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Chinese Rover Finds Moon Cube Is Just Rabbit-Like Rock
Last November, China's Yutu-2 lunar rover noticed one thing curious on the far aspect of the moon. The picture was blurry, but it surely was unmistakable: The object seemed like a dice sitting on the moon's floor. Its form seemed too exact to be only a moon rock — maybe one thing left by visiting aliens just like the monolith in Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
China's house authorities known as it the "thriller hut." Others known as it the "moon dice." Yutu-2 was despatched for a better look, and on the leisurely pace the rover is able to touring, it took weeks to stand up shut.
On Friday, Our Space, a Chinese language science channel affiliated with China National Space Administration, posted an replace. There is not any monolith, no secret base on the rim of a lunar crater. Close up, it seems to be only a rock. The seemingly excellent geometric form was only a trick of angle, gentle and shadow.
The mysterious object because it appeared in November.Credit…CNSAA close-up of the rock.Credit…CNSA
The report was earlier famous on Twitter by Andrew Jones, a journalist who follows the Chinese house program.
Although the thriller hut was not a hut in any respect, one of many rover's distant drivers on Earth identified that the rock form of resembled a rabbit and one of many stones in entrance of it seemed a bit like a carrot. That's becoming because the rover's identify means "Jade Rabbit."
The rover has now pushed simply over 1,000 meters because it arrived three years in the past on the moon's far aspect, in Von Kármán crater, as a part of the Chang'e-Four mission. It is the primary mission to land on the far aspect.
Visual illusions are frequent within the historical past of house exploration, whether or not seen by astronomers peering by means of telescopes on Earth or robotic explorers on different worlds capturing photos with cameras. In a parallel with the rabbit-like rock discovered by China's rover, a NASA rover on Mars, Opportunity, noticed one thing that seemed like bunny ears in 2004. Further evaluation by engineers on Earth advised it was insulation or different mushy materials that fell off the rover itself.
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review of the Free Meek docuseries
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Rating *****
Meek Mill attends the world premiere of Amazon Prime Video's "Free Meek" limited documentary series at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Jason Mendez/Invision/AP)
You do not have to be a fan of Rap music to enjoy this compelling expose of our broken criminal justice system. For all the " he got what he deserves" critics out there, you have no clue what you're talking about.
I was aware of some of the facts surrounding this story. I knew that Meek Mill was a rapper imprisoned due to a technical violation of his probation. I didn't know the details of his original conviction or the story of his eleven-year odyssey. This excellent five-part docuseries fills in the gaps while also exposing issues such as mass incarceration, problems with the probations system, plea deals, inequities with the bail system, ineffective counsel, and crooked cops.
I had planned on watching each episode over a series of nights. I ended up binging on all five. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger.
One of the most glaring anomalies about Meek's case is the actions of Judge Genece Brinkley. This one-woman wrecking ball is the poster- child for injustice. The only rationale I could come up with for her mean-spirited decisions is that she was infatuated with Meek Mills. She certainly wasn't motivated by a sense of fairness. How many other poor souls are wasting away because of her decisions?
When the tables are finally turned on Judge Genece Brinkley and the detectives that started the whole mess, there is a sense of redemption, even though the saga is not entirely over for Meek Mills.
My only complaint is that the filmmakers glossed over one crucial fact. The case against Meek Mills starts with the suspicion of drug activity at the house were Meek Mills was staying with extended family. The detectives involved were allegedly not so much interested in disrupting drug activity as they were in robbing suspected drug dealers of money. According to Meek's cousins, the detectives found some thirty-thousand dollars in cash at the residence, which they did not report. The filmmakers did not explain how and why there were thirty-thousand dollars in a home in a poor neighborhood stashed away in plastic bags.
Not everyone has the resources and support that Meek Mill had. Still, his case highlights the need for criminal justice reform. The reality is that there are millions of people caught up in a system that wants to penalize people indefinitely.
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The first volume of the series that established Marcel Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical. A sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann's Love, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy, which becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of the In Search of Lost Time series.
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles V. This impression would persist for some moments after I was awake; it did not disturb my mind, but it lay like scales upon my eyes and prevented them from registering the fact that the candle was no longer burning. Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject of my book would separate itself from me, leaving me free to choose whether I would form part of it or no; and at the same time my sight would return and I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.
I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating the distance like the note of a bird in a forest, shewed me in perspective the deserted countryside through which a traveller would be hurrying towards the nearest station: the path that he followed being fixed for ever in his memory by the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to doing unusual things, to the last words of conversation, to farewells exchanged beneath an unfamiliar lamp which echoed still in his ears amid the silence of the night; and to the delightful prospect of being once again at home.
I would lay my cheeks gently against the comfortable cheeks of my pillow, as plump and blooming as the cheeks of babyhood. Or I would strike a match to look at my watch. Nearly midnight. The hour when an invalid, who has been obliged to start on a journey and to sleep in a strange hotel, awakens in a moment of illness and sees with glad relief a streak of daylight shewing under his bedroom door. Oh, joy of joys! it is morning. The servants will be about in a minute: he can ring, and some one will come to look after him. The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain. He is certain he heard footsteps: they come nearer, and then die away. The ray of light beneath his door is extinguished. It is midnight; some one has turned out the gas; the last servant has gone to bed, and he must lie all night in agony with no one to bring him any help.
I would fall asleep, and often I would be awake again for short snatches only, just long enough to hear the regular creaking of the wainscot, or to open my eyes to settle the shifting kaleidoscope of the darkness, to savour, in an instantaneous flash of perception, the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant part and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share. Or, perhaps, while I was asleep I had returned without the least effort to an earlier stage in my life, now for ever outgrown; and had come under the thrall of one of my childish terrors, such as that old terror of my great-uncle's pulling my curls, which was effectually dispelled on the day—the dawn of a new era to me—on which they were finally cropped from my head. I had forgotten that event during my sleep; I remembered it again immediately I had succeeded in making myself wake up to escape my great-uncle's fingers; still, as a measure of precaution, I would bury the whole of my head in the pillow before returning to the world of dreams.
Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed by the appetite that I was on the point of gratifying, she it was, I imagined, who offered me that gratification. My body, conscious that its own warmth was permeating hers, would strive to become one with her, and I would awake. The rest of humanity seemed very remote in comparison with this woman whose company I had left but a moment ago: my cheek was still warm with her kiss, my body bent beneath the weight of hers. If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether to the sole quest of her, like people who set out on a journey to see with their own eyes some city that they have always longed to visit, and imagine that they can taste in reality what has charmed their fancy. And then, gradually, the memory of her would dissolve and vanish, until I had forgotten the maiden of my dream.
When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host. Instinctively, when he awakes, he looks to these, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth's surface and the amount of time that has elapsed during his slumbers; but this ordered procession is apt to grow confused, and to break its ranks. Suppose that, towards morning, after a night of insomnia, sleep descends upon him while he is reading, in quite a different position from that in which he normally goes to sleep, he has only to lift his arm to arrest the sun and turn it back in its course, and, at the moment of waking, he will have no idea of the time, but will conclude that he has just gone to bed. Or suppose that he gets drowsy in some even more abnormal position; sitting in an armchair, say, after dinner: then the world will fall topsy-turvy from its orbit, the magic chair will carry him at full speed through time and space, and when he opens his eyes again he will imagine that he went to sleep months earlier and in some far distant country.


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The Second Sunday in Lent
Augustine on Psalm CXIX HE
Second Sunday in Lent Home
ALMIGHTY God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Source: Sacrementary of Gregory - Bishop of Rome. [600 AD] The petition is not only for assualts from without, but also from within.
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Gen x. 44. 37 Psalm 6, 38 | 119:33–72 1 Thessalonians iv. 1. & St. Matthew xv. 21
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Greetings Centurions, Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Today, we examine a portion of Psalm 119--section: HE, and the first verse, and that portion of Augustine's homily that covered it.
To begin, I encourage you to read Augustine's preface for this Psalm.
Preface to Psalm 119
The Psalm is constructed in such a way that the opening of each section was a letter in the Hebrew alphabet--an acrostic form. When translated into other languages, the historical alphabetical division was lost. However, we will address the Psalm by the original divisions. Section HE begins with the plea of "yârâh" meaning teach. Augustine wrote,
Why doth this man still pray for a law to be laid down for him; which, if it had not been laid down for him, he could not have run the way of God's commandments in the breadth of his heart? But since one speaketh who is growing in grace, and who knoweth that it is God's gift that he profiteth in grace; what else doth he pray, when he prayeth that a law may be laid down for him, save that he may profit more and more? As, if thou holdest a full cup, and givest it to a thirsty man; he both exhausts it by drinking it, and prayeth for it by still longing for it.…
One of Augustine's main works was to combat the heresy of the monk Pelagius who maintained that there was no taint of original sin from Adam, and that man could do right if he only would choose to do so. Augustine soundly defended the catholic faith, that it is through God's grace only that we may know God's law and will, by his grace that we may succeed, and not by our determination. I reckon that is why some read or hear the Scriptures and walk away as if they were blind and deaf, while others are enlightened and quickened through God's grace. The parable of the sower is related to this thought as well [Mark 4:12]
In the Council of Orange (529) it is written:
CANON 7. If anyone affirms that we can form any right opinion or make any right choice which relates to the salvation of eternal life, as is expedient for us, or that we can be saved, that is, assent to the preaching of the gospel through our natural powers without the illumination and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who makes all men gladly assent to and believe in the truth, he is led astray by a heretical spirit, and does not understand the voice of God who says in the Gospel, "For apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5), and the word of the Apostle, "Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God" (2 Cor. 3:5).
Praise be to God that he answers the righteous prayers of his sons, instructs them, and leads them in right ways.
Finis.
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Joshua Chamberlain, 24 February
Joshua Chamberlain, Educator, General, Governor
February 24 [1914]
..not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, nor motion of man standing again at the order, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead!
[Chamberlain in defense of his salute to the Confederates who surrendered at Appomattox
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Christian, Professor, General, and Governor of his home state of Maine.
Chamberlain came from a line of warriors. Great grandfathers served in the Revolution. a grandfather in the War of 1812, and his own father in Aroostook Indian War. One brother served with him in the 20th Maine and another as a chaplain of a Maine Regiment.
Chamberlain was raised as a Puritan and Huguenot. He attended a Military Academy as his father, a Lt. Col. of the Militia, wished for him to enter West Point. His mother desired he enter the ministry, which he chose to pursue for missionary work. Chamberlain taught himself Greek as a youth in order to enter Bowdoin College (he would eventually master nine languages). After graduating from Bowdoin, he attended Seminary for three years and graduated with a Master's Degree. He returned to Bowdoin as Professor of Rhetoric on the faculty until he entered the service of Maine as the Executive Officer of the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment.
While at Bowdoin, he befriended Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote the little book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Stowe's whose brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was leading theologian and abolitionist of the era. Stowe's book and Beecher's theology transformed society's understanding of the institution of slavery in America, and certainly convinced Chamberlain that slavery should come to an end.
Chamberlain's first major battle was at Frederkisburg, where he was pinned down all night by the withering fire from the stone-wall at Marye's Heights. It was at Gettysburg, however, that Chamberlain distinguished himself as the commander of the 20th Maine, which held Little Round Top on the flank until nearly out of ammunition, and the conducted a bayonet assault that overwhelmed the attacking Confederates. He distinguished himself again at the Siege of Petersburg, where he fell. General Grant promoted him to General. Chamberlain was a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. He served in 20 battles. He was wounded six times and had six horses shot from under him. He was cited for bravery four times.
In the last days of the War, a Confederate General Gordon approached him with a flag of truce. General Lee wished a cease-fire to discuss terms of surrender. Chamberlain was chosen by Grant to command the guard at the surrender. As General Gordon's men passed by, Chamberlain called the Federals to Carry Arms, a salute to the Confederates, and Gordon returned the same, Honor for Honor. Chamberlain defended this tribute in his Appomattox chapter of The Passing of the Armies
After the war, Chamberlain was elected for four one-year terms as Governor. He then returned to teaching and served as President of Bowdoin until his old wounds forced him to retire. In 1898, at age 70, he volunteered for the Spanish American War but was turned down. He war wounds continued to pluage him until his death in 1914.
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The First Sunday in Lent
At Morning Prayer: Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer Matthew vi. 11.
O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
At Morning Prayer: Isaiah lviii St. Matthew vi. 1ff
In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father...
This Sunday I have selected a set of readings that are used at Morning Prayer on the first Sunday in Lent. They deal with the topics of alms, fasting, and prayer. The Church has emphasized these activities during Lent, and they were practices of our Lord's day in seasons of fasting. However, as Isaiah and our Lord noted, the practices were perverted and self-serving; people employed them to bring credit on themselves in the eyes of their fellows. As Jesus observed such, he made it plain those who did so "already had their reward" in the admiration they gained from others. On the other hand, he commanded us in how we ought to go about our work of prayer, alms, and fasting.
Let us turn to our guest preacher this day: Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (martyred Sept 14, 258)
9. But what matters of deep moment are contained in the Lord's prayer! How many and! How great, briefly collected in the words, but spiritually abundant in virtue! so that there is absolutely nothing passed over that is not comprehended in these our prayers and petitions, as in a compendium of heavenly doctrine. "After this manner," says He, "pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven." The new man, born again and restored to his God by His grace, says "Father," in the first place because he has now begun to be a son. "He came," He says, "to His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name." The man, therefore, who has believed in His name, and has become God's son, ought from this point to begin both to give thanks and to profess himself God's son, by declaring that God is his Father in heaven; and also to bear witness, among the very first words of his new birth, that he has renounced an earthly and carnal father, and that he has begun to know as well as to have as a father Him only who is in heaven, as it is written: "They who say unto their father and their mother, I have not known thee, and who have not acknowledged their own children these have observed Thy precepts and have kept Thy covenant. Also the Lord in His Gospel has bidden us to call "no man our father upon earth, because there is to us one Father, who is in heaven." And to the disciple who had made mention of his dead father, He replied, "Let the dead bury their dead; " for he had said that his father was dead, while the Father of believers is living.
The full text of Cyprian's homily is at the link above, and it is a very long one. I would encourage all to read it this week, and to practice in this period of Lent what our Lord commanded us to do in terms of our alms, fasting, and prayer this season. I would suggest that you lay aside a certain amount day-by-day in these 40 days, and at Easter, give your alms to a worthy charitable cause of your choosing. One that is on the top of my mind this year is for the folk in Haiti who survived the earthquake and only through a legitimate organization.
I encourage you also to take up a structured use of the Lord's prayer, if you have not done so already, in obedience to our Lord's commandment in this Gospel. Years after Cyprian's death, Augustine was bishop in Africa in Hippo. In his writings he encouraged all to use the Lord's prayer thrice daily, and the Creed twice.
Be cautious to make your prayers and alms giving a matter between you and your heavenly Father, and not of public display, that your reward might be great in Heaven.
Lastly, in following the words of Isaiah in the Old Testament reading, make this fast one of justice, compassion, and mercy through your daily intercourse with family, friends, associates, and yes, even your perceived personal enemies.
Historical Note: The Church has always followed our Lord's commandment to use this prayer, and to use "Father" to address God the Father. In the latter portion of the 20th century certain heretics began to substitute other names for "Father" in disobedience. This was a result of the influence of the political and social feminist movement of these latter days, but is not accepted as an authorized substitute for the words given to the Church in the Gospels. I believe that no orthodox-catholic believer would do so. See more here.
The Sunday called Quinquagesima
Augustine on a parallel Gospel
Quinquagesima Home
O LORD which dost teach us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
Quinquagesima is 50 days before Easter and the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Source of collect, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer [1549]. Reflects 1 Cor 13 on Charity. Replaced a Medieval prayer used on Shrove Tuesday, when penitents were shriven, that is absolved, of their sins
Deuteronomy xxxiii 1 Psalm 15, 16 | 111, 112; 1 Corinthians xiii. 1. & St. Luke xviii. 31
Homily of Augustine on Parallel Gospel of Matthew XX
Lord have mercy on us, thou Son of David
Today's Gospel concerns the miraculous healing of the blind man who cried out to Jesus, Lord have mercy on us, thou Son of David, as he passed by on the way to Jerusalem with his disciples. The crowd attempted to quiet the blind man, but he cried only louder. A very similar healing occurred in the Gospel of Matthew XX with two blind men.
Augustine examines this plea to our Lord in the homily at the link. Moreover, he recognizes that these types of events have "passed by" and are no more, but rather that another more profound healing of internal sight is to be realized by those who cry out for our Lord.
Now let us examine the following portion of his homily,
These things then the Lord did to invite us to the faith. This faith reigneth now in the Church, which is spread throughout the whole world. And now He worketh greater cures, on account of which He disdained not then to exhibit those lesser ones. For as the soul is better than the body, so is the saving health of the soul better than the health of the body. The blind body doth not now open its eyes by a miracle of the Lord, but the blinded heart openeth its eyes to the word of the Lord. The mortal corpse doth not now rise again, but the soul doth rise again which lay dead in a living body. The deaf ears of the body are not now opened; but how many have the ears of their heart closed, which yet fly open at the penetrating word of God, so that they believe who did not believe, and they live well, who did live evilly, and they obey, who did not obey; and we say, "Such a man is become a believer;" and we wonder when we hear of them whom once we had known as hardened. Why then dost thou marvel at one who now believes, who is living innocently, and serving God; but because thou dost behold him seeing, whom thou hadst known to be blind; dost behold him living, whom thou hadst known to be dead; dost behold him hearing, whom thou hadst known to be deaf? For consider that there are who are dead in another than the ordinary sense, of whom the Lord spake to a certain man who delayed to follow the Lord, because he wished to bury his father; "Let the dead," said He, "bury their dead." Surely these dead buriers are not dead in body; for if this were so, they could not bury dead bodies. Yet doth he call them dead; where, but in the soul within? For as we may often see in a household, itself sound and well, the master of the same house lying dead; so in a sound body do many carry a dead soul within; and these the Apostle arouses thus, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." It is the Same who giveth light to the blind, that awakeneth the dead. For it is with His voice that the cry is made by the Apostle to the dead, "Awake, thou that sleepest." And the blind will be enlightened with light, when he shall have risen again. And how many deaf men did the Lord see before His eyes, when He said, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." For who was standing before Him without his bodily ears? What other ears then did He seek for, but those of the inner man?
Do you believe in Miracles? I do. Indeed, I look at things much differently than 4o years ago and see the miraculous in many aspects of life; if not, intercessory prayer would be a bit foolish: wouldn't it? I think this quotation from C. S. Lewis in Miracles is telling,
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Belief in miracles, far from depending on an ignorance of the laws of nature, is only possible in so far as those laws are known. We have already seen that if you begin by ruling out the supernatural you will perceive no miracles. We must now add that you will equally perceive no miracles until you believe that nature works according to regular laws. If you have not yet noticed that the sun always rises in the East you will see nothing miraculous about his rising one morning in the West. (pg. 75)
In these latter days we hear of miraculous healing events of faithful. Sometimes these are associated with visions, such as at Lourdes, France where 67 such reported cures there have been affirmed by the Roman Church. Other times we may hear of a complete and unexpected remedy or reversal of an incurable disease for which faithful have prayed-- a form of Faith Healing. In the orthodox and catholic church, healing prayers by ministers for the faithful are under the sacrament of "Unction" and are accompanied by the laying on of hands and with anointing. [James 5:14]
We may never directly witness any of these types of cures, and may accept or reject their stories based on our faith and reason, but all Christians may witness how God
heals those who come to him in faith. Augustine describes these more profound healing events as he witnessed them in about 400 AD -- by opening eyes to God's light, ears to God's voice, and changing outward behavior.
"The ways by which the Holy Ghost leads men and women to Christ are wonderful and mysterious: He is often beginning in a heart a work which shall stand to eternity, when a looker-on observes nothing remarkable. In every work there must be a beginning, and in spiritual work that beginning is often very small." [J. C. Ryle]
Unfortunately there are traveling revival programs whose preachers, in the name of our Lord, falsely claim divine power to heal and sometime perform apparent physical manifestations on stage. They then make collections to enrich themselves and their programs relying on superstition, and thereby perpetuate the deceit. I commend this paper on this type of sham. Those who falsely invoke God have their reward.
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The Sunday called Sexagesima
the second Sunday before Lent
Augustine on Psalm CXXXIX
Sexagesima Home
O LORD God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do; Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended by protection of the Doctor of the Gentiles against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Source: Sacrmentary of Bishop Gregory of Rome.
Psalm 33, 93 | 139; ii Corinthians xi. 19 & St. Luke viii. 4
Homily of Augustine on Psalm 139
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
A few weeks ago folk gathered in the United States on the Washington Mall and at churches in Washington to protest the US Supreme Court decision of 1973 that allowed abortion. The polls today say that the opinions concerning abortion are shifting toward life. The organization"NOW" is upset because Focus on the Family is planning to team with a football star for an advertisement for life and family. He is at the Super Bowl because his mother bravely chose life.
Today's psalm is one of the key scriptures that concerned Christians cite in defense of life. Let us now read some of what Augustine told his congregation.
Behold Thou, Lord, hast known all my last doings, and the ancient ones". ...
"Thou hast fashioned me, and hast laid Thine hand upon me." "Fashioned me," where? In this mortality; now, to the toils whereunto we all are born. For none is born, but God has fashioned him in his mother's womb; nor is there any creature, whereof God is not the Fashioner.
We have discovered the means by which God accomplishes this miracle. It is in the genetic code that God fashions in the instant of conception in the mother's womb when man and woman unite and a life is created.
Now then, some who present themselves as religious leaders in our society endorse, even bless, the destruction of these babes which God has created, and by the most inhumane type of slaughter. It is important that all clearly understand what is entailed (caution: the techniques describe on this site are accurate and horrible) http://www.prolife.com/ABORMETH.html
There are churches that have joined hands with this abomination (e.g., TEC and RCRC) and have actively and officially petitioned the US Congress to fund abortions with tax dollars -- collected from a people who are for the most part against abortion.
Meanwhile, others take a strong stand for life (e.g. RCC, OCA, PCA, LCMS, etc. and see also this resolution from the TEC Diocese of South Carolina against the TEC & RCRC ) Many have taken a personal stand and signed the Manhattan Declaration: A Call to Christian Conscience, which has become a grassroots protest against government's actions that destroy life, diminish the institution of marriage, and curtail freedom of religion.
What of early Christians...well they held the same belief as the Jew. Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian of the 1st Century who was present at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 when Christianity was still considered a sect of the Jews, wrote, "The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind." [*] Of course, he spoke here of the same law that our Lord did, the Commandment that thou shalt do no murder.
I cannot help but wonder whether they who perpetuate this holocaust in the womb may be of those whom Augustine says, in this homily,
For there is another "latest" for certain wicked ones, to whom it shall be said, "Go ye into everlasting fire." ...
Finally, let us consider the collect for today, drawn from the Sacramentary of Gregory I of Rome. I hope we can all acknowledge that the words of Saint Paul, the Doctor to the Gentiles, have served us well through the centuries, and through God's power we have been defended and protected from heresies such as calling abortion a blessing. Paul, a servant of Christ, has left us a legacy that has guided us in running our race in the way of the Commandments, toward that ultimate prize. Glory be to God!


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Obsazení
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 Michael Kocáb – zpěv, klávesy
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 Glenn Proudfoot – kytara, zpěv
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To support all operations, AUDITEL has a Commercial Area, a Technical Area and a Production Area.
In addition, our General Services Management combines the following departments: Financial, Administration, Legal, Quality and Environment, Purchasing, Staff and Occupational Risks, and IT and Management Systems.
Branches and Companies in several locations allow greater proximity to clients.
SISDe: Integral Violence Prevention System, including: Closed circuit TV, Evacuation public address, Access control, Radio communications and Uninterrupted power supply systems.
Venue capacity and ticketing management.
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Press rooms and International Broadcast Centres (IBC).
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He was sworn in by Zambia's Finance Minister and Chair of the Board of Governors, Alexander Chikwanda at a ceremony in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Speaking on the state of the continent, he emphasised that inclusive growth would be a critical part of AfDB's strategy.
"While Africa's economies are growing, inequality is increasing all over our continent. The sparkle in the eyes of the fortunate few is drowned by the sense of exclusion by the majority. Hundreds of millions of people are left behind. Most of them are women and our young people. They do not feel the impact of economic growth in their lives. Our collective challenge is to drive inclusive growth – growth that will lift millions out of poverty. Africa can no longer be content with simply managing poverty. For our future and the future of our children, we must eliminate it," Adesina said.
"Our collective destiny is tied to breaking down the barriers separating us. From large to small nations, from countries on the coast to those far inland, from the island states that depend on the blue economy, to states coming out of conflicts with resilience and determination, our aspirations are the same – to deliver quality growth and development and to see all Africans prosper," he continued, saying that high-quality regional infrastructure, particularly in transport, will be key to building both intra-African and global trade as well as new business.
He also spoke about reducing fragility risks, especially through customised support to fragile and post-conflict states. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea's ongoing recovery from Ebola was mentioned as an example of strong political will rising to face challenges in fragile environments.
On powering Africa, he said that the bank would launch a 'New Deal on Energy for Africa' in which the public and private sector needed to come together on both conventional and renewable power investments.
He added that the private sector needs to be built up, including the development of financial markets and private capital markets to improve access to finance for SMEs. Financial and private sector development will be critical in leveraging the agriculture sector, the main crux of Adesina's vision.
"Africa must feed itself. It is inconceivable that a continent with abundant arable land, water, diverse agro-ecological richness and sunshine is a net food- importing region. And Africa has 65 per cent of all the arable land left in the world to meet the food needs of nine billion people on the planet by 2050. This is a huge untapped potential and Africa cannot eat potential," he said.
A number of Adesina's projects as Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and private sector players such as the Rockefeller Foundation have focused on making agriculture an efficient business and smart investment.
"We must think differently: grow agriculture as a business, to become a wealth-creating sector, not one for managing poverty. This will excite the youths to see agriculture as a viable business. By moving away from exporting primary commodities, to developing agro-allied industrial zones in rural areas, Africa will expand its ability to export processed cocoa not cocoa beans, processed coffee not coffee beans, textile instead of cotton," he said.
Adesina went on to lay out his vision of the Bank under his leadership.
"We will be more than a lending institution. We will build a highly competitive, world-class knowledge-driven Bank, to provide top-notch policy and advisory services to countries and the private sector. We will become a true development institution with measurable impacts on the lives of Africans," he said, highlights plans for decentralisation and a merit-based system that would attract the best professionals on the continent to the Bank.
"The African Development Bank must march forward with a new resolve. The development finance landscape is changing rapidly – and the African Development Bank must change with the times. We must remain competitive. And we must lead," he said.


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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License.
// Code generated by Microsoft (R) AutoRest Code Generator.

package com.azure.resourcemanager.customerinsights.models;

import com.azure.core.util.Context;
import com.azure.resourcemanager.customerinsights.fluent.models.LinkResourceFormatInner;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/** An immutable client-side representation of LinkResourceFormat. */
public interface LinkResourceFormat {
    /**
     * Gets the id property: Fully qualified resource Id for the resource.
     *
     * @return the id value.
     */
    String id();

    /**
     * Gets the name property: The name of the resource.
     *
     * @return the name value.
     */
    String name();

    /**
     * Gets the type property: The type of the resource.
     *
     * @return the type value.
     */
    String type();

    /**
     * Gets the tenantId property: The hub name.
     *
     * @return the tenantId value.
     */
    String tenantId();

    /**
     * Gets the linkName property: The link name.
     *
     * @return the linkName value.
     */
    String linkName();

    /**
     * Gets the sourceEntityType property: Type of source entity.
     *
     * @return the sourceEntityType value.
     */
    EntityType sourceEntityType();

    /**
     * Gets the targetEntityType property: Type of target entity.
     *
     * @return the targetEntityType value.
     */
    EntityType targetEntityType();

    /**
     * Gets the sourceEntityTypeName property: Name of the source Entity Type.
     *
     * @return the sourceEntityTypeName value.
     */
    String sourceEntityTypeName();

    /**
     * Gets the targetEntityTypeName property: Name of the target Entity Type.
     *
     * @return the targetEntityTypeName value.
     */
    String targetEntityTypeName();

    /**
     * Gets the displayName property: Localized display name for the Link.
     *
     * @return the displayName value.
     */
    Map<String, String> displayName();

    /**
     * Gets the description property: Localized descriptions for the Link.
     *
     * @return the description value.
     */
    Map<String, String> description();

    /**
     * Gets the mappings property: The set of properties mappings between the source and target Types.
     *
     * @return the mappings value.
     */
    List<TypePropertiesMapping> mappings();

    /**
     * Gets the participantPropertyReferences property: The properties that represent the participating profile.
     *
     * @return the participantPropertyReferences value.
     */
    List<ParticipantPropertyReference> participantPropertyReferences();

    /**
     * Gets the provisioningState property: Provisioning state.
     *
     * @return the provisioningState value.
     */
    ProvisioningStates provisioningState();

    /**
     * Gets the referenceOnly property: Indicating whether the link is reference only link. This flag is ignored if the
     * Mappings are defined. If the mappings are not defined and it is set to true, links processing will not create or
     * update profiles.
     *
     * @return the referenceOnly value.
     */
    Boolean referenceOnly();

    /**
     * Gets the operationType property: Determines whether this link is supposed to create or delete instances if Link
     * is NOT Reference Only.
     *
     * @return the operationType value.
     */
    InstanceOperationType operationType();

    /**
     * Gets the inner com.azure.resourcemanager.customerinsights.fluent.models.LinkResourceFormatInner object.
     *
     * @return the inner object.
     */
    LinkResourceFormatInner innerModel();

    /** The entirety of the LinkResourceFormat definition. */
    interface Definition
        extends DefinitionStages.Blank, DefinitionStages.WithParentResource, DefinitionStages.WithCreate {
    }
    /** The LinkResourceFormat definition stages. */
    interface DefinitionStages {
        /** The first stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition. */
        interface Blank extends WithParentResource {
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify parent resource. */
        interface WithParentResource {
            /**
             * Specifies resourceGroupName, hubName.
             *
             * @param resourceGroupName The name of the resource group.
             * @param hubName The name of the hub.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withExistingHub(String resourceGroupName, String hubName);
        }
        /**
         * The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition which contains all the minimum required properties for the
         * resource to be created, but also allows for any other optional properties to be specified.
         */
        interface WithCreate
            extends DefinitionStages.WithSourceEntityType,
                DefinitionStages.WithTargetEntityType,
                DefinitionStages.WithSourceEntityTypeName,
                DefinitionStages.WithTargetEntityTypeName,
                DefinitionStages.WithDisplayName,
                DefinitionStages.WithDescription,
                DefinitionStages.WithMappings,
                DefinitionStages.WithParticipantPropertyReferences,
                DefinitionStages.WithReferenceOnly,
                DefinitionStages.WithOperationType {
            /**
             * Executes the create request.
             *
             * @return the created resource.
             */
            LinkResourceFormat create();

            /**
             * Executes the create request.
             *
             * @param context The context to associate with this operation.
             * @return the created resource.
             */
            LinkResourceFormat create(Context context);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify sourceEntityType. */
        interface WithSourceEntityType {
            /**
             * Specifies the sourceEntityType property: Type of source entity..
             *
             * @param sourceEntityType Type of source entity.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withSourceEntityType(EntityType sourceEntityType);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify targetEntityType. */
        interface WithTargetEntityType {
            /**
             * Specifies the targetEntityType property: Type of target entity..
             *
             * @param targetEntityType Type of target entity.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withTargetEntityType(EntityType targetEntityType);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify sourceEntityTypeName. */
        interface WithSourceEntityTypeName {
            /**
             * Specifies the sourceEntityTypeName property: Name of the source Entity Type..
             *
             * @param sourceEntityTypeName Name of the source Entity Type.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withSourceEntityTypeName(String sourceEntityTypeName);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify targetEntityTypeName. */
        interface WithTargetEntityTypeName {
            /**
             * Specifies the targetEntityTypeName property: Name of the target Entity Type..
             *
             * @param targetEntityTypeName Name of the target Entity Type.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withTargetEntityTypeName(String targetEntityTypeName);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify displayName. */
        interface WithDisplayName {
            /**
             * Specifies the displayName property: Localized display name for the Link..
             *
             * @param displayName Localized display name for the Link.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withDisplayName(Map<String, String> displayName);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify description. */
        interface WithDescription {
            /**
             * Specifies the description property: Localized descriptions for the Link..
             *
             * @param description Localized descriptions for the Link.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withDescription(Map<String, String> description);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify mappings. */
        interface WithMappings {
            /**
             * Specifies the mappings property: The set of properties mappings between the source and target Types..
             *
             * @param mappings The set of properties mappings between the source and target Types.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withMappings(List<TypePropertiesMapping> mappings);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify participantPropertyReferences. */
        interface WithParticipantPropertyReferences {
            /**
             * Specifies the participantPropertyReferences property: The properties that represent the participating
             * profile..
             *
             * @param participantPropertyReferences The properties that represent the participating profile.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withParticipantPropertyReferences(
                List<ParticipantPropertyReference> participantPropertyReferences);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify referenceOnly. */
        interface WithReferenceOnly {
            /**
             * Specifies the referenceOnly property: Indicating whether the link is reference only link. This flag is
             * ignored if the Mappings are defined. If the mappings are not defined and it is set to true, links
             * processing will not create or update profiles..
             *
             * @param referenceOnly Indicating whether the link is reference only link. This flag is ignored if the
             *     Mappings are defined. If the mappings are not defined and it is set to true, links processing will
             *     not create or update profiles.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withReferenceOnly(Boolean referenceOnly);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat definition allowing to specify operationType. */
        interface WithOperationType {
            /**
             * Specifies the operationType property: Determines whether this link is supposed to create or delete
             * instances if Link is NOT Reference Only..
             *
             * @param operationType Determines whether this link is supposed to create or delete instances if Link is
             *     NOT Reference Only.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withOperationType(InstanceOperationType operationType);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Begins update for the LinkResourceFormat resource.
     *
     * @return the stage of resource update.
     */
    LinkResourceFormat.Update update();

    /** The template for LinkResourceFormat update. */
    interface Update
        extends UpdateStages.WithSourceEntityType,
            UpdateStages.WithTargetEntityType,
            UpdateStages.WithSourceEntityTypeName,
            UpdateStages.WithTargetEntityTypeName,
            UpdateStages.WithDisplayName,
            UpdateStages.WithDescription,
            UpdateStages.WithMappings,
            UpdateStages.WithParticipantPropertyReferences,
            UpdateStages.WithReferenceOnly,
            UpdateStages.WithOperationType {
        /**
         * Executes the update request.
         *
         * @return the updated resource.
         */
        LinkResourceFormat apply();

        /**
         * Executes the update request.
         *
         * @param context The context to associate with this operation.
         * @return the updated resource.
         */
        LinkResourceFormat apply(Context context);
    }
    /** The LinkResourceFormat update stages. */
    interface UpdateStages {
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify sourceEntityType. */
        interface WithSourceEntityType {
            /**
             * Specifies the sourceEntityType property: Type of source entity..
             *
             * @param sourceEntityType Type of source entity.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withSourceEntityType(EntityType sourceEntityType);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify targetEntityType. */
        interface WithTargetEntityType {
            /**
             * Specifies the targetEntityType property: Type of target entity..
             *
             * @param targetEntityType Type of target entity.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withTargetEntityType(EntityType targetEntityType);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify sourceEntityTypeName. */
        interface WithSourceEntityTypeName {
            /**
             * Specifies the sourceEntityTypeName property: Name of the source Entity Type..
             *
             * @param sourceEntityTypeName Name of the source Entity Type.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withSourceEntityTypeName(String sourceEntityTypeName);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify targetEntityTypeName. */
        interface WithTargetEntityTypeName {
            /**
             * Specifies the targetEntityTypeName property: Name of the target Entity Type..
             *
             * @param targetEntityTypeName Name of the target Entity Type.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withTargetEntityTypeName(String targetEntityTypeName);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify displayName. */
        interface WithDisplayName {
            /**
             * Specifies the displayName property: Localized display name for the Link..
             *
             * @param displayName Localized display name for the Link.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withDisplayName(Map<String, String> displayName);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify description. */
        interface WithDescription {
            /**
             * Specifies the description property: Localized descriptions for the Link..
             *
             * @param description Localized descriptions for the Link.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withDescription(Map<String, String> description);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify mappings. */
        interface WithMappings {
            /**
             * Specifies the mappings property: The set of properties mappings between the source and target Types..
             *
             * @param mappings The set of properties mappings between the source and target Types.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withMappings(List<TypePropertiesMapping> mappings);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify participantPropertyReferences. */
        interface WithParticipantPropertyReferences {
            /**
             * Specifies the participantPropertyReferences property: The properties that represent the participating
             * profile..
             *
             * @param participantPropertyReferences The properties that represent the participating profile.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withParticipantPropertyReferences(List<ParticipantPropertyReference> participantPropertyReferences);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify referenceOnly. */
        interface WithReferenceOnly {
            /**
             * Specifies the referenceOnly property: Indicating whether the link is reference only link. This flag is
             * ignored if the Mappings are defined. If the mappings are not defined and it is set to true, links
             * processing will not create or update profiles..
             *
             * @param referenceOnly Indicating whether the link is reference only link. This flag is ignored if the
             *     Mappings are defined. If the mappings are not defined and it is set to true, links processing will
             *     not create or update profiles.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withReferenceOnly(Boolean referenceOnly);
        }
        /** The stage of the LinkResourceFormat update allowing to specify operationType. */
        interface WithOperationType {
            /**
             * Specifies the operationType property: Determines whether this link is supposed to create or delete
             * instances if Link is NOT Reference Only..
             *
             * @param operationType Determines whether this link is supposed to create or delete instances if Link is
             *     NOT Reference Only.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withOperationType(InstanceOperationType operationType);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Refreshes the resource to sync with Azure.
     *
     * @return the refreshed resource.
     */
    LinkResourceFormat refresh();

    /**
     * Refreshes the resource to sync with Azure.
     *
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Dozens of firefighter tackled to major blazes in central and north west London last night.
Just hours after a cable fire erupted from a manhole in Holborn, London Fire Brigade was called to another blaze in Park Royal.
The ground and first floor of an industrial unit had caught fire along with a large part of the building's roof in Western Road.


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Everyone in Austin is sick, it seems. At work, during the hushed week after Christmas, and still after the new year began, I heard sniffles over cubicle walls. Email lists abound with reports of kids with RSV.
John was only sick for three or four days, and only had a good fever for two of those. I stayed up only one full night with him. And he's okay now; back in school, telling me "I got to go to recess today! I had lunch with Ms. W's class and I got to go outside with them!" After one semester of public school, he's spending more and more time with the kindergarten class and less time in special ed class.
Whatever illness he had soon migrated to me. It is harder in some ways, being sick as an adult. We're not as cute as a child, sick or not; and we have so much to do and worry about. So much to doubt. Our ability to ignore ourselves is so well-developed.
I finally stopped everything and went to bed a couple of days ago. I got over not being cute, and being needed for things, and just stopped. It was nearly impossible, allowing that.
My sense of permission to rest ended prematurely. I got up before I should have, and now I feel the consequences. But while it lasted, it was restorative. I will remember that success. Even though I wasn't able to rest long enough, I rested at all. And that's the same credit we give our kids, right? "You told me you had to go and you started heading toward the bathroom - that's great! Don't worry about if you made it there right now - you did a big thing!"
So, parents, I'll pass on the sense of permission. If you are tired from the holidays, disappointed, dissatisfied; if you have been staying up with sick kids, pushing yourself at work, or are sick yourself - take this. Take this permission to rest, for whatever length of time you are capable of. Let all your pluses and minuses go. Don't think anything. Love yourself like that child.
I wonder if any of us ever really thought about the fact that we wouldn't be able to be sick long enough to get well... it's quite extraordinary.
I hope the small amount of rest you did get, made you a bit better, and that you can find more moments of rest.
Taking that permission or giving oneself that permission can be a very, very difficult. But I add my testimony: Parents need to do this, if not for ourselves, then for our families. We can't take care of our children if we do not take care of ourselves.


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Yes, you read that right. Until 8pm tonight, you can score yourself a huge discount on video game consoles, tablets, smartwatches and more – there's a ridiculous amount of stuff on offer here.
Of course, to avoid rummaging through eBay's entire catalogue yourself, we've selected a few highlights from the sale. Kicking things off, we've found the cheapest price currently available for the Nintendo Switch – now available for just £225.29.
Nintendo's latest hybrid console goes where no home console has gone before by letting you take the device with you. Long gone are the times of having to wait until you get home before you can play the latest release, now you can do it on the go thanks to the Nintendo Switch.
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At just £501.49, you're getting one of the fastest iPhones on the market – thanks to the superb A11 Bionic chipset – and a camera that can turn your Instagram posts into something special. At the price of a mid-range phone, there's no reason why you shouldn't jump at the chance to bag yourself an iPhone X.
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Q: PrimeFaces splitbutton removal My splitButton should not have any text on the button but I have menu items. I have to remove the button instead leaving blank except menu option.

A: Use Menu Button.If you dont have any text on the menu button, Its shows only down arrow icon for menu options.

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How vegan and sustainable leathers have got fashion in the bag
Saturday, 03 Apr 2021 07:38 AM MYT
With 'leathers' made using apples, mushrooms or pineapple, vegan alternatives to animal leather are big news in the world of bags and accessories. — Shutterstock pic vis ETX Studio
NEW YORK, April 3 — After Hermès and its mushroom-based "leather" bag, Genny is the latest brand branching out with animal-leather alternatives.
As commitment to making fashion more sustainable grows in the sector, the luxury label is poised to launch its first apple-leather handbag capsule.
After ready-to-wear and sneakers, bags and accessories are the latest leather goods to get their five a day.
From mushrooms and apples to pineapples, grapes, bananas and even corn waste, some of fashion's biggest luxury brands are doubling down on creativity — and innovation — to meet growing consumer demand to make tomorrow's it-bags ethical and sustainable.
The latest luxury label to make the move is Genny, which is outing its first apple-leather handbag April 22, in celebration of Earth Day, reports Women's Wear Daily (WWD).
Made in Italy, this vegan and sustainable bag is made with 'leather' derived from apple waste, and was initially unveiled as part of the brand's fall 2021 collection showcase at Milan Fashion Week.
The apple: A go-to alternative
This isn't the first time that apple-based leather has made inroads into fashion.
The Italian start-up Frumat has already worked with several brands to develop apparel and sneakers using the material, which promises to be revolutionary and relatively low cost, since it's made with apple waste from the food production industry.
Brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Caval have already been won over by apple leather which, while helping end animal cruelty and contributing to waste reduction, also appears to be a virtually inexhaustible source.
The French brand Ashoka Paris has made vegan bags and accessories its trademark. Early in 2020, the brand notably worked with a certain Pamela Anderson on a line of ethical handbags made using Apple Skin.
And while the apple quickly found favour in the fashion world, it is now being joined by a vegetable rival, the mushroom.
Although initially little known, mushroom-based materials are gradually making their way into major labels, thanks to their environmental qualities. In fact, one of the world's most coveted leather goods brands, Hermès, recently worked with the MycoWorks startup to develop a first bag made partly from mushrooms.
Proof that the sector is innovating and is thinking about a more ethical and responsible future.
Genny's first sustainable bag will retail for €250 (approx. RM1,217) exclusively online via the brand's e-shop, according to WWD. — ETX Studio
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Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by onik, Jun 9, 2008.
I have centos 4.6. with postfix version 2.5.2. I am trying to have sasl configured for plain text authentication repaying, but having trouble implementing it.
I want to use PAM for authentication of SMTP.
What's in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf (/usr/lib64/sasl2/smtpd.conf if it's a 64bit system)?


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Liverpool may just have made a transfer 'agreement' for Thiago Alcantara's long-term replacement
The World Cup has the ability to instantly elevate a player from relative obscurity into the hearts and minds of football fans everywhere.
As the competition enters its last week, any contribution made could result in the creation of an iconic image in the annals of the game.
Enzo Fernandez has been linked with a move to Liverpool (Getty Images)
However, Enzo Fernandez is one person who seized the chance and ran with it. Prior to the 2022 World Cup, he had only played a supporting role in three of his three Argentina appearances.
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The 21-year-old first served as a comparable substitute in Qatar, but in the second game, a 2-0 victory over Mexico, he scored a fantastic goal.
Fernandez started the following match, against Poland, provided an assist for Julian Alvarez's goal.
In time, it will become clear if the stories are true in any way. Given that Fernandez only joined Benfica from River Plate this summer and that his current contract expires after this season, it seems doubtful that a deal would be reached soon. Though he's undoubtedly a good player, we'll have to wait and watch how things go.
Fernandez moved to Europe at the beginning of 2022–2023, but his statistics indicate that he has already outgrown second-tier rivalries.
Spain, Italy, England, France, and Germany are regarded as the top five leagues. The "next eight" in FBRef are leagues like the Eredivisie, MLS, English Championship, and Primeira Liga of Portugal.
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Last month, Statsbomb tweeted that he "has made more line-breaking passes in open play (68) AND received the ball in space in Zone 14 more often (28) than any other player in the Primeira Liga this season."
Again making sense, Fernandez' defensive statistics stand out more in more difficult contests. Due to their dominance, Benfica's players haven't been as actively involved in preventing opponent attacks as they may have been after winning 12 and drawing one of their first 13 league games.
The fact that the Argentine is among the top 4% of midfielders in the Champions League for tackles per 90 minutes this season demonstrates his ability to win the ball back when necessary.
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And Fernandez might win the World Cup by the end of this week. A career that is already promising could soon soar to new heights.
In other news, Liverpool ready to make stunning move for Chelsea midfield star
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Q: Meaning of orientation/orientability over rings other than the integers This was asked as part of an earlier question. But since this part did not attract many answers, I am asking it separately.
We consider the homology definition of an orientation for a manifold, as you define fundamental class., ie as some generator of some homology modules, satisfying some compatibility conditions. See for instance the book of Greenberg and Harper. What does it mean to say that a manifold is orientable, over rings other than $\mathbb Z$?
It is nice when the base ring is $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$; every manifold is orientable here, and has a unique orientation. And thus you can do Poincare duality, etc.. But what on earth does it mean to have $4$ possible orientations for the circle or real line for instance, when you take the base ring for homology to be $\mathbb{Z}/5\mathbb{Z}$?
Maybe it is just a formalism; maybe we do not really have to bother about orientations except the ones given by $+1$ and $-1$ in a ring, and the rest are just matters of additional generators giving some extra vacuous information. But I keep wondering. I hope somebody can clarify.

A: Orientability over $\mathbb Z_n$ for $n \geq 3$ is equivalent to orientability over $\mathbb Z$. This is because when you consider the local coherence condition for an orientation, if two orientations aren't compatible the map is given by negation.  After all, this is what happens in $\mathbb Z$ coefficients, so use universal coefficients to deduce the same for $\mathbb Z_n$.
Having more than one orientation isn't such an exciting idea since they're all multiples of each other.

A: I just wanted to mention that while orientability for cohomology with arbitrary coefficients is governed solely by cohomology with coefficients in ℤ, there are other cohomology theories for which is is not true.  For example, if you have an action of $\pi_1(X)$ on an abelian group M, then you can talk about (co)homology with twisted coefficients in M.  For any vector bundle there is a coefficient module such that the bundle is orientable with respect to these twisted coefficients (or, to paraphrase Matthew Ando, "every bundle is orientable if you're twisted enough").
Also, one can ask whether a vector bundle is orientable with respect to topological K-theory, real or complex, or many other generalized cohomology theories, which capture interesting information about the manifold.
So while ℤ/m-coefficients may not be the most interesting coefficient systems to study orientability in, they're part of a larger systematic family of questions (and they don't take much extra work if you're already doing ℤ and ℤ/2-coefficients).
Finally, for something like real coefficients you might think of orientations that differ by a real scalar geometrically, e.g. according to some volume form.


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Q: Can I set a random state for the Complement Naive Bayes? I note I can set the random state in random forest classifier, but not in Complement Naive Bayes. I get error
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'random_state'

I assume this is because naive_bayes is computing the probability of each class?
from sklearn.naive_bayes import ComplementNB
model= ComplementNB(random_state=0)

A: That's because the model doesn't do anything needed to be randomly initialized or generated. see the source code for more details.
Be in case you want to reset the random seed in that line from your own side, you can do something like this.
import numpy as np
import random

def set_random_seed(seed=0):
  np.random.seed(seed)
  random.seed(seed)

Then you can reset the random seed right before calling your model
from sklearn.naive_bayes import ComplementNB

set_random_seed(0)
model= ComplementNB()

Read more about the mechanism of Complement Naive Bayes.


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Alright lovers, I thought for once I would do a look what I look like post today… I am currently off on sick leave hence why there are loads of posts at the moment and I will be off next week. So I did all my make up and bent down to get the top which I am about to show you and my back went into spasm….. so I am standing there in pain in just my trousers…….. literally lol wanting to cry. Finally sat down and here are the photos I took, yep you clearly wanted to know about me half naked in pain LOL. I am sorry for the quality of the photos, I am upgrading my phone in 2 months time!!
So this is me today and my ultimate favourite top, its a green minty pastel colour with a lovely floral design from the company called Papaya, it's a few years old now and for the love of me I cannot remember whether this brand is from Matalan, Peacocks and Primark, but I believe it is Matalan. I love the look and it is kinda a crop top it comes just past the waist which is great and is lovely and fitted. The back is plain mint with no floral design.
Again I am sorry for the rubbish lighting and photographs, I am a size 18-20 so hence why I am not your usual size 8-14…. currently the black bottoms that I am wearing are extremely baggy PJ bottoms from Primark and they are so comfy. As I am unable to leave the house at the moment they are perfect for me.
Here is my eye make up, this is a standard look for me………. mascara by Maybelline Colussal Cats Eyes, Look Liquid Eyeliner and the eyeshadow the natural palette by W7, finally the new MUA LUXE eyebrow pencil in mid brown which I love!
Haha I thought I would go for 3 different looks for the new lipstick that I have bought, the Matte Lipstick MUA – Red Siren. Its easy to apply, very creamy and finally a cheap lipstick that is actually MATTE!!!!! I love it, I do like still the shade of the Kate Moss 107 matt BUT this is a close contender now.
So there you go …….. what do you think?
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I love this top! You look great!!!! I love lacy tops. I recently bought a black one that can go under pretty much anything! I love the color of yours as well!!!
Aw thank you!! wearing a white one today that I'm gonna be putting up later. Love a Lacey top!!
I have finally posted about the Liebster award nomination!! Thanks again! It took me long enough. I found this place called Modcloth online they seem like they have awesome plus size clothes, but I am always hesitant to order anything without trying it on first.


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Michael Kenneth Williams' role cut from 'Star Wars' Han Solo movie amid reshoots
From Deadline:
Michael Kenneth Williams, an Emmy nominee for his supporting role in HBO's The Night Of, will not be in the new Star Wars stand-alone Han Solo movie after all. His part has been cut amid the reshoots now underway with new director Ron Howard. Williams said the revamped production schedule conflicted with his commitment to spy drama The Red Sea Diving Resort, his new movie now shooting in South Africa with Ben Kingsley and Chris Evans.