sea level, "Hereditary" exposes itself as just another hodgepodge of other people's ideas cherry picked and tossed into a boiling brew of horror tropes. Boo.
It may find favor with fans picking up on the nods to Aster's favorite movies: Like the tiny model home from "The Amityville Dollhouse"; the psychological destruction of a family wracked by grief from "The Babadook"; the severed head from "Alien"; the overly solicitous matron from "Rosemary's Baby"; and the eerie supernatural happenings from "The Exorcist." But if you're looking for something fresh and original, you've come to the wrong place.
Not that Aster doesn't do a tremendous job designing and executing these obvious odes, but the whole movie is the equivalent of a Beatles cover band; a great facsimile, but, like "Strawberry Fields," it's "nothing to get hung about." Except, that is, for Toni Collette as Annie, the matriarch of a family that has endured generations of bad luck and mental illness. It just might be the Aussie's finest work, as she takes us on a gradual descent into deprivation and madness.
It begins with an obit for Annie's 78-year-old mother, Ellen, a woman she never held dear, even after taking Mom in once she was diagnosed with dementia. She also resents her demented Granny for getting "her hooks" into her daughter, Charlie, a macabre 13-year-old who Tony-winner Milly Shapiro ("Matilda") renders as a possessed Linda Blair-type moping around producing gruesome drawings and snipping the heads off dead birds with a scissor. She's hilarious, fitting in nicely with Aster's subtle comedic rhythms. And you truly miss her presence once she's sent off on a long journey much too early.
Not to worry. The always wonderful Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia from "The Handmaid's Tale") is all too happy to pick up the slack with her equally funny turn as an overly solicitous member of Annie's grief-counseling group. Channeling Ruth Gordon from "Rosemary's Baby," Dowd's Joan is troublingly helpful, singling out Annie for her grandmotherly bromides about death and the spirits left behind. Oh, and what a great medium whenever you need call a séance. She may not move mountains, but she's pretty good at making chalk and drinking glasses glide gracefully untouched across her kitchen table.
Are you scared yet? I wasn't, but then more than half of the audience I saw "Hereditary" with didn't seem to grasp the underlying humor and went straight to shaking in their boots. Oh, how I wish I could be like them, so easily frightened. Perhaps then I could fully understand why horror pictures are second only to superheroes in generating box-office gold. But I digress. Whether I was scared or not isn't the matter. What "the point" is, is that Aster isn't really offering anything new, like say great neo-horror like "The Babadook," "It Follows" and "Get Out." Heck, at this point, I don't even consider Aster in the same conversation as M. Night Shyamalan, whose "The Sixth Sense" (also starring Collette) and "The Split" are more unsettling than anything here.
I will, however, give much due to Aster for his remarkable ability to create atmospherics, establishing a mood of uneasiness and continuing to up the ante — until throwing it all away in his film's laughably awful final 10 minutes. Until then, he, cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, composer Colin Stetson and production designer Grace Yun succeed in keeping you rapt in suspense and feelings of dread. You eagerly await the next shoe to drop, but when it does, it never surpasses the fun of the setup. It's equally dispiriting to see Gabriel Byrne wasted so terribly as Annie's pragmatic husband, Steve. He's the Marilyn Munster here, the fish out of insane waters. It's almost like he's dead from the start.
And speaking of DNA, are we really supposed to believe he's the father of his dark, swarthy, curly haired 17-year-old son, Peter (Alex Wolff)? Better let us see the mailman, milkman; or any man assisting Annie in her day job as an artist specializing in creating elaborate dollhouses. Might one of those men be the real father? It certainly can't be Steve, the only human in the household who isn't either visited by ghosts, sent levitating, getting bloody or playing with fire.
I won't spoil anything for you, although I'm not certain that I could, given how convoluted Aster's script becomes, as he hurriedly attempts to squeeze in more and more hosannas to mentors Stanley Kubrick ("The Shining"), Nicolas Roeg ("Don't Look Now"), Roman Polanski ("Rosemary's Baby"), William Friedkin ("The Exorcist") and just about everything from the Hammer Film library. It makes for a nice tribute, but what about you, Ari Aster? What do you have to give? They were innovators with a vision. All you are is a copycat. A terrific copycat, but a copycat just the same. Your heroes are on a level with The Beatles. All you are is Oasis.
Cast includes Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd and Milly Shapiro.
(R for horror violence, disturbing images, language, drug use and brief graphic nudity.)
Grade: B-

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BAHRAIN - Delmon Poultry Company, a major player in Bahrain's poultry industry since 1980, has unveiled its new corporate identity and a new look for its flagship product, Farm Chicken.
The rebranding comes as part of a comprehensive six-month plan to reintroduce Farm Chicken to a new generation of buyers, said senior company officials on the sidelines of the branding ceremony held in Crowne Plaza Bahrain yesterday (8 May).
TradeArabia reports that it was attended by senior government officials and business partners who witnessed the new look of the chicken brand, which has been on Bahrain's supermarket shelves since 1982.
Speaking at the ceremony, Delmon's general manager, Abdul Hadi Merza Jaafar said: "Farm Chicken has been our key product for decades. Generations of families in Bahrain have grown up with it being at the centre of their household meals, and local farmers have come to rely on it for income."
"However, it was time for a revamp of its image to bring it firmly into the modern era. This product will continue to be a staple of home-cooking, and be better positioned to connect with the current generations as well," he stated.
Farm Chicken, he stated, has gained a reputation of trust for its use of naturally grown chicken raised on local, independently owned farms.
"Chicks are hatched in Delmon Poultry Company's hatchery, then distributed among 20 local farms, along with chicken feed. The chickens are then purchased from them for packaging and distribution, thereby also offering a significant contribution to the growth of Bahrain's economy and the livelihoods of hundreds of farm workers," he added.
The rebranding, which was tasked to a design agency, Miracle Graphics, embraces some modern elements, while still retaining the more familiar aspects that have long been associated with the previous incarnation.
The company will soon launch extensive outdoor, print, and social media marketing campaigns.
Miracle's business development director Mohammed Awadh said: "With traditional brands like Farm Chicken, it is important to constantly reinvent your image so that it will grab customers' attention and stand out in today's cluttered market."
"Customers will find the new look refreshing, but will still recognise it as being the same product that has gained their trust over the years," he added.


Description: Selective coronary angiography, left heart catheterization with hemodynamics, LV gram with power injection, right femoral artery angiogram, closure of the right femoral artery using 6-French AngioSeal.
REASON FOR EXAM: Dynamic ST-T changes with angina.
2. Left heart catheterization with hemodynamics.
3. LV gram with power injection.
4. Right femoral artery angiogram.
5. Closure of the right femoral artery using 6-French AngioSeal.
Procedure explained to the patient, with risks and benefits. The patient agreed and signed the consent form.
The patient received a total of 2 mg of Versed and 25 mcg of fentanyl for conscious sedation. The patient was draped and dressed in the usual sterile fashion. The right groin area infiltrated with lidocaine solution. Access to the right femoral artery was successful, okayed with one attempt with anterior wall stick. Over a J-wire, 6-French sheath was introduced using modified Seldinger technique.
Over the J-wire, a JL4 catheter was passed over the aortic arch. The wire was removed. Catheter was engaged into the left main. Multiple pictures with RAO caudal, AP cranial, LAO cranial, shallow RAO, and LAO caudal views were all obtained. Catheter disengaged and exchanged over J-wire into a JR4 catheter, the wire was removed. Catheter with counter-clock was rotating to the RCA one shot with LAO, position was obtained. The cath disengaged and exchanged over J-wire into a pigtail catheter. Pigtail catheter across the aortic valve. Hemodynamics obtained. LV gram with power injection of 36 mL of contrast was obtained.
The LV gram assessed followed by pullback hemodynamics.
The catheter exchanged out and the right femoral artery angiogram completed to the end followed by the removal of the sheath and deployment of 6-French AngioSeal with no hematoma. The patient tolerated the procedure well with no immediate postprocedure complication.
HEMODYNAMICS: The aortic pressure was 117/61 with a mean pressure of 83. The left ventricular pressure was 119/9 to 19 with left ventricular end-diastolic pressure of 17 to 19 mmHg. The pullback across the aortic valve reveals zero gradient.
ANATOMY: The left main showed minimal calcification as well as the proximal LAD. No stenosis in the left main seen, the left main bifurcates in to the LAD and left circumflex.
The LAD was a large and a long vessel that wraps around the apex showed no focal stenosis or significant atheromatous plaque and the flow was TIMI 3 flow in the LAD. The LAD gave off two early diagonal branches. The second was the largest of the two and showed minimal lumen irregularities, but no focal stenosis.
Left circumflex was a dominant system supplying three obtuse marginal branches and distally supplying the PDA. The left circumflex was large and patent, 6.0 mm in diameter. All three obtuse marginal branches appeared to be with no significant stenosis.
The obtuse marginal branch, the third OM3 showed at the origin about 30 to 40% minimal narrowing, but no significant stenosis. The PDA was wide, patent, with no focal stenosis.
The RCA was a small nondominant system with no focal stenosis and supplying the RV marginal.
LV gram showed that the LV EF is preserved with EF of 60%. No mitral regurgitation identified.
1. Patent coronary arteries with normal left anterior descending, left circumflex, and dominant left circumflex system.
2. Nondominant right, which is free of atheromatous plaque.
marginal branch III, with no focal stenosis.
4. Normal left ventricular function.
5. Evaluation for noncardiac chest pain would be recommended.


It seems like however much we prepare our homes and neighborhoods for brushfires they are inevitable and continue to occur year-after-year. Accidents, negligence (kids with nothing better to do), water shortages, fireworks, dry brush, and scorching hot weather are all indications of the California summer fire season. If you live in brushfire territory it is important that you read this article regarding the safety and protection of your home, family, and assets.
1) Take the appropriate steps to clear as much brush away from your property as possible. Of course this should be done at the beginning of the summer. Should a fire occur, you'd have more time and less work to create a better barrier to keep out potential flames from catching the house.
2) Saturate your property and back-property with tons of water. This can be done with a water hose or out of a swimming pool if your home has one. I found a 5-gallon fire retardant for $150, which is worth every penny. Supposedly an Arrowhead resident used the stuff. In the end, he had the only standing home.
3) Should you choose to defend your home, make your appearance known to neighbors, police, and firefighters. Should the situation turn for the worse, people will be aware of your presence and can warn you to evacuate. Always prepare your vehicle for a quick escape.
4) Keep a portable radio handy. This way you can stay current with reports on the fire and the path it's headed.
At the end of the day, no asset is worth your life, family, or neighbors. Accepting defeat can be the hardest step to accomplish, no matter how hard you worked. The Colby fire last year was a perfect example of how five homes became victim to engulfing flames.
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There's plenty of hype around social selling these days and, frankly, Mike Weinberg is sick of hearing it. Learn why he's dead set on dispelling social selling myths that aren't just misleading, but flat-out dangerous.
You hear them everywhere these days — loud, shrill voices proclaiming that everything has changed, that social selling has replaced traditional prospecting and selling. In this week's episode of Labcast, Mike Weinberg, founder of The New Sales Coach and one of OpenView's Top 25 B2B Sales Influencers for 2014, explains why he believes that kind of thinking is dangerous, and why we should look to social as a supplemental tool rather than a replacement. Fair warning: This may get loud.
The social selling balloon is leaking air fast — let's just stick a needle in it and pop it. People are saying that everything that used to work doesn't, that social selling is the answer, and that if you master it you will be the king of selling forever. This is exactly what the reactive, passive salesperson who is either scared to hunt or doesn't want to hunt wants to hear. Telling them that they don't need to proactively target, prospect, and pursue potential customers who haven't already raised their hand is dangerous.
Myth: Buyer is 80% through the "buying process" before they are willing to engage or seek out a salesperson. Sure, this statement may apply to the reactive salesperson who is sitting around waiting, but no true proactive salesperson waits for buyer to be 80% down the path before engaging. By that point, too many of the cards have already been dealt and you may be forced to play a hand you may not like.
Don't be late to the party. If you are waiting in reactive mode then you're going to be late to the party and possibly last to the opportunity. That means you won't have a hand in establishing the narrative. You won't influence the buying criteria or help shape their buying process. Meanwhile, your more proactive competitor got in early and built a relationship before the buyer had urgency, a clear budget, and a clearer understanding of what they think their specific need is.
Stop calling it social selling. Call it what it is (marketing). Think of social as another tool in your tool box to help you identify potential customers and conduct pre-call activities such as research, etc. Social is great as an additional tool (not a replacement).
Social is awesome, but calls are still the 'protein on the plate.' The best use of social is as a supplement to traditional prospecting and sales techniques. Don't be confused — connections and retweet are not sales metrics. Those who do well in sales are those who are good at the traditional aspects of selling, but can incorporate social into their repertoire.
Make a great list. Get strategic. Save time and energy to be proactive by going after one targeted list of prospects at a time.
Sharpen your story. Stop talking about what you do and start talking about what you do for customers. Focus on what's important to the customer.
Be selfish with your time. The best salespeople time block. They spend a much higher percent of their time doing proactive selling, working on a strategic target list, asking great questions, and crafting a compelling story.
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Jonathan: Hello everyone, welcome back to Labcast. This is your host Jonathan Crowe, OpenView Labs. With us today we have Mike Weinberg, he's the New Sales Coach, author of New Sales Simplified. Mike, thanks so much for coming back. We had you last time back, I think around the holidays. We had a great Labcast around Stealing Back Your Productivity. Really appreciate you coming back on the program.
Mike: Oh, Jonathan, I love OpenView and I'm frankly just happy to speak with you and honestly, I'm surprised there's not, like, a great depression over the city of Boston between the Red Sox collapse and then after watching the Patriots, this weekend, my goodness.
Jonathan: Ouch, Ouch. Too soon. I don't know. There is a depression and unfortunately, we have the Celtics season to look forward to too.
Mike: Yeah, well, it is October here in St. Louis, which means it's going to be a very unproductive month for baseball fans because it's just another Cardinals post season. So now that I've got that out of the way. Thanks for having me.
Jonathan: Yeah, I know, and thank you for bringing that up. So, Mike, now, you know, you've brought a sore subject up for me, I'd like to bring a sore subject up to, for you, because I know there's something that's been bothering you lately and it's something that I've been hearing a lot about. Something that a lot of our listeners have been hearing over and over, I'm sure too, and that is social selling. Can you tell me a little bit about what's up with social selling? Why is it bothering you?
Mike: Yeah, you know, the idea itself isn't bothering me, it's what happened to it. It's kind of just blown up all over the place and what drives me bananas is that there are some really loud and some pretty shrill voices that have large platforms, social selling experts with large platforms and they are out there telling the world, boldly proclaiming, everything has changed about selling, nothing that used to work, works, and that social selling is the only way, it is the answer and if you master this, you're going to be, like, the king of selling forever.
And, it makes me crazy because it's a lot of people that are frankly, new to the scene, and they've kind of jumped on the bandwagon and today, you know, they're experts and they're preaching some really, really dangerous things to people that want to hear what they're saying.
Jonathan: All right, you used the word dangerous there, I mean, that's a big word and so, I know a lot of the reaction to some of this stuff is okay. Social selling, you know, sure I'll get on Twitter. How is that really going to move the needle for me? But, even beyond that, you're saying this is kind of a, this is a dangerous thing to be really promoting. Can you talk a little bit more about that?
Mike: Yeah, and I'll circle back later and we can talk certainly, there's a ton, a ton of benefit to connecting while we're selling socially and using the various tools and platforms that are available and I'm a fan of that and we'll circle back. But why I say it's dangerous is because it's like, it's even hard to come up with an analogy, it's dangerous because the people promoting social selling at the expense of traditional prospecting and sales techniques are basically, telling the typically reactive, passive, scared to hunt sales person exactly what they want to hear. They're telling them, it doesn't work anymore, you do not proactively target, you do not go pursue a potential customer that has not already raised their hand and is coming to you and proactive calling doesn't work anymore.
So, the reason it's so dangerous is the typical reactive salesperson, they love hearing that because they're the one sitting there telling everybody, "Well cold calling doesn't work anyway," and there are these experts telling me, you know, I got to do all this, if I tweet and blog and connect, you know, with folks online and get in a linked in group and participate and I'm going to sell everything I need to and that's why it's dangerous because it's what the itching ears of the struggling, passive salesperson really, really wants to hear. It's like permission to be reactive and wait, so I hate it, hate it.
Jonathan: All right, and so, are you saying that this is kind of an extension, this sounds a little familiar in a way, you're kind of saying, social selling now the call for, that this is the answer. Are you saying that this is kind of similar to what we were hearing maybe a couple of years ago with all inbound, essentially going back to the argument that cold calling is dead?
Mike: Oh my gosh, you nailed it, Jonathan, that's exactly it. It's the Kool-Aid being dished out in large portions and it's being consumed as fast as those purveyors of Kool-Aid can make it. Yeah, it was the inbound craze and I wrote about this in my book, you know, three years ago, where it was exactly what we wanted to hear. Don't do it, you know, we'll do all this inbound stuff, they're going to come running to you and it's the same appealing message that comes from social. But, I'll tell you why I'm encouraged though, as dangerous as this is and as much as it makes me nuts, dude, the social selling balloon is leaking air fast, fast.
There are lots of legitimate sales authors and trainers and folks finally starting to throw some rocks, you know, and take their shots at the fallacy that social is the fix for all, you know, for all sales ills. And I'm here to tell you, it's great that the air has been leaking out of the balloon but I would like to stick a pin in it and pop it for good.
And, here, for the audience, here, I want you to hear who's saying this, I'm on like a couple top 30 social sales influencer lists, like, I'm a huge fan of social, I'm not saying throw the baby out with the bathwater, but I would like to silence some of these loud voices telling us that everything has changed and they keep promoting these myths. We hear all these statistics and they keep telling us this stuff and it's not helping the community, it's not helping sales results.
Jonathan: Right, some of those, some of those myths that you're bringing up, I've got a couple of the numbers here actually, I was looking up some social selling statistics before our call here and here's some of the numbers that jump out, you know. This is one that's widely reported that, you know, buyers can, 80% through the buying process before they seek out a salesperson.
Another one here we have, you know, 54% of social salespeople, whoever those people are, have tracked their social selling back to at least one closed deal. One closed deal, that's maybe not a lot to write home about for some people, but that's a stat they're throwing out here too. Average cold calling appointment rate is 2.5%.
So, a lot of stats being thrown around here. Can you talk a little bit about those or some of the other myths that you heard?
Mike: Well, I'll affirm the second stat. There are sales people that can point to success they've had from engaging on social media. They give the credit there, frankly, I'll give credit. I have a couple long-term clients that found me through social. One of them came from a blog post that I wrote with a specific prospect in mind and got that in the hands of the right people.
After my deal had kind of gone dark on me and they kind of stopped responding, I wrote an article about issues that I knew were relevant to them and got it in their executive's hands and within a week I had a face-to-face with the CEO and they became a long-term client. So, I saw that work. One of my longest-term clients met me on Twitter. Another sales blogger retweeted something that I had said. This gentleman read it and called me up. Heck, we're good friends and he's still my client three years later.
So, I believe that we can point to successes that came from planting seeds and networking and using social in a marketing, pre-selling, connecting research sense, which I think, frankly, is its best use.
But let me address that first stat. I get angry. If you haven't heard the intensity in my voice yet, here it comes. That stat is crap. That's a straw man. That stat that says the buyer is 80% of the way through the sales process before they're willing to engage or seek out a sales person; I don't know where that comes from. Everyone wants to quote it.
First of all, I think it's a lie. Second of all, it's not true. Third of all, it's one of the greatest causes of sales short fall and lack of opportunities in the pipeline that I see across a variety of companies in many industries that I'm personally working with. That stat is only true if you've got a sales organization or a sales person who sits on their a** and waits for someone to call them or waits for that fantasy "Glengarry Glen Ross," the hot leads to be handed to them by the sales manager or that the inbound marketing formula was perfect.
No true, proactive sales hunter who makes a living by finding and creating and identifying new opportunities is waiting until their buyer is 80% down the path before engaging the prospect.
So, that stat is crap because it only applies to the non-proactive sales person that's sitting around waiting. Does that make sense?
Jonathan: Yeah. Absolutely. The one word that I keep hearing over and over again in your discussion is proactive versus reactive. So, it seems like that's kind of one of the main things that's getting you riled up about this issue. For the people who are inclined to do so, it can really kind of promote being more reactive than you should be when sales is all about being proactive. Is that fair to say?
Mike: Yeah. Let's go back in history here. I think part of the reason that people like me have so much business in our consulting and training practices is because a very large percent of the population of sales people today lived most of their careers during either good economic times or they were part of hot industries.
When you're selling in a great economy or you're part of an industry where you're riding a wave, you can be reactive and still have a pretty good amount of success. If you know your product, if you're relational, if you can handle inbound demand well, you can make a pretty good living when there are an abundance of leads and people knocking on your door. So, you could live in reactive mode.
But when your industry cools off or the economy slows down and you're still charged with bringing in new business and you've done all the farming you can do and sitting around waiting for someone to give you a warm lead is a recipe for disaster. So, I'm all about proactive versus reactive. That leads to some consequences.
One of the things that really scares me about the continual promotion of that statistic that you go engage people socially but don't dare call them or try to get a meeting because that's inappropriate until the buyer is 80% down the process. The two major consequences come from that.
One, we have entire sales organizations that have empty pipelines because there aren't enough opportunities being created or identified either through inbound or through social activity. So, we have a shortage of opportunities to work when we live in reactive mode. But I think even worse than that, if you are really waiting and you're living your life as a sales person in reactive mode and the buyer is way down that path in the sales process before they engage you or, the way I would say it, before you engage them, then you end up being what I call late to the party. That's one of my not-so-sweet 16 common reasons that I always talk about why sales people fail to get new business.
When you're late to the party or last to the opportunity, then bad things happen to you. When you're late, when you're at the very end of the line because you waited for the potential customer to engage you, you didn't influence their buying criteria. You didn't help shape their buying process.
There's a good chance at that point your more proactive competitor got in there early because they were not reactive and waiting. They actually went in to build a relationship before the deal was perfectly qualified, before the buyer had urgency and money available and a specific need and decision authority that minute, which is what happens when people over-qualify. I'll circle back to that in a little bit.
So, if you're late because you're waiting, the buyer is down the path. You have a very hard time bringing value because your competitor is in the consultant's chair. He or she got in there first. He started the relationship. They asked the good questions. They painted the picture of a brighter future and a different potential results. And then the buyer requirements started getting shaped.
By the time you're being asked for a quote or to come make a presentation, you're nothing more than a vendor who's putting forth a solution. They don't see you as a value creator at that point. You're just another price. Unless you have an incredibly different product or a very low price, which is not often the case, we often don't have the lowest price and our solution is not that much different. It's very, very had to set yourself apart when you're last to the party and late to the opportunity.
Jonathan: That's a really powerful point. Switching gears just a little bit, we're talking a lot about how sales people shouldn't be thinking about social. What about ways they should be thinking about social and ways that they can actually use that to be proactive, putting that as a part of their other activities, their other work that they're doing?
Mike: Yeah. Good question. Here's how I see it. I see social, in fact, there's even a movement right now among some authors I really like that I'm reading to stop calling it "social selling" because it's really marketing. It's research/presale activity.
Mike: So, if you take that approach to it, that social is yet one more tool in your toolbox or, maybe even better said, a variety of tools in your toolbox to help you identify potential customers, to help you research and learn more about what's on the mind of people that should be on your target list. In my framework for developing new business, the first step is we select strategic targets that we need to pursue.
So, once you've identified a really good list of potential customers that look, smell and feel like your best clients, your best customers, once you identify those potential customers, as part of your research process, use social. Find those people on Twitter. Follow them. Get on LinkedIn and see what their updates are saying. What are they reading? What are they promoting? What groups are they in? You can even engage with them. Ask a question. Provide an answer.
Is there anything more insulting than getting that note from a stranger that you know was a sales person? That's not social at all. I ignore the many, many invites I get that are not personalized. So, for goodness sakes, if you want to connect with someone, take the extra 45 seconds and write a few sentences and a personal note about why you're asking to connect with them. Maybe even include a little bit of your sales story.
So, those are a lot of ways you can use social; research, try to connect, Twitter, LinkedIn, other platforms, Google+, my goodness. You can bring value in a teaser-type fashion as you're looking to plant some seeds before engaging someone in maybe a more traditional telephone dialogue or face-to-face meeting.
Jonathan: Right. So, using that as a supplement per se, using it to help your efforts but not getting too confused with the fact that connecting with someone on LinkedIn takes the place of something like a phone call and really just replacing that very necessary thing that every sales person knows they really need to do at the end of the day.
Mike: Yeah. In fact, you used a word right there I liked. You said supplement. I'll quote my friend Anthony Iannarino, who wrote the forward to my book. He's, I think, one of the great sales authors of today. He's got the TheSalesBlog.com. He puts incredibly quality out every single day. The way he says it, he says that the telephone, like it or not, is still the protein on the plate. You can't have a good meal without it. It's an important part of our job.
The way I've been saying it, this is since a few years ago, but it's even more true with social than it was with inbound, social is great. It is a great supplement. It is a great additional tool. But it is only a supplement. It is not a replacement for traditional prospecting in selling.
I'll go so far, Jonathan, as saying to you as I look across my clients in all kinds of industries, high tech and low tech, small and big companies alike, short sales cycles and long, the people who are killing it today, who are bringing in new business, who have full pipelines and identify opportunities and move them through the funnel, the people that are winning those deals are the same people that always won those deals. They are good at the traditional aspects of selling.
Yes, many of them incorporate social into their repertoire and they're using it really, really well. But they're still good at telling their story. They're still good at running a discovery session and identifying needs. They're still good at overcoming objections. They're still likeable and trustworthy.
They still, in a longer and complex sale, can visit with various stakeholders, build consensus. They talk to all different constituencies so when it's time to present they have good data to share. They do the hard work and they quarterback a deal. They represent their company well and they manage the deal internally in their own company.
All those things that were always important in sales are still important. That's why I want to kill, when I hear these loud voices in the social selling camps saying everything has changed because that's crap. Everything has not changed.
Jonathan: So, I think we're running a little bit out of time here. But before we go, I want to give you an opportunity to give some advice to the sales people out there who either are those people who have been doing the right things and they want to get a little better or the people who want to get up to that A-status, they want to start closing more. What are maybe two or three things that they can be focusing on that you think will really help them improve and get better results.
Mike: Yeah. I like the way you framed it. I'm really simple. If someone put a gun to my head and said, "Give me three things that will improve my sales," I would say these three things.
Number one, make a great list. Get strategic and get buy-in from other people in your company. Who should you be targeting? Who looks, smells and feels like your best customer? I'm not interested in like reinventing the wheel. Let's go down the path of least resistance and spend our energy and whatever limited time we have available to be proactive because we spend so much time not selling. The time that we are actually selling, let's go after a really finite strategic list of prospects. That's number one.
Number two, sharpen your story. Stop talking about what you do and start talking about what you do for clients. Their issues, their pains, their problems you solve, the new and better results you achieve. I'll tell you, I listen to so many sales people who start their sales story with, "We're a supplier," or, "We've been in business for 90 years and we're family held," or, "Our proprietary process…" No one cares. Stop talking about what you do and sharpen your story so you talk about what's important to the customer. That would be the second issue. That can transform your results alone.
The third thing is as simple as it gets. Get more selfish with your time. That's what you and I talked about back in the holidays with being selfishly productive and people should go back and listen to that Labcast from, I think it was December we put that out. The best sales people today guard their calendars. They time block. They fill up their calendars so other people can't. They don't let people put work on their desks and they spend a much higher percent of their time doing proactive selling, working on that strategic target list I talked about. They ask great questions and they tell a compelling story. That's what I say works.
Mike: Make a list. Sharpen your story and then spend more time doing it. Period.
Jonathan: That's great. Mike, I love it. Great advice. Thank you so much for coming back on with us. I want to tell everybody who's listening to go right now to Mike's website, NewSalesCoach.com. Check out his blog. It's got great stuff coming out regularly. Check out the book, "New Sales Simplified." Mike, is there anywhere else that people can go to get in touch with you, maybe even social?
Mike: Yeah. Yeah. Hey, that social thing is pretty cool, isn't it? Yeah. I'm pretty active on Twitter. You get a pretty interesting smattering of some of my personal views and my football fandom and sales tips. About once a week, I go on a crazy rant when a client does something that makes me nuts and I throw ten tweets out there about the same topic. @Mike_Weinberg.
Jonathan: That's great. All right. Well, thank you again, Mike. Always a pleasure having you.
Mike: I love talking to you, Jonathan. Thanks to you and everyone at OpenView.
Jonathan: All right. Take care. Thanks everyone for listening in.


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Italian newspaper today " Ratzinger's unequivocal text: "I have not abdicated".
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BREAKING: POPE BENEDICT XVI: "I HAVE NOT ABDICATED"!
AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY FROMROME.INFO
Ratzinger's unequivocal text: "I have not abdicated".
If a pope does not abdicate, there cannot be another conclave. Bergoglio would be invalid.
We would not have two popes, but "half": a pope without practical exercise of power.
by Andrea Cionci
"There is only one pope," Benedict XVI has been repeating for eight years, without ever explaining which one is which.
Perhaps he can not say; nevertheless, we have located a text where Ratzinger clarifies that although he, with the 2013 Declaratio, "resigned" by renouncing the "ministerium" (the practical functions), he has not at all "abdicated", on the other hand, the divinely created title of pope: the "munus." — Words are important: resigning is giving up functions, abdicating is giving up the title of a sovereign.
Boring "clerical legalisms," as Bergoglio says? — No. This is a huge problem – one that is carefully avoided in public debate – because if a living pope does not abdicate, by completely laying aside the munus, another conclave cannot be called. Even from a theological point of view, the Holy Spirit does not direct the election of the pope in an illegitimate conclave. The "Pope Francis" therefore, would never have existed, he would only be a "bishop dressed in white", as in the Third Secret of Fatima, and no one further, in his line of succession, would be a true pope. — It is therefore worth applying ourselves to the question.
But let me show you the documented proof. In his "Last Conversations" (Garzanti 2016,), the book-length interview by Peter Seewald of Pope Benedict XVI, the journalist asks: "With you, for the first time in the history of the Church, a pontiff in the full and effective exercise of his functions has resigned from his "office". Was there an inner conflict over the decision?" (p. 26)
Benedict replied, "It's not that simple, of course. No pope has resigned for a thousand years, and even in the first millennium this was an exception: so such a decision must be pondered at length. For me, however, it appeared so obvious that there was no painful inner conflict."
An absurd statement if we understand the word "resignation" in the common and simple sense that we use in the English language. For in the last thousand years (1016-2016) there have been no less than four popes who have renounced the throne, (including the famous Celestine V in 1294) and, in the first millennium of the papacy (33-1033), there were six others. — Perhaps, then, Ratzinger does not know the history of the Church so well?
Yet, his sentence makes perfectly coherent sense if we understand that "resigning" (from the ministerium, as Ratzinger did) does not at all entail "abdicating" (from the munus). The – vaguely confusing – distinction between munus and ministerium was formalized at the canonical level in 1983, but it is entirely functional for Benedict XVI to get across a very clear message.
He, in fact, is not talking about popes who have abdicated, but about those who have resigned like him, that is, those who have abandoned the ministerium, without abdicating.
It all makes sense: the "exception" of the first millennium of which Ratzinger speaks is that of Benedict VIII — known in life as Theophylact of the Counts of Tusculum — who, having been ousted in 1012 by the antipope Gregory VI, had to give up for a few months the ministerium, the exercise of power, but did not lose the munus of pope, much so that he was then reinstated on the throne by German Emperor Henry II. In the second millennium, however, no pope has ever renounced only the ministerium, while four popes have, however, abdicated, giving up the munus (and, consequently, also the ministerium).
Consulted on this historical question, Dr. Francesco Mores, professor of Church History at the University of Milan confirmed it, saying: "There is indeed this difference between the first and the second millennium. The decisive junction is the "Gregorian" reform (of 1073). Although in conflict with the secular powers, the popes of the second millennium always maintained a minimum of practical exercise of their power, unlike very few cases in the first millennium: Pontian, Silvester, but, above all, Benedict VIII".
Ratzinger is clearly telling us that he had to renounce the ministerium like his ancient, homonymous predecessor: if Benedict XVI did it voluntarily, and Benedict VIII did it forcibly, neither of them ever abdicated the munus. If it were not so, how could Ratzinger say, as he did, that no pope has resigned in the second millennium, or that a papal resignation in the first millennium was an exception?
We can cite another proof of this, from Seewald's other book-length interview of Benedict: "Ein Leben". On page 1204, Benedict XVI distances himself from Celestine V, who legally abdicated in the second millennium (1294), saying: "The situation of Celestine V was extremely peculiar and could in no way be invoked as (my) precedent." !
Also in Ein Leben, we note that the word "abdication" appears eight times – nine in the German edition ("Abdankung") – and is never used in reference to Ratzinger, but only to popes who really abdicated, or who wanted to do it seriously, such as Pius XII to escape the Nazis. For Ratzinger, on the other hand, there is only talk of resignation ("Ruecktritt").
Today, therefore, we would not have "two popes", but only "half": Benedict XVI, devoid of practical power. For this reason, he continues to wear white (although without a the mozzetta), to sign P.P. (Pontifex Pontificum), to live in the Vatican and mysteriously enjoy other papal prerogatives.
Are there any other explanations?
The question can not be passed over lightly: 1,285,000,000 Catholics are entitled to certain and transparent answers: a press conference by Pope Benedict, for example, or a synod with public discussion between bishops and cardinals appointed before 2013."
A clarification should not be delayed."
https://www.fromrome.info/2021/05/04/pop...abdicated/
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I loved when Pope Benedict visited the veil of Veronica.
I love that he understands the church needs more of these Traditional practices.
I can guarantee that the laity craves these things--when mass and the Holy Angels are present with us, when we Know we are going to God's house.
Nothing against Francis but it's a different mindset.
Perhaps they work in unison?
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(05-05-2021, 08:36 PM)AnaCarolina1 Wrote: I loved when Pope Benedict visited the veil of Veronica.
Ratzinger is such a mixed bag it's insane.
One minute he's sponsoring all of this traditionalism and the next minute he's citing his motives as:
1. Coinciding with the "Protestant balance of liturgy"
2. And "cosmic" reasons (along the lines of Teilhard de Chardin)
One minute he's talking about the necessity of the Church in salvation and seems traditional and the next minute he's:
1. Praying at Synagogues and Mosques
2. Making prayer meetings just like the 1986 Assisi event
3. Making ecumenical declarations with Lutherans, Orthodox, and other Christian churches
I understand the traditionalist movement loves him for his work in "bringing back the TLM", but honestly:
1. The SSPX, because of Archbishop Lefebvre, already was preserving tradition
2. The missal of John XXIII is literally just the final steeping stone to the NO, and is defunct in many ways such as:
a. Kneeling to the Jews in the Good Friday services
b. Keeping the Pius XII Holy Week reforms
c. Adding the name of St. Joseph to the thousands-of-years-old-and-preserved Roman Canon
Also Ratzinger was one of the primary forces at VII and was suspect of heresy during the age of Pius XII.
Like I said, big mixed bag.
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"Kneeling to the Jews"? What do you mean?
"[I]t is vain to hope to attract souls to God by a bitter zeal." Pope St. Pius X.
"If anyone deludes himself by thinking he is serving God, when he has not learned to control his tongue, the service he gives is vain. If he is to offer service pure and unblemished in the sight of God, who is our Father, he must take care of orphans and widows in their need, and keep himself unstained by the world." James 1:26-27.
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(05-05-2021, 08:42 PM)Memories_in_Rain Wrote:
I admit I am ignorant on these sorts of matters...but what is wrong with adding St Joesph to the Roman Canon.
(05-05-2021, 09:13 PM)Anon777 Wrote: I admit I am ignorant on these sorts of matters...but what is wrong with adding St Joesph to the Roman Canon.
Sets the precedent that the Roman Canon, the most preserved and sacred part of the whole Mass, the part of the Mass which went unchanged for more than a thousand-and-hundreds-of-years, can be changed out of nowhere. It was one of the Popes from Pius IX to Pius XII (forgive me for my forgetfulness) that flat out rejected including the name of St. Joseph in the Canon for the very reasons I just laid out. The liturgical reformers only had to wait a couple of decades before they could try again... and succeed...
(05-05-2021, 08:50 PM)Clare Brigid Wrote: "Kneeling to the Jews"? What do you mean?
Because I cannot quote Sede sources outside of the specific forum, all I will do is link this article which talks about it.
http://www.traditionalmass.org/images/ar...enJews.pdf
Pretty much, the Good Friday Mass originally had a section which was specifically for the repentance of the Jews. This section was changed over and over again, adding a genuflection, removing "un-inter-religious" langauge, and then Ratzinger comes along and changes the section into some strange, bizarre prayer which is totally different from the original because of "Catholic-Jewish relations".
This same thing was tried before in the reign of Pius XI and during the time of Cardinal Merry del Val and was rejected completely.
The article discusses it very well and also, since I know you are of the SSPX position, quotes from the SSPX on this same matter a lot so it isn't too biased in any way. The SSPX responded very negatively to what Ratzinger did as well, and the article just lays out the history of the specific section I am speaking about, and why the changes Ratzinger made are contrary to the Faith.
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(05-05-2021, 08:42 PM)Memories_in_Rain Wrote: c. Adding the name of St. Joseph to the thousands-of-years-old-and-preserved Roman Canon
Sorry, but you can't blame that one on him. He was still just plain Father Ratzinger on 13 November 1962 when John XXIIII added St Joseph's name to the Roman Canon. I used to have an old Altar Missal that hadn't been used since the promulgation of the NO. St Joseph's name was written in the Canon very neatly in ink.
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(05-05-2021, 09:25 PM)Memories_in_Rain Wrote: This section was changed over and over again, adding a genuflection, removing "un-inter-religious" langauge, and then Ratzinger comes along and changes the section into some strange, bizarre prayer which is totally different from the original because of "Catholic-Jewish relations".
I am not saying this was a good change, but I can't see how the prayer is bizarre:
Quote: Let us also pray for the Jews that God our Lord should illuminate their hearts, so that they will recognize Jesus Christ, the Savior of all men.
Let us pray. Let us genuflect. Rise.
All-powerful and eternal God, you who wish that all men be saved and come to the recognition of truth, graciously grant that when the fullness of peoples enters your Church all of Israel will be saved.
Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.
(05-06-2021, 12:33 AM)jovan66102 Wrote:
Did I say I blamed it on him? No, I said that the John XXIII missal has three problems, those I listed, and that Ratzinger's approving of the 1962 missal and not the pre-1955 one leads to those problems.


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Moments after the first Aquaman trailer went online, fans in Comic-Con's Hall H were treated to an exclusive second look at the superhero adventure.
This one incorporated much of the same footage from the trailer, but added several new scenes that the rest of the world likely won't see for a while.
So until you get to lay eyes on it for yourself, here's everything you need to know.
The extended Comic-Con look opens on a lighthouse, on top of which a woman - Queen Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) - is marveling at the snow. A man (Thomas Curry, played by Temuera Morrison) emerges to wrap a blanket around her shoulders.
We then see Atlanna, now in a sleek white bodysuit, diving off the pier and into the sea while Thomas and little baby Arthur look on.
The hows and whys of Atlanna's time on the surface world aren't explained in the trailer, but it's clear that whatever she and Thomas had was special and tragic. I don't know about you, but I think I ship them now.
Ma and Pa Aquaman may be romantics, but their kid is something else entirely.
A clip from Aquaman showed Arthur and Mera walking over desert dunes in search of Atlantis, or something. They arrive at an enormous ruin in the desert, and the first thing Arthur does upon walking inside is yell "Check this place out, this is badass," like he's a drunk college kid on holiday.
She takes some sweat from his forehead to drip onto the device, and now it works – it lights up blue, and the gears start to turn.
"Show off," he smirks. "I could've just peed on that." Your rightful king, ladies and gentlemen of Atlantis.
Later in the same scene, a hologram of a man comes up, and starts spouting ominous instructions and warnings about "the trident that wields the power of Atlantis."
Once the message is over, Mera removes the cylinder and smashes it on the ground, to Arthur's surprise. "Shouldn't we have written it down first?" he asks.
"Something something trident," Arthur says, wrinkling his brow.
Aquaman may be new(ish) to the big screen, but he's a familiar figure all the same: He's the stereotypical frat boy you knew in college who never did his homework and tried to get by on charm, but was never quite as clever as he thought he was.
Did you think the flashback was the last we'd see of Nicole Kidman's Queen Atlanna? Not so.
In one of the most intriguing moments of the reel, we see Atlanna – in regular Earth clothes, like the kind your mom might wear on vacation in Greece – in a house being invaded by nameless, faceless minions.
She holds up a trident and throws herself into the fight, pushing off bad guys left and right.
Nicole Kidman as a superpowered action hero? Um, yes thank you please.
So far, Jason Momoa's Aquaman hasn't much resembled his comic-book counterpart. But that'll change at some point in Aquaman.
Much of the plot seems to revolve around Arthur's extreme reluctance to claim his birthright. "I'm not a leader. I'm not a king," he protests in a voiceover.
The final shot of the Comic-Con footage revealed Arthur in a new outfit: scaly and skin-tight, orange and green.
The colors aren't as bright as they might be on the page (perhaps because the scene appears to take place underwater, but more likely because muted shades are a better fit for the grittier aesthetic of the DCEU), but the resemblance is unmistakable. It's this film's version of the Aquaman costume from the comics.
In voiceover, Mera responds to his final question. "A hero," she says.
Aquaman is in theaters Dec. 21.


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Demi Lovato shares empowering message about her eating disorder: 'I'm letting go of my perfectionism'
The singer shared a candid message with her fans
January 04, 2018 - 15:54 GMT Sharnaz Shahid Demi Lovato has opened up about her struggle with her eating disorder in a new Instagram post, telling her followers she's working hard to recovery
Demi Lovato has told her followers that she will continue to work hard on her recovery with her eating disorder this year. Taking to her Instagram page on Thursday, the singer shared a bikini-clad picture of herself, detailing her everyday struggle with "self-criticism". In the caption, she wrote: "So, I'm insecure about my legs in this picture but I'm posting it because I look so happy and this year I've decided I'm letting go of my perfectionism and embracing freedom from self-criticism."
Demi Lovato has opened up about her struggle with her eating disorder in a new post
She added: "Learning to love my body the way it is is challenging but life changing. Giving up my eating disorder has been the most challenging journey of my life but I work every day towards solid recovery even if I mess up sometimes. Today I'm feeling strong. You all can do it too. It IS possible. Thank you God for this new chapter in my life. #EDrecovery."
READ: Demi Lovato posts shocking before-and-after picture of her anorexia
Last year, Demi released her new documentary, Simply Complicated, based on her recovery and her ongoing struggle. Speaking about the project, the American star told Teen Vogue: "It was really hard to talk about on camera. But I knew that if I was honest, it would help somebody understand. Sometimes I'm not perfect with my recovery and my eating issues, but I keep fighting. And I want people to see that." In the documentary, Demi also revealed that she had an eating disorder relapse in 2016 following her break-up from actor Wilder Valderrama. "There are issues that I haven't conquered yet that I know I won't conquer if I'm relying on somebody else to take care of the loneliness. I just wasn't ready and there was so much in my life that I hadn't explored yet," she shared.
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Welcome to the world of Ark. As you wake up stranded and confused you realize you have a implant in your arm and that you are alone. It is your job to survive and dominate as you progress and explore you will encounter a lot of different obstacles that will most likely kill you if you are not careful. You must avoid dinosaurs that want to eat you as well as other players who might be out hunting for new survivors to kill. As you begin to build your new home and start taming dinosaurs to help you defend your home and attack threats to your survival you will soon realize that in order to survive you must do what ever it takes.
Ark Survival Evolved is not your typical survival game such as Rust or DayZ. I have roughly 700 hours on this game and I have never had so much fun on a game before. When you first open the game and join a server you will spawn on a beach all alone and afraid. When you first wake up you will have to survive off of berries and innocent dodos that you will have to kill in order to cook meat so you can survive. Though this game is single player I would defiantly recommend playing online and forming a tribe either with your friends which is always the way to go, but if that is not a option try joining a tribe that is already established on the server. By doing so not only will you level faster with the bonus tribe xp. But you will also be stronger with a group and can get more done. But if you would rather play solo online you can always play on a PVE server instead of a PVP. to build your first house you will want to collect material such as wood, fiber, and thatch so you can start creating a temporary home. Once you have established a decent base and have all the essentials such as food, water, and clothes you will probably want to go tame your first dinosaur. Sense you will not have many resources to use on a dinosaur you will want to try to tame something that is simple such as a Raptor or a Trike. Dinosaurs are a huge game changer in this game because they all do something different that will help you collect resources. For example the Raptor will harvest meat and hide for you while the trike will collect berries so you can make tranq arrows and narcotics.
Once you have tamed a few dinosaurs and have gotten a bit use to the game you might be ready to challenge yourself and have you and your tribe tame your first T-rex or Spino. This can be a bit hard and possibly scary your first time trying to tame one of these beast but it will really be worth it if you are successful. Bigger tribes will have multiple T-rexes and Spinos that will help protect their base as well as help them attack other tribes if they are at war. Now Ark has updates all the time that adds new dinosaurs that change the gameplay completely and a recent dinosaur that was added is called the giganotosaurus. This beast is now the king of all dinosaurs and is what every tribe is wanting to have for defense purposes but especially for attacking enemy bases. These guys are not something to mess around with they are extremely powerful and will show your power as a tribe. If you get to the point that you are built and established and have a lot of dinosaurs and are finally getting ready to raid other bases for what ever the reason is be prepared for anything. This game can really throw anything at you that will throw you off especially if you are not prepared for it. With there being so many different ways to attack another tribe you will have options to choose from and once you decide make sure you have the material needed to successfully raid your enemy. Now with all this said a big difference in this game is that unlike Rust where everyone kills each other on site most players on Ark are really friendly and will often help you as long as you keep to yourself and are not spamming global. With this said this means you can really begin to build and enjoy the game and all it has to offer. Though I have only really covered most of the basics there is a lot I did not cover that you can truly only experience by playing the game. Honestly overall this game is one of the best survival games I have ever played. The gameplay is so much fun and taming dinosaurs will make you feel like they are the most valuable thing to you on the game. There is just so much to do on this game and I would really try to get your friends to play the game with you.
I will warn you right now as of now Ark Survival Evolved is NOT YET OPTOMIZED. But this graphical review will be for a card that can support graphical settings between high and max. Now for the graphics of Ark they are beyond amazing. When you first wake up and the sun is shining down on you it will take you by surprise by just how good this game looks. Everything from the shadows for everything to maybe just the breeze moving the leaves of the trees. Everything in this game is detailed and looks just awesome. The Developers are working hard on this game and are trying their best to get the game optimized and recently have fixed some major optimization issues. Really this is the only issue I have had with this game. But after upgrading my card I was taken back by the amount of detail and attention put into every little thing. My favorite things to look at are the dinosaurs. When you walk up to them you can see all the detail that has been put into them. There is a day and night cycle that works and transitions really well and is really smooth. At night when you run around with a torch or if you see someone with a torch it is really cool looking watching the torch light up a small area as it is moving through the woods. Overall this game has some really awesome graphics that will impress you. The developers really paid attention to detail and it really shows.
The controls for Ark Survival Evolved though simple are also a bit complex. Your basic controls are the normal WASD keys to move and the mouse to look around. The mouse also is used to pick things up and interact with a lot of things in the game. But it does get a bit more complicated from there. You do have hotkeys that you can put items on to make it quicker to be able to use things. There is also keys that are used to whistle dinosaurs to do certain things and also keys to run, crouch, and even punch. So as you can see the controls for this game are a bit complex to learn but after playing for a while you will eventually learn them and they will be come easy to retain. I honestly had no issues at all learning these controls.
There was a lot I did not mention because it will keep somethings as a surprise for you as you play your first time through. Though this review was for PC I can only assume this game is good on consoles as well (not sure if console is released yet). I really do recommend this game to anyone who likes survival games but be warn once you start playing you will lose track of time really fast.
I play this game but not as much I used to. It's died down for me a little. But it is fun!
It's fun, but I don't play it much at all.
For me this game is too confusing and hard to get used to. It's fun to play with friends.
Never actually owned this game, but playing it at a friends was rather fun.
Can see how it would get boring quickly though.
Played the game once or twice got bored very quickly. To be honest this game is not for me but all around decent game to play.
I think it depends on your experience with the game. I am in a tribe that controlled a offical server for a long time. So I could basically do what ever I wanted. Which makes it more fun when you can use every element in the game.
I saw this game on the Xbox Marketplace for Xbox One, I was debating buying it and now I think that I will! There's also a trial for anyone who's unsure like I was.


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Our jasper_reports module for OpenObject recently got a three of new interesting features.
The first of them eases the creation of reports to non-english speakers by translating all fields to user's language when exporting the data template. Here you can see a screenshot of partner's fields translated into Catalan. Note that the database name field is shown right after the field string.
The second one is support for XML data in subreports. It was already possible to use subreports for headers, for example, or they could access the database but providing XML data to subreports was not possible. That meant that creating an invoice report like the one provided by default was not possible without direct database access due to the need to iterate through invoice lines first and invoice taxes later in the same form. Now it's possible to create such a report using subreports and with no need of database access. One can design the tax subreport and then integrate it with the main invoice report.
Here is a screenshot of the demo partner.jrxml, which got a new subreport called subpartner.jrxml, that shows partner events. This results in the final report iterating over all partner attachments and all events! No need to program anything, and no need to join tables from the database.


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Grain Milling Sub-Sector Recorded an 8.3% Growth In 2017
By Soko Directory Team / November 30, 2018 | 10:34 am
By Rahab Mbiriti (Statistician)
The Grain milling sub-sector recorded a growth of 8.3 percent in 2017 according to the 2018 Economic Survey carried out by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
The sub-sector recorded the highest growth within the Food Manufacturing Sector despite an overall decline of 10.8 percent in the manufacture of food products. The decline was on account of shortfalls in the domestic supply of some key raw materials such as sugarcane, tea, milk, and rice paddy.
"The year under review saw the introduction of duty-free imports of maize by flour millers. This resulted to a 9.8 percent increase in production of maize flour to 669.4 thousand tonnes in 2017" said KNBS in a statement.
Production of sugar declined significantly by 41.2 percent from 639.7 thousand tonnes in 2016 to 376.1 thousand tonnes in 2017 mainly attributed to low cane deliveries by farmers.
The dairy sub-sector production volumes also contracted by 12.1 percent in 2017. The quantity of processed milk dropped from 448.5 million litres in 2016 to 383.2 million litres in 2017. This was mainly due to reduced milk intake by the processors.
Production of yoghurt and other fermented milk, likewise, dropped by 3.5 percent in the same period. Other food products not elsewhere classified reduced by 7.2 percent in 2017. This decline was mainly due to a drop in the quantities of processed tea and semi-processed coffee.
Production of wheat flour by formal establishments also rose by 9.2 percent to 1,237.0 thousand tonnes in 2017 from 1,133.1 thousand tonnes in 2016.
Manufacture of animal feeds, which are by-products of grain milling, went up by 8.7 percent during the year under review.
In terms of contribution to GDP, the manufacture of food, beverages, and tobacco is estimated to have contributed to about 3.5percent of the GDP in 2017. Exports from the food and beverages sector were valued at Ksh 254,686 million in 2017.
The food-processing sector can, therefore, be a key driver of economic growth. Growth in the sector can have a direct and significant impact on the overall economy.
Under the Government's Big 4 Agenda of Agro-processing, there is a target of an increase of percentage contribution to Manufacturing's contribution to GDP from 16 percent to 50 percent.
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Out of all the Islands off Thailand, Koh Phi Phi was one of the hardest hit when the Tsunami of 2004 hit. Despite the millions of foreign donations raised, it seems that little has actually made it to the places that need it the most. Never less, Phi Phi is being reconstructed but in a mould that is unlike any other of Thailand's beautiful islands.
Travelling to Phi Phi is easy enough; you can get flights from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Krabi and then get the ferry (350 baht and 2 and a half hours) or hire a speed boat (5000 baht and 40 minutes). Once on the island you are confronted with what looks like a massive building site, and in reality that is what Phi Phi is today. The beach is still littered with concrete rubble and the front is a miss-mash of old and new shops and restaurants.
Views of how much the Tsunami really damaged this fragile eco-system is apparent when you visit the beach during low tide. Our Long Boat driver told us that the beach never had any rocks before the Tsunami and had a flourishing coral reef, but now all that is left is a beach full of boulders and the remains of the reef.
My initial reaction was tourists, especially the Scandinavians, overran the island, as Phi Phi is a major island for 18-30 year olds from Sweden and Norway. This has resulted in loads of "cheap drinks, you want cheap drinks" bars and people trying to get you in them. I understand that the Island needs to be re-constructed and to do that requires serious money, but turning it into a mini Phuket isn't the way to go about it.
The whole atmosphere left us with a sour view of the way Phi Phi is heading. It is no longer a tranquil resort, but one full of tacky souvenir shops and bars with badly lit neon lights and full of drunken farangs.


Great post … I personally have a hard time with anyone who combines "I know the truth!" with "Now everybody do what I say." :-). I like how TW differentiates between the two, and rationally explains the core of truth … which is not imposing our own truth on others, but instead being your genuine self with others and allowing that to affect them in a positive way. It is much more difficult, yet ultimately truly rewarding, to allow Truth to work through our actions … than to forcefully try to impose what we believe to be truth on others.


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