Welcome to 10 Habits for a Purely Fantastic Morning Routine. These habits are in no particular order whatsoever. That being said, I will focus on this habit first for several reasons.
1. It is the first thing I do in the morning.
Somewhere along this life journey, I decided browsing Facebook and Pinterest would be the best way to help me wake up. I actually end up lounging in bed an extra hour. Catching up on pins and posts and completely useless knowledge from "Buzzfeed." It takes away the golden minutes of my morning.
2. Nothing worth reading about typically shows up in the morning feed.
Facebook is full of posts about weird dreams, dramatic night fights, and how upset everyone feels about getting out of bed. Pinterest users have spent their insomnia hours pinning ambiguous quotes about relationships and late night food craving recipes without legitimate links. Nope, nothing good to see here people. Wait till 4pm. That's the best time to scroll.
And for that matter, I really don't think anyone really wants to hear about 1.6 mile run in the morning. Or see my fabulous pin about arranging picture frames. No, I think I will wait till I've done something more significant with my day before I post for my 15 seconds of attention.
BONUS! I still come up with a really great Facebook status every morning. You know, the one you can't get out of your head. But instead of posting it online, I text it to one of my sisters, or write it in a letter. Now I am reaching out and connecting on a personal level, which is great! Bam: building real social skills before 9am.
3. My immediate pursuit of social media is idolatry.
O Lord Pinterest, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch scroll.
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love Facebook status updates, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, [s]he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there [s]he prayed repinned 15 outfit ideas and 9 recipes.
I do not want to replace time with my Lord and Savior with the worship of people and things. I greatly value how Facebook helps to connect with students, friends, and co-laborers in God's Kingdom across the planet. But it does not exist to ease my waking in the morning. Or to curb my boredom. I value my Facebook FRIENDS more than that.
Pinterest is the same. I really appreciate how many helpful hints and creative ideas I've received (and used!) from this site. Pinterest has also been an effective agent to spread the word of God's work in my life through this blog. I am still in shock how many people repin from the "Bible Study Tips" series everyday. I hope it is helpful.
But I feel like Jesus has become just another pin among many gods. The things we put our attention to, spend time with, talk about… that is what we worship. The Bible is reduced to something I scroll through on my Youversion app after all other apps have been exhausted.
I will not give my precious morning hour(s) to social media. Or TV, Netflix or Youtube, for that matter. I will seek Jesus first, while He may be found. I will give Him the honor and attention He deserves.
Today is my first day. And it was difficult. I was annoyed at how many times I reached for my phone out of habit. Well a new habit is forming now, and it is clearing up my AM schedule for greater things!
Do you struggle with any specific distractions in the morning? What do you wish you were doing with that time?


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Q: How to solve Error 26: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified in production environment? I have a strange error in production environment BUT not in develop environment.
In my develop environment, with Visual studio 2010, i can connect without problem to Sql Server 2012.
When i copy my Windows Form app to others PC in the same network, i get an "Error 26:Error Locating Server/Instance Specified".
The same application worked good with an old database instance with Sql Server 2008.
I don't know what to check and where to start!
EDIT: Another strange behavior is that it works good if i use   a code like this
conn.Open()

dr = cmd.ExecuteReader()

But stop to work if i open a form with a datagridview, a dataset and a BindingSource !

A: this blog post has detailed information about error 26.
From the post:

In a word, the reason that we get this error message is the client
  stack could not receive SSRP response UDP packet from SQL Browser.
  It's easy to isolate the issue. Here are the steps:

*

*Make sure your server name is correct, e.g., no typo on the name.

*Make sure your instance name is correct and there is actually such an instance on your target machine. [Update: Some application converts \ to . If you are not sure about your application, please try both Server\Instance and Server\\Instance in your connection string]

*Make sure the server machine is reachable, e.g, DNS can be resolve correctly, you are able to ping the server (not always true).

*Make sure SQL Browser service is running on the server.

*If firewall is enabled on the server, you need to put sqlbrowser.exe and/or UDP port 1434 into exception.

  Once you are done the steps, you should not see this error message
  anymore. You may still fail to connect your SQL server, but error
  message should be different and you have a different issue now.
  [Update: If it still fails, you may replace server\instance with
  tcp:server\instance and/or np:server\instance and see if it succeeds
  with either TCP or NP protocol. That way, you can isolate the issue a
  little bit. ]

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Mahindra Racing has become the first Formula E team to achieve accreditation in the FIA Institute's Sustainability Programme.
The team has attained 'Progress Towards Excellence' status from its first audit within the programme's framework, which is aimed at helping motorsport stakeholders worldwide to measure and enhance their environmental performance. With a clear aim to become carbon neutral from 2018, Mahindra Racing is just the second motorsport team in the world to be accredited.
Auditors were said to have been impressed by Mahindra Racing's commitment to minimising its environmental impact through a strong environmental policy and specific improvement targets. The team has been encouraged to monitor and implement the current routines in an efficient manner to help attain the highest level of accreditation, Achievement of Excellence. Based on its recent assessment, auditors are confident the team could achieve this objective.


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Dragons Forever (Fei lung mang jeung) è un film del 1988 diretto da Sammo Hung e Corey Yuen. I protagonisti sono Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen, Deannie Yip e Nancy Lee. Il film è inedito in Italia.

Trama
Jackie Lung (Jackie Chan) è un ottimo onesto avvocato che cerca in tutti i modi di riuscire a condannare il boss della malavita di Hong Kong Hua Hsien-Wu (Yuen Wah), proprietario di una fabbrica chimica. Per proteggere la sua cliente Miss Yip (Deannie Yip) e sua sorella per cui ha una cotta, Lung ingaggia due suoi vecchi amici d'infanzia. Luke Wong (Sammo Hung) un contrabbandiere d'armi dal buon cuore che s'innamora di Miss Yip. Timoty Tung Tak (Yuen Biao) un tipo un po' svitato dalle eccellenti doti accrobatiche nel Kung Fu, sotto cura dallo spicologo. La signora Yip gestisce una ditta di pesca, ed è in causa con la compagnia chimica del boss Wu. Bellissimo lo showdown finale con oltre 25 minuti di pure arti marziali, tra tecnica e incredibili stunt, dove Jackie, Sammo e Biao affrontano gli sgherri di Mr. Wu. Tra gli scontri degni di nota, figurano Yuen Biao contro Billy Chow (campione di Tai Box) e Jackie contro Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, che si affrontano nuovamente dopo il loro primo combattimento nel cult "Wheels On Meals".

Produzione
La pellicola è l'ultima in cui compaiono insieme tutti e tre i "fratelli Dragoni".

Sammo nel suo periodo d'oro, fatto di grandi successi come Iron Fisted Monk (1977), Warriors Two (1978), Knockabout (1979), Encouters Of Spooky Kinds (1980), The Victim (1980), The Prodigal Son (1981), Carry On Pickpocket (1982), Winners e Sinners (1983), Owl VS Bombo (1984),  Wheels On Meals (1984), My Lucky Stars (1985), Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985), Heart Of Dragon (1985), Millioneire's Express (1986) e Eastern Condors (1987), realizza una nuova perla per coreografie e ritmi incalzanti nei combattimenti, dove sfrutta al meglio le doti acrobatiche dei suoi compari Jackie e Biao.

Colonna sonora
La colonna sonora "When We Touch" è cantata da Jackie Chan e dalla compianta Anita Mui. Ebbe grande successo e venne ascoltata da molte radio asiatiche per tutta la fine degli anni '80.

Riconoscimenti
 1989 - Hong Kong Film Awards
 Candidatura alle migliori coreografie d'azione

Collegamenti esterni

Film commedia d'azione
Film sentimentali
Film sulle arti marziali

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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Former President Bill Clinton's massive financial ties with Arab governments raise serious questions for his wife as she tries to clear Senate confirmation and become secretary of state.
The disclosure of Clinton's finances (wrung out of him by the Obama transition team) shows that the family, through its personal finances and those of Bill's nonprofits, has received tens of millions from the royal families in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Brunei and Abu Dhabi.
While these funds were nominally paid to Bill Clinton, they inure to the benefit of his wife, as well. Never have we had a secretary of state who has profited so handsomely from foreign governments.
Bill Clinton has refined the sale of access to an art form. Now there is a big potential for selling access to the secretary of state by retaining her husband to give speeches or by donating to his presidential library or foundation. In view of this danger, his wife must answer some crucial questions at her confirmation hearings.
Still more questions are raised by Bill's financial relationship with the emir of Dubai. Clinton got millions from his association with supermarket magnate Ron Burkle in an investment group called Yucaipa. Most of that money likely came from a partnership managing private investments of the emir, one of the world's wealthiest men.
During Hillary's presidential campaign, Bill claimed that he was moving to terminate his relationship with Burkle and the emir - but there have been no further reports of what eventuated. Since this involves personal income to the Clintons, it is imperative to know the status of those relationships.
1) Does your husband have any ongoing financial relationship with the emir of Dubai directly or indirectly through Yucaipa, Ron Burkle or any other entity? What is the nature of that relationship? Does your husband stand to get any further payout from the emir, Burkle or Yucaipa? If so, how much and for what services? And, if he sold his interest, how much was he paid?
2) During your campaign, you said you favored extending the US nuclear umbrella to the Gulf States and specifically Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Have you changed your position? Do your husband's extensive financial dealings with these nations influence your opinion on this matter?
3) Since Dubai refineries process a large portion of the gasoline consumed by Iran and the rest is imported through Dubai, will you ask Dubai to cut off deliveries to Iran to pressure that nation to abandon its nuclear ambitions? Does the fact that your husband earned millions managing the emir's investments make you hesitant to press Dubai to curb its dealings with Iran?
4) During a recent trip to Kazakhstan, your husband met with its dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was seeking to be named to head the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a body that is charged with overseeing the fairness of elections. Because his nation does not have free elections, the State Department opposed his bid. Your husband endorsed his candidacy.
Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, who hosted your husband's trip, later got a lucrative uranium-mining contract from Nazarbayev and, in turn, donated at least $10 million to your husband's library and foundation and to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative. How can you deal impartially with Nazarbayev, given this evident conflict of interest?
5) Such recipients of federal bailout aid as AIG, Lehman, Merrill Lynch, the Citi Foundation and General Motors have given large donations to your husband's library and foundation - and have also paid him hefty speaking fees. As a member of the administration, will you recuse yourself from deliberations relating to any future federal aid to companies that have donated to your husband's interests?
6) Will you agree to post on the Internet the source and amount of all payments each month to your husband and his nonprofits, including contributions from existing donors?
Even in the strange world of the Clintons, the funds that flow to one flow to both. And, of course, the largesse they've received from Dubai was simple, direct personal income to them both.
In view of these massive donations and payments, Sen. Clinton must be grilled on the conflicts of interest they create. We also need to hear how she plans to handle them and avoid them in the future.


Breakfast cookies are a thing that I have been obsessed with for the last two months. You might be thinking that I'm exaggerating but I'm not. I go to bed happy in the knowledge that there will be cookies for breakfast, and I wake up excited for cookies for breakfast.
Before the cookies came into my life, I was going thorough a phase where I was having cottage cheese with jam on toast. It's not a bad breakfast. But one day, I did a breakdown on the nutritional values, and I was disappointed at how nutritionally deficient my breakfast was.
In my search for a better breakfast, I came across a recipe for vegan breakfast cookies on Once a Month Meals website. Ever since, they have become a staple recipe.
Don't you want these for breakfast? I bet you do.


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The LMSD Executive Board would like to provide further updates and information pertaining to coaching staff changes for the upcoming 2016-2017 SAL & USA Swim seasons. In our constant efforts to provide continued improvement of the LMSD team and staff, there have been new additions and reorganizations to the current coaching staff. As we welcome back our family of coaches from last season, we have some changes and new additions to be announced.
For starters, we would like to welcome aboard a new face and our new head coach and team leader, Coach Karney McNear. We are extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to bring aboard someone with Coach McNear's long term experience and record of both remarkable personal successes as well as those of the swimmers he has trained. Coach McNear is currently traveling from Florida to Philadelphia, and a meet and greet is being scheduled this week to allow swimmers and parents to come talk to the new coach. Details will follow very soon in another news flash. Please see Coach McNear's Bio below for additional information.
Secondly, Coach Jeannie Herbert will remain as the Girl's SAL Team Head Coach and also take on some added responsibilities as LMSD Head Age Group Coach. We greatly appreciate Jeannie's graciousness and work ethic for stepping in to support LMSD in the midst of some changes and uncertainty during Coach Ryan's departure.
The LMSD Executive Board is still evaluating the addition of new Assistant Coaches to add to the depth of talent we currently have on the pool deck for the continued and greater benefit of all of our swimmers.
The LMSD Executive Board will continue to provide updates to the membership, as necessary, on all team news. Please feel free to contact your Board Representatives with any question you may have in regards to the team and the upcoming season.
Coach McNear's Bio:
With over twenty years of successful coaching experience, Coach McNear has helped swimmers of all levels and abilities to achieve their goals. He is a second generation swim coach, has helped to produce qualifiers of Junior Olympics, Sectionals, Junior Nationals, U.S. Open, Nationals, and numerous All-Americans. He was Aquatics director at the Calhoun Aquatic Center in Georgia as well as head coach of Northwest Georgia Aquatics. Prior to that he spent nine years as the Head Swim & Dive and Water Polo Coach of Nova High School in Broward County Florida, Coach McNear guided the aquatic's program to produce twelve All-Americans, fifteen National Scholar Team Awards, thirty State finalists, one Region Team Championship (1 Runner-Up), twelve Region champions, thirty-five District champions, four District Team Runner-ups, four County champions, one County Team Runner-up, and one County All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.
From 2006 to 2014, Coach McNear was the Owner, Director, and Head Coach of Titan Aquatics, a USA Swimming Team, US Masters Swimming Team, and American Red Cross "Learn to Swim" lesson program. With Titan Aquatics, Coach McNear had qualifiers and finalists of Junior World Championships, Sectionals, Zones, Senior Champs, and Junior Olympics. He also served as the Pool Manager of the Nova Aquatic Center in Davie, Florida from 2010 through 2014, where he oversaw all usage at the year round, competitive and instructional facility.
As a competitive swimmer, McNear was a six-time finalist at U.S. Nationals, where he captured two national titles, and was also a member of the Puerto Rico National Olympic Team. He attended West Virginia University on a four-year, full-athletic scholarship, where he was All-Conference five times, earned one conference title (three-time runner-up), and owned two university records. Additionally, McNear was a U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier, four-time high school All-American, four-time U.S. Open finalist, six-time U.S. Junior National finalist, three-time National Age Group Top 16 swimmer, six-time high school state finalist (two-time runner-up), and a former world champion and world record holder in masters swimming.
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Team Nigeria is not so successfully started at the current world forum. His first match, Nigerians deservedly lost to Croatia with a score of 0: 2 and were immediately credited as one of the main losers of the championship. The fact that this is not so, showed the second match wards Guernot Ror. And if you look at the statistics of the attack of Nigerians in the match with the Croats, then it is quite good. Nigeria dealt 14 blows, Croats - eleven. Europeans scored from the penalty spot, and the second - an own goal. In the match with Iceland, Rora wards competently played on the defensive and used their capabilities on counterattacks. As a result, the victory over the Icelanders 2-0 gave the Africans a chance to enter the next round.
Because of the injury, only Moses Simon will not play.
Team Argentina in their game in both first matches frankly disappointed. First, Jorge Sampaoli's wards did not keep the victory in the duel with Iceland - a draw 1: 1, and then were completely defeated by Croatia with a score of 0: 3. Note that the defense in these matches played not the best way, and the attack and did look dull. Messybyl is tightly closed, Aguero did not fit into team actions, abusing an individual game. Paulo Dibala and Higuain in the starting lineups in these games did not appear at all.
On the prospects of the team of Argentina in the group, our experts told us in a special blog.
Nigeria missed out in five of the last six fights.
In three of them for this period more goals.
Argentina scored more than two goals in three of the last six matches.
In the last four full-time matches of the opponents, four and more goals per game were scored.
Argentina in the last three matches scored Nigeria more than two goals.
Argentina needs in this fight only a victory, and preferably with a large score. Otherwise, one of the favorites of the entire World Cup 2018 will go home after the group stage. At the group stage of qualification, the Argentines managed to gather and in the final match to beat Ecuador 3: 1. Hat-trick from Messi. Last matches between rivals turned out to be quite effective. It is unlikely that the upcoming game will be an exception.
Our forecast for the match is the individual total of Argentina more than 1.5 for 1.64 in BC 1xStavka.
The Nigerian team unsuccessfully held the first fight with Croatia, losing to the opponent 0: 2, but more importantly - the Nigerians did not show high-quality football. Ogonekaro's own goal of Etobe was a reflection of the game of the Nigerian national team in the first half. In the second half of the meeting, the Croats doubled the advantage, leaving not much chance for the Nigerians to leave the group.
In the second duel with Iceland, Nigeria appeared in a completely different form - the team clearly understood how to act, competently defended and used its main trump card - speed. Thanks to the rapid breakthrough Ahmed Musa, Nigeria scored two goals, not conceding a single one.
On the eve of a duel with Argentina, Gernot Rohr gave an interview in which he frankly admitted that he did not know what to expect from today's Argentina. German specialist noted that the crisis of "albiselest" can both help his team win, and vice versa - give motivation.
Argentina at the current "mundiale" frankly disappointing. In the first duel with Iceland, the star attack "albiseleste" did not know what to do with the three lines of defense of the opponent. I managed to open it once, but the answer was very quick - Iceland realized its moment and created several more. In the second half, Lionel Messi did not realize a penalty, and the partners frankly screwed up several scoring chances. The match ended in a draw 1: 1, and Iceland's team liked many more.
Team Argentina still has a chance to compete for the playoffs. Team Sampaoli only needs victory in his mast and loss of points in Iceland in a duel with the Croats. The situation is not the most optimistic, but for such an "albiselest" should be grateful to the fate and Ahmed Musa, who scored his goals from Iceland. Nigeria also claims to withdraw from the group, but in its current state the team is hardly capable of delivering problems even to a crisis Argentina.
In our opinion, Argentina does not miss its chance today. Forecast for the duel - Asian odds (-1) for the national team of Argentina. In 1xStack such an outcome is proposed with a coefficient of 2.00.
Team Nigeria started the World Cup unsuccessfully, but lost, as it turned out, the strongest team of Group D - Croatia. The Nigerians lost with a score of 0: 2, conceding from the penalty spot and after an own goal.
However, already in the second round, Nigeria regained a good chance of reaching the playoffs, defeating Iceland 2-0. Nigerians worked well in counterplay, and Ahmed Musa designed a double - 2: 0.
Now everything in the hands of Nigeria - the victory of inspired "superorlov" over Argentina, which is in disassembled condition, will lead Africans into the playoffs. Draw will also leave good chances - Iceland needs not just to win, but also to score a lot in the gates of Croatia.
Argentina is a step away from the disgraceful departure from the World Cup. The unconvincing game and draw with Iceland (1: 1) and the frank failure in the match against Croatia (0: 3) put the Argentines in a situation where it does not depend on them anymore. Even a victory can not guarantee Argentina an exit in the playoffs, then everything will depend on the result of the parallel match. Well, a draw in the match against Nigeria will send the Argentines home.
Argentina is in a terrible state, and it's not just a bad game on the football field - the team is torn apart by internal conflicts. Now, "Albiseleste" must postpone all the showdown for later and get ready for the decisive match.
Personal motivation for the game will be and Leo Messi, who has not yet managed to excel in this World Cup. And if in the first match he did not realize a penalty, then in the second game he rarely met the ball and did not even have a chance to excel.
On the triumph of Nigeria in this match, bookmakers give a coefficient of 9.25. At the same time, the coefficient for a draw is 5.25, and Argentina's victory is 1.35.
Argentina from the first minute should rush to attack and try not just to win, but also to score in this match as much as possible. In this situation, Nigeria will have excellent chances for counterattacks in the course of the meeting. We can assume that, given the unconvincing defense game of the Argentine national team, at least one of its chances will be realized by the Nigerians, but they will not be able to keep their own gates dry either.
Also note that in the last four meetings of these teams against each other, at least four goals were scored, and it was possible to differ both teams.
We propose to put on the fact that both teams will score goals with a coefficient of 1.9.


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Q: No releases available for package I'm trying to install some pear packages such as gnupg in a Ubuntu OS in virtualbox, but if i use sudo pecl install gnupg, it throws
No releases available for package "pecl.php.net/gnupg"
install failed

It is not only happening for gnupg, but for all pear packages. But i couldn't identify what exactly the issue is. The same command is working in my another virtual machine. So i'm really confused. Please help.
Note:
PEAR Version: 1.9.4
PHP Version: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4
Zend Engine Version: 2.5.0
Running on: Linux udhay-dev 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64

This is what the pear configuration (using pear config-show) shows,
Configuration (channel pear.php.net):
=====================================
Auto-discover new Channels     auto_discover    1
Default Channel                default_channel  pear.php.net
HTTP Proxy Server Address      http_proxy       http://foo.bar/
PEAR server [DEPRECATED]       master_server    pear.php.net
Default Channel Mirror         preferred_mirror pear.php.net
Remote Configuration File      remote_config    <not set>
PEAR executables directory     bin_dir          /home/udhay-dev/pear/bin
PEAR documentation directory   doc_dir          /home/udhay-dev/pear/docs
PHP extension directory        ext_dir          /usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs
PEAR directory                 php_dir          /home/udhay-dev/pear/share/pear
PEAR Installer cache directory cache_dir        /tmp/pear/cache
PEAR configuration file        cfg_dir          /home/udhay-dev/pear/cfg
directory
PEAR data directory            data_dir         /home/udhay-dev/pear/data
PEAR Installer download        download_dir     /tmp/pear/install
directory
PHP CLI/CGI binary             php_bin          /usr/bin/php
php.ini location               php_ini          <not set>
--program-prefix passed to     php_prefix       <not set>
PHP's ./configure
--program-suffix passed to     php_suffix       <not set>
PHP's ./configure
PEAR Installer temp directory  temp_dir         /tmp/pear/install
PEAR test directory            test_dir         /home/udhay-dev/pear/tests
PEAR www files directory       www_dir          /home/udhay-dev/pear/www
Cache TimeToLive               cache_ttl        3600
Preferred Package State        preferred_state  stable
Unix file mask                 umask            2
Debug Log Level                verbose          1
PEAR password (for             password         <not set>
maintainers)
Signature Handling Program     sig_bin          /usr/bin/gpg
Signature Key Directory        sig_keydir       /etc/pear/pearkeys
Signature Key Id               sig_keyid        <not set>
Package Signature Type         sig_type         gpg
PEAR username (for             username         <not set>
maintainers)
User Configuration File        Filename         /home/udhay-dev/.pearrc
System Configuration File      Filename         /etc/pear/pear.conf

When i use pear clear-cache, it shows,
Directory /tmp/pear/cache not found.
For the commands pear update-channels and pear upgrade, i got,
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20121212/http.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20121212/http.so: undefined symbol: php_persistent_handle_abandon in Unknown on line 0
Updating channel "doc.php.net"
Channel "doc.php.net" is not responding over http://, failed with message: Connection to `foo.bar:8080' failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
Trying channel "doc.php.net" over https:// instead
Cannot retrieve channel.xml for channel "doc.php.net" (Connection to `foo.bar:8080' failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known)
Updating channel "pear.php.net"
Channel "pear.php.net" is not responding over http://, failed with message: Connection to `foo.bar:8080' failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
Trying channel "pear.php.net" over https:// instead
Cannot retrieve channel.xml for channel "pear.php.net" (Connection to `foo.bar:8080' failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known)
Updating channel "pecl.php.net"
Channel "pecl.php.net" is not responding over http://, failed with message: Connection to `foo.bar:8080' failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
Trying channel "pecl.php.net" over https:// instead
Cannot retrieve channel.xml for channel "pecl.php.net" (Connection to `foo.bar:8080' failed: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known)

A: I had this problem with pecl and oci8. Resolved by setting the proxy to get through our firewall:
sudo pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@proxy.domain:port

Perhaps this is your problem?

A: It seems that any connection problem can cause pear install to return "no releases available". Other pear commands like pear list-upgrades and pear update-channels return more useful errors.
When the OP ran pear update-channels they got "php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known" errors. So my guess would be that the OP had some kind of DNS configuration problem on their VM.
In our own case our Linux server was an AWS EC2 instance. When we ran pear list-upgrades we saw "Connection timed out" messages. So our problem was that our AWS security group was blocking outbound HTTP traffic.

A: Have you tried entering this before?
pear clear-cache
pear update-channels
pear upgrade

A: I had the same issue while installing ev and clear-cache did not work!
In my case, the problem was solved by reinstalling the php-pear.
So, I tried sudo apt remove php-pear and then sudo apt-get install php-pear

A: In my case I used pecl binary instead of pear binary and it helped to install package and get rid of No releases available... error.
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June 2, 2020 report
Research finds some AI advances are over-hyped
by Peter Grad , Tech Xplore
Is it possible some instances of artificial intelligence are not as intelligent as we thought?
Call it artificial artificial intelligence.
A team of computer graduate students reports that a closer examination of several dozen information retrieval algorithms hailed as milestones in artificial research were in fact nowhere near as revolutionary as claimed. In fact, AI used in those algorithms were often merely minor tweaks of previously established routines.
According to graduate student researcher Davis Blalock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after his team examined 81 approaches to developing neural networks commonly believed to be superior to earlier efforts, the team could not confirm that any improvement, in fact, was ever achieved.
"Fifty papers in," Blaclock said, "it became clear that it wasn't obvious what the state of the art even was."
Much credit for advances in artificial intelligence over the past decade lies with improvements in hardware such as graphics processors, computer processing units and cameras that allowed for exponential growth in complex search projects, facial recognition, photography, language translation and voice recognition as well as breakthroughs in ever-more fantastic visualizations of virtual reality games. Algorithmic improvements have certainly assisted as well.
But the MIT team says at least some improvements in AI algorithms have been illusory.
They found, for instance, that with minor tweaks on long-established AI algorithms, the old procedures worked essentially as well as the highly touted "new-and-improved" ones. In several instances, newer AI models were in fact found to be inferior to older approaches.
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An article in Science magazine assessing the study cites a meta-analysis of information retrieval algorithms used in search engines over a decade though 2019 and found "the high mark was actually set in 2009." Another study of neural network recommendation systems used by streaming services determined that six of the seven procedures used failed to improve upon the simpler algorithms devised years earlier.
Blalock points to inconsistencies in techniques used to compare algorithms, leaving the accuracy of claims that one approach is better than another open to question.
In fact, it is the inability to properly compare and assess competing approaches that is largely to blame for apparent lack of significant progress in some areas of AI over the past decade, according to one MIT computer scientist. John Guttag, Blalock's Ph.D. adviser, said, "It's the old saw, right? If you can't measure something, it's hard to make it better."
Zico Kolter, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, speculates that there is greater motivation and social reward to affix one's name to a new algorithm than to merely patch and tweak older, established methods.
He studied image-recognition models that were programmed to resist what are called adversarial attacks by hackers. Such an attack uses subtly altered code to bypass system security. An early approach called projected gradient descent (PGD) fended off such attacks by training an AI system to distinguish between authentic and fake examples of code. It was considered a sound approach, but was supposedly bypassed by newer and better protocols. However, Kolter's team of researchers found that a simple tweak on the older PGD approach made it virtually indistinguishable in effectiveness compared with the newer methods.
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Did 5 Black Men Found Hanging Dead From Trees Die by Suicide?
A meme surfaced amid international protests following the death of a Black man in police custody in Minneapolis.
Dan Evon
Updated 29 June 2020
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Investigators initially ruled that five Black men found hanging dead from trees in the days following George Floyd's death on May 25, 2020 died by suicide.
What's True
Three Black men were found dead hanging from trees in the in the days following George Floyd's death on May 25, 2020. In two of those cases, the initial manner of death was ruled as suicide. The manner of death in the third case is pending an investigation, but authorities suspect "no foul play."
What's False
A fourth male, who is Latino, was found dead hanging from a tree. This death was also ruled a suicide, and the family reportedly told authorities he was suicidal.
What's Undetermined
We were unable to find reports about a fifth incident similar to the other four cases. Social media posts likely mistook an older incident for something recent, such as the death of Titi Gulley in 2019, or mistook a recent gun death for a hanging, such as the death of Rayshard Brooks.
If you need help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. Or contact Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
Editor's Note: This article examines the time frame between George Floyd's death on May 25, 2020, and the date of publication on June 16, 2020. This article does not include similar incidents that occurred after publication. The original article continues below:
In June 2020, as protests against racial injustice and police violence continued across the U.S. in the aftermath of George Floyd's death while in police custody, a Black man named Robert Fuller was found dead hanging from a tree in California. While local authorities initially ruled Fuller's death a suicide, the family of the 24-year-old urged authorities to open an investigation into the case.
Though Fuller's death made national news, social media users claimed that several similar incidents (of investigators declaring such deaths as "suicides") had also occurred in the days since's Floyd's death on May 25:
These posts appear to be referring to the deaths of Robert Fuller, Malcolm Harsch, and Dominique Alexander, three Black men who were found hanging dead from trees in the spring in 2020. Fuller and Alexander's deaths were both initially ruled as suicides. Authorities have reserved stating the manner of death for Harsch, but they have said that they do not suspect foul play.
The fourth death mentioned in this post is likely referring to an unidentified man who was found hanging in the Shady Acres neighborhood of Houston, Texas. While social media posts initially identified this person as a Black man, authorities later identified him as Latino. Furthermore, the man's family reportedly told authorities that he had been suicidal.
We have been unable to find any reports about a fifth death that matches this rumor's description. It's likely that social media users mistook an older incident for a recent one, such as the death of Titi Gulley in 2019, or mistook a recent gun death for a hanging, such as the death of Rayshard Brooks.
Below are details about each case.
Robert Fuller, 24, Found Hanging From a Tree Near City Hall in Palmdale, California, on June 10
Fuller's death was initially ruled a suicide, but Fuller's family, the local community, and the city of Palmdale are demanding more investigation. The Guardian reported:
The FBI and the California attorney general's office will monitor the investigation into the hanging death of a Black man in the south of the state, in one of two cases that have resurfaced fears of lynchings during a time of racial tensions and mistrust of law enforcement in the country.
Robert Fuller, 24, was found hanging from a tree near Palmdale city hall in the early hours of 10 June. The county medical examiner labeled the preliminary cause of death as suicide pending a full autopsy. But the office deferred that decision after community members demanded a full investigation in a contentious news briefing late last week.
Malcolm Harsch, 38, Found Hanging From a Tree in Victorville, California, on May 31
As of this writing, an official manner of death for Harsch has not been announced, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said his death is still an open and active investigation. From the outset, however, authorities said they did not suspect foul play. The local news outlet Victor Valley News reported:
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said foul play is not suspected in the death of a Black man who was found hanging in a tree in Victorville.
On May 31, 2020, at about 7 am, the Victorville City Fire Department was dispatched to the Victorville City Library at 15011 Circle Drive where they discovered 38-year-old Malcolm Harsch deceased nearby.
The Sheriff's Department told VVNG that the death of Mr. Malcolm Harsch is still an active investigation.
Initially, Harsch's relatives said in a statement they were concerned that the death would be ruled a suicide and that they were alarmed by the manner in which Harsh was found:
"Our brother Malcolm Harsch died on May 31st. His cause of death has not been released to the family yet but we are concerned that his death will be labeled as a suicide, as this is what was communicated to us upon confirmation of his death on the morning of June 1st.
"Amidst the current racial tension and following the protesting the night prior to his body being discovered we were truly troubled to learn of his passing particularly of how his body was discovered. He is an African-American man whose body was found hanging from a tree!"
But surveillance video released to the family and shown to journalists by officials in mid-June appeared to confirm reports that Harsch hanged himself. Through a spokesperson, the family released a statement saying, "On behalf of the family of Malcolm Harsch unfortunately it seems he did take his own life."
On June 15, the FBI and the Department of Justice announced they were monitoring the investigations into the deaths of both Harsch and Malcolm Fuller.
Dominique Alexander, 27, Found Hanging From a Tree in NYC on June 9
The death of 27-year-old Dominique Alexander, who was was found dead hanging from a tree in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan on June 9, was ruled a suicide by the city's medical examiner. The New York Daily News reported:
The death of a man found hanged from a tree in a Manhattan park has been ruled a suicide, officials said Monday.
Dominique Alexander, 27, of Kingsbridge Terrace in the Bronx, died by hanging June 9, a spokesperson from the city's medical examiner confirmed.
On Monday, the victim's visibly shaken brother, Keats Alexander, told the Daily News, "We are just trying to grieve."
"He was definitely loved by his family and his community. It's just so much," the distraught brother said, before refusing further comment.
Unidentified Man Found Hanging From a Tree in the Shady Acres Neighborhood of Houston, Texas, on June 15
While social media postings about this death initially identified this person as a Black male, the Houston Police Department reported that he was Latino. Foul play is not suspected, and the man's family reportedly told authorities that the victim was suicidal. The Houston Chronicle reported:
Houston police said they believe a Latino man found hanged early Monday was a likely suicide.
After the man's body was discovered in the Shady Acres community, a Huffington Post freelance reporter mischaracterized the victim on Twitter as a black male and questioned official statements on the likely cause of death. The tweet was widely liked and shared.
Responding to press inquiries, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tweeted Monday evening that the victim was a "Hispanic/Caucasian male, and described by his family as suicidal." Acevedo wrote that there were no signs of foul play and that evidence pointed to suicide.
A Fifth Death?
We have been unable to uncover news reports about a purported fifth incident. Some social media users suggested that the fifth hanging occurred in Portland, Oregon, or Atlanta, Georgia, but it appears that someone mistook an older incident as recent, or included the death of a Black man who was fatally shot, but not hanged, in the spring of 2020.
Specifically, the fifth death is likely referring to Titi (or Tete) Gulley, a black transgender woman, who was found hanging from a tree in Rocky Butte Park in Portland, Oregon, in May 2019 (her death was ruled a suicide, but her family believes that she was murdered), or Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by police officers during an altercation at a Wendy's drive-thru in Atlanta on June 12, 2020.
It should also be noted that shortly after this article was published, the Harris County Sheriff's Office announced that a Black teenager was found dead hanging from a tree near a school in Texas. An official manner of death has not been announced but preliminary reports pointed to suicide.
Update [29 June 2020]: Updated with statement from Malcolm Harsch's family.
Update [17 June 2020]: Clarified claim to refer more specifically to hanging incidents that occurred in spring 2020.
Update [18 June 2020]: Updated to further clarify the time frame examined in this article.
Rayman, GrahGill, Julian. "Man Found Dead in Apparent Suicide Outside Store in Shady Acres, Police Say."
Houston Chronicle. 16 June 2020.
Rayman, Graham; Tracy, Thomas; Gomez, Raymond; Marcius, Chelsia Rose. "Death of Man Found Hanged From Tree in Manhattan Park Ruled a Suicide: Medical Examiner."
CNN. 16 June 2020.
Vera, Amir. "The FBI and Department of Justice Will Investigate the Hanging Deaths of Two Black Men in California."
Victor Valley News. "Sheriff's Department Says Foul Play Not Suspected After Black Man Found Hanging in Tree Near Victorville City Library."
Ho, Vivian. "Robert Fuller: Officials Vow Investigation Into California Hanging Death."
The Guardian. 15 June 2020.
Bynum, Russ and Ed White. "Deaths of Black Men in Georgia, California Prompt Protests."
Mercury News. 15 June 2020.
McBride, Jessica. "Malcolm Harsch: Death of Victorville, California, Man Hanging From Tree Raises Concerns."
Heavy. 15 June 2020.
Stenvick, Blair. "A Black, Queer, Homeless Portlander Was Found Hanging from a Tree. Police Say It's Suicide. Her Family Disagrees."
Portland Mercury. 10 June 2019.
Carissimo, Justin. "Who is Rayshard Brooks, 27-Year-Old Black Man Killed by Atlanta Police?"
CBS News. 16 June 2020.
Gross, Jenny. "Family of Black Man Found Hanging Says Death Was by Suicide."
The New York Times. 20 June 2020.


The Caffè Italiano pizzeria is a point of reference for many lovers of the Neapolitan pizza in Florence: since November 2017 the usual pizza chef Enzo, better known as Enzino, can no longer be found at the counter preparing the three (only three!) pizzas that have always been proposed in this establishment.
The basic offering (margherita, marinara, Napoli) is not varied but there is also the "new" pizza, indicated on the chalkboard on display, with more complex doughs and toppings.
The change is clearly evident for those who have known Enzino for years: the style is more modern, different from the typical neighborhood Neapolitan pizza that patrons were used to at the Caffè Italiano.


The Little Juniata River Association will hold its 14thAnnual River Bank Clean-up on Saturday, April 6th. LJRA members and volunteers will meet at the Spruce Creek United Methodist Church parking lot at 8:30 am where ladies from the church will serve drinks and treats from Tastykake. Each year, the LJRA leads more than 200 volunteers, including scouts, church groups and office groups, in a stream bank clean-up. There is also an upper river meeting point at the New Pig Corp. parking lot near Tipton for those who prefer to clean-up closer to Altoona. The clean-up will be followed by a lunch hosted by the Spruce Creek United Methodist Church around noon.
In all more than 20 miles of stream banks and roadside pull-offs from Bellwood to Barree are visited. Anyone who wishes to lead a group or participate as an individual, can contact Bill Anderson at 814 684 5922 or bjuniata@verizon.net, or simply show up in the church parking or the New Pig parking lot, at 8:30 am on April 6th. Bags, gloves and water will be furnished.
The March meeting of the LJRA will be held Thursday March 21st at 7PM. The meeting will be held at the Edgewater Inn. We will be discussing the clean up and progress on increasing access.


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Muslim Taxi Driver Kidnaps 15-Year-Old English Girl And Rapes Her Before Pimping Her Out To His Friends For 10 Years
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It sounds like a horror story, but it's becoming an every day occurrence in England today. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of English girls are being kidnapped, enslaved, and forced to perform the vilest sex acts for their Muslim handlers, and if they do not comply, they will be severely beaten up and even murdered. This young woman's ten year long ordeal began after she was raped, first orally, then vaginally, by Muslim taxi cab driver Assad Hussain while going home when she was 15. From the UK Daily Mail:
The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the detective how on the first occasion Assad, now aged 35 years, drove the teenager to a dark lane before parking up and climbing into the back seat with her.
The panel of seven men and five women heard that he asked her if she had ever performed 'jupa' or oral sex and she said 'yes.'
'I felt that if I said no that I would be pressured. I just went along with it. He's then given me a kiss and he's got in the front and driven to the gates.
'It was dark and about 10.30pm to 11pm at night' said the girl.
'There's no street lights. He's turned off the car lights. He's then got back into the back with me and started kissing me,'
The young woman then told the interviewers in detail how she performed a sex act before being raped in the back of his taxi.
She was not, she said, on birth control and Hussain allegedly was not wearing a condom.
She described the man as being short, fat and greasy and told the officer that Assad, also known as Ash, smelled bad.
The woman alleging she was routinely raped and sexually abused by a group of Asian men over a period of almost 10 years also told a detective in a police interview how members of the gang introduced her to Class A drugs.
In this story, Mr. Hussain and his friends took turns sexually abusing this girl for over ten years as their slave. This should be a cautionary tale to anybody with daughters. First, they are considered targets for Muslim men to sexually abuse freely. Second, and perhaps more importantly, these Muslims do this because they feel they can get away with it. Muslims are very weak, cowardly people, and like a true predator, they prey on the weak and vulnerable. The way to stop them, after removing them from an area, is to make sure they are punished swiftly and conclusively for their crimes.
Look at them, hiding their faces as they are going to court. They know exactly what they did and they do not care. These ones are going before the court, but far more of such violence happens daily that is not reported, and since the European governments are verypro-Muslim, they cannot be relied upon. Rather, the people need to take power into their hands just like how Europeans did for many centuries.
Ask yourself, if this was the daughter of a Sicilian mobster, what would happen to this Muslim or Muslims?
Courtesy of Freedom Outpost
Article reposted with permission from Shoebat.com.
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The Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, SA; abbreviated as STDM,  (,  English: "Tourism and Entertainment Company of Macau Limited") is a company in Macau owned by Stanley Ho and his family. Historically, it held a monopoly to Macau's gambling industry as the only licensee for casinos.  In 2002, the government of Macau began issuing more licenses and the monopoly was broken. Still, of the 41 operating casinos in Macau, 22 are owned by STDM, as of 2019. Macau is a location in James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.

History
The company was founded in 1962 by Stanley Ho and his then partners Teddy Yip (Stanley Ho's brother-in-law through his sister, Susie Ho), Yip Hon and Henry Fok. In that year, it was granted a monopoly on gambling in Macau, which had previously been held by Tai Hing Company since 1934.

In 1982, Ho and Yip had a major public falling out, as a result of which Yip disposed of his interest for a rumored HK$400 million. Cheng Yu-tung, founder of New World Development, stepped in to fill the breach.

Fok's attempt to sell his stake in 1986, for a reported HK$600 million, was resisted by Ho. Complaining about the company's strategy and dividend policy, Fok gifted the stake to the Henry Fok Ying Tung Foundation in 2002.

Since 2002, STDM was the subject of numerous lawsuits initiated either by Ho of by his sister, Winnie. Only after the final challenge was resolved in 2008 was it able to list its casinos subsidiary Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

In 2011, STDM shareholders are:
 Lanceford Company Limited: 31.6% (itself held 100% by Stanley Ho until the controversy of January 2011)
 Shun Tak Holdings: 11.5%
 Winnie Ho Yuen-ki: 7%
 Henry Fok Ying Tung Foundation: 27%
 Cheng Yu-tung 10%
 Others 12.9%

Business activities

Gambling
Ho owns eight casinos, including Casino Lisboa, Macau's most famous casino. The casino features 107 slots and 146 table games. The property has six restaurants and a hotel with 1,000 rooms.

As casino gambling is illegal in Hong Kong, it is welcomed by tourists. Benefiting from the individual traveling policy between Hong Kong and Macau, the business of Casino Lisboa has increased rapidly, especially in the Chinese New Year. Within that period, the average daily income is HK$100 million. It is predicted that Lisboa will be required to pay HK$800 Million ($103 Million USD) on betting duty.

In the 1960s, Ho owned nine casinos in the Philippines; however, Ho abandoned his Philippine business ventures due to conflict with the president.

Apart from casinos, football, horse race and dog race gambling are the other main income sources of Macau's gambling industry. Before football gambling betting rules were established in Hong Kong, football gambling in Macau was very popular among Hong Kong residents.

For many years, the gambling industry of Macau was solely owned by Ho's STDM.  At one time Ho controlled up to 70% market share of Macau's gambling business. This era of monopoly came to an end in 2000.

In February 2000, the government of Macau proposed to split Macau's gambling operation into three parts. The casinos in Macau were still under STDM, but those in Coloane (路環) and Taipa (氹仔) were opened for bidding. At last, in 2002, other casino operators were able to obtain licenses for casinos in Coloane and Taipa.   The arrival of the Sands Macau and other planned destination resorts, such as The Venetian Macao and the Wynn Macau and those along the Cotai Strip, a Las Vegas Strip-like development.

Aviation
A Hong Kong company owned by the family of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho invested up to a 30% stake in Air Macau's planned US$30 million low-cost airline in a press report.

Shun Tak Holdings has signed an agreement that the territory's flag carrier Air Macau and its parent China National Aviation Co will hold a majority stake in the airline, reported The Standard newspaper.

The carrier is expected to target the lucrative routes to China as well as the Asia Pacific region. Air Macau will transfer 22 routes to the venture and hold a 51 percent stake, and adding the budget airline will take over 11 Air Macau routes to China and 11 cities in the Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam.

STDM also have a business aviation arm, called Jet Asia, providing private jet services.

Holdings

The STDM holds numerous buildings in the peninsula of Macau, as well as the outlying islands and in Portugal. The more notable ones include:

Macau:
Grand Lisboa
Hotel Lisboa
Grand Lapa Macau
Canidrome
President Hotel
Macau International Airport, 31% interest
Macau Golf and Country Club
Hotel Golden Dragon
Greek Mythology Casino
Pousada de Sao Tiago
Hotel Fortuna
Lisboa Palace
Tiger Slots
Grand Emperor Hotel
Grandview (Taipa Island)
Casa Real Hotel (Taipa Island)
Jet Asia
Westin Resort Macau
New Yaohan Department Store
Seng Heng Bank Limited (now Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau))

Portugal:
Casino Lisboa
Casino Estoril
Casino da Póvoa
Hotel Sintra
Hotel Fortaleza do Guincho

See also
 List of companies of Macau

References

External links
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 "Ho's empire stretches from gambling to graves", The Standard, 1 February 2011

Gambling companies of Macau
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1962 establishments in Macau


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The churches and the mobs in the battle for human freedom
Submitted by AWL on 23 November, 2021 - 9:04 Author: James Connolly
This puncturing of the smug self-satisfaction of the Protestant Unionists in this article is valuable, not least in teaching socialists why we must fight religious bigotry in all its forms. The article is also an illustration of the limitations of the "but-what-about…" riposte in politics.
Connolly told the truth about the past of the Anglicans and the Scottish Presbyterians, but the horrors he recounts were by and large things of the past. Catholic clericalism was very much of the present... And the future. Some of the details were different, but Lecky's-Connolly's account of the Presbyterian clergy in Reformation Scotland is close to a description of the rule of the Catholic Church in the 26 Counties, then and for many decades to come.
Both the Six County and 26-County states were sectarian, though in different ways. In the Six Counties, the Catholics were a conquered people, physically repressed and systematically ill-treated and discriminated against. In the 26 Counties, Catholics — and non-Catholics — lived under a clerical domination akin to the domination of the Presbyterian clergy in Scotland, which Lecky-Connolly describe in this article. And it was the Catholic bishops who insisted on having their own denominational schools in the Six Counties, a central feature of Catholic-Protestant alienation from each other.
Sean Matgamna
A sudden outburst of strikes in the industries and districts under my supervision officially have rather disturbed my schedule of arrangements, and have seriously encroached upon my time for writing this week. Hence my notes this week will be short to compensate for their undue length on other occasions, and will consist for the most part of quotations — more or less apt.
The chief event in political circles in the North of Ireland since my last writing has been the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Belfast. This was looked forward to with much interest, as it was expected that a big effort would be made to get it to make some pronouncement upon the vexed question of Home Rule. So it did. It pronounced heavily against that proposal.
But it did not cover itself with glory in the act. The political tacticians who are manoeuvring this fight against Home Rule first introduced a proposal that the voting should be open and no ballot should take place, thus leaving the menace of the boycott, and worse, over the heads of those who stood up for freedom against the Orange wirepullers. This reactionary proposal was carried, and of course the rest was plain sailing. Those whose consciences would not allow them to vote against the legislative independence of their country, but were not prepared to sacrifice their living, left the Assembly quietly, and the politicians had it all their own way, but for the determined fight of a small body of high-principled ministers and laymen.
When these few attempted to speak in defence of their position, the Assembly indulged in a series of cat-calls, howls and interruptions such as would have disgraced the frequenters of a penny "gaff." Of course all this was in pursuance of the admonition "Be Christ-like in spirit."
Not being of the same religious persuasion as the Assembly, I may be out of court as a critic, but as a commentary upon the claim that religious persecution is the monopoly of the Church of the majority of the inhabitants of Ireland, and religious toleration the peculiar heritage of their opponents, perhaps I may be permitted to quote the verdict of history upon this point.
In his History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe, speaking of the influence of the Presbyterian clergy on the character of the Scottish people, Mr Lecky [1] says:
"There was one country, however, in which it attained an absolute ascendancy. There was one country in which the Puritan ministers succeeded in moulding alike the habits of the nation, and in disseminating their harsh and gloomy tenets through every section of society.
"While England was breaking loose from her most ancient superstitions, and advancing with gigantic strides along the paths of knowledge, Scotland still cowered with willing submission before her clergy. Never was a menial servitude more complete, and never was a tyranny maintained with more inexorable barbarity.
"Supported by public opinion, the Scottish ministers in overawing all opposition, in prohibiting the faintest expression of adverse opinions, in prying into and controlling the most private concerns of domestic life; in compelling everyone to conform absolutely to all the ecclesiastical regulations they enjoined; and in, at last, directing the whole scope and current of legislation. They maintained their ascendency over the popular mind by a system of religious terrorism, which we can now barely conceive, The misery of man, the anger of the Almighty, the fearful power and continual presence of Satan, the agonies of hell, were the constant subjects of their preaching.
"All the most ghastly forms of human suffering were accumulated as faint images of the doom of the immense majority of mankind. Countless miracles were represented as taking place as within the land, but they were almost of them miracles of terror. Disease, storm, famine, every awful calamity that fell upon mankind, or blasted the produce of soil, was attributed to the direct intervention of spirits; and Satan himself was represented as constantly appearing in a visible form upon the earth.
"Such teaching produced its natural effects. In a land where credulity was universal, in a land where the intellect was numbed and palsied by these awful contemplations, where almost every form of amusement was suppressed, and where the thoughts of men were concentrated with an undivided energy on theological conceptions, such teachings were necessarily the superstition of witchcraft.
"Witchcraft was but one form of the panic it produced; it was but the reflection by a diseased imagination of the popular theology. We according!y find that it assumed the most frightful proportions, and the darkest character, In other lands the superstition was at least mixed with much of imposture; in Scotland it appears to be entirely undiluted. It was produced by the teaching of the clergy, and it was everywhere fostered by their persecution. Eagerly, passionately, with a thirst for blood that knew no mercy, with a zeal that never tired, did they accomplish their task.
"Assembled in solemn Synod the College of Aberdeen, in 1603, enjoined every minister to take two of the elders of the parish to make 'a subtle and privy inquisition', and to question all the parishioners upon oath as to their knowledge of witches. Boxes were placed in the churches for the express purpose of receiving the accusations. When a woman had fallen under suspicion, the minister from the pulpit denounced her by name, exhorted his parishioners to give evidence against her, and prohibited anyone from sheltering her. In the same spirit he exerted the power which was given him by a parochial organisation, elaborated perhaps more skilfully than any other in Europe.
"Under these circumstances, the witch-cases seem to have fallen almost entirely into the hands of the clergy. They were the leading commissioners. Before them the confessions were taken. They were the acquiescing witnesses, or the directors of the tortures by which those confessions were elicited." And to complete the picture for the edification of the reader who believes that the clerical gentlemen who now so loudly about being the sole repositories in Ireland of traditions of freedom, perhaps this picture from the same source bearing on and attesting the slavish spirit fostered by Episcopalianism may also be of value:
"Created, in the first instance, by a Court intrigue, pervaded in all its parts by a spirit of the most intense Erastianism [2], and aspiring at the same time to a spiritual authority scarcely less absolute than that of the Church which it had superseded, Anglicanism was from the beginning at once the most servile and the most efficient agent of tyranny. Endeavouring by the assistance of temporal authority and by the display of wordly pomp to realise in England the same position as Catholicism had occup ied in Europe, she naturally flung herself on every occasion into the arms of the civil power. No other church so uniformly betrayed and trampled on the liberties of her country.
"In all those fiery trials through which English liberty has passed since the Reformation, she invariably cast her influence into the scale of tyranny, supported and eulogised every attempt to violate the Constitution, and wrote the fearful sentence of eternal condemnation upon the tombs of the martyrs of freedom. That no tyranny, however gross, that no violation however flagrant, can justify resistance; that all those principles concerning the rights of nations on which constitutional government is achieved are deadly sins, was her emphatic and continual teaching.
"' A rebel', she declared, 'is worse than the worst prince, and rebellion worse than the worst government of the worst prince hath hitherto been'. 'God placeth as well evil princes as good', and, therefore, 'for subjects to deserve through their sins to have an evil prince, and then to rebel against him, were double and treble evil by provoking God more to plague them!'
"St. Paul counselled passive obedience under Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, 'who were not only no Christians, but Pagans, and also either foolish rulers or cruel tyrants'; nay, the Jews owed it even to Nebuchadnezzar, when he had slain their king, nobles, parents, children, and kinsfolk, burned their country — yes Jerusalem itself, and the holy Temple — and had carried the residue into captivity.
"Even the Blessed Virgin, being of the royal blood of the ancient natural kings of Jewry, did not disdain to obey the commandment of a heathen and foreign prince'; much more, therefore, should we 'obey princes though strangers, wicked and wrongful, when God for our sins shall place such over us," unless; indeed, begin anything contrary to the Divine command; but even 'in that we may not in anywise withstand violently or rebel against rulers or make any insurrection, sedition, or tumults, either by force of arms or otherwise, against the anointed of the Lord, or any of His officers, but we must in each case patiently suffer all wrongs."
These extracts, coupled with the well-known hostility shown by the Catholic Church towards all forms of intellectual freedom outside of its own rule, should convince all but the most bigoted or unreflective that accusations of intolerance do not come well from the lips of any religious body. Still less can we accept without a very substantial grain of salt and a bucket of sea water the claim of any body of ecclesiastics to be champions of political freedom or social advancement.
As our best comment on such a claim, permit me to quote from my answer to the learned Dublin Jesuit, Father Kane. The following will by found on pages 37-38 of the pamphlet, Labour, Nationality and Religion, stocked by the Reformers' Bookstall, Glasgow:
"What is the political and social record of the mob in history as against the record of the other classes? There was a time, stretching for more than a thousand years, when the mob was without power or influence, when the entire power of the Governments of the world was concentrated in the hands of the kings, the nobles and the hierarchy.
"That was the blackest period in human history. It was the period during which human life was not regarded as being of as much value as the lives of hares and deers; it was the period when freedom of speech was unknown, when trial by jury was suppressed, when men and women were tortured to make them confess crimes before they were found guilty, when persons obnoxious to the ruling powers were arrested and kept in prison (often for a lifetime) without trial; and it was the period during which a vindictive legal code inflicted the death penalty for more than 150 offences — when a boy was hung for stealing an apple, a farmer for killing a hare on the roadside.
"It was during this undisturbed reign of the kings, the nobles, and the hierarchy that religious persecutions flourished, when Protestants killed Catholics, Catholics slaughtered Protestants, and both hunted Jews, when man 'made in God's image' murdered his fellow man for daring to worship God in a way different from that of the majority; it was then that Governments answered their critics by the torture, when racks and thumbscrews pulled apart the limbs of men and women, when political and religious opponents of the State had their naked feet and legs placed in tin boots of boiling oil, their heads crushed between the jaws of a vice, their bodies stretched across a wheel while their bones were broken by blows of an iron bar, water forced down, their throats until their stomachs distended and burst, and when little children toiled in mine and factory for 12, 14 and 16 hours per day.
"But at last, with the development of manufacturing, came the gathering together of the mob, and consequent knowledge of its numbers and power, and with the gathering-together also came the possibility of acquiring education. Then, the mob started upon its upward march to power — a power only to be realised in the Socialist Republic.
"In the course of that upward march the mob has transformed and humanised the world. It has abolished religious persecution and imposed toleration upon the bigots of all creeds; it has established the value of human life, softened the horrors of war as a preliminary to abolishing it, compelled trial by jury, abolished the death penalty for all offences save one, and in some countries abolished it for all; and to-day it is fighting to take the children from the factory and mine, and put them to school. This mob, 'the most blind and ruthless tyrant of all', with one sweep of its grimy, toil-worn hand swept the rack, the thumbscrew, the wheel, the boots of burning oil, the torturer's vice and the stake into the oblivion of history, and they who to-day would seek to view those arguments of kings, nobles, and ecclesiastics must seek them in the lumber room of the museum.
"In this civilising, humanising work the mob had at all times to meet and master the hatred and-opposition of kings and nobles; and there is not in history a record of any movement for abolishing torture, preventing war, establishing popular suffrage, or shortening the hours of labour led by the Hierarchy. Against all this achievement of the mob its enemies have but one instance of abuse of power — the French Reign of Terror — and they suppress the fact that this classic instance of mob fury lasted but eight months, whereas the cold-blooded cruelty of the ruling classes which provoked it had endured for a thousand years.
"All hail, then, to the Mob, the incarnation of Progress!"
• FromForward, 21 June 1913, and not previously reprinted. Original headline: "The Irish Presbyterians and Home Rule". Subheads here are ours.
[1] Lecky: William Edward Harpole Lecky (1839-1903) was an Irish Protestant historian and an MP. Initially a Home Ruler, he ended as a Liberal Unionist. He wrote a great History of Ireland, triggered in part by the knowing dishonesty of J A Froude, a disciple of Thomas Carlyle, who wrote a three-volume history of The English in Ireland.
[2] Erastianism: the belief that the state has and should have supreme power over the church in doctrine, and all other ecclesiastical matters.
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