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At Saint Cecilia, we're passionate about music.
Dedicated to the patroness of sacred music and neighbor to two world-renowned colleges of music, we are committed to the choral support of the Church at prayer. Under the direction of our Director of Music, our three parish choirs perform from a rich heritage of sacred music spanning fifteen centuries.
In Catholic worship, music is an integral part of the liturgical experience. Saint Cecilia has three liturgical choirs comprised of over 50+ singers and instrumentalists. Choral music from around the globe is incorporated into our weekly liturgies and often features young soloists from local colleges.
Liturgical Choirs
It lifts the senses and invites us to actively participate in the praise and worship of God, not only through singing but also through listening. Sacred music has the capacity to express both joy and lamentation; it asks for mercy and forgiveness; and it offers thanks and praise to the Creator. When we assemble as a community at the Sunday celebration, music is not merely conducive to prayer, but rather it is prayer.
Under the direction of Dr. Robert Duff, our three parish choirs perform from a rich treasury of sacred music spanning fifteen centuries. On any given Sunday you will hear music that reflects the diversity of our tradition—from Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony to choral music of the twenty-first century.
Saint Cecilia's choirs number 45+ singers, comprised of both volunteer and staff singers. Rehearsals are held weekly. For information on joining one of the Sunday morning choirs, please contact Robert Duff, Director of Music at rduff@stceciliaboston.org.
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Our Musicians
In addition to our Director of Music, Robert Duff, Saint Cecilia is privileged to have five talented and skilled musicians who regularly enhance the music at our liturgies.
Get to know our musicians
Our pip organs have a rich and detailed history. Click below to learn more!
Saint Cecilia Parish was established in 1888. In 1902 the Hutchings-Votey Organ Company of Boston installed a three-manual organ in Saint Cecilia Church, opus 1465. The instrument of twenty-four speaking stops had electric action and stood in the very center of the rear gallery in one case. The organ builders were George S. Hutchings (1835-1913), who started a business in 1869, and Edwin Scott Votey (1856-1931), a pioneer in the perfection of the player piano, who was Hutchings' partner from 1901 to 1907. In 1902, the factory was on 23-37 Irvington Street in Boston (and in 1905-1908 at Albany Street in Cambridge near Massachusetts Avenue, before moving to Waltham, MA.)
Saint Cecilia Church was first renovated in 1954. Part of the project included installation of the Assumption window in the rear gallery, right behind the Hutchings organ. In order to accommodate the window, and to overcome growing mechanical difficulties with the organ, Rostron Kershaw of Lowell was hired to construct a new three manual organ. Roy Carlson of Magnolia, Massachusetts developed the tonal design for the new thirty-two stop instrument. About half of the organ's pipework was recycled from the Hutchings but redistributed to conform to the new scheme. By 1995 the Kershaw organ's mechanical reliability was in question. The Kershaw installation left various components inaccessible for maintenance. Also, the tonal design had proved to limit the organist's flexibility in playing a smooth service or in faithfully rendering various styles of organ literature. In addition, the organ's pitch was A=427, not the standard A=440 set in the 1920s for orchestral instruments.
Work began in January of 1998. All pipes were removed, cleaned, cut to pitch, and put back on speech. Most of the organ's 2,300 pipes were found to be unmusical in tone. Theodore Gilbert, an organ builder from Wilbraham, Massachusetts with fifty years of organ building experience as a voicer and finisher for the Austin, Casavant, and Aeolian-Skinner Organ Companies, gave a heart and soul to the new organ. He was brought into the project to reconstruct and re-scale these pipes. This painstaking process was done with the unified whole in mind, to produce a new organ of variety, color, and expressive quality. A. R. Schopp's Sons of Alliance, Ohio, restored the reed stops, completing sets that had been changed by Carlson in 1954. The Kershaw console was replaced with a four-manual Austin console from Cleveland, Ohio, solidly reliable and complete with ivory keys. Every effort was made to improve the organ's layout for maximum tonal effects and ease of maintenance.
Allan Taylor of Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, completely rewired the entire organ, designing a new solid-state switching relay to control the organ's electrical connections. New DC servo motors were installed for the expression shades. Andrew Smith of Cornish, NH rebuilt off-set windchests and created racking for the restored reed stops. Jonathan Moretz of Boston Building Doctors supervised the reconstruction of the expression chambers and the new decking above each chamber to Timothy E. Smith's specifications. Southfield Organ Builders of Springfield, Massachusetts, constructed a new unit windchest. The site work, requiring hundreds of hours of cleaning, rebuilding, relocating, and on-site fabricating, was completed by a team including Gabriel Cantor, Gregory Dixon, Christian Grove, Gregory Hyde, Peter Hyde, Benjamin Little, Adam Mittleman, Nathan Schreiber, Gregory Serapiglia, Helen and Carlyle Smith, David Steakley, and Eric Weisman. Most are residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, and a neighborhood in that town is call Nobscot. Without their effort, the project could not have succeeded.
On Sunday, November 21, 1999 the gallery organ was blessed during the parish liturgy by Msgr. Michael F. Groden, Pastor of St. Cecilia Parish. It was dedicated in concert by organist Richard J. Clark on November 22, 1999, the Feast of Saint Cecilia.
Soon to follow was the installation of an antiphonal division of seven ranks, located near the front of the church, beneath the Saint Cecilia Window. Built in the 1960s by Robert Noehren, it was removed from St. Ignatius Episcopal Church in Antioch, Illinois. Reconstruction began in July 2000 by Adam Mittleman and Timothy Smith. Its inaugural liturgy was on the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, 2000. Soon after, Smith and Gilbert began reshaping its tonal design to tailor the organ to Saint Cecilia Parish's very specific liturgical needs. Furthermore, part of this retailoring included extensive wiring by Allen Taylor making the organ playable from both its own two-manual consoles, and from the four-manual consoles in the gallery. An 1850 W. B. D. Simmons case was refurbished by Andrew Smith of Cornish, New Hampshire and was installed in October of 2001. The completed Antiphonal Organ was dedicated in concert by organists Timothy E. Smith and Richard J. Clark on November 18, 2001.
In 2012 the four-manual Austin console was replaced by the Aeolian-Skinner console from the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Georgia. Modified to the specifications of the Saint Cecilia Organs, it features 64 levels of memory making it a far more versatile instrument than ever before in its history.
The most recent additions to the organ include two significant ranks: a 32' Contra Bourdon and a 32' Contra Bombarde bringing this formidable instrument to fifty-two ranks and 2,950 pipes.
In June of 2014, the Saint Cecilia pipe organs were featured for several events at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.
The Great Organ
The Great Organ Stop List
Smith & Gilbert • Nobscot 1999
Saint Cecilia R. C. Church, Boston
IV/54 • 3,084 pipes
(w=wood pipes; m=metal pipes *preparation)
Great: 61 notes
Bourdon 16' 12 w
Open Diapason 8' 61 m
Melodia 8' 53 w
Bourdon 8' 61 w&m
Violone 8′ 61 m (solo)
Octave 4' 61 m
Bourdon 4' 12 m
Twelfth 2 2/3' 61 m
Fifteenth 2' 61 m
Mixture IV 1 1/3' 244 m
Trumpet 16′ 12 m
Trumpet 8' 61 m
Clarion 4' 12 m
Swell: 61 notes, enclosed
Spitzflute 16' 12 m
Geigen 8' 61 m
Gedackt 8' 61 w&m
Gamba 8' 61 m
Gamba Celeste 8' 61 m
Spitzflute 8' 61 m
Principal 4' 61 m
Flute Traverse 4' 61 w&m
Flageolet 2' 61 m
Plein Jeu III 2' 183 m
Bassoon 16' 61 m
Cornopean 8' 61 m
Oboe 8' 61 m
Clarion 4' (61 m)
Vox Humana 8' 61 m
Solo: 61 notes
Violone 16′ 61 m
Bourdon 8' (Great)
Spitzflute 8' (Swell)
Viola 8' (Choir)
Tuba 8' 61m (11 in.)
Antiphonal: 61 notes
Bourdon 8' 61 w & m
Gemshorn 8' 61m
Vox Angelica II 8' 108 m
Rohrflute 8' 61 m
Choir: 61 notes, enclosed
Viola 8' 61 m
Chimney Flute 8' 61 w&m
Dulciana 8' 61 m
Unda Maris 8' 55 m
Viola 4' 12m
Flute 4' 61 m
Nasard 2 2/3' 61 m
Harmonic Piccolo 2' 61 m
Tierce 1 3/5' 61 m
Mixture III 1' *(147 m)
Trumpet 8' (Great)
Clarinet 8' 61 m
Schalmey 8' 61 m
Pedal: 32 notes
Contra Bourdon 32' 12 w
Open Wood 16' 32 w
Subbass 16' 32 w
Bourdon 16' Great
Spitzflute 16' Swell
Flute 8' 12 w
Spitzflute 8' Swell
Violone 8′ (Solo)
Cornet IV 32' 64 m
Bombarde 32' 12 m
Trombone 16' 32 w
Bassoon 16' (Swell)
Clarion 4' (Great)
Untersatz (Antiphonal) 16' 24 m
Gallery Console: 4 Manuals
64 levels/ 12 general pistons
8 divisional manual pistons
6 divisional pedal pistons
divisional cancels
manual to pedal reversibles
balanced Swell, Choir & Antiphonal pedals
Crescendo pedal / Full organ reversible
Full inter- and intra – manual couplers
(separate Antiphonal Console: 2 Manuals)
Antiphonal Console: 2 Manuals
The Antiphonal Organ
The Antiphonal Organ of seven ranks was installed in 2001. It is located near the front of the church, underneath the Saint Cecilia window. The instrument has been revoiced by Theodore Gilbert and retailored by Timothy E. Smith to meet St. Cecilia Parish's liturgical needs. Extensive wiring by Allen Taylor makes the organ both playable from its own 2 manual console, and from the 4 manual console in the gallery. The case was built in 1850 by W. B. D. Simmons and was refurbished by Andrew Smith.
Smith & Gilbert | Nobscot 2001
The Antiphonal Organ as played from its own console:
Manual I
Principal 8′ 61 m
Bourdon 8′ 58 w&m
Gemshorn 8′ 49 m
Vox Angelica 8′ 108 m
Octave 4′ 12 m (ext)
Rohrflute 4′ 61 m
Fifteenth 2′ 12 m (ext)
Manual II
Rohrflute 8′
Gemshorn 8′
Vox Angelica II 8′
Gemshorn 4′ 12 m (ext)
Bourdon 4′
Fifteenth 2′
Pedal:
Untersatz 16′ (24 capped metal)
Octave 4′
Flute 4′
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Parish Accessibility
The church is fully accessible by elevator at both the street level entrance on Belvidere Street (at the front of the building), and at the entrance on the corner of St. Cecilia Street and Scotia Street (the left side of the building).


My lovely partner for the BSBP sent me lovelies! I am thrilled that we were able to connect so quickly, and am so glad to have met Bobbie of Beadsong. She's a wonderful person, and we're having fun getting to know one another. We seem to have lots in common!
The beautiful lampworked flower focal bead is by Elizabeth Girod, and look at all the beads Bobbie included in my soup!! I love the clasp she made especially for my piece, too - so jealous, as I can't work with wire no matter what I do. I'm lucky if I can make a wrapped loop without hurting myself, lol. I wanted to get a photo of allllll the beads together, but the amethyst, onyx, agate and red onyx would NOT sit still on my white background and I had to resort to the bead mat.
I think it will be a challenge for me to work with these colors, and that's always a good thing - streeeeeeeetch!!!
My apologies for the short post today, but I'm swamped and have to run. Cheers!!
Loooong time no post... sorry! There has been a lot going on in life right now, and so I have neglected a lot of things, including my blog. Some bad things and some really great things, both.
Of the lovely, beady, NEDbeads type things, there are a few!! Marcia DeCoster's new book, Beads In Motion, is coming out very soon and I am very excited, as Marcia decided to include one of my pieces in her gallery. Check it out HERE to see some examples of the lovelies she is going to share with us!! I can't wait to make some of these designs, they all look scrumptious!!
I am also participating, for the first time, in the wonderful Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party, and am very excited about that as well. If you aren't familiar with the party, check out Lori's blog and see, it's fabulous!!!
My partner is the talented Bobbie Rafferty of Beadsong Jewelry!! I am absolutely thrilled, and having gone through and read Bobbie's blog, I am LOVING her work. Look at some of this beauty!!
The earrings are amazing, the necklace is sublime and I am particularly in love with this gorgeous freeform peyote bracelet. I have been hooked on freeform myself lately, and just can't seem to stop.
I made up Bobbie's soup and sent it out this morning - actually, I sent two because I wanted to make sure that she had something to choose from. I can't wait to see what she thinks, and if she likes what I chose! (Fingers and toes crossed!!!) I would love to post a teaser pic, but I honestly don't know how to 'disguise' a photo, so I had best wait, lol. Our reveal date is 4/6/13 as we are part of the second group.
I am also taking part in a wonderful blog hop called Choose Your Own Adventure (seriously, how could I resist with a title/theme like that???), hosted by Mandi Ainsworth (of the Bead Circle) and Karen Williams (of Skunk Hill Studio), where the participants are to make a freeform piece.
Mandi does amazing podcasts and has a fabulous site - make sure to click on her link and check it out. She recently did a podcast with Karen, and introduced the challenge there, and Karen introduced it on her website as well. If you'd like to know more about the hop, check that out here on Karen's blog. Karen does amazing freeform work and is the author of several beading books, too! I have been working on this for awhile now, and am actually making a mini series of pieces of freeform. It's been a wonderful exercise so far and I can't wait for the reveal date, February 23rd. They have also started a new community page on Facebook called Freeform Peyote Beading, where there is a LOT of eye candy to be found, and some really great tips on freeform beading.
A friend of mine has also asked if I will participate in an embroidered art doll round robin with a few of her close friends. This is a very new sort of thing for me, as I have never beaded on a form before, only on flat embroidery backing. I am looking forward to it a lot, although maybe a little worried too, as I think it must be very different from my normal embroidery. I've chosen to do a bird form for mine, made by Renetha Stanziano (I can't sew - NO I can't!). In order to practice a little beforehand, I am also going to try embroidering a starfish form, which is being made for me by my fabulous friend Julie Cowan .
So... beadiness = busy-ness = calm. I need calm right now. And courage was definitely the word for the year as I deal with the bad things.


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4,225 people rescued in flood-hit Kodagu amid rains (Lead)
IANS Sunday, 19 August 2018 10:00:12 PM
Kodagu (Karnataka) : A total of 4,225 marooned people have been rescued so far in Karnataka's flood-hit Kodagu district even as incessant rains continued to hamper relief work, said an official on Sunday.
"Though the intensity of rainfall has reduced, the rainfall remained unabated. As of 3 p.m., 4,225 people in Kodagu district have been rescued and brought to safety through joint operations by state and central agencies," a statement from the state disaster management authority said.
Of the rescued, 3,601 are staying in 36 relief shelters in the district.
The unabated rains, leading to flooding and landslips, have claimed eight lives so far in the region, the statement added.
The authorities, however, did not reveal the number of people stranded across the hilly district as communication lines were snapped due to landslides and damage to networks.
Several hundreds are suspected to be stranded in the district's towns and villages on hilltops, which have been cut off due to landslides and damaged roads.
Located in the Western Ghats mountain ranges, this coffee-growing district, about 270 km from Bengaluru, is the worst-hit due to the south-west monsoon rains since June first week.
About 123 km of roads are estimated to be damaged due to the rains, while more than 800 homes have been destroyed. Most of the district's arterial roads have been damaged due to landslides, delaying the rescue operations, officials said.
The heavy rains in coastal district of Dakshina Kannada have claimed one life, forcing nearly 800 people to live in temporary shelters, the statement added.
Over 60 people have been stranded in Mukkodlu village of Kodagu district, but airlifting them has not been possible due to the bad weather, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy had earlier said.
About 50 Dogra Regiment soldiers, 12 expert naval divers, 62 officials from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), 750 fire services officials and Home guards with boats and hundreds of volunteers have been carrying out relief work in the district.
In all, 1,194 specialised rescuers from state and central agencies are on job.
"Bread and other dry eatables and rations have been airdropped in the inaccessible villages of the district," the statement said.
The Chief Minister on Sunday toured across the district and visited relief camps and affected villages in the district.
Revenue Minister R.V. Deshpande, Public Works Department (PWD) Minister H.D. Revanna and district in-charge minister Sa Ra Mahesh visited the villages and towns severely affected by the flood.
About 300 people were rescued on Saturday, including 30 senior citizens and 50 children.
Hundreds of volunteers from state capital Bengaluru and across the state have been gathering relief material, including dry food, water, milk, clothing, medicines, etc., which are being sent to those in the temporary shelters.
Over the last 24 hours, the district received an average rainfall of 5.4 cm, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Few parts of the district received rain upto 11.5 cm.
The rainfall, however was "moderate" from the earlier "very heavy" rains the district received till Friday, the IMD said.
The water being released from Harangi reservoir in the district across Harangi river, one of Cauvery's tributaries, has been adding to the flooding of towns and villages in the region.
The state-run Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) on Sunday resumed all its intra-state bus services towards Kodagu and Mangaluru and inter-state services towards Kerala.
The bus services were suspended in the past few days to Kodagu, Mangaluru and flood-hit Kerala due to the landslips and damaged roads caused by the rains.
The South Western Railway's (SWR) train services were, however, cancelled or partially suspended and diverted between Yesvantpur in Bengaluru and Kochuveli in Thiruvananthapuram, Mangaluru to Karwar in Uttara Kannada due to landslides and floods.
The SWR on Sunday transported relief material including water, food, milk and clothing for thousands of people living in shelters in neighbouring Kerala via train from Bengaluru.
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Published : Sunday, August 19, 2018 22:00 [IST]
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US stocks rebound as global markets rally
All three major American indices close up more than 2%
Thu, Aug 27, 2015, 21:10 Updated: Thu, Aug 27, 2015, 21:37
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange: the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 284.57 points on Thursday. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Stock markets around the world rallied on Thursday, shaking off a slump related to China growth fears, as strong US economic data boosted investor sentiment and crude oil rebounded sharply.
All three major US indices closed up more than 2 per cent, putting them higher for the week, following share rebounds in China and Europe.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 369.26 points, or 2.27 per cent, to 16,654.77, the S&P 500 gained 47.15 points, or 2.43 per cent, to 1,987.66 and the Nasdaq Composite added 115.17 points, or 2.45 per cent, to 4,812.71.
Dovish words from a Fed official and improving economic data bolstered sentiment that had turned bearish after a global rout triggered by China's currency devaluation hit American shores.
"We got our pullback, and now we're going to focus on US things like GDP and the Fed," said John Canally, chief economic strategist at LPL Financial in Boston. "When you're in a correction, it's not fun, but when you're out, you can refocus on what matters."
Strong US growth figures were a boost for the markets as GDP growth was revised to 3.7 per cent from the 2.3 per cent rate reported last month and last week's jobless claims fell more than expected.
The likelihood of the Federal Reserve delaying an anticipated rate raise also helped spur the recovery across world markets. New York Federal Reserve president William Dudley said arguments for a September rate increase "seems less compelling" than only weeks ago, given the threat posed to the US economy by recent market turmoil.
In Europe the FTSEuroFirst index of leading European companies closed up 3.6 per cent. Germany's DAX, France's CAC 40 and Britain's FTSE 100 also climbed more than 3 per cent.
The two main Chinese indices surged 5.3 per cent and 5.9 per cent on Thursday, snapping a five-day losing streak that wiped around 20 per cent in market value and sent tremors around global markets.
All eyes are now turning to the annual meeting of the world's top central bankers which started on Thursday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for clues on how the turmoil may shake up policy plans.
Jackson Hole has been used to signal US policy in the past, but most investors think it unlikely this time because Fed chair Janet Yellen isn't there. The potentially most interesting comments may come from Fed vice-chair Stanley Fischer in a speech on Saturday.
If market turbulence continues, it's likely traders will start thinking there is an increased possibility that Mr Fischer could use his address to deliver some form of market-salving comments.
An allusion to why the Fed may be minded to hold for a bit longer given uncertainty over China's economy would probably do the trick.The revised US growth figures show the country began the second half of the year on a much stronger footing than first estimated.
Economic expansion quickened to a 3.7 per cent annualised pace in the second quarter of the year, according to a second estimate released by the Commerce Department.
That is higher than an initial estimate of 2.3 per cent and better than the 3.2 per cent forecast by economists. – (Financial Times/Reuters/ Bloomberg)
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Riverwoods, Illinois Feel free to join the Normennenes Singing Society. We rehearse year-round except summer (late-May through mid-August). See our Contact page for more information.
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Second Title Change Occurs At NXT Takeover: San Antonio
Carlos Toro
The King of Strong Style's second reign as NXT Champion has met its glorious end.
On a night that already saw new tag team champions being crowned, Bobby Roode is now at the top of the NXT mountain. Less than one year after Roode joined NXT, he defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the NXT Championship in the main event of NXT TakeOver: San Antonio.
Below is the ending from our live viewing party:
Shinsuke hits a knee to Roode off the top rope when Roode escapes to the apron then they get back into the ring where Shinsuke hits the Kinshasa, but falls to the mat holding his knee. Roode is finally up then the medical staff come out to check on Shinsuke. Once they get back into the ring Roode hits the Glorious DDT for a very close near fall that shocks everyone in the crowd. Roode puts Shinsuke in a half Boston Crab, but he powers out then Roode hits another Glorious DDT for the pin and the win.
Winner: Bobby Roode via pinfall
Roode became the second person to have held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and the NXT Championship. Samoa Joe was the first one and both men defeated Nakamura to do so.
It has been a rapid rise to the main event since Roode made his NXT in-ring debut last August at Takeover in Brooklyn. He had been appearing on NXT television throughout the year, being recognized in the crowd at NXT Takeover: Dallas during WrestleMania 32 weekend. His current theme song "Glorious" had also assisted in Roode becoming an extremely popular member of the NXT roster.
Roode's wrestling career is full of accolades, including being a two-time TNA champion, six-time TNA tag champion and a reign as TNA King of the Mountain champion.
For Nakamura, his second reign as champion only lasted 56 days, 25 days shorter than his first reign as champion.


OK, what's up with The Christian Science Monitor? I'm a reader and always enjoy reader recommendations/reviews and TCSM has always been one of my "go to" sources to check out what others are saying about books I'm interested in. The last few times I've visited their reader recommendation page, a survey has to be completed before the review can be seen. I can't find a "no thanks" or an "ask me later" button so it really pisses me off and makes me feel like I've been taken hostage by whoever is doing the surveying. Yeah, I know, it just takes a minute and yeah, I know that "they value my opinion" and "want to serve me more effectively", but it's the principle of the thing. I hate it and won't visit their site again. Can you tell that I'm a little irritated and that my desire for instant gratification is showing? Maybe just a little?
The 9 to 5 socks are ripping right along, with the heel flap finished, heel turn accomplished and gusset stitches picked up.
Babydiva had some medical tests run today, nothing major really, although when it's your kid, everything is major, a swallow study and an upper GI series. She has had some issues with reflux and her doc wanted to get look at what's happening with her when she eats. I don't have the details, but early texts from Babymama said everything was fine. Big relieved sigh. Here she is at the birthday celebration Saturday.


Paul & Marsha turn and wave from the escalator as we ascended to the Christ the Redeemer statue above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wonderful to be standing at the foot of Christ in this iconic place.
Colorful Rio was still celebrating the Carnaval that ended the night before we arrived. And Soccer World Cup from 2014 was still on their minds.
Marmoset monkeys peeked out of the trees on Sugar Loaf Mountain. Linda, Mike, Marsha & Dwayne were fun travel companions for the entire cruise.
People glide down from the cliff top mountains above São Conrado beach, to targets near the bike path. Sand castle art is very popular and several large sculptures were on display as we passed the beaches.
The overly ornate Baroque church inside the Monastery of St. Benedict was heavy with gold leaf. By contrast, the Catedral Metropolitana, was full of modern stained glass and concrete. Both churches have been visited by popes.
Talk about an elevator! This public transport takes you from the lower port area of the city to the upper area in Salvador, Brazil. Colorful vendors in tradtional clothing stood in the streets.
Once on top, the area opens into large plazas filled with musical condombe groups, hawkers and tourists.
Gifted artist, Marcos Santana, made two sales to Mike & Vicki. His paintings of typical Brazilian instruments - the Capoeira and the Bahia - on tee shirts sold for $10 each. There are so many gorgeous churches in this city, that it is said you could visit a different one every day. From most places you can see 2-3 churches at a glance.
Antigua had Carnaval figures to welcome us to the port, which was obviously overwhelmed by two 3,000+ passenger cruise ships.
Hundreds of Snowy Egrets nested in trees on St. Kitts, which is their breeding ground. Romney Manor is an estate on the island that was originally a Carib King's settlement. It was taken over by Sam Jefferson, the great, great, great grandfather of Thomas Jefferson.
This Saman tree is over 400 years old and has lived through all of this history. This narrow stretch leads to a hilltop that provides privacy for Robert Redford and other celebrities.


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You can create an identity for your business with the help of custom labels. These labels can also be used to identify similar products of the same identity. By using attractive designs or logos, you can create a trademark for your products.
There are many different kinds of custom labels available in the market. Some of the common ones include custom decals, personalised labels and custom printed labels. Consider the needs and requirements of your business prior to opting for a specific type of custom label.
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If you are looking for custom labels for your business, it is important to identify your needs as well as requirements.


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Body found in rural Arizona identified as missing California man
Shane Rollman (FBI)
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office says human remains found in a dry creekbed near Interstate 17 on New Year's Day are those of a missing California man.
Officials said the remains were discovered by a hiker in a wash near Dry Beaver Creek, which is north of Rimrock.
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office on Friday said the county medical examiner identified the remains as those of 31-year-old Shane Rollman. His car had been found abandoned about two miles away at the McGuireville rest stop in Rimrock on Sept. 23.
An extensive search of the area at the time had found no sign of Rollman.
RELATED: Human remains found by hiker in a north-central Arizona wash
The West Covina, California, police department had issued a missing persons bulletin 10 days before his car was found by Arizona state troopers. Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn confirmed Rollman was from the city of West Covina, near Los Angeles.
An FBI missing persons bulletin had been issued for his disappearance.
The sheriff's office said in a news release that the cause and manner of Rollman's death has not yet been determined.
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Key points for employers to address in employment law
Brian Palmer
This month, there are a number of changes to employment law legislation. However, before looking at the immediate usual April changes (taking effect from 6 April 2019), employers should also plan for two issues on the horizon.
Equal pay claims
In 2019, there will be tribunal decisions on equal pay which involve major supermarkets. The predominately female shop workers feel they are unfairly paid less than predominately male warehouse staff, despite carrying out a similar role. Depending on the result, this may pave the way for further claims from staff working in other sectors. Employers should review their pay structures and ensure that any differentials in pay between staff can be objectively justified.
Parental bereavement leave and pay
In April 2020, the Government will introduce a right for bereaved parents to take paid time off work as a single two-week period, as two separate periods of one week each, or as a single week within 56 weeks from their child's death. Employers should start preparing for it during 2019 and could decide to introduce their own bereavement leave policy if they don't already have one.
CHANGES COMING INTO FORCE IN APRIL 2019
Pensions auto-enrolment
The minimum level of employer contribution into a pensions auto-enrolment scheme increases from 2% to 3%, with an increase to the employee contribution from 3% to 5%.
Extend itemised pay statements to workers
The right to an itemised pay statement will extend to workers, not just employees. Further, where pay varies according to time worked, the employer will have to include on the itemised pay statement the total number of hours worked for which variable pay is received. This can be done either as an aggregate figure or as separate figures for different types of work or different rates of pay.
Employers must work with their payroll departments to ensure the correct procedure is in place ahead of April's deadline.
The maximum amount for a week's pay (used to calculate statutory redundancy payments) will increase to £525 per week (from £508 per week).
Employers should ensure that calculations for statutory redundancy payments are made on the basis of this maximum amount for redundancy dismissals on or after 6 April 2019.
The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal increases to £86,444 (from £83,682).
Increased financial penalties for employers
The maximum penalty for an aggravated breach of employment law quadruples from £5,000 to £20,000. This makes it more important than ever for employers to observe their obligations under employment law towards employees.
This article was written for and first featured in Kitchens & Bathrooms News.


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Weighing Out the Cost of a Bidet vs. Traditional Toilet Paper
When people hear the word "bidet," they often think "luxury." While it's true that using a bidet is a delightful experience, installing one in your own home isn't an extravagant expense. In fact, switching to a bidet can actually save you money over time because you don't have to buy as much toilet paper! Let's look at the bidet vs. toilet paper cost and see how it breaks down.
The toll of toilet paper
The environmental impact of the toilet paper industry is dire. American toilet paper production kills 15 million trees, uses 253,000 tons of chlorine and wastes 17.3 terawatts of electricity in the manufacturing stage alone! But even the most eco-conscious consumer might worry that switching to a bidet might be too big an expense.
Let's try to estimate the actual cost breakdown of toilet paper using some back-of-the-napkin math (or the back of some toilet paper, if you have extra TP lying around.) Nationwide, Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year. If you divide that by our population, which is about 382 million people, that's about 94 rolls per person every year. That's a whole lot of TP to cover your trips to the bathroom at home, at work, in restaurants, and wherever else nature calls!
With more people than ever working from home, households are stocking up on toilet paper to cover their bathroom breaks during the day. With 94 rolls a year needed, a family of four could end up using about 376 rolls per year — that's about $560 per year of the most popular brand of TP! Switching to a bidet can lower your toilet paper usage by 75% or more.
The average cost to install a bidet
It's not too hard to calculate the cost of a bidet vs. toilet paper price. That's because most bidet attachments and bidet toilet seats are designed so that you can install them yourself. That means that you don't need to spend anything on installation, because you don't need to buy any special tools or hire a handyman to get everything set up.
The only expense, then, is the bidet itself. How much does a bidet cost? It depends on the kind that you're getting. You can spend under $100 for a bidet attachment. The Omigo Element, our essential bidet attachment, is $79, and the Element+ with dual temperature controls costs $99. If you want more features, you can splurge on a higher-end bidet toilet seat. Our advanced bidet toilet seat, the Omigo SL, is $449. Our flagship product, the Omigo luxury bidet toilet seat, costs $649. That one boasts a dryer feature that completely eliminates the need for toilet paper!
Bidet vs. toilet paper: the cost in the long run
The good news for a new bidet owner is that the savings add up over time. Your bidet will last for a long time, cutting down on your toilet paper spending year after year. Using the estimates we calculated above, a family of four could spend up to $1680 on toilet paper alone over the course of three years! With a bidet lowering toilet paper usage by 75%, that number goes down to just $420 over three years. If you bought the Omigo SL, then, you'd spend $449 on the bidet toilet seat and $420 on toilet paper, bringing the total cost down to $869 — still far less than the $1680 you could spend on toilet paper alone over three years! And of course, a bidet toilet seat with a dryer feature would mean no more toilet paper spending at all, bringing the total spending over three years down to just $649 for the bidet toilet seat itself.
These numbers are estimates, of course, as everyone's toilet paper preferences vary. But they've hopefully given you an idea of the cost comparison. At-home toilet paper usage is going up, but ordering a bidet can help you keep the costs down.


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Vacuum Decarburization Ordered for Austrian Foundry
Siemens supplying system that uses electrically driven mechanical vacuum pumps; no need for a steam source
Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH, an Austrian steel and iron foundry, has ordered a 50-metric ton vacuum degasser from Siemens VAI Metals Technologies. The new equipment will handle secondary metallurgical treatment of specialty steel alloys, particularly steel grades required for the cast products supplied to power-generation system developers and heavy equipment builder.
The value of the contract was not announced. The new vacuum decarburization plant should be in operation by the end of this year, Siemens indicated. The installation will expand the Linz plant's current secondary metallurgical processing options, allowing it to expand its product portfolio, and it "will make a significant contribution toward cost-efficient production," the contractor announced.
Siemens VAI Metals designs steel plant equipment, from blast furnaces to oxygen furnaces, to continuous casting machines. The former Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau was taken over by Siemens AG in 2005.
Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH is a subsidiary of Voestalpine Stahl Linz GmbH, an integrated steelmaker, and has two production units in Austria for ferrous (in Linz) and nonferrous (in Traisen) castings. The ferrous foundry casts engineered components (10 to 200 metric tons) for specialty manufacturing equipment, including hammer heads and housings for forging machinery; rolling mill housings; slag ladles; castings for steam turbines, gas turbines, and gas pipeline compressors; and other products for petrochemical and oilfield installations.
The foundry also has plants in Yinchuan and Shanghai, China. It produces approximately 35,000 metric tons/year of steel, ductile iron, and nonferrous castings.
Siemens will engineer the installation and supply the core components for the new vacuum decarburization plant. This will include a special ladle roof in copper-clad sheet steel that will minimize the skull formation at the top of the vessel and the roof. The scope of delivery also includes the vacuum roof, an oxygen-blowing lance, a gas cooler, filter system, mechanical vacuum pumps, and the system's hydraulics. Also included in the order is a water management system tying into the Linz Works infrastructure, and all the process controls, instrumentation, and automation for the vacuum system.
The engineering group explained this will be one of the world's first VOD systems to create a vacuum using electrically driven mechanical vacuum pumps, including Roots blowers and screw-type compressors. "In contrast to the conventional steam ejector pumps used in secondary metallurgy, these do not require any process steam," Siemens VAI reported. "There is therefore no need for an external source of steam or for installing a separate boiler to generate steam."
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By Lily Martin
Supreme Court puts census deadline in flux
The 2020 Census deadline is in flux, with the Supreme Court on Tuesday suspending a lower court order that allowed the count to be extended to Oct. 31.
Meanwhile, recent numbers show that some local municipalities are reporting some numbers better and others worse than the 2010 effort.
According to data sent by Paige Best, the New Mexico Census Coordinator, Saturday showed Curry County at a 55.8% self-response rate. This means that over 13,000 of their estimated 22,000 households have filled out the Census. The county's goal is to reach its 2010 self-response rate of 58.7%, meaning it has 690 households to go.
"When it shows that we're 690 away from reaching our goal," Curry Census Coordinator Nikki Lovett said, "that is the self-response goal. There is still a number for the houses that were enumerated, where people went door-to-door. Supposedly, as of the 11th (of October), the total number of houses enumerated is closer to 99.8%. So when they put all of that together then we are much closer as a whole to what our goal is. So I would hope that we could reach our goal of 58.7%."
The only Curry County municipality that has met its 2010 self-response rate is the city of Clovis. It is currently reporting in at over 60% while its 2010 self-response rate was 50.8%.
Texico, Melrose, and Grady are all behind their 2010 outcomes. In the last census Texico had a 56.6% self-response rate while it is now only participating at just over 46%. Grady falls even further behind at just 47.5% compared to its previous 65.7%.
Melrose has the lowest self-response rate and biggest decrease from the 2010 records. It is now at just 32.5%. In 2010 they had the second highest self-response rate in the county at 59.5%.
"I've worked with their (school) superintendent, Brian Stacy, and I've worked with their mayor," Lovett said. "We've taken gift cards over there, we've taken yard signs over. I know Mr. Stacy has done the text blast around their schools. I don't know what the issue is as a whole."
Lovett said she wasn't sure if politicization has played any role in lowered response rates.
" know there are some people who are just thinking that the government is getting too nosey or this is giving them too much information," Lovett said. "Unfortunately what they're not realizing, the people that are thinking that, is this isn't any information that can hurt them. It can only help."
Lovett added the information from the Census is used to calculate the amount of funding granted to road construction, healthcare, and federal programs for children and the elderly.
The same data from Thursday for Roosevelt County shows a 54% self-response rate with over 5,000 households participating out of their estimated 9,000 households. In 2010 the County's self-response rate was 59.4%, leaving 509 households left to meet their goal.
Data for individual municipalities within Roosevelt County was not provided by county administration.
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It is in his native Lancashire that Nigel Haworth has prospered over the last few decades, displaying an instinctive understanding of his region and a cultivated awareness for diners' needs. Haworth's most famous dish, a Lonk lamb Lancashire hotpot, perhaps best sums up his cooking; local, rustic and laced with nostalgia.
Nigel trained at Rossendale Catering College just a few miles from his current Ribble Valley base. From there, he set off on a culinary journey which would take in restaurants in Gleneagles, London (at The Ritz, no less) and Switzerland, before returning to Britain to take a lecturer role at the same college at which he had studied.
In 1984, he was offered the position of head chef at Northcote, an attractive old building with undeniable potential situated close to Blackburn. Ten years on and Nigel was celebrating an Egon Ronay Chef of the Year Award, then one year later a Michelin star followed, which has been retained ever since.
In more recent times, Nigel has appeared regularly on television shows such as Saturday Kitchen and Market Kitchen, also making a winning appearance on Great British Menu in 2009 (he went on to star as a mentor to the chefs of the North East region in 2012). Nigel also co-owns a catering company, Northcote Offsite, which supplies local clients (such as his beloved Blackburn Rovers) with immaculate dishes.
In 2018, Nigel moved into a new role as ambassador of Northcote, handing over the reigns of the restaurant kitchen to Lisa Goodwin-Allen, his protégé, who is now executive chef. He remains an investor in the business and will continue to act as a consultant, particularly involved in the restaurant's acclaimed Obsession festival.


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Nine Eleven is Ten Years Old: The Time That is Given Us
Ah, can it be that a decade has passed already? Yes, it can: a decade and a lifetime.
Septembers have come and gone since then, all of them containing at least one day so like that soft late summer morning we all continue to recall. Seeing a fathomless September sky leads me back and back to the moment. That moment…
Those who witnessed it all remarked later on the contrast between the beauty of that day and the extraordinarily swift destruction as two tiny specks darted from the deep blue September sky to glide along the Hudson River before veering deliberately, swiftly, unbelievably into the hearts of the Twin Towers.
For many years to come we will carry on with our memorials of that day. Our annual observations and commemorations will ring with the names of those who died, families will continue to grieve as long as there are kin left to remember the loss. How long will that be, do you think? Some tragedies are never forgotten, yet others fade. This one brought in its wake a great economic loss and a turning of our public discourse into two polarized camps. So 9/11 may be one of those not soon abandoned.
The Jews say of Hitler's crazed hatred and mass killings, "Never Forget" — even as others would tell us the Holocaust never happened. "Never Forget" morphs into "Don't Think About It". And in like fashion, September 11th is called an inside job, or an evil plan by the Mossad, or anything but what it was: the culmination of a long series of jihadist destruction aimed specifically at that evil Satan, the United States of America.
Let's not go over again all the prodromal signs leading up to that doubled-down Inferno in New York City. Though we continue to disagree on its causes, its cures or even the 'real' narrative, the story has been long memorized, despite the consensus media's attempts to bury the national remembrance of our loss. They have succeeded in muting it, but they haven't erased those images as fully as they'd intended.
So instead of rehashing all the warnings we-should-have-seen, consider this: the colossal destruction at Ground Zero was actually a fluke. Not even bin Laden expected those skyscrapers to crumble so totally, so quickly. At best, he hoped for enough damage to keep the buildings unusable for a long time, just as the plane flown into the Pentagon managed to do.
The phenomenon of that total ruin at Ground Zero was a destruction of biblical proportions. It is the eerie lack of the Towers' familiar silhouettes in the New York City skyline that has cast an immense pall of continuing destruction of wealth and productivity across the globe. There are a number of incomprehensibles in this much-recounted yet totally strange and abrupt in-breaking of absolute evil into world history. That its true impact is actually a fluke is surely one of the strangest of them.
Attempts at Definitions
Comparisons to other acts of war don't work. This was no Pearl Harbor with a hostile state behind its actions. 9/11 was planned by a stateless man hidden in a cave in a place we'd never heard of.
Nor can we define the borders of this war; the lines drawn in the sand are restrictively theological in nature. The "borders" of Islam's combat against all that is not Islam create an existential, endless struggle encompassing religious practices, political stances, public demeanor, and even the bowel movements of believers. Thus, the global is the local and vice versa.
The practical nature of Islamic jurisprudence (which is what Islam boils down to — Here Comes the Judge) takes into account all behaviors of everyone at all times: from state leader down to street cleaner, one's behaviors are of monumental importance, at least in terms of your continued existence in their proposed Ummah.
The Combatants
There are no neutrals or bystanders. Unborn babies are not innocent, they are simply part of the price paid to Allah in order to bring the world to a total 'peace' via Dar al Islam. There are no victims either: a homicide bomber who takes other Muslims with him in his own final jihad is simply letting them into Paradise a little earlier than they'd planned. The dead infidels are offerings to Allah, who can enjoy watching them burn in Hell.
There is no cognitive dissonance for Islamic leaders between the laws they promulgate and the days of their lives. They don't appear to have a problem living in obscene wealth while flouting the hadith regarding music and women and wine. Nor is this new behavior. Wherever Islam and penetrated and captured, the leadership has lived lives apart and entirely separate from the tenets of the Koran. This is the same as all totalitarian polities. Each has its own nomenklatura.
The Nature of Islam
Islam's inherently parasitic nature is a top-down phenomenon in all countries where Sharia is in force.
This top-down parasitic nature is not a bug, it's a feature.
It is also a historical phenomenon dating back to the inception of Islam by its founder. Mohammed was a bandit who made his living robbing caravans. Thus his conversion experience via his visitations from the angel Gabriel didn't result in much change in his daily life. He did perhaps refine his vocation based on the things he heard — perhaps auditory hallucinations brought on by a temporal lobe lesion? — so that what had been highway robbery became Attacks for Allah. Hypersensitive to the ridicule of the Jews who laughed at his syncretism of Judaism and Arab Christianity, Mohammed eventually had his revenge against those who scorned the result of his mystical revelations and his misunderstandings of the Jews' Holy Book. As his anger grew, so did his abrogations against those initial "peace, love and understanding" utterances in the earlier parts of the Koran.
Islam retains much of its founder's characterological traits: overly-sensitive, easily humiliated, determined on revenge. And still bent on conquest. It remains caught in the amber of a tribal system with primitive marriage laws and rituals that border on the obsessive-compulsive. Head-banging as a sign of sanctity does not bode well for the future intelligence of its followers. Neither does repeated first-cousin marriages.
The modern rise of Islam is a geo-political accident. A fluke. Or rather, yet another fluke.
Had the internal combustion engine not been invented and had much of the globe's petroleum resources not been found under Arab lands, Islam would have remained in its inert state, the one it assumed as it was defeated and began the long contraction back to its origins. But — and that is a "but" upon which hinged much of 20th century history and even more of our immediate future — the internal combustion engine running on petroleum actuated in the resurgence of Islam, a primitive, pre-modern Islam; a political world view untouched by modern thought or practices. And it ran smack dab into a godless modernity stripped of meaning or coherence, but a modernity chock full of technological toys, especially martial toys. Literature? Art? Music? Trash! But the bombs, the cell phones, the fast cars. They ordered by the gross and sneered at the culture which has produced their toys.
Why Islam's problems belong to us
Added to Islam's sense of victimhood, we have the dominant Western nanny-state socialist world view, one which never met a victim it couldn't love — except for the Jews. Everyone knows the Jooos are too cunning and smart to be real victims. One has only to compare the plight of the PoorPalis living in destitution right next to the luxurious freedoms enjoyed by Israel to know who the real victims are. The fact that their Islamic neighbors don't see fit to help the PoorPalis move beyond its parasitic, murderous anarchy provides us with a clue about some of the inherent problems in Islam.
You would think that given the immense wealth of the petrol-gushing Islamic countries, the paradigmatic filter through which Western elites view the world would have forced them to see Islam as a problem: all that wealth and yet all those poor immigrants. Why is this situation a blind spot for Western socialist democracies, especially given the totalitarian nature of Islam's theology? Obviously, multi-culti political correctness trumps any other belief system. Except for Islam, of course.
You see, the question can't even be posed in such a fashion because to do so would be inherently politically incorrect in and of itself. The rules about what may be said — perhaps about what may even be thought — are every bit as rigid and orthodox as any Salafist imam's rulings. In this strange demonic convergence, the media and academic gatekeepers will not permit their chosen martyrs to be portrayed as the parasites they are. Instead, in paroxysms of self-flagellation, the Western elites pour out their purses upon the welfare altars of an immigrant population that despises them.
The fact that the elitist world view is neither congruent or logical is of no importance. What matters is how they feel about a situation and how much tolerance they can display in their orgies of self-abasement. Islamic jurisprudence, were it to ever take over, would put these Western elite supporters at the top of their list of those to be killed. Gays? Lesbians? Slutty-dressed-feminists-unite-against-mean-men? All of those groups would soon be as dead as the Christers praying in the next cell and the atheists with their hands over their ears.
What We've Learned About What to Do Till Then
Islam is a complexity of resentful tribes with a long memory for slights. Were the Ummah ever to be realized, then the real lethally internecine turf wars would begin in earnest.
If the world were to continue in its present course, we'd be in deep doo-doo vis-à-vis Islam. By that I mean if the conquest of our culture and our rule of law were subsumed by sharia before Things Changed, the possibility of the Islamic utopian fantasy might be within talking distance. However, there are several course corrections ahead which will rule out the Ummah as our future form of governance.
First (though not necessarily chronologically first) oil is a finite resource. When it's gone, what will the Middle East do? While they've had the money to make ready a garden in their desert — as the Israelis did — they did none of that. They import their technicians, their craftsmen, their laborers. Much like the planter class in the United States who depended on slavery till the bitter end, Islam does not have the requisite resilience every culture needs in order to adapt to change.
Second, the coming economic collapse will spare no one. While the oil magnates will continue to rake it in, their safety in the midst of starving others will become more parlous. The ability to drum up new cadres in the West will weaken perceptibly as the institutions in the West on which they depended for their forays and proselytizing will atrophy.
As the nanny democracies move toward more totalitarian measures to keep down the disaffected, and as their treasuries dwindle, thus preventing the upkeep of the ever-burgeoning immigrant class, there will be discord and disharmony. Those at the bottom will become more restive.
Third, look for political clashes and change. I can only speak for what is happening in the United States, but I see a squaring off of two basic groups: the conservative Tea Party "types" (not limited to simply those who are members) and the public sector socialist unions and their supporters on the Left, especially the consensus media. We will see how this plays out in 2012, but at the moment, the winds are shifting against the Democrats so the political class realignments will be striking.
As the conservative class rises, look for more push-back against Shariah. It took a long time to learn to pinpoint the problem: it is shariah.
Fourth, and most important to many of us personally, is the coming destruction of our public and personal wealth. Houses and real estate are still losing value, inflation in food and fuel is increasing at a worrisome clip. Unemployment — the real rate — is inching upwards.
The more worried people are, the less they will spend. The less they spend, the more moribund becomes the economy. Governmental intervention in the form of "help" via the bureaucrats will only worsen and lengthen our slide to the bottom. No one can say where that "bottom" will be.
At the moment, social disorder is making its appearance among the chronically unemployed urban black males. That disorder could spread to other groups. Unemployed groups.
In the final analysis, the global "unrest", part of which Islam helped to create, will most likely end in the retreat of Islam from the modern world. Unless it can adapt and change, it cannot make enough inroads into the culture of the US to achieve its goal.
Ten years out from that Dies Irae, we are still standing. Osama bin Laden is not, and he did not die of natural causes. American SEALS killed him, which is as it should be.
They found pornographic videos in bin Laden's home. Such was the true nature of one of Islam's spiritual leaders.
We have been through a great deal since September 11, 2001 but we have an even longer road ahead. We will not come out at some point in the distance where "things are like they were". That never happens, and this is a good thing, despite what we've lost.
When I get discouraged, the Baron reminds me of this exchange:
Frodo: "I wish it need not have happened in my time."
Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
What will you decide to do with the time that you've been given?
Posted by Dymphna at 9/11/2011 01:14:00 AM
Horace Jeffery Hodges said...
I intend to keep speaking freely . . . and to keep learning so as to make the best use of my free speech.
Jeffery Hodges
Kyra Nelson said...
I intend to speak freely, insulting Islam and it's "prophet" as much as possible, and cursing the OIC to my last breath.
Dymphna said...
Prof Hodges:
You live among one of the most intelligent groups in the world. They have created a society anyone would envy...did you see the City Journal quarterly issue that dealth with cities around the world?
This appears to be the online version, but the print mag had some lovley iamges:
Asian Mega Cities
The essay doesn't mention one of the most important factors: the generally higher intelligence of the Asian populations.
Kyra--
I appreciate your sentiments, but I hope you would also celebrate your own culture whenever you can. As the old adage goes, "don't let them live rent-free in your head"...
rui said...
Gosh, what an honor to live in the time of such fine people like you. May one day this post become immortalized in the memorials of our victory against islam and totalitarianism.
Bob Belvedere said...
What rui wrote -- bravo.
The world we knew before 09/11 is gone and we have a choice: give in to the evil forces of Leftism and Islam or revive The West and all the good it stands for. We are all Frodo's now.
Dymphna, as I've sometimes remarked to friends, I've never met any dumb Koreans. There must be some, I suppose, but all those that I've met seem bright and hardworking. On the other hand, there is a widespread, rigid Leftism here in South Korea . . .
Thanks for the link. I'll take a look.
What a beautiful meditation and elegy on the life that was and the perfect storm of two symbiotic totalitarianisms threatening civilization as we knew it. Truly we are most of us Hobbits but must each make our contribution to combating great evil on the loose around us. Thank you Dymphna, for the inspiring clarion call to action. May it spread far and wide to wake the warrior in long somnolent westerners.
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Seeing a fathomless September sky leads me back and back to the moment. That moment…
Yes, the collapse of the Twin Towers was a fluke, but the ummah still believe the collapse was the will of Allah.
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I rarely trust lists that people make. You're telling me, these 5 plates of salad is the BEST in New York City and I should go eat them. Have you tried every plate of salad from everywhere? I doubt it. My goal is to find my favorite fried chickens and to do that, I've been trying to eat all of them in New York City. Yes, all of them. This is a long term research project that started many years ago but didn't take it seriously till last May. My economics professor once said that if you want the facts, the truth, don't rely on the news. Go out and find out for yourself. Food is subjective. Many people have said The Redhead does a great fried chicken but when I had it, I thought it lacked seasoning and that it was boring.
The rules are simple, no chains, no wings places, no chicken tenders, no chicken nuggets. I have a whole other list for fried chicken sandwiches because those are darn tasty too. There are some places that serve boneless fried chicken which my friend doesn't consider to be "fried chicken." What do y'all think? Talde in Park Slope does a good one but it's boneless!
So to be fair and honest, I'm listing out 5 of the BEST fried chickens in New York City from the 27 I've had so far.
That's about it. I have 40 more places to go in New York City and another dozen of places in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Philly. Oh boy!
Obviously, don't take my word for it. Go out and eat. Find your own favorite fried chicken.
Let me know in the comments, where I should eat next. Thanks!


Delightful 44 year old female wanting her "breast filled back up". She is a married professional mother of 4. Her bra size was a 34 B. Dr. Spence suggested gel implants with a periareolar breast lift (mastopexy). Left breast implant was a moderate 375cc and the right implant was a moderate 350. Patient tolerated surgery well. First post op appointment patient stated that she was "glad they're not too big". She continues to be 100% satisfied with her and Dr. Spence's decision.


We Signal Fire are an alternative rock band based in Manchester. Drawing on a diverse range of influences, the band combine melodic, driving riffs with anthemic choruses and heartfelt lyrics. We Signal Fire's music is uplifting, energetic and exciting, three traits they also bring to their live show.
Formed in October 2013, Pete (vocals/guitar), Chloe (vocals), JB (bass) and Martin (drums, vocals) have a combined musical experience and natural chemistry that means the band already sound like they've been playing together for years.
With their debut EP released in October and further gigs already in the pipeline, the next year could be the start of something very special.


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Snom Receives the "Security Made in Germany" Quality Seal
Snom Technology, the leading developer of professional IP Telephones, is proud to announce that they are now members of the 'TeleTrusT IT Security Association of Germany'
BERLIN - Thursday, June 9th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Snom Technology, the leading developer of professional and business IP Telephones, is proud to announce that they are now members of the 'TeleTrusT Association of Germany'. Snom strives to achieve perfection in all aspects of its development with unparalleled craftsmanship, elegant design, practicality and interoperability. A prime example of Snom's ongoing focus in the area of communications security is their 'No Spyware Guarantee' which has been reinforced with earning the "Security made in Germany" Quality Seal.
TeleTrusT is an association for IT security experts and facilitates information exchange between vendors, users and authorities. TeleTrusT comments on technical, ... Read more »
Panasonic Develops Connectors for Connecting In-vehicle LED Lamp Modules to Boards
OSAKA, Japan - Thursday, June 9th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic Corporation announced that it has developed connectors for connecting in-vehicle LED lamp modules to control boards. These connectors improve in designing in-vehicle LED lighting.
One of these is a "Board to FPC Connector", the first of its kind in the industry*1 that is suitable for cable connection to daytime running lights (DRLs), which are kept switched on during the daytime, and in rear lamps.
The other is a "Board to Wire Connector", the lowest-profile connector in the industry*2 that is suitable for LED headlamp modules.
These new products have the following features:
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1. This connector has a metal terminal connection structure that eliminates the need for FPC contacts for the first time in the industry*1, realizing direct connection between the LED-chip-mounted FPC and the control power board ... Read more »
Umpqua Holdings Announces International Innovation Collaboration with United Kingdom's Nationwide Building Society
PORTLAND, Ore. - Thursday, June 9th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Umpqua Holdings Corporation today announced a new collaboration project between its subsidiary, Pivotus Ventures, and the UK's Nationwide Building Society. The arrangement with Nationwide, the world's largest building society with more than $290 billion in assets, adds international scope, resources and customer insight to the Pivotus innovation studio in Silicon Valley.
The collaboration is an important next step in Umpqua's broader strategy in forming Pivotus, which is focused on leading the way in innovation by bringing together some of the best thinking in the world to develop new digital banking propositions that transform the customer experience.
Both Umpqua and Nationwide approach innovation through a shared focus on customer experience. As a mutual, Nationwide is owned by and run for the benefit of its 15 million customers and members. Umpqua Bank, the West coas ... Read more »
53 billion illegal cigarettes consumed in the European Union last year
New KPMG report for British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International finds that governments lose up to EUR 11.3 billion in revenues
LONDON - Wednesday, June 8th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
Non-EU contraband and counterfeit increased to 88%
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 53 billion illegal cigarettes were consumed in the European Union (EU) in 2015, which exceeds the legal market volume of Spain1, according to a new report published today by KPMG. Accounting for 1 in every 10 cigarettes consumed, this criminal activity costs EU governments up to EUR 11.3 billion in lost tax revenues.
This annual study investigates the levels and drivers of counterfeit, contraband and Illicit Whites2 in the 28 EU countries, as well as Switzerland and Norway.
While the illegal cigarette market in the EU accounts for around 10% of total consumption, this volume has declined marginally compared to 2014 as a result of several f ... Read more »
Jason Goodall Appointed New CEO Of Dimension Data Group as Brett Dawson Steps Down
JOHANNESBURG - Friday, June 10th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dimension Data announces the appointment today of Jason Goodall as Group Chief Executive Officer, as Brett Dawson, current CEO, steps down after 12 years.
Goodall steps into the role from his current position as Group COO, where he has been responsible for the regions and several global functions including sales, marketing, Group Information Services (GIS), HR and commercial finance. Goodall is a veteran of Dimension Data having served many roles during his 18-year career with the company.
Jeremy Ord, Executive Chairman of the Dimension Data Group said, "Brett has delivered extraordinary growth for our company over the last 12 years, quadrupling our revenues to $8bn, helped us globalise and led our transition into being part of the NTT family. Whilst this journey is far from over, I'm extremely grateful for the leadership, passion and energy that Brett has brought to our organis ... Read more »
SES Deploys SATMED e-Health Platform in Benin to Improve Treatment of Infectious Tropical Disease
Second SATMED deployment in Benin with NGO partner Fondation Follereau Luxembourg will treat Buruli Ulcer patients in Allada
LUXEMBOURG & BENIN - Wednesday, June 8th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), the world's leading satellite operator, today announced the deployment of a SATMED e-health platform at Centre de Dépistage et de traitement de l'Ulcère de Buruli (CDTUB) in Allada, Benin, to improve awareness and healthcare.
The SATMED e-health platform was conceived by SES Techcom Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, and is funded by the Luxembourg Government and the Ministry for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action. The first deployment of SATMED in Benin successfully took place at the remote maternity hospital of Ahozonnoude in June 2014.
The new satellite-based platform in Allada will be used by Fondation Follereau Luxembourg (FFL) to communicate with doctors and medical experts aro ... Read more »
Ascensia Diabetes Care Renews International Alliance with Medtronic
BASEL, Switzerland - Thursday, June 9th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today Ascensia Diabetes Care announced that it has renewed its global alliance with Medtronic plc to develop and market innovative diabetes management solutions for patients worldwide. As part of the agreement, Ascensia Diabetes Care will continue to exclusively co-develop and supply CONTOUR™ NEXT LINK and CONTOUR™ PLUS LINK blood glucose meters that are wirelessly compatible to communicate with Medtronic's integrated insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems.
The renewal announced today lasts for five years, and follows more than eight years of successful worldwide collaboration.
Michael Kloss, CEO of Ascensia Diabetes Care, explained, "To date we have launched three meter generations with Medtronic MiniMed insulin pump systems across the world and have seen tremendous success with this alliance. Medtronic is leading the path towards the ar ... Read more »
Abu Dhabi Police Schools Commences Work in their New Building in Al Foah
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Monday, June 6th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
The Procurement and Warehouses Department at the General Directorate of Finance and Support Services of the Abu Dhabi Police (ADP), announced the relocation of the Police Schools Department from the Suwaihan area to its new headquarters in Al Foah, Al Ain City. The new headquarters have been built according to the best and most advanced standards in construction. It includes education, administrative and residential buildings, with separate quarters for men and women. The buildings are equipped with the best foundations and facilities for education and training.
Brigadier Saeed Saif Al Nuaimi, Deputy Director General of Finance and Services at Abu Dhabi Police explained that constructing the new building reflects the ADP General Headquarters strategic plan. The Police vision seeks to develop and modernize police bodies according to the best of international standards in this field. This vision also ... Read more »


This week PhD student Evan Hayles Gledhill is the guest curator on the 'We the Humanities' Twitter feed, @wethehumanities . Every week, someone from a different school of humanities based research takes over the account and leads discussions, and shares information about their field and their research within it.
This project was founded by Reading graduate, Dr Jessica Sage, who currently works as a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle and current PhD candidate Krissie West of the English Department. We the Humanities is an online project designed to spread the diversity and value of the humanities. The twitter feed starts and maintains connections and discussions across a broad range of topics with a wide-range of humanities-based researchers across the globe.
I am going to be discussing balancing part-time study with work, and access to study for those with chronic long term conditions and disabilities, as well as research-based topics about literature and film texts. I am a gothicist, so there will also be lots of the spooky! Please do come and find us on Twitter, and join in the discussions.
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Currently I am interested in geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, Kähler geometry, partial differential equations. I am working on some problems via geometric flows, e.g. the Ricci flow.
One of my areas of research interest is called "constructive mathematics" where mathematical proofs must be done "constructively". For example, if a theorem asserts the existence of a function, a constructive proof must actually describe a procedure to compute the function. A nonconstructive existence proof would merely show the impossibility that such a function could fail to exist. A constructive proof is also a valid classical proof, but not vice versa. A constructive theorem is true in the universe of computable functions, but a classical theorem can have wildly noncomputable objects.
My mathematical interests are always growing. Most recently they have focused on high-resolution DNA melting analysis and applications to modern molecular medicine; as well as geometry and algorithms for 3d visualization. I am still enthusiastic about the interactions of dynamical systems with cognitive science, turbulent fluid flow, optimization of composite material microstructures, and number theory!


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On Thursday, Viacom held its quarterly earnings call, putting a strong emphasis on the success of Nickelodeon animation brands and highlighting plans for feature film and merch expansions for their most popular toons. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish and Nickelodeon Group President Cyma Zarghami discussed these strategies during the call.
Zarghami notably confirmed that a third SpongeBob SquarePants movie is going ahead. Initially announced in 2015, in August of that year showrunner Vincent Waller confirmed the project was in pre-production, with Paul Tibbitt set to return to the director's chair. The sequel experienced a small bump with the announcement at CinemaCon in late March that it was being pushed from a spring release to a new tentative date of August 2, 2019.
The uproarious underwater cartoon created by Stephen Hillenburg launched in 1999, and proved an immediate success. The TV series is Nick's highest-rating of all time, and also its most widely distributed. The first theatrical feature, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, arrived in 2004 and totted up $140 million at the global box office. A standalone sequel, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, was released in 2015 and also proved a major success for Paramount, with a worldwide take of $325 million.
The CinemaCon '17 announcement of a movie for Chris Savino's top-performing comedy The Loud House was also iterated. No details have been revealed, but the feature treatment is set to be released by Paramount on February 7, 2020.
The execs also vaunted successful TV toon brands such as No. 1 preschool show PAW Patrol and evergreen action-comedy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will get a new 2D-animated series titled Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Fall 2018. This latest reboot of the popular characters will have "more humor, a younger and lighter feel and all-new dimensions to explore," per Zarghami's statement at the network's upfronts in early March.
The recent launch of the new Entertainment Lab in Burbank was another important talking point for Nick's impact on the larger conglomerate. Headed by SVP Chris Young, the R&D facility will focus on developing new creative capabilities such as real-time rendering for the studio, and bringing the network's brands into emerging media spaces including VR/AR.
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News Flash: Vouchers Help Poor Kids; Rich Kids Already Have School Choice
Erik 12 March 2011
The above video was from the Ed Schultz show. (The same delusional leftist who once claimed, "NPR is about as down the middle as you can get.") Schultz claims, "this is a racist budget; I mean, anybody with a brain knows that those 82% of the kids that are under the poverty level are never going to go to a private school, and yet the Governor wants the parents of those kids to take a portion of their tax dollars and fund private schools." Sharpton calls it "the epitome of an insult." Ignore for a moment Shartpon's ridiculous implication that the unions agreed to "take collective bargaining off the table, the "Rev." claims, "they want to now spend public dollars to give a vouchers to private schools for kids that will never ever come from the neighborhoods that most need public education."
There is so much that is factually incorrect about that brief statement that it's hard to know where to begin. For starters, I don't know where Ed Schultz gets his numbers. He seems to claim that 82% of children in Wisconsin are living in poverty. But according to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 83% of Wisconsin children are "not poor" while 17% live below the poverty line. Even if we gave Schultz the benefit of the doubt and included "low income" children, the number would be 37%, significant, but still less than half of Schultz's claimed 82%.
As to Schultz's claim of "racism." When did poor become an ethnic group? While it's true that a greater percentage of poor children are in minority ethnic groups, correlation does not imply causation. It's also true that children who have moved in the past year are three times more likely to be poor, but Schultz isn't calling this bill "anti-U-Haul." Children who live with a single parent are 3.1 times more likely to be poor, but the bill isn't derided as "anti-single-mom."
Both Schultz and Sharpton claim, in their own way, that poor children will never go to private school. That's probably true without vouchers, but to pretend a voucher system won't change that demonstrates this dynamic duo is either exceedingly naive or willingly distorting the truth to defend the status quo. (I'm leaning towards the latter). Newsflash: "rich kids" already have school choice. Their parents can afford to send them to private school with or without a voucher. Poor kids, on the other hand, don't have the same options. When the compassionate™, caring™ Democrats bowed to DC public school unions, it wasn't the "rich kids" who were affected. Obama's children remain at the private Sidwell Friends Academy, but poor children, children whose parents had begged legislators to keep the program, were sent back to their violent, rundown, failing, inner-city public schools. It was left to Republicans to attempt to revive this program. Hopefully, they will succeed.
Vouchers may send taxpayer dollars to private schools, but they do so to the benefit of poor students who otherwise couldn't attend these institutions. The only people who don't benefit from vouchers are bad teachers at failing schools. Suddenly, their cash supply is threatened. Either Schultz and Sharpton are thoroughly uninformed, or they're using poor children as human shields to defend failing teachers at failing schools.
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