One of the principal evil effects of the apostate ethos associated with the the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service is the loss of the horror of personal sin that has been engendered throughout the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Mind you, it would be irresponsible and intellectual dishonest and very unjust to claim that each and every Catholic attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have lost a sense of the horror of personal sin. By no means is this is the case.
Indeed, I have been a Catholic my entire life, save for the regrettable sixty-four day period between my birth at Jamaica Hospital, in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Saturday, November 24, 1951, and my Baptism at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Queens Village, New York, on Sunday, January 27, 1952. Although I am a sinner and shutter to think, as I was taught in Fourth Grade by Sister Inez Marie, R.S.M., that my sins of thought, word and deed will be revealed for all to see on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and the Dead, I am ashamed of my sins and I hate them, each and every one of them because I love God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His true Church and I am so aware of how my sins caused Him to suffer such unspeakable horrors during His Passion and Death and how the caused those Seven Swords of Sorrow to be pierced through and through His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. It is my daily prayer that I might live long enough to make reparation for my sins, many of which have, of course, rendered me a very, very poor witness in behalf of the immutable truths of the Catholic Faith and which account for why so many of those who know of my sins and faults and failings refuse to take anything that I say or do now seriously (see Remembering Us When).
Solely by the graces won for me by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross that flow into my soul through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Grace, I had horror and detestation for my sins when I was attached to the structures of what I know to be now the counterfeit church of conciliarism. I had horror and detestation for my sins when I was a daily participation in the travesty that is the Novus Ordo service from the 1970s to the late-1980s, at which point I became a Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation indulterer, at least for the most until 1997 when I abandoned the Sunday Novus Ordo service for good, and until all participation in the Novus Ordo on a weekday basis ended after the death of our dear friend, the late Father Salvatore Franco, on the Feast of Saint Lucy, December 13, 2002, who had provided us with a refuge from the Novus Ordo on Long Island by offering the Mass of the ages for us in the kitchen of his home in Westbury, New York.
Solely by the graces of Our Lady, therefore, I was able, despite my sins, to maintain a horror and detestation and a shame for my offenses against God and my neighbor even though I was attached to what I now realize and accept to be a false church that is an ape of the Catholic Church and is headed by a blatant apostate who dares to offend God by esteeming places of devil worship and by propagating as "Catholic" "truths" propositions that have been condemned repeatedly by the authority of the Catholic Church. And there are many Catholics, true priests and presbyters and laity alike, yet attached to the counterfeit church of conciliarism who have that same horror and detestation of personal sins. While it is true that they must confront the reality of our ecclesiastical situation and ponder the teaching of Saint Servatus (see Keep Focused on Root Causes) once they come to recognize and to reject the apostasy that is before our very eyes so blatantly, it is nevertheless true that many good and well-meaning Catholics have been given the Actual Graces to recognize the horror of their own personal sins even if they are as of yet blinded to the reality of the sins against the honor and glory and majesty of God that have been committed so openly by the conciliar "pontiffs," including Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI in just the past eight days during his pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel.
All of this having been noted as a matter of strict justice and complete intellectual honesty (something that the spin doctors for Ratzinger/Benedict in "conservative" and quasi-traditional circles have forgotten is a mandate of the moral life), it is also true that most Catholics attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have become so accustomed to the apostate ethos of the Novus Ordo that they have lost any sense of the horror of personal sins in their own lives or in the lives of others, having utterly no clear as to what even pagan philosophers such as Plato understood (see the fifth book of his Republic), that disorder in the souls of men caused by sin (and Plato understood "sin" in the sense of violations of the Natural Law as he was able to apprehend it by the light of reason unaided by the light of Divine Revelation) is the proximate reason for all disorder in societies. That is, disorder in the souls of men produced by personal sins leads to disorder within nations and between them.
Most Catholics yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism today do not understand this to be the case, which is why they engage in unrepentant sins quite shamelessly, speaking indecently and dressing immodestly as they become accessories to the sins of others and suborn it in society at large, "educating" their own children to accept objectively sinful behavior as "normal" and "natural," and that anyone who teaches otherwise is a religious "fanatic" or a "kook" or a member of a "cult" who wants to be "different" from the "mainstream"of society.
Who says that "allusions to a particular form of outward penance" belongs "to another age in the history of the Church"? Only those who have lost any belief in the horror of personal sins, those, such as "Archbishop" Robert Zollitsch, who deny that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ died in atonement for our sins (and Robert Zollitsch remains uncorrected and without any rebuke from the head of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, five weeks after his denial of the propitiatory Sacrifice that Our Lord made to His Co-Eternal and Co-Equal Father in Spirit and in Truth in atonement for our sins), those who believe that the Mass is but a memorial of the Last Supper and not the unbloody re-presentation or perpetuation of the Sacrifice of the Cross, those who are themselves steeped in lives of unrepentant personal sin and who do now want and/or do not see any need to reform their lives in order to save their immortal souls. In others, conciliar revolutionaries and their disciples, building on the work of Protestants and the early Modernists, believe that "allusions to a particular form outward penance" belongs "to another age in the history of the Church." Those who believe this lie, however, do not believe in Catholicism. They believe in a false, man-made religion that is of the devil.
Those who have been convinced by the ethos of conciliarism, especially as it is expressed liturgically in the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service, substitute irrationality, sentimentality and emotionalism for the truths of the Faith, responding with such inanities as "A 'loving' God would never send anyone to Hell." "Why is it wrong to condemn people who simply want to be 'loved' by others in 'relationships' that the Church disapproves of?' "Who are you to tell me how to live?" "I have my own truth in my heart. I don't need any Church to tell me how to live." "I control what I do with my body. I have my 'rights' I won't listen to the 'dictatorship' of a 'patriarchical' society."
Those who utter such inanities are 'patriarchal' impervious to rational discussion, responding emotionally with "but, but, but" to every attempt to defending the objective nature of moral truths, which are knowable by reason alone but which have been entrusted ultimately by Our Lord to His Holy Church for their eternal safekeeping and infallible explication in order to protect them from the vagaries of fallen human nature, which inclines us to make excuses in our sins and to denigrate their importance, even going so far as to deny that objectively sinful behavior is sinful at all--or, if it is, that there might be "exceptions" in "hard cases" to the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law that a "loving God" would certainly understand.
Dr. Nicholas Delgado, our friend from Pensacola, Florida, who is a parishioner of the great son of Saint Francis, Father Francis Miller, O.F.M.., informed me just yesterday that a friend of his who goes to a chapel administered by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter has been convinced that the public scandals given by Ratzinger/Benedict cannot be "judged" as to do so would be to interpret the latter's "internal" intentions, which, of course, only God can judge. Public scandals and words contrary to the Faith can be judged on the basis of their concurrence with the Catholic Faith.
If this is not so, then the likes of Saint Athanasius and Saint Basil and Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine and Saint Servatus, among so many others, would never have been able to utter a single word about the heretics and blasphemers of their own day. These canonized saints did not judge the internal dispositions of the souls of heretics and blasphemers; they condemned their words and actions as contrary to the Faith, offensive to God and injurious to the souls for whom the Son of God made Man in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem.
To be able to recognize apostates from believers is a duty, a mandate, if you will, of the Catholic Faith, anyone who wants to exculpate himself from rising to a singular defense of the honor and glory and majesty of God and of the integrity of the Holy Faith because the judgment of internal forum belongs to God alone is betraying the defined teaching of the Catholic Church, which makes it our duty to recognize and reject heresy and heretics as we pray for their conversion back tot he true Faith, and is shirking their solemn responsibility before God to defend the Faith clearly and unequivocally when it is undermined by public scandals and/or words and deeds of men who believe themselves, albeit falsely, to be vested with ecclesiastical authority in the Catholic Church.
No one can say that he loves God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His true Church if he is indifferent to sin in his own life or in the life of others. No one can say that he loves God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His true Church if he refuses to raise his voice in defense of the Faith when it is threatened by heretics who claim to be ecclesiastical officials of the Catholic Church or when it is attacked by the scions of Modernity who hold civil office in the modern civil state, an entity whose very existence is premised upon a rejection of the Social Reign of Christ the King as it must be exercised by the Catholic Church.
After all, if it is "impossible," as Motarians in the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter seem to contend,to judge the actions and words of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI as contrary to the Catholic Faith and hideous in the sight of God and injurious to souls (and thus to all social order as a result) because one has been taught that to do so is judge his "internal" intentions, then how is it possible to judge and condemn the words and actions of the pro-abort statist Barack Hussein Obama, a non-Catholic who does not now--nor has ever--known or accept the truths of the Catholic Faith? How is it possible to hold him to account for his own manifold and manifest warfare, objectively speaking, against the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law. Doesn't he have "internal intentions" that exculpate his role in the promotion and actual legal enabling of the executions of innocent preborn children?
Obviously, it is an absurd and self-serving rationalization to contend that it is impossible to condemn objective evils without being "guilty" of "judging" the subjective intentions of those in the ecclesiastical realm who engage in blasphemous and sacrilegious words and subjective intentions of those in the civil realm who promote one evil after another under cover of the civil law and in every aspect of popular culture. Evil is evil, and it must be denounced, leaving to God alone to judge the subject state of the souls of others, a fact that does nothing to alter our obligation to oppose evil as part of the Spiritual Works of Mercy for souls and our apostolic duty as Baptized and Confirmed members of the Catholic Church.
There is no room for any Catholic, no less those who fashion themselves "priests" attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism to engage in spiritual malpractice to inform ordinary Catholics who look to them for spiritual guidance that it is "impossible" to denounce the scandalous words and actions of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his conciliar "bishops" without serving as the "judges" of their internal dispositions. We judge words and actions on their own merits or demerits, and it is on that basis alone that true pope after true pope exhorted us to oppose evil no matter who promotes us and to flee from it.
Indeed, Father Frederick Faber, writing in The Dolors of Mary/The Foot of the Cross, published originally in 1857, explained that our love for God must be such that we must hate what he hates--sin--and the that crowning insult to God is heresy. What is this so difficult for Motarians and "conservative" Catholics to understand? Is God mutable? Does He now look with favor on a putative "pontiff" calling a mosque a "splendid" place of "worship" and a "jewel" that "stands out across the face of the earth? Does God look favorably on treating the false, superseded religion of Judaism as a valid and as a means of salvation for its adherents? If not, why the silence? Fear of "judging" the "internal intentions" of those guilty of offending the honor and glory and majesty of God and thus of misleading the souls of Catholics and non-Catholics alike?
Why the silence from the "usual suspects" ("conservatives" and "progressives") and why the silence from the newest practitioners of silence in the face of "papal" outrages against the honor and glory and majesty of God, the bishops and the priests of the Society of Saint Pius X?
As is the case with so many Catholics attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, Rembert G. Weakland has no concept of the horror of personal sin. He does not understand that no one "loves" another when he does or says anything that places the salvation of that other person in jeopardy. Rembert G. Weakland is really a prototype of the average conciliar Catholic, people who mistake "sentimentality" for "love," people who have never been taught that love is an act of the will and that the highest expression of love is will the good of others, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of their immortal souls. No one can say that he "loves" God when he breaks His Commandments, no less when he portrays himself as a "victim" for not being to act as sees fit even God has made it very clear in Sacred Scripture that his actions are aberrant and actually brought down fire and brimstone from Heaven to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The loss of the sense of the horror of personal sin by the lion's share of Catholics who are as of yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism is one of the reasons that fifty-four percent of them voted to elect the pro-abort statist and Marxist-trained Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States of America on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Some of those who voted for Obama were and are "uneasy" about abortion, but they believed that Obama's "economic policies" would be good for the nation.
This loss of the sense of sin in the conciliar structures is so profound that the administrators of the University of Notre Dame can give an honorary doctorate to Barack Hussein Obama, praising him for the "hope" that he has brought to the United States of America even though his policies do indeed promote things that are "repugnant or opposed to the peace and happiness of eternity." The administrators of the University of Notre Dame can give an honorary doctorate to Barack Hussein Obama and despite the fact that he supports the mystical dismemberment and destruction of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the persons of innocent preborn children in their mothers' wombs at all times without any exceptions or restrictions whatsoever. "Hope" for the United States of America? Such scandalous language is merely indicative of the loss of Faith that permeates the conciliar structures.
The graduates of the various colleges and schools of the University of Notre Dame have nothing to learn from a man who supports and who orders the execution of innocent babies under cover of the civil law.
The Mother of God would never honor a man who dishonors her Divine Son, Who was conceived as a helpless embryo in her own Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, by supporting and making possible abortion under cover of the civil law in any circumstances. Administrators of a university named in her blessed honor will not be able to count on her maternal intercession at the hour of their own deaths unless they repent publicly of the scandal they are causing by honoring and giving a platform to a man who has the blood of the innocent on his hands.
As a Catholic, I have a grave obligation before God to bear witness to the truth. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ proclaimed Himself to be the Way, the Truth, and the lIfe. If this statement is true, as we know it is as God cannot lie, then nothing else is true.
Pontius Pilate, however, seeking to appease the crowd and to curry favor with his superiors in the Roman Empire so as to advance his career in the Roman bureaucracy, said to Our Lord, "Truth? What is that?" Legislators seeking to pass legislation making "marriage" between persons of the same gender who are engaged in unnatural and perverse acts contrary to the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law are repeating history by saying with Pontius Pilate, "Truth? What is that?"
Moral truth is not a matter of sentiment or emotion. Moral truth is immutable as the truths of the physical world that govern our bodies. The laws of gravity or the law of aging do not depend upon our acceptance of them to be true. We can dye our hair or have plastic surgery to change our appearance without taking a single day off of our lives or without retarding the aging process that will lead one day most inevitably to our deaths. Moral truth, which even the ancient pagans of ancient Athens and Rome were able to apprehend by the light of natural reason without having belief in or access to Divine Revelation, is as certain and as immutable as physical truth. The proper use of the generative faculties by a man and a woman in the context of marriage for the procreation and education of children is a truth of the Natural Law, which binds all human consciences in all places at all times without any exception whatsoever, and any other use of the generative faculties is a violation of nature itself.
We have not been left on our own, however, to discern the Natural Law. Human reason is stained by our fallen human nature. Each of us suffers from the vestigial after effects of Original Sin. We have darkened intellects that incline us to reject the known truth and we have weakened wills that incline us to sin even when we come to know and to accept the truth. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ established His Catholic Church to be the sole and authoritative teacher all that is contained in the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law. The Catholic Church alone is the infallible teacher and eternal guardian of the precepts contained in the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law, precepts that forbid the use of the generative faculties except by a man and a woman in a valid marriage for the procreation and education of children so as to propagate the species on Heaven and to raise canonizable saints who can take their place in Heaven after death.
Perverse acts contrary to the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law can never be sanctioned by the authority of the civil state under cover of law. The sin of Sodom is one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed as a result of this sin of Sodom. No one who claims to be a disciple of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ can claim to be His friend while promoting under cover of law the very thing--sin--that caused Him to suffer during His Passion and Death and that wounds His Mystical Body, the Church, today. Although each of us is a sinner, it is one thing to sin and to be sorry, seeking out the Mercy of the Divine Redeemer in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance. It is quite another to sin unrepentantly, worse yet to promote sin under cover of law and to promote it in every aspect of popular culture. Saint Augustine, quoted by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos, issued on August 15, 1832, said that the "death of the soul is worse than the freedom of error."
"Hence, lest concord be broken by rash charges, let this be understood by all, that the integrity of Catholic faith cannot be reconciled with opinions verging on naturalism or rationalism, the essence of which is utterly to do away with Christian institutions and to install in society the supremacy of man to the exclusion of God. Further, it is unlawful to follow one line of conduct in private life and another in public, respecting privately the authority of the Church, but publicly rejecting it; for this would amount to joining together good and evil, and to putting man in conflict with himself; whereas he ought always to be consistent, and never in the least point nor in any condition of life to swerve from Christian virtue."
Catholic legislators, in particular, have a grave obligation before God to defend the Faith at all times.
Some might protest that to do so is a violation of the separation of Church and State. There is never, however, a separation of moral truth from public policy for the very foundation of the crimes committed by the Third Reich and by the Soviet Union and by any number of other totalitarian regimes was the assertion that civil law has no higher foundation that what is declared to be legal by the brute power of the civil state or, in our case, by the "will of the people." It cannot be, though, that human beings, who did not create themselves and whose bodies are destined one day for the corruption of the grave until the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and the Dead, are the arbiters of moral right and moral wrong. God is a majority of wrong, and the very concept of separation of Church and State was termed a "thesis absolutely false" by Pope Saint Pius in Vehementer Nos, issued on February 11, 1906.
"How grievously all these err and how shamelessly they leave the ways of honesty is already evident from what we have set forth here regarding the origin and nature of wedlock, its purposes and the good inherent in it. The evil of this teaching is plainly seen from the consequences which its advocates deduce from it, namely, that the laws, institutions and customs by which wedlock is governed, since they take their origin solely from the will of man, are subject entirely to him, hence can and must be founded, changed and abrogated according to human caprice and the shifting circumstances of human affairs; that the generative power which is grounded in nature itself is more sacred and has wider range than matrimony -- hence it may be exercised both outside as well as within the confines of wedlock, and though the purpose of matrimony be set aside, as though to suggest that the license of a base fornicating woman should enjoy the same rights as the chaste motherhood of a lawfully wedded wife.
"Armed with these principles, some men go so far as to concoct new species of unions, suited, as they say, to the present temper of men and the times, which various new forms of matrimony they presume to label "temporary," "experimental," and "companionate." These offer all the indulgence of matrimony and its rights without, however, the indissoluble bond, and without offspring, unless later the parties alter their cohabitation into a matrimony in the full sense of the law.
It was on this date ninety-two years ago, that is, on May 13, 1917, that the Mother of God appeared to three illiterate shepherd children in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, telling them to make reparation for their sins and those of the whole world by many as many Rosaries each day as possible. She showed them a vision of Hell on July 13, 1917, saying that it was to save poor sinners from Hell that her Divine Son wanted to establish devotion to her Immaculate Heart, which was pierced with a Sword of Sorrow as she stood by the foot of the Cross as she saw what our sins--your sins, my sins and the sins of everyone who has ever lived--did to her Divine Son as He shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood to redeem us on the wood of that same Holy Cross.
Do any of you who are Catholics really want to grieve the Immaculate Heart of Mary by promoting the very thing that caused her to suffer at the foot of the Cross and that prompted her to ask Lucia dos Santos and Jacinta and Francisco Marto to sacrifice for sinners?
It should not be necessary for any Catholic to have to speak in such terms to a state legislative committee composed largely of Catholics. That it is necessary to do so today is the result of forty years of apostasy and betrayal, much of which has antecedent roots in the condemned heresy of Americanism, which accepts "religious liberty" and the "separation of Church and State" and religious indifferentism as fundamental building blocks of the "well-ordered" society, that has robbed so many, although, as noted earlier, not all, Catholics yet attached to the counterfeit church of conciliarism of any sense of the rights of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to reign as the King of all men and all nations and that no one, whether acting individually or collectively with others in the institutions of civil governance, has any right to do anything contrary to the Divine Positive Law and Natural Law and that puts the eternal welfare of the souls for whom He, Christ the King, died on the wood of the Holy Cross in jeopardy.
Most Catholics attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have never heard of these words. They believe in the falsehoods of "religious liberty" and "separation of Church and State" and the religiously indifferentist civil state as these falsehoods have been propagated by naturalists of the false opposites of the "left" and the "right" in the political realm and by the conciliarists in the ecclesiastical realm, thus predisposing many of them to think or to emote in a variety of contradictory ways, sometimes opposing objective evils and sometimes supporting such evils depending upon the flurry of "news" at any given time.
Most of these Catholics simply do not think in terms that Original Sin is the remote cause of all social problems and that Actual Sins are the proximate causes of the problems we face in our nations and in the world. They do not understand that it is the horror of personal sins that is responsible for violence within nations war between them. They do not understand or accept the simple truth that the only way to lessen the problems of the world is for individual human beings to cooperate more fully with Sanctifying Grace and to seek thereby to root out even their Venial Sins from their sins as they seek to make reparation for their sins to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. They do not understand that there is no political, constitutional, legal, philosophical, ideological, naturalistic, secularist, inter-denominational or nondenominational way to retard a single social evil. They do not understand or accept the fact that every person and every nation in the world must be confessionally Catholic.
Why don't they understand these things? Because they have not been taught them, admitting that there are a few conciliar priests and presbyters who have taught these truths, recognizing as well that the patent ignorance among most Catholics about these truths demonstrates empirically that most conciliar priests and presbyters ape the conciliar "popes," who do not speak of such truths with clarity, certainly never speaking of Catholicism alone as the sole foundation of personal and social order.
Indeed, how is it possible for poorly-catechized Catholics in the conciliar structures to have an understanding of the true teaching of the Catholic Church have possess a horror for personal when their "pontiff" deconstructs the nature of dogmatic truth, thus making warfare upon the very nature of God Himself, and when has disparaged the binding nature of the Third Commandment, saying, as Joseph "Cardinal" Ratzinger, on October 1, 2005, that "I have nothing against people who, though they never enter a church during the year, go to Christmas midnight Mass, or go on the occasion of some other celebration, because this is also a way of coming close to the light" (EWTN.com - CARDINAL RATZINGER ON THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY, October 1, 2001). A man who has no regard for the First Commandment is going to have no regard for the Third. How is it possible for the average Catholic to have any sense of the horror of personal sins when the man who is now the conciliar "pontiff" has minimized the horror of the Mortal Sin of deliberately missing Mass on Sunday and Holy Days of Obligation (leaving aside that the Novus Ordo is not a valid offering of Holy Mass; Ratzinger believes it to be--and it does not matter to him that people only to what he believes in Mass occasionally).
Yes, some might point with satisfaction to a new Gallup Poll that indicates more Americans are "pro-life" than "pro-choice" for the first time. This poll provides little reason for satisfaction as only twenty-two percent of Americans hold the correct position, that the direct, intentional taking of innocent human life is forbidden in all circumstances with no "exceptions" whatsoever. Even more sad is the fact that, "exceptions" included, only fifty-two percent of Catholics consider themselves to be "pro-life," an increase of seven percent from a similar poll a year. Despite this supposedly "encouraging" statistics, however, the Gallup Poll indicates that Caesar Obamus enjoys high approval ratings among Muslims, Jews, and Catholics, with the latter group approving of the pro-abortion statist by a margin of sixty-seven percent to twenty-two percent. Things are getting "better?" Guess again, especially when another Gallup Poll shows that Catholics hold erroneous views on abortion and embryonic stem cell research as other Americans. As I have been trying to hammer home for the eight people who read this site regularly, apostasy does have consequences.
When all is said and done, therefore, it indeed a very simple truth that the loss of the horror of personal sin wrought by the ethos of conciliarism and enshrined in Paragraph Fifteen of the General Instruction the Roman Missal that governs the abominable offerings of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service is what makes it more possible for a man such as Barack Hussein Obama can be elected President of the United States of America with the support of a majority of Catholic voters and can be honored by a formerly Catholic university now in conciliar captivity.
Most Catholics simply do not think, speak or act as Catholics and see no conflict at all between honors bestowed on men who promote abject evils under cover of the civil law as they have been taught the horror of personal sins or that they must reparation for each and every single of their sins while they are alive here in this passing, mortal vale of tears in order to lessen--or to avoid, please the Mercy of God and the prayers of His Most Blessed Mother, altogether--the fires of Purgatory if they persevere to the points of their dying breaths in states of Sanctifying Grace.
Taking away nothing from the outrage that is being perpetrated by my Master's alma mater, it is nevertheless sadly the case that many, although not all, of the Catholics who are understandably and quite correctly outraged by the honor that will be bestowed tomorrow by the University of Notre Dame upon Barack Hussein Obama is less offensive in the sight of God than the honors that the false "pontiff," Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who could have instructed his "papal" nuncio to the United States of America, "Archbishop" Pietro Sambi, to tell the President of the University of Notre Dame, Presbyter John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., to disinvite Obama entirely, has bestowed upon false religions, each of which is hated by God, during his now concluded visit to Jordan and Israel.
The fact that sixty-eight conciliar "bishops" have "protested" the honor being awarded upon Barack Hussein Obama tomorrow, Sunday, May 17, 2009, a figure that represents somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of the conciliar "bishops in the United States of America, has been used by some defenders of conciliarism to point to the "health" of the false church in this country. Health? Are these people serious? Are they sane? Are they rational? If only a fifth to a quarter of the country's conciliar "bishops" have protested the award being given to Barack Hussein tomorrow by the University of Notre Dame this means that three-quarters to four-fifths of the conciliar "bishops" in this country either support the honorary doctorate that will be given to Obama or are indifferent about the fact. How can any man who considers himself, albeit falsely, to be a Successor of the Apostles remain quiet when a supposedly Catholic university is going to bestow an honorary doctorate upon a civic official who has issued Executive Orders resulting in the mystical dismemberment and execution of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the persons of preborn children in their mothers' wombs?
Then again, of course, the man who believes himself to be, albeit falsely, the Vicar of Christ on earth has remained quiet for five weeks about "Archbishop" Robert Zollitsch's denial of the dogmatic truth that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ died on the wood of the Holy Cross in atonement for our sins. Those conciliar "bishops" who have refused to protest the pro-abort statist Obama's appearance and award at the University of Notre Dame tomorrow can certainly point to the example of Ratzinger/Benedict as justification for their own silence.
Led by the conciliar "pontiffs" and the conciliar "bishops," many, although not all, "conservative" and traditionally-minded Catholics in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have lost their sense of sins against the First Commandment to such an extent that they do not realize that their own blithe acceptance of--or silence about--these offenses committed against the honor and majesty and glory of God by Ratzinger/Benedict helps to communicate to Catholics and non-Catholics alike that God is pleased with each "religion" on the face of the earth and that these "religions" can "contribute" to the "better world," which was one of Ratzinger/Benedict's consistent themes during his now concluded visit to Jordan and Israel.
A failure to come to the defense of the honor and majesty and glory of God when He is offended by a putative "pontiff" for all the world to see is one of the major contributing factors to the presence of figures of Antichrist such as Caesar Obamus in the civil realm. It is pretty easy to lose the sense of the horror of personal sin in one's own life and in the cultural and legal and political life of one's nation when one loses the sense of the horror of sins committed against the First Commandment by those who claim, albeit falsely, to hold ecclesiastical office in the Catholic Church. It is really incongruous to be so upset at the honor about to be bestowed upon Barack Hussein Obama by the University of Notre Dame if one is deaf, dumb and blind to the horror of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's sins, objectively speaking, against the First Commandment and when one is equally deaf, dumb and blind to the fact that he, as well as his predecessor, Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, has bestowed "papal" knighthoods and "medals" upon pro-abortion, pro-perversity Talmudic rabbis (see Honors Aplenty for Devils Galore).
The likes of Barack Hussein Obama will continue to be honored by formerly Catholic universities and colleges now in conciliar captivity as long as pretenders to the papal throne hold most Catholics worldwide captive to a false church that offends God daily by means of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service, by denials of the natured of dogmatic truth, by the esteeming of the symbols and the "values" of those false religions, by engaging in the forbidden practice of "inter-religious" prayer, by promoting religious liberty and separation of Church and State, by attempting to "re-image" Sacred Scripture and the writings of the Fathers of the Church by "stripping away" the "filter" provided by Scholasticism in favor of the condemned propositions of the New Theology, by making the false "Second" Vatican Council, understood in light of a "tradition" that has been corrupted and distorted and perverted by that New Theology, the very foundation of a false religion that has harmed so many souls and contributed mightily to the deterioration of order within nations and peace among them.
The Glorious Mysteries of the Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary we pray during these next forty-nine days of Easter rejoicing presage a glorious future for Holy Mother Church once the conciliarists are vanquished. We may not be alive when the Resurrection of the Church Militant occurs. We should and must be content to plant a few seeds for this Resurrection of the Church Militant as the consecrated slaves of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary with joy and with love.
Let us join in praying with the Rosary tomorrow with those will be around the perimeter of the University of Notre Dame to make reparation for the honor to be bestowed upon a man who has the blood of the innocent upon his hands. Let us pray for the conversion of Presbyter John I. Jenkins and of Barack Hussein Obama and his family.


String Quartet, Op. 1 No. 3 in F minor.
This little known French composer was born in Versailles. He was on the brink of a promising career when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. His quartets are in the four movement structure which he inherited from Haydn and anticipate later contrapuntal developments. These musicians are leading string players from Montreal and use period instruments.


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Anna is active in her community. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity Durham Inc. (and is the Board Secretary and member of the Governance Committee), and recently ended a six-year term on the Executive Committee of the Charity & Not-for-Profit Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association. In addition to being an Instructor for the Ontario Tech University MDC Not-for-Profit Management Certificate Program since 2013, Anna is a frequent guest speaker on a variety of issues affecting for-profit businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and registered Canadian charities at events and courses organized by institutions such as Durham College, Seneca College, the International Policy Governance Association, the Professional Association of Volunteer Leaders – Ontario, and the Chambers of Commerce/Boards of Trade throughout Durham Region. Anna is the co-author (with Catherine Raso of CMR Governance Consulting) of the Board Administration Handbook (2014) for boards of directors.


This series of six messages was presented to a large and very attentive group of youth and young adults at the Michigan Camp Meeting. As the young people sat in rapt attention it was proven, yet again, that what Christian young people really want is not entertainment, pop music or "sanctified" drama, but the "Bread of Life," the Bible.
Arriving at truth involves more than just having the right answers; it also involves asking the right questions. Good answers, without good questions have no real "holding" power for the Christian or the seeker.
What rational justifcation can be given for accepting the Christian message? Actually, there are many! This message gives perhaps the most persuasive and compelling reason. This is a message that EVERY person NEEDS to hear.
Christianity rises or falls on the person of Jesus Christ. We assume the uniqueness of Jesus Christ to be a settled matter, but is it? For Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and others, it is not. What, then does set Jesus apart as unique? We examine the testimony of five witnesses in answering this essential question.
Logical arguments don't usually produce saving faith. This doesn't mean that logic and reason have no role to play in the sphere of our religious experience. The key lies in discovering what is the proper role for logical arguments and proofs. The proofs enable us to "show" what we, through the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, already "know." Put your thinking cap on!
Christianity also rises or falls on the accuracy of the claims of the Bible. We often take the Bible for granted. This can be particularly true for those who were raised as Christians. It is therefore, essential that we address the most basic claims of the Bible and see if they can stand the test of veracity and relevancy. Does the Bible pass these tests? Listen and see.
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Apple's Yoky Matsuoka re-hired by Google's Nest
She was the co-founder of Google X back in 2009
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Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company has re-hired Yoky Matsuoka as Chief Technology Officer for Next Lab Inc., its home automation producer. Reported first by Bloomberg, Yoky Matsuoka will oversee machine learning, conceptualizing technologies and will be engaged in laying down a roadmap for the smart home subsidiary.
A renowned robotics expert, Yoky Matsuoka is not an unfamiliar name in Google. She, in fact, was the co-founder of Google X back in 2009 and then went on to become the VP Technology at Nest Labs before it was acquired by Google in 2014. In the year 2015, she became the CEO of Quanttus, a smart-health technology startup before leaving for Apple in May 2016.
At Apple, Matsuoka worked on their health initiatives – HealthKit, ResearchKit and CareKit and reported to Jeff Williams, Apple's COO. Back in her Google days, Matsuoka is acknowledged to establish Nest's thermostat tech that allows it to adjust in different surrounding conditions automatically. Her work also includes the invention of a robotic hand that has been modeled bone-by-bone which almost feels lifelike.
Yoky Matsuoka holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, a master and a doctoral degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in electrical engineering and computer science. She has also been a Post-doctoral fellow with Harvard University in their Engineering and Applied Sciences division. In between years 2001 to 2006, she's been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Washington.
Matthew O'Donnell, dean of the UW's College of Engineering once said, "What's different about Yoky is that she's a mechanical engineer, neuroscientist, bioengineer, robotics expert and computer scientist, all in one. She has the ability to see what is possible by combining all these disciplines."
There hasn't been a CTO position previously at Nest Labs and with the smarthome space bustling with newer innovations everyday, it's a relief for Nest that the most sought-after robotics expert is at the helm of affairs.
Nest Learning Thermostat (3rd Generation)
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Greg Wyshynski, senior NHL writer: The Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks. The Canucks are one of the best stories of the season. Coach Travis Green has made them really, really difficult to play against, which means they'll be a tough out for a No.


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McCarthy vows military vaccine mandate will end or national defense bill won't move forward
December 4, 2022 by News101
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the military's vaccine mandate will be lifted or the national defense bill will not move forward.
"We're working through what is the [National Defense Authorization Act], the national defense bill, we will secure lifting that vaccine mandate on our military. Because what we're finding is, they're kicking out men and women that have been serving. … That's the first victory of having a Republican majority, and we'd like to have more of those victories, and we should start moving those now," McCarthy told host Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."
The White House said Saturday that the Biden administration was considering repealing the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate after speaking with McCarthy.
"Leader McCarthy raised this with the president and the president told him he would consider it," said White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton, according to Reuters. "The secretary of defense has recommended retaining the mandate, and the president supports his position. Discussions about the NDAA are ongoing."
MCCARTHY WARNS KEY GOP AGENDA COULD BE STALLED IF LEADERSHIP VOTE DOESN'T MOVE FORWARD
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McCarthy met with President Biden last week, according to the interview, and he said he "laid out very clearly what the difference will be with the new Republican majority.
GOP SENATORS DEMAND VOTE ON MILITARY VACCINE MANDATE IN EXCHANGE FOR ADVANCING NDAA
"You're saying in the NDAA, which we'll drop next week, the vaccine mandate for the military will be lifted," Bartiromo followed up in the interview.
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"Yes, it will. Otherwise, the bill will not move," McCarthy responded. "I've been very clear with the president. The president … worked with me on this. This is the first sign of having divided government, you got some compromise here. And we've got something that Republicans have been working very hard, and a number of Democrats too, trying to find success. But one party rule would never allow that to go forward. And now we're going to have success."
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The comments come after more than 20 Republican governors sent a letter to Biden asking that his administration remove the mandate, saying it has hurt the U.S. National Guard's ability to recruit troops. Those troops are activated by governors to respond to natural disasters or unrest.
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That is some dramatic title, right? Well, the write up actually is in some ways.
Remember when #MalaysiaMemilih? Yes, I went back to my hometown in Sibu, Sarawak and did my part for my beloved country. And apparently, Malaysians all over the world did too.
When I first heard about the rumours about the voting date, I rushed to my desktop and booked my air return tickets to my hometown via Malaysia airlines online booking. I know that if I buy the tickets at the eleventh hour, it will cost me more than my arms and legs. And true enough, I managed to get the tickets at much cheaper rates than my friends who bought their much later than mine. Some of my friends bought theirs via Traveloka and they managed to get a good deal too.
The check-in went well, the flight was not delayed and in about 2 hour 30 minutes later, I was in Sibu, safely landed and in the arms of my parents and the young ones that I missed dearly. That trip was not only about my voting, but it was also my balik kampung as I will not be able to do so for Gawai and Hari Raya due to work commitment. So I took the whole two weeks off!
What I did when I was there?
First, I went back to my mum's hometown in Sarikei to visit my grandfather. Then I went back to my house in Sibu and did my usual routine of food hunting all around Sibu. I ate my favourites : bubur buang panas, laksa sarawak, mee kolok and kek lapis. But the food that I keep on missing no matter where is kasam ensabi, pucuk ubi goreng and all of my mum's cooking. But I assume everybody is like that too, missing their mum's cooking all the time, just like me right?
There was some drama happening too, in the evening before the voting day. Some poll-checking people were going around the housing area just to check and ensure that everybody's name was on the list and to our surprise, my parents' names were not on the list! Can you imagine the shock of my father who has been voting for his entire life and has never missed a single one?
'Whatever! I will still go and do my part tomorrow. I don't believe that young man's word, not a single one' he said.
True enough, when we send them to their voting location, their names were there and in they went to do their parts. I assumed the act by the poll-people were just some desperate act to disrupt the voting process. My siblings and I were voting at a different location, which was around 10 minutes away from my parents'.
Did we stayed up that night and waited for the count? No, we did not. Hahaha.
When I woke up in the morning and read the news' headlines, I was somehow felt delighted with the results. We woke up, get ready and went for a huge breakfast at YS Cafe in Jalan Kampung Nangka. And the GE14 results were mainly the talk of every patron in the cafe that morning. Hehe.
It is true that time flies when you are having fun. 14 days went by unknowingly and it was time for me to fly back to KL.
During the flight home, I managed to capture an amazing view of Gunung Santubong when the aircraft was about to land in Kuching for a transit.
Malaysia Airlines, despite the incidents, has always been my choice when it came to flying. Of course, I have some other favourites as well, depending on their fares. LOL Glad that your flights were uneventful!
Best dapat balik kat kg halaman bertemu insan tersayang. Eh eh mee kolok I likeeeè.....ramai juga anak saudara Rawlins ya?.....comel2 belaka.
Such a long time never flight with Malaysia Airlines. I miss Kampua from Sibu. Such a long time never visit Sibu . I miss the people and food.
Love this post! This marks a beautiful history that we have changed in Malaysia forever!
Masa musim mengundi memang tanggungjawab yang besar untuk kita sebagai rakyat Malaysia. Yang jauh mcm Rawlins pun pulang. Amat lah rugi yg ada di Semenanjung tak hadir mengundi kan. 5 tahun sekali dan tahun ni tukar kerajaan. Hebat Rakyat.
Such a touching post, those feelings will forever be remembered. By the way, that mee looks delish! Sarawakians have really good taste!
OMG you took a whole two weeks off??? I wish I could take that long leave too! And thank goodness you didn't fall for their trap! Good job on you and your family! Hahhaha I terlebih semangat and watched the news with full of frustration because of the delay. And what is kasam ensabi? It sounds very delicious.
It's nice to get together with the family members. I have not been to Sibu yet. seems like a nice place. I would love to bring my family together there for holiday sometime. Will check the travel packages available and have fun there.
Yes! and finally we took the courage to voice out and WE DID IT. So proud of Malaysians and 2 thumbs up to ourselves.
By the way... rasanya berbeza dengan pulang berhari raya.. Sebabnya semua ahli keluarga ada bersama disebabkan tanggungjawab kasih dan sayang mereka terhadap negara.


Quite funny! Loved this parody game, it feels just right.
The setting was excellent, hope we'll see it in a sequel some day!
Love everything about this game!!! The concept drew me in immediately, and the tone/humor got me hooked. Great art, great music, love the writing, fun character designs, and the puzzles were pretty satisfying to solve.
Oh my god this was so cute and fun. Your art style is so crisp and fun, and the dialogue is way too snappy and perfect.
I finished it in the browser, but I tried downloading the game, and the zip seems to be an empty file?
oh no! I'm glad you enjoyed it, though! I'll get it fixed as soon as I'm back home!
Um... Now it says "The developer has not uploaded a game yet..." at the top of the page, there are no files to download, and the game is not even playable in the browser anymore. What's going on?
Really enjoyable story, solid mechanics, and interesting characters! And the sound design/music are excellent. Thank you!
What's going on with the game? Are you using the download or playing in-browser?
Happy you enjoyed it and would love to see more added to this game it's a really fun world that can be developed further.
Utterly charming game. Very cleverly written. I could play a much longer game like this.
Thank you! I may add on more when I have the time to! Definitely enjoyed making this!
Amazing game! I loved the art and the UI was very sleek as well! The writing was terrific too and gave me a good laugh. I hope you make more games like these!
In the future, for sure! I'm glad that you enjoyed it!!
Added one! Hopefully it works for you!
Just extract the contents of the zip to a folder and then open up the index.html file!
It keeps giving me this message... Will I have to follow the steps on the page and download an application or is there an easier way? Thanks!
This is the best thing I've played all year.........!!!!!!!!! It's SO FUNNY ✨✨✨ I love it so much!!!
<3 I'm really glad you enjoyed it so much!!!


Kerala's pristine destination, Kumarakom Village in Kottayam district received the World Travel Mart Responsible Tourism (WTMRT) Award on Wednesday in London. The Responsible Tourism initiative at Kumarakom was one of the 12 finalists to be shortlisted for the WTMRT Awards 2017. And the award was received by the State Tourism Minister, Kadakampally Surendran, who is also leading the state delegation on the ongoing WTM in London. During the event, some of the tourism officials like V. Venu, Principal Secretary, Tourism, and P. Bala Kiran, Director of Tourism, were also present.
During the three-day WTM London 2017, Kerala Tourism highlighted the best of the state's Responsible Tourism efforts. Mr. Kadakampally showcased Kerala's best tourist interest factors through a short travel film shot by using a 360-degree six camera technology. It highlighted Kerala's beaches, ayurvedic therapies, and houseboats, he also spoke about the launch of an initiative of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation, AyurBodha that highlights the significance of Ayurvedic practices.
A land that is famous for its backwater tourism, Kumarakom has a rich ecosystem and also receives various migratory birds every year. Often, visitors arrive here for relishing a stay in boathouses and also admire the largest lake in Kerala, Vembanad. Apart from the 2017 WTMRT Award, it had also won the UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Public Policy and Governance. Including several other national awards like best rural tourism project, PATA Grand Award for environment and the Union Tourism Ministry National Award for the Best Responsible Tourism Project.


Can anyone tell me how far vertically the landing gear axle moves up and down without the bungees installed in convential length and exteded gear setups? What is the minimum prop to ground clearance required on a PA12 or 14?
I don't know what the gear travel is, but the minimum propellor clearance is 9 inches in a level flight attitude. Thus you must lift the tail up and then measure your prop clearance. Thus either extended gear or big tires are needed for an 82 inch prop as an example.
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Q: Implementing filter using HoF in Haskell I'm trying to write a function that takes a predicate f and a list and returns a list consisting of all items that satisfy f with preserved order.  The trick is to do this using only higher order functions (HoF), no recursion, no comprehensions, and of course no filter.

A: You can express filter in terms of foldr:
filter p = foldr (\x xs-> if p x then x:xs else xs) []

A: I think you can use map this way:
filter' :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
filter' p xs = concat (map (\x -> if (p x) then [x] else []) xs)

You see? Convert the list in a list of lists, where if the element you want doesn't pass p, it turns to an empty list
filter' (> 1) [1 , 2, 3 ] would be: concat [ [], [2], [3]] = [2,3]
In prelude there is concatMap that makes the code simplier :P
the code should look like:
filter' :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
filter' p xs = concatMap (\x -> if (p x) then [x] else []) xs

using foldr, as suggested by sclv, can be done with something like this:
filter'' :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
filter'' p xs = foldr (\x y -> if p x then (x:y) else y) [] xs

A: You're obviously doing this to learn, so let me show you something cool. First up, to refresh our minds, the type of filter is:
filter :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]

The interesting part of this is the last bit [a] -> [a]. It breaks down one list and it builds up a new list.
Recursive patterns are so common in Haskell (and other functional languages) that people have come up with names for some of these patterns. The simplest are the catamorphism and it's dual the anamorphism. I'll show you how this relates to your immediate problem at the end.
Fixed points
Prerequisite knowledge FTW!
What is the type of Nothing? Firing up GHCI, it says Nothing :: Maybe a and I wouldn't disagree. What about Just Nothing? Using GHCI again, it says Just Nothing :: Maybe (Maybe a) which is also perfectly valid, but what about the value that this a Nothing embedded within an arbitrary number, or even an infinite number, of Justs. ie, what is the type of this value:
foo = Just foo

Haskell doesn't actually allow such a definition, but with a slight tweak we can make such a type:
data Fix a = In { out :: a (Fix a) }

just :: Fix Maybe -> Fix Maybe
just = In . Just

nothing :: Fix Maybe
nothing = In Nothing

foo :: Fix Maybe
foo = just foo

Wooh, close enough! Using the same type, we can create arbitrarily nested nothings:
bar :: Fix Maybe
bar = just (just (just (just nothing)))

Aside: Peano arithmetic anyone?
fromInt :: Int -> Fix Maybe
fromInt 0 = nothing
fromInt n = just $ fromInt (n - 1)

toInt :: Fix Maybe -> Int
toInt (In Nothing) = 0
toInt (In (Just x)) = 1 + toInt x

This Fix Maybe type is a bit boring. Here's a type whose fixed-point is a list:
data L a r = Nil | Cons a r
type List a = Fix (L a)

This data type is going to be instrumental in demonstrating some recursion patterns.
Useful Fact: The r in Cons a r is called a recursion site
Catamorphism
A catamorphism is an operation that breaks a structure down. The catamorphism for lists is better known as a fold. Now the type of a catamorphism can be expressed like so:
cata :: (T a -> a) -> Fix T -> a

Which can be written equivalently as:
cata :: (T a -> a) -> (Fix T -> a)

Or in English as:

You give me a function that reduces a data type to a value and I'll give you a function that reduces it's fixed point to a value.

Actually, I lied, the type is really:
cata :: Functor T => (T a -> a) -> Fix T -> a

But the principle is the same. Notice, T is only parameterized over the type of the recursion sites, so the Functor part is really saying "Give me a way of manipulating all the recursion sites".
Then cata can be defined as:
cata f = f . fmap (cata f) . out

This is quite dense, let me elaborate. It's a three step process:

*

*First, We're given a Fix t, which is a difficult type to play with, we can make it easier by applying out (from the definition of Fix) giving us a t (Fix t).

*Next we want to convert the t (Fix t) into a t a, which we can do, via wishful thinking, using fmap (cata f); we're assuming we'll be able to construct cata.

*Lastly, we have a t a and we want an a, so we just use f.

Earlier I said that the catamorphism for a list is called fold, but cata doesn't look much like a fold at the moment. Let's define a fold function in terms of cata.
Recapping, the list type is:
data L a r = Nil | Cons a r
type List a = Fix (L a)

This needs to be a functor to be useful, which is straight forward:
instance Functor (L a) where
  fmap _ Nil = Nil
  fmap f (Cons a r) = Cons a (f r)

So specializing cata we get:
cata :: (L x a -> a) -> List x -> a

We're practically there:
construct :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> L a b -> b
construct _ x (In Nil) = x
construct f _ (In (Cons e n)) = f e n

fold :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> List a -> b
fold f m = cata (construct f m)

OK, catamorphisms break data structures down one layer at a time.
Anamorphisms
Anamorphisms over lists are unfolds. Unfolds are less commonly known than there fold duals, they have a type like:
unfoldr :: (b -> Maybe (a, b)) -> b -> [a]

As you can see anamorphisms build up data structures. Here's the more general type:
ana :: Functor a => (a -> t a) -> a -> Fix t

This should immediately look quite familiar. The definition is also reminiscent of the catamorphism.
ana f = In . fmap (ana f) . f

It's just the same thing reversed. Constructing unfold from ana is even simpler than constructing fold from cata. Notice the structural similarity between Maybe (a, b) and L a b.
convert :: Maybe (a, b) -> L a b
convert Nothing = Nil
convert (Just (a, b)) = Cons a b

unfold :: (b -> Maybe (a, b)) -> b -> List a
unfold f = ana (convert . f)

Putting theory into practice
filter is an interesting function in that it can be constructed from a catamorphism or from an anamorphism. The other answers to this question (to date) have also used catamorphisms, but I'll define it both ways:
filter p = foldr (\x xs -> if p x then x:xs else xs) []

filter p =
  unfoldr (f p)
 where
  f _ [] =
    Nothing
  f p (x:xs) =
    if p x then
      Just (x, xs)
    else
      f p xs

Yes, yes, I know I used a recursive definition in the unfold version, but forgive me, I taught you lots of theory and anyway filter isn't recursive.

A: I'd suggest you look at foldr.

A: Well, are ifs and empty list allowed?
filter = (\f -> (>>= (\x -> if (f x) then return x else [])))

A: For a list of Integers
filter2::(Int->Bool)->[Int]->[Int]
filter2 f []=[]
filter2 f (hd:tl) = if f hd then hd:filter2 f tl
                else filter2 f tl

A: I couldn't resist answering this question in another way, this time with no recursion at all.
-- This is a type hack to allow the y combinator to be represented
newtype Mu a = Roll { unroll :: Mu a -> a }
-- This is the y combinator
fix f = (\x -> f ((unroll x) x))(Roll (\x -> f ((unroll x) x)))

filter :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
filter =
  fix filter'
 where
  -- This is essentially a recursive definition of filter
  -- except instead of calling itself, it calls f, a function that's passed in
  filter' _ _ [] = []
  filter' f p (x:xs) =
    if p x then
      (x:f p xs)
    else
      f p xs

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Expert Comment: Health, stamina and leadership: What Hillary Clinton's illness story can tell us about work and performance
On Monday the 12th of September, the news cycle was inundated with reports of a video that surfaced online showing US Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton struggling to stand up while waiting to enter a security car.
The video shows her being supported by her security team whilst some of the other members of her team try to keep her from view. Mrs. Clinton had just attended the 9/11 memorial in New York City and had left earlier than expected. After the video went viral, her team had no choice but to release a statement from her physician indicating that Mrs. Clinton had recently been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Mr. Trump's reaction to the announcement was not as incendiary as usual, partly because he and his team had helped fuel rumours about Mrs. Clinton's health for a while and even more so after her coughing fit at a rally in Ohio. They had also made an explicit link between such rumours and her supposed inability to be commander in chief. He knows that this confirmation of illness will only propagate the existing rumours and help solidify in the public's mind the link between illness and incapacity for leadership. He has been able to exploit this link even more so because Mrs. Clinton is a woman and has had to deal with extreme forms of scrutiny which he has escaped to some extent. Mr Trump himself has been surprisingly scarce in the health information he has provided to the public, although he promised this Monday he would release the results of his recent medical check.
Why, then, are health issues such an important factor used to determine someone's ability to lead a country? The interconnection between health, disability and capacity to lead has always been present.
It is well known that American President Roosevelt's impairment (he was a wheelchair user) was carefully managed and removed from the public's eye whenever possible – this was much easier to do at the time of course. But we now know that many distinguished world leaders never shared with the public private health issues that affected them. For instance Winston Churchill's recurrent depression, which he documents in his private diaries, famously terming it "the black dog", was not well known at the time of his leadership, nor was JFK's need for constant back pain relief. On the other hand, current British Prime Minister Theresa May has a long term health condition that she has often discussed openly in interviews. In sum, many world leaders experience mental distress, long term illness or impairment and this does not affect their capability to lead. However, many feel this is still something to keep away from the public's eye. The underlying message, of course, as the current case regarding Mrs. Clinton demonstrates, is that if you are ill or disabled you would be somewhat less qualified or able to hold a leadership position.
Much of this relates back to our cultural beliefs that associate illness and impairment with particular character traits. As Susan Sontag argues in her book Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, historically Western cultures have tended to read into illnesses such as cancer or AIDS particular failures of character that are supposedly revealing of the person underneath. When it comes to mental distress it is perhaps even more so.
On the other hand, such discussions harbour a deep entrenched belief regarding how we see work and personal performance. The media image of world leaders is often one where they work tirelessly without sleeping much – in fact, much like trainee doctors, they often pride themselves of working without breaks and with little sleep. Often this feeds into the illusion that such people work all the time which is possibly true at times but also hides the fact that they have an army of helpers that makes a difference.
Such discussions are pernicious though, because inevitably they reflect our society's beliefs and expectations of work performance in general. These are the same underlying ideas that lead to some people being praised in institutions for arriving early and leaving late, regardless of whether they might spend most of their time browsing the internet and not actually doing any work, whereas working from home is frowned upon and still seen as undesirable. We still tend to value mostly the outward appearance of performance.
Lastly, beliefs about the importance of endless stamina benefit mostly particular kinds of people who find it easier to control their bodies in public in particular ways. People who don't have to save energy to cope with endless microagressions regarding their race or gender expression. People whose bodies can appear to be uneventful because they don't bleed or they don't get pregnant. People who apparently do not "need" bathroom breaks or enough breaks to eat. People who never thought about what it means to use a toilet or an office because toilets and offices are tailored to the needs of their bodies. What this discussion really does though is hide the reality of human existence: that our bodies and minds are not machines (and in fact even machines break down) and that literally every body and mind will have different needs at different times.
I would challenge anyone to have high fever and pneumonia and not be weak in the knees.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign played into the hands of opponents by not being forthcoming about her health information, but the probability is that they hid it to try to contain criticism and doubt in the first place. Thus it is a damn if you do, damn if you don't situation. This is something that many people who live with long term illnesses or impairment can probably relate to.
Originally published on the Liverpool Hope website.
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New article in Disability and Society
I have published a new article entitled "Disablism in the lives of people living with a chronic illness in England and Portugal" in the journal Disability and Society. It is available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2016.1181048
This article is based on research about the daily lives of people living with chronic illnesses in England and Portugal. Through the first-person narratives of participants, I argue that the lives of people living with debilitating chronic illnesses are affected by disablism, discrimination and exclusion. These aspects affect them in several important realms of life such as lack of or poor social support, difficulties in obtaining reasonable adjustments or the inability to obtain any kind of state support at all. These aspects are also widespread and compound and greatly influence their lives, beyond or in addition to the physical experience of the illness itself. I conclude that it is fundamental to change these structural and policy aspects and that people should have access to what I have termed a paradigm of sustained well-being, despite the illness.
Keywords: Disablism, chronic illness, disability, sustained well-being, Portugal, England
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Book chapter on feminist disability studies
I have a new book chapter included in an exciting new collection edited by Colin Cameron called Disability Studies: A Student's Guide. The chapter presents some of the main debates and traditions in feminist disability studies. The book itself intends to present students and newcomers to the area with basic ideas and debates in disability studies. More information can be found at the Sage website.
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I have a book chapter included in a new exciting collection entitled Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (edited by Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone, Carol Thomas)- this will be published early next year. The title of the chapter is "Feminism and Disability: A Cartography of Multiplicity"and it focuses on issues of gender and disability by mapping out some of the main debates and contributions brought forth by feminists in the discipline of disability studies. This particular tradition within disability studies is also sometimes refered to simply as "feminist disability studies" and it has been responsable for many important ideas that are central to disability studies. It has also provided an essential place of belonging for anyone interested in both gender and disability, since traditionally women and feminism have been marginalized by some sectors of disability studies while disability remains largely ignored by mainstream feminisms. More information on the book is available here.
A draft version of my chapter is available here.
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Life can be very boring if you fill it with things you have already done. Things can get boring and repetitive. How can you expect yourself to get any passion or love for life, if you are bored. If you don't find joy in things, it is easy to lose all energy and the will to do anything at all.
Sometimes, doing something new is good for you. It can get the adrenaline flowing, and give you a bit of a thrill. Being able to do something new can help you find a bit of self-worth. And that is something that should never been sniffed at. Every single person should strive to do things that makes them feel better. Because once you feel that feeling of joyous achievement, you can get addicted to it. Something completely different to the old feeling of dwelling on your failures.
I remember seeing something somewhere, which said something along the lines of, 'if you fail at something, it means your journey isn't finished'. Which is very true. If you are unable to do something, you either try, or move on to something else. Failing to do something shouldn't be a bad thing. Think it was a bad thing, is what has stopped me trying so much in my life.
In my work, I had to do some, what I would call admin work. It was a headache, because it is the normal kind of thing I can get flustered over, but I didn't. I just got my head down, and did my best. Which was all I could do. And I have left with the job completed and feeling quite accomplished. Normally I would pass on something like that, but when that option was taken away, I just did it. I feel in a good mood as a result. Which, considering how I have been feeling lately, is a good thing.
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Denis Beaubois has fond memories of UNSW College of Fine Art (now Art & Design), where drawing was his initial medium as a student.
Now, spanning video, photography and performance, the multidisciplinary artist has been announced as the 2019 Create NSW and MCA Visual Arts Fellow – a grant of $50,000 ($30,000 for development and $20,000 for commission).
"As an artist, the recognition means a lot," Beaubois says. "Recognition from your community is always good – it makes you feel that the ideas you are working with are also of interest to others.
The Fellowship will enable him to return to his home country of Mauritius to conduct research into the island's model of polyethnic nationalism, and learn new techniques in augmented and virtual realities in Sydney.
The celebrated experimental artist has built an extensive international portfolio in video art and performance, and his current practice is influenced by economics.
Beaubois' dynamic approach has been critically acclaimed, with work exhibited at TATE Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and Sydney's MCA, while been awarded with two international art prizes to date.
He holds a Master of Arts in photography and performance as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Time Based Arts from UNSW. Looking back now, he recalls his time studying and teaching at UNSW as the foundation to his practice.
The former Video Arts lecturer says that there is an exchange between his practice and his teaching.
Beaubois advises current Art & Design students that, while public recognition can be rewarding, it's not the only marker of good art work.
"Do what you think is appropriate, and own what you do.
"Think long term and ensure you have a skill that allows you to generate an income so you can pay rent in the big smoke."


This was a cash out refinance loan request for a repeat client who was seeking a good rate and to get cash out to be used to buy additional real estate.
We achieved max loan dollars for the client and at a great rate. We then went on to the next deal with them.


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Jimmy Bowskill brings Summertime to Bonn
February 9, 2012 by 3songsbonn
A crisp cold winter evening with – 7 o C but fortunately it's so dry that the roads aren't at all slippy. The weather at the moment in central west Germany is a bit like northern Canada, blue cloudless skies during the day, it's sunny but as cold as hell! At night the skies are star-dusted and crystal clear. A young star has just alighted in Bonn again, this time at the Harmonie in the suburb of Endenich.
Jimmy Bowskill is from Canada, so that's three things that we have in common, today's weather, a passionate love of the Blues, and the same sovereign, Elisabeth Regina. Jimmy's not a teenager any more, he's matured and moved on some, he's in his early twenties now, yet he's already been playing the guitar and the Blues for over a decade! Hard to imagine, but true.
He's such a great talent, yet for one so young, not at all precocious in the negative sense of being big headed, and for this he is doubtless indebted to having an affable travelling companion and confidant in his father Steve, without whose help and guidance he probably wouldn't have been able to achieve so much, without any noticeable scars, at such a tender age.
How does his father, combine both roles? He is certainly a wise and careful, yet extremely confidant manager, but I feel when crunch time comes, he is father first, and that is important when making the squares circle around what is, or rather now, "was", a child prodigy. He is certainly a very proud father, deservedly so, having navigated Jimmy so sublimely through the last decade.
Jimmy's rhythm section are new to me, but they've been playing together now for around a year, and they've moulded, gelled and even written together well. Ian McKeowan on bass and Dan Reiff on drums enable Jimmy Bowskill to head up a powerful young and innovative rocking blues trio. On occasions one can close ones eyes and hear Cream and Hendrix and Rory Gallagher and especially sometimes Jack Bruce. Quite rightly so, operating on the musical battlefield of three chords and three musicians and Blues, they wouldn't be doing it well, if that were not the case.
The Band – Bowskill, Reiff & McKeown in action
Jimmy's certainly singing more confidently, has his voice finally broken? Is that why the Capo is almost constantly wedged on the second fret of the sunburst Les Paul Gibson perhaps? After a while of watching fingers on two fretboards, it was clear. He tunes his Gibson two semitones, two frets, a full tone below normal pitch tuning for a guitar. Why?
It sounds deeper and like many of the old southern Blues guitarists from Louisiana and Texas, used to and still do. Louisiana Red normally plays with his guitar tuned a semitone lower than "normal" tuning, which is fine if you are not an ignorant blues harp player trying in vain to follow the chords on his fretboard.
Jimmy picks up the the twin necked Gibson to play "The Loser" first on the lower six stringed neck and then on the upper twelve stringed neck. He uses the echo to recreate sounds reminiscent of early Pink Floyd, who were, after all "old Bluesers" too. Replacing the twin necked Gibson to the rack, this time he picks up the Les Paul and removes the Capo to play "Sinking Down". For this song he has been playing the rest of the evening with a Capo on. He wanted to give "Sinking Down" extra Ummpppphhhh, with a tone lower pitch. Not many other guitarists would bother, that's exactly what I like about Jimmy Bowskill, he does bother.
Talking to Jimmy afterwards I mention that the guitar introduction to "Seasons Change " reminds me a little of "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf and the subsequent bass riff in "Down the Road" of Hendrix's "Hey Joe". He smiles wryly and after reflection, grants my point. This is not about plagiarism, though, this is musical integrational gratitude, within the musical straight jacket of three chords and three musicians. All notes have been played before, it's how you arrange them with other notes and in which sequence and timing that matters.
After the last number "Little Bird" a wonderful funky number which I remembered well from the last time I had the pleasure of meeting and seeing and hearing Jimmy live on stage, on the bill with no lesser legends than Joe Bonamassa and Jeff Beck at the unfortunately now defunct, open air, yet roofed over, premiere venue in Bonn at the Museums Mile, next to the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, I reflected…….
…….. what a great encouragement to Jimmy Bowskill that must have been, to share such a wonderful stage with such musical giants in front of so many thousand people, whilst still a teenager…..
…………….the time for retrospection was soon abruptly over, the raucous applause and demand for an encore had brought them back for ………………………………….an encore,
and after briefly grasping once more for the sunburst Gibson Les Paul, Jimmy's hand initially wavered for a moment over it, then he picked up the Fender Telecaster, which he had not yet played and a grin appeared slowly, not unlike that of a Cheshire Cat, or even the Cheshire Cat. Jimmy's Telecaster has an unusual look, it has a hand-stitched Fresian cow hide cover,
some people next to me mused, he's probably going to play ""Country music" now on that guitar!" I thought, "no siree Bob!", my smile growing now to rival even that of farmer Gabriel Oak's, which Thomas Hardy so aptly describes in the opening page of "Far from the Madding Crowd". I noticed from the harmonics as he fine tuned it, that it was tuned to a chord, a minor chord. I now knew what was probably coming next.
Jimmy wrestles with his 'Fresian' guitar
Jimmy's ultimate bottleneck instrumental version of "Summertime" from the Musical "Porgy and Bess". It's one of my favourite songs too. It was honed musically by George and Ida Gerschwin and as there are no words in Jimmy's version, there is no need to acknowledge DuBose Heyward who wrote the lyrics at the time, but fans of Mahalia Jackson will know that the Gerschwins popularised this song, which became a lullaby song for Caucasians, although it was initially derived from the much older negro spiritual song "Motherless Child" a song of great despair and yet also a glimmer of hope, for Afro-American families, where slave children were sometimes sold away from their parents.
"Porgy and Bess" was the first and ultimate musical for me, it was absolutely definitive of the genre. The Gerschwins were so good, musicals could really only go "downhill" after that and become more commercial and somehow less honest.
Jimmy's version of "Summertime" by cleverly ignoring the lyrics, tuning to a minor open chord and tuning the guitar down full four semitones (one more and he would be knocking on the next lowest string's door!) and playing bottleneck slide which echoes somehow the searing vocals of the original negro spiritual dirge.
It would have been worth walking 5 kilometers in a snow storm, crossing the river Rhine on foot, just to listen to Jimmy Bowsmith's version of "Summertime" and then turnaround and walk straight back again. It wasn't actually necessary this evening, but it would still have been worth it in that scenario.
An American might say that he "owns" this song.
(He obviously doesn't though, anymore than Mr Zuckerberg "owns" 800 million Facebook users)
Jimmy Bowskill has left his own distinctive low keyed paw mark on this particular song, "Summertime" though, with his blissfully unique version of it.
After pulling up his G-string a semi-tone Jmmy played "Broke Down Engine" in open C major, a good fiery raucous number, but it was still "Summertime" which was ringing in my inner ear on the next wintery day.
Jimmy Bowskill knows his music, he's paid his Blues dues and he's come of age, he's very much worth keeping an eye on, and an ear open for.
You'll be hearing from him sometime soon.
That's for sure.
– John Harrison
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Tony Blair – 1985 Speech on Lifting the Burden
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Below is the text of the speech made by Tony Blair, the then Labour MP for Sedgefield, in the House of Commons on 16 July 1985.
It is obviously not possible to give a detailed response at this stage, but we hope that there will be a full debate on the White Paper in due course. In general terms, we would, of course, support the abolition of unnecessary bureaucracy in the interests of small businesses, but the test that will be  applied to the White Paper is whether it deals with the real problems of the economy and unemployment or whether it is just another Government gimmick designed to distract attention, and in particular whether we are talking about cutting unnecessary bureaucracy or about subordinating vital protections for the consumers and employees in the interests of ideological obsession with deregulation.
Turning to the substance of the White Paper, why do the Government identify the one major problem of regulation and then proceed to deal only with the minor ones? Is it not the case that the only area of regulation mentioned by more than one in five of the Department's own survey was value added tax? Is not that the main problem faced by small businesses? Is it not correct that the White Paper proposes no new action of any substance on that? Why, in particular, did the Government block Opposition amendments to the Finance Bill that would have eased the bad debt relief on small firms?
Secondly, will the Minister undertake that there will be no less environmental protection from the changes in planning procedure? Will he tell us why they are given such prominence when only a minute percentage of his survey said that they were a major factor?
Thirdly, any loss of standards—and I think there may be—in fire regulations or health and safety regulations would be a wholly unacceptable and wrong price to pay. How on earth can it be right for the Government to impose different rights and duties in regard to safety for the public and employees based on the size of the firm? Is the Minister saying that the risk of mishap is less with small businesses? If so, may I tell him that all the evidence indicates the contrary, and that small businesses give rise to the most safety risks?
We shall oppose vigorously the suggestions about unfair dismissal law and wages councils. What philosophy is it that says that fair play and fair rights of employment are a constraint on proper business activity?
Many of the proposals seem to have been derived not from business experience but from political doctrine. Why is it that the scrutiny which gave rise to the White Paper received views from the organisations representing employers but not from a single organisation representing employees? Why were the Institute of Directors and the Adam Smith Institute so closely involved with the proposal? Is it not the case, as the survey itself found, that
"most small businesses see problems with finance and sales as more serious than problems with compliance costs"?
The same survey said:
"The main reasons for business being good are individual effort and good demand."
If those are the main problems, why have not the Government dealt with them? Why create an agency to cut red tape but not agencies for industrial development? Why do we end planning protections but cut back on local authority initiatives which would create more jobs? Why do we cut back on unfair dismissal but not give proper training in the face of skill shortage? Why do we worry about the cost of meeting health and safety regulations but decline to lower interest rates?
At first blush, the White Paper is a shabby and irrelevant document from a Government whose ideology is unable to solve the real problems of our economy. Will a single job be created by the scheme? If not, of what use is it?
John Moore – 1985 Speech on Lifting the Burden
Tom Clarke – 1985 Speech on the Mobility Allowance