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Transduodenal sphincteroplasty. 5-25 year follow-up of 89 patients
G. L. Nardi, F. Michelassi, P. Zannini
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Between 1957 and 1977, 95 patients underwent transduodenal pancreatic sphincteroplasty (TPS) for a diagnosis of recurrent pancreatitis. Five to twenty-five year follow-up was obtained for 89 patients (94%) and was analyzed by life-table method. Short-term successful outcome was defined as relief of symptoms (e.g., pain) for one to three years; long-term successful outcome was defined as those patients who remained symptom-free at time of last follow-up. Operative mortality was 4.2% (4 patients). Fifty-six patients (66%) had a successful short-term outcome. Of these, 13 patients had recurrence of symptoms: 7 occurred at 4 years, 5 at 5 years and 1 at 6 years. Preoperative factors associated with poor short-term outcome were previous upper abdominal surgery (X2 = 5.67, p <0.05) and frequent diarrhea (X2 = 6.18, p <0.05). Preoperative factors associated with poor long-term outcome were previous upper abdominal surgery (X2 = 7.82, p <0.01), heavy alcohol intake (X2 = 4.71, p <0.05), narcotic use (X2 = 5.68, p <0.05) and frequent diarrhea (X2 = 4.8, p <0.05). Morphine Prostigmin Test (MPT) was performed preoperatively in 78 patients (82%). A significantly greater proportion of patients with a rise in serum pancreatic enzymes secondary to MPT (MPT+) has a successful long-term outcome compared with those without such a rise (MPT-) (61% v 41%, X2 = 5.13, p <0.05). Furthermore, of the patients with a successful short-term outcome, 88% with MPT+ remained long-term symptom-free compared to 38.5% with MPT- (X2 = 8.36, p <0.01). We conclude that TPS can be a successful operation for acute recurrent pancreatitis. Previous upper abdominal operations signs of more advanced pancreatic disease, preoperative narcotic use, and alcohol abuse, were associated with a worse outcome and probably associated with chronic recurrent pancreatitis. Preoperative use of MPT, coupled with accurate clinical history, defined groups with different short- and long-term prognosis after TPS.
Annals of Surgery
Transhepatic Sphincterotomy
Neostigmine
Pancreatic Diseases
Life Tables
Nardi, G. L., Michelassi, F., & Zannini, P. (1983). Transduodenal sphincteroplasty. 5-25 year follow-up of 89 patients. Annals of Surgery, 198(4), 453-461.
Transduodenal sphincteroplasty. 5-25 year follow-up of 89 patients. / Nardi, G. L.; Michelassi, F.; Zannini, P.
In: Annals of Surgery, Vol. 198, No. 4, 1983, p. 453-461.
Nardi, GL, Michelassi, F & Zannini, P 1983, 'Transduodenal sphincteroplasty. 5-25 year follow-up of 89 patients', Annals of Surgery, vol. 198, no. 4, pp. 453-461.
Nardi GL, Michelassi F, Zannini P. Transduodenal sphincteroplasty. 5-25 year follow-up of 89 patients. Annals of Surgery. 1983;198(4):453-461.
Nardi, G. L. ; Michelassi, F. ; Zannini, P. / Transduodenal sphincteroplasty. 5-25 year follow-up of 89 patients. In: Annals of Surgery. 1983 ; Vol. 198, No. 4. pp. 453-461.
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Тестий е бил владетел на Плеврона и Елида (в Етолия). Син на Агенор и Демоники. Негова съпуга е Евритемида. Заедно са родители на Леда, Алтея, Ификъл, Плексип, Токсей, Еврипил, Евип. При него намерил убежище прокудения Тиндарей. Тестий му дал за съпруга своята дъщеря Леда.

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I've already started working on the Halloween Spectacular for next year. I loved how the pneumatic Grim Reaper worked out; so I'm expanding on the concept for next year.
The 2006 edition of the Reaper was run with an vinyl tubing extension on a standard blow-gun (attached to the air compressor). This worked well, but had some limitations. For example, the aperture wasn't wide enough. Not to mention, the blow-gun in your hand was a dead giveaway.
The 2007 edition is far superior. I've decided to have two different air cannons for the upcoming year. The Reaper will continue to have a cannon, but I'm also adding a second cannon in the archway. This one will point downward, and will get people as they walk through. You won't expect this one.
Here's the plan. I've built a modular controller for solenoid valves (electrically triggered air valves). I've hooked up a radio transmitter to a relay board. When I push one of the buttons on the remote, the relay is triggered. The relay opens the valve. The valve lets the high pressure air run through the cannon. When I let go of the button, the valve closes and we wait for our next victim.
The big box contains the radio board and the relays. The box has one +12v input and two +12v switching outputs. I decided to use RCA for the outputs, as it's easy to get and accomodates the lines nicely. It didn't hurt that I had a bunch of RCAs laying around the house either.
I made a couple extension cords as well. This way, I can use one control box for both cannons. I've designed the whole thing to run off of 12v DC, with a pretty low draw. Although the relays draw 6w when engaged; they aren't engaged for very long continuously. I usually run the system off 8 AA batteries. It's a small pack that's very easy to conceal. Conceivably, I could run the cannons from a compresses cylinder (to hide the air lines); but I'm not sure that's necessary.
I'm planning on making some special gravestones with remote-controlled popping heads. I just haven't gotten to that part yet. I think they will be air-powered also.
We've started our preparations for Halloween 2006. I've put out the first round of the decorations, and am preparing the second wave.
At the moment, I've got most of the decorations for the lawn in position. I picked up some pumpkins and straw from the local garden shop. We've got the fountain set up as well.
We're planning on turning the fountain red for Halloween; but we're going to wait until the last minute to dye it. As usual, I've recycled the Tiki Torches into duty for the holiday.
Although it isn't in the picture below, the air compressor project is flowing nicely. We've acquired a small (2 gallon) 100psi compressor, which will sit behind the house for Halloween. I'm secretly running air lines through the yard, so that the scarecrows will be able to blast the kids with air as they pass. We're going to trigger it with a blow gun, and run the final lines with soft vinyl tubing.
I still need to make a tombstone for Faraday, and I should probably touch-up the others as well. They were made of pink insulation originally, and they require a good paint job each year (as rain is hard on the paint).
We've still got the family "ceramic pumpkin" in the window, and my mother's old scarecrow in the front flower beds.
This weekend we went on our annual pilgrimage to Field of Screams, an amazing hayride / haunted house out in the Lancaster area. They really put on a great show. They raised their game again this year.
The new "piggy" barn was really impressive. Nothing quite like a hanging slaughterhouse to get you in the Halloween mood.
I didn't get any pictures during the hayride, as I wasn't going to endanger the holy Nikon, but I got plenty of shots afterwards on the grounds.
This castle is the entrance to the hayride area (from the haunted house area).
All told, a great trip. They are open for September and October. The hayride tickets were $12. It's $22 for for entire deal.
For those interested, it's about a 90 minute drive from Wilmington.
I've been working on the site again, and I've cooked up two new themes for Halloween. You can always switch themes using the links at the bottom of each page.
The first one is called "Trick or Treat". It's a cute little theme in the spirit of the season. It shares the normal Barnyard BBS feel.
The second one is a departure from the usual style. I went as "evil" as possible for this one. I call it "Midnight".


I've been getting a lot of questions about joining contests, how I know about them, how I win, (how I lose haha!). To answer these questions, I've granted an interview with a journalist (haha!) and here's an excerpt.
What jumpstarted your career as a contest-a-holic?
It was when I first won a contest. I realized that I had what it takes to join and win.
What was that first contest you've joined and won?
I think it was one of Inquirer's 2bU! Valentine contests. Entrants had to answer the question 'Which Boyz II Men or Brian McKnight song best describes your relationship and why?' The one with the best answer got to watch their concert here in Manila.
How do you know about these contests?
Before the advent of social media, I had only the newspaper as my source. The Lifestyle section would usually have promos and contests for special occasions like Valentine's, Mother's Day, and Father's Day. Weeks before that occasion comes, I'd already be scouring the paper watching out for promos and contests to join.
It's different nowadays, though. Websites that are dedicated to consolidating all the promos and contests in the Philippines are all over the Internet. Facebook and Twitter pages are running contests left and right just to gather more fans. It's so much easier now to know about ongoing promos and contests.
What websites in particular are the most helpful in knowing about these contests?
I like Boy-Kuripot (http://www.boy-kuripot.com/) and AllPromos.Ph (http://allpromos.ph/).
How do you pick which contests to join? Or do you enter them all?
Not all contests are for everyone. I only choose those that interest me, writing or photo contests, or those that I know I can win. Raffle contests for one are not on my list. I don't seem to have the luck on raffles. I also try to stay away from voting contests because these are more for popularity than for anything.
Winning puts you on a certain high. You feel happy, you feel relieved, you feel great, you feel like you're on top of the world. Being chosen among all the other entrants of a contest is a big pat on the back. It's an undeniable affirmation that you did well, you did great!
Can you describe your most memorable winning moment?
During the newspaper days, I had to buy the newspaper to find out about the winner. On my way to the LRT station, I bought the paper but dared not take a peek. Once safely inside the train, I excitedly tore open the paper and flipped to the correct section. There in the front page was my photo and my entry! I had won! In my excitement, I let out a short scream of delight while inside the train. I suddenly realized where I was when I felt all the passengers looking at me! I had to cover my face with the newspaper to hide my beet red face!
What's it like waiting for the results to be announced?
In the digital age, waiting for results is such an excruciating ordeal. The contest mechanics would often indicate the date the winners will be announced. I'd always keep this in mind, watching the calendar, waiting for the date to arrive. Once the date finally arrives, it's another long wait because they don't announce it the minute the clock strikes 12! They usually do so at the end of the day, if they do at all! I quickly forget about the painful waiting though if I find out that there's a good news waiting!
What's the biggest prize you've won so far?
I wish I could say it's 100K but I only made it as a finalist to that. Darn! Haha! Anyway, it's a toss between the Valentine blowout prizes (tons of restaurant GCs and other goodies) from Inquirer's 2bU! and the Samsung Galaxy Tab that I won from Mrs. Fields along with the gift packs and GC that came with it.
You've mentioned losing, how was it like?
As it is in life, you're not always up there. There was even a time that in one single week, the winners for three different contests were announced and I wasn't in any one of them! Ugh! I felt to depressed that time. If winning is a pat on the back, losing is a blow to the heart. It's a rejection. Simply put, not good enough.
But life goes on. There's always another contest to win, another chance to do better.
Just to illustrate, that depressing week, I drowned my sadness into a game that wins me raffle entries every time I play. I must have played a lot of times because the very next week, I was announced as one of its weekly winners. Woot! Woot!
Woot! Woot! That's always my reaction when I learn that I've won. More woot woots to come! For both you and me!


Mysteries at the Museum host, Don Wildman, revisits the artifacts tied to some of America's most bizarre mysteries.
In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were allegedly abducted by aliens. This vintage, torn dress worn by Betty that strange fall night still carries a stain of an otherworldly nature. I'm afraid to ask.
It's 2004 and our robot representative moves along on the Martian surface hobbled by a malfunctioning wheel. But the broken wheel scrapes away soil, leading to a major discovery: silica. Proof there once was water on the Red Planet.
July 6, 1944. A terrible fire consumes a Ringling Brothers' circus tent, killing 168 people. The investigation turns up the problem: the tent was waterproofed using paraffin and gasoline. What were they thinking?
The initial test flight of this machine must have been a terror. After all, cars should be driven, not flown (just one man's opinion).
On March 27, 1964 the second-largest earthquake in recorded history strikes Valdez, Alaska. Fifty years later this credit card machine from a gas station along the destroyed waterfront turns up in the weeds, a card still intact.
In 1918, a homing pigeon named Cher Ami saved the lives of 194 US soldiers under a deadly barrage of friendly fire -- and this pigeon did it flying 25 miles after taking a bullet from a German sniper.
In 1958, Capt. Joseph Kittenger wore this jumpsuit to test a new parachute system designed to save the lives of ejecting US pilots. But he would have to risk his own life, jumping from more than 20 miles above the earth!
A devastating avalanche destroys a Great Northern Railway car stopped in the Cascade Mountains en route to Seattle. Decades later, these bent pieces of metal turn up, evidence of a tragedy that killed more than 100 passengers.
When Albert Einstein dies in 1955, his brain is illegally preserved and dissected by the doctor who performs his autopsy. He mounts specimens of the brain on microscope slides -- and makes a valuable discovery.
In 1961, after a decade of searching, Kip Wagner realizes his dream and discovers buried Spanish treasure at the bottom of the sea -- worth about 20 million bucks then and a whole lot more today.


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Open 2015: St Andrew's theatre set for thrilling finale
By Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer
http://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/33589918
Despite being an amateur, at 22, Paul Dunne (right) is a year older than Jordan Spieth
Early on the morning of the third round of this Open, after three days of rain and wind and false starts, not just the skies grey but seemingly every player decked out in the same dispiriting colour, St Andrews was a coastal town from a Morrissey lyric: wet sands and lonely seagulls, anoraks and damp socks, every day like Sunday.
Which just goes to show that golf is a sport that develops at its own sweet pace and can carry you along like few others. From such a downbeat dawn sprung one of the great days of Open entertainment, a thriller with multiple twists and plot-lines, a drama that could yet end in fairytale or fresh history.
The Open 2015: Irish amateur Paul Dunne shares Open lead
It ended with a three-way tie at the top of the leaderboard, 14 men within three shots of that trio, 25 men within five shots of the lead.
At one point, midway through the afternoon, there were six joint leaders and 23 within two shots of the leader, explosions of cheers and gasps of dismay rolling in from different corners of the Old Course as men charged up the leaderboard and fell away again as others came cantering through.
Everywhere you looked was a story, each gripping enough to define an Open on its own but on this day competing with eight or nine others equally as alluring.
When 22-year-old Irish amateur Paul Dunne briefly led the field in the early holes of Thursday morning it had felt both charming and transitory.
"It's kind of a novelty thing for when I'm 70 years old," he said that night, "sitting in a bar, having a pint, maybe telling someone that I led The Open."
He is no longer a novelty, and it is no longer a story that needs to be saved until his dotage. After a six-under-par 66, Dunne will start Monday's final round in the final pairing, joint top of the field containing men with millions to their names, 12 shots under and aiming for more.
As many as 25 men are within five shots of the lead at St Andrew's
It was the joint-second lowest round by an amateur in the history of The Open, the lowest ever round by an amateur at St Andrews and the first time an Open amateur has hit three rounds in the 60s.
The last amateur to win the Open was Bobby Jones in 1930, but that is to underplay the differences between the eras. Jones was an amateur with a professional's talent and preparation. Dunne is a man who could win £1m and have to hand it straight to the bloke he beats.
Quite who might end up with their hands on the R&A's cheque is almost impossible to predict. All that can be said with any certainty is that the Championship's fifth day will feel like anything but an overspill or afterthought.
No Englishman has won the Claret Jug in 23 years. Shortly after 17:00 BST, 27-year-old Sheffield lad Danny Willett made successive birdies to take the outright lead. This being the snakes and ladders Open it is, he then went out of bounds with his tee shot on 14 and slid back down to join the chasers.
There were the expected heroes: 21-year-old Jordan Spieth, on Scotland's exposed east coast looking to become the first man since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win the first three majors of the year, contending in an unexpected way - grumpy at the gales on Saturday and slow to start on Sunday, then igniting a charge with birdies on the 10th, 11th and 12th for a round of six under and a start on Monday just one shot off the lead.
There were those forgotten or presumed lost: Padraig Harrington, champion in consecutive years back in 2007 and 2008 but out of the world's top 100 and so out of that old form that he has missed 11 cuts in the first seven months of this year alone, seven under for the day and a single shot further back.
There are the great redemptions: joint leader Jason Day, runner-up three times in majors, with four top-10 finishes in five starts at the US Open but never the bridegroom, back from the awful vertigo he suffered at Chambers Bay to look down again upon his rivals, his compatriot Adam Scott - as if Australia needed any more sporting success on British soil this week - nine under, ready to rid himself of the memory of three years ago at Royal Lytham & St Annes, when he led the Open field by four shots with four holes to play in the final round only to bogey all four and handing the Championship to a bemused Ernie Els.
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And still they keep coming - Louis Oosthuizen, champion last time the Open came to St Andrews, finding three birdies in the last five holes to be the third man atop the pile; his fellow South African Retief Goosen, three shots off that lead, hoping at 46 years old to become the oldest Open champion of all time, older still than Old Tom Morris by 165 days, 24-year-old Englishman Eddie Pepperell, round in a 66 on Sunday that could have been a major record had his tee-shot not clattered into the Old Course Hotel on the 17th.
There is even a story in the sole man to fail, Dustin Johnson, who began the day as joint leader and produced a round that began slowly, tailed away and then collapsed under the weight of its own frustration.
At his last five majors the lugubrious American has been a cumulative 31 under for his first two rounds and level par for his last two, a man who finds both novel ways to slip out of contention (penalty strokes for grounding his club in a bunker) and the tried and tested, bogeying the last three as many have before and many will since.
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This being St Andrews, it was all played out on a set that has inspired many but never once been truly replicated: sea breezes and gorse, long grass and mineshaft bunkers, undulations on the soft fabric of the fairways like a rucked-up tablecloth, punters piling out of the pubs in town to stand on each other's shoulders along Links Road and cheer their man home.
Dunne? The coolest kid in town, leaning on ancient truths on the links that gave the world the game.
"The golf ball just does what you tell it to. It just happens to be the biggest event in the world. Hopefully I can do it again, but whether I do or not, I'll survive either way."
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Apple's promise to stop mining for metals is great news for the developing world
Matthew Hughes
Former TNW Reporter
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As the world's biggest consumer electronics company, Apple has an incredible environmental burden on its shoulders.
Its customers have an insatiable appetite for MacBooks and iPhones. To build them, Apple has to dig up a lot of shit from the ground, often from places where environmental and labor regulations are lacking – or simply aren't enforced.
Recognizing this responsibility, Apple has announced that it's working on a "closed-loop supply chain." What this means in practice is that it intends to rely entirely on recycled materials, and cease mining for rare earth minerals and metals.
Many of the metals and minerals we use in our phones are mined in one country – the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is a failed state controlled by several warring militias. These militias gain much of their funding from these mines, and our thirst for gadgets has arguably prolonged the conflict in the DRC.
To Apple's credit, it has a pretty good track record here. Since March, 2016, it has audited 100 percent of its supply chain for these so-called conflict materials. Ditching them entirely is the next logical step.
Apple's ambition is that future iPhones will be made entirely of recycled components – either taken from old iPhones, or from "high quality recycled materials" purchased from suppliers.
To do that, it's heavily investing in recycling technologies. One of the most interesting is Liam, a robot that can strip an iPhone of its components.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc
E-Waste is a huge problem, both environmental and humanitarian. More often than not, obsolete electronics are shipped to West Africa, where they're picked apart by workers who are paid an utter pittance to job that's profoundly hazardous.
It's not uncommon to see young children and teens melt down computer components to obtain the more expensive minerals – like gold – exposing themselves to toxic fumes in the process.
You can find out more about Apple's goals in its 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report.
For consumers, Apple's switch to a closed supply chain won't really mean much. The end experience will stay the same. The only real difference is they can buy iDevices with a cleaner conscience.
But for the oft-forgotten people who mine the stuff that goes into phones, and actually have to deal with the aftermath of our addiction to technology, this is great news.
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Q: Javascript creating SVG element using createElementNS sometimes returns a null The following code has a weird quirk:
function createSVG(){
    let svgarea = document.getElementById("svgarea");
    let svg = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "svg");
    svg.setAttribute("id", "my_svg");
    svg.setAttribute("width", "100%");
    svg.setAttribute("height", "100%");
    svgarea.appendChild(svg);
}

When I run call it from script when loading page or on window.onload, the script fails
"Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null"

at the
svgarea.appendChild(svg);

But it works normally if I call it from console. Is there a workaround for this? I suspect that the createElementNS somehow hangs before it gets to appending the result, but somehow it doesn't when calling from console.

A: It means the DOM Element #svgarea isn't there yet when you execute:
let svgarea = document.getElementById("svgarea");
When you execute the same statement from the console the DOM is there, ready
So you must delay execution of your createSVG function:
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", createSVG);

You could also use the load Event but that fires later, after all content is loaded.
If you use window.onload =  you have to be 100% sure no later code will override it. addEventListener does what it says: it adds extra listeners
setTimeout(createSVG);

Also does the trick, in cases where the Events have long past, and you can't use them. No time required because setTimeout will run after the Event Loop is done, thus any DOM creation will have happened.
If you want to create SVG, you can also use HTML notation:
function createSVG(){
 document
  .getElementById("svgarea")
  .innerHTML=`<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' id='my_svg' width='100%' height='100%'></svg>`
}

Or, because innerHTML is render blocking, creates DOM nodes immediately:
function createSVG(){
 let area = document.getElementById("svgarea");
 area.innerHTML=`<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' id='my_svg'></svg>`;
 let svg = area.querySelector("svg");
 svg.setAttribute("width","100%");
 svg.setAttribute("height","100%");
}

And don't forget you probably need a viewBox attribute on those SVGs

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Bishop warns of the 'desolate panorama' of Spain's birthrate
The Bishop of San Sebastián wrote Sunday of the problems facing Spain as its birthrate is well below replacement level, and called on society to consider the implications of this situation.
Bishop José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre wrote Sept. 8 in El Diario Vasco, a San Sebastián daily.
He referred to the data published in June by Spain's National Institute for Statistics, which he said show a "desolate panorama in terms of the birthrate."
According to the article "fertility stands at 1.25 children, and births have fallen 6% compared to the previous year. We have accumulated a decrease of 30% in the last decade; if we had not benefited from the birthrate of immigrants, this decrease in Spain would have reached 44%."
And so, in Spain "more people are dying than are being born, and while the over-65 population exceeds 9 million people, those under 15 are not more than 7 million," data which "is further aggravated if we refer to the Basque Country."
Munilla explained that "it seems we're getting used to periodically hearing this kind of data without sufficiently taking into account what it implies."
He therefore said that the publication of these figures raises the logical concern "for the sustainability of the pension system."
He also said that there are those who "exhibit a certain fear for the future of our civilization since the migratory flow is accelerating because of the demographic dearth."
The bishop did note that there are a few voices who bring up the need for "implementing measures to foster the birthrate, such as balancing one's work and personal life, the fight against speculation in the price of housing, direct incentives, etc."
The Bishop of San Sebastián also explained that "we're not facing a new phenomenon in the history of humanity," since this "crisis in the birthrate has accompanied almost all cultural declines."
He noted for example the testimony of Polybius, a Greek historian of the second century BC, who wrote: "The peoples of this country have yielded to vanity and attachment to material goods; they have become fond of the easy life and don't want to get married or, if they do get married, they refuse to keep the newborns with them, or only raise one or two at the most, in order to provide them with the best kind of life and later leave them a considerable fortune."
Munilla noted that Polybius' Histories ends with the conquest of "decadent Greece" by the Roman Republic, and that "centuries later the decline of the Roman Empire arrives, again accompanied by a profound crisis in the birthrate."
Given this situation, the Bishop of San Sebastián said that "it would be very sad if our concern for the demographic crisis were limited to the fear of the weakening our pensions or the fear of the arrival of foreigners."
He said that "likewise it would be very naive to suppose that government is going to be able to reverse this trend with the mere passage of incentives to give birth, however necessary they may be."
In fact, he underscored that the "wealthiest social classes" do not have a higher than average fertility rate, while "the immigrants in Spain have a much greater number of children than the natives, even though their economic level is lower and their objective difficulties to balance work and personal life are greater."
Consequently "our birthrate crisis is one of the most obvious signs of the crisis of values the West is suffering," the bishop explained.
"In the context of a society in which quality of life is identified with mere well-being, the challenge of motherhood and fatherhood is perceived as too demanding … it's undeniable that the education of children demands a full and unconditional commitment, I would dare to say heroic, which is not easily compatible with the culture of the weekend, the digital invasion, compulsive consumerism, widespread disordered lives, the existential crisis."
"Certainly motherhood and fatherhood require 'giving your life' in the broadest sense of the term" since "the demographic crisis hides a crisis of hope," Munilla noted.
"To address the question it's important for us to understand that the low birthrate not only compromises the future of a culture but affects to a great extent its present," since "the dearth of children in our families and in our society impoverishes much more than we suppose."
The bishop emphasized that "on not a few occasions we have found that only the innocence of children is capable of jolting us out of our comfort zone, of our becoming bourgeois, leading us to give the best of ourselves until we reach the height of maturity, which often coincides with self-forgetfulness" and so he stressed that "our culture urgently needs children because there are few things so false as joy without innocence."
Munilla also recalled that it is important not "to deprive children of the experience of having brothers and sisters" since its deficit "translates in education, in the notable difficulty in socialization, besides the tendency to developt a narcissistic wound."
"If the filial experience helps us to become conscious of our dignity, that we are unique and irrepeatable, the experience of fraternity teaches us to be one among all; something absolutely necessary," he reflected.
He explained that "fatherhood and motherhood require 'giving your life.' But life is something that is greater than us. It's a 'miracle' that we have received gratis and we are called to transmit it generously" and that is why "we believers do not usually speak of reproduction but of procreation" and that "the parents cooperate with God the creator to give life to the world."


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The Lemp family story is one of triumph and tragedy. Adam Lemp was a German immigrant who opened a grocery store in St. Louis, MO in the late 1830's. He brewed his own beer, from his father's recipe and sold it in his store. By 1840 he had quit the grocery business and was concentrating on building his brewing business. He trained his son William to take over the business.
William kept the brewery on the edge of technology, investing in refrigeration technology not only for the brewery, but also for the rail cars that distributed the Lemp beer throughout the country. It was the first beer to be sold coast to coast in America.
Sadly, the death of William's fourth son, Frederick, at age 28 devastated the man. He became reclusive and lost interest in his business and remaining family. Less than three years later, William committed suicide in the lavish Lemp Mansion.
His oldest son, William "Billy" Lemp, Jr. took over the reins of the brewery shortly after his death in 1904. Soon things began to unravel for Billy. News of his ceaseless philandering reached the ears of his long suffering wife. She took their son, William Lemp III and left. After a sordid divorce trial, she was awarded custody of William III in 1908.
The second blow to Billy came in the form of Prohibition in 1910. The brewery was closed abruptly and the rights to its most popular recipe was sold to a family friend. Then the brewery itself was sold off for a fraction of its worth to the International Shoe Company.
Billy became reclusive and disinterested, just like his father before him. In 1922, he too committed suicide in the family mansion by shooting himself.
Billy's sister, Elsa, had also committed suicide by gunshot, just three years earlier after a rocky marriage.
Billy's brother Charles came to live in the mansion in 1929. He never married and lived alone with his dog and a couple of servants. He had pursued a career away from the brewery in banking and politics and was successful in his own right. However, he too would commit suicide in the mansion in 1949, leaving a suicide note…short and to the point: "St. Louis Mo/May 9, 1949, In case I am found dead blame it on no one but me. Ch. A. Lemp".
The sole remaining Lemp brother, son of William Lemp, I, Edwin, lived to the ripe age of 90 before dying of natural causes in 1970. He lived in his own mansion, and dedicated his life after retirement to a number of charities, many of which benefited animals.
The Lemp Mansion, after the tragic Lemp family had left it for good, meandered its way through the decades as office space, and boarding house. Now it stars as an elegant bed and breakfast and restaurant. Its fame comes from the many reports of paranormal occurrences.
The face of a young boy, said to be an illegitimate son of Billy Lemp born with Down Syndrome, is seen looking out from the attic windows. Legend has it that the poor child was kept locked away for his entire short life. Toys left upstairs are often found moved and sounds are heard from above stairs, when no one is up there.
A woman is also said to haunt the mansion. She is thought to be Billy's ex-wife, Lillian, who suffered through years of neglect and humiliation while her husband fooled his way around St. Louis. She is found of showing up in pictures.
Booms and thuds have been reported by overnight guests….perhaps echoes of gunshots and falling bodies?
Frantic running steps are heard on the stairs and banging on the door of what was once William Sr.'s private room where he set off the domino effect on his family by committing suicide. Reports are that Billy (William, Jr.) had heard the suicidal gunshot and had rushed up the stairs to try to get to his father, inside the locked room.
In addition to dining and overnight accommodations, the Lemp Mansion also offers ghost tours and ghost hunting experiences. If you would like to visit their site to learn more, please visit: http://www.lempmansion.com/
If you're winding your way through old Route 66 in St. Louis, take a detour to visit the Lemp Mansion for dinner, for a ghost tour, or even to stay the night! Let us know what you encounter!
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Hating Hindus as a Fun Activity
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Vishal Agarwal
Vishal Agarwal is a scholar of Hindu shastras and a Hinduism teacher. A practitioner-student of Vishishtadvaita Vedanta, he has authored over dozen publications on childhood spirituality, ancient Indian history and archaeology, and historiography as research papers in peer reviewed journals, and chapters in American and Indian school textbooks. He has also written several articles in American Hindu community newspapers. He has served on the boards of several academic associations and Hindu community organizations. Recipient of several awards, he has been invited as a keynote speaker in dozens of conferences, churches, synagogues, high schools and temples. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.
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A Review of 'Introducing Hinduism' by Vinay Lal (2005), Totem Books, USA.
By Vishal Agarwal
The book under review combines cartoons with text – an attractive and light-hearted style for introducing Hinduism to beginners. Unfortunately, the author succeeds in perpetuating negative stereotypes about the 3rd largest religion of the world, and presents a non-insightful and a biased view of the faith. This is hardly surprising, because the author is a well known (http://www.uclaprofs.com/profs/lal.html) hardcore, ultra-leftist, often included in the list of 'the hundred most dangerous professors in the United States.' In the past, Lal has written apologias for Palestinian suicide bombers and for the Taliban when they destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas. He has also apparently suggested that the United States brought 9/11 terror attacks upon itself. He has penned reams of intolerant rant against the USA, Israel, India in several radical left websites and publications. In the book's acknowledgments section, he dedicates the book to Professor I K Shukla, whom Lal himself describes as a 'committed Marxist'. In the Indian context, being a Marxist typically means bearing an animosity towards Hinduism, the dominant culture and faith of India. This background about Lal is important for understanding the subtle and not-so-subtle biases against Hinduism that the present reviewer found in the book.
In her recent work "The Hindus: An Alternative History", Wendy Doniger – whose view of Hindu traditions is often of a paparazzi variety, terms Lal's book as 'delightful'. My review below of Lal's book will perhaps enlighten the reader about the cause of Doniger's delight.
In the approximately 170 page long book, Vinay Lal devotes 3 pages to illustrate Lord Krishna's 'cunning' and 'deceptive' behavior; 10 pages on excoriating Hindu Nationalism in India; 6 pages on Bollywood and Hinduism; 5 pages on untouchability; 6 pages on Sati, Dowry and other ways in which Hinduism has allegedly mistreated women; 4 pages on a rather negative depiction of the Ramayana (in particular on the treatment of Devi Sita). Negative and snide remarks abound in other pages too. Rather than devoting these 34 pages or about 20% of the book to an obsessively negative 'caste-cow-dowry-Sati' stereotype of Hinduism, he could have used this space to present more meaningful and relevant topics such as
contributions of Hinduism to human civilization;
the proverbial tolerance of Hindus;
Hindu arts, music, sculpture and temple architecture;
the spread of Hindu faith and culture to different parts of the world (especially S E Asia) in ancient times;
Hindu festivals and pilgrimages (yes, even these are absent in the book!);
Hindu view of other faiths;
The doctrines of Rebirth and Reincarnation, Samsara and Karma.
All of these missing topics are vital to understanding Hindu world view, and practically ignored in the book.
If these omissions are glaring to a reader knowledgeable in Hinduism, the distorted way in which Hinduism facts are actually presented is even more alarming. At the very onset, Lal claims (p.3), in the vein of Indian Marxist historians, that Hindus did not refer to themselves as Hindus before the 18th century. The assertion, which serves the political agenda of Indian Marxists and Communists, is contradicted by research of Indologists like David Lorenzen.
Several cartoons and other pictures in the book are plainly wrong, misplaced or offensive. In the discussion of the caste system (pages 18-19), it is unclear why a picture of the Hindi movie 'Teesri Manzil' (with the face of the actor Shammi Kapoor) has been inserted. Lal erroneously shows (on page 140) the actress Kajol saying – "In the film Guddi, I play a teenaged girl who had a crush on the filmstar Dharmendra". The actress in the movie Guddi was actually Jaya Bhaduri, and not Kajol! Kalki, the last incarnation of Lord Vishnu is likened to the ex-US President George Bush (page 92) in a rather insensitive way. The photograph of Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883), the founder of Arya Samaj given in the book (p. 119) is actually that of a currently living Swami Dayanand Saraswati, who is the founder of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Pennsylvania. The face of an 'Aryan' looking woman (page 6) is superimposed with a Swastika, drawing the reader's mind to Nazism. Either the Swastika should not have been drawn on that figure, or Lal should have delinked Nazism from Hinduism.
Surprisingly, Lal, a self professed crusader against racism, subscribes to the Aryan Migration Theory throughout the book. If the source of any Hindu tradition cannot be traced historically, Lal attributes it to that mysterious black-hole, the 'pre-Aryan, Dravidian natives' of India! His view (page 6) that the Caucasians from Georgia (in the Caucasus region) may have pushed the Dravidians of the Indus Valley Civilization to South India reads straight out of a 19th century colonial textbook on Indian history. The claim that the worship of Devi and image worship in Hinduism is pre-Aryan (page 8) is simply unattested. And of course, the idolization of Ravana by a remote tribe in Orissa is mentioned and, as expected, traced to that black-hole – 'Pre-Aryan India' (page 63).
In his lengthy depiction of untouchability pages 18-24), the author of course omits to mention that the practice has no sanction in Hindu scriptural tradition, and that it was either absent or a marginal practice in ancient India according to scholars of Hinduism. The pervasive impression created by Lal is that untouchability is intrinsic to Hinduism, which it is not.
Often, when Lal mentions something that may be construed as a positive feature of Hinduism, he takes care to 'balance' it with a negative statement. For instance, when he mentions that the Upanishads were admired by several Western philosophers (page 28), he does not forget to state that these scriptures are known to 'very few Hindus, Brahmins or otherwise'. The much reviled, unique passage of the Gautama Dharmasutra ('the ears of a Shudra who hears the Vedas shall be sealed with molten tin or lac' etc.) is of course reproduced in extensor, without mentioning that no clear historical instance of this injunction having actually been put to practice. And when Lal does concede that a lady philosopher Gargi challenges Sage Yajnavalkya to a philosophical debate (page 32) in an Upanishad, he adds a mean-spirited commentary, quoting the Sage – "Gargi, do not question too much, lest your head fall off", with the comment "what a thigh slapper". Lal convenient ignores the fact that "your head will fall off" is a clichéd statement in similar texts that 'raises the stakes' of philosophical debates, and that Hindu scriptures do give examples of male philosophers who died unnatural or ignoble deaths as a result of losing debates. But the impression created by Lal is that Gargi was unfairly singled out by an allegedly male chauvinist Sage Yajnavalkya just because she was a woman. When Lal mentions that the Chhandogya Upanishad talks about a boy of unknown parentage being admitted to the spiritual school of Haridrumuta, Lal asks the question – "But would he have taken a girl" (page 32). Quite a silly question, because colleges were residential in the Upanishadic milieu and girls would have gone to a separate place to study.
Concerning Buddhism and Jainism, Lal makes a very questionable claim that these faiths introduced vegetarianism and monasticism into Hinduism. When Lal talks about Ramayana in 7 pages (pages 57-63), he devotes 3-4 of them to Sita's agnipariksha and one on 'alternate' (= not conforming to the conventional versions) versions of Ramayana. There is barely any discussion on what the Ramayana is really about, why Hindus revere this scripture, why Rama is considered an ideal son, warrior and how it spread across Asia etc. The overall impression created is that the Ramayana is a misogynist text. Under the pretext of developing 'critical thinking skills', the author should have given some more substantial information about the Ramayana instead of indulging in a political agenda driven sermon.
In discussing the Pauranic Deities, Shiva is of course also referred to as a 'Pre-Aryan' transplant into Vedic Hinduism (page 68). The claim made that king Hiranyakashipu wanted his son Prahlad to stop worshipping Lord Vishnu because the father was a worshipper of Shiva (page 88) is contrary to the predominant narratives. Hiranyakashipu is typically represented as a godless egomaniacal king who considered worship to Lord Vishnu as superfluous because the king considered himself as the most powerful. Overall, Lal's description of Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva and the Devi is fairly comprehensive but one wishes that he had devoted some space to other prominent Hindu Deities such as Lord Ganesha (of whom he gives a rather superficial description on page 127). Understandably, Indian Marxists depict Hindus as polytheists (and try to 'rescue' Hinduism from Hindus when their own Priests and Gurus actually assert that Hindus believe in One God that manifests in many ways) and therefore Lal has not explained how Hindus often consider their Deities as manifestations of the same Divine Power.
Lal initiates the discussion of the Bhakti movement by making patently false assertions (on page 105) that the Bhakti saints rejected the Vedas as a source of authority, the sanctity of holy pilgrimage sites, temple worship and so on. Lal's awareness of their literature and teachings is surely quite deficient because even the Bhakti Saints he has (selectively) quoted wrote hundreds of hymns to Deities in various temples, they sang praises of pilgrim centers and made salutations to the Vedas in their devotional writings. There were indeed a few Bhakti Saints who may have rejected these, but the overwhelming majority of them had a deep regard for the Vedas, for the temples and for holy pilgrimage centers. His claim (page 106) that most Bhakta Saints were low caste Hindus is also questionable. In fact, one can discern a typically Indian Marxist agenda in Lal's pitting the Bhakti movement against the Sanskritic Hindu tradition, and in highlighting the role of Nirguni Bhakti Saints at the expense of the Saguni Bhakti saints. The former are more conformable with the political agendas of these Indian 'secularists' compared to the latter.
Coming to the British period, Lal makes several questionable (and plainly erroneous) claims about Hindu reformers. For instance, his assertion (page 118) that the Brahmo Samaj was 'profoundly influential' until relative recent times is not supported by any evidence. His claim that "[The Arya Samaj] is generally described as a revivalist movement, but Dayanand thought of himself as a modernist" is quite the opposite of what the Swami thought of himself – as a champion of ancient Vedic teachings. The Swami actually criticized the modernists (using the word 'naveena' in a pejorative sense against them).
Interestingly, in describing justifiable Hindu assertion or protest against transgressions of their religion, Lal assumes the posture "If you are not with us, you are against us" of his bête-noire ex-President George Bush. Hindu protests against the imprint of images of their Deities on shoe soles, toilet seats etc., are all lumped into a hateful and enemy category 'VHP', the pariah other of Indian (and Indian American) Marxists and Communists like Lal. Indian diaspora in the United States is stereotyped as 'supporters of Hindu Nationalism' – a constant refrain in the writings of Lal and his ideological comrades such as the ultra-Leftist Vijay Parshad. Whenever Lal refers to assertive Hindus, he does not fail to include a caricature bearing the letters 'VHP' or a caricature of a masculine male flexing his muscles (to imply that these Hindus are inherently aggressive and prone to violence). Criticizing western scholars who have popularized non-mainstream versions of Hindu history amongst the diaspora, Lal characterizes (page 157) Koenraad Elst, a Belgian scholar, as a 'Belgian Priest' (which he is not, in fact Elst flirted with Leftist ideologies for a few years). He also projects David Frawley as a non Hindu, unaware that Frawley has actually authored an autobiographical account called "How I became a Hindu" (Voice of India, New Delhi). Lal also mocks at Frawley's credentials as a scholar of the Vedas, forgetting that he was bestowed the title of 'Vedacharya' by bonafide traditional Vedic scholars of India. Frawley's credentials as a Vedic scholar are several orders of magnitude more convincing than Lal's credentials as a scholar of Hinduism.
Lal's book includes a long diatribe on how the worship of Devi does not translate to respect for women in the Hindu society, which has practiced, and practices dowry killings, Sati, female infanticide (the face of Leftist economist Amartya Sen is depicted as talking about this issue). Lal of course omits to mention that dowry is not mentioned in Hindu scriptures and is most likely a recent practice. Nor does he mention that even before the British, both Hindu (the Peshwas) and Muslim (Emperor Akbar) rulers tried to abolish the practice of Sati. Questionable also is his exaggerated claim that India has seen 5000 dowry deaths per year for the last two decades (page 129). While the murder of even one woman for dowry is unacceptable, Lal is clearly pandering to that faction of his readership that perceives the state of the Hindu society as the 'White Man's Burden'. Perhaps, the reader of my review of his book will understand my criticism by considering the fact that introductory books on Christianity do not dwell upon witch-burning, slavery, Crusades, racism and other evils found in Christian societies to the obsessive extent that we find in Lal's book.
Indian Marxists have always hated the immensely popular Indian TV mega-serials on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. They blame the popularity of these serials for fueling 'Hindu communalism'. So not surprisingly, Lal makes snide remarks (page 155) against the serial Ramayana, stating that 'It privileged Ramacharitmanas over other versions of the Ramayana' (forgetting that this was a TV serial for mass consumption by Hindi speaking audience, not a Leftist PhD dissertation), and that the serial depicted Sita as 'flat and one-dimensional' and an embodiment of 'docility and submissiveness prized by Hindu males'(!). It is pertinent to ask if Lal saw anything positive worth talking about in that TV serial?
Consistent with the interests of Indian Marxists, Lal devotes an inordinately long section on beef eating by Hindus in ancient India. The political agenda served by this section is quite obvious – Indian 'Secularists' claim that modern Hindus justify their oppression of Muslims because the latter eat beef whereas Hindus do not. Therefore, these Secularists want to remove the very raison d'être of this alleged Hindu aggression towards Muslims by saying –"Look, your own ancestors ate beef. The Cow is not as holy in Hinduism as you want to claim. Therefore stop using beef-eating by Muslims as an excuse to oppress them." On page 148, Lal mentions that in 2002, upper caste Hindu men killed 5 Dalit men who were caught skinning a cow. This leaves out a detail that explains what actually lead to the incident in Haryana – a state with a history of suppression of Hindus by the substantial Muslim minority before the latter's expulsion in 1947. The word that went around was that Muslims had slaughtered a cow, inflaming passions in the Hindu community. It was found only later that the victims were actually poor Dalits who were skinning (for leather) an already dead cow. Not that all this justifies the killing of innocent human beings – but the use of this incident to kill two birds (Hinduism, upper-caste Hindus) with one stone, as Lal tries to, is reprehensible.
Practically every one of the last 10 or so pages of his book has a caricature of the VHP or some other Hindu organizations. What was the need to end an 'introductory' text on Hinduism meant for a western audience with such a heavy dose of Hindu Nationalist movement (with its accompanying descriptions of violence, riots, assassinations and so on)? The standard Communist Party of India line with regard to these issues is of course taken by Lal – that there is 'no evidence' that the Ramajanmabhoomi marks the birthplace of Rama (failing to mention that the archaeological opinion states that a temple existed at the site where the mosque was constructed later), that 2000 Muslims were butchered in Gujarat in 2002 (actual official figures by the Government of India are less than half that number), that the destruction of Babri Masjid was one of the 'saddest days' in the history of Hinduism. Expectedly, Lal, who is an apologist for the Taliban and the Al Qaeda is completely silent on the ethnic cleansing of 200,000 Hindus of Kashmir in 1990, silent on the continued genocide of Hindu minority in Bangladesh, silent on the marginalization of Hindus in Indian states dominated by Christians (e.g., Mizoram) etc. etc. Why are these instances not sadder than the destruction of a solitary decrepit mosque? Therefore, the sermons to Hindus of this ultra-left ideologue historian at the last pages of the book (pages 170-171) really do not carry much conviction.
Indian Marxist historians like Romila Thapar have perfected the art of 'Hating Hindus in an Academic Manner'. With its hundreds of cartoons, caricatures and doodles accompanying a lucid (but faulty) text, Lal's book breaks new ground – 'Hatemongering against Hindus as a Fun Activity'. Perhaps, now we can understand why Wendy Doniger found Lal's book so 'delightful'.
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Lavender and lemon work well together and these baked bars are a great example of their partnership.
I make this tea bread when the lavender is in bloom. Try it with fresh strawberry slices on top.
A buttery lavender-flavored dough that can be made into round shapes using a biscuit cutter, or various shapes using cookie cutters.
Chef John's combination of chicken thighs, artichoke hearts, olives, pepperoncini, and spicy sausage-stuffed peppers makes for a colorful dinner with bold flavors.
Delightful little cookies that add a wonderful atmosphere to any afternoon tea. They have a delicate lavender flavor that is not overpowering at all! My first batch of these cookies disappeared before it had a chance to cool!
Make your own Herbes de Provence rather than paying for someone else to do it. It goes great in salads, fish, chicken, beef and pork. The fragrance is amazing!
Banana blueberry muffins have a hint of lavender stirred into the batter for a freshly fragrant muffin. Serve warm with soft butter, if desired.
Enjoy this refreshing and soothing drink any time of the year.
Melt-in-your-mouth lemon and lavender scones are the perfect addition to the brunch table. Serve with honey.
Fresh herbs - lavender, rosemary, and thyme - are used to make an oil marinade for pork steaks. Marinate the meat while preheating the grill for a simple and quick meal.
Chicken with lavender, bacon and cheese. Everyone appreciates lavender for its scent and flowers, but very few people have tasted it. Its unique flavour blends very well with chicken.
Lavender and honey-infused cookies are a sweet treat to bake when you have extra lavender in your yard.
Simple sugar cookies with just a few ingredients have the delicate taste of lavender.